Factbox-What major cases are coming before the US Supreme Court?
(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opens a new nine-month term loaded with important cases on issues including gun rights, the power of federal agencies, Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement, the legality of Republican-drawn electoral districts and even one involving the size of Donald Trump's hands.
Here is a look at some of the cases the justices are due to decide.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GUN CURBS
Another major gun rights dispute is coming to the justices as they are poised to decide whether a 1994 federal law that bars people under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms violates the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. President Joe Biden's administration appealed a lower court's ruling that the law ran afoul of the Second Amendment's «right to keep and bear arms» because it fell outside «our nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.» A challenge to the law was filed by a Texas man charged with illegal gun possession while subject to a domestic violence restraining order after assaulting his girlfriend. Arguments are scheduled for Nov. 7.
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTORAL MAP
The justices are due to hear a bid by South Carolina officials to revive a Republican-crafted voting map that a lower court concluded had unconstitutionally «exiled» 30,000 Black voters from a closely contested U.S. House of Representatives district. South Carolina officials appealed a federal judicial panel's ruling that the map deliberately split up Black neighborhoods in Charleston County in a «stark racial gerrymander» and must be redrawn. Gerrymandering involves the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to marginalize a certain set of voters and increase the influence of others. Arguments are scheduled
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