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25-246
Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska
The "touchstone of the constitutional inquiry under the Excessive Fines Clause" is that the amount of the fine "must bear some relationship to the gravity of the offense that it is designed to punish." United States v. Bajakajian, 524 U.S. 321,334 (1998). Below, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the forfeiture of peti...
25-1311
Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc.
granted
25-238
Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al.
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. PETITIONS GRANTED AS TO THE QUESTION PRESENTED BY THE PETITION IN NO. 25-238. CONSOLIDATED WITH 25-566 FOR ONE HOUR ORAL ARGUMENT.
25-566
Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al.
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes, including the most popular rifle in the country, the AR-15. PETITIONS GRANTED AS TO THE QUESTION PRESENTED BY THE PETITION IN NO. 25-238. CONS...
25-965
Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, et al.
granted
24-1016
RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc.
Courts in every circuit consider several factors in determining whether an alleged trademark infringer's use "is likely to cause confusion" under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. Chief among those factors is the trademark's strength, that is, its level of distinctiveness. Twelve circuits consider trademark strength an issue of fac...
25-1017
Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, et al.
Like every other State, Arizona permits only United States citizens to vote in federal elections. To enforce that qualification, Arizona requires every applicant who registers to vote to produce "satisfactory evidence of citizenship." Ariz. Rev. Stat. §16-121.01(C). If election officials obtain "information" from pe...
25-1223
Kevin Isaac Montoya Palacios v. Vernon Liggins, Acting Field Office Director, Baltimore Field Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al.
The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) provides that, "in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort)" by or against the federal government, a court shall award to a prevailing party its fees and costs, unless the court finds certain exceptions present. 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d) (1)(A). The question presented is...
25-159
Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc.
The Natural Gas Act authorizes private companies to condemn land in order to build certain natural gas infrastructure, but it says nothing about how to determine the amount of just compensation owed for the property taken. 15 U.S.C. § 717f. The Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits have all held that compensati...
25-840
International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc., et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al.
The "interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children □ is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court." Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 65 (2000). But that right is mere rhetoric if federal judges bar parents from court via a miserly interpretation of st...
25-842
Tamer S. Wassily, et al. v. Todd Blanche, Acting Attorney General
For those “granted asylum,” the immigration laws also provide a pathway to obtain lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. Under 8 U.S.C. § 1159(b), the government "may adjust to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence the status of any alien granted asylum," if certain statutory criteria are...
25-417
Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe
This case concerns the judicially created damages remedy first recognized in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), the Court extended Bivens to an Eighth Amendment claim of deliberate indifference to medical needs where prison...
25-1003
Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division v. Dexter Johnson
The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) prohibits successive habeas applications by state prisoners with only narrow exceptions, including for claims that "rel[y] on a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously u...
25-6623
Hamed Kian v. Florida
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a serious felony? There are two other petitions raising the same question presented. See Parada v. United States, No. 25-166; Minor v. Florida, No. 24-7489. This c...
25-886
Kenneth Genalo, Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Carol Williams Black, et al.
Under 8 U.S.C. 1226(c), certain criminal aliens are required to be detained pending a decision on whether they are to be removed from the United States. In Jennings v. Rodriguez, 583 U.S. 281 (2018), this Court held that Section 1226(c) prohibits the release of such aliens on bond. The Court reserved judgment on var...
25-5930
William Maxwell v. Albert Thomas, III, Warden
In 2020 Maxwell sought transfer to halfway house or home confinement under the First Step Act of 2018, 18 U.S.C. §3624(g), 18 U.S.C. §3621(b) and §3621(h), the CARES Act of 2020, 18 U.S.C. §3624(c), the Second Chance Act of 2018 reauthorized by the First Step Act of 2018, 34 U.S.C. §60541, and Compassionate Release....
25-183
Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating "on the basis of sex." In Cannon v. University of Chicago, 441 U.S. 677 (1979), this Court held that Title IX is privately enforceable by "victims of discrimination" through an implied right of action...
25-966
Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC
The H-2A visa program grants U.S. employers the privilege of "import[ing]" foreign aliens into the United States for temporary agricultural work under special visas. 8 U.S.C. 1188(a)(1). As a condition of granting petitions to import foreign workers, federal law requires an employer to agree to comply with statutory...
25-5343
Kendrick Jarrell Beaird v. United States
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deference due to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? III. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed s...
25-581
St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al.
Whether proving a lack of general applicability under Employment Division v. Smith requires showing unfettered discretion or categorical exemptions for identical secular conduct. 2. Whether Carson v. Makin displaces the rule of Employment Division v. Smith only when the government explicitly excludes religious peopl...
25-735
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress
Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of the jurisdiction, recognized by this Court in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 (1974), to hear challenges to the constitutionality of acts of Congress affecting veterans' benefits?
25-352
Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia
Rule 8(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that a party "must" plead "any" affirmative defense. The question presented is: Where a defendant has filed an answer without pleading an affirmative defense, may the defendant nonetheless assert that affirmative defense as the basis for a summary judgmen...
25-579
Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan
Under RCRA, the United States Environmental Protection Agency may authorize state and territorial regulators to administer permitting programs for hazardous-waste-treatment facilities in their respective jurisdictions, including facilities operated by the federal government. The questions presented are as follows: 1...
25-170
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al.
Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions on the global climate. IN ADDITION TO THE QUESTION PRESENTED BY THE PETITION, THE PARTIES ARE DIRECTED TO BRIEF AND ARGUE THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER...