Supreme Court · Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Supreme Court takes no new cases on opening day; sends TPS and Washington voting cases back for another look

The File desk · Oct 6, 2026, 10:47 AM UTC

Status

Confirmed from the Court’s order list for Monday, Oct. 5, 2026 (610 U.S.), and from the Court’s own short summaries of Louisiana v. Callais and Mullin v. Doe. The seven cases sent to the solicitor general are named only. This desk did not open what they are about.

Confirmed
The Oct. 5 order list granted no new cases for full argument.
Confirmed
Mullin v. National TPS Alliance, No. 26-48, was sent back to the Ninth Circuit in light of Mullin v. Doe. Garcia v. Hobbs, No. 25-901, and Trevino v. Hobbs, No. 25-918, were sent back in light of Louisiana v. Callais.
Confirmed
The Court asked the solicitor general for the government’s views in seven cases and did not describe them on the order list.

The justices’ first order list of the term, posted Monday at 9:30 a.m., added no new cases for a full argument. It wiped out several lower-court rulings and told those courts to try again in light of decisions from this year. One was the government’s appeal in a

fight, under . Two others were suits against Washington’s top election official, sent back in light of a case. The Court also asked the solicitor general for the government’s view in seven pending appeals, and it did not say what those appeals are about.

The list is the Order List for Monday, October 5, 2026, 610 U.S.

In Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security, v. National TPS Alliance, No. 26-48, the Court granted review, vacated the judgment, and sent the case back to the Ninth Circuit to reconsider it in light of Mullin v. Doe, decided June 25, 2026. The Court’s own summary of Mullin v. Doe says the

law bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims, and that a race-discrimination claim over the end of Haiti’s status was unlikely to succeed. , , lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time.

Garcia v. Hobbs, No. 25-901, and Trevino v. Hobbs, No. 25-918, are cases against Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs. The Court sent both back to the Ninth Circuit in light of Louisiana v. Callais, decided April 29, 2026. The Court’s summary of Callais says the

, , did not require Louisiana to draw an extra district in which a racial minority is the majority, so that map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. This desk did not open the Washington dockets and does not describe those maps.

The Court asked the solicitor general, the government’s top courtroom lawyer, for the United States’ views in seven cases. Lawyers call that a call for the views of the solicitor general. It usually adds months, and it is not a decision to hear the case. The order list gives only the names: Citizens Bank v. Conti, No. 25-1004; AstraZeneca v. Mosaic Health, No. 25-1070; Cantero v. Bank of America, No. 25-1313; Flagstar Bank v. Kivett, No. 25-1350; NHK Spring v. Seagate, No. 25-1358; United Biologics v. Amerigroup Tennessee, No. 25-1388; and Teck Metals v. Tribes of the Colville, No. 26-130. This desk did not open what those cases are about. A look at the Cantero docket showed only that it comes from the Second Circuit. It had no question-presented link.

The Court also let the solicitor general share argument time in Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University of Georgia, No. 25-183, and St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, No. 25-581. The pages fetched do not set argument dates.

Justice Sotomayor agreed with the denial of review in Mulkey v. Alabama, No. 25-7499. She wrote that during jury selection for a capital murder trial, the judge held a potential juror in contempt for being 30 minutes late and ordered him arrested, in front of the rest of the jury pool. She wrote that judges should restrain themselves from holding proceedings that are collateral to the trial in front of a jury.

What this is

Legal instrument
Temporary Protected Status (8 U.S.C. § 1254a)
Lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time. The statute bars courts from reviewing many of those decisions.
8 U.S.C. § 1254a
A program under
Legal instrument
Temporary Protected Status (8 U.S.C. § 1254a)
Lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time. The statute bars courts from reviewing many of those decisions.
8 U.S.C. § 1254a
. It lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time. The law bars courts from reviewing many of those decisions.
Legal instrument
Temporary Protected Status (8 U.S.C. § 1254a)
Lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time. The statute bars courts from reviewing many of those decisions.
8 U.S.C. § 1254a
The statute that creates
Legal instrument
Temporary Protected Status (8 U.S.C. § 1254a)
Lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time. The statute bars courts from reviewing many of those decisions.
8 U.S.C. § 1254a
. It lets the homeland security secretary allow people from countries hit by war or disaster to stay and work in the United States for a set time, and it bars courts from reviewing many of those decisions.
Legal instrument
Voting Rights Act
The main federal law that bars racial discrimination in voting. Section 2, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race. The Court’s summary of Louisiana v. Callais says that section did not require Louisiana’s extra majority-minority district.
52 U.S.C. § 10301
The 1965 law on racial discrimination in voting. Section 2,
Legal instrument
Voting Rights Act
The main federal law that bars racial discrimination in voting. Section 2, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race. The Court’s summary of Louisiana v. Callais says that section did not require Louisiana’s extra majority-minority district.
52 U.S.C. § 10301
, bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race. The Court’s Callais summary says that section did not require Louisiana’s extra majority-minority district.
Legal instrument
Voting Rights Act
The main federal law that bars racial discrimination in voting. Section 2, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race. The Court’s summary of Louisiana v. Callais says that section did not require Louisiana’s extra majority-minority district.
52 U.S.C. § 10301
Section 2 of the
Legal instrument
Voting Rights Act
The main federal law that bars racial discrimination in voting. Section 2, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race. The Court’s summary of Louisiana v. Callais says that section did not require Louisiana’s extra majority-minority district.
52 U.S.C. § 10301
. It bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race.

What is still unknown or disputed

What the Washington cases are about. The dockets were not opened.
What the seven call-for-views cases are about. The order list does not say.
Whether the Ninth Circuit will rule differently on the cases it got back.
Argument dates for Crowther and St. Mary Catholic Parish.

Primary sources

Every claim in this story is drawn from the documents below. If a fetch failed, that is recorded on the card.

Source 1
Order List, Monday, October 5, 2026 (610 U.S.)
Supreme Court of the United States · October 5, 2026
The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Mullin v. Doe, 609 U. S. 324 (2026).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100526zor_2a34.pdf
Source 2
Orders of the Court, Term Year 2026
Supreme Court of the United States · October 5, 2026
Lists the 10/05/26 Order List.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/ordersofthecourt/26
Source 3
Opinions of the Court, 2025 term summaries
Supreme Court of the United States · October 5, 2026
Because the
Legal instrument
Voting Rights Act
The main federal law that bars racial discrimination in voting. Section 2, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, bans voting rules and district maps that deny or weaken any citizen’s vote because of race. The Court’s summary of Louisiana v. Callais says that section did not require Louisiana’s extra majority-minority district.
52 U.S.C. § 10301
of 1965, 52 U. S. C. §10301 et seq., did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/25

Supreme Court takes no new cases on opening day; sends TPS and Washington voting cases back for another look

What is still unknown or disputed

Primary sources

Order List, Monday, October 5, 2026 (610 U.S.)

Orders of the Court, Term Year 2026

Opinions of the Court, 2025 term summaries