This is a list of cases before the United States Supreme Court that the Court has agreed to hear and has not yet decided.

Future argument dates are in parentheses; arguments in these cases have been scheduled, but have not, and potentially may not, take place.

October Term 2026 cases

Case Docket no. Question(s) presented Certiorari granted Oral argument Anderson v. Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee 25-498 Whether, for claims predicated on fund underperformance, pleading that an ERISA fiduciary failed to use the requisite "care, skill, prudence, or diligence" under the circumstances and thus breached ERISA's duty of prudence when investing plan assets requires alleging a "meaningful benchmark." Apple, Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc. 25-1311 Whether a court may hold a party in civil contempt based on a violation of an injunction's "spirit" where the injunction is silent as to the conduct upon which contempt is based, as the Ninth Circuit holds; or, instead, whether a court must ground a finding of civil contempt on the violation of an order that clearly and unambiguously proscribes the precise conduct at issue, as other circuits hold. Beaird v. United States 25-5343 Whether Stinson v. United States, 508 U. S. 36 (1993), still correctly states the rule for the deference that courts must give the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines. Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia 25-183 Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment. Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guahan 25-579 (1) Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" that is immediately reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act, .(2) Whether the federal government must comply with the general environmental-review procedures of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, et seq., before submitting a permit-renewal application under RCRA, which sets forth its own specific procedures to review environmental impacts in the context of hazardous-waste treatment. Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. 26A406 (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under .(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under , the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations.(4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case. Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC 25-966 (1) Whether Article III of the Constitution precludes the Department of Labor from adjudicating proceedings to collect monetary remedies from employers who have allegedly violated the terms and conditions of employment of H-2A workers and domestic workers in corresponding employment.(2) Whether authorizes the Department of Labor to adjudicate proceedings to collect monetary remedies from employers who have allegedly violated the terms and conditions of employment of H-2A workers and domestic workers in corresponding employment. Grand v. City of University Heights 25-965 Whether the First Amendment's established chilling-effect doctrine, under which a credible government threat that deters the exercise of fundamental rights constitutes a complete and independently actionable constitutional injury, is displaced by Williamson Cty. Planning v. Hamilton Bank's land-use finality requirement when a plaintiff alleges that government threats both before and after a Planning Commission meeting chilled religious exercise, worship, and assembly. Guerrero v. Johnson 25-1003 Whether a claim relies on a "a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable" when the habeas petitioner could have asserted a claim based on the rule in a prior federal habeas petition. Hoffmann v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. 25-159 In private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act, should just compensation be determined by reference to state law? International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc. v. Ferguson 25-840 Whether parents have standing to challenge a law or policy that deliberately displaces their decision-making role as to "gender transitions" of their children, and in so doing creates present and likely future impediments to their ability to parent their children as they deem best for them. Johnson v. United States Congress 25-735 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? Jouppi v. Alaska 25-246 Whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the abstract or should consider the gravity of the specific defendant's wrongdoing. Kian v. Florida 25-6623 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? Marschner v. Marschner 25-1349 Does the USFSPA require state courts to refuse enforcement of indemnification provisions in divorce settlement agreements? Maxwell v. Thomas 25-5930 Whether a claim regarding application of time credits under the First Step Act of 2018, 132 Stat. 5195–5208 (codified in relevant part at –3635), seeking accelerated transfer to a halfway house or home confinement, can be brought in a habeas petition under . Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, Inc. v. Frederic 25-1131 Whether a land-use regulation that prohibits a religious institution from building a religious structure on its own property constitutes a "substantial burden" on religious exercise under the Substantial Burden Provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), . Montoya Palacios v. Liggins 25-1223 Whether under the Equal Access to Justice Act, "any civil action" encompasses an action seeking a writ of habeas corpus to challenge civil immigration detention. Nielsen v. Watanabe 25-417 Whether the Ninth Circuit here erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action. Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota 25-1017 (1) Does the National Voter Registration Act or a federal consent decree prohibit Arizona from requiring voter-registration applicants to produce "satisfactory evidence" of U.S. citizenship when registering with a state registration form?(2) Does the National Voter Registration Act prohibit Arizona from implementing a program within 90 days of a federal election to cancel the registrations of voters who are not U.S. citizens? Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha 26-104 Whether mandates the detention pending removal proceedings of aliens who, like respondent, are present in the United States without having been admitted. RiseandShine Corp. v. PepsiCo, Inc. 24-1016 Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under . Salazar v. Paramount Global 25-459 Whether the phrase "goods or services from a video tape service provider," as used in the VPPA's definition of "consumer," refers to all of a video tape service provider's goods or services or only to its audiovisual goods or services. St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy 25-581 (1) 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 people and institutions. Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County 25-170 (1) 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.(2) Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case. Viramontes v. Cook CountyGrant v. Higgins 25-23825-566 Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. Wassily v. Blanche 25-842 Whether noncitizens who were "granted asylum," but whose asylum was later terminated, are eligible for adjustment to LPR status under (as the Fifth Circuit held), or are categorically ineligible (as the Second and Fourth Circuits held)? Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney 25-352 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 judgment motion, without amending or seeking to amend its answer to plead that affirmative defense, and may a defendant do so even if an amendment adding that affirmative defense would be barred by Rule (b)(4)?

See also List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court 2025 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

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