The Supreme Court is being asked to clarify when zoning laws cross the line under RLUIPA. Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist v. Joel Frederic raises whether blocking a church from building on its own land is a substantial burden on religious exercise.

The Court has invited the Solicitor General to weigh in on RNC v. Eakin, a case asking whether mail voting rules imposing ordinary burdens on voters survive constitutional review under the Anderson-Burdick framework.

The Court will take up Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, examining whether federal law blocks Arizona from requiring proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms.

The Supreme Court will hear Apple v. Epic Games, taking up when courts can hold parties in civil contempt. At issue: whether contempt can rest on an injunction's "spirit" rather than its explicit terms, and related limits on courts' equitable authority.

Emergency application now at the Supreme Court in Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Ken Paxton, challenging a Texas law restricting student speech. The Court has not yet identified the question presented. SCOTUSGate has the details.

The Court will take up whether the Second Amendment protects the right to own AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles. Eddie Grant Jr. v. Higgins will be consolidated with No. 25-238 to decide if bans on the most popular rifle in the country are constitutional.

The Court has agreed to hear International Partners for Ethical Care v. Ferguson, a case asking whether parents have standing to challenge Washington's law that limits their role in decisions about their children's gender transition care.

SCOTUS denied cert in National Rifle Association v. Glass after four conferences, leaving in place Florida's law barring 18-to-20-year-olds from buying firearms. The Second Amendment challenge to the age restriction will not be heard this term.

The Supreme Court declined to hear Thomas Joseph Powell et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving in place the SEC rule that bars defendants in settled enforcement actions from denying the allegations against them.

The Court will consider whether Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause bar states from limiting girls' sports teams to students assigned female at birth. The case is West Virginia v. B.P.J., and it could affect transgender sports policies nationwide.

St. Mary Catholic Parish has asked SCOTUS to review whether Colorado can bar a religious preschool from its universal preschool program for following Catholic teaching on staffing and enrollment. The case could clarify when states may exclude religious schools from public benefit programs.

The Court declined to hear National Shooting Sports Foundation v. Letitia James, leaving in place a ruling that New York's arms statute qualifies as a PLCAA predicate exception, allowing suits against firearms industry members under state law.

The Court may take up Shelby v. Manning to address whether the Tenth Circuit applied qualified immunity too broadly by failing to define clearly established law with sufficient specificity. The case stems from the 2016 fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher by a Tulsa officer.

The Supreme Court has received an emergency application in Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Ken Paxton, challenging Texas's age-verification law for adult websites. SCOTUSGate has analysis of what's at stake.

The Court has invited the Solicitor General to weigh in on The GEO Group v. Nwauzor, which asks whether a state can apply its minimum wage law to federal immigration detainees in a work program run by a private contractor at a federal facility.

Justice Thomas has called for a response in Moore v. Senate Majority PAC, a stay application before the Court. No. 25A1396. The question presented has not yet been identified.

The Court has asked the Solicitor General to weigh in on Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association, which asks whether the First Amendment shields a bar association's minority-only leadership set-asides from state antidiscrimination law.

The Court declined to hear RMS of Georgia LLC dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, leaving in place EPA rules that control who can participate in the refrigerant market. The nondelegation challenge to that authority will not get a hearing.

New cert petition asks whether Kisor v. Wilkie changed the deference courts owe to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines commentary, potentially reshaping how judges apply the Guidelines in criminal sentencing nationwide.

The Supreme Court will take up Guerrero v. Dexter Johnson, examining what "previously unavailable" means under AEDPA's narrow exceptions for successive habeas petitions filed by state prisoners. The case could affect how death row inmates bring new constitutional claims.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Thomas Crowther et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, which asks whether Title IX allows employees at federally funded schools to sue for sex discrimination in employment.

The Court has now conferenced National Association for Gun Rights v. Lamont multiple times without acting. The case challenges Connecticut's ban on AR-15-style rifles and magazines over 10 rounds under the Second Amendment. Will the justices take it up?

Chicago firefighters and city workers are asking the Supreme Court to take up a challenge to the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, Scott Troogstad et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, asks whether the requirement violated substantive due process rights.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear Pauline Newman v. Kimberly A. Moore, leaving in place the Federal Circuit's disability proceedings against Judge Newman without addressing whether courts can review allegedly ultra vires acts under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act.

New cert petition: BMG Rights Management US LLC v. Cyril E. Vetter asks the Court to resolve whether U.S. copyright termination rights revert only domestic copyrights or extend to foreign ones too. The Fifth Circuit broke from other courts in ruling the reversion reaches worldwide.

The U.S. government has filed a brief in John Doe v. Hochul, arguing over whether New York's religious accommodation law conflicts with Title VII. At issue: can state law create an "undue hardship" that lets employers skip federal religious accommodation duties?

The Solicitor General has filed a brief in Wells Pharma of Houston v. Zyla Life Sciences, addressing whether the FDCA preempts state unfair competition and consumer protection claims tied to marketing compounded drugs without premarket approval.

SCOTUS has been asked to decide whether federal law blocks state climate liability suits against oil companies. In Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, Colorado counties sued over greenhouse gas damages. The question: does federal law preempt those state claims?

The Court will consider whether Congress can let the Labor Secretary handle initial adjudication of H-2A visa violation claims against employers, or whether Article III requires those proceedings to go before a federal judge. Case: Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards.

SCOTUS will consider whether the Veterans' Judicial Review Act removed district courts' power to hear constitutional challenges to veterans' benefits laws, a question that traces back to the Court's 1974 ruling in Johnson v. Robison.

The Court is taking another look at National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, which asks whether Congress can limit how much political parties spend on campaign ads coordinated with their own candidates.

SCOTUS declined to hear King v. United States, leaving a circuit split unresolved on whether Congress's 2014 law allowing solvent pension plans to cut vested retirement benefits constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment.

Ohio is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on state power to regulate alcohol imports under the Twenty-first Amendment. At issue in Dave Yost v. Kenneth M. Miller is whether Ohio can require wine suppliers to sell through licensed wholesalers.

Griffiths v. Keith has been relisted at conference. The case asks whether an officer must wait until a fleeing armed suspect points his weapon before using deadly force. The Court has now considered the petition multiple times without acting.

Cutberto Viramontes et al. v. Cook County, Illinois et al. has now been relisted 19 times at conference. The case asks whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.

The U.S. has filed a brief in Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments, a case asking whether courts must verify a foreign sovereign's consent to arbitrate before asserting jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Gator's Custom Guns v. Washington has now been relisted 20 times at conference. The Court still hasn't acted on whether high-capacity magazines are "Arms" protected under the Second Amendment's plain text.

Duncan v. Bonta has been conferenced multiple times at the Court. The case challenges California's ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds, raising both Second Amendment and Takings Clause questions. No action yet on whether the Court will take it up.

The Supreme Court has referred the emergency application in Phillip Callais et al. v. Louisiana et al. to the full Court. The case involves Louisiana redistricting. No question has been identified yet.

Flagstar Bank has petitioned SCOTUS in Flagstar Bank N.A. v. William Kivett et al., asking whether the National Bank Act preempts state laws requiring banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.

The Supreme Court declined to hear United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell, a case asking whether church autonomy doctrine bars a parishioner's fraud suit over how Peter's Pence donations were described during Mass.

A new petition asks the Court to overrule McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, the 1973 framework used in employment discrimination cases. Shelton v. Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority argues the burden-shifting test conflicts with Title VII's text.

The Supreme Court is set to consider whether Maine can require lobstermen to install GPS trackers on their boats for 24/7 government monitoring as a condition of keeping their fishing license. The case is Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson.

The Supreme Court has vacated a Fifth Circuit stay in Guerrero v. Busby, a Texas execution case. No. 25A1235.

SCOTUS will consider whether federal pesticide law blocks state failure-to-warn suits over Roundup. In Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell, the question is whether EPA's repeated rejection of a cancer warning preempts state tort claims requiring that same warning.

The Supreme Court has stayed a Fifth Circuit order in Danco Laboratories LLC v. Louisiana, blocking the lower court's ruling while the case proceeds. The stay keeps current mifepristone access rules in place for now.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Bestwall LLC v. Bestwall LLC, leaving in place a ruling that allows a solvent company to use bankruptcy protection even when it can pay all its liabilities now and in the future.

The Supreme Court declined to hear Rocklin Unified School District v. Public Employment Relations Board, leaving in place a ruling that struck down a school district policy requiring parents to be notified when their child seeks to socially transition their gender.

The Court dismissed Hamm v. Smith as improvidently granted. The case asked whether Alabama can require proof of an IQ of 70 or below to establish intellectual disability under Atkins, and how courts should weigh multiple IQ scores in such claims.

New cert petition asks whether employers must prove a religious accommodation would actually cause undue hardship under Title VII, or if a reasonable belief that it would is enough. The case is Petersen v. Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue.