List of pending United States Supreme Court cases

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 Corporation 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."	January 16, 2026
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.	June 30, 2026
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.	April 20, 2026
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.	May 18, 2026
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 8 U.S.C. § 1188(g)(2) 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.	April 27, 2026
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, 5 U.S.C. § 704. (2) Whether the federal government must comply with the general environmental-review procedures of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. § 4321 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.	March 9, 2026
Genalo v. Black	25-886	(1) Whether there is a point at which an alien's detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c), pending a decision on whether he is to be removed, becomes "unreasonably prolonged," such that due process requires a bond hearing. (2) If so, whether, in such a bond hearing, due process requires placing the burden on the government to justify the alien's continued detention by clear and convincing evidence. (3) Whether G. M.'s case is now moot.	June 15, 2026
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.	June 30, 2026
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.	June 15, 2026
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?	June 29, 2026
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.	June 29, 2026
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?	April 6, 2026
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?	June 15, 2026
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 18 U.S.C. § 3631–3635), seeking accelerated transfer to a halfway house or home confinement, can be brought in a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241.	June 1, 2026
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.	June 29, 2026
Nielsen v. Watanabe	25-417	Whether the Ninth Circuit here erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action.	June 22, 2026
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?	June 29, 2026
RiseandShine Corp. v. PepsiCo, Inc.	24-1016	Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114.	June 29, 2026
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.	January 26, 2026
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.	April 20, 2026
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.	February 23, 2026
Viramontes v. Cook County Grant v. Higgins	25-238 25-566	Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.	June 30, 2026
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 8 U.S.C. § 1159(b) (as the Fifth Circuit held), or are categorically ineligible (as the Second and Fourth Circuits held)?	June 29, 2026
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 16(b)(4)?	March 30, 2026

See also

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