The High Court Report

First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport | Case No. 24-781 | Decided: 4/29/26 | Docket Link: Here Overview: New Jersey's Attorney General (Platkin) demanded a pro-life nonprofit's donor records despite receiving zero public complaints. The Court unanimously ruled the subpoena inflicted a present First Amendment injury, opening the federal courthouse door immediately. Question Prese...

First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport | Case No. 24-781 | Decided: 4/29/26 | Docket Link: Here Overview: New Jersey's Attorney General (Platkin) demanded a pro-life nonprofit's donor records despite receiving zero public complaints. The Court unanimously ruled the subpoena inflicted a present First Amendment injury, opening the federal courthouse door immediately. Question Prese...

Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais | Case Nos. 24-109 & 24-110 | Oral Argument: 10/15/25 | Decided: April 29, 2026 | Docket Link: Here and Here Overview: On 4/29/26, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's second majority-Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, overhauled the 40-year-old Gingles framework for vote-dilution claims, and reinterpreted S...

Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais | Case Nos. 24-109 & 24-110 | Decided April 29, 2026 | Docket Link: Here and Here Overview: The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's second majority-Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, overhauled the 40-year-old Gingles framework for vote-dilution claims, and reinterpreted Section 2 to demand a strong inference o...

Hencely v. Fluor Corp. | Case No. 24-924 | Decided April 22, 2026 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether federal law preempts state tort claims against military contractors for unauthorized conduct violating military instructions. Overview: Supreme Court narrows military contractor immunity, ruling contractors face state tort liability when they violate rather than follow government order...

Hencely v. Fluor Corp. | Case No. 24-924 | Decided April 22, 2026 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether federal law preempts state tort claims against military contractors for unauthorized conduct violating military instructions. Overview: Supreme Court narrows military contractor immunity, ruling contractors face state tort liability when they violate rather than follow government order...

Mullin v. Doe | 25-1083 | Docket Link: Here Consolidated with Trump v. Miot 25-1084 | Docket Link: Here Argument Date: 4/29/2026 Oral Advocates: Petitioners (United States): D. John Sauer, United States’ Solicitor General Respondents (Doe): Ahilan T. Arulanantham of UCLA School of Law Respondents (Miot): Geoffrey M. Pipoly of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Question Presented: Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1...

Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc. | Case No. 24-889 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioners (Hikma): Charles B. Klein of Winston & Strawn LLP Amicus Curiae (United States): Malcolm L. Stewart of the Department of Justice Respondents (Amarin Pharma): Michael R. Huston of Perkins Coie LLP Question Presented: Whether a generic drugmaker that fully carves patented uses...

Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I | Case No. 24-856 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioners (Cisco Systems): Kannon K. Shanmugam of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Respondents (Doe I, et al.): Paul L. Hoffman of Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP Amicus Curiae (United States): Curtis E. Gannon of the Department of Justice Question Presented: Whether the Alien Tort Statute and the...

Monsanto Co. v. Durnell | Case No. 24-1068 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioner (Monsanto): Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy Respondent (Durnell): Ashley C. Keller of Keller Postman Amicus Curiae (United States): Sarah M. Harris of the Department of Justice Question Presented: Whether FIFRA preempts a state failure-to-warn claim when EPA approved the pesticide label without requir...

Chatrie v. United States | Case No. 25-112 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioner (Chatrie): Adam G. Unikowsky of Jenner & Block Respondent (United States): Eric J. Feigin of the Department of Justice Question Presented: Whether the execution of a geofence warrant — compelling Google to search the location data of all users to identify devices near a crime scene — violated the Fourth A...

Enbridge Energy v. Nessel | Oral Argument: 2/24/2026 | Case No. 24-783 | Docket Link: Here | Decided: 4/22/26 Overview: Pipeline company removes Michigan environmental lawsuit to federal court two years late, claiming extraordinary circumstances involving international treaty and state forum manipulation justify extending statutory deadline. Question Presented: Can federal may extend the 30-day re...

Enbridge Energy v. Nessel | Oral Argument: 2/24/2026 | Case No. 24-783 | Docket Link: Here | Decided: 4/22/26 Overview: Pipeline company removes Michigan environmental lawsuit to federal court two years late, claiming extraordinary circumstances involving international treaty and state forum manipulation justify extending statutory deadline. Question Presented: Can federal may extend the 30-day re...

Mullin v. Doe | 25-1083 | Docket Link: Here Consolidated with Trump v. Miot 25-1084 | Docket Link: Here Argument Date: 4/29/2026 Question Presented: Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(5)(A)'s judicial review bar precludes APA challenges to the Secretary's termination of Syria's Temporary Protected Status designation, and if reviewable, whether the termination violated the APA. Overview: Emergency stay ap...

Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish | Case No. 24-813 | Decided: April 17, 2026 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether a state environmental lawsuit challenging a WWII military contractor's crude oil production "relates to" its federal avgas refining contract under the federal officer removal statute. Overview: Louisiana parishes sued Chevron over World War II oil production damage. Ch...

Blanche v. Lau (formerly named Bondi v. Lau) | Case No. 25-429 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioner (United States): Sopan Joshi of the Department of Justice Respondent (Muk Choi Lau): Shay Dvoretzky of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Question Presented: Whether the government, to remove a lawful permanent resident as inadmissible after paroling him into the United States, m...

FCC v. AT&T, Inc., consolidated with Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC | Case Nos. 25-406 & 25-567 | Docket Links: Here and Here Oral Advocates: Petitioners (AT&T, Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.): Jeffrey B. Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Respondents (FCC): Vivek Suri of the Department of Justice Question Presented: Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendm...

T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation | Case No. 25-197 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioner (T.M.): Elizabeth B. Prelogar of Cooley LLP Respondents (University of Maryland Medical System Corporation): Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP Question Presented: Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine — which blocks federal district courts from reviewing state-court j...

Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Case No. 25-466 | Docket Link: Here Oral Advocates: Petitioners (Sripetch): Daniel L. Geyser of Haynes and Boone LLP Respondents (SEC): Malcolm L. Stewart of the Department of Justice Question Presented: Whether the SEC may seek disgorgement without proving investors suffered pecuniary harm. Overview: Federal securities enforcement showdown asks whe...

Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc. | Case No. 24-889 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether a generic drugmaker that fully carves patented uses from its label actively induces patent infringement through investor press releases and website statements that do not mention, encourage, or instruct the patented use Overview: Generic drugmaker Hikma followed federal skinny-la...

Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I | Case No. 24-856 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim Protection Act authorize civil aiding-and-abetting liability against a U.S. technology company for facilitating a foreign government's torture of a religious minority. Overview: Falun Gong practitioners sued Cisco for building custom surveillance technology t...

Monsanto Co. v. Durnell | Case No. 24-1068 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether FIFRA preempts a state failure-to-warn claim when EPA approved the pesticide label without requiring a cancer warning. Overview: John Durnell sprayed Roundup for over two decades before a cancer diagnosis. EPA approved Roundup's label with no cancer warning for fifty years. The Court must decide whether that...

Chatrie v. United States | Case No. 25-112 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether the execution of a geofence warrant — compelling Google to search the location data of all users to identify devices near a crime scene — violated the Fourth Amendment. Overview: Police ordered Google to scan hundreds of millions of users' private location records to catch a bank robber, without naming any s...

T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation | Case No. 25-197 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine — which blocks federal district courts from reviewing state-court judgments — can apply when the state-court decision remains subject to further appeal in state court. Overview: A Maryland woman who signed a consent order to secure her release from...

Bondi v. Lau (formerly named Bondi v. Lau) | Case No. 25-429 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether the government, to remove a lawful permanent resident as inadmissible after paroling him into the United States, must prove it possessed clear and convincing evidence of the disqualifying offense at the time of reentry. Overview: A green-card holder returns from a brief trip abroad facing o...