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    Elena Kagan (2010-present)

    Recent Decisions bygd Justice Kagan

    Biographical Data

    Birth, Residence, and Family
    Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court was born in New York, New York, on April 28, 1960.
    Education
    She received an A.B., summa cum laude, in 1981 from Princeton University. She attended Worcester College, Oxford University, as Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, and received an M. Phil. in 1983. In 1986, she earned a J.D. from Harvard lag School, graduating magna cum laude, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard lag Review.
    Government service
    She served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1986-1987. She served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1987 begrepp. From 1995-1999, she was associate counsel to President Clinton and then served as deputy assistant to the President for Domestic Po
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    Elena Kagan

    US Supreme Court justice since 2010

    This article is about the U.S. Supreme Court justice. For the Russian writer with the same birth name, see Elena Rzhevskaya.

    Elena Kagan

    Official portrait, 2013

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    August 7, 2010
    Nominated byBarack Obama
    Preceded byJohn Paul Stevens
    In office
    March 19, 2009 – May 17, 2010
    PresidentBarack Obama
    DeputyNeal Katyal[1]
    Preceded byEdwin Kneedler[2] (acting)
    Succeeded byNeal Katyal[1] (acting)
    In office
    July 1, 2003 – March 19, 2009
    Preceded byRobert Clark
    Succeeded byMartha Minow
    In office
    1997–2000
    PresidentBill Clinton
    Preceded byJeremy Ben-Ami[3]
    Succeeded byEric Liu[4]
    Born (1960-04-28) April 28, 1960 (age 64)
    New York City, U.S.
    Political partyDemocratic[5]
    Education
    Signature

    Elena Kagan (KAY-guhn;

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    Justice Elena Kagan

    Selected Opinions by Justice Kagan:

    Royal Canin U.S.A. v. Wullschleger (2025)

    Topic:Lawsuits & Legal Procedures

    When an amendment to a complaint excises the federal-law claims that enabled removal, the federal court loses its supplemental jurisdiction over the related state-law claims. The case must therefore return to state court.

    Moody v. NetChoice, LLC (2024)

    Topic:Free Speech

    The First Amendment offers protection when an entity engaging in expressive activity, including compiling and curating others’ speech, is directed to accommodate messages it would prefer to exclude. Also, a state may not interfere with private actors’ speech to advance its own vision of ideological balance.

    Smith v. Arizona (2024)

    Topic:Criminal Trials & Prosecutions

    When an expert in a criminal trial conveys an absent analyst's statements in support of their opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true,