Issues: (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 ...

SCOTUSblog Coverage. Court sets March argument schedule (Amy Howe, February 10, 2025); Justices take up disputes over terrorism damages suits and habeas filings (Amy Howe, December 6, 2024); Personal jurisdiction, habeas, and a possible replacement case (John Elwood, December 5, 2024); Western Apache group calls on court to block approval of copper mine on sacred site (Kalvis Golde, November ...

Issues: (1) Whether the Hobbs Act, which authorizes a “party aggrieved” by an agency’s “final order” to petition for review in a court of appeals, allows nonparties to obtain review of claims asserting that an agency order exceeds the agency’s statutory authority; and (2) whether the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of …

Date Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding); Jun 17 2024: Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 22, 2024) Jul 05 2024: Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 22, 2024 to August 21, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.

Issues: (1) Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts state laws that regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) by preventing them from cutting off rural patients’ access, steering patients to PBM-favored pharmacies, excluding pharmacies willing to accept their terms from preferred networks, and overriding state discipline of pharmacists; and (2) whether Medicare Part D ...

SCOTUSblog Coverage. Court sets March argument schedule (Amy Howe, February 10, 2025); Court adds Medicaid lawsuit to docket (Amy Howe, December 18, 2024); Sacred sites, religious tax exemptions, and whether to reconsider Feres (John Elwood, December 12, 2024); Personal jurisdiction, habeas, and a possible replacement case (John Elwood, December 5, 2024) ...

2025年1月21日 · SCOTUSblog Coverage. Supreme Court sends capital case back for reconsideration over focus on sex (Amy Howe, January 23, 2025); In a slew of new cases, the justices take in closer look (John Elwood, January 16, 2025); Holding prison officials accountable for COVID measures (John Elwood, January 9, 2025); Sacred sites, religious tax exemptions, and whether to reconsider Feres (John Elwood ...

Issues: (1) Whether spending-clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and if so, what the proper framework is for deciding when they do; and (2) whether, assuming spending-clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under Section 1983, the Medicaid Act’s any-qualified-provider provision creates a …

Date Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding); Sep 11 2024: Application (24A256) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 24, 2024 to October 11, 2024, submitted to Justice Alito.

SCOTUSblog Coverage. Justices debate IRS’s claim on pre-bankruptcy tax payments (Ronald Mann, December 3, 2024); Supreme Court to consider IRS’s claim on pre-bankruptcy tax payments (Ronald Mann, November 27, 2024); Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December (Amy Howe, October 18, 2024); Court adds seven cases to next term’s docket (Amy Howe, June 24, 2024)