U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

A case in which the Court will decide (1) when a generic drug manufacturer excludes a patented use from its label, whether it still be liable for inducing infringement if it calls its product a “generic version” of the brand-name drug and cites publicly available information about the brand-name drug's sales; and (2) whether a patent infringement complaint can survive dismissal if it does not allege that the defendant made any statement specifically instructing or encouraging the patented use.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Trump administration lawfully ended the Temporary Protected Status program for Syrian nationals.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Alien Tort Statute or the Torture Victim Protection Act allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts a label-based failure-to-warn claim where EPA has not required the warning.

Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether execution of a geofence warrant in this case violated the Fourth Amendment.

Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether, to remove a lawful permanent resident who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government must prove that it possessed clear and convincing evidence of the offense at the time of the lawful permanent resident’s last reentry into the United States.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Communications Act of 1934 provisions that govern the Federal Communications Commission’s assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Amendment and Article III.

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm.

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm.

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which prevents parties who lose in state courts from challenging injuries caused by state-court judgments, can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court.

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether Executive Order No. 14,160 issued by President Donald, which denies U.S. birthright citizenship to children born in the United States solely because their parents are in the country unlawfully or on temporary visas, is consistent with the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a).

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably decided—under the standards set by federal habeas law—that Terry Pitchford gave up his right to argue that the prosecutor’s explanations for striking four Black jurors were false or racially biased?

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute’s intent element “contemplates” effects that could occur there.

Transcribed - Published: 30 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether a federal court that initially exercises jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration maintains jurisdiction over a post-arbitration Section 9 or 10 application where jurisdiction would otherwise be lacking.

Transcribed - Published: 30 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute’s intent element “contemplates” effects that could occur there.

Transcribed - Published: 30 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles that cross borders—are “transportation workers” “engaged in foreign or interstate commerce” for purposes of the exemption in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether a noncitizen who is stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border “arrives in the United States” within the meaning of Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., which provides that a noncitizen who “arrives in the United States” may apply for asylum and must be inspected by an immigration officer.

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide 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 that claim simply because there is a potential motive for nondisclosure, regardless of whether there is evidence that the plaintiff in fact acted in bad faith.

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the federal election-day statutes, 2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1, preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.

Transcribed - Published: 23 March 2026

A case in which the Court held that 49 U.S.C. § 14501(c) does not preempt state negligent-hiring lawsuits against transportation brokers, because those claims fall within the law's built-in safety exception preserving state authority to regulate motor vehicle safety.

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide (1) whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum; and (2) whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has a right to appeal and the government does not object.

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to the respondent.

Transcribed - Published: 2 March 2026

A case in which the Court will decide (1) 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 Fifth Amendment when the compensation is based on the artificially depressed auction sale price rather than the property's fair market value, and (2) whether the government’s forfeiture of real property whose value significantly exceeds the tax debt constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, particularly when the tax debt itself was disputed.

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2026

A case in which the Court held that the thirty-day deadline for moving a lawsuit from state court to federal court is a mandatory rule that judges cannot extend for fairness reasons.

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2026

A case in which the Court held that under Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, a company that once held any property interest in physical property that Cuba confiscated can sue anyone who later "traffics" in — that is, knowingly uses or commercially benefits from — that physical property, even if the company's original interest in it would have expired before the trafficking occurred.

Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the legal right to sue under Title III of the LIBERTAD Act is tied to the confiscated property claim or the hypothetical, unexpired duration of the original property interest.

Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Helms-Burton Act grants U.S. courts jurisdiction over Cuban government agencies and instrumentalities sued for “trafficking” in confiscated property, even if the lawsuit does not satisfy one of the exceptions to immunity provided by the earlier, general Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)?

Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether to stay a district court injunction preventing the President from removing a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors “for cause” based on pre-appointment conduct without prior notice or a hearing.

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for a licensed concealed carry permit holder to bring a handgun onto private property open to the public—such as a store or restaurant—unless the property owner gives "express authorization" violates the Second Amendment.

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for a licensed concealed carry permit holder to bring a handgun onto private property open to the public—such as a store or restaurant—unless the property owner gives "express authorization" violates the Second Amendment.

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2026

A case in which the Court held that under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), pension plans may calculate an employer's withdrawal liability using actuarial assumptions selected after the statutory measurement date (the last day of the plan year before the employer's withdrawal).

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2026

A case in which the Court held that the New Jersey Transit Corporation is not an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes.

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a State from categorically requiring sports participants to compete based on their biological sex, rather than gender identity.

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause allow a state to designate school sports teams for girls and boys based on students’ biological sex as determined at birth.

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2026

A case in which the Court held that the federal officer removal statute allows a defendant to move a state-court suit to federal court if the challenged conduct has a plausible and close relationship to the performance of federal duties.

Transcribed - Published: 12 January 2026

A case in which the Court will decide whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act (ICA), 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46 (b), creates an implied private right of action.

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2025

A case in which the Court was asked to decide whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing an Atkins claim.

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spending in connection with “party coordinated communications.”

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), should be overruled.

Transcribed - Published: 8 December 2025

A case in which the Court held that its decision in Heck v. Humphrey does not bar claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking only prospective relief when the plaintiff has previously been punished under the challenged law.

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2025

A case in which the Court held that a government subpoena demanding a private organization's donor records inflicts an immediate injury to First Amendment freedom of association rights, allowing the organization to challenge the demand in federal court before it is enforced.

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2025

A case in which the Court held that an internet service provider does not commit "contributory copyright infringement" — meaning legal responsibility for copyright violations committed by someone else — simply by continuing to provide internet service to subscribers it knows have been flagged for piracy.

Transcribed - Published: 1 December 2025

A case in which the Court held that a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enough to constitute “persecution” under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42).

Transcribed - Published: 1 December 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether district courts may consider sentencing disparities created by the First Step Act’s nonretroactive reduction of mandatory minimum penalties—which can result in defendants serving sentences decades longer than those imposed for identical conduct today—when determining whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under the compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether a combination of “extraordinary and compelling reasons” that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) can include reasons that may also be alleged as grounds for vacatur of a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255.

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether district courts may consider sentencing disparities created by the First Step Act’s nonretroactive reduction of mandatory minimum penalties—which can result in defendants serving sentences decades longer than those imposed for identical conduct today—when determining whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under the compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether an order denying a government contractor’s claim of derivative sovereign immunity under Yearsley v. W.A. Ross Construction Co. is immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrine, which permits interlocutory appeals of certain non-final orders that conclusively determine important issues separate from the merits.

Transcribed - Published: 10 November 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).

Transcribed - Published: 10 November 2025

A case in which the Court will decide whether the International Emergency Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. § 1701 (“IEEPA”), permits the president to impose tariffs.

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2025

A case in which the Court held that the International Emergency Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. § 1701 (“IEEPA”), does not permit the president to impose tariffs.

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2025