List of pending United States Supreme Court cases

This is a list of cases before the United States Supreme Court that the Court has agreed to hear and has not yet decided.^[1][2][3]

Future argument dates are in parentheses; arguments in these cases have been scheduled, but have not, and potentially may not, take place.

October Term 2025 cases

Case	Docket no.	Question(s) presented	Certiorari granted	Oral argument
Barrett v. United States	24-5774	Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and 18 U.S.C. § 924(j), a question that divides seven circuits but about which the Solicitor General and Petitioner agree.	March 3, 2025	(October 7, 2025)
Berk v. Choy	24-440	Whether a state law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit may be applied in federal court.	March 10, 2025	(October 6, 2025)
Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections	24-568	Whether Petitioners, as federal candidates, have pleaded sufficient factual allegations to show Article III standing to challenge state time, place, and manner regulations concerning their federal elections.	June 2, 2025	(October 8, 2025)
Bowe v. United States	24-5438	(1) Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255; and (2) Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) deprives this Court of certiorari jurisdiction over the grant or denial of an authorization by a court of appeals to file a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.	January 17, 2025	(October 14, 2025)
Case v. Montana	24-624	Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the emergency-aid exception requires probable cause.	June 2, 2025	(October 15, 2025)
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana	24-813	1. Whether a causal-nexus or contractual-direction test survives the 2011 amendment to the federal-officer removal statute. 2. Whether a federal contractor can remove to federal court when sued for oil-production activities undertaken to fulfill a federal oil-refinement contract.	June 16, 2025
Chiles v. Salazar	24-539	Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates the Free Speech Clause.	March 10, 2025	(October 7, 2025)
Coney Island Auto Parts, Inc. v. Burton	24-808	Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) imposes any time limit to set aside a void default judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction.	June 6, 2025	(November 5, 2025)
Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment	24-171	1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that a service provider can be held liable for "materially contributing" to copyright infringement merely because it knew that people were using certain accounts to infringe and did not terminate access, without proof that the service provider affirmatively fostered infringement or otherwise intended to promote it? 2. Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that mere knowledge of another's direct infringement suffices to find willfulness under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)?	June 30, 2025
Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas	24-413	Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Education Act does not permit the assessment of borrower defenses to repayment before default, in administrative proceedings, or on a group basis.	January 10, 2025
Ellingburg v. United States	24-482	Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause.	April 7, 2025	(October 14, 2025)
Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel	24-783	Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1).	June 30, 2025
Fernandez v. United States	24-556	Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) can include reasons that may also be alleged as grounds for vacatur of a sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.	May 27, 2025	(November 12, 2025)
First Choice Women's Resource v. Platkin	24-781	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 first-filed action deprived of jurisdiction because those rights must be adjudicated in state court?	June 16, 2025
FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd.	24-345	Whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action.	June 30, 2025
Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation New Jersey Transit Corporation v. Colt	24-1021 24-1113	Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes.	July 3, 2025
GEO Group, Inc. v. Menocal	24-758	Whether an order denying a government contractor's claim of derivative sovereign immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrine.	June 2, 2025	(November 10, 2025)
Hain Celestial Group v. Palmquist	24-724	Whether a district court’s final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by dismissing a non-diverse party at the time of removal.	April 28, 2025	(November 4, 2025)
Hamm v. Smith	24-872	Whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing an Atkins claim.	June 6, 2025	(November 4, 2025)
Hencely v. Fluor Corp.	24-924	Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a government contractor for conduct that breached its contract and violated military orders?	June 2, 2025	(November 3, 2025)
Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety	23-1197	Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA.	June 23, 2025	(November 10, 2025)
Little v. Hecox	24-38	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 Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.	July 3, 2025
Louisiana v. Callais	24-109 24-110	(1) Did the majority err in finding that race predominated in the Legislature's enactment of S.B. 8? (2) Did the majority err in finding that S.B. 8 fails strict scrutiny? (3) Did the majority err in subjecting S.B. 8 to the Gingles preconditions? (4) Is this action non-justiciable? (5) Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.	November 4, 2024	(October 15, 2025) (Reargument; originally argued March 24, 2025)
M & K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund	23-1209	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 actuarial assumptions most recently adopted before the end of the year, or allows the plan to use different actuarial assumptions that were adopted after, but based on information available as of, the end of the year.	June 30, 2025
National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission	24-621	Whether the limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spending in connection with "party coordinated communications" as defined in 11 CFR 109.37.	June 30, 2025
Olivier v. City of Brandon	24-993	1. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit holds in conflict with the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished before under the law challenged as unconstitutional. 2. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit and at least four others hold in conflict with five other circuits, Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims by plaintiffs even where they never had access to federal habeas relief.	July 3, 2025
Rico v. United States	24-1056	Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release.	June 30, 2025	(November 3, 2025)
Rutherford v. United States Carter v. United States	24-820 24-860	Question in 24-820: Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). Question in 24-860: Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circumstances, a nonretroactive change in law in determining whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warrant a sentence reduction.	June 6, 2025	(November 12, 2025)
United States Postal Service v. Konan	24-351	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 designated address arises out of "the loss" or "miscarriage" of letters or postal matter. 28 U.S.C. § 2680(b).	April 21, 2025	(October 8, 2025)
Urias-Orellana v. Bondi	24-777	Whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals' judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enough to constitute "persecution" under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42).	June 30, 2025
Villarreal v. Texas	24-557	Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defendant's testimony during an overnight recess.	April 7, 2025	(October 6, 2025)
West Virginia v. B. P. J.	24-43	1. Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth. 2. Whether the Equal Protection Clause prevents a state from offering separate boys' and girls' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth.	July 3, 2025

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court
• 2024 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

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