U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments
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United States v. Cooley
March 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBA case in which the Court held that a police officer for a Native American tribe has the authority to detain and search a non-tribe member within a reservation on suspicion of violating a state or federal law.
Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid
March 22, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBA case in which the Court held a California regulation granting labor organizations a “right to take access” to an agricultural employer’s property to solicit support for unionization constitutes a per se physical taking under the Fifth Amendment?
Carr v. Saul
March 03, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.1 MBA case in which the Court held that a person seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act does not forfeit their ability to challenge the appointment of an administrative law judge if they fail to raise that challenge during administrative proceedings.
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee
March 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 26.1 MBA case in which the Court upheld Arizona’s policy of not counting provisional ballots cast in person on Election Day outside of the voter’s designated precinct and Arizona’s law permitting only certain persons to handle another person’s completed early ballot against challenges under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fifteenth Amendment.
United States v. Arthrex, Inc.
March 01, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.4 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the appointment of administrative patent judges by the Secretary of Commerce violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Lange v. California
February 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 25.7 MBA case in which the Court held that the exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement is not categorically triggered when police are pursuing a suspect whom they believe committed a misdemeanor.
Garland v. Dai
February 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.8 MBA case in which the Court held that a court of appeals cannot presume that an immigrant’s testimony is credible and true simply because an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals did not specifically find that he was not credible.
Wilkinson v. Dai
February 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.8 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a court of appeals can presume that an immigrant’s testimony is credible and true if an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals did not specifically find that he was not credible.
Florida v. Georgia
February 22, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBA case in which the Court held that Florida could not show that it Georgia had caused harm to its oyster fisheries and thus was not entitled to equitable or injunctive relief.
FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project
January 19, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 18.5 MBA case in which the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2017 decision to repeal or modify three of its media ownership rules was not arbitrary or capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.
BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
January 19, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 17.2 MBA case in which the Court held that federal law permits a court of appeals to review any issue included in a district court’s order sending a case to state court when the move to state court is based on two statutes, not just the ground for removal itself.
AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission
January 13, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.3 MBA case in which the Court held that Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, by authorizing “injunction[s],” does not authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution.
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski
January 12, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.2 MBA case in which the Court held that a request for nominal damages satisfies the redressability element necessary for Article III standing where a plaintiff’s claim is based on a completed violation of a legal right.
Pham v. Guzman Chavez
January 11, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 15 MBA case in which the Court will decide which federal law applies to the detention of a nonresident who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal.
Johnson v. Guzman Chavez
January 11, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 15 MBA case in which the Court held that Section §1231, not §1226, applies to the detention of a nonresident who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal.
Collins v. Mnuchin
December 09, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 23.1 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) structure violates the separation of powers; and (2) whether the courts must set aside a final agency action that FHFA took when it was unconstitutionally structured and strike down the statutory provisions that make FHFA independent.
Collins v. Yellen
December 09, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 23.1 MBA case in which the Court held that the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) structure violates the separation of powers but that courts need not set aside the final agency action that FHFA took when it was unconstitutionally structured.
Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc.
December 08, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 16 MBA case in which the Court was asked to decide whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator.
Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid
December 08, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 19 MBA case in which the Court held that to qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, a device must have the capacity either to store or to produce a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator.
Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp
December 07, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.2 MBA case in which the Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s expropriation exception, 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(3), incorporates the domestic takings rule, which recognizes that a foreign sovereign’s taking of its own nationals’ property is not a violation of international law.
Republic of Hungary v. Simon
December 07, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 18.5 MBA case in which the Court considered whether a court can decline to exercise jurisdiction on comity grounds in a case arising from the expropriation exemption of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, where the plaintiffs have not sought to exhaust their local remedies in the foreign country.
Edwards v. Vannoy
December 02, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 19.7 MBA case in which the Court held that its decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, in which it held the U.S. Constitution requires states to obtain a unanimous verdict to convict a criminal defendant for a serious offense, does not apply retroactively to cases on federal collateral review.
Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I
December 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 20.2 MBA case in which the Court will clarify the scope and reach of the Alien Tort Statute as to conduct by domestic corporations within the United States that may have caused harms abroad.
CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service
December 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.3 MBA case in which the Court held that the Anti-Injunction Act’s bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes does not bar challenges to unlawful regulatory mandates that are not taxes.
Trump v. New York
November 30, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.4 MBA case in which the Court was asked to decide whether a memorandum by President Donald Trump instructing the Secretary of Commerce to include in his report on the 2020 census information enabling the President to exclude noncitizens from the base population number for purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives.
Van Buren v. United States
November 30, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBA case in which the Court held that a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes does not violate Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if he accesses that information for an improper purpose; he must also obtain information located in particular areas of the computer that are off-limits to him.
California v. Texas
November 10, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 27.6 MBA case in which the Court held that the plaintiffs challenging the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as unconstitutional lack standing to bring their case in federal court.
Niz-Chavez v. Barr
November 09, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 16 MBA case in which the Court will decide what type of notice the government must provide to trigger the “stop-time rule,” which stops noncitizens from accruing the time in the United States that they need to become eligible for discretionary relief from deportation.
Niz-Chavez v. Garland
November 09, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 16 MBA case in which the Court held that to trigger the stop-time rule under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, a notice to appear must be a single document containing all the information about an individual’s removal hearing.
Brownback v. King
November 09, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.6 MBA case in which the Court held that the judgment bar provision of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) prevents a plaintiff whose FTCA claim against the government failed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction from filing another action, against the same defendants and arising from the same set of facts and injuries, under another theory of liability.
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
November 04, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 25.5 MBA case in which the Court held that the refusal of Philadelphia to contract with Catholic Social Services (CSS) for the provision of foster care services unless CSS agrees to certify same-sex couples as foster parents violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
Borden v. United States
November 03, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.5 MBA case in which the Court reversed and remanded the Sixth Circuit’s decision holding that the “use of force” clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act encompasses crimes with an intent requirement of mere recklessness.
Jones v. Mississippi
November 03, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 20 MBA case in which the Court held that, under the Eighth Amendment, a sentencing authority need not find that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before it may impose a sentence of life without parole.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club
November 02, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 16 MBA case in which the Court held that the deliberative process privilege under Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act protects from disclosure an agency’s in-house draft biological opinions that are both predecisional and deliberative, even if the drafts reflect the agencies’ last views about a proposal.
Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board
November 02, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.4 MBA case in which the Court held that, under Section 5(f) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and Section 8 of the Railroad Retirement Act, the Railroad Retirement Board’s denial of a request to reopen a prior benefits determination is a “final decision” subject to judicial review.
Torres v. Madrid
October 14, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 17.7 MBA case in which the Court held that application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the person does not submit and is not subdued.
Pereida v. Wilkinson
October 14, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.7 MBA case in which the Court held that a nonpermanent resident seeking to cancel a lawful removal order fails to carry his burden of showing that he has not been convicted of a disqualifying offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act when the conviction on his record is ambiguous regarding whether a disqualifying offense formed the basis of his conviction.
Pereida v. Barr
October 14, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14.7 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is ambiguous as to whether it corresponds to an offense listed in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
City of Chicago v. Fulton
October 13, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 18.7 MBA case in which the Court held that the mere retention of estate property after the filing of a bankruptcy petition does not violate 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3), which operates as a “stay” of “any act” to “exercise control” over the property of the estate.
United States v. Briggs
October 13, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBA case in which the Court held that the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s provision allowing rape, which is “punishable by death” under the UCMJ, to be “tried and punished at any time without limitation” is not affected by the Court’s precedent holding that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a death sentence for rape of an adult woman.
Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court
October 07, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBA case in which the Court held that the connection between plaintiffs’ product-liability claims arising from car accidents occurring in each plaintiff’s state of residence and Ford’s activities in those states is sufficient to support specific jurisdiction in the respective state courts, even though the automobiles involved in the accidents were manufactured and sold elsewhere.
Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.
October 07, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 22 MBA case in which the Court held that Google’s limited copying of the Java SE Application Programming Interface allowed programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a transformative program and constituted a fair use of that material under copyright law.
Tanzin v. Tanvir
October 06, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBA case in which the Court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, permits lawsuits seeking money damages against individual federal employees.
FNU Tanzin v. Tanvir
October 06, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, permits lawsuits seeking money damages against individual federal employees.
Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association
October 06, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 16.4 MBA case in which the Court held that an Arkansas law regulating pharmacy benefit managers’ drug-reimbursement rates is not pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Carney v. Adams
October 05, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14 MBA case in which the Court was asked to consider whether a state law that effectively limits state judicial service to members of the Democratic and Republican parties violates the First Amendment.
Texas v. New Mexico
October 05, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 17.1 MBA case in which the Court will decide whether the River Master correctly allocated evaporation losses under the Pecos River Compact.
Chiafalo v. Washington
May 13, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 17 MBA case in which the Court held that the Constitution does not prohibit Washington's “faithless elector” law, which requires presidential electors to vote the way state law directs.
Colorado Department of State v. Baca
May 13, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 14 MBA case in which the Court upheld as constitutional a Colorado law that prohibits so-called “faithless” electors from casting their votes in the Electoral College.
Trump v. Vance
May 12, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 23.2 MBA case in which the Court held that Article II and the Supremacy Clause neither categorically preclude, nor require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting President.