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In Cummings v. Premier, the court will hear the case of a deaf woman who is seeking damages for emotional distress from a health care provider that refused to provide her with an ASL interpreter. The issue is whether those damages are available under the relevant statutes.

In American Hospital Association v. Becerra, the court will hear a challenge to federal regulations that reduced Medicare reimbursement rates to hospitals for certain prescription drugs. The case involves whether Chevron deference applies to the regulations at issue.

In Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, the court will review another dispute between the hospital industry and the federal government over Medicare pay. This case involves the calculation of certain payments for hospitals serving a disproportionate number of low-income patients.

In CVS Pharmacy v. Doe, the court will hear a class-action lawsuit alleging that a CVS policy on out-of-network rates for specialty medications disproportionately harms people with HIV. The issue is whether the relevant statutes allow a "disparate impact" discrimination claim.

In Pivotol Software v. Tran, the court will weigh in on a discovery-stay dispute in securities litigation.

In U.S. v. Taylor, the court will decide whether the crime of attempted robbery under a federal law known as the Hobbs Act counts as a "crime of violence" for the purposes of a sentencing enhancement.

Correction from above: The court added TEN cases (not nine) to its docket. The 10th is Mississippi v. Tennessee, a long-running dispute over the apportionment of groundwater between – you guessed it – Mississippi and Tennessee.

Other big news from today's order list: The court DECLINES to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding. The florist argued that the state of Washington's non-discrimination law infringed on her religious rights.

That case is Arlene's Flowers v. Washington. Justices Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch indicate that they voted to hear the case. Because it takes four votes to hear a case, that means the other six justices chose not to take it up.

In Dunn v. Reeves, the court summarily reverses a lower court's ruling that granted relief to an Alabama death-row prisoner who argued that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. Breyer, Sotomayor & Kagan dissent.

The court declines to take up Berisha v. Lawson, a defamation case. Thomas & Gorsuch write dissents suggesting the court should revisit a longstanding First Amendment principle (known as "actual malice") that makes it very difficult for public figures to win defamation suits.