List of Important Cases on Supreme Court Docket for Upcoming Term:

1) Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College,
[Argument: 10.31.2022]
Issue(s): (1) Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions; and (2) whether Harvard College is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by penalizing Asian American applicants, engaging in racial balancing, overemphasizing race and rejecting workable race-neutral alternatives.

Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina [Argument: 10.31.2022]
Issue(s): (1) Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions; and (2) whether a university can reject a race-neutral alternative because it would change the composition of the student body, without proving that the alternative would cause a dramatic sacrifice in academic quality or the educational benefits of overall student-body diversity.

2) Merrill v. Milligan and Merrill v. Caster [consolidated and now known as Merrill v. Caster] [Argument: 10.4.2022]
Issue: Whether the state of Alabama’s 2021 redistricting plan for its seven seats in the United States House of Representatives violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

3) 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis [Argument not yet scheduled]
Issue(s): Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.

4) Haaland v. Brackeen [Argument: 11.9.2022]
Issue(s): (1) Whether various provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 — namely, the minimum standards of Section 1912(a), (d), (e), and (f); the placement-preference provisions of Section 1915(a) and (b); and the recordkeeping provisions of Sections 1915(e) and 1951(a) — violate the anticommandeering doctrine of the 10th Amendment; (2) whether the individual plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge ICWA’s placement preferences for “other Indian families” and for “Indian foster home[s]”; and (3) whether Section 1915(a)(3) and (b)(iii) are consistent with the equal protection guarantee.

5) National Pork Producers Council v. Ross [Argument: 10.11.2022]
Issue(s): (1) Whether allegations that a state law has dramatic economic effects largely outside of the state and requires pervasive changes to an integrated nationwide industry state a violation of the dormant commerce clause and (2) whether such allegations, concerning a law that is based solely on preferences regarding out-of-state housing of farm animals, state a claim under the Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. balancing test.

6) Moore v. Harper [Argument not yet scheduled]
Issue(s): Whether a state’s judicial branch has the power to void regulations governing the “Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives ... prescribed ... by the Legislature thereof,” and replace them with regulations of the state courts’ own devising, based on state constitutional provisions.

7) United States v. Texas [Argument not yet scheduled]
Issue(s): (1) Whether state plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law; (2) whether the Guidelines are contrary to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c) or 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a), or otherwise violate the Administrative Procedure Act; and (3) whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(1) prevents the entry of an order to “hold unlawful and set aside” the guidelines under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2).