Cert Grants
50 cases with cert granted, awaiting decision
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Granted | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-459 | Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-26 | Relisted (2) | audiovisual-services consumer-definition disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act | The question here is whether the phrase "goods or services from a video tape service provider," as used in the VPPA's definition of "consumer," refers… |
| 25-51 | Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-26 | Relisted (11) | aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review | Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of "nuance" and "exhausti… |
| 25-162 | Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Relisted (3) | administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause | 1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a… |
| 25-498 | Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Relisted (2) | breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard | Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a plan fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t… |
| 24-1068 | Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell | Missouri | 2026-01-16 | CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (3) | epa-approval failure-to-warn fifra-preemption pesticide-regulation product-labeling state-law-claim | Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-889 | Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-16 | CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (3) | carve-out generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement skinny-label | 1. When a generic drug label fully carves out a patented use, are allegations that the generic drugmaker calls its product a "generic version" and cit… |
| 25-112 | Okello T. Chatrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause | 1. Whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. 2. Whether the exclusionary rule should apply to the evidence derived… |
| 25-83 | Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Relisted (3) | arbitration-award diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act federal-question jurisdiction post-arbitration-application | Under Sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act, a party may apply to confirm or vacate an arbitration award. But federal courts have limited j… |
| 25-567 | Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Amici (3) | article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment | Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa… |
| 25-466 | Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Amici (3) | circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation | Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm. |
| 25-429 | Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau | Second Circuit | 2026-01-09 | immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu… | |
| 25-406 | Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment | Whether the Communications Act provisions that govern the FCC's assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Ame… | |
| 24-856 | Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (3) | aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act | 1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting. 2. Whether,… |
| 24-1234 | United States v. Ali Danial Hemani | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Amici (23)Relisted (3) | constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7351 | Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Amici (10)Relisted (8) | batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination | 1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia… |
| 24-1260 | Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Amici (19)Relisted (3) | ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights | The federal election-day statutes—2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1—set the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years as … |
| 24-699 | Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-12-15 | CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) | cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception | Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A… |
| 25-197 | T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court | Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court. |
| 25-5 | Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, a California Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Amici (5)Relisted (3) | asylum-application border-entry immigration-law immigration-officer statutory-interpretation u.s.-mexico-border | The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be… |
| 24-935 | Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Amici (22)Relisted (4) | contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 25-6 | Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bad-faith bankruptcy-law civil-claims judicial-estoppel judicial-integrity procedural-doctrine | Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing th… |
| 24-820 | Daniel Rutherford v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr… |
| 24-1063 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Amici (7)Relisted (3) | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 24-983 | Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-03 | CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (3) | cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking | The LIBERTAD Act is an essential pillar of United States foreign policy toward Cuba's hostile and anti-American regime. Title III of that Act creates … |
| 25-95 | Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Amici (26) | excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause | 1. Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of … |
| 24-1046 | Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Amici (35) | bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition | New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 33 (2022), holds that "the Second Amendment guarantees a general right to public… |
| 24-1238 | Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Amici (19)Relisted (2) | common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law | Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver? |
| 24-758 | The GEO Group, Inc. v. Alejandro Menocal, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Amici (20)Relisted (2) | 28-USC-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order final-judgment government-contractor sovereign-immunity | Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that… |
| 24-777 | Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | First Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | administrative-law asylum-eligibility board-of-immigration-appeals immigration-law judicial-review refugee-status | Whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the BIA's judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enou… |
| 24-1056 | Isabel Rico v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Amici (4) | criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine | Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. |
| 24-345 | FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-09-30 | CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (3) | circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action. |
| 24-924 | Winston Tyler Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Amici (17)Relisted (2) | boyle-doctrine federal-preemption government-contractor military-activities state-law-negligence tort-claims | Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a go… |
| 24-38 | Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Amici (26)Relisted (4) | biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports | Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla… |
| 24-993 | Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Amici (32)Relisted (3) | civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 | Gabriel Olivier is a Christian who feels called to share the gospel with his fellow citizens. After being arrested and fined for violating an ordinanc… |
| 24-1113 | New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. | New York | 2025-07-03 | arm-of-state court-of-appeals financial-liability interstate-litigation sovereign-immunity state-entity | States are entitled to sovereign immunity from private suits in other States' courts, including state created entities that function as "arms of the S… | |
| 24-1021 | Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation | Pennsylvania | 2025-07-03 | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | arm-of-state constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce sovereign-immunity state-agency | Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to inter state sovereign immunity under the Federal Constitution, as held by the highest court … |
| 24-43 | West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Amici (46)Relisted (3) | biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix | 1. Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth. 2. Whet… |
| 23-1209 | M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund | District of Columbia | 2025-07-03 | CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) | actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability | Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the… |
| 24-783 | Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Amici (13)Relisted (6) | district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit | Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(1). |
| 24-621 | National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Amici (40)Relisted (2) | campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure | A political party exists to get its candidates elected. Yet Congress has severely restricted how much parties can spend on their own campaign advertis… |
| 24-171 | Cox Communications, Inc., et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (2) | copyright-infringement digital-copyright material-contribution secondary-liability service-provider willful-violation | 1. This Court has held that a business commits contributory copyright infringement when it "distributes a device with the object of promoting its use … |
| 23-1197 | Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) | civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 24-781 | First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Amici (52)Relisted (10) | constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings | Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a … |
| 24-351 | United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation | Whether a plaintiff's claim that she and her tenants did not receive mail because Postal Service employees intentionally did not deliver it to a desig… |
| 24-872 | John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Amici (11)Relisted (3) | atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence | 1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence. 2.… |
| 24-860 | Johnnie Markel Carter v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | district-courts extraordinary-and-compelling federal-prisoners nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission | Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circum… |
| 24-724 | The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Amici (10)Relisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal | 1. Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred b… |
| 24-556 | Joe Fernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Amici (9)Relisted (3) | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis… |
| 24-557 | David Asa Villarreal v. Texas | Texas | 2025-05-05 | Amici (7)Relisted (3) | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court | Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defen… |
| 24-539 | Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Amici (113)Relisted (4) | content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates … |