New Supreme Court session starts Monday: Here's what's on the docket
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The Supreme Court's new term begins this week.
The 6-3 majority conservative bench is slated to hear a number of important cases, including a challenge to the Biden administration’s attempt to regulate hard-to-trace "ghost guns" and the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip.
What’s not listed on the docket is the potential election disputes that the high court could be asked to rule on, should they occur. An August ABC News/Ipsos poll reveals two-thirds of Americans don’t believe Donald Trump will accept the outcome of the election if he loses, challenges that could end up before the Supreme Court.
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Here’s a look at the bigger cases being heard by the Supreme Court this term:
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.
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The ruling will have wide implications: Roughly half the states have enacted similar restrictions on gender-affirming services for minors.
Ghost guns
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The Biden administration is challenging a federal appeals court ruling that struck down a measure aimed at reducing the proliferation of hard-to-trace ghost guns, which lack serial numbers.
The number of ghost guns around the country has soared from fewer than 4,000 in 2018 to nearly 20,000 recovered at crime scenes in 2021, according to Justice Department data and ABC News.
Death penalty
The Supreme Court will hear the latest twist in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip.
Oklahoma's Republican attorney general has joined with Glossip in calling for the high court to throw out Glossip's conviction and death sentence in a 1977 murder-for-hire scheme.
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Pornography
The adult entertainment industry is challenging a provision of Texas law, upheld by a federal appeals court, mandating that pornographic websites verify the age of their users.
Mexico's gun lawsuit
Leading U.S. gun manufacturers want the Supreme Court to overturn an appellate ruling keeping alive a $10 billion lawsuit filed by Mexico against over allegations that the companies' practices are responsible for violence in Mexico.
Nuclear waste
The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions wants the court to restore 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 asking the court to revive her workplace discrimination lawsuit in which she claims she unfairly lost out on state jobs to LGBTQ people, in violation of federal law.
Flavored vapes
The Food and Drug Administration is asking the justices to overturn a decision that would allow the marketing of sweet e-cigarette products amid concern about a surge in youth vaping in recent years.