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Docket Number: 24-820 Date Argued: 11/12/25 24-820 RUTHERFORD V. UNITED STATES DECISION BELOW: 120 F.4th 360 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-1904 QUESTION PRESENTED: The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant relief. 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). Congress placed only two limits on wh...

Docket Number: 24-556 Date Argued: 11/12/25 24-556 FERNANDEZ V. UNITED STATES DECISION BELOW: 104 F.4th 420 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-3122 QUESTION PRESENTED: Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a district court has broad discretion to reduce the term of imprisonment in any case if it finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduction." The sole limitation Congress...

Docket Number: 24-758 Date Argued: 11/10/25 24-758 THE GEO GROUP, INC. V. MENOCAL DECISION BELOW: 2024 WL 4544184 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-1409 QUESTION PRESENTED: Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that certain orders are immediately appealable under Section 1291 even though...

Docket Number: 23-1197 Date Argued: 11/10/25 23-1197 LANDOR V. LA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS DECISION BELOW: 82 F.4th 337 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-30686 QUESTION PRESENTED: Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq ., and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2...

Docket Number: 24-1287 Date Argued: 11/05/25 24-1287 LEARNING RESOURCES, INC. V. TRUMP DECISION BELOW: LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 25-5202 QUESTION PRESENTED: The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq. ("IEEPA") permits the President, upon a valid emergency declaration, to "investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and c...

Docket Number: 24-724 Date Argued: 11/04/25 24-724 HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP V. PALMQUIST DECISION BELOW: 103 F.4th 294 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-40197 QUESTION PRESENTED: Respondents, citizens of Texas, filed this products-liability suit in state court against Petitioners Hain Celestial Group, Inc., then a citizen of Delaware and New York, and Whole Foods, Inc., a citizen of Texas. Hain removed base...

Docket Number: 24-808 Date Argued: 11/04/25 24-808 CONEY ISLAND AUTO PARTS, INC. V. BURTON DECISION BELOW: 109 F.4th 438 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-5881 QUESTION PRESENTED: Well-settled legal principles dictate that a judgment entered in the absence of personal jurisdiction is void. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4) authorizes federal courts to vacate a judgment when it is void. A motion s...

24-924 HENCELY V. FLUOR CORP. DECISION BELOW: 120 F.4th 412 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 21-1994 QUESTION PRESENTED: Former U.S. Army Specialist Winston T. Hencely was critically and permanently injured by a suicide bomber inside Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The bomber, Ahmad Nayeb, worked on base for a government contractor. An Army investigation found that the attack's primary contributing factor...

24-1056 RICO V. UNITED STATES DECISION BELOW: 2025 WL 720900 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 24-2662 QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. CERT. GRANTED 6/30/2025 https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-1056_4gd5.pdf

24-624 CASE V. MONTANA DECISION BELOW: 553 P.3d 985 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: DA 23-0136 QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the emergency-aid exception requires probable cause. CERT. GRANTED 6/2/2025 See transcript https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_trans...

Docket Number: 24-109 Decision Below: 732 F.Supp.3d 574 Question Presented Over the State's strenuous objections, the Middle District of Louisiana held, Robinson v. Ardoin , 605 F. Supp. 3d 759 (M.D. La. 2022)-and the Fifth Circuit affirmed, Robinson v. Ardoin , 86 F.4th 574 (5th Cir. 2023)-that Louisiana likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by failing to create a second ma...

Docket Number: 24-482 Decision Bellow: 113 F.4th 839 (8th Cir. 2024) Question Presented Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause. John F. Bash, Esquire, of Austin, Texas, is invited to brief and argue this case, as amicus curiae, in support of the judgement below. Cert. Granted April 7, 2025 See Transcript http...

Docket Number: 24-5438 Decision Below: CA 11 Order 6/27/2024 Lower Court Case Number: 24-11704 Question Presented Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1), "[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented in a prior application shall be dismissed." (emphasis added). The first question presented is: Whether 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) applies to...

Docket Number: 24-351 Date Argued: October 8, 2025 Decision Below: 96 F.4th 799 (5th Cir. 2024) Lower Court Case Number: 23-10179 Question Presented Whether a plaintiff's claim that she and her tenants did not receive mail because Postal Services employees intentionally did not deliver it to a designated address arises out of "the loss" or "miscarriage" of letters or postal...

Docket Number: 24-568 Date Argued: October 8, 2025 Decision Below: 114 F.4th 634 (7th Cir. 2024) Lower Court Case Number: 23-2644 Question Presented Federal law sets the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as the federal Election Day. 2 U.S.C. §§ 1, 7; and 3 U.S.C. § 1. Several states, including Illinois, have enacted state laws that allow ballots to be received and counted after Elec...

Docket Number: 24-5774 Decision Below: 102 F.4th 60 (2d Cir. 2024) Lower Court Case Number: 21-1379 Question Presented 1. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and§ 924(j), a question that divides seven circuits but about which the Solicitor General and Petitioner agree. 2. Whether "Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violen...

Docket Number: 24-539 Date Argued: October 07, 2025 Decision Below: 116 F.4th 1178 Question Presented Kaley Chiles is a licensed counselor who helps people by talking with them. A practicing Christian, Chiles believes that people flourish when they live consistently with God's design, including their biological sex. Many of her clients seek her counsel precisely because they believe that their...

Docket Number: 24-440 Decision Below: 2024 WL 5354482 Lower Court Case Number: 23-1620 Question Presented This case presents a clear, recognized, entrenched conflict over an important question about the application of state procedural rules in federal court. Delaware, like numerous states, requires that in certain actions the plaintiff must also file an affidavit of merit ("AOM") with th...

Docket Number: 24-557 Date Argued: October 6, 2025 Decision Below: 707 S.W.3d 138 Lower Court Case Number: Pd-0048-20 Question Presented Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defendant's testimony during an overnight recess. Cert. Granted April 7, 2025 See transcript (https://www.supremecourt...

24A884 TRUMP V. CASA, INC. DECISION BELOW: 2025 WL 654902 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: -- 24A885 TRUMP V. WASHINGTON DECISION BELOW: 2025 WL 553485 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: -- 24A886 TRUMP V. NEW JERSEY DECISION BELOW: 131 F.4th 27 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: -- QUESTION PRESENTED: THE APPLICATIONS (24A884, 24A885, AND 24A886) FOR PARTIAL STAYS ARE CONSOLIDATED AND DEFERRED PENDING ORAL ARGUMENT. THE APP...

24-394 OK CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD V. DRUMMOND DECISION BELOW: 558 P.3d 1 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 121,694 QUESTION PRESENTED: This Court has "repeatedly held that a State violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits." Carson as next friend of O. C. v. Makin , 596 U.S. 767, 778 (2022). Three times, the Court hasapplied that p...

24-304 LABORATORY CORP. OF AMERICA V. DAVIS DECISION BELOW: 2024 WL 489288 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-55873 QUESTION PRESENTED: o Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury. THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IS GRANTED LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT MAY CERTIFY A CLASS ACTION PURSUANT TO FEDERAL RULE OF C...