Docket number 18-6135 refers to a Supreme Court case that dealt with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows certain young undocumented immigrants to remain in the US without fear of deportation.
The case was brought before the Supreme Court after lower courts issued injunctions blocking the Trump administration's efforts to end DACA.
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The plaintiffs argued that the decision to end DACA was reviewable by the courts and that the decision was based on faulty reasoning and was arbitrary and capricious.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case in November 2019 and announced its decision in June 2020.
The court ruled 5-4 in favor of the plaintiffs, stating that the Trump administration's decision to end DACA was unlawful.
The court found that the administration had not provided adequate justification for ending the program and that the decision was based on flawed legal reasoning.
Docket number 18-6135 is not unique to the DACA case; it appears to be a generic docket number used by the Supreme Court for various cases.
Another case with the same docket number, Kahler v.
Kansas, dealt with the insanity defense in criminal law.
In Kahler v.
Kansas, the Supreme Court ruled that states may abolish the insanity defense without violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution.
The case involved James K.
Kahler, who was convicted of murder in Kansas and claimed that the state's insanity test was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court's decision in Kahler v.
Kansas has implications for the relationship between criminal culpability and mental illness in American law.
The docket number 18-6135 has been used in multiple cases, highlighting the complexity and volume of cases handled by the Supreme Court.