This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 580 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bosse v. Oklahoma | 580 U.S. 1 | October 11, 2016 |
| The Oklahoma court erred in ruling that Payne v. Tennessee (1991) "implicitly overruled" Booth v. Maryland (1987) in regards to the victim's family members' testimony of the defendant(s) and opinion(s) of the sentence. Payne did not specifically state this, and only the Supreme Court can overrule its own precedent. | ||
| Bravo-Fernandez v. United States | 580 U.S. 5 | November 29, 2016 |
| The issue-preclusion component of the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the Government from retrying defendants, like petitioners, after a jury has returned irreconcilably inconsistent verdicts of conviction and acquittal and the convictions are later vacated for legal error unrelated to the inconsistency. | ||
| State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. United States ex rel. Rigsby | 580 U.S. 26 | December 6, 2016 |
| A violation of the False Claim Act's seal requirement does not require the dismissal of a complaint. | ||
| Salman v. United States | 580 U.S. 39 | December 6, 2016 |
| Under Dirks v. SEC, the jury could infer that the tipper here personally benefited from making a gift of confidential information to a trading relative. | ||
| Samsung Elec. Co. v. Apple Inc. | 580 U.S. 53 | December 6, 2016 |
| The "article of manufacture," as used in Patent Act provision governing damages for design patent infringement, encompasses both a product sold to a consumer and a component of that product, and components of the infringing smartphones could be the relevant "article of manufacture," although consumers could not purchase those components separately from the smartphones. | ||
| Shaw v. United States | 580 U.S. 63 | December 12, 2016 |
| a scheme to defraud customers also deprives the bank of money in which the bank held a "property right", and criminal defendants may therefore be convicted under the federal statute for schemes to defraud bank customers. | ||
| White v. Pauly | 580 U.S. 73 | January 9, 2017 |
| An officer did not violate clearly established law and was entitled to qualified immunity when he arrived late at an ongoing police action, saw shots being fired by people inside a house surrounded by other officers, and fatally shot an armed occupant of the house without first giving a warning. | ||
| Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortgage Corp. | 580 U.S. 82 | January 18, 2017 |
| Plaintiffs may file lawsuits against Fannie Mae in any state or federal court that is already endowed with subject-matter jurisdiction over the suit. | ||
| Buck v. Davis | 580 U.S. 100 | February 22, 2017 |
| An ineffective assistance of counsel claim is likely appropriate when a criminal defendant's attorney enters evidence that the defendant is likely to be a future danger because of his race and the defendant's sentence was probably based on this evidence. | ||
| Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. | 580 U.S. 140 | February 22, 2017 |
| The sale of a single component of a patented invention in a foreign market does not give rise to liability under the Patent Act of 1952. | ||
| Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools | 580 U.S. 154 | February 22, 2017 |
| Exhaustion of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA's) administrative procedures is unnecessary where the gravamen of the plaintiff’s suit is something other than the denial of the IDEA’s core guarantee of a free appropriate public education (FAPE). Furthermore, the court should properly analyze the gravamen of a plaintiff's charges to determine if those charges seek relief for a denial of FAPE, per the test set out by the Court (see below for more information on this). The Sixth Circuit vacated and remanded. | ||
| Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Bd. of Elections | 580 U.S. 178 | March 1, 2017 |
| An analysis of whether a state's legislative district lines were drawn constitutionally requires consideration of the actual basis for drawing the lines, not the state's post hoc justifications. | ||
| Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado | 580 U.S. 206 | March 6, 2017 |
| The Sixth Amendment requires an exception to the no-impeachment rule when a juror makes a clear statement indicating reliance on racial stereotypes or animus to convict a criminal defendant. | ||
| Beckles v. United States | 580 U.S. 256 | March 6, 2017 |
| The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, including § 4B1.2(a)'s residual clause, are not subject to vagueness challenges under the Due Process Clause. | ||
| Rippo v. Baker | 580 U.S. 285 | March 6, 2017 |
| A judge's recusal is required when, objectively speaking, the probability of actual bias on the part of the judge or decisionmaker is too high to be constitutionally tolerable. This may happen even when the judge has no actual bias. | ||
| NLRB v. SW General, Inc. | 580 U.S. 288 | March 21, 2017 |
| The Federal Vacancies Reform Act prevents a person who has been nominated to fill a vacant office requiring Senate confirmation from performing the duties of that office in an acting capacity. The prohibition applies to anyone performing acting service under the FVRA. | ||
| SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC | 580 U.S. 328 | March 21, 2017 |
| Laches is not an appropriate defense against a claim for damages brought within a statute of limitations period. | ||
| Manuel v. Joliet | 580 U.S. 357 | March 21, 2017 |
| A criminal defendant may challenge his pretrial detention on the ground that it violated the Fourth Amendment. | ||
| Endrew F. v. Douglas County School Dist. RE–1 | 580 U.S. 386 | March 22, 2017 |
| To meet its substantive obligation under the IDEA, a school must offer an Individualized Education Program (IEP) reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances. United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated and remanded. | ||
| Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. | 580 U.S. 405 | March 22, 2017 |
| Aesthetic design elements on useful articles, like clothing, can be copyrightable if they can be separately identified as art and exist independently of the useful article. | ||
| Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. | 580 U.S. 451 | March 22, 2017 |
| Bankruptcy courts may not approve structured dismissals that provide for distributions that do not follow ordinary priority rules without the consent of affected creditors. | ||