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Supreme Court curbs lower-court use of universal injunctions; experts say major open questions remain
Summary
On the Federal Judicial Center's Term Talk podcast, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Tara Grove discussed the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Trump v. Casa vacating three nationwide injunctions and the unresolved questions it leaves about class actions, the Administrative Procedure Act and state standing.
Jim Chance, senior judicial education attorney at the Federal Judicial Center, hosted a Term Talk episode examining the Supreme Court's recent decision in Trump v. Casa and its implications for lower courts.
"What's called a universal injunction, sometimes a nationwide injunction, just means that the court is stopping the government from enforcing a particular government action against anyone, not just people who happen to be named parties in the case," said Tara Grove, professor and Vincent and Elkins Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin, defining the remedy at the center of the debate. Grove noted that three federal district courts had issued nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases after a January 20, 2025,…
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