This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 581 of the United States Reports:
- Note: As of July 2025,[update] final bound volumes for the U.S. Supreme Court's United States Reports have been published through volume 582 (June 2017). Newer cases from subsequent future volumes do not yet have official page numbers and typically use three underscores in place of the page number; e.g., Example v. United States, 700 U.S. ___ (2050).
| Case name | Docket no. | Date decided |
|---|---|---|
| Moore v. Texas | 15–797 | March 28, 2017 |
| When deciding if an inmate on death row is qualified as "intellectually disabled", as under Atkins v. Virginia (2002), courts may not ignore dominant medical guidelines. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed and remanded. | ||
| Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman | 15–1391 | March 29, 2017 |
| Price controls, when used to prevent certain communication of the price of a good with regards to a surcharge, implicate freedom of speech as protected under the First Amendment. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed and remanded. | ||
| Dean v. United States | 15–9260 | April 3, 2017 |
| Section 924(c), which provides mandatory minimum sentences for the use of a firearm during certain crimes, does not prevent a sentencing court from considering a mandatory minimum imposed under that provision when calculating an appropriate sentence for the predicate offense. | ||
| McLane Co. v. EEOC | 15–1248 | April 3, 2017 |
| A district court's decision whether to enforce or quash a subpoena issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should be reviewed for abuse of discretion, not de novo. | ||
| Coventry Health Care v. Nevils | 16–149 | April 18, 2017 |
| Federal laws governing federal employees' health insurance preempt state laws affecting contractual subrogation and reimbursement prescriptions. | ||
| Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger | 15–1406 | April 18, 2017 |
| When a court sanctions bad-faith conduct by ordering a litigant to pay the other side’s legal fees, the award is limited to the fees the innocent party incurred solely because of the bad-faith misconduct. | ||
| Manrique v. United States | 15–7250 | April 19, 2017 |
| A defendant wishing to appeal an order imposing restitution in a deferred restitution case must file a notice of appeal from that order. | ||
| Nelson v. Colorado | 15–1256 | April 19, 2017 |
| The Colorado Exoneration Act's scheme does not comport with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process | ||
| Lewis v. Clarke | 15–1500 | April 25, 2017 |
| Tribal sovereign immunity does not extend to suits against a tribal employee acting in his individual capacity. Supreme Court of Connecticut reversed and remanded. | ||
| Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int'l Drilling Co. | 15–423 | May 1, 2017 |
| A court should decide a foreign sovereign's immunity defense at the threshold of the action. The nonfrivolous-argument standard cannot be used to decide if a case falls within the scope of the expropriation exception to foreign sovereign immunity. | ||
| Bank of Am. Corp. v. Miami | 15–1111 | May 1, 2017 |
| A city can be an "aggrieved person" authorized to bring suit under the FHA, and conduct challenged under the FHA must be shown to be a proximate cause of the harm attributed to it. | ||
| Howell v. Howell | 15–1031 | May 15, 2017 |
| A state court may not order a veteran to indemnify a divorced spouse for the loss in the divorced spouse's portion of the veteran's retirement pay caused by the veteran's waiver of retirement pay to receive service-related disability benefits. | ||
| Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson | 16–348 | May 15, 2017 |
| The filing of a bankruptcy proof of claim that is obviously time-barred is not a false, deceptive, misleading, unfair, or unconscionable debt-collection practice within the meaning of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. | ||
| Kindred Nursing Centers, L.P. v. Clark | 16–32 | May 15, 2017 |
| The FAA preempts any state rule that discriminates on its face against arbitration or that covertly accomplishes the same objective by disfavoring contracts that have the defining features of arbitration agreements. | ||
| TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC | 16–341 | May 22, 2017 |
| For patent infringement cases, a corporate defendant is considered to "reside" in their state of incorporation. | ||
| Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon | 16–254 | May 22, 2017 |
| The Hague Service Convention permits service of judicial process abroad by mail, provided that the country in which the service takes place has not objected to service by mail, and service by mail is authorized in the country where the litigation is pending. | ||
| Cooper v. Harris | 15–1262 | May 22, 2017 |
| North Carolina relied too heavily on race in redrawing two Congressional districts after the 2010 Census (M.D.N.C. affirmed) | ||
| Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc. | 15–1189 | May 30, 2017 |
| Patent holders give up their patent rights upon the first sale of product, domestically or overseas. | ||
| Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions | 16–54 | May 30, 2017 |
| In the context of statutory rape offenses that criminalize sexual intercourse based solely on the ages of the participants, the generic federal definition of "sexual abuse of a minor" requires the age of the victim to be less than 16. Reversed and remanded. | ||
| BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell | 16–405 | May 30, 2017 |
| A state court does not have personal jurisdiction over a railroad that is neither incorporated in nor headquartered in the state, on a claim that does not arise from an occurrence within the state, even though the railroad has extensive trackage and many employees in the state | ||
| Los Angeles Cnty. v. Mendez | 16–369 | May 30, 2017 |
| Under the Fourth Amendment, there is no "provocation rule" that makes an officer's reasonable use of force unreasonable if the officer provoked the violent confrontation by violating the Fourth Amendment. | ||
| Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc. | 16–605 | June 5, 2017 |
| A litigant seeking to intervene as of right under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2) must meet the requirements of Article III standing if the intervenor wishes to pursue relief not requested by a plaintiff. | ||
| Honeycutt v. United States | 16–142 | June 5, 2017 |
| There is no joint and several liability for forfeitures in federal conspiracy judgments when a party did not personally benefit from the crime. | ||
| Kokesh v. SEC | 16–529 | June 5, 2017 |
| Because SEC disgorgement is a punitive measure rather than a compensatory one, any claim for disgorgement in an SEC enforcement action must be commenced within five years of the date the claim accrued. | ||
| Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton | 16–74 | June 5, 2017 |
| A plan maintained by a principal-purpose organization qualifies as a "church plan," regardless of who established it. | ||
| North Carolina v. Covington | 16–1023 | June 5, 2017 |
| Affirmed, in part, the district court's remedy in a case alleging racial gerrymandering. | ||