After nine consecutive conference distributions, the Court weighs whether Kisor and Loper Bright limit deference to Sentencing Commission commentary, a question splitting the circuits.

Justice Kavanaugh referred an emergency stay application to the full Court, which granted it, freezing an Eighth Circuit mandate in a Missouri congressional map dispute.

The Supreme Court granted a stay allowing DHS to resume third-country removals, pausing a district court order in a dispute over due process for deportees.

A father stripped of parental rights except veto power over gender-surgery decisions asks the Court to revisit how "clearly established law" is defined for qualified immunity purposes.

After fourteen amicus briefs and three conferences, the government and respondents stipulated to dismiss this closely watched immigration detention case, leaving the bond-hearing question unresolved.

A Wisconsin custody dispute asks the Supreme Court whether gag orders barring parents from posting about their case on social media survive First Amendment scrutiny.

The Court's request for the Solicitor General's views signals it is taking seriously the fight over what standard governs challenges to mail-voting rules under Anderson-Burdick.

The Court will decide whether Title IX allows employees, not just students, to sue for sex discrimination, with argument set for November 30, 2026.

Nearly a year after docketing, Duncan v. Bonta remains under advisement, with supplemental briefs filed in April and August suggesting the Court is wrestling with how to resolve the magazine-ban challenge.

Michigan's new certiorari petition asks the Court to abandon Edwards v. Arizona's bright-line bar on police-initiated interrogation after a suspect invokes counsel.

A single-day flood of seventeen amicus briefs in Polk v. Montgomery County Public Schools shows how the Fourth Circuit's Smith and Garcetti rulings have galvanized religious liberty and free speech advocates.

The federal government's amicus brief supports GEO Group's argument that Washington cannot impose minimum-wage requirements on detainees in a federal immigration work program.

The Court will decide whether Eighth Amendment excessive fines review looks at offense categories in the abstract or the individual defendant's actual conduct.

A gurdwara governance fight from Nevada asks whether courts may apply "neutral principles" to internal religious disputes beyond property cases.

The Court denied certiorari in a Title VII preemption dispute over New York's vaccine mandate, drawing a dissent from Justice Gorsuch joined by Thomas and Alito.

An emergency stay application asks whether a New York court may bar or compel participation in Jewish religious adjudication, testing the limits of Free Exercise protection.

The Postal Service asked Justice Jackson to halt a First Circuit order in a mail-in voting dispute, then abruptly withdrew the request days later.

The Supreme Court's denial of rehearing closes the latest chapter in Gilbert Hyatt's decades-long battle over the PTO's use of prosecution laches to deny his patents.

An emergency application before Justice Kagan has drawn amicus briefs from the ACLJ, Americans United for Life, and Florida, signaling the case's stakes despite a sealed factual record.

The Court prepares for argument in a case testing whether Williamson County's finality rule can block First Amendment chilling-effect claims in religious land-use disputes.

The Supreme Court has consolidated and set for argument the case testing whether the Second Amendment protects AR-15 ownership, with briefing now underway.

The Court's call for the Solicitor General's views on Pennsylvania's mail-ballot dating requirement signals it is weighing whether to hear this closely watched election-law dispute.

A denied stay application and a September 14 merits brief spotlight Apple's challenge to how far federal courts may go in enforcing injunctions through contempt.

The Supreme Court has set October 5 argument in Suncor v. Boulder County, a test of whether federal law bars state tort claims over global greenhouse-gas emissions.

FedEx asks the Supreme Court whether ERISA's actuarial equivalence requirement imposes a reasonableness constraint the statute never states.

The Court has distributed National Association for Gun Rights v. Lamont for eleven straight conferences without action, a pattern worth watching as the justices weigh whether to take up assault weapons bans.

SBF's cert petition raises two questions: when loss evidence is admissible in fraudulent inducement cases, and whether ruinous forfeitures violate the Eighth Amendment.

The Supreme Court weighs a DHS application to stay a lower court ruling blocking citizenship verification through the SAVE system for voter registration.

The Supreme Court will consider whether courts may dismiss as moot a Rule 60(b)(5) challenge to a permanent injunction based on overruled constitutional precedent.

The Supreme Court denied rehearing in Trump v. Carroll, leaving intact Second Circuit rulings on propensity evidence under Federal Rules 413 and 415.

Wealthy, Inc. v. Spencer Cornelia presents a three-way circuit split on whether state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal court, with cert. petition distributed for the Sept. 28 conference.

Gator's Custom Guns v. Washington has been distributed for conference over 20 times, raising questions about whether the Court will finally take up Second Amendment protection for standard-capacity magazines.

The Supreme Court granted cert in Viramontes v. Cook County to decide whether the Second Amendment protects possession of AR-15 platform semiautomatic rifles.

The Supreme Court's emergency docket sees a wave of amicus filings in a dispute over USPS voter registration obligations under the NVRA, with midterms approaching.

The Supreme Court is considering whether courts may override a claimant's own theological judgment when assessing burdens on religious exercise under the First Amendment.

The Court will decide whether the NVRA bars Arizona from requiring citizenship proof at registration and canceling non-citizen registrations within 90 days of an election.

Minnesota foster parents ask the Supreme Court to rule that ICWA and MIFPA impose unconstitutional race-based classifications in child placement decisions.

A stay application before Justice Alito raises whether official-capacity waivers of Younger abstention bind successor officials, and whether election timing justifies mandamus.

Cup Foods petitions SCOTUS to rule that Minneapolis's barricades and police withdrawal at 38th & Chicago constituted a compensable taking of nearby property.

The Court will consider whether blocking a religious institution from building on its own land constitutes a substantial burden under RLUIPA.

The Supreme Court granted cert in No. 25-840 to decide whether parents have Article III standing to challenge Washington's gender transition policies affecting their children.

The Supreme Court declined to revisit Williams v. Florida, leaving intact the precedent permitting six-person juries in federal criminal trials.

The Supreme Court will decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from a universal preschool program while granting exemptions to secular providers.

A Georgia death row inmate asks Justice Thomas to halt his execution, arguing that a conflict-of-interest recusal left him facing a higher vote threshold for clemency than other applicants.

The Supreme Court will consider whether Alaska can compel a 501(c)(3) to disclose donors and register with campaign finance authorities for engaging in issue speech near a ballot measure.

Petitioners challenge Maine's firearm waiting period under Bruen's historical scrutiny test, asking whether delays after a passed background check violate the Second Amendment.

A pending Fifth Circuit petition asks whether Hope v. Pelzer's qualified immunity principles extend beyond the Eighth Amendment to Free Speech and Free Exercise claims.

MIT filed its opposition brief in a case asking whether discriminatory intent and First Amendment limits apply to Title VI hostile environment claims.

The Supreme Court will decide whether landowners in Natural Gas Act condemnations are entitled to state-law compensation or only the Fifth Amendment minimum.

The Supreme Court has invited the Solicitor General to weigh in on a circuit split over what level of scrutiny applies to sex-based prison policies affecting transgender inmates.