Supreme Court Term 2025-2026

We鈥檙e breaking down the cases we've asked the court to consider this term.

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574 Supreme Court Cases

U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2012

Privacy & Technology

George v. TSA

Nick George was on his way to start his senior year at California鈥檚 Pomona College in August 2009 when he was detained, aggressively interrogated, handcuffed, and locked in a jail cell for nearly five hours at the Philadelphia International Airport because he was carrying a set of English-Arabic flashcards in for his college language class, as well as a book critical of U.S. foreign policy.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2012

Privacy & Technology

George v. TSA

Nick George was on his way to start his senior year at California鈥檚 Pomona College in August 2009 when he was detained, aggressively interrogated, handcuffed, and locked in a jail cell for nearly five hours at the Philadelphia International Airport because he was carrying a set of English-Arabic flashcards in for his college language class, as well as a book critical of U.S. foreign policy.
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NSA Building
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012

National Security

Clapper v. Amnesty International

Whether a federal statute that broadly expanded the government鈥檚 surveillance powers can be challenged by lawyers, journalists, and human rights organizations who face a reasonable likelihood that their international communications will be monitored under the statute and have taken prudent (and, in some cases, ethically compelled) steps to safeguard against that risk.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012
NSA Building

National Security

Clapper v. Amnesty International

Whether a federal statute that broadly expanded the government鈥檚 surveillance powers can be challenged by lawyers, journalists, and human rights organizations who face a reasonable likelihood that their international communications will be monitored under the statute and have taken prudent (and, in some cases, ethically compelled) steps to safeguard against that risk.
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Florida v. Harris
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012

Criminal Law Reform

Florida v. Harris

Whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog's reliability so long as the dog has been trained or certified.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012
Florida v. Harris

Criminal Law Reform

Florida v. Harris

Whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog's reliability so long as the dog has been trained or certified.
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police officers with dog enter home to search it
U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2012

Criminal Law Reform

Bailey v. United States

Whether someone who has left the immediate vicinity of a house that is about to be searched may be seized by the police without probable cause.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2012
police officers with dog enter home to search it

Criminal Law Reform

Bailey v. United States

Whether someone who has left the immediate vicinity of a house that is about to be searched may be seized by the police without probable cause.
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Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2012

Voting Rights

Crawford v. Marion County Election Board

Whether Indiana's voter ID law unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote absent any evidence of voter fraud. DECIDED
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2012
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board

Voting Rights

Crawford v. Marion County Election Board

Whether Indiana's voter ID law unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote absent any evidence of voter fraud. DECIDED
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How Do Terms Work?

Between October and late June or early July the Supreme Court is 鈥渋n session,鈥 meaning it hears oral arguments, issues written decisions, and decides whether to take additional cases.

Submitting petitions

Our legal team at the 桃子视频files a cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, a type of petition that usually argues that a lower court has incorrectly decided an important question of law that violates civil rights and should be fixed to prevent similar confusion in similar cases.

term starts

U.S. Supreme Court decides to take a case

On average, the Court considers about 7,000 鈥 8,000 petitions each term and accepts about 80 for oral argument.

Oral arguments

This is the period where the U.S. Supreme Court listens to our case in court.

U.S. Supreme Court makes final decisions

While the U.S. Supreme Court makes decisions throughout the term, many are released right before the term ends. If a decision doesn't go in our favor, we fight back!