U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments
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Trump v. United States
April 25, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours - 36.5 MBA 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.
Moyle v. United States
April 24, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 25.9 MBA 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.
Department of State v. Munoz
April 23, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.9 MBA 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.
Starbucks Corporation v. McKinney
April 23, 2024 14:00 - 52 minutes - 12 MBA 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.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
April 22, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours - 33.4 MBA 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.
Smith v. Spizzirri
April 22, 2024 14:00 - 43 minutes - 9.9 MBA case in which the Court held that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, and does not give district courts discretion to dismiss the suit when all claims are subject to arbitration.
Thornell v. Jones
April 17, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.8 MBA case in which the Court held that when a capital defendant claims that he was prejudiced at sentencing because counsel failed to present available mitigating evidence, a court must decide whether it is reasonably likely that the additional evidence would have avoided a death sentence, which the court does by evaluating the strength of all the evidence and comparing the weight of aggravating and mitigating factors.
Fischer v. United States
April 16, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 23 MBA 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.
Snyder v. United States
April 15, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 22.6 MBA 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.
Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio
April 15, 2024 14:00 - 58 minutes - 13.4 MBA 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.
Connelly v. United States
March 27, 2024 14:00 - 53 minutes - 12.3 MBA case in which the Court held that a corporation’s contractual obligation to redeem shares is not necessarily a liability that reduces a corporation’s value 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 was asked to 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 held that 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 held that the 60-day filing deadline in 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) is not jurisdictional.
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.
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.
Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.
March 19, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.5 MBA case in which the Court held that 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 permitted the National Rifle Association's lawsuit to proceed where it plausibly alleged that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) violated the First Amendment by coercing regulated entities to terminate their business relationships with the NRA in order to punish or suppress the NRA’s gun-promotion advocacy.
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 held that, when parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, a court must decide 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 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.
Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A.
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBA case in which the Court clarified the test for whether the National Bank Act preempts the application of state laws to national banks.
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.
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.
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 held that the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to obtain monetary relief for any timely infringement claim, no matter when the infringement occurred.
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 held that a worker need not be employed by a company in the transportation industry to be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act.
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.
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.
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.
Devillier v. Texas
January 16, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.5 MBA 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.
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P.
January 16, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBA 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.
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 held that the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause does not distinguish between legislative and administrative land-use permit conditions.
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.
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.
Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri
December 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 22.1 MBA 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.
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 held that a state drug conviction counts as an ACCA predicate if it involved a drug on the federal schedules at the time of that conviction.
Rudisill v. McDonough
November 08, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.1 MBA 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.
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.