Year
Issue Area
Court
2025
Wilcox v. Trump
Question Presented
Whether the President has authority under Article II of the Constitution to remove a Member of the National Labor Relations Board without first having to bear the burden of establishing neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
2025
Harper v. O’Donnell
Question Presented
Does the Fourth Amendment permit warrantless searches of customer records held by third-party service providers if the records are contractually owned by the customer, or if those records enable surveillance of future behavior? If not, does the third-party doctrine need to be discarded or modified to prevent such searches?
2025
Aaron Richards et al. v. Administration for Children’s Services
Question Presented
Does a family court order, which authorizes Child Services to enter and search an innocent motherโs home and supervise her parenting, violate the motherโs Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches?
2025
Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond
Question Presented
1. Whether the academic and pedagogical choices of a privately owned and run school constitute state action simply because it contracts with the state to offer a free educational option for interested students.
2. Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the stateโs charter-school program solely because the schools are religious, or whether a state can justify such an exclusion by invoking anti-establishment interests that go further than the Establishment Clause requires.
2025
Mahmoud v. Taylor
Question Presented
Whether public schools burden parentsโ religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parentsโ religious convictions and without notice or opportunity to opt out.
2025
Texas Top Cop Shop v. Bondi
Question Presented
Whether the Corporate Transparency Act exceeds constitutional limits on the federal governmentโs powers.
2025
First Choice v. Platkin
Question Presented
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.
2025
FCC v. Consumersโ Research
Question Presented
Whether 47 U.S.C. ยง 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine by imposing no objective limit on the revenue to be raised for the Universal Service Fund. 2. Whether the FCC violates the private nondelegation doctrine by transferring its revenue raising power to the Universal Service Administrative Company, a private company run by industry interest groups. 3. Whether the combination of those two delegations violates the nondelegation doctrine. Whether this case is moot in light of the challengersโ failure to seek preliminary relief before the Fifth Circuit.
2025
Jakeโs Fireworks v. CPSC
Question Presented
Whether judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act for CPSC notices of violation is unavailable until the agency further acts through formal enforcement.
2025
Lesh v. United States
Question Presented
Whether the Constitutionโs dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for โpetty offenses.โ
2024
McNutt v. U.S. Department of Justice
Question Presented
Whether a federal ban on at-home distilling of spiritsโeven for personal useโexceeds constitutional limits on the federal governmentโs powers.
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SCOTUS has chance to clarify the muddy waters of takings jurisprudence in Cedar Point v. Hassid
From before the founding, the โfundamental maxims of a free government [have] seem[ed] to require, that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred.โ The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment exists to protect those sacred rights from unfettered state appropriation by requiring: first, that any taking of private property be…
Supreme Court should protect citizensโ rights to freely access U.S. waters
When Jim and Cliff Courtney sought to offer private boat transportation so customers could conveniently access their businesses โ including Stehekin Valley Ranch, with cabins and a lodge house in the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area โ the state of Washington denied their right to do so unless the Courtneys could prove the existing ferry…
Narrow question in Supreme Court campus speech case has broad First Amendment implications
The Supreme Court hears oral argument today in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, addressing whether โa governmentโs post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government’s past, completed violation of a plaintiffโs constitutional right.โ Translation? The justices are deciding whether people whose rights have been violated should have their day in court even…