Aparna Vashisht-Rota has asked Justice Kagan for an emergency stay in Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, a bankruptcy discharge dispute now before the Supreme Court as Application No. 25A1166.
SCOTUS will hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a case over whether Colorado can bar a Catholic preschool from a state funding program because it follows Catholic teachings on admission and conduct. Cert granted this term.
An emergency stay application has been filed with Justice Alito in Broadnax v. Texas, seeking to halt the execution of James Garfield Broadnax. SCOTUSGate has the details on the application.
SCOTUS declined to hear Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, but Sotomayor dissented, arguing the Court should have taken up whether arresting a journalist for asking officials questions and publishing their answers violates the First Amendment.
New emergency application asks whether IDEA's stay-put provision is a mandatory self-executing injunction or whether courts retain discretion to balance equities. Shawanda Solomon v. Anna Independent School District tests the reach of Honig v. Doe.
The Supreme Court will consider whether the FCC's power to impose and enforce monetary fines runs afoul of the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial and Article III. The case, Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, Inc., could reshape how the agency penalizes companies.
The appeals just got more interesting. SCOTUS is now weighing whether evidence rules were properly applied in Carroll's case. https://scotusgate.com/case.php?number=25-573
Trump v. Carroll has now been distributed for conference seven times with no action from the Court. Our latest analysis looks at what the repeated relisting may signal and what questions the justices would face if they grant cert.
SCOTUS has been asked to decide whether federal courts can hear First Amendment challenges to state investigatory demands when a group claims its rights are being chilled. First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Davenport, No. 24-781, is awaiting a decision on cert.
Rocklin Unified School District v. Public Employment Relations Board asks the Court to decide whether a state labor board can invalidate a school policy requiring parents to be notified when their child seeks to socially transition their gender.
The Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County petition has been rescheduled again. The case asks whether public schools violate parental rights by secretly facilitating a child's gender transition without notifying parents.
Triumph Foods LLC et al v Andrea J Campbell brings a new challenge to Massachusetts' pork production law. The case asks whether the state law is preempted by federal meat inspection rules and whether it violates the dormant Commerce Clause.
SCOTUS declined to hear Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving in place rulings from parallel criminal and civil enforcement actions the government brought against Barton over alleged securities law violations tied to real estate development loans.
A coalition of states and labor groups has filed briefs supporting TPS holders in Trump v. Miot at the Supreme Court. The case could affect hundreds of thousands of people currently protected under Temporary Protected Status.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Schoenthal v. Raoul, leaving in place Illinois' ban on carrying firearms on public transit. The Second Amendment challenge to the law will not be reviewed this term.
The Court is considering whether employees at federally funded schools can sue under Title IX for sex discrimination at work. Thomas Crowther et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia asks whether that private right of action exists.
The Court declined to hear Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board, a case where a mother alleged her child's school secretly socially transitioned her 13-year-old without parental consent. A Twombly pleading standard split goes unresolved.
This connects directly to Upsolve v. James, which tackles whether laws regulating "legal advice" are content-neutral under the First Amendment. We broke down the key arguments: https://scotusgate.com/case.php?number=25-948
The Court declined to hear Upsolve Inc et al v Letitia James, leaving intact New York's unauthorized practice of law rules as applied to Upsolve's free legal advice service. The First Amendment question on content-neutrality remains unresolved.
New cert petition asks whether the government owes compensation when it damages private property under its police power. The circuits are split 3-3, and Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana asks the Court to resolve it.
New cert petition asks whether the government must pay when police destroy an innocent person's property while chasing a fugitive. Pena v. City of Los Angeles raises whether the Takings Clause requires compensation or if "public necessity" blocks recovery.
Charles L. Burton, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm has ended at the Supreme Court after the death penalty stay application was withdrawn. Burton had sought to halt his execution in Alabama.
The federal SCOTUS version of Stroble is now on our radar too - same core question about taxing Muscogee citizens' income on reservation land post-McGirt. https://scotusgate.com/case.php?number=25-382
The Supreme Court has declined to hear Alicia Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission, leaving open whether Oklahoma can tax income earned by a Muscogee Nation citizen living and working on the Muscogee Reservation after McGirt v. Oklahoma confirmed its Indian country status.
We've got analysis of this exact case at SCOTUS level - the coordination spending limits question is at the heart of it all. https://scotusgate.com/case.php?number=24-621
We've got full analysis of this case up, including the core question of whether Congress can limit how much parties spend on their own candidates' ads. https://scotusgate.com/case.php?number=24-621
The Court heard argument in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, testing whether Congress can cap how much political parties spend on ads made in coordination with their own candidates.
Samuel Ronan et al. v. Frank LaRose is an Ohio ballot access dispute that has reached Justice Kavanaugh. SCOTUSGate has the details on what's being asked of the Court.