Oral Arguments, with Context

Oral Arguments, with Context

Real U.S. court oral arguments, made followable: each episode plays the official courtroom audio with brief context woven in at natural pauses — what the case is about, who is arguing and what they stand for, and plain-English explanations of the legal concepts right when they come up. Audio comes from the courts' official recordings; Supreme Court timing data courtesy of Oyez.

  1. 1일 전

    Monsanto Company v. Durnell — SCOTUS (argued April 27, 2026)

    Monsanto Company v. Durnell (No. 24-1068) — Supreme Court of the United States, argued April 27, 2026. Question presented: The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ("FIFRA'') creates a comprehensive regulatory scheme governing the use, sale, and labeling of pesticides. The Act preempts any state "requirement[] for labeling or packaging in addition to or different from those required under" FIFRA. 7 U.S.C. §136v(b). For decades, EPA has exercised its authority under FIFRA to find that Monsanto's Roundup product line and its active ingredient, glyphosate, do not cause cancer in humans. Consistent with that understanding, EPA has repeatedly approved Roundup's label without a cancer warning. FIFRA prohibits Monsanto from making any substantive change to an EPA-approved label unless it first obtains EPA's permission. Respondent is one of more than 100,000 plaintiffs across the country that nonetheless seek to hold Monsanto liable for not warning users that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes cancer. The federal courts of appeals and state appellate courts are divided over whether FIFRA preempts such claims. The Third Circuit has held that it does. In the decision below, the Missouri Court of Appeals joined the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and state appellate courts in California and Oregon in holding that it does not. The question presented is: Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to- warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be added to a product without EPA approval. GRANTED LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT PREEMPTS A LABELBASED FAILURE-TO-WARN CLAIM WHERE EPA HAS NOT REQUIRED THE WARNING. CERT. GRANTED 1/16/2026

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    Chatrie v. United States — SCOTUS (argued April 27, 2026)

    Chatrie v. United States (No. 25-112) — Supreme Court of the United States, argued April 27, 2026. Question presented: This case concerns the constitutionality of geofence warrants. For cell phone users to use certain services, their cell phones must continuously transmit their exact locations to their service providers. A geofence warrant allows law enforcement to obtain, from the service provider, the identities of users who were in the vicinity of a particular location at a particular time. In this case, law enforcement obtained, and served on Google, a geofence warrant seeking anonymized location data for every device within 150 meters of the location of a bank robbery within one hour of the robbery. After Google returned an initial list, law enforcement sought - without seeking an additional warrant - information about the movements of certain devices for a longer, two-hour period, and Google complied with that request as well. Then again without seeking an additional warrant-law enforcement requested de-anonymized subscriber information for three devices. One of those devices belonged to petitioner Okello Chatrie. Based on the evidence derived from the geofence warrant, petitioner was convicted of armed robbery. The questions presented are: 1. 2. Whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. Whether the exclusionary rule should apply to the evidence derived from the geofence warrant. LIMITED TO QUESTION 1 PRESENTED BY THE PETITION. CERT. GRANTED 1/16/2026

    2시간 10분

소개

Real U.S. court oral arguments, made followable: each episode plays the official courtroom audio with brief context woven in at natural pauses — what the case is about, who is arguing and what they stand for, and plain-English explanations of the legal concepts right when they come up. Audio comes from the courts' official recordings; Supreme Court timing data courtesy of Oyez.