Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for gay teens was challenged by Catholic Charities.

Trump’s Defense Secretary enacted a policy that effectively bans transgender people from serving in the military.

Abortion protesters challenged a city’s buffer zone protecting access to an abortion clinic.

Two independent federal agency heads challenged their firing by Trump without cause.

Civil rights groups and others challenged a Texas redistricting plan as discriminatory.

Civil rights groups and others contend that North Carolina redistricting is discriminatory against Blacks and Hispanics.

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, sued the government for knowingly providing city water with dangerous levels of lead and then misleading residents about the dangers.

A state employee contended that his rights were violated when his agency retaliated against him for filing a disability discrimination claim.

Clergy and other immigration protesters have held a series of protests against Trump immigration policy outside the immigration center in Broadview, Illinois near Chicago. They contended that federal officials have repeatedly used excessive force, including the use of tear gas, and filed suit against the government.

Trump judges Lee and Bade issued an unsigned 2-1 decision that denied Rios-Rocha’s petition and affirmed the deportation ruling against him. The majority maintained that the IJ had the authority to exclude the expert affidavit and approve deportation and committed no errors in doing so.

Trump judge Readler wrote a 2-1 decision, joined by George H.W. Bush nominee Alice Batchelder, that affirmed the NLRB finding of an unfair labor practice, but reversed the decision to award damages to Whitbeck. Readler claimed that the NLRB had no statutory or other authority to provide such damages.

Trump judge Lee and George W Bush nominee Sandra Ikuta issued an unsigned 2-1 decision that reversed the ruling below, holding that Kim should have received qualified immunity and summary judgment against Harris.

A group of parents challenged a policy of the Olentangy School District (OSD) in Ohio aimed at preventing bullying and harassment of transgender students by prohibiting other students from repeatedly mis-gendering them.

Four Chinese individuals and a brokerage firm representing them were barred from purchasing land in Florida because they were Chinese.

Oregon Right to Life (ORTL), an anti-abortion group, did not want to provide contraceptive and abortion insurance coverage to its employees. It claimed that a state law requiring it to provide such insurance violated its religious beliefs.

Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Britt Grant wrote a 2-1 decision that stopped women who had been in Jasper County jail from pursuing claims of failing to stop sexual abuse against them for which they contended a jail official was responsible.

Two Trump Ninth Circuit judges, Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade, reversed a Trump district court judge and authorized Trump to federalize and deploy 300 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, allegedly to deal with “war ravaged” disorder that has been vehemently denied as false by state and local officials.

Trump Second Circuit Judge Michael Park wrote a 2-1 decision, joined by Trump judge Richard Sullivan, that reversed a lower court and directed summary judgment for prison officials based on qualified immunity against a transgender prisoner’s claim that she failed to receive minimally adequate care for gender dysphoria.

Trump justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett cast deciding votes in a 6-3 shadow docket ruling that stopped a lower court injunction and subjected some 300,000 Venezuelans who have been in the US on temporary protected status (TPS) to immediate deportation.

Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Barbara Lagoa wrote a 2-1 ruling, joined by Trump judge Elizabeth Branch, that reversed a lower court injunction and allowed a state law that restricts gathering of voter signatures for ballot initiatives to take effect.

Trump Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett again cast deciding votes in a 6-3 shadow docket ruling that stopped foreign aid funding approved by Congress, this time for $4 billion. Because of the impending end of the fiscal year on September 30, the result will be to permanently cancel the appropriation.

Trump Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett again cast the deciding votes in a 6-3 shadow docket ruling to authorize Trump to fire an agency official, this time from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), who is supposed to be protected from such action due to congressional statute. The majority also set an argument for later this Term on a Court precedent that has protected the independence of such officials.

Trump Sixth Circuit nominee John Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to reverse the lower court and grant immunity from liability to a prison guard who severely injured a prisoner by slamming him to the ground after threatening to make him “kiss concrete” if he did not comply with directions.

The other five Trump Eleventh Circuit judges (Newsom, Branch, Grant, Luck, and Lagoa) joined an 8-5 opinion for the full court by Trump judge Andrew Brasher reversing a lower court opinion that ruled that a county’s insurance policy violated Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination by excluding transgender surgery.

Trump Fourth Circuit judge Allison Rushing cast the deciding vote in a 2-1 ruling that reversed a lower court and upheld Trump’s firing of some 25,000 probationary federal employees in 20 states without the notice that the states contend they were owed under federal law.