Conference: 2025-11-07

196 total cases — 1 granted, 69 denied/dismissed, 3 pending (showing paid filter)

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1196 Dwaine Collymore v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consecutive-sentencing criminal-attempt criminal-conspiracy hobbs-act inchoate-crimes sentencing-principles Whether a district court may impose consecutive terms of imprisonment for convictions of attempt and conspiracy under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951…
24-1214 Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon as in …
24-1242 Jeremiah Hogan, et al. v. Lincoln Medical Partners, et al. Maine Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-tort parental-consent preemption public-health-emergency state-law-immunity vaccine-administration In the Fall of 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a "vaccine clinic" was being conducted at a school in Maine where the minor child of Petitioners wa…
24-1260 Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. Fifth Circuit Granted Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights The federal election-day statutes—2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1—set the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years as …
24-1267 Adam Douglas Densmore v. Colorado Colorado Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-protection custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination Is custodial interrogation by a child-protection caseworker subject to Miranda's requirements where the interrogation concerns matters that may trigge…
24-1294 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law This is a diversity jurisdiction case, where award of attorney's fees was made under the Florida State "offer of judgment" procedure rule, in derogati…
24-1296 McKenzie County, North Dakota v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act federal-land judicial-preclusion mineral-royalty property-rights quiet-title-act Whether the finality and preclusive effect of prior judgments involving the United States' title to property can be enforced through the All Writs Act…
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation 1. Whether a federal agency does not act arbitrarily or capriciously in determining that a postsettlement change of law concerning one alleged compone…
24-1309 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation 1. Whether time spent on "integral and indispensable" activities is measured based on reasonable duration (as three circuits have held), or actual dur…
24-1318 American Electric Power Service Corporation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied energy-law federal-power-act interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-regulation Regional transmission organizations ("RTOs") operate the interstate electricity grid independently, to foster competition, improve reliability, and lo…
24-1322 Barings L.L.C., et al. v. AG Centre Street Partnership, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review bankruptcy-plan chapter-11 creditor-vote material-alteration plan-confirmation Whether an appellate court can materially alter a consummated plan of reorganization without permitting a new vote of creditors or whether a material …
24-759 Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. District of Columbia Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements This case concerns the correct interpretation of two clauses of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) that have resulted in two circuit splits. …
25-125 Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-defenses emotional-distress first-amendment free-exercise government-official tort-liability (1) Whether the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause provides an affirmative defense to tort liability based solely on emotional distress damages with…
25-152 Paul Mula, Jr. v. Alan Mula, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-procedure fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice-doctrine rico-statute-of-limitations trust-law A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously held that the RICO limitations period began to run when Petitioner fir…
25-189 Ron J. Waterman v. Robyn B. Waterman Massachusetts Denied due-process federal-law-interpretation fourteenth-amendment judgment-modification state-court-jurisdiction variable-separation-incentive A dozen States' Appellate Courts have issued opinions holding that Variable Separation Incentive (VSI) is a retirement benefit/pension. Subsequently, …
25-202 Adrienne Apuzza v. NYU Langone Long Island Second Circuit Denied ada-discrimination business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat employment-qualification medical-privacy 1. Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal traditi…
25-207 Eileen Chollet, on Behalf of C.M., a Minor, et al. v. Michelle C. Reid, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools Fourth Circuit Denied None Whether the fundamental right to public education enshrined under a state's constitution can be taken by the state without just compensation?
25-210 James Synnott v. Paul Burgermeister, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied children-rights circuit-conflict due-process family-integrity pro-se-representation pseudonym-privacy Whether using pseudonyms for parents and children —in cases involving children, especially with sensitive information —is appropriate and outweighs th…
25-219 Jay Warren Arnold v. Texas Texas Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is the statute under which the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus, Texas Code of Criminal Pr…
25-220 John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any …
25-224 Bernard Gelb v. Preston Niblack, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, et al. Second Circuit Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause unclaimed-funds Did the Respondents taking $500 million dollars without sending any notice to the Owners violate the Due Process Clause of the of the Fourteenth Amend…
25-226 Easton Murray v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived agent-principal-doctrine constitutional-violation oath-of-office prosecutorial-immunity public-trust separation-of-powers 1. IS A PROSECUTOR, AS A TRUSTEE OF THE PUBLIC TRUST, AND CHARGED WITH THE DUTY TO UPHOLD THE LAW, IMMUNE FROM LIABILITY WHEN THEY BREAK THE LAW THEY …
25-230 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied child-custody constitutional-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion school-access videotaping-rights 1. WHETHER, Petitioner should consider a State Judges laws Constitutionally Powerful, when the Justice System Court Judges ban, by court order, Petiti…
25-232 King Vanga v. Priscilla N. Juarez, et al. California Denied constitutional-law defamation false-statement first-amendment opinion-speech third-party-attribution Whether the First Amendment protects a verifiably false factual statement as an opinion based on disclosed facts simply because the statement republis…
25-236 In Re Justin Jeffrey Saadein-Morales Denied bankruptcy constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether the forcible seizure and alteration of a VA-backed home, while federal bankruptcy and appellate proceedings were pending, violated the Supr…
25-247 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a defendant has a right against a prosecutor or law enforcement vouching …
25-249 Christy Poon-Atkins, et vir v. Riversprings at Alcovy Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-jurisdiction due-process eminent-domain inverse-condemnation private-benefit property-rights 1. Are the Appellees ['] -Defendants ['] inverse condemnation actions without eminent domain proceedings but for "private benefit " consistent with…
25-251 Hung Dang v. Kimberly Moore, M.D., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenges pleading-standards section-1981 section-1983 summary-judgment In the Ninth Circuit's opinion, Petitioner must allege a prima facie case of discrimination and "the requisite meeting of the minds to establish a con…
25-252 Jalina Fluellen v. David Krasn, et al. Third Circuit Denied administrative-procedure-act article-iii-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure rule-5.1 1. Whether the District Court violated Rule 5.1 and due process by dismissing a constitutional challenge to Local Rule 26.1 without notifying the stat…
25-261 Christine Asing v. Hawaii Government Employees Association - AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO Ninth Circuit Denied grievance-procedure labor-organization mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether a labor organization violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it refuses to pursue grievances based on religious objection…
25-276 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure legal-standard non-signing-party reasonable-inquiry rule-11 sanctions Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 permits a court to sanction represented parties for violations of that rule. In Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic …
25-277 Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity Under the First Amendment, street preachers and counter-protesters can speak in front of a crowd but not to a crowd, or to any person therein, or else…
25-278 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District Florida Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process eminent-domain government-overreach property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether the government overextended and leveraged their permitting monopoly to take private property in violation the Takings Clause: and 2. Wheth…
25-280 Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection disassociation-rights first-amendment government-unions public-employees union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to disassociate from the union?
25-281 Patrick Byrne v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice defamation due-process fifth-amendment protective-order 1. In a civil defamation case where a discovery protective order is filed to shelter evidence of crimes, does a District Court err in affirming the di…
25-282 Carina Conerly v. Sharif Tarpin California Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination government-conspiracy 1. WHETHER, The California Supreme Court Erred in denying Petitioner's Request For Review? 2. WHETHER, The Third Appellate District Court Erred by no…
25-285 Elizabeth White, et vir v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. North Carolina Denied Response Waived adoption-assistance child-welfare-act federal-adoption procedural-interpretation special-needs-children state-agency-disclosure 1. Whether North Carolina misinterpreted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 by reversing an Order granting Petitioners adoption ass…
25-286 Six4Three, LLC v. Facebook, Inc., et al. California Denied Response Waived communications-decency-act developer-apis liability-immunity online-platform product-design section-230 Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an online platform for its own conduct, speech, and product design choices?
25-292 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process title-vii Whether rulings of courts below constitute an infringement of Petitioner's rights under Due Process Clauses of Constitution and related rights under 4…
25-295 WG/Welch Mechanical Contractors, LLC v. International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers, Local Union 100 - Sheet Metal Division, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure defamation first-amendment malicious-speech pleading-standard subjective-intent Whether the plaintiff of a malicious defamation claim must plead facts that directly reveal a defendant's subjective state of mind, or whether the ple…
25-296 Jake Stanley DeWilde v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation gun-possession military-weapons second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution permits the government to prohibit the possession, by responsible, law-abiding Americans, of the stan…
25-300 William A. Goddard, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure bad-faith evidentiary-hearing irs-summons law-firm-records tax-law 1. Whether a law firm can be denied the opportunity to challenge an IRS summons for law firm trust account records based solely on an IRS declaratio…
25-306 Thomas F. Spellissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bribery conspiracy government-position honest-services-fraud official-act private-contractor Whether a private contractor who holds no formal government position and lacks inherent governmental responsibility, can be convicted of conspiracy to…
25-308 Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived inter-partes-review patent-act patent-applications printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether patent applications that became publicly accessible only after the challenged patent's critical date are "prior art * * * printed publicatio…
25-313 Chinook Indian Nation, et al. v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law court-recognition federal-jurisdiction indian-law statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition Does a federal court have jurisdiction to recognize the existence of an Indian tribe where the findings in the Indian Tribe List Act, Public Law 103-4…
25-323 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc. in the underlying claims…
25-333 Tangtang Zhao v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, …
25-334 Satyasheel S. Korpe v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii driving-while-intoxicated jury-trial probation-conditions second-amendment-rights sixth-amendment 1. Does the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, guarantee a defendant charged with Driving While Intoxicated the…
25-335 Lee Michael Tomko v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived contract-claims federal-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards pro-se tucker-act Are my claims in the amended complaint, sufficient enough to survive a motion to dismiss, when applying motion to dismiss standards such as accepting …
25-342 Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact…
25-345 Ivy Darlene Johnson v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law disability-determination due-process medical-evidence residual-functional-capacity social-security 1. Whether an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) violates a claimant 's ,due process rights, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, and fails to adequately…
25-351 Shanda Games Limited, et al. v. David Monk Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived class-action fraud-on-the-market investor-reliance market-efficiency presumption-of-reliance securities-fraud In Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224 (1988), this Court recognized a rebuttable fraud-on-the-market presumption for establishing reliance in a secu…
25-353 Sally W. Tarquinio v. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act cdc-guidelines employment-discrimination medical-decision-making medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Respondent and did not require em…
25-358 Carl L. Collins, III v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process evidence-rule-404b fair-trial internal-revenue-code napue-v-illinois tax-reporting 1. Whether the lower courts violated, Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264, 269 (1959), thus effectuating a constitutional violation below and establishing…
25-366 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim.
25-375 CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r…
25-376 Dustin Thomas House Darden v. Crowd Management Service Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-accountability first-amendment government-contractors police-powers state-action Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, private actors constitute state actors when they exercise governmental authority or act jointly with state officials. Courts h…
25-38 Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly Indiana Denied contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts 1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part…
25-383 Mark Van Epern v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation (1) Whether a defendant "uses" a minor to engage in "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) by surreptitiously recording the minor nude …
25-384 Faisal Ashraf v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process intervening-law ninth-circuit noncriminal-conduct plea-agreement Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for the plainly substantial issue of …
25-388 Adam Pajer, et al. v. Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-interpretation congressional-intent disability-discrimination judicial-usurpation separation-of-powers statutory-construction (1) Whether a judicial conclusion that no set of facts can plausibly exist to plead under the ADA that an employer regards an employee as presently di…
25-392 Jake Ellis Daughtry, et al. v. Silver Fern Chemical, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived evidence-fabrication fifth-circuit first-party-reliance fraud-claim government-agency third-party-misrepresentation 1. Whether Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. permits a fraud claim based on misrepresentations to a third-party government agency that cause inju…
25-395 Eran Rubinstein, et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived accrual-rule civil-rico federal-claims injury-discovery legal-procedure statute-of-limitations 1. The first question presented is whether civil RICO is subject to a "separate accrual" rule whereby a new claim accrues, triggering a new four-yea…
25-402 Mamadou Diaw v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment investigative-use location-data privacy-rights third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement 1. Whether, after Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018), the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to obtain a single historical location…
25-411 John Doe v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo…
25-433 AST & Science LLC v. Delclaux Partners SA Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived exchange-act federal-jurisdiction grable-standard jurisdictional-test merrill-lynch-precedent securities-law Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Manning should be revisited to determine if the "arising under" jurisdictional test should continue to be used…
25-440 Thomas Anderson, et al. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None Section 564 of the Food , Drug, and Cosmetics Act ("FDCA") provides that the Food and Drug Administration 's ("FDA") standard process for approving …
25-444 Denice Shakarian Halicki, et al. v. Carroll Shelby Licensing, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived character-protection copyright-infringement distinctive-character film-franchise ninth-circuit-test stock-character Is copyright protection for characters limited to only those characters that meet the Ninth Circuit's three-element test? Or, as the Second, Seventh, …
25-445 E&I Global Energy Services, Inc., et al. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-assignment expert-testimony federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Whether the district court violated the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 39(b) by denying petitioners' timely motion for a jur…
25-73 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case After this Court granted certiorari, vacated the judgment, and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. 3…
25-79 Ton Ton Aquino v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor…
25-8 Matthew Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness I. Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is unconstitutionally vague. II. Whether th…
25-91 Richmond Road Partners, LLC, et al. v. City of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) economically-beneficial-use investment-backed-expectations judicial-invalidation legislative-repeal property-rights temporary-takings In Agins v. City of Tiburon, this Court suggested in a footnote that "extraordinary delay" plays a central part in temporary takings cases. 447 U.S. 2…