U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

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01.19.2021 BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore A case in which the Court will decide whether 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 ...
01.19.2021 FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project A case in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, below, erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the FCC’s orders that substantially changed its approach to regulation of broadcast media ownership.
01.13.2021 AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission A case in which the Court will decide whether Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, by authorizing “injunction[s],” also authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, the scope of the limits ...
01.12.2021 Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski A case in which the Court will decide whether a person may continue with a lawsuit seeking nominal damages against the government if, after the lawsuit was filed, the government changed its unconstitutional policy.
01.11.2021 Pham v. Guzman Chavez A 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.
12.09.2020 Collins v. Mnuchin A 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 ...
12.08.2020 Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc. A case in which the Court will 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.
12.08.2020 Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid A case in which the Court will decide whether the definition of an "automatic telephone dialing system" in the Telephone and Consumer Protection Act of 1991 encompasses any device that can “store” and “automatically dial” telephone numbers, even if the ...
12.07.2020 Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp A case in which the Court will decide whether the “expropriation exception” of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides jurisdiction over claims arising from an artwork collection allegedly seized by Nazis during the Holocaust.
12.02.2020 Edwards v. Vannoy A case in which the Court will decide whether 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, applies retroactively ...
12.01.2020 Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I A 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.
12.01.2020 CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service A case in which the Court will decide whether the Anti-Injunction Act’s bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawful regulatory mandates that are not taxes.
11.30.2020 Van Buren v. United States A case in which the Court will decide whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if he accesses that information for an ...
11.30.2020 Trump v. New York A 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 ...
11.10.2020 California v. Texas A case in which the Court will decide whether the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, and if so, whether it is severable from the rest of the Act.
11.09.2020 Brownback v. King A case in which the Court will decide whether 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, ...
11.09.2020 Niz-Chavez v. Barr A 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 ...
11.04.2020 Fulton v. City of Philadelphia A case in which the Court will decide several questions arising under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and whether to revisit its decision in Employment Division v. Smith.
11.03.2020 Jones v. Mississippi A case in which the Court will decide whether, under the Eighth Amendment, a sentencing authority must find that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before it may impose a sentence of life without parole.
11.03.2020 Borden v. United States A case in which the Court will decide whether the “use of force” clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act encompasses crimes with an intent requirement of mere recklessness.
11.02.2020 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club A case in which the Court will clarify the scope of the deliberative process privilege under Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act.
11.02.2020 Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board A case in which the Court will decide whether, 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 ...
10.14.2020 Torres v. Madrid A case in which the Court will decide whether an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force is a “seizure” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, or whether physical force must be successful in detaining ...
10.14.2020 Pereida v. Barr A 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 ...
10.13.2020 City of Chicago v. Fulton A 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 ...
10.13.2020 United States v. Briggs A 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 ...
10.07.2020 Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. A case in which the court will decide whether copyright protection extends to a software interface, and whether the petitioner’s use of a software interface in the context of creating a new computer program constitutes fair use.
10.07.2020 Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court A case in which the Court will decide whether a state court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant when none of the defendant’s contacts with that state caused the plaintiff’s claims.
10.06.2020 Tanzin v. Tanvir A 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.
10.06.2020 Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association A 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).
10.05.2020 Texas v. New Mexico A case in which the Court will decide whether the River Master correctly allocated evaporation losses under the Pecos River Compact.
10.05.2020 Carney v. Adams A 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.
05.13.2020 Chiafalo v. Washington A 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.
05.13.2020 Colorado Department of State v. Baca A 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.
05.12.2020 Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP Cases in which the Court held that while the Constitution does not prohibit congressional subpoenas issued to the sitting President, the courts below did not adequately weigh the separation-of-powers concerns raised by the subpoenas in these cases.
05.12.2020 Trump v. Vance A 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.
05.11.2020 McGirt v. Oklahoma A case in which the Court held that parts of eastern Oklahoma are an Indian reservation subject to exclusive federal jurisdiction for certain crimes under the Indian Major Crimes Act.
05.11.2020 Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru A case in which the Court held that the First Amendment’s religion clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment-discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious employer, when the employee carried out important religious functions.
05.06.2020 Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc. A case in which the Court held that a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 creating an exception to the prohibition on automated calls for government debt collection calls violates the First Amendment but is severable from ...
05.06.2020 Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania A case in which the Court held that the federal government acted properly when it added extensive exemptions to regulations requiring employers to include contraceptive coverage in employee health plans.
05.05.2020 United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. A case in which the Court held that a law conditioning federal funding to foreign affiliates of an American organization on those organizations' express policies on prostitution and sex trafficking does not violate the First Amendment because foreign corporations operating ...
05.04.2020 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V. A case in which the Court held that the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (“.com”) to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark if the composite term is distinct from the generic term ...
03.04.2020 June Medical Services LLC v. Russo A case in which the Court reversed a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital because it conflicted with the ...
03.03.2020 Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission A case in which the Court held that the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as “equitable relief” for a securities law violation, subject to certain restrictions.
03.03.2020 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau A case in which the Court held that the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, violates the separation of powers, but the statutory provision creating that violation, ...
03.02.2020 Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam A case in which the Court held that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(e)(2) as applied to the respondent Thuraissigiam does not violate the Suspension Clause of the Constitution.
03.02.2020 Nasrallah v. Barr A case in which the Court held that the federal courts have jurisdiction to review an administrative agency’s factual findings underlying denials of withholding (and deferral) of removal relief, notwithstanding 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(C), which seems to divest courts of ...
02.26.2020 Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez A case in which the Court held that a dismissal without prejudice for failure to state a claim counts as a strike under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), which bars inmates from filing or appealing a ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments episodes:

BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project

AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission

Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski

Pham v. Guzman Chavez

Collins v. Mnuchin

Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc.

Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid

Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp

Edwards v. Vannoy

Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I

CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service

Van Buren v. United States

Trump v. New York

California v. Texas

Brownback v. King

Niz-Chavez v. Barr

Fulton v. City of Philadelphia

Jones v. Mississippi

Borden v. United States

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club

Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board

Torres v. Madrid

Pereida v. Barr

City of Chicago v. Fulton

United States v. Briggs

Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court

Tanzin v. Tanvir

Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association

Texas v. New Mexico

Carney v. Adams

Chiafalo v. Washington

Colorado Department of State v. Baca

Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP

Trump v. Vance

McGirt v. Oklahoma

Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru

Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc.

Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania

United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.

June Medical Services LLC v. Russo

Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission

Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam

Nasrallah v. Barr

Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez

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