The Supreme Court's new term commences this Monday with a lineup of significant cases awaiting argument, including the potential involvement in election disputes. Here are some of the key cases set to be heard in the upcoming months:
Transgender Rights: The Biden administration and families of transgender minors in Tennessee are challenging a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Approximately half of the states have implemented similar restrictions.
Ghost Guns: The administration is appealing a federal appeals court ruling that struck down a regulation aimed at curbing the spread of hard-to-trace ghost guns, which lack serial numbers.
Death Penalty: Oklahoma's Republican attorney general has teamed up with death row inmate Richard Glossip to urge the high court to overturn Glossip's conviction and death sentence in a 1977 murder-for-hire scheme.
Pornography: The adult entertainment industry is contesting a provision of Texas law, upheld by a federal appeals court, that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of their users.
Mexico's Gun Lawsuit: Leading U.S. gun manufacturers are seeking Supreme Court intervention to reverse an appellate ruling that kept alive a $10 billion lawsuit filed by Mexico, alleging that the companies' practices contribute to violence in Mexico.
Nuclear Waste: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is urging the court to reinstate licenses it issued for temporary nuclear waste storage facilities in rural New Mexico and Texas after a federal appeals court invalidated them.
Job Discrimination: A woman in Ohio is petitioning the court to revive her workplace discrimination lawsuit, claiming she was unfairly passed over for state jobs in favor of LGBTQ individuals, in violation of federal law.
Flavored Vapes: The Food and Drug Administration is seeking the justices' review to overturn a decision permitting the marketing of sweet e-cigarette products amidst concerns about a rise in youth vaping in recent years.
