| 20-1426 |
Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets |
Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s… |
| 20-1817 |
Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent |
The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product's design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker's Ma… |
| 21-1000 |
Clifford Allen Brace, Jr. v. Steven M. Speier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
11-usc-541 automatic-stay bankruptcy-jurisdiction bodily-detention contempt contempt-order due-process jurisdiction probate-exception |
1. DUE PROCESS ■ Whether the Bankruptcy and 14th court's order violates the 5th, amendments of the United States Constitution.8th
2. BODILY DETENTION… |
| 21-1002 |
Arthur Lopez v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
banking-regulations civil-rights consumer-protection due-process federal-liability financial-regulation mortgage mortgage-disclosure truth-in-lending |
Should International Banking Conglomerate, HSBC Bank USA, NA, Defendant, and Director James Brien Comey Jr, Defendant and Former F.B.I. Director, be a… |
| 21-1004 |
Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law |
1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth… |
| 21-1005 |
Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation |
Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285? |
| 21-1016 |
Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense |
A. Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full a… |
| 21-1018 |
Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing |
1. Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly
be a disability covered by the Americans with
Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA
Amendm… |
| 21-1020 |
Janet Tingling v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
altered-documents business-records civil-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility genuine-issue loan-documents material-fact pro-se-litigation student-loans summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals position was inconsistent with the standards outlined in Rule 56(e), which provides that summary judgment is only prop… |
| 21-1024 |
Miriam Brysk v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-semitism civil-rights emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech injunction standing |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by holding that the use of multiple signs in front of a synagogue in Ann Arb… |
| 21-1029 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-allegations defendant-sanctions dismissal due-process good-faith-findings pre-discovery-dismissal sanctions standing trial-court-dismissal |
I filed a lawsuit in 2019 against 33 defendants for conspiracy to rig several primary elections.
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss all alleg… |
| 21-1037 |
Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, by disregarding properly established U.S. authorities (Corpus Juris Secundum, C.J.S.), to surreptitiously create its own copyright law sys… |
| 21-1038 |
John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing |
When & What interest &/or other penalties may A/P Kenney also collect along with the $6,050,800.00 "DEFAULT JUDGEMENTS" - now seven (7) years+ -per De… |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
| 21-1072 |
Steven Carrol DeMocker v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-question implausible-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy right-to-counsel third-party-culpability |
This petition presents the question whether offering
an implausible third-party culpability defense violates a defendant's right to the effective assi… |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
1. Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a non-life-threatening injury … |
| 21-1092 |
Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine |
Whether, as private corporations and law enforce-
ment agencies increasingly cooperate to investigate
and prosecute retail crimes, the distinction b… |
| 21-1095 |
"I Am" School, Inc. v. City of Mount Shasta, California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cannabis-regulation civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights retroactive-overruling rule-of-law school-protection takings |
Petitioner "I AM" School, Inc. was denied declaratory relief in which it sought the full extent of State mandated 600-foot protection from cannabis ac… |
| 21-1105 |
Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense |
1. In an action against a State under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, is the State immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment when the c… |
| 21-1109 |
Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments to th… |
| 21-1117 |
Reginald Watkins, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process mortgage-foreclosure quiet-title sheriff-sale standing statutory-interpretation statutory-redemption takings |
A. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN RULING THAT THE PETITIONERS DO NOT HAVE STANDING SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH STANDING.
i. Petitioners answer: "Yes… |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-1122 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal |
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss a ballot challenge for failure to state a claim without ever having construed it in the light most favorabl… |
| 21-1127 |
Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law |
1. Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over the Snoqu… |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick w… |
| 21-1135 |
Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
| 21-1142 |
James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 |
1. Does Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) preempt classification-based discrimination claims by a customer against an interact… |
| 21-1149 |
Phoenix Light SF DAC, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis lexmark lexmark-doctrine merits merits-issues prudential-standing standing |
This Court has held that federal courts (1) may adjudicate jurisdictional issues in any sequence they choose and (2) may, under appropriate circumstan… |
| 21-144 |
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (17)Relisted (9) |
civil-rights coreligionist-hiring employment-discrimination first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause ministerial-exception religious-exemption religious-freedom religious-nonprofits standing |
1. Whether the First Amendment protects the Mission's right to hire coreligionists.
2. Whether denying the Mission a total exemption the state grants… |
| 21-417 |
Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility |
Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
| 21-437 |
Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines racial-discrimination takings zoning zoning-violations |
Were unjustifiable excessive fines (all of the maximum permit by the law) imposed by the Calvert County's Planning and zoning employees to the Petitio… |
| 21-460 |
April Diane Myres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting… |
| 21-517 |
Antoinette Marques v. JPMorgan Chase, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment default default-declaration due-process foreclosure property-rights residential-note secured-creditor |
1. Was Chase, a nonparty and nonagent to a residential note, authorized to declare default and foreclose? Alternatively, does a party that is not a se… |
| 21-520 |
Gerald H. Hawkins, Individually and as a Trustee of the CN Hawkins Trust and Gerald H. Hawkins and Carol H. Hawkins Trust, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
federal-authority federal-government-authority federal-indian-trust-relationship indian-tribes indian-trust-assets klamath-indian-tribes land-management protocol-agreement standing trust-assets water-rights |
The United States is the owner of certain instream water rights within Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin. The federal government holds these water rights i… |
| 21-614 |
Brian Green v. Pierce County, Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
citizen-journalism citizen-journalist corporate-personhood first-amendment free-speech media-access press press-freedom public-records |
Whether barring individual citizen-journalists from accessing public records otherwise made available to news media, for lack of corporate personhood,… |
| 21-618 |
Armand Jones v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability |
Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev… |
| 21-648 |
Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness |
In Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, this Court will determine whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Kentucky Attorney General's m… |
| 21-677 |
Donald Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aesthetic-regulation architectural-design first-amendment free-speech individual-expression municipal-review residential-architecture takings zoning zoning-requirements |
This case is about the extent to which the First Amendment applies to residential architecture. Donald Burns wanted to replace his Palm Beach home wit… |
| 21-682 |
Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity |
Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl… |
| 21-688 |
Neris Montilla, et al. v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law conservatorship constitutional-claims due-process federal-agency federal-housing-and-finance-agency federal-national-mortgage-association mortgage-association state-actor |
1. Whether the Federal National Mortgage
Association, when under the conservatorship of the
Federal Housing and Finance Agency, is a state actor
for p… |
| 21-735 |
Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause |
In the decision below, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected the argument that copyright infringement by a government entity appropriates "the right to … |
| 21-739 |
Mandeep Singh v. Haerim Won |
Washington |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
amendment-xiv civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words free-speech harassment interstate-jurisdiction protection-order true-threats |
"...blessed with daughter who I will be showing
this world to as you are daughter to your
parents... "- (PetAppK.p87a).
1) Are Jan 27th, 2019 actions… |
| 21-843 |
Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii |
(1) Section 703(a) of Title VII forbids an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex. An employer is liable for co-worker sexua… |
| 21-851 |
Richa Narang v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jurisdiction mens-rea reinstatement statute |
1. Whether a district court has jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a finally dismissed indictment that the government has never sought to reinstate,… |
| 21-859 |
The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin |
Montana |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers |
Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq… |
| 21-866 |
Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v… |
| 21-868 |
Oklahoma v. Kevin Tyler Foster |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-888 |
Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin… |
| 21-967 |
Pius Barikpoa Nwinee v. St. Louis Developmental Disability Treatment Centers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-process civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equitable-tolling pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-sue-letter title-vii |
Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se litigant who filed his case under Title VII EEOC adminis… |
| 21-973 |
John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase |
Second Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response Requested |
civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Canton police officers investigated a complaint of alleged sexual misconduct wherein the complainant provided various versions of the incident and, af… |
| 21-976 |
Gregory Thomas Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege civil-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment jail-visitation legal-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy sixth-amendment surveillance |
Whether an attorney has reasonable "expectation of privacy" when meeting with clients in the jail attorney visitation room - thereby rendering the act… |
| 21-977 |
Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
|
case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion |
The state courts have failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial. The case was later settled. The failure conflicts with three d… |
| 21-979 |
Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment |
In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court recognized the departure lower courts had taken from this Court'… |
| 21-980 |
Brad Jennings v. Daniel F. Nash, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
evidentiary-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions opening-the-door prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 summary-judgment |
1. Does the doctrine of "opening the door" require the traditional Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 403 balancing of probative value versus prejudicial … |
| 21-981 |
Lan Tu Trinh v. David Fineman |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
12(b)(6) 12b6-motion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-action quasi-judicial-immunity receiver-appointment section-1983 standing |
1. Did the district court err by granting the receiver's motion to dismiss on immunity grounds under Rule 12(b)(6)?
2. Did the Third Circuit err by b… |
| 21-986 |
Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board |
Since 1947, Petitioner Vanderveer's Family has owned 3+ acres of land (with a small barn) in the Town of East Hampton, New York. Petitioner asserts he… |
| 21-991 |
Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-precedent klapprott-v-united-states liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp manifest-injustice rule-60-motion |
Did the Court of Appeals, despite the presence of the requisite "extraordinary circumstances", by affirming the District Court's denial of Petitioner … |