Top 10 Predictions on 6-3 Decisions by SCOTUS in the New Term

FOTP Friday List for . . . October 3rd, 2025

With the United States Supreme Court reconvening on Monday, the first Monday in October, to start its new term, we thought we’d look ahead to some of the decisions the Court will no doubt be making.

Rules in favor of owners of a Cracker Barrel in Clendenenville, West Virginia, who refused to serve two Jewish patrons wearing yarmulkes, because of the owners’ strongly held Christian belief that Jews killed Jesus and that these two Jews, specifically, would kill them as well, because they are Christians.

Rules that 1972’s Flood v. Kuhn, which ushered in baseball free agency, was decided incorrectly and that Major League Baseball teams can once again “own” players for the length of the players’ contracts.

Overrules a lower-court decision that prohibited Indiana from sterilizing convicted transgender criminals, even if the crime is a misdemeanor. (Indiana carried out the first sterilization minutes after the decision was handed down.)