President Trump removed Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. A district court blocked the removal. The core question is whether pre-office conduct can count as cause for removal.
M & K Employee Solutions argues that ERISA's timing rule fixes withdrawal liability as of the prior year's end. The IAM Pension Fund's trustees contend the statute allows actuaries to choose assumptions later.
Case
M & K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM Pension Fund
Hawaii makes it a crime to carry a licensed firearm onto private property open to the public without the owner's express permission. Gun rights groups say the rule guts the constitutional right to public carry. The state says property owners' right to exclude controls. The Supreme Court heard the dispute in Wolford v. Lopez.
The dispute is whether New Jersey's statewide public transportation system should be treated as a state agency. A locality, or a private business, which determines what legal protections and liabilities apply to it.
The state's law bars students assigned male at birth from girls' school sports. A student challenged it, and the Supreme Court must decide how the dispute should be resolved.
Chevron USA says it acted for the federal government when it refined wartime gasoline, so it wants a Louisiana parish's lawsuit moved to federal court. Plaquemines Parish says the lawsuit targets ordinary business conduct and belongs in state court. The Supreme Court must decide how broadly the federal-officer removal statute reaches such cases.
FS Credit Opportunities Corp. says the statute's text does not clearly authorize investors to sue over fee arrangements. Saba Capital Master Fund says the statute's own words support such a suit. The Supreme Court must decide how to read Section 47(b).
Case
FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund
Alabama seeks to execute Joseph Smith for a murder committed nearly 30 years ago. Courts found his IQ scores fall under 70. The dispute is whether Alabama's intellectual disability standard still lets the state carry out that death sentence.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee challenges federal rules that cap party spending coordinated with candidates, arguing the limits burden core political speech. The Federal Election Commission defends the rules as a way to stop donors from routing large contributions to candidates through party committees. The Supreme Court heard argument but has not decided the case.
The Trump administration argues the Constitution lets a president remove FTC Commissioner Gwynne Slaughter without cause. Slaughter says a federal law protecting her job controls. The Supreme Court must decide how far Congress can go in limiting the president's removal power.
Gabriel Olivier was arrested for preaching in a Brandon, Mississippi park and convicted under a city ordinance. He now asks the Supreme Court whether he can sue under federal civil rights law to block future prosecutions under that ordinance, even though his conviction stands.
Sony Music Entertainment argues Cox should be liable for its users' copyright infringement. Cox says it provides basic internet infrastructure and should not bear that responsibility.
The Supreme Court must decide whether a federal law allowing sentence reductions for extraordinary and compelling reasons covers prisoners who argue their convictions or sentences were legally flawed. Or whether those claims belong elsewhere.
Two prisoners ask judges to shorten their sentences, arguing that long mandatory minimums are unjust. The government says Congress limits what judges may weigh. The Supreme Court must decide whether judges' general disapproval of mandatory minimums can support compassionate release.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether GEO Group. A private contractor, can escape a lawsuit by arguing it acted as a government agent, a question the lower courts did not resolve in its favor.
The dispute is whether the President may impose tariffs without congressional approval. One side calls them taxes reserved to Congress. The other calls them emergency regulatory tools.
Case
Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, President of U.S.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether a federal court's final judgment can stand when the court wrongly dismissed a non-diverse defendant. A move that let the case stay in federal court even though the plaintiff had chosen state court.