Argument sitting

December 2024 oral arguments

8 cases across 6 argument daysArguments begin at 10 a.m. Eastern

Monday, December 2, 2024

Food and Drug Administration, Petitioner v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al.23-1038
Decided April 2, 2025
Was the Food and Drug Administration’s orders denying respondents’ applications for authorization to market new e-cigarette products arbitrary and capricious, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act?
United States, Petitioner v. David L. Miller23-824
Decided March 26, 2025
May a bankruptcy trustee avoid a debtor’s tax payment to the United States under 11 U.S.C. § 544(b) when no actual creditor could have obtained relief under the applicable state fraudulent-transfer law outside of bankruptcy?

Republic of Hungary, et al., Petitioners v. Rosalie Simon, et al.23-867
Decided February 21, 2025
1. Does historical commingling of assets suffice to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States under the expropriation exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act? 2. Must a plaintiff make out a valid claim that an exception to the FSIA applies at the pleading stage, rather than merely raising a plausible inference? 3. Does a sovereign defendant bear the burden of producing evidence to affirmatively disprove that the proceeds of property taken in violation of international law have a commercial nexus with the United States under the expropriation exception to the FSIA?

United States, Petitioner v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al.23-477
Decided June 18, 2025
Does a Tennessee law restricting certain medical treatments for transgender minors violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?

Nick Feliciano, Petitioner v. Department of Transportation23-861
Decided April 30, 2025
Is a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency entitled to differential pay even if the duty is not directly connected to the national emergency?
Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc., Petitioners v. United States23-909
Decided May 22, 2025
Can deception to induce a commercial exchange constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not the object of the scheme?

Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al., Petitioners v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al.23-975
Decided May 29, 2025
Does the National Environmental Policy Act require an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which the agency has regulatory authority?

Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation, Petitioner v. Dewberry Engineers Inc.23-900
Decided February 26, 2025
Does an award of the “defendant's profits” under the Lanham Act allow a court to require the defendant to disgorge profits earned by legally separate, non-party corporate affiliates?