October Term 2023

Decided Feb 20, 2024

Originating court

Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District

This case involves a homeowner seeking compensation under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause after police de...

23-1363

Baker v. City of McKinney

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a challenge by a parent group to Boston's facially race-neutral school admission criteria, ...

23-1137

Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

This case involves a civil rights lawsuit challenging whether a prosecutor is entitled to absolute immunity fr...

23-649

Price v. Montgomery County

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

The Supreme Court vacated a lower court decision regarding the admission of evidence about the defendant's ext...

23-6573

Andrew v. White

Decided Jan 21, 2025

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

This case involves a challenge to Arizona's sentencing scheme for juveniles, specifically whether it violates ...

23-830

Bassett v. Arizona

Originating court

Supreme Court of Arizona

This case involves a dispute over whether social media platforms like Snap can be held liable for their own al...

23-961

Doe v. Snap

Decided Jul 2, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a challenge to the admissions policy of a top-ranked magnet high school, where plaintiffs a...

23-170

Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

This case involves a challenge to a Georgia Supreme Court decision regarding the prosecution's striking of all...

23-668

King v. Emmons

Decided Jul 2, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case involves a challenge to Hawaii's handgun licensing laws, specifically examining whether prosecuting ...

23-7517

Wilson v. Hawaii

Decided Dec 9, 2024

Originating court

Supreme Court of Hawaii

This case involves a challenge to university bias-response teams, which investigate reports of bias and potent...

23-156

Speech First, Inc. v. Sands

Decided Mar 4, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

This case considers whether a protest organizer can be held liable for negligence when an unidentified attende...

23-373

Mckesson v. Doe

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The Court is considering a dispute under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act about withdrawal liabil...

23-1209

M & K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM Pension Fund

Argued Jan 20, 2026

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

The Supreme Court dismissed or denied review in this case without issuing a merits opinion. It comes from Cour...

23-6232

McCrory v. Alabama

Originating court

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

An inmate sues individual prison officials over forced head-shaving that violated his Rastafarian religious pr...

23-1197

Landor v. LA DOC

Argued Nov 10, 2025

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case challenges the constitutionality of Illinois's ban on certain semiautomatic firearms and ammunition ...

23-877

Harrel v. Raoul

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

This case involves a criminal defendant who challenged his exclusion, along with his lawyer, from a preliminar...

23-5618

Sandoval v. Texas

Decided May 13, 2024

Originating court

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

The Supreme Court ruled that the Double Jeopardy Clause prevents a state from retrying a defendant for a crime...

22-721

McElrath v. Georgia

Argued Nov 28, 2023

Decided Feb 21, 2024

Originating court

Supreme Court of Georgia

This case established that federal courts must apply the traditional four-factor test for preliminary injuncti...

23-367

Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney

The Supreme Court ruled that a whistleblower suing under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act does not need to prove that th...

Argued Apr 23, 2024

Decided Jun 13, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

22-660

Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC

This case involved a lawsuit by a disability rights "tester" who sued a hotel for failing to provide accessibi...

Argued Oct 10, 2023

Decided Feb 8, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

22-429

Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer

This case involves a challenge to Congress's delegation of authority to administrative agencies, specifically ...

Argued Oct 4, 2023

Decided Dec 5, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

23-819

$Illustration for Allstates Refractory Contractors v. Su$

Allstates Refractory Contractors v. Su

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

State officials in Alabama asked the Supreme Court to vacate a stay of execution granted to death row inmate K...

23-167

Hamm v. Smith

Decided Nov 4, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Court unanimously reversed Colorado's decision excluding Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the Four...

23-719

Trump v. Anderson

Argued Feb 8, 2024

Decided Mar 4, 2024

Originating court

Colorado Supreme Court

The Supreme Court ruled that a state drug conviction qualifies as a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Car...

22-6389

Justin Rashaad Brown, Petitioner v. United States

The Supreme Court considered whether a federal trademark law prohibiting the registration of a living person's...

Argued Nov 27, 2023

Decided May 23, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

22-704

Vidal v. Elster

Argued Nov 1, 2023

Decided Jun 13, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

This case challenged a federal regulation requiring herring fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors, but ultimate...

22-1219

Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce

The Supreme Court ruled that the government provides adequate notice for removal proceedings when it sends an ...

Argued Jan 17, 2024

Decided Jun 28, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

22-674

Campos-Chaves v. Garland

The Supreme Court ruled that an employee challenging a job transfer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act mu...

Argued Jan 8, 2024

Decided Jun 14, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

22-193

Muldrow v. City of St. Louis

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that life insurance proceeds used by a closely held corporatio...

Argued Dec 6, 2023

Decided Apr 17, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

23-146

Connelly v. United States

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enfo...

Argued Mar 27, 2024

Decided Jun 6, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

22-500

Great Lakes Ins. SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a district court's failure to enter a preliminary forfeiture order be...

Argued Oct 10, 2023

Decided Feb 21, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

22-7386

McIntosh v. United States

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision to grant habeas relief to a death row inmate, ruling that ...

Argued Feb 27, 2024

Decided Apr 17, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

22-982

Thornell v. Jones

Argued Apr 17, 2024

Decided May 30, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court ruled that a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause rights were violated ...

22-899

Smith v. Arizona

Argued Jan 10, 2024

Decided Jun 21, 2024

Originating court

State appellate court

The Supreme Court considered whether a bankruptcy court can approve a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that rele...

23-124

Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.

This case involves a challenge to the Feres doctrine, which generally bars military service members from suing...

Argued Dec 4, 2023

Decided Jun 27, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

23-1281

Carter v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Court unanimously held that the doctor and association plaintiffs lacked Article III standing to challenge...

23-235

FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

The Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts...

Argued Mar 26, 2024

Decided Jun 13, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

23-939

Trump v. United States

The Supreme Court held that a U.S. citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in having their noncit...

Argued Apr 25, 2024

Decided Jul 1, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

23-334

Department of State, et al., Petitioners v. Sandra Muñoz, et al.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment applies equally to land-use...

Argued Apr 23, 2024

Decided Jun 21, 2024

Originating court

22-1074

Sheetz v. El Dorado County

Argued Jan 9, 2024

Decided Apr 12, 2024

Originating court

State appellate court

The Supreme Court ruled that an insurer bearing financial responsibility for bankruptcy claims qualifies as a ...

22-1079

Truck Insurance Exchange, Petitioner v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al.

The Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina's congressional redistricting plan was not an unconstitutional rac...

Argued Mar 19, 2024

Decided Jun 6, 2024

22-807

Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

The Supreme Court considered whether a lawsuit challenging an individual's placement on the No Fly List became...

Argued Oct 11, 2023

Decided May 23, 2024

Originating court

22-1178

FBI v. Fikre

Argued Jan 8, 2024

Decided Mar 19, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statu...

22-976

Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al., Petitioners v. Michael Cargill

This case addressed whether the National Bank Act preempts a New York state law requiring banks to pay interes...

Argued Feb 28, 2024

Decided Jun 14, 2024

22-529

Cantero v. Bank of America, N. A.

The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have the jurisdiction to review an immigration agency's determinat...

Argued Feb 27, 2024

Decided May 30, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

22-666

Situ Kamu Wilkinson, Petitioner v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General

The Supreme Court considered whether a veteran who served two separate periods of qualifying service is entitl...

Argued Nov 28, 2023

Decided Mar 19, 2024

Originating court

22-888

Rudisill v. McDonough

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the 60-day deadline for federal employees to appeal Merit Systems Pro...

Argued Nov 8, 2023

Decided Apr 16, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

23-21

Harrow v. Department of Defense