The Supreme Court docket on Friday afternoon added 4 new instances to its argument docket for the 2025-26 time period. In a brief list of orders from the justices’ non-public convention earlier within the day, the courtroom agreed to weigh in on one of many challenges to President Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship (covered in a separate story).
The courtroom granted three different petitions for evaluate:
Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties – Whether or not a federal courtroom that originally workouts jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration retains jurisdiction over an software to verify or vacate an arbitration award in the identical case, even when it wouldn’t in any other case have jurisdiction.
T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation – Whether or not the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which bars federal courts from contemplating a declare filed by a celebration that misplaced in state courtroom and seeks to invalidate a remaining state-court judgment, prohibits lawsuits in federal courtroom difficult a state courtroom determination when that call stays topic to additional evaluate in state courtroom.
Abouammo v. United States – Whether or not venue is correct in a district even when not one of the conduct that types the idea for one’s legal cost occurred there, so long as the availability of the legislation on the heart of the case coping with the defendant’s intent “contemplates” results that would happen there.
Extra orders from Friday’s convention are anticipated on Monday, Dec. 8, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
The instances granted on Friday will probably be argued in March, with choices to observe by late June or early July.
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