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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrett v. United States | 07 Oct 2025 | 01:01:54 | |
A case in which the Court held that a defendant who commits a single act that violates both 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A)(i)—using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during a federal crime of violence or drug trafficking crime—and §924(j)—which applies when such a violation causes death—may be convicted under only one of those provisions, not both. | |||
| Chiles v. Salazar | 07 Oct 2025 | 01:24:44 | |
A case in which the Court held that a Colorado law banning “conversion therapy”—i.e., attempts to “convert” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity—violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. | |||
| Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch | 22 Apr 2025 | 00:47:33 | |
A case in which the Court held that 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. | |||
| Mahmoud v. Taylor | 22 Apr 2025 | 02:29:20 | |
A case in which the Court held that 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. | |||
| Parrish v. United States | 21 Apr 2025 | 00:53:56 | |
A case in which the Court held that 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 need not file a second notice after the reopening is granted. | |||
| Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. | 21 Apr 2025 | 01:26:12 | |
A case in which the Court held that the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not violate the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. | |||
| Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic | 02 Apr 2025 | 01:33:37 | |
A case in which the Court held that the Medicaid Act’s “any qualified provider” provision does not unambiguously confer a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider and therefore cannot be enforced via § 1983. | |||
| Villarreal v. Texas | 06 Oct 2025 | 01:17:14 | |
A case in which the Court held that a trial court does not violate a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel by narrowly banning discussion of the defendant’s ongoing testimony with counsel during an overnight recess. | |||
| Trump v. CASA Inc. | 15 May 2025 | 02:15:41 | |
A case in which the Court held that federal district courts likely lack equitable authority under the Judiciary Act of 1789 to issue universal injunctions that prohibit enforcement of executive actions beyond the parties before the court. | |||
| Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond | 30 Apr 2025 | 02:11:12 | |
A case in which the Court was asked to 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 | 29 Apr 2025 | 02:15:20 | |
A case in which the Court was asked to 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 | 29 Apr 2025 | 00:52:23 | |
A case in which the Court will held that (1) the Supremacy Clause does not afford the United States a defense in a suit against it under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2671 et seq., and (2) the law enforcement proviso in §2680(h) of the FTCA overrides only the intentional-tort exception in that subsection, not the discretionary-function exception or other exceptions throughout § 2680. | |||
| A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279 | 28 Apr 2025 | 01:26:04 | |
A case in which the Court held that the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Rehabilitation Act of 1973 do not require children with disabilities to satisfy a heightened “bad faith or gross misjudgment” standard when seeking relief for discrimination relating to their education. | |||
| Soto v. United States | 28 Apr 2025 | 01:02:50 | |
A case in which the Court held that the statute that provides combat-related special compensation (CRSC) to disabled veterans establishes its own settlement process for claims, which supersedes the Barring Act’s default six-year statute of limitations for most claims against the federal government. | |||
| Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency | 23 Apr 2025 | 01:04:53 | |
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. | |||
| United States Postal Service v. Konan | 08 Oct 2025 | 01:06:54 | |
The Federal Tort Claims Act's postal exception — which bars lawsuits against the government for claims "arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter" — shields the United States from liability even when postal workers intentionally fail to deliver mail. | |||
| Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections | 08 Oct 2025 | 01:43:43 | |
A case in which the Court held that a candidate for elected office has standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge election rules that govern the counting of votes in his election, regardless of whether those rules harm his electoral prospects or increase the cost of his campaign. | |||
| Berk v. Choy | 06 Oct 2025 | 01:03:41 | |
A case in which the Court held that a Delaware law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit conflicts with a valid Federal Rule of Civil Procedure and thus does not apply in a federal court sitting in diversity. | |||
| Ellingburg v. United States | 14 Oct 2025 | 01:04:17 | |
A case in which the Court held that criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause. | |||
| Bowe v. United States | 14 Oct 2025 | 01:30:54 | |
A case in which the Court held that the statutory bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) that prohibits certiorari review of court of appeals decisions on second or successive habeas applications does not apply to federal prisoners, and § 2244(b)(1)’s bar on claims previously presented does not apply to federal prisoners’ motions under § 2255(h). | |||
| Rico v. United States | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:54:34 | |
A case in which the Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act does not permit a defendant's term of supervised release to automatically extend when the defendant absconds. | |||
| Hencely v. Fluor Corporation | 03 Nov 2025 | 01:29:59 | |
A case in which the Court held that federal law does not block state-law lawsuits against military contractors for actions that the government neither ordered nor authorized. | |||
| Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist | 04 Nov 2025 | 00:41:41 | |
A case in which the Court held that a federal court cannot create jurisdiction over a lawsuit through its own erroneous ruling. When an appellate court reverses a district court's mistaken dismissal of a party who destroyed complete diversity, the jurisdictional defect never disappears and any trial verdict must be thrown out. | |||
| Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton | 04 Nov 2025 | 00:35:43 | |
A case in which the Court held that a motion to set aside a judgment as void under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4) must be filed within a "reasonable time" as required by Rule 60(c)(1). | |||
| The GEO Group, Inc. v. Menocal | 10 Nov 2025 | 00:56:32 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether an order denying a government contractor’s claim of derivative sovereign immunity under Yearsley v. W.A. Ross Construction Co. is immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrine, which permits interlocutory appeals of certain non-final orders that conclusively determine important issues separate from the merits. | |||
| Fernandez v. United States | 12 Nov 2025 | 01:21:33 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether a combination of “extraordinary and compelling reasons” that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) can include reasons that may also be alleged as grounds for vacatur of a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255. | |||
| Rutherford v. United States | 12 Nov 2025 | 01:21:27 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether district courts may consider sentencing disparities created by the First Step Act’s nonretroactive reduction of mandatory minimum penalties—which can result in defendants serving sentences decades longer than those imposed for identical conduct today—when determining whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under the compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). | |||
| Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump | 05 Nov 2025 | 02:39:03 | |
A case in which the Court held that the International Emergency Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. § 1701 (“IEEPA”), does not permit the president to impose tariffs. | |||
| Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections | 10 Nov 2025 | 01:50:49 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). | |||
| Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment | 01 Dec 2025 | 01:40:40 | |
A case in which the Court held that an internet service provider does not commit "contributory copyright infringement" — meaning legal responsibility for copyright violations committed by someone else — simply by continuing to provide internet service to subscribers it knows have been flagged for piracy. | |||
| Urias-Orellana v. Bondi | 01 Dec 2025 | 00:58:11 | |
A case in which the Court held that a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enough to constitute “persecution” under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42). | |||
| FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd. | 10 Dec 2025 | 01:18:55 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act (ICA), 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46 (b), creates an implied private right of action. | |||
| Hamm v. Smith | 10 Dec 2025 | 02:01:29 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing an Atkins claim. | |||
| National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission | 09 Dec 2025 | 02:10:41 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spending in connection with “party coordinated communications.” | |||
| Trump v. Slaughter | 08 Dec 2025 | 02:30:29 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), should be overruled. | |||
| Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi | 03 Dec 2025 | 01:24:55 | |
A case in which the Court held that its decision in Heck v. Humphrey does not bar claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking only prospective relief when the plaintiff has previously been punished under the challenged law. | |||
| First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin | 02 Dec 2025 | 01:22:27 | |
A case in which the Court held that a government subpoena demanding a private organization's donor records inflicts an immediate injury to First Amendment freedom of association rights, allowing the organization to challenge the demand in federal court before it is enforced. | |||
| Case v. Montana | 15 Oct 2025 | 01:15:01 | |
A case in which the Court held that law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or faces imminent serious injury. | |||
| Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana | 12 Jan 2026 | 01:17:25 | |
A case in which the Court held that the federal officer removal statute allows a defendant to move a state-court suit to federal court if the challenged conduct has a plausible and close relationship to the performance of federal duties. | |||
| Little v. Hecox | 13 Jan 2026 | 01:52:21 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a State from categorically requiring sports participants to compete based on their biological sex, rather than gender identity. | |||
| Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp. | 14 Jan 2026 | 01:09:53 | |
A case in which the Court held that the New Jersey Transit Corporation is not an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes. | |||
| West Virginia v. B.P.J. | 13 Jan 2026 | 01:21:55 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause allow a state to designate school sports teams for girls and boys based on students’ biological sex as determined at birth. | |||
| Trump v. Cook | 21 Jan 2026 | 01:58:21 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether to stay a district court injunction preventing the President from removing a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors “for cause” based on pre-appointment conduct without prior notice or a hearing. | |||
| Wolford v. Lopez | 20 Jan 2026 | 01:51:06 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for a licensed concealed carry permit holder to bring a handgun onto private property open to the public—such as a store or restaurant—unless the property owner gives "express authorization" violates the Second Amendment. | |||
| Louisiana v. Callais | 15 Oct 2025 | 02:30:02 | |
A case in which the Court held that 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. | |||
| M & K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund | 20 Jan 2026 | 00:57:17 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether pension plans calculating an employer's withdrawal liability “as of the end of the plan year” must use the financial assumptions that existed at year-end, or whether they can use different assumptions adopted after year-end as long as those assumptions are based on information available at the time. | |||
| Trump v. Barbara | 01 Apr 2026 | 02:08:30 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether Executive Order No. 14,160 issued by President Donald, which denies U.S. birthright citizenship to children born in the United States solely because their parents are in the country unlawfully or on temporary visas, is consistent with the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a). | |||
| Watson v. Republican National Committee | 23 Mar 2026 | 02:08:08 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether the federal election-day statutes, 2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1, preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day. | |||
| United States v. Hemani | 02 Mar 2026 | 01:54:52 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to the respondent. | |||
| Pitchford v. Cain | 31 Mar 2026 | 01:49:42 | |
A case in which the Court will decide whether the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably decided—under the standards set by federal habeas law—that Terry Pitchford gave up his right to argue that the prosecutor’s explanations for striking four Black jurors were false or racially biased? | |||
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