List_of_pending_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases
This is a list of cases before the United States Supreme Court that the Court has agreed to hear and has not yet decided.[1][2][3]
Future argument dates are in parentheses; arguments in these cases have been scheduled, but have not, and potentially may not, take place.
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| Case | Docket no. | Question(s) presented | Certiorari granted | Oral argument |
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| Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP | 22-807 | Whether courts must apply a presumption of good faith to a legislature's racial intent when considering a challenge to legislative districts; whether courts must disentangle race from politics when considering such challenges; and whether courts must consider a district's compliance with traditional districting principles before finding that the legislature predominantly considered race when drawing districts. | May 15, 2023 | October 11, 2023 |
| Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe | 23-250 23-253 |
Whether the Indian Health Service must pay “contract support costs” not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe’s expenditure of income collected from third parties. | November 20, 2023 | March 25, 2024 |
| Brown v. United States | 22-6389 22-6640 |
Petition in 22-6389: Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA’s categorical approach? Petition in 22-6640: Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense (as the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuits have held), or the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the prior state drug offense (as the Eleventh Circuit held below). |
May 15, 2023 | November 27, 2023 |
| Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A. | 22-529 | Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks? | October 13, 2023 | February 27, 2024 |
| Campos-Chaves v. Garland | 22-674 22-884 |
Petition in 22-674: Whether the government provides notice "required under" and "in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a) when it serves an initial notice document that does not include the "time and place" of proceedings followed by an additional document containing that information, such that an immigration court must enter a removal order in absentia and deny a noncitizen's request to rescind that order. Petition in 22-884: Whether the failure to receive, in a single document, all of the information specified in paragraph (1) of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a) precludes an additional document from providing adequate notice under paragraph (2) of that section, and renders any in-absentia removal order subject, indefinitely, to rescission. |
June 30, 2023 | January 8, 2024 |
| Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio | 23-50 | Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule, as the Second, Third, and Eleventh Circuits hold, or by the "any crime" rule, as the Sixth Circuit holds. | December 13, 2023 | April 15, 2024 |
| City of Grants Pass v. Johnson | 23-175 | Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment? | January 12, 2024 | April 22, 2024 |
| Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski | 23-3 | Where parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, should an arbitrator or a court decide whether that arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and delegation? | November 3, 2023 | February 28, 2024 |
| Connelly v. United States | 23-146 | Whether the proceeds of a life-insurance policy taken out by a closely held corporation on a shareholder in order to facilitate the redemption of the shareholder's stock should be considered a corporate asset when calculating the value of the shareholder's shares for purposes of the federal estate tax. | December 13, 2023 | March 27, 2024 |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited | 22-448 | Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 12 U.S.C. § 5497, violates the appropriations clause in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, and in vacating a regulation promulgated at a time when the Bureau was receiving such funding. | February 27, 2023 | October 3, 2023 |
| Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | 22-1008 | Does a plaintiff’s Administrative Procedure Act claim "first accrue[]" under 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) when an agency issues a rule—regardless of whether that rule injures the plaintiff on that date (as the Eighth Circuit and five other circuits have held)—or when the rule first causes a plaintiff to "suffer[] legal wrong" or be "adversely affected or aggrieved" (as the Sixth Circuit has held)? | September 29, 2023 | February 20, 2024 |
| Culley v. Marshall | 22-585 | Whether district courts, in determining whether the due process clause requires a state or local government to provide a post-seizure probable-cause hearing prior to a statutory judicial-forfeiture proceeding and, if so, when such a hearing must take place, should apply the "speedy trial" test employed in United States v. $8,850 and Barker v. Wingo or the three-part due process analysis set forth in Mathews v. Eldridge. | April 17, 2023 | October 30, 2023 |
| Department of State v. Muñoz | 23-334 | (1) Whether a consular officer's refusal of a visa to a U.S. citizen's noncitizen spouse impinges upon a constitutionally protected interest of the citizen; and (2) whether, assuming that such a constitutional interest exists, notifying a visa applicant that he was deemed inadmissible under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(A)(ii) suffices to provide any process that is due. |
January 12, 2024 | April 23, 2024 |
| Diaz v. United States | 23-14 | In a prosecution for drug trafficking-where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs-does Rule 704(b) permit a governmental expert witness to testify that most couriers know they are carrying drugs and that drug-trafficking organizations do not entrust large quantities of drugs to unknowing transporters? | November 13, 2023 | March 19, 2024 |
| Erlinger v. United States | 23-370 | Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant’s prior convictions were “committed on occasions different from one another,” as is necessary to impose an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act. | November 20, 2023 | March 27, 2024 |
| FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine | 23-235 23-236 |
Petition in 23-235: (1) Whether respondents have Article III standing to challenge FDA’s 2016 and 2021 actions; and (2) Whether FDA’s 2016 and 2021 actions were arbitrary and capricious; and (3) Whether the district court properly granted preliminary relief. Petition in 23-236: (1) Whether an association can demonstrate Article III standing to enjoin a government action by arguing that some unspecified member may be injured at some future time by the challenged action; and (2) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in upholding the preliminary injunction of FDA’s 2016 and 2021 actions based on the court’s review of an incomplete administrative record. |
December 13, 2023 | March 26, 2024 |
| Fischer v. United States | 23-5572 | Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512–c ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations, to include acts unrelated to investigations and evidence? | December 13, 2023 | April 16, 2024 |
| Garland v. Cargill | 22-976 | Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a machinegun, i.e., into a weapon that fires "automatically more than one shot * * * by a single function of the trigger." | November 3, 2023 | February 28, 2024 |
| Gonzalez v. Trevino | 22-1025 | (1) Whether the Nieves v. Bartlett probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened; and (2) whether the Nieves probable cause rule is limited to individual claims against arresting officers for split-second arrests. |
October 13, 2023 | March 20, 2024 |
| Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. | 23-124 | Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties, without the claimants' consent. | August 10, 2023 | December 4, 2023 |
| Harrow v. Department of Defense | 23-21 | Whether the 60-day deadline in 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) is jurisdictional. | December 8, 2023 | March 25, 2024 |
| Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce |
22-451 22-1219 |
Whether the court should overrule Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency. | May 1, 2023 | January 17, 2024 |
| Moody v. NetChoice, LLC NetChoice v. Paxton |
22-277 22-555 |
(1) Whether the laws' content-moderation restrictions comply with the First Amendment; and (2) whether the laws' individualized-explanation requirements comply with the First Amendment. |
September 29, 2023 | February 26, 2024 |
| Moore v. United States | 22-800 | Whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states. | June 26, 2023 | December 5, 2023 |
| Moyle v. United States | 23-726 23-727 |
Whether EMTALA preempts state laws that protect human life and prohibit abortions, like Idaho’s Defense of Life Act. | January 5, 2024 | (April 24, 2024) |
| Murthy v. Missouri | 23-411 | (1) Whether respondents have Article III standing; and (2) whether the government's challenged conduct transformed private social-media companies' content-moderation decisions into state action and violated respondents' First Amendment rights; and (3) whether the terms and breadth of the preliminary injunction are proper. |
October 20, 2023 | March 18, 2024 |
| National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo | 22-842 | Does the First Amendment allow a government regulator to threaten regulated entities with adverse regulatory actions if they do business with a controversial speaker, as a consequence of (a) the government's own hostility to the speaker's viewpoint or (b) a perceived "general backlash" against the speaker's advocacy? | November 3, 2023 | March 18, 2024 |
| Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC | 22-1238 | Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel v. Fitzgerald is to require the United States Trustee to grant retrospective refunds of the increased fees paid by debtors in United States Trustee districts during the period of disuniformity, or is instead either to deem sufficient the prospective remedy adopted by Congress or to require the collection of additional fees from a much smaller number of debtors in Bankruptcy Administrator districts. | September 29, 2023 | January 9, 2024 |
| Ohio v. EPA | 23A349 23A350 23A351 23A384 |
Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Federal 'Good Neighbor Plan' for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards. | December 20, 2023[lower-alpha 1] | February 21, 2024 |
| SEC v. Jarkesy | 22-859 | (1) Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seeking civil penalties violate the Seventh Amendment; and (2) whether statutory provisions that authorize the SEC to choose to enforce the securities laws through an agency adjudication instead of filing a district court action violate the nondelegation doctrine; and (3) whether Congress violated Article II by granting for-cause removal protection to administrative law judges in agencies whose heads enjoy for-cause removal protection. |
June 30, 2023 | November 29, 2023 |
| Smith v. Arizona | 22-899 | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute expert conveying the testimonial statements of a nontestifying forensic analyst, on the grounds that (a) the testifying expert offers some independent opinion and the analyst’s statements are offered not for their truth but to explain the expert’s opinion, and (b) the defendant did not independently seek to subpoena the analyst. | September 29, 2023 | January 10, 2024 |
| Smith v. Spizzirri | 22-1218 | Whether Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss when all claims are subject to arbitration. | January 12, 2024 | April 22, 2024 |
| Snyder v. United States | 23-108 | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any quid pro quo agreement to take those actions. | December 13, 2023 | April 15, 2024 |
| Starbucks Corporation v. McKinney | 23-367 | Whether courts must evaluate the NLRB’s requests for section 29 U.S.C. §§ 160–b Section 10(j) injunctions under the traditional, stringent four-factor test for preliminary injunctions or under some other more lenient standard. | January 12, 2024 | April 23, 2024 |
| Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado | No. 141, Orig. | The exception to the Third Interim Report of the Special Master. | January 22, 2024 | March 20, 2024 |
| Thornell v. Jones | 22-982 | Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the district court’s factual and credibility findings and excluded evidence in aggravation and the State’s rebuttal when it reversed the district court and granted habeas relief? | December 13, 2023 | April 17, 2024 |
| Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. | 22-1079 | Whether an insurer with financial responsibility for a bankruptcy claim is a "party in interest" that may object to a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. | October 13, 2023 | March 19, 2024 |
| Trump v. United States | 23-939 | Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. | February 28, 2024 | (April 25, 2024) |
| United States v. Rahimi | 22-915 | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violates the Second Amendment on its face. | June 30, 2023 | November 7, 2023 |
| Vidal v. Elster | 22-704 | Whether the refusal to register a trademark under 15 U.S.C. § 1052(c) violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism of a government official or public figure. | June 5, 2023 | November 1, 2023 |
| Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy | 22-1078 | Whether, under the discovery accrual rule applied by the circuit courts and the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U.S.C. § 507(b), a copyright plaintiff can recover damages for acts that allegedly occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit. | September 29, 2023 | February 21, 2024 |
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| Case | Docket no. | Question(s) presented | Certiorari granted | Oral argument |
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| Garland v. VanDerStok | 23-852 | (1) Whether “a weapon parts kit that is designed to or may readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” under 27 C.F.R. § 478.11 is a “firearm” regulated by the Gun Control Act of 1968; and (2) whether “a partially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional frame or receiver” that is “designed to or may readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted to function as a frame or receiver” under 27 C.F.R. § 478.12(c) is a “frame or receiver” regulated by the act. |
April 22, 2024 | |
| Glossip v. Oklahoma | 22-7466 | (1) Whether the State’s suppression of the key prosecution witness’s admission he was under the care of a psychiatrist and failure to correct that witness’s false testimony about that care and related diagnosis violate the due process of law. See Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963); Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959); and (2) whether the entirety of the suppressed evidence must be considered when assessing the materiality of Brady and Napue claims. See Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419 (1995); and (3) whether due process of law requires reversal, where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the State no longer seeks to defend it. See Escobar v. Texas, 143 S. Ct. 557 (2023) (mem.); and (4) whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' holding that the Oklahoma Post-Conviction Procedure Act precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment. |
January 22, 2024 | |
| Lackey v. Stinnie | 23-621 | (1) Whether a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as opposed to merely predicting a likelihood of later success, to prevail on the merits under 42 U.S.C. § 1988; and (2) whether a party must obtain an enduring change in the parties’ legal relationship from a judicial act, as opposed to a non-judicial event that moots the case, to prevail under Section 1988. |
April 22, 2024 | |
| Williams v. Washington | 23-191 | Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court. | January 12, 2024 |
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