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West Virginia v. B. P. J.

No. 24-43Supreme Court of the United States

Judgment Issued.

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Decision on file

What the Court said

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Official outcome

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED.

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Decision date
June 30, 2026
Opinion author
BK
October Term
2025
Docket
No. 24-43
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The activity

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The source

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Current update

Judgment Issued.

At a glance
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
First added here
August 10, 2026
Last entry
August 3, 2026
Policy at issue

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Official docket

Decision and docket history

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Docket entry

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Kavanaugh, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., and Gorsuch, J., filed concurring opinions. Sotomayor, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which Kagan and Jackson, JJ., joined. Jackson, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part. (Opinion also for No. 24-38). VIDED.

Docket entry

Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex; West Virginia and Idaho did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by maintaining female sports teams for biological females. [609/2]

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Docket entry

Supplemental Brief of West Virginia, et al. not accepted for filing. (May 28, 2026--Revised document and filing type to be submitted.)

Docket entry

Argued. For petitioners: Michael R. Williams, Solicitor General, Charleston, W. Va.; and Hashim M. Mooppan, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: Joshua A. Block, New York, N. Y.

Docket entry

Sealed material received electronically from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The remainder of the record is electronic and is available on PACER.

Docket entry

Reply of petitioners West Virginia, et al. filed. (Distributed).

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Docket entry

CIRCULATED

Docket entry

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.

Docket entry

Record received from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The record is electronic and is available on PACER.

Docket entry

Brief amicus curiae of Information Society Project filed. VIDED.

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Brief amici curiae of Practicing Pediatric Endocrinologists, et al. filed. VIDED.

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Brief amici curiae of Transgender Law Center, et al. filed. VIDED.

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Brief amici curiae of Advocates for Girls' and Women's Rights filed. VIDED.

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Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed. VIDED.

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Brief amici curiae of GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, et al. filed. VIDED.

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Brief amici curiae of Constitutional Law Scholars filed. VIDED.

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Brief amicus curiae of Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr. filed.

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Rulings in this case over time

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3 entries, oldest first.

  1. · Supreme Court of the United States

    Granted

    The court's record, as written

    Petition GRANTED.

    Outcome words in this text: GRANTED.

  2. · Supreme Court of the United States

    ReversedRemanded

    The court's record, as written

    Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Kavanaugh, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., and Gorsuch, J., filed concurring opinions. Sotomayor, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which Kagan and Jackson, JJ., joined. Jackson, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part. (Opinion also for No. 24-38). VIDED.

    Outcome words in this text: REVERSED, REMANDED.

  3. · Supreme Court of the United States

    Other

    The court's record, as written

    Judgment Issued.

    This text does not state an outcome in words we recognize. It is shown as written.

Method: an entry is marked with an outcome only when its own text contains the outcome word, and the word is shown beside it. Orders, opinions and judgments whose text does not say are marked Other. Party filings, notices and routine procedural orders (appearances, extra pages, time extensions, scheduling) are not listed; 128 such entries were left out of this case. No link between this case and any other case is recorded in our data, so only this case's own record is shown. Open the court's docket

Official video

Hearing, press and court recordings

AudioOral argument audio: West Virginia v. B. P. J. (No. 24-43)
Supreme Court of the United States · January 13, 2026
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