Amy Howe

Feb 24 2025

April session to feature religious charter school case and challenge to LGBTQ+ books in schools

The court’s 2024-25 term will close out its scheduled oral arguments on April 30 with a Catholic online school’s effort to become the nation’s first religious charter school. The court’s April argument calendar, which it released on Monday, features several other significant social issues, including whether a group of Maryland parents can opt to have their children exempted from lessons on LGBTQ+-themed storybooks and a challenge to the provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires coverage of, among other preventative medications, medication that prevents HIV infection.

The justices will hear 10 hours of oral arguments over six days, from April 21 to April 30.

Here is a full list of the cases scheduled for argument in April:

Kennedy v. Braidwood Management (April 21) – A challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health insurers provide coverage for medications that can be highly effective at preventing HIV infection, on the ground that the government task force that makes recommendations for preventive medical services violates the Constitution’s appointments clause.

Parrish v. United States (April 21) – Whether a litigant who files a notice of appeal after the time to do so has expired must file a second notice when the time to appeal is reopened.

Mahmoud v. Taylor (April 22) – Whether requiring children to participate in instruction that violates their parents’ religious beliefs violates parents’ First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch (April 22) – Issues regarding when a tax hearing becomes moot – that is, no longer a live controversy.

Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA (April 23) – Whether fuel producers have a legal right to challenge a waiver, given to California, of the general bar on the adoption of emissions standards by states.

A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools (April 28) – Whether children with disabilities who allege discrimination in education must show that school officials acted with “bad faith or gross mismanagement” or instead face a less rigorous standard.

Soto v. United States (April 28) – A technical question relating to compensation for veterans.

Martin v. United States (April 29) – Whether a Georgia family whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team can sue the federal government for the error.

Laboratory Corp. of America v. Davis (April 29) – Whether a federal court may certify a case as a class action when some of its members have not been injured.

Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond (consolidated with St. Isidore of Seville School v. Drummond) (April 30) – Whether Oklahoma violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion when it excludes privately run religious charter schools from the state’s charter-school program because they are religious.

This post is also published on SCOTUSblog. 

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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