April session to feature religious charter school case and challenge to LGBTQ+ books in schools

The courts 2024-25 term will close out its scheduled oral arguments on April 30 with a Catholic online schools effort to become the nations first religious charter school. The courts April argument calendar, which it released on Monday, features several other significant social issues, including whether a group of Maryland parents can opt to have their children exempted from lessons on LGBTQ+-themed storybooks and a challenge to the provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires coverage of, among other preventative medications, medication that prevents HIV infection.

The justices will hear 10 hours of oral arguments over six days, from April 21 to April 30.

Here is a full list of the cases scheduled for argument in April:  

Kennedy v. Braidwood Management (April 21) A challenge to the Affordable Care Acts requirement that health insurers provide coverage for medications that can be highly effective at preventing HIV infection, on the ground that the government task force that makes recommendations for preventive medical services violates the Constitutions appointments clause.

Parrish v. United States (April 21) Whether a litigant who files a notice of appeal after the time to do so has expired must file a second notice when the time to appeal is reopened.

Mahmoud v. Taylor (April 22) Whether requiring children to participate in instruction that violates their parents religious beliefs violates parents First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch (April 22) Issues regarding when a tax hearing becomes moot that is, no longer a live controversy.

Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA (April 23) Whether fuel producers have a legal right to challenge a waiver, given to California, of the general bar on the adoption of emissions standards by states.

A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools (April 28) Whether children with disabilities who allege discrimination in education must show that school officials acted with bad faith or gross mismanagement or instead face a less rigorous standard.

Soto v. United States (April 28) A technical question relating to compensation for veterans.

Martin v. United States (April 29) Whether a Georgia family whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team can sue the federal government for the error.

Laboratory Corp. of America v. Davis (April 29) Whether a federal court may certify a case as a class action when some of its members have not been injured.

Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond (consolidated with St. Isidore of Seville School v. Drummond) (April 30) Whether Oklahoma violates the First Amendments guarantee of the free exercise of religion when it excludes privately run religious charter schools from the states charter-school program because they are religious.

This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.