U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments
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Connelly v. United States
March 27, 2024 14:00 - 53 minutes - 12.3 MBA 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.
Erlinger v. United States
March 27, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.3 MBA 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.
Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
March 26, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.3 MBA 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.
Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe
March 25, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 19.8 MBA 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.
Harrow v. Department of Defense
March 25, 2024 14:00 - 50 minutes - 11.6 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the 60-day filing deadline in 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) is jurisdictional.
Gonzalez v. Trevino
March 20, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 19.6 MBA 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.
Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado
March 20, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.7 MBA 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.
Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.
March 19, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.5 MBA 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.
Diaz v. United States
March 19, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 19.4 MBA 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.
National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo
March 18, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 17 MBA 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.
Murthy v. Missouri
March 18, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBA 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.
Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski
February 28, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes - 9.83 MBA 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.
Garland v. Cargill
February 28, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.7 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a bump stock device is a “machinegun” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b).
McIntosh v. United States
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 48 minutes - 11.2 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a district court can enter a criminal forfeiture order when the time limit specified in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure has already passed.
Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A.
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the National Bank Act preempts the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks.
Moody v. NetChoice, LLC
February 26, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours - 32.6 MBA 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.
NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton
February 26, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 18.3 MBA 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.
Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency
February 21, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.4 MBA 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.
Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy
February 21, 2024 14:00 - 53 minutes - 12.2 MBA 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.
Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
February 20, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.1 MBA 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.
Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC
February 20, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 13.8 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether, to be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation must also be employed by a company in the transportation industry.
Trump v. Anderson
February 08, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours - 29.5 MBA 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.
Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce
January 17, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours - 30.2 MBA 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.
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
January 17, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 17.4 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether to overrule its decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.
Devillier v. Texas
January 16, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.5 MBA case in which the Court will 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.
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P.
January 16, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a failure to make a disclosure required under Item 303 of SEC Regulation S-K can support a private claim under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, even in the absence of an otherwise misleading statement.
Smith v. Arizona
January 10, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.3 MBA 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?
Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC
January 09, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.3 MBA 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.
Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California
January 09, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.3 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a monetary exaction imposed by a local government as a condition for a building permit is exempt from the “essential nexus” and “rough proportionality” requirements established in Nollan v. Cal. Coastal Comm’n and Dolan v. City of Tigard, simply because the exaction is authorized by local legislation.
Campos-Chaves v. Garland
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 22.9 MBA 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.
Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 18.7 MBA 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.
Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri
December 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 22.1 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in transfer decisions absent a separate court determination that the transfer decision caused a signification disadvantage.
Moore v. United States
December 05, 2023 14:00 - 2 hours - 28.5 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.
Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
December 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 23.7 MBA 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.
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy
November 29, 2023 14:00 - 2 hours - 31.3 MBA 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.
McElrath v. Georgia
November 28, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 13.6 MBA 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.
Wilkinson v. Garland
November 28, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.7 MBA 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).
Brown v. United States
November 27, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 19.4 MBA 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.
Rudisill v. McDonough
November 08, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.1 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether 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.
United States v. Rahimi
November 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.2 MBA 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.
Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz
November 06, 2023 14:00 - 18 MBA case in which the Court held that the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.
Vidal v. Elster
November 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 17.3 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the refusal to register a trademark under 15 U.S.C. § 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism of a government official or public figure.
Lindke v. Freed
October 31, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 17.7 MBA case in which the Court held that a public official who prevents someone from commenting on the official’s social-media page engages in state action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 only if the official both (1) possessed actual authority to speak on the State’s behalf on a particular matter, and (2) purported to exercise that authority when speaking in the relevant social-media posts.
O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier
October 31, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 23 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official’s personal social media account, which the official uses to communicate about job-related matters with the public.
Culley v. Marshall
October 30, 2023 14:00 - 22.9 MBA case in which the Court will decide what test a district court must apply when determining whether and when a post-deprivation hearing is required under the Due Process Clause.
Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
October 11, 2023 14:00 - 28.6 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether South Carolina’s congressional redistricting plan constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC
October 10, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.2 MBA case in which the Court held that under federal admiralty law, choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable under federal maritime law, with narrow exceptions not applicable in this case.
Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC
October 10, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.2 MBA case in which the Court held that under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a whistleblower need not prove his employer acted with a “retaliatory intent” as part of his case in chief to succeed on a retaliation claim, only that his protected activity was a “contributing factor” of the unfavorable personnel action.
Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer
October 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 19.4 MBA case in which the Court was asked to decide whether a civil rights “tester” has Article III standing to challenge under the Americans with Disabilities Act a hotel’s failure to provide disability accessibility information on its website.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America
October 03, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.6 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the funding scheme for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional.