Argument sitting

March 2025 oral arguments

10 cases across 7 argument daysArguments begin at 10 a.m. Eastern

Monday, March 3, 2025

CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al., Petitioners v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al.23-1201
Decided June 5, 2025
Must plaintiffs prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act?
BLOM Bank SAL, Petitioner v. Michal Honickman, et al.23-1259
Decided June 5, 2025
Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)’s stringent standard apply to a post-judgment request to vacate for the purpose of filing an amended complaint?

Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos23-1141
Decided June 5, 2025
Can U.S. gun manufacturers be held liable for violence in Mexico under theories of proximate causation and aiding and abetting, based on their domestic production and sale of firearms that are later trafficked to Mexican cartels?

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al., Petitioners v. Texas, et al.23-1300
Decided June 18, 2025
1. Can a nonparty challenge a federal agency’s “final order” under the Hobbs Act’s judicial review provision? 2. Do federal nuclear laws allow the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to license private companies to store spent nuclear fuel at off-reactor sites?

Pierre Yassue Nashun Riley, Petitioner v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General23-1270
Decided June 26, 2025
1. Is 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1)’s 30-day deadline jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that can be waived or forfeited? 2. Can a person obtain review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision in a withholding-only proceeding by filing a petition within 30 days of that decision?

Oklahoma, et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.23-1067
Decided March 28, 2025
Does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia have exclusive jurisdiction to review an Environmental Protection Agency action that affects only one state or region, simply because the EPA published that action alongside actions affecting other states in a single Federal Register notice?
Environmental Protection Agency, Petitioner v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al.23-1229
Decided June 18, 2025
Should challenges by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard program be heard exclusively in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit because the agency’s denial actions are “nationally applicable” or “based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect”?

Federal Communications Commission, et al., Petitioners v. Consumers' Research, et al.24-354
Decided June 27, 2025
Did Congress violate the Constitution in the way it delegated power to the FCC to collect Universal Service Fund money, and did the FCC violate the Constitution by letting a private, industry-controlled company make those collection decisions?

Danny Richard Rivers, Petitioner v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division23-1345
Decided June 12, 2025
Does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) apply to all second habeas petitions, or only specific types of second petitions?
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al.24-154
Decided June 5, 2025
Does a state violate the First Amendment’s religion clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for religious behavior?