Conference: 2021-07-01

18 cases — 2 granted, 16 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-1401 April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. Seventh Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative…
19-793 Institute for Free Speech v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights compelled-disclosure donor-disclosure exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech nonprofit nonprofit-association standing state-action strict-scrutiny Whether a state official's demand for all significant donors to a nonprofit organization, as a precondition to engaging in constitutionally-protected …
19-896 Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Antonio Arteaga-Martinez Third Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law bond-hearing clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process flight-risk immigration-detention immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government …
20-1063 Shkelzën Berisha v. Guy Lawson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) actual-malice constitutional-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment libel libel-law mckee-v-cosby public-figure Whether the Court should overrule the 'actual malice' requirement for public figure defamation plaintiffs
20-1066 Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity shields public-university officials from liability
20-1084 Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (8) aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court
20-1088 David Carson, as Parent and Next Friend of O. C., et al. v. A. Pender Makin First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (55)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-rights equal-protection espinoza-v-montana first-amendment first-circuit religion-clauses sectarian-instruction student-aid-program Does a state violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an oth…
20-1114 American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (3) administrative-law chevron-deference healthcare-regulation hospital-acquisition-cost medicare medicare-reimbursement reimbursement-rates statutory-interpretation survey-data Whether Chevron deference permits HHS to set reimbursement rates based on acquisition cost and vary such rates by hospital group if it has not collect…
20-1214 Fred J. Eychaner v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) blight due-process eminent-domain future-blight kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london pretext property-rights public-use public-use-clause takings takings-clause Is the possibility of future blight a permissible basis for a government to take property in an unblighted area and give it to a private party for pri…
20-1263 Gianinna Gallardo, an Incapacitated Person, By and Through Her Parents and Co-Guardians Pilar Vassallo and Walter Gallardo v. Simone Marstiller, In Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) beneficiary-rights federal-statute future-medical-expenses healthcare-reimbursement medicaid-act medicaid-recovery medical-expenses preemption reimbursement statutory-interpretation tort-recovery tort-settlement Whether the federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid's payment of a beneficiary's past medical…
20-1312 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) health-and-human-services hospital-adjustment low-income-patients medicaid-fraction medicare-fraction medicare-statute statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income Whether the Secretary has permissibly included in a hospital's Medicare fraction all of the hospital's patient days of individuals who satisfy the req…
20-1374 CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, One, et al. Ninth Circuit Granted Amici (21)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-statute civil-rights disability-discrimination disparate-impact health-insurance insurance patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act rehabilitation-act Whether section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the ACA provide a disparate-impact cause of action for disability discrimination, and whether such c…
20-1459 United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a)
20-1486 Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-rulemaking disproportionate-share-hospital disproportionate-share-hospital-payments due-process logical-outgrowth medicare medicare-payments notice-and-comment Whether agencies must accurately include key facts and data in notices of proposed rulemaking to satisfy fair-notice, public-comment
20-1541 Pivotal Software, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California Granted Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) discovery-stay federal-court private-action reform-act securities-act securities-litigation state-court Whether the Reform Act's discovery-stay provision applies to a private action under the Securities Act in state or federal court, or solely to a priva…
20-322 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Esteban Aleman Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) administrative-law bond-hearing danger-to-community due-process flight-risk immigration-detention statutory-interpretation Whether an alien detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled to a bond hearing after six months of detention
20-7028 Amos Mast, et al. v. Fillmore County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP compelling-interest government-interest judicial-review least-restrictive-alternative religious-freedom rluipa strict-scrutiny When applying strict scrutiny under RLUIPA, can lower courts rely upon an admission that an interest is compelling generally, or must they require the…
22O143 Mississippi, Plaintiff v. Tennessee, City of Memphis, Tennessee, and Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division Dismissed CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (6) None