Today in Supreme Court History: April 20, 2010

4/20/2010: United States v. Stevens decided.

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[JoeFromtheBronx]

Today is also John Paul Stevens's birthday. Ditto Hitler.

Connection? Maybe! Ha ha!

https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/04/the-in-your-face-corruption-and.html

Today's Order List is fairly busy, including granting cert. in a case that examines whether Oregon v. Smith should be weakened. The question to directly overrule was not granted.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/042026zor_h315.pdf

[John F. Carr]

Granted today: St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy.

This is the Colorado preschool case where the law might as well have been written to place religious schools at a disadvantage. The law does not discriminate on its face. The court declined the invitation to overrule Employment Division v. Smith and instead will consider whether Carson v. Makin (Maine vouchers) applies to de facto but not de jure discrimination. Implied but not stated in the questions presented, does the exceptions analysis from Fulton v. Philadelphia give a win to Catholics here too?