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October Sitting

Holding: When a plaintiff amends her complaint to delete the federal-law claims that enabled removal to federal court, leaving only state-law claims behind, the federal court loses supplemental jurisdiction over the state claims, and the case must be remanded to state court.
Williams v. Reed, No. 23-191 [Arg: 10.07.2024 Trans. ; Decided 02.21.2025]
Holding: Where a state court's application of a state exhaustion requirement in effect immunizes state officials from 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims challenging delays in the administrative process, state courts may not deny those claims on failure-to-exhaust grounds.
Bondi v. VanDerStok, No. 23-852 [Arg: 10.08.2024 Trans. ; Decided 03.26.2025]
Holding: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives's 2022 rule interpreting the Gun Control Act of 1968 to cover certain products that can readily be converted into an operational firearm or a functional frame or receiver is not facially inconsistent with the act.
Lackey v. Stinnie, No. 23-621 [Arg: 10.08.2024 Trans. ; Decided 02.25.2025]
Holding: Plaintiffs who gained only preliminary injunctive relief before this action became moot do not qualify as "prevailing part[ies]" eligible for attorney"s fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) because no court conclusively resolved their claims by granting enduring relief on the merits that altered the legal relationship between the parties.
Glossip v. Oklahoma, No. 22-7466 [Arg: 10.09.2024 Trans. ; Decided 02.25.2025]
Holding: The court has jurisdiction to review the judgment of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals; the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony under Napue v. Illinois.
Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, No. 23-583 [Arg: 10.15.2024 Trans. ; Decided 12.10.2024]
Holding: Revocation of an approved visa petition under 8 U.S.C. § 1155 based on a sham-marriage determination by the Secretary of Homeland Security is the kind of discretionary decision that falls within the purview of Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), which strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review certain actions "in the discretion of" the agency.
Medical Marijuana v. Horn, No. 23-365 [Arg: 10.15.2024 Trans. ; Decided 04.02.2025]
Holding: Under civil RICO, a plaintiff may seek treble damages for business or property loss even if the loss resulted from a personal injury.
Holding: The challenged end-result permitting provisions "which make the permittee responsible for the quality of the water in the body of water into which the permittee discharges pollutants" exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's authority under the Clean Water Act.
Bufkin v. Collins, No. 23-713 [Arg: 10.16.2024 Trans. ; Decided 03.05.2025]
Holding: The Department of Veterans Affairs' determination that the evidence regarding a service-related disability claim is in "approximate balance" pursuant to the benefit-of-the-doubt rule in 38 U.S.C. § 5107(b) is a predominantly factual determination reviewed only for clear error.

November Sitting

Holding: The E-Rate reimbursement requests at issue are "claims" under the False Claims Act because the government "provided" (at a minimum) a "portion" of the money applied for by transferring more than $100 million from the Treasury into the fund.
Holding: In calculating the Medicare fraction, an individual is “entitled to supplementary security income benefits” when she is eligible to receive an SSI cash payment during the month of her hospitalization.
E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera, No. 23-217 [Arg: 11.05.2024 Trans. ; Decided 01.15.2025]
Holding: The preponderance-of-the-evidence standard applies when an employer seeks to demonstrate that an employee is exempt from the minimum-wage and overtime-pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank, No. 23-980 [Arg: 11.06.2024 ; Decided 11.22.2024]
Holding: Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.
Velazquez v. Bondi, No. 23-929 [Arg: 11.12.2024 ; Decided 04.22.2025]
Holding: Under 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(b)(2), a voluntary-departure deadline that falls on a weekend or legal holiday extends to the next business day.
Delligatti v. U.S., No. 23-825 [Arg: 11.12.2024 Trans. ; Decided 03.21.2025]
Holding: The knowing or intentional causation of injury or death, whether by act or omission, necessarily involves the "use" of "physical force" against another person within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
Holding: Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.

December Sitting

Holding: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in setting aside as arbitrary and capricious the FDA's orders denying respondents' applications for authorization to market new e-cigarette products pursuant to The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009; the 5th Circuit also relied on an incorrect standard to reject the FDA's claim of harmless error regarding the agency's failure to consider marketing plans submitted by respondents.
U.S. v. Miller, No. 23-824 [Arg: 12.02.2024 Trans. ; Decided 03.26.2025]
Holding: Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the government's sovereign immunity with respect to a Section 544(b) claim but that waiver does not extend to state-law claims nested within that federal claim.
Republic of Hungary v. Simon, No. 23-867 [Arg: 12.03.2024 Trans. ; Decided 02.21.2025]
Holding: An allegation that a foreign sovereign liquidated expropriated property, commingled the proceeds with other funds, and then used some of those commingled funds for commercial activities in the United States cannot alone satisfy the commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation exception in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976.
U.S. v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477 [Arg: 12.04.2024 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.18.2025]
Holding: Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and satisfies rational basis review.
Kousisis v. U.S., No. 23-909 [Arg: 12.09.2024 Trans. Aud.; Decided 05.22.2025]
Holding: A defendant who induces a victim to enter into a transaction under materially false pretenses may be convicted of federal fraud even if the defendant did not seek to cause the victim economic loss.
Holding: A federal civilian employee called to active duty pursuant to “any other provision of law ... during a national emergency” as described in 10 U.S.C. § 101(a)(13)(B) is entitled to differential pay if the reservist’s service temporally coincides with a declared national emergency without any showing that the service bears a substantive connection to a particular emergency.
Holding: The D. C. Circuit failed to afford the U.S. Surface Transportation Board the substantial judicial deference required in National Environmental Policy Act cases and incorrectly interpreted NEPA to require the Board to consider the environmental effects of upstream and downstream projects that are separate in time or place from the Uinta Basin Railway.
Holding: In awarding the "defendant's profits" to the prevailing plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit under the Lanham Act a court can award only profits ascribable to the "defendant" itself.

January Sitting

TikTok v. Garland, No. 24-656 [Arg: 01.10.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 01.17.2025]
Holding: The challenged provisions of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act do not violate petitioners' First Amendment rights.
Hewitt v. U.S., No. 23-1002 [Arg: 01.13.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.26.2025]
Holding: Because a sentence “has ... been imposed” for purposes of § 403(b) of the First Step Act only if the sentence is extant (i.e., has not been vacated), the act’s more lenient penalties apply to defendants whose previous sentences have been vacated and who need to be resentenced following the act’s enactment; the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is reversed and the case is remanded.
Holding: To prevail under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a plaintiff must plead and prove that she held or desired a job, and could perform its essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation, at the time of an employer’s alleged act of disability-based discrimination; the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit is affirmed.
Thompson v. U.S., No. 23-1095 [Arg: 01.14.2025 Trans. ; Decided 03.21.2025]
Holding: Title 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits "knowingly mak[ing] any false statement," does not criminalize statements that are misleading but not false.
Holding: A case voluntarily dismissed without prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a) counts as a "final proceeding" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b).
Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, No. 23-1122 [Arg: 01.15.2025 ]
Issue(s): Whether the court of appeals erred as a matter of law in applying rational-basis review, instead of strict scrutiny, to a law burdening adults' access to protected speech.
Holding: The Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. District courts must independently determine the law’s meaning under ordinary principles of statutory interpretation while affording appropriate respect to the agency’s interpretation.
Holding: Retailers who would sell a new tobacco product if not for the FDA’s denial order may seek judicial review of that order under 21 U.S.C. § 387l(a)(1).
Barnes v. Felix, No. 23-1239 [Arg: 01.22.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 05.15.2025]
Holding: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit’s moment-of-threat rule — a framework for evaluating police shootings which requires a court to look only to the circumstances existing at the precise time an officer perceived the threat inducing him to shoot — improperly narrows the Fourth Amendment analysis of police use of force.
Cunningham v. Cornell University, No. 23-1007 [Arg: 01.22.2025 ; Decided 04.17.2025]
Holding: To state a claim under Section 1106(a)(1)(C), a plaintiff need only plausibly allege the elements contained in that provision itself, without addressing potential Section 1108 exemptions.

February Sitting

Gutierrez v. Saenz, No. 23-7809 [Arg: 02.24.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.26.2025]
Holding: Petitioner Ruben Gutierrez has standing to bring his claim challenging Texas’s postconviction DNA testing procedures under the due process clause.
Esteras v. U.S., No. 23-7483 [Arg: 02.25.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.20.2025]
Holding: A district court considering whether to revoke a defendant’s term of supervised release may not consider 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), which covers retribution vis-à-vis the defendant’s underlying criminal offense.
Perttu v. Richards, No. 23-1324 [Arg: 02.25.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.18.2025]
Holding: Parties are entitled to a jury trial on the issue of exhaustion of remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act when that issue is intertwined with the merits of a claim that requires a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment.
Holding: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule — which requires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard to prevail on a Title VII discrimination claim — cannot be squared with either the text of Title VII or the Supreme Court’s precedents.
BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman, No. 23-1259 [Arg: 03.03.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.05.2025]
Holding: Relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) requires extraordinary circumstances, and this standard does not become less demanding when the movant seeks to reopen a case to amend a complaint; a party must first satisfy Rule 60(b) before Rule 15(a)’s liberal amendment standard can apply.
Holding: To exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign state, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act does not require proof of “minimum contacts” over and above the contacts already required by the act’s enumerated exceptions to foreign sovereign immunity.
Holding: Because Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act bars the lawsuit.
Holding: Entities who were not parties to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing proceeding are not entitled to obtain judicial review of the commission’s licensing decision under the Hobbs Act.

March Sitting

Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109 [Arg: 03.24.2025 ]
Issue(s): (1) Whether the majority of the three-judge district court in this case erred in finding that race predominated in the Louisiana legislature"s enactment of S.B. 8; (2) whether the majority erred in finding that S.B. 8 fails strict scrutiny; (3) whether the majority erred in subjecting S.B. 8 to the preconditions specified in Thornburg v. Gingles; and (4) whether this action is non-justiciable.
Riley v. Bondi, No. 23-1270 [Arg: 03.24.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.26.2025]
Holding: An order from the Board of Immigration Appeals denying deferral of removal in a “withholding only” proceeding is not a “final order of removal” under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1); the 30-day filing deadline to challenge a final order of removal under is a claims-processing rule, not a jurisdictional requirement.
Holding: Under the Clean Air Act, EPA’s denials of small refinery exemption petitions are locally or regionally applicable actions that fall within the “nationwide scope or effect” exception, requiring venue in the D.C. Circuit.
Holding: Under the Clean Air Act, EPA’s disapprovals of the Oklahoma and Utah state implementation plans are locally or regionally applicable actions reviewable in a regional court of appeals.
Issue(s): (1) Whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to determine, within the limits set forth in 47 U.S.C. § 254, the amount that providers must contribute to the Universal Service Fund; (2) whether the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine by using the financial projections of the private company appointed as the fund's administrator in computing universal service contribution rates; (3) whether the combination of Congress's conferral of authority on the FCC and the FCC's delegation of administrative responsibilities to the administrator violates the nondelegation doctrine; and (4) whether this case is moot in light of the challengers' failure to seek preliminary relief before the 5th Circuit.
Holding: The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision denying Catholic Charities Bureau a tax emption available to religious entities under Wisconsin law on the grounds that they were not “operated primarily for religious purposes” because they neither engaged in proselytization nor limited their charitable services to Catholics violated the First Amendment.
Rivers v. Guerrero, No. 23-1345 [Arg: 03.31.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.12.2025]
Holding: Once a district court enters its judgment with respect to a first-filed habeas petition, a second-in-time filing qualifies as a “second or successive application” under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 properly subject to the requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b).
Holding: The Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act’s personal jurisdiction provision does not violate the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause because the statute reasonably ties the assertion of jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority to conduct involving the United States and implicating sensitive foreign policy matters within the prerogative of the political branches.
Holding: Medicaid’s any-qualified-provider provision does not clearly and unambiguously confer a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider.

April Sitting

Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, No. 24-316 [Arg: 04.21.2025 ]
Issue(s): Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in holding that the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force violates the Constitution's appointments clause and in declining to sever the statutory provision that it found to unduly insulate the task force from the Health & Human Services secretary's supervision.
Parrish v. U.S., No. 24-275 [Arg: 04.21.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.12.2025]
Holding: A litigant who files a notice of appeal after the original appeal deadline but before the federal court grants reopening under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a)-(b) need not file a second notice after reopening, because the original notice relates forward to the date reopening is granted.
Holding: The United States Tax Court lacks jurisdiction under 26 U.S.C. § 6330 to resolve disputes between a taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service when the IRS is no longer pursuing a levy.
Mahmoud v. Taylor, No. 24-297 [Arg: 04.22.2025 ]
Issue(s): Whether public schools burden parents' religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents' religious convictions and without notice or opportunity to opt out.
Holding: The fuel producers have Article III standing to challenge the EPA’s approval under the Clean Air Act of California regulations requiring automakers to manufacture more electric vehicles and fewer gasoline-powered vehicles.
Soto v. U.S., No. 24-320 [Arg: 04.28.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.12.2025]
Holding: The CRSC — a statute providing “combat-related special compensation” to qualifying veterans who have suffered combat-related disabilities — confers authority to settle CRSC claims and thus displaces the settlement procedures and limitations period under the Barring Act.
Holding: Schoolchildren bringing claims related to their education under either Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are not required to make a heightened showing of “bad faith or gross misjudgment” but instead are subject to the same standards that apply in other disability discrimination contexts.
Martin v. U.S., No. 24-362 [Arg: 04.29.2025 Trans. Aud.; Decided 06.12.2025]
Holding: The Supremacy Clause does not afford the United States a defense in a suit against it under the Federal Tort Claims Act and the law enforcement proviso in Section 2680(h) of the act overrides only the intentional-tort exception in that subsection, not the discretionary-function exception or other exceptions throughout Section 2680.
Holding: Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.
Holding: Judgment affirmed by an equally divided court.

Cases dismissed from merits docket

Holding: The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to clarify the basis for its decision affirming the district court's judgment that Joseph Clifton Smith is ineligible for the death penalty due to intellectual disability.
Holding: At the time of the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, clearly established federal law provided that the erroneous admission of unduly prejudicial evidence could render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair in violation of due process; the judgment below is vacated and the case is remanded for further proceedings.