Petitions Archive

Whether the Supreme Court should stay a ruling allowing Missouri to use its new congressional map in the 2026 midterm election.

(1) Whether a person who becomes the first assistant after a vacancy arises is ineligible to be the acting officer under Section 3345(a)(1) of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; and (2) Whether Section 3347(a) prohibits a person who is not an acting officer under Section 3345(a) from being delegated all of the duties of a vacant office that may be delegated to others and that are not exclusive to the vacant office.

Whether the judge-made “honest belief” doctrine, applied in Title VII cases to insulate an employer that fires an employee based on a mistaken but sincerely held view that the employee violated a work rule, may be imported into Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 cases to displace USERRA’s express affirmative defense, which requires the employer to “prove that the action would have been taken in the absence of” the employee’s protected military service – and, if it may, whether an employer’s assertedly “honest belief” can be resolved in the employer’s favor at summary judgment, when the existence, sincerity, and application of that belief present inherently factual questions reserved to the jury.

Whether a Department of War policy that generally disqualifies from military service individuals who have gender dysphoria, a history of the condition, or a history of related interventions violates the equal-protection component of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

(1) Whether the establishment clause forbids a state from mandating the permanent, conspicuous display of a government-selected version of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom; and (2) whether permanently displaying the Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom interferes with parents’ free exercise clause right to direct their children’s religious education and burdens children’s religious freedom.

(1) Whether petitioner’s establishment clause challenge to Louisiana’s law, which requires every public school in the state to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, is ripe; and (2) whether Louisiana’s law violates the establishment clause.

(1) Whether the Antiterrorism Act authorizes liability for aiding and abetting acts of terror based on aid that is (a) neither tied to any specific attack nor systemic and pervasive and (b) provided without any desire to help the attacks succeed; and (2) whether the ATA’s proximate cause requirement authorizes direct liability for acts of terror based on allegations that defendants transacted with a foreign-government agency that performed legitimate functions.

Whether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack any Article III injury.

(1) Whether Presidential Proclamation No. 10,888 and its implementing guidance – which suspended the entry of certain aliens and precluded their access to statutory provisions that would enable their continued presence in the country, including asylum – are lawful; (2) whether 8 U.S.C. 1252(f)(1) bars the classwide relief entered by the district court; and (3) whether the class definition comports with Article III and Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Whether a district court’s fair-market-value determination and its component parts, such as the selection of benchmark agreements, should be reviewed de novo or for clear error.