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Hastings College Conservation Committee v. California vs. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. v. DirecTV, LLC vs. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Salamon Gimpel, et al.
Business and Regulation cases on the Supreme Court docket, side by side.
No. 25-1231No. 25-1243No. 25-1255
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| Fact | Hastings College Conservation Committee v. California | Nexstar Media Group, Inc. v. DirecTV, LLC | The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Salamon Gimpel, et al. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docket | 25-1231 | 25-1243 | 25-1255 |
| Status | Before Arguments | Before Arguments | Before Arguments |
| Date | October Term 2025 (2025–2026) | October Term 2025 (2025–2026) | October Term 2025 (2025–2026) |
| Question presented | 1. Whether a state law that requires a specified name and governance structure for a public college and is enacted in exchange for payment of a specified sum creates binding contractual obligations on the part of that state subject to the protections of the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution. 2. Whether state legislation posthumously declaring an individual as having engaged in criminal conduct and, on that basis, stripping benefits secured by state law for that individual and his descendants violates the Bill of Attainder Clause of the U.S. Constitution. | Whether a plaintiff has antitrust standing to recover purported downstream losses flowing from its decision not to purchase an allegedly price-fixed product? | 1. Whether a plaintiff may plead scienter based on the “core operations doctrine,” under which the alleged significance of an issue supports an inference that defendants must have known about it. 2. Whether a plaintiff may plead scienter by alleging that executives generally receive information through routine corporate communications, such as internal reports or customer calls, without specifying the contents of those communications. |
| Summary | This pending case challenges a 2022 California law that renamed Hastings College of the Law and ended a board seat reserved for the heirs of its founder, Serranus Clinton Hastings. The petitioners argue that California broke binding commitments made in an 1878 law in exchange for Hastings’s $100,000 payment and unconstitutionally punished him and his descendants through legislation. | Nexstar Media Group asks the Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit ruling that allowed DirecTV to seek antitrust damages for claimed lost downstream revenue after it chose not to buy allegedly price-fixed television programming. The case concerns whether a business that did not purchase the allegedly overpriced product can nevertheless show the direct, non-speculative injury required for antitrust standing. | Hain Celestial asks the Supreme Court to review a securities-fraud lawsuit in which investors claim that company executives acted knowingly or recklessly in making misleading statements. The case concerns how specifically plaintiffs must allege facts showing that executives knew of, or deliberately ignored, the alleged problems under the federal securities-laws pleading standard. |
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