Argument sitting
October 2026 oral arguments
Monday, October 5, 2026
2- Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al., Petitioners v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al.25-170
Before Arguments
1. Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions on the global climate. 2. Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case.
Before Arguments
Whether the district court had jurisdiction over petitioner’s constitutional challenge to the reduction of his veteran’s benefits, notwithstanding the administrative and judicial review scheme established by the Veterans’ Judicial Review Act, Pub. L. No. 100-687, Div. A, 102 Stat. 4105 (1988)?
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
1- Winston R. Anderson, et al., Petitioners v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al.25-498
Before Arguments
Whether, for claims predicated on fund underperformance, pleading that an ERISA fiduciary failed to use the requisite "care, skill, prudence, or diligence" under the circumstances and thus breached ERISA's duty of prudence when investing plan assets requires alleging a "meaningful benchmark"?
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
1Before Arguments
1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" that is immediately reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 704. 2. Whether the federal government must comply with the general environmental-review procedures of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., before submitting a permit-renewal application under RCRA, which sets forth its own specific procedures to review environmental impacts in the context of hazardous-waste treatment.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
1Before Arguments
Does the phrase “goods or services from a video tape service provider,” as used in the Video Privacy Protection Act’s definition of “consumer,” refer to all of a video tape service provider’s goods or services or only to its audiovisual goods or services?