| 1 | Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association | 14-915 | 2015-10-21 | 1. Whether Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431 U.S. 209 (1977), should be overruled and public-sector "agency shop" arrangements invalidated under the First Amendment. 2. Whether it violates the First Amendment to require that public employees affirmatively object to subsidizing nonchargeable speech by public-sector unions, rather than requiring that employees affirmatively consent to subsidizing such speech. | 2015 |
| 2 | NAZARIAN v. PPL ENERGYPLUS | 14-614 | 2015-10-19 | 1. When a seller offers to build generation and sell wholesale power on a fixed rate contract basis, does the FPA field-preempt a state order directing retail utilities to enter into the contract? 2. Does FERC's acceptance of an annual regional capacity auction preempt states from requiring retail utilities to contract at fixed rates with sellers who are willing to commit to sell into the auction on a long-term basis? | 2015 |
| 3 | CPV MARYLAND v. PPL ENERGYPLUS | 14-623 | 2015-10-19 | | 2015 |
| 4 | HALO ELECTRONICS v. PULSE ELECTRONICS | 14-1513 | 2015-10-19 | | 2015 |
| 5 | STRYKER CORPORATION v. ZIMMER | 14-1520 | 2015-10-19 | 1. Has the Federal Circuit improperly abrogated the plain meaning of 35 U.S.C. $ 284 by forbidding any award of enhanced damages unless there is a finding of willfulness under a rigid, two-part test, when this Court recently rejected an analogous framework imposed on 35 U.S.C. $ 285, the statute providing for attorneys' fee awards in exceptional cases? 2. Does a district court have discretion under 35 U.S.C. $ 284 to award enhanced damages where an infringer intentionally copied a direct competitor's patented invention, knew the invention was covered by multiple patents, and made no attempt to avoid infringing the patents on that invention? | 2015 |
| 6 | BANK MARKAZI v. PETERSON | 14-770 | 2015-10-01 | Whether $8772 - a statute that effectively directs a particular result in a single pending case - violates the separation of powers. | 2015 |
| 7 | STURGEON v. MASICA | 14-1209 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 8 | UTAH v. STRIEFF | 14-1373 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 9 | AMERICOLD LOGISTICS v. CONAGRA FOODS | 14-1382 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 10 | NEBRASKA v. PARKER | 14-1406 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 11 | MHN GOVERNMENT SERVICES v. ZABOROWSKI | 14-1458 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 12 | DUNCAN v. OWENS | 14-1516 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 13 | TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES | 14-6166 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 14 | MOLINA-MARTINEZ v. UNITED STATES | 14-8913 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 15 | PUERTO RICO v. SANCHEZ VALLE | 15-108 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 16 | RJR NABISCO v. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY | 15-138 | 2015-10-01 | | 2015 |
| 17 | WILLIAMS v. PENNSYLVANIA | 15-5040 | 2015-10-01 | Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by the participation of a potentially biased jurist on a multimember tribunal deciding a capital case, regardless of whether his vote is ultimately decisive? | 2015 |
| 18 | Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt | 14-1175 | 2015-06-30 | 1. Whether the federal discretionary-function immunity rule, 28 U.S.C. $2680(a), is categorically inapplicable to intentional torts and bad-faith conduct.
2. Whether Nevada may refuse to extend to sister States haled into Nevada courts the same immunities Nevada enjoys in those courts.
3. Whether Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410 (1979), which permits a sovereign State to be haled into the courts of another State without its consent, should be overruled. | 2015 |
| 19 | KINGDOMWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. UNITED STATES | 14-916 | 2015-06-22 | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in construing 38 U.S.C. $ 8127(d)'s mandatory set-aside restricting competition for Department of Veterans Affairs' contracts to veteran-owned small businesses as discretionary. | 2015 |
| 20 | HEFFERNAN v. CITY OF PATERSON | 14-1280 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 21 | ZUBIK v. BURWELL, SEC. OF H&HS | 14-1418 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 22 | PRIESTS FOR LIFE v. DEPT. OF H&HS | 14-1453 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 23 | ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP v. BURWELL, SEC. OF H&HS | 14-1505 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 24 | E. TX BAPTIST UNIVERSITY v. BURWELL, SEC. OF H&HS | 15-353 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 25 | LITTLE SISTERS v. BURWELL, SEC. OF H&HS | 15-1054 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 26 | SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY v. BURWELL, SEC. OF H&HS | 15-1194 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 27 | GENEVA COLLEGE v. BURWELL, SEC. OF H&HS | 15-1911 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 28 | VOISINE v. UNITED STATES | 14-10154 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 29 | SIMMONS v. HIMMELREICH | 15-109 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 30 | HUSKY ELECTRONICS v. RITZ | 15-145 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
| 31 | NICHOLS v. UNITED STATES | 15-5238 | 0000-00-00 | | 2015 |
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