| TRANSRIGHTS | Subject of a historic June 2020 Supreme Court ruling |
| BABE | Subject of a historic 1919 sports deal, with "The" |
| RBG | 1993-2020 Supreme Court inits. |
| OREO | Cookie with a 2020 Supreme collab |
| OBAMACARE | Focus of a 2012 Supreme Court ruling |
| ALGORE | Losing side in a 2000 Supreme Court ruling |
| ROE | Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983), informally |
| PLESSY | Homer ___, activist whose train-car protest led to an infamous Supreme Court ruling |
| PLYER | ___ v. Doe (1982 Supreme Court ruling involving immigrant children) |
| ROEVWADE | Landmark US Supreme Court ruling making abortion legal on this day, 1973 (3,1,4) |
| LEAPYEAR | Replace a player around end of June 2020, for example (4,4) |
| TRANSMAN | Guy protected against employment discrimination, per a landmark SCOTUS decision in June 2020 |
| THELEGALENDOFZELDA | What a court ruling prohibiting games with a Nintendo princess would cause? |
| MAYOR | Political office sought in the Jon Stewart satire "Irresistible" (June, 2020) |
| UPHOLDS | Confirms, as a court ruling |
| JUDICIAL | Hardy character cut down: one of the people upset regarding court ruling (8) |
| UPHOLD | Support, as a lower court ruling |
| APPELLANT | One appealing against a court ruling |
| VERDICT | Italian composer ahead of court ruling |
| TRAVESTY | ___ of justice; bad court ruling |
