U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

A case in which the Court will decide whether, and if so to what extent, a former president enjoys presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act?which requires hospitals receiving Medicare funding to offer ?necessary stabilizing treatment? to pregnant women in emergencies?preempts an Idaho law that criminalizes most abortions in the state.

A case in which the Court will decide what test courts must use to evaluate the National Labor Relations Board?s requests for injunctions under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the denial of a visa to the non-citizen spouse of a U.S. citizen infringes on a constitutionally protected interest of the citizen and, if so, whether the government properly justified that decision.

A case in which the Court will decide whether Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss when all claims are subject to arbitration.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Eighth Amendment?s protection against cruel and unusual punishment prevents a city from enforcing a ban on public camping against homeless individuals.

A case in which the Court will clarify the methodology for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington.

A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c), which prohibits obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations, includes acts unrelated to investigations and evidence.

A case in which the Court will decide whether a Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claim can proceed as to a baseless criminal charge so long as other charges brought alongside the baseless charge are supported by probable cause.

A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B) criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions a state or local official has already taken or committed to take, without any quid pro quo agreement to take those actions.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the proceeds of a life insurance policy taken out by a closely held corporation on a shareholder in order to facilitate the redemption of the shareholder?s stock should be considered a corporate asset when calculating the value of the shareholder?s shares for purposes of the federal estate tax.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant?s prior convictions were ?committed on occasions different from one another,? as is necessary to impose an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

A case in which the Court will resolve a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration?s 2016 and 2021 approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the 60-day filing deadline in 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) is jurisdictional.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Indian Health Service must pay ?contract support costs? not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe?s expenditure of income collected from third parties.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the probable-cause exception in Nieves v. Barlett can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened; and whether Nieves is limited to individual claims against arresting officers for split-second arrests.

A case in which the Court will decide whether to approve a consent decree resolving claims among Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico over the delivery of water from the Rio Grande Basin to Elephant Butte.

A case in which the Court will decide whether, in a prosecution for drug trafficking?where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs?Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b) permits a governmental expert witness to testify that most couriers know they are carrying drugs and that drug-trafficking organizations do not entrust large quantities of drugs to unknowing transporters.

A case in which the Court will decide whether an insurer with financial responsibility for a bankruptcy claim is a ?party in interest? that may object to a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.

A case in which the Court will decide whether a New York regulator?s discouragement of companies from doing business with the National Rifle Association after the Parkland school shooting constitutes coercion in violation of the First Amendment.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the government?s requests to large social media companies that they take steps to prevent the dissemination of purported misinformation constituted coercion and thus transformed those private companies? content-moderation decisions into state action and violated users? First Amendment rights.

A case in which the Court will decide whether, when parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, an arbitrator or a court decides whether that arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and delegation.

A case in which the Court will decide whether a bump stock device is a ?machinegun? as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b).

A case in which the Court will decide whether the National Bank Act preempts the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks.

A case in which the Court held that, because the relevant rules a time-related directive, a district court can enter a criminal forfeiture order when the time limit specified in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure has already passed.

A case in which the Court will decide whether Florida S.B. 7072?s content-moderation restrictions comply with the First Amendment; and whether the law?s individualized-explanation requirements comply with the First Amendment.

A case in which the Court will decide whether a state law restricting social media platforms from engaging in editorial choices about whether, and how, to publish and disseminate speech and requiring them to submit to onerous operational and disclosure requirements violates the First Amendment.

A case in which the Court will decide whether a copyright plaintiff can recover damages for acts that allegedly occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit.

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether to stay the Environmental Protection Agency?s federal emission reductions rule, the Good Neighbor Plan; and (2) whether the emissions controls imposed by the rule are reasonable regardless of the number of states subject to the rule.

A case in which the Court will decide whether a plaintiff?s Administrative Procedure Act claim ?first accrues? under 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) when an agency issues a rule or when the rule first causes harm to the plaintiff.

A case in which the Court held that a worker need not be employed by a company in the transportation industry to be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act.

A case in which the Court held that Congress alone must decide whether Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies an individual from running for the office of President.

A case in which the Court will decide whether to overrule its decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.

A case in which the Court will decide whether to overrule Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.

A case in which the Court held that a failure to make a disclosure required under Item 303 of SEC Regulation S-K cannot support a private claim under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in the absence of an otherwise misleading statement.

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether a person whose property is taken without compensation may seek redress directly under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment even if the legislature has not affirmatively provided them with a cause of action, but it concluded that it did not need to resolve that question to dispose of this case.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute expert conveying the testimonial statements of a nontestifying forensic analyst?

A case in which the Court held that the Fifth Amendment?s Takings Clause does not distinguish between legislative and administrative land-use permit conditions.

A case in which the Court will decide whether to require the U.S. Trustee to issue refunds for the extra fees paid by debtors in certain districts to address the lack of uniformity identified in Siegel v. Fitzgerald.

A case in which the Court held that respondent?s claims challenging his placement on the No Fly List are not moot because the government's declaration stating that he ?will not be placed on the No Fly List in the future based on the currently available information? did not ensure that he would not be placed back on the list for engaging in the same or similar conduct in the future.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the government provides adequate notice under 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a) when it serves an initial notice document that does not include the ?time and place? of proceedings followed by an additional document containing that information.

A case in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in transfer decisions that cause some harm, not merely "significant" harm.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by non-debtors against non-debtor third parties, without the claimants? consent.

A case in which the Court will decide whether the statutory scheme that empowers the Securities and Exchange Commission violates the Seventh Amendment, the nondelegation doctrine, or Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

A case in which the Court held that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was found by a jury to be not guilty by reason of insanity.

A case in which the Court held that an agency determination that a given set of established facts does not rise to the statutory standard of ?exceptional and extremely unusual hardship? is a mixed question of law and fact reviewable under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D).

A case in which the Court will decide whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act incorporates the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense or the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the prior state drug offense.

A case in which the Court held that a veteran who has served two separate and distinct periods of qualifying service is entitled to receive all of the education benefits at once from programs associated with both periods of service.

A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violates the Second Amendment.