October Term 2025 · Docket 24-808
Does a time limit apply to vacating a void judgment?
Coney Island Auto Parts seeks to vacate a default judgment. Burton argues a time limit bars the request.
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October Term 2025 · Docket 24-1056
Does Time Spent Fugitive Count Toward a Supervised Release Term?
The Supreme Court must decide whether a person who flees supervision serves their supervised release term while on the run, or whether that time gets added back.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-924
Can State Tort Law Claims Against a Military Contractor Go Forward at a Foreign War Zone?
Specialist Wesley Hencely sued Fluor Corporation under South Carolina tort law after an enemy attack on U.S. forces at Bagram Airfield. Fluor says uniquely federal interests preempt those state claims. The Supreme Court must decide whether Hencely's suit can proceed.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-109
Can Louisiana Draw a Congressional Map That Uses Race to Remedy Vote Dilution?
Louisiana and its challengers dispute whether the state's congressional map, drawn to address a federal finding that Black voters' votes were diluted, violates the Constitution.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-624
Can Police Enter a Home Without a Warrant to Stop a Suicide?
The Supreme Court is weighing whether officers need probable cause of a life-threatening emergency before entering a home without a warrant. After police entered Trevor Case's house in Montana and shot him.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-482
Does the Ex Post Facto Clause bar retroactive restitution orders?
The dispute centers on whether criminal restitution constitutes punishment or civil compensation.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-5438
Can the Supreme Court review a federal prisoner's second habeas petition?
The dispute centers on whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a second or successive habeas petition from a federal prisoner.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-351
Does the Postal Exception Cover Mail Withheld by Postal Employees?
The Supreme Court must decide whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's postal exception. Which preserves US immunity for claims arising from lost, miscarried, or negligently transmitted mail, bars a woman's suit alleging postal employees intentionally withheld her mail and returned it to sender.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-568
Can a Candidate Challenge a Rule That Counts Mail Ballots Two Weeks After Election Day?
Illinois candidates ask the Supreme Court to let them sue over a state rule that counts mail-in ballots received up to two weeks after Election Day. The state board argues the candidates lack a legally recognized injury and cannot challenge the rule.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-539
Can Colorado Ban Counselors From Helping Minors Discuss Gender and Sexuality?
Colorado's law bars counselors from helping minors pursue state-disfavored goals on gender and sexuality. the side that brought the case calls it a speech restriction. The state calls it a healthcare safety rule.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-5774
Can a person face two punishments for one fatal shooting under the gun laws?
The Supreme Court is deciding whether a gun-possession conviction and a murder conviction for the same fatal shooting count as two separate offenses under the Constitution's double jeopardy rule.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-440
Does Delaware's Rule Requiring an Expert Affidavit Before Filing a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Conflict with Federal Court Procedures?
The dispute: Delaware law says a medical malpractice complaint cannot even be filed unless it comes with an expert affidavit. A patient suing in federal court in Delaware argues that requirement clashes with the federal rules that govern how lawsuits are started. The Supreme Court must decide whether that state rule can stand alongside the federal rules.
October Term 2025 · Docket 24-557
Can a Trial Court Bar a Defendant From Discussing His Testimony With His Lawyer During an Overnight Recess?
The Supreme Court is weighing whether a Texas trial court's order. Which barred a criminal defendant from talking about his own testimony with his lawyer overnight, violated the defendant's constitutional right to counsel.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24A884
Can Federal Judges Block a Federal Policy Everywhere With One Order?
The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to limit nationwide court orders that blocked its executive order on birthright citizenship. Challengers say the orders are needed to protect their rights.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24-394
Can Oklahoma exclude religious charter schools from public funding?
Oklahoma law bars religious charter schools from receiving state funds. the sides that brought the case claim this violates the Free Exercise Clause. the opposing sides argue the schools are private entities.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24-304
Can a class include members who lack a legal injury?
The dispute centers on whether federal courts can certify classes containing uninjured members.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24-362
Does the FTCA bar claims against federal police for lawful acts?
The dispute centers on whether the Federal Tort Claims Act waives sovereign immunity for lawful police conduct.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24-249
Do schools face the same intent standard for all disability discrimination claims?
The dispute centers on whether courts must apply a single intent standard to all disability discrimination claims against schools.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24-320
Does the Barring Act block military pay claims?
The dispute centers on whether a specific statute overrides the general six-year limit for unpaid military compensation.
October Term 2024 · Docket 24-7
Does a fuel seller have standing to challenge a waiver that limits vehicle fuel types?
Diamond Alternative Energy argues the EPA waiver harms its business. The EPA argues the company lacks standing to sue.