U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Trump v. CASA Inc.

Trump v. CASA Inc.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency

A case in which the Court will decide whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by pointing to the coercive and predictable effects of regulation on third parties.

Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency

A case in which the Court will decide whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by pointing to the coercive and predictable effects of regulation on third parties.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state violates the First Amendment’s religion clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for religious behavior.

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.

Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state violates the First Amendment’s religion clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for religious behavior.

Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state violates the First Amendment’s religion clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for religious behavior.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.