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24-362 MARTIN V. UNITED STATES DECISION BELOW: 2024 WL 1716235 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-10062 QUESTION PRESENTED: Petitioners are the innocent victims of a wrong-house raid conducted by an FBI SWAT team in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking a remedy for torts committed against them, Petitioners brought a cause of action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. In its opinion below, t...

24-320 SOTO V. UNITED STATES DECISION BELOW: 92 F.4th 1094 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 2022-2011 QUESTION PRESENTED: This case determines whether thousands of medically retired combat veterans should receive all the combat related special compensation (CRSC) that Congress specifically authorized for combat veterans. The government has elected to calculatethe period of retroactive compensation due usi...

24-249 A.J.T. V. OSSEO AREA SCHOOLS DECISION BELOW: 96 F.4th 1058 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-1399 QUESTION PRESENTED: Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Rehabilitation Act) require public entities and organizations that receive federal funding to provide reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. In the decision below, the...

24-7 DIAMOND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, LLC V. EPA DECISION BELOW: 98 F.4th 288 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-1081, 22-1083, 22-1084, 22-1085 QUESTION PRESENTED: Section 209(a) of the Clean Air Act generally preempts States from adopting emission standards for new motor vehicles. 42 U.S.C. § 7543(a). But under Section 209(b) of that Act, EPA may grant California and only California-a waiver from federal pr...

24-416 COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE V. ZUCH DECISION BELOW: 97 F.4th 81 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-2244 QUESTION PRESENTED: o Whether a proceeding under 26 U.S.C. 6330 for a pre-deprivation determination about a levy proposed by the Internal Revenue Service to collect unpaid taxes becomes moot when there is no longer a live dispute over the proposed levy that gave rise to the proceeding. CERT...

24-297 MAHMOUD V. TAYLOR DECISION BELOW: 102 F.4th 191 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-1890 QUESTION PRESENTED: Respondent Montgomery County Board of Education requires elementary school teachers to read their students storybooks celebrating gender transitions, Pride parades, and same-sex playground romance. The storybooks were chosen to disrupt "cisnormativity" and "either/or thinking&...

24-275 PARRISH V. UNITED STATES DECISION BELOW: 74 F.4th 160 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 20-1766 QUESTION PRESENTED: Ordinarily, litigants must file a notice of appeal within 30 or 60 days of an adverse 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a)-(b). Under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) and Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6), however, district courts can reopen an expired appeal period when a party did not receive timely notice of the judgment....

24-316 KENNEDY V. BRAIDWOOD MANAGEMENT, INC. DECISION BELOW: 104 F.4th 930 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-10326 QUESTION PRESENTED: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force), which sits within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issues clinical recommendations for preventive medical services, such as screenings and medications to prevent serious...

23-1275 MEDINA, DIRECTOR SC DEPT OF HEALTH V. PLANNED PARENTHOOD DECISION BELOW: 95 F.4th 152 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 21-1043 QUESTION PRESENTED: More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a privately enforceableright to certain reimbursement rates. Wilder v. Va. Hosp. Ass'n , 496...

24-20 FULD V. PLO DECISION BELOW: 82 F.4th 74 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-76, 22-496 QUESTION PRESENTED: The Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 18 U.S.C. § 2331 et seq., provides an extraterritorial private right of action for victims of terror attacks committed against American nationals abroad. In 2019, Congress amended the ATA by enacting the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (...

23-1345 RIVERS V. GUERRERO DECISION BELOW: 99 F.4th 216 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 21-11031 QUESTION PRESENTED: Under the federal habeas statute, a prisoner "always gets one chance to bring a federal habeas challenge to his conviction," Banister v. Davis, 590 U.S. 504, 509 (2020). After that, thestringent gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) bar nearly all attempts to file a...

QUESTION PRESENTED: Wisconsin exempts from its state unemployment tax system certain religious organizations that are "operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or convention or association of churches" and that are also "operated primarily for religious purposes." Petitioners are Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior and several sub-entitie...

24-354 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION V. CONSUMERS' RESEARCH DECISION BELOW: 109 F.4th 743 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-60008 QUESTION PRESENTED: In 47 U.S.C. 254, Congress required the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) to operate universal service subsidy programs using mandatorycontributions from telecommunications carriers. The Commission has appointed a private company as the pr...

23-1067 OKLAHOMA V. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DECISION BELOW: 93 F.4th 1262 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-9514 QUESTION PRESENTED: Under the Clean Air Act, each state must adopt an implementation plan to meet national standards, which EPA then reviews for compliance with the Act. See 42 U.S.C. § 7410. In 2023, EPA published disapprovals of 21 states' plans implementing national ozone stand...

23-1229 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY V. CALUMET SHREVEPORT REFINING DECISION BELOW: 86 F.4th 1121 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-60266, 22-60425, 22-60433, 22-60434 QUESTION PRESENTED: In a pair of final actions, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied 105 petitions filed by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act's Renewable Fu...

QUESTION PRESENTED Petitioner Pierre Riley, ineligible for cancellation of removal or discretionary relief from removal, sought deferral in withholding-only proceedings, pursuant to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. After the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a decision reversing an immigration judge's grant of relief, Riley promptl...

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 2of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by failing to create a second majority-Black congressional district. The Fifth Circuit gav...

Trump v. Hawaii Docket Number: 17-965 Date Argued: 04/25/18 https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/17-965_l5gm.pdf QUESTION PRESENTED The Constitution and Acts of Congress confer on the President broad authority to prohibit or restrict the entry of aliens outside the United States when he deems it in theNation's interest. Exercising that authority after a worldwide r...

CC/Devas Ltd. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd. Docket Number: 23-1201 Date Argued: 03/03/25 https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/23-1201_n758.pdf Question Presented: Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

DECISION BELOW: 832 F.3d 389 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 14-4546, 14-4568, 14-4569 QUESTION PRESENTED: This Court's decision in New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992), holds that the Constitution's fundamental federal structure does not permit Congress to "directly . . . compelthe States to require or prohibit [certain] acts." Id. at 166. In September 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the T...

NRC v. Texas Docket Number: 23-1300 Date Argued: 03/05/25 Interim Storage Partners, LLC v. Texas (23-1312) Consolidated 23-1300_e29g.pdf 23-1300 NRC V. TEXAS DECISION BELOW: 78 F.4th 827 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 21-60743 QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Whether the Hobbs Act, 28 U.S.C. 2341 et seq., which authorizes a "party aggrieved" by an agency's "final order" to petition for rev...

Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos Docket Number: 23-1141 Date Argued: 03/04/25 23-1141_8m59.pdf DECISION BELOW: 91 F.4th 511 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-1823 QUESTION PRESENTED: The Mexican Government has sued leading members of the American firearms industry, seeking to hold them liable for harms inflicted by Mexican drug cartels. According to Mexico, America's firearms co...

BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman Docket Number: 23-1259 Date Argued: 03/03/25 23-1259_3e04.pdf 23-1259 BLOM BANK SAL V. HONICKMAN DECISION BELOW: 6 F.4th 487 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-1039 QUESTION PRESENTED: For more than 70 years, this Court has "required a movant seeking relief under Rule 60 (b)(6)" of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure "to show 'extraordinary circumstances&#39...

Ames v. OH Dept. of Youth Services Docket Number: 23-1039 Date Argued: 02/26/25 https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/23-1039_1an2.pdf DECISION BELOW: 87 F.4th 822 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-3341 QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show "background circumstances to support the su...

Perttu v. Richards Docket Number: 23-1324 Date Argued: 02/25/25 https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/23-1324_bq7d.pdf DECISION BELOW: 96 F.4th 911 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-1298 QUESTION PRESENTED: In cases subject to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, do prisoners have a right to a jury trial concerning their exhaustion of administrative remedies where disputed f...