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

J.D.B. v. North Carolina
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011

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J.D.B. v. North Carolina

Whether a child's age may be considered as part of the totality of circumstances in determining whether a suspect is in custody and must therefore be given Miranda warnings prior to any police interrogation.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011
J.D.B. v. North Carolina

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J.D.B. v. North Carolina

Whether a child's age may be considered as part of the totality of circumstances in determining whether a suspect is in custody and must therefore be given Miranda warnings prior to any police interrogation.
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Flores-Villar v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011

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Flores-Villar v. United States

Whether the government may constitutionally make it more difficult for citizen fathers than citizen mothers to transmit citizenship to their out-of-wedlock children born outside the U.S.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011
Flores-Villar v. United States

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Flores-Villar v. United States

Whether the government may constitutionally make it more difficult for citizen fathers than citizen mothers to transmit citizenship to their out-of-wedlock children born outside the U.S.
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Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011

Immigrants' Rights

Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting

(formerly Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria) Whether an Arizona law imposing severe sanctions on employers who hire immigrants that the state believes are unauthorized to work in the United States, and requiring employers to participate in a federal employment verification program that the federal government made voluntary, is pre-empted by the carefully calibrated and comprehensive scheme that the federal government has enacted to regulate immigration.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011
Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting

Immigrants' Rights

Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting

(formerly Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria) Whether an Arizona law imposing severe sanctions on employers who hire immigrants that the state believes are unauthorized to work in the United States, and requiring employers to participate in a federal employment verification program that the federal government made voluntary, is pre-empted by the carefully calibrated and comprehensive scheme that the federal government has enacted to regulate immigration.
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Brown v. Plata
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011

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Prisoners' Rights

Brown v. Plata

Whether a federal court appropriately exercised its authority by ordering the State of California to reduce the size of its prison population, which was more than double the system’s intended capacity, after dozens of remedial orders had failed for more than a decade to ensure that California prisoners received constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011
Brown v. Plata

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Prisoners' Rights

Brown v. Plata

Whether a federal court appropriately exercised its authority by ordering the State of California to reduce the size of its prison population, which was more than double the system’s intended capacity, after dozens of remedial orders had failed for more than a decade to ensure that California prisoners received constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care.
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Capital Punishment
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011

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Maples v. Thomas

Whether the defendant's failure to file a timely appeal in state court should bar all subsequent federal court review of his death sentence when the reason for the missed deadline was that Alabama officials made no effort to inform him of an adverse decision from the state courts after it was returned unopened by his lawyers' former law firm.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011
Capital Punishment

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Maples v. Thomas

Whether the defendant's failure to file a timely appeal in state court should bar all subsequent federal court review of his death sentence when the reason for the missed deadline was that Alabama officials made no effort to inform him of an adverse decision from the state courts after it was returned unopened by his lawyers' former law firm.
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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.

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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!