Supreme Court to take up cases involving Holocaust survivors, transgender healthcare, vaping

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to take on several big cases next week, including ones that involve Holocaust survivors, vaping and healthcare for transgender individuals. 

The court will be in session Dec. 2 after being out for two weeks.

In the case involving Holocaust survivors, the high court will be hearing for the second time about their dispute with the Republic of Hungary over issues related to justice and compensation.

The question is whether an American court is the proper forum for the survivors to challenge Hungary and its railway for taking more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in Poland during a two-month period in 1944, according to the Washington Examiner.

The court is also expected to hear oral arguments for the Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments case. 

In that case they will be asked to review the FDA's decision not to allow marketing applications for flavored e-cigarettes, in order to reduce the amount of smoking by minors. 

In the past, lower courts have supported the FDA's choice on this issue.

Another case that will be looked at is United States v. Skrmetti, which is in regard to Tennessee's law that bans minors who identify as transgender from getting "gender-affirming care."

The Biden administration has criticized this law, arguing it discriminates against transgender people.

“It is not unconstitutional discrimination to say that drugs can be prescribed for one reason but not another,” attorneys for Tennessee Republican Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office wrote in a brief. “Weighing risks and benefits, States (and the federal government) draw age- and use-based distinctions for drugs all the time.”

The fourth case on their docket next week is related to bankruptcy law.