Episodios

  • Trump v. U.S., No. 23-939 [Arg: 4.25.2024]
    Apr 27 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.
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    2 h y 39 m
  • Moyle v. U.S., No. 23-726 [Arg: 4.24.2024]
    Apr 25 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether the Supreme Court should stay the order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho enjoining the enforcement of Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother, on the ground that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts it.
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    1 h y 53 m
  • Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, No. 23-367 [Arg: 4.23.2024]
    Apr 25 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether courts must evaluate the National Labor Relations Board’s requests for injunctions under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act using the traditional, stringent, four-factor test for preliminary injunctions or some other more lenient standard.
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    52 m
  • Department of State v. Muñoz, No. 23-334 [Arg: 4.23.2024]
    Apr 25 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether a consular officer's refusal of a visa to a U.S. citizen's noncitizen spouse impinges upon a constitutionally protected interest of the citizen; and
    • whether, assuming that such a constitutional interest exists, notifying a visa applicant that he was deemed inadmissible under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)
    • (A)(ii) suffices to provide any process that is due.
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    1 h y 31 m
  • Smith v. Spizzirri, No. 22-1218 [Arg: 4.22.2024]
    Apr 25 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss when all claims are subject to arbitration.
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    43 m
  • City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, No. 23-175 [Arg: 4.22.2024]
    Apr 25 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
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    2 h y 26 m
  • Thornell v. Jones, No. 22-982 [Arg: 4.17.2024]
    Apr 17 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit violated this court’s precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington when it disregarded the district court’s factual and credibility findings and excluded evidence in aggravation and the state’s rebuttal when it reversed the district court and granted habeas relief.
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Fischer v. U.S., No. 23-5572 [Arg: 4.16.2024]
    Apr 17 2024

    QUESTION PRESENTED:

    • Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c), which prohibits obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations, to include acts unrelated to investigations and evidence.
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    1 h y 41 m