Cert Grants

50 cases with cert granted, awaiting decision

Case Title Lower Court Granted Flags Tags Question Presented
25-459 Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports Sixth Circuit 2026-01-26 Relisted (2) audiovisual-services consumer-definition disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act Whether the phrase 'goods or services from a video tape service provider' in the VPPA refers to all goods and services or only audiovisual goods and s…
25-51 Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin Fourth Circuit 2026-01-26 Relisted (11) aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of 'nuance' and 'exhausti…
25-162 Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-20 Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause Whether the Supreme Court should vacate and remand the Sixth Circuit's decision as moot after HHS restored Tennessee's funding
25-498 Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Relisted (2) breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard Whether, for claims predicated on fund underperformance, pleading that an ERISA fiduciary failed to use the requisite 'care, skill, prudence, or dilig…
24-1068 Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell Missouri 2026-01-16 CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (3) epa-approval failure-to-warn fifra-preemption pesticide-regulation product-labeling state-law-claim Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be…
24-889 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-16 CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (3) carve-out generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement skinny-label QP: When a generic drug label fully carves out a patented use, are allegations that the generic drugmaker calls its product a 'generic version' and ci…
25-112 Okello T. Chatrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-16 Amici (2)Relisted (2) cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause Whether the execution of a geofence warrant by law enforcement seeking cell phone location data without a particularized warrant violates the Fourth A…
25-83 Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-12 Relisted (3) arbitration-award diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act federal-question jurisdiction post-arbitration-application Whether a federal court that initially exercises jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration maintains jurisdiction over a post-arbitration Sect…
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-09 Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25-466 Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Amici (3) circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm
25-429 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau Second Circuit 2026-01-09 immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu…
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions governing FCC monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Amendment and Article III
24-856 Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (3) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act Whether the Alien Tort Statute allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting, and whether mere knowledge rather than pur…
24-1234 United States v. Ali Danial Hemani Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Amici (23)Relisted (3) constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment as applied to the respondent
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Amici (10)Relisted (8) batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Does clearly established federal law require reversal of a state appellate court's denial of relief from a capital prosecutor's discriminatory exercis…
24-1260 Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Amici (17)Relisted (3) ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights Whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots cast by federal election day to be received by election officials af…
24-699 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-15 CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A…
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-05 Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court
25-5 Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, a California Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Amici (5)Relisted (3) asylum-application border-entry immigration-law immigration-officer statutory-interpretation u.s.-mexico-border Whether an alien stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border 'arrives in the United States' for purposes of asylum application under the Imm…
24-935 Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock Tenth Circuit 2025-10-20 Amici (22)Relisted (4) contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles…
25-6 Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2025-10-20 Amici (6)Relisted (2) bad-faith bankruptcy-law civil-claims judicial-estoppel judicial-integrity procedural-doctrine Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing th…
24-820 Daniel Rutherford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-14 Amici (7)Relisted (2) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if 'extraordinar…
24-1063 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-10 Amici (7)Relisted (3) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds th…
24-983 Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-03 CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (3) cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking Whether a plaintiff must prove that the defendant trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government as to which the plaintiff owns a claim, o…
25-95 Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-10-03 Amici (26) excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of the…
24-1046 Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2025-10-03 Amici (35) bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Hawaii may presumptively prohibit handgun carry by licensed concealed carry permit holders on private …
24-1238 Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-03 Amici (19)Relisted (2) common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver?
24-758 The GEO Group, Inc. v. Alejandro Menocal, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-09-30 Amici (20)Relisted (2) 28-USC-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order final-judgment government-contractor sovereign-immunity Whether an order denying a government contractor's claim of derivative sovereign immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrin…
24-777 Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General First Circuit 2025-09-30 Amici (9)Relisted (2) administrative-law asylum-eligibility board-of-immigration-appeals immigration-law judicial-review refugee-status Whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the BIA's judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enou…
24-1056 Isabel Rico v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-30 Amici (4) criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release
24-345 FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-30 CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (3) circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act creates an implied private right of action
24-924 Winston Tyler Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-05 Amici (17)Relisted (2) boyle-doctrine federal-preemption government-contractor military-activities state-law-negligence tort-claims Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a go…
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-05 Amici (26)Relisted (4) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-03 Amici (32)Relisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti…
24-1113 New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. New York 2025-07-03 arm-of-state court-of-appeals financial-liability interstate-litigation sovereign-immunity state-entity Whether a State's formal financial liability for a judgment against a state-created entity carries more weight in assessing whether that entity is an …
24-1021 Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation Pennsylvania 2025-07-03 Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm-of-state constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce sovereign-immunity state-agency Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to interstate sovereign immunity under the Federal Constitution
24-43 West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson Fourth Circuit 2025-07-03 Amici (46)Relisted (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth
23-1209 M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund District of Columbia 2025-07-03 CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability 'as of the end of the plan year' requires the plan to base the computation on the…
24-783 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-30 Amici (13)Relisted (6) district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1)
24-621 National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-30 Amici (40)Relisted (2) campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure Whether the limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spe…
24-171 Cox Communications, Inc., et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-30 CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (2) copyright-infringement digital-copyright material-contribution secondary-liability service-provider willful-violation Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that a service provider can be held liable for 'materially contributing' to copyright infringement merely becaus…
23-1197 Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-23 CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionali…
24-781 First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-06-16 Amici (52)Relisted (10) constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a …
24-351 United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Amici (3)Relisted (2) federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff's claim that postal service employees intentionally did not deliver mail to a designated address constitutes 'loss' or 'miscarriag…
24-872 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Amici (11)Relisted (3) atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence Whether a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence and whether courts evaluating multiple IQ score…
24-860 Johnnie Markel Carter v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Amici (6)Relisted (2) district-courts extraordinary-and-compelling federal-prisoners nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider a nonretroactive change in …
24-724 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Amici (10)Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by d…
24-556 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-05-27 Amici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis…
24-557 David Asa Villarreal v. Texas Texas 2025-05-05 Amici (7)Relisted (3) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defen…
24-539 Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-10 Amici (113)Relisted (4) content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates …