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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let Big Bend border wall construction resume
Supreme Court refuses to let Bureau of Prisons enforce policy ending transgender inmates' care
The Supreme Court on October 21, 2026, denied the Trump administration's request to pause a federal judge's order barring the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing its February 2026 policy on health care for transgender inmates. The policy would have stopped inmates from obtaining hormone therapy and social accommodations such as makeup and wigs. Justices Alito and Thomas would have granted the request.
Order (SCOTUSblog) → · ABA Journal (The Washington Post)
Supreme Court will hear Asian-American parents' challenge to Maryland magnet school lottery
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 19, 2026, agreed to hear Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, a challenge by mostly Asian-American parents to admissions for four selective magnet middle schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. The justices limited review to whether a plaintiff attacking a facially neutral admissions policy as racially discriminatory must show aggregate disparate impact relative to the group's share of applicants.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · NBC News, SCOTUSblog
Supreme Court lacks quorum in BMG v. Vetter after four justices with Penguin Random House book deals sit out
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 19, 2026, affirmed by default a Fifth Circuit ruling that songwriter Cyril Vetter's U.S. copyright termination recaptured worldwide rights to "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)." Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Barrett and Jackson took no part, leaving five justices, short of the six-justice quorum. BMG's parent, Bertelsmann, also owns Penguin Random House, which has published books by all four.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · Bloomberg Law, Courthouse News Service, ABA Journal
Supreme Court declines Hastings descendants' challenge to UC Law San Francisco renaming
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 19, 2026, denied review in Hastings College Conservation Committee v. California, No. 25-1231, leaving in place California's 2023 law removing Serranus C. Hastings' name from the San Francisco law school. Six descendants and a group of alumni argued that the 1878 founding statute was a binding contract, but California courts held it was an ordinary law the Legislature could repeal.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · San Francisco Chronicle, ABA Journal
Supreme Court agrees to decide whether 1868 federal ban on home distilling is constitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 19, 2026, granted the federal government's petition in Department of Justice v. McNutt, agreeing to decide whether an 1868 law banning the production of distilled spirits at home is a valid exercise of Congress's taxing power. The Fifth Circuit struck the ban down in a suit by the Hobby Distillers Association, while the Sixth Circuit upheld it in a separate case.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · CBS News, SCOTUSblog
Supreme Court turns away 9/11 defendants' bid to revive scrapped plea deals
The Supreme Court on October 19, 2026, declined to hear appeals from Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Walid bin 'Atash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi seeking to enforce 2024 plea agreements that would have spared them the death penalty in exchange for life sentences. The denial leaves in place a D.C. Circuit ruling that then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin validly withdrew the deals. Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not participate in Mohammad's case.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · NBC News, CBS News, SCOTUSblog
Supreme Court turns away fired NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, leaving at-will removal ruling in place
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 19, 2026, declined to hear Wilcox v. Trump, the challenge by former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox to President Trump's decision to fire her in early 2025. The denial leaves in place a December 2025 D.C. Circuit ruling that the statute letting presidents remove board members only for neglect of duty or malfeasance violates the separation of powers.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · Bloomberg Law, SCOTUSblog
Cities ask Supreme Court to pause Texas-DOJ judgment wiping out immigration administrative closure
Baltimore, New Haven, Columbus and Centro Legal de la Raza have asked the Supreme Court to stay a consent judgment between Texas and the Justice Department that threw out a 2024 EOIR administrative-closure rule, SCOTUSblog reported on October 15, 2026. The application, docketed as 26A500 on October 15, calls the judgment collusive and says it bypassed notice-and-comment rescission. Justice Alito called for a response by October 22.
Filing (SCOTUSblog) → · Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court pauses Fourth Circuit order forcing FCC to rule fast on party ad rates
The Supreme Court on October 14, 2026 granted the FCC's request to stay a Fourth Circuit order directing the agency to rule within 48 hours on Democratic candidates' challenge to discounted political advertising rates for parties and joint fundraising committees. The unsigned opinion said the FCC may set its own schedule, so it need not decide before the November election.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · SCOTUSblog
Supreme Court agrees to hear DOGE challenge to FOIA discovery order
SSRN: He argues courts can still adjudicate AI after Loper Bright without Chevron deference
Sotomayor warns judges after Alabama juror was arrested in front of jury pool
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on October 5, 2026, criticized an Alabama trial judge who had a prospective juror arrested in front of the jury pool for arriving late, warning that such conduct can intimidate jurors. She wrote in a statement concurring in the Supreme Court's denial of review in Steven Mulkey's capital murder case, noting his lawyers had not objected at trial.
Order (Law360) → · ABA Journal
Supreme Court declines to hear Corporate Transparency Act challenges
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 5, 2026, declined to hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act, the federal beneficial ownership reporting law. The petitions argued the law violates the Fourth Amendment and exceeds Congress's commerce power; the denials came in the order list on the first day of the court's 2026 term.
Order (Bloomberg Law) → · MLex, Law360 Tax Authority, National Law Journal
Supreme Court vacates rulings on Washington legislative map, orders Ninth Circuit review under Callais
The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Garcia v. Hobbs and Trevino v. Hobbs, vacated the judgments and remanded both cases to the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais. The challengers, including a Republican state lawmaker, had argued that Washington's court-drawn Yakima Valley legislative map was a racial gerrymander after a 2023 ruling found the prior map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · Courthouse News Service, Democracy Docket, Campaign Legal Center
Supreme Court declines Maine lobstermen's Fourth Amendment challenge to boat tracking
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 5, 2026, declined to review a challenge by Maine lobstermen to a state Department of Marine Resources rule requiring continuous tracking of vessels that hold federal lobster permits. The denial leaves in place a First Circuit ruling that the rule does not violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against warrantless searches because commercial fishing is a closely regulated industry.
Order (Bloomberg Law) → · Law360
ROSS says it will ask Supreme Court to review Third Circuit Westlaw copyright loss
Supreme Court stays Eighth Circuit order requiring Missouri to use 2025 congressional redistricting map
The Supreme Court of the United States granted an emergency application for a stay in People Not Politicians v. Onder, blocking lower federal court orders that required Missouri to use a 2025 congressional redistricting map in the 2026 elections. The per curiam order held under the Purcell principle that federal courts cannot alter election rules while voting is actively underway, and reaffirmed that the state must conduct elections under its 2022 map.
Order (Supreme Court of the United States) → · SCOTUSblog, NPR, Democracy Docket
Supreme Court stays block on modified SAVE voter citizenship database
The Supreme Court on September 25, 2026 stayed a District of Columbia federal court order that had vacated DHS’s modified Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program used to help states verify voter citizenship. The unsigned majority said challengers likely have standing but are unlikely to succeed on Social Security Act, Privacy Act and APA claims, citing 8 U.S.C. §1373. Justices Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan dissented.
Order (SCOTUSblog) → · Supreme Court of the United States, BBC News, U.S. Department of Homeland Security