Court to hear Temporary Protected Status cases on final day of April argument session

The Supreme Court on Friday morning announced that it will hear arguments on April 29 – the last day of the court’s April argument session, and the last day of regularly scheduled oral arguments – on the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Temporary Protected Status program for several thousand Syrians and roughly 350,000 Haitians currently living in the United States.

On March 16, the justices granted petitions from the Trump administration seeking review of rulings by federal judges in New York and Washington, D.C., that had postponed the termination of the TPS program, which allows the nationals of countries designated under the program to remain in the United States and work because of adverse conditions in their home countries.

At that time, the court indicated that it would hear oral arguments in Mullin v. Doe (the challenge to the termination of the program for Syrian nationals, formerly known as Noem v. Doe, because it was filed before President Donald Trump fired then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem) and Trump v. Miot (the challenge to the termination of the program for Haitian nationals) during the second week of the court’s April argument session, but it did not specify a date for that argument. On Friday, the court released a new April argument calendar (replacing the one issued on Feb. 11) that set Mullin (which will be combined with Miot for oral argument) as the first case on Wednesday, April 29.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma Inc., a patent dispute that had originally been scheduled to be the lone argument on April 29, is now the second argument on that day.