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Recent Decisions


January 24, 2022
         
Hughes v. Northwestern Univ. (19-1401)
Determining whether plan participants state plausible claims against plan fiduciaries for violations of ERISA’s duty of prudence requires a context-specific inquiry of the fiduciaries’ continuing duty to monitor investments and to remove imprudent ones as articulated in Tibble v. Edison Int’l, 575 U. S. 523; the Seventh Circuit erred in relying on the participants’ ultimate choice over their investments to excuse allegedly imprudent decisions by respondents.



January 20, 2022
         
Hemphill v. New York (20-637)
The trial court’s admission—over Hemphill’s objection—of the plea allocution transcript of an unavailable witness violated Hemphill’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him.



January 13, 2022
       
NFIB v. OSHA (21A244) (Per Curiam)
The Court grants the applications to stay the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s challenged rule mandating that employers with at least 100 employees require covered workers to receive a COVID–19 vaccine.

       
Biden v. Missouri (21A240) (Per Curiam)
The Court grants the applications to stay the two injunctions barring the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ regulation requiring facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that their employees are vaccinated against COVID–19.

         
Babcock v. Kijakazi (20-480)
Civil-service pension payments based on employment as a dual-status military technician are not payments based on “service as a member of a uniformed service” under 42 U. S. C. §415(a)(7)(A)(III).



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Did You Know...

First African American Woman Admitted to the Supreme Court Bar


Born in London, England, Violette N. Anderson moved to the United States as a child and became interested in the law through her position as a court reporter from 1905-1920. During this time, she attended Chicago Law School, graduating in 1920. An active member of the legal community in Chicago, she passed the Illinois State Bar in 1920. Anderson said at the time, “I hope to be able to do much for the lifting of my people ... for I realize that my work is only begun.” She was an advocate for women’s rights and racial equality, and wrote, “Legal Hints to Women,” a column in the weekly newspaper The Chicago Whip. A woman of many firsts, she became the first female city prosecutor serving from 1922 until 1923. On January 29, 1926, Violette N. Anderson became the first African American woman lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court Bar.

 

Violette N. Anderson, first African American woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, January 29, 1926.
Violette N. Anderson, first African American woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, January 29, 1926.
The Broad Ax, Volume 27, July 1922


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