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24-394 OK CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD V. DRUMMOND

DECISION BELOW: 558 P.3d 1

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 121,694

QUESTION PRESENTED:

This Court has "repeatedly held that a State violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits." Carson as next friend of O. C. v. Makin, 596 U.S. 767, 778 (2022). Three times, the Court hasapplied that principle to strike down "state eff...

24-304 LABORATORY CORP. OF AMERICA V. DAVIS

DECISION BELOW: 2024 WL 489288

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-55873

QUESTION PRESENTED:

o Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury.

THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IS GRANTED LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT MAY CERTIFY A CLASS ACTION PURSUANT TO FEDERAL RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 23(B)(3) WHENSOME...

24-362 MARTIN V. UNITED STATES

DECISION BELOW: 2024 WL 1716235

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-10062

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Petitioners are the innocent victims of a wrong-house raid conducted by an FBI SWAT team in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking a remedy for torts committed against them, Petitioners brought a cause of action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. In its opinion below, the Eleventh Circuit held that all of P...

24-320 SOTO V. UNITED STATES

DECISION BELOW: 92 F.4th 1094

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 2022-2011

QUESTION PRESENTED:

This case determines whether thousands of medically retired combat veterans should receive all the combat related special compensation (CRSC) that Congress specifically authorized for combat veterans. The government has elected to calculatethe period of retroactive compensation due using the procedure in the Barring Act (3...

24-249 A.J.T. V. OSSEO AREA SCHOOLS

DECISION BELOW: 96 F.4th 1058

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-1399

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Rehabilitation Act) require public entities and organizations that receive federal funding to provide reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. In the decision below, the Eighth Circuit held that, for discrim...

24-7 DIAMOND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, LLC V. EPA

DECISION BELOW: 98 F.4th 288

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-1081, 22-1083, 22-1084, 22-1085

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Section 209(a) of the Clean Air Act generally preempts States from adopting emission standards for new motor vehicles. 42 U.S.C. § 7543(a). But under Section 209(b) of that Act, EPA may grant California and only California-a waiver from federal preemption to set its own vehicle-emissi...

24-416 COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE V. ZUCH

DECISION BELOW: 97 F.4th 81

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-2244

QUESTION PRESENTED:

o Whether a proceeding under 26 U.S.C. 6330 for a pre-deprivation determination about a levy proposed by the Internal Revenue Service to collect unpaid taxes becomes moot when there is no longer a live dispute over the proposed levy that gave rise to the proceeding.

CERT. GRANTED 1/10/2025

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24-297 MAHMOUD V. TAYLOR

DECISION BELOW: 102 F.4th 191

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-1890

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Respondent Montgomery County Board of Education requires elementary school teachers to read their students storybooks celebrating gender transitions, Pride parades, and same-sex playground romance. The storybooks were chosen to disrupt "cisnormativity" and "either/or thinking" among students. The Board's ...

24-275 PARRISH V. UNITED STATES

DECISION BELOW: 74 F.4th 160

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 20-1766

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Ordinarily, litigants must file a notice of appeal within 30 or 60 days of an adverse 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a)-(b). Under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) and Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6), however, district courts can reopen an expired appeal period when a party did not receive timely notice of the judgment. The Courts of Appeals have divided ab...

24-316 KENNEDY V. BRAIDWOOD MANAGEMENT, INC.

DECISION BELOW: 104 F.4th 930

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-10326

QUESTION PRESENTED:

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force), which sits within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issues clinical recommendations for preventive medical services, such as screenings and medications to prevent serious diseases. Under the Patient Protection...

23-1275 MEDINA, DIRECTOR SC DEPT OF HEALTH V. PLANNED PARENTHOOD

DECISION BELOW: 95 F.4th 152

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 21-1043

QUESTION PRESENTED:

More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a privately enforceableright to certain reimbursement rates. Wilder v. Va. Hosp. Ass'n, 496 U.S. 498, 509-10 (1990). Later, the Cou...

24-20 FULD V. PLO

DECISION BELOW: 82 F.4th 74

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-76, 22-496

QUESTION PRESENTED:

The Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 18 U.S.C. § 2331 et seq., provides an extraterritorial private right of action for victims of terror attacks committed against American nationals abroad. In 2019, Congress amended the ATA by enacting the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (PSJVTA). Under the PSJVTA, the Palesti...

23-1345 RIVERS V. GUERRERO

DECISION BELOW: 99 F.4th 216

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 21-11031

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Under the federal habeas statute, a prisoner "always gets one chance to bring a federal habeas challenge to his conviction," Banister v. Davis, 590 U.S. 504, 509 (2020). After that, thestringent gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) bar nearly all attempts to file a "second or successive habeas ...

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Wisconsin exempts from its state unemployment tax system certain religious organizations that are "operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or convention or association of churches" and that are also "operated primarily for religious purposes."

Petitioners are Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior and several sub-entities. Although all agree Catholic Ch...

24-354 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION V. CONSUMERS' RESEARCH

DECISION BELOW: 109 F.4th 743

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-60008

QUESTION PRESENTED:

In 47 U.S.C. 254, Congress required the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) to operate universal service subsidy programs using mandatorycontributions from telecommunications carriers. The Commission has appointed a private company as the programs' Administrator, authorizing tha...

23-1067 OKLAHOMA V. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

DECISION BELOW: 93 F.4th 1262

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 23-9514

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Under the Clean Air Act, each state must adopt an implementation plan to meet national standards, which EPA then reviews for compliance with the Act. See 42 U.S.C. § 7410. In 2023, EPA published disapprovals of 21 states' plans implementing national ozone standards. It did so in a single Federa...

23-1229 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY V. CALUMET SHREVEPORT REFINING

DECISION BELOW: 86 F.4th 1121

LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 22-60266, 22-60425, 22-60433, 22-60434

QUESTION PRESENTED:

In a pair of final actions, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied 105 petitions filed by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act's Renewable Fuel Standard Program. ...

QUESTION PRESENTED

Petitioner Pierre Riley, ineligible for cancellation of removal or discretionary relief from removal, sought deferral in withholding-only proceedings, pursuant to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. After the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a decision reversing an immigration judge's grant of relief, Riley promptly petitioned for review by the U.S. ...

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Over the State's strenuous objections, the Middle District of Louisiana held, Robinson v. Ardoin, 605 F. Supp. 3d 759 (M.D. La. 2022)-and the Fifth Circuit affirmed, Robinson v. Ardoin, 86 F.4th 574 (5th Cir. 2023)-that Louisiana likely violated Section 2of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by failing to create a second majority-Black congressional district. The Fifth Circuit gave the Legislature a small window of ...