Conference: 2023-01-13

53 cases — 0 granted, 53 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-1326 United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'knowingly' v…
22-108 Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secular a…
22-111 United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. Seventh Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'kno…
22-138 Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado Colorado Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats Whether the government must show subjective intent or objective 'reasonable person' standard to establish 'true threat' unprotected by First Amendment
22-166 Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (44)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from the sale of a home to satisfy a tax debt violates the Takings Clause
22-174 Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Third Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (57)Relisted (2) civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship Whether the Court should disapprove the Hardison test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations
22-210 Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment
22-227 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes
22-23 Jean Francois Pugin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) aggravated-felony board-of-immigration-appeals chevron-deference immigration-law immigration-nationality-act obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether a state offense that does not involve interference with an existing official proceeding or investigation may constitute an 'offense relating t…
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements
22-331 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is 'an offense relating to obstruction of justice,' 8 U.S.C. 1101…
22-352 Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1) american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation Does Missouri have standing to challenge Treasury's interpretation of the Tax Mandate as inconsistent with the law?
22-381 Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) business-reputation civil-rico court-judgment domestic-injury foreign-injury foreign-plaintiff intangible-property legal-test patent Does a foreign plaintiff state a cognizable civil RICO claim when it suffers an injury to intangible property, and if so, under what circumstances
22-383 CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a 'domestic' injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t…
22-442 Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owners' …
22-452 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii issues-being-raised
22-461 Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employme…
22-462 Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case Did the lower court err in issuing a directed verdict when a prima facie case of discrimination was established?
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde…
22-478 David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are flagrantly and patently violative of the Fourth Amendment bars the Federal …
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the Tenth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review under the Administrative Procedure Act
22-491 Raymond Delgado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment suppression-of-confession Whether Delgado was denied effective assistance of counsel
22-493 Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity …
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucidate…
22-5545 Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the cas…
22-559 Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's 'intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]' of CMI…
22-563 Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Whether a jury should be instructed on the core principle that a law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally…
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Does defendant's good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield it from damages liability for taking agency fees from P…
22-572 Robert M. Glen v. Trip Advisor LLC, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims Whether the single word 'acquires' in Section 6082(a)(4)(B) of the Helms-Burton Act bars trafficking actions by U.S. heirs who passively inherited cla…
22-5734 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Question not identified
22-5747 Demmerick Eric Brown v. Karen D. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ex-post-facto good-time-credit good-time-credits mandatory-parole parole parole-board-policy retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sentencing-modification Whether retroactive application of a parole board policy to revoke the good time credits of a parolee violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
22-5778 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions Should a judge be recused for bias and failure to provide due process?
22-6036 Martin Robinson v. Jim Simone, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP case-documentation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction legal-review standing Whether the trial and appeals courts erred in failing to review and correct their lower court's decisions
22-6048 Martin Robinson v. Tom Schweitzer, Warden Ohio Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-decision property-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts erred in failing to review and hear the petitioner's claims regarding violations of due process, civil rights, and property r…
22-6052 Vandell Slade v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Question not identified
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
22-6068 Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for granting a writ of certiorari
22-6069 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Wimbleton v. Ospn, 210 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2000), which held that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment do…
22-6070 Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York Denied IFP aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct, in…
22-6071 Manuel Bracamontes v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth and Fourte…
22-6074 Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights security-measures Whether the procedures required to institute unusual security measures apply in civil cases brought by prisoner plaintiffs?
22-6077 William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment Did the trial court violate the defendant's Confrontation Clause rights and right to present a defense?
22-6079 Teshome Sok Sameru v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence self-incrimination witness Does a 9-1-1 caller become a witness, especially after giving statements to the police which the state conceded were inadmissible?
22-6098 Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas Texas Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis Whether the lower courts erred in failing to rule on a constitutional claim that deprived the petitioner of due process
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing Whether Ans Repellee's onmaddatery Response That Fully Riiefed The macs OF The Tesue Subject To Waiver Lohoot Realy Mew Or Vortec Gueerisa May Be The …
22-6100 Levi Jonathan v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process proof-of-service standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant legal standards
22-6101 Norman James Thompson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when a state has adopted a rule/statute intended to permit its impactor yet, in essence, the rul…
22-6115 Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. District of Columbia Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's requirement that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report contributions or expenditures before being cons…
22-6133 David Priester v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation voluntariness waiver-of-counsel Question not identified
22-6152 Carlos Edward Kennedy v. Carla Jones Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure continuance discretion forensic-evidence pro-se Did the trial court abuse its discretion in denying Kenner's motion for continuance when Kenner, while acting pro se, requested only an additional 3 m…
22-6346 Robert D. Johnson v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-continuance speedy-trial sufficiency-of-evidence Is it not erroneously factual and a misapplication of law, rule or statute for the state courts and district courts to concur with a continuance that …
22M61 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M62 Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None