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So Ordered
AI-narrated readings of U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions. Each episode pairs the Court's syllabus with a reading of the majority opinion, lightly adapted for listening and voiced by a synthesized voice styled to loosely resemble the authoring justice. AI DISCLOSURE: The voices in this podcast are AI-generated. The narration is produced by a machine-learning voice synthesis model. Tone, inflection, pacing, and emphasis are artifacts of the model and should not be attributed to any…
Episodes
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Watson v. Republican National Committee
The Court holds that the federal election-day statutes do not require absentee ballots to reach election officials by election day. Because an "election" is…
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Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton
The Court holds that Rule 60(c)(1)'s requirement that a motion be made within a reasonable time applies to a Rule 60(b)(4) motion alleging that a judgment is…
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National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n
The Court holds that the Federal Election Campaign Act's limits on how much a political party may spend in coordination with its own candidates violate the…
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Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment
The Court holds that an Internet service provider is not contributorily liable for its subscribers' copyright infringement merely because it knew certain…
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Barrett v. United States
The Court holds that Congress did not clearly authorize convictions under both 18 U. S. C. §§ 924(c)(1)(A)(i) and (j) for a single act that violates both…
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West Virginia v. B. P. J.
The Court holds that, under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, schools may maintain separate women's and girls' sports teams…
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Chatrie v. United States
The Court holds that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain a person's Google Location History data, because an individual has a reasonable…
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Trump v. Slaughter
The Court holds that the FTC's statutory provision limiting the President's ability to remove Commissioners only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or…
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Trump v. Barbara
The Court holds that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are nonetheless "subject to the jurisdiction" of…
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Trump v. Cook
The Court denies the Government's request to stay a District Court injunction that bars President Trump from removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's…
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Mullin v. Al Otro Lado
The Court holds that an alien standing in Mexico does not "arrive in the United States" by attempting, and failing, to set foot in this country — an alien…
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Wolford v. Lopez
The Court holds that a Hawaii law barring licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public unless the…
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Mullin v. Doe
The Court holds that the Temporary Protected Status statute's judicial-review bar forecloses respondents' non-constitutional challenges to the termination of…
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Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety
The Court holds that individuals may not be held personally liable under a Spending Clause statute unless they have voluntarily and knowingly consented to…
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Blanche v. Lau
The Court holds that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not require a border officer to have clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent…
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Hunter v. United States
The Court holds that a defendant's agreement not to appeal his sentence is unenforceable when enforcing it would result in a miscarriage of justice — that is…
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Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist
The Court holds that a district court's erroneous dismissal of a nondiverse party does not cure a diversity-jurisdiction defect that existed at the time a case…
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Case v. Montana
The Court holds that the objective-reasonableness standard it set in Brigham City v. Stuart governs warrantless home entries to render emergency aid, and that…
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United States v. Hemani
The Court holds that the government's prosecution of Ali Hemani under Section 922(g)(3)'s unlawful user provision — which automatically disarms anyone who is…
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Bowe v. United States
The Court holds that two AEDPA provisions governing successive habeas filings by state prisoners do not reach federal prisoners. Section 2244(b)(3)(E)'s bar on…
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Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Inc.
The Court holds that whether a debtor's failure to disclose a claim in bankruptcy was "inadvertent or mistaken" — the showing that can excuse applying judicial…
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Abouammo v. United States
The Court holds that a defendant charged under 18 U. S. C. § 1519 — which makes it a crime to knowingly falsify a document with the intent to obstruct a…
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FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd.
The Court holds that Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act does not give private parties an implied right to sue for rescission of contracts that…
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Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections
The Court holds that a political candidate has Article III standing to challenge the rules that govern the counting of votes in his election. Congressman…
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Urias-Orellana v. Bondi
The Court holds unanimously that under the Immigration and Nationality Act, courts of appeals must review the immigration agency's determination that a given…
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Fernandez v. United States
The Court holds that a federal prisoner who collaterally attacks the validity of his conviction must proceed through the habeas statute, 28 U. S. C. § 2255…
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Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump
The Court holds that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Because tariffs are a branch…
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Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission
The Court holds that the Securities and Exchange Commission need not prove that investors suffered a pecuniary loss before it may obtain a disgorgement award…
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Rutherford v. United States
The Court holds that when Congress declines to make a sentencing amendment retroactive — as it did with the First Step Act's change to the "stacked" mandatory…
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Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.
The Court holds that under Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, a plaintiff need not show the defendant trafficked in the plaintiff's…
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Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock
The Court holds that a worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can qualify for the Federal Arbitration Act's Section 1…
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Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC
The Court holds that a state common-law negligent-hiring claim against a transportation broker is not preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration…
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First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Davenport
The Court holds that New Jersey's investigatory subpoena demanding First Choice Women's Resource Centers' donor information inflicts a present, ongoing injury…
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Louisiana v. Callais
The Court holds that because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create a second majority-minority congressional district, no compelling…
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What So Ordered Is, and How It's Made
An introduction to So Ordered: why it exists, how each episode is produced, and an up-front, complete disclosure that every voice on the podcast is…