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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States, presented by Oyez, a multimedia judicial archive at the IllinoisTech Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Episodes

Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether a privately owned and operated school’s educational decisions are considered state action simply because the school has a contract with the state to provide free education to students, and (2) whether the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause prohibits, or the Establishment Clause requires, a state to exclude religious schools from its charter-school program.

Apr 30, 20252 hr 11 min

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis

A case in which the Court will decide whether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack any Article III injury.

Apr 29, 20252 hr 15 min

Martin v. United States

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the Supremacy Clause prevents individuals from suing the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act when federal employees’ actions, even if negligent or wrongful, are related to carrying out federal policy and can be interpreted as following federal laws; and (2) whether the discretionary-function exception, which usually protects the government from being sued for certain decisions made by its employees, is always inapplicable when de...

Apr 29, 202552 min

Soto v. United States

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Combat-Related Special Compensation statute contains its own procedure for calculating retroactive payments that displaces the six-year limitations period in the Barring Act.

Apr 28, 20251 hr 3 min

A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Rehabilitation Act of 1973 require children with disabilities to satisfy a “bad faith or gross misjudgment” standard when seeking relief for discrimination relating to their education.

Apr 28, 20251 hr 26 min

Mahmoud v. Taylor

A case in which the Court will decide whether public schools burden parents’ religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents’ religious convictions and without notice or opportunity to opt out.

Apr 22, 20252 hr 29 min

Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch

A case in which the Court will decide whether a proceeding under 26 U.S.C. § 6330 for a pre-deprivation determination about a levy proposed by the Internal Revenue Service to collect unpaid taxes becomes moot when there is no longer a live dispute over the proposed levy that gave rise to the proceeding.

Apr 22, 202548 min

Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force violates the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, and whether the provision that insulates the task force from the Health & Human Services secretary’s supervision is severable from the rest of the statute.

Apr 21, 20251 hr 26 min

Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force violates the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, and whether the provision that insulates the task force from the Health & Human Services secretary’s supervision is severable from the rest of the statute.

Apr 21, 20251 hr 26 min

Parrish v. United States

A case in which the Court will decide whether a party who files a notice of appeal during the period between when their original appeal deadline expired and when the court reopens their time to appeal must file a second notice after the reopening is granted.

Apr 21, 202554 min

Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Medicaid Act’s “any qualified provider” provision unambiguously confers a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider.

Apr 02, 20251 hr 34 min

Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Apr 01, 20251 hr 53 min

Rivers v. Guerrero

A case in which the Court will decide whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)—which strictly limits the circumstances in which an inmate can file a second petition for federal post-conviction relief—applies to all second habeas petitions (petitions filed after the first one) or only to specific types of second petitions.

Mar 31, 202552 min

Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research

A case in which the Court will decide whether Congress violated the Constitution in the way it gave power to the FCC to collect Universal Service Fund money, and whether the FCC then violated the Constitution by letting a private, industry-controlled company make those collection decisions.

Mar 26, 20252 hr 33 min

Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research

A case in which the Court will decide whether Congress violated the Constitution in the way it gave power to the FCC to collect Universal Service Fund money, and whether the FCC then violated the Constitution by letting a private, industry-controlled company make those collection decisions.

Mar 26, 20252 hr 33 min

Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC

A case in which the Court will decide whether challenges by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard program should be heard exclusively in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit because the agency’s denial actions are “nationally applicable” or “based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect.”

Mar 25, 20251 hr 43 min

Oklahoma v. Environmental Protection Agency

A case in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction to review an Environmental Protection Agency action that affects only one state or region, simply because the EPA published that action alongside actions affecting other states in a single Federal Register notice.

Mar 25, 202548 min

Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC

A case in which the Court will decide whether challenges by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard program should be heard exclusively in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit because the agency’s denial actions are “nationally applicable” or “based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect.”

Mar 25, 20251 hr 43 min

Louisiana v. Callais

A case in which the Court will decide whether Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black congressional district constitutes unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, even when drawn in response to a federal court finding that the state’s prior single majority-Black district likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Mar 24, 20251 hr 19 min

Riley v. Bondi

A case in which the Court will decide issues relating to the 30-day deadline to seek review of a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals denying withholding of deportation.

Mar 24, 202557 min

Riley v. Bondi

A case in which the Court will decide issues relating to the 30-day deadline to seek review of a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals denying withholding of deportation.

Mar 24, 202557 min

Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas

A case in which the Court will decide whether a nonparty can challenge a federal agency’s “final order” under the Hobbs Act’s judicial review provision; and whether federal nuclear laws allow the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to license private companies to store spent nuclear fuel at off-reactor sites.

Mar 05, 20251 hr 36 min

Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas

A case in which the Court will decide whether a nonparty can challenge a federal agency’s “final order” under the Hobbs Act’s judicial review provision; and whether federal nuclear laws allow the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to license private companies to store spent nuclear fuel at off-reactor sites.

Mar 05, 20251 hr 36 min

Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos

A case in which the Court will decide whether U.S. gun manufacturers can be held liable for violence in Mexico under theories of proximate causation and aiding and abetting, based on their domestic production and sale of firearms that are later trafficked to Mexican cartels.

Mar 04, 20251 hr 31 min

Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos

A case in which the Court will decide whether U.S. gun manufacturers can be held liable for violence in Mexico under theories of proximate causation and aiding and abetting, based on their domestic production and sale of firearms that are later trafficked to Mexican cartels.

Mar 04, 20251 hr 31 min
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