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25-1169 Shawn Matthew Kearns v. Virginia Virginia 2026-04-14 Pending child-pornography computer-data forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping sixth-amendment The Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Court of Appeals erred by affirming the verdict of the Trial Court and the Trial Court's rulings and co…
25-1176 Marion Alexander Lindsey v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-04-14 Pending None 1. Whether courts evaluating claims may evaluate only each error in isolation—or whether they are obligated to consider the prejudice resulting from t…
25-1177 reVamped LLC, a Minnesota Limited Liability Company, et al. v. City of Pipestone, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-04-14 Pending constitutional-law fifth-amendment just-compensation police-power property-rights takings-clause 1. When a government's appeal process is illusory or non-existent to allow a party to challenge a government's total closure of a business resulting i…
25-1178 In Re Joseph Rued, et al. 2026-04-14 Pending None
25-1167 Yubo Miao v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending 42-USC-1981 civil-rights factual-inferences motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards racial-discrimination Whether a district court may dismiss a complaint alleging racial discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 at the pleading stage by resolving factual disp…
25-1168 Ralph Peterson v. Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending anti-SLAPP antitrust-law continuing-violation fraudulent-concealment quasi-judicial-immunity statute-of-limitations 1. Federal Antitrust and Due Process Protections Whether a physician who suffers network exclusion, contract loss, and practice-sale interference aft…
25-1170 Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending breach-of-trust fiduciary-duty Indian-trust-lands natural-resources-protection tribal-water-rights Winters-doctrine (1) Is the United States' promise to provide the Winnemucca Indian Colony, a federally recognized Tribe with lands held in trust established by an …
25-1171 Bryan S. Perez, et al. v. Mary Pelentay, Individually and as Trustee of the Quach Living Trust Washington 2026-04-13 Pending deed-construction due-process-clause fee-simple-title inter-vivos-deeds quiet-title summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a State to permanently extinguish recorded fee-simple title through a trust-and estat…
25-1172 Julie A. Weiman v. Alyn D. Wine, et al. Colorado 2026-04-13 Pending None
25-1173 John E. Hall v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending appellate-review article-III-jurisdiction claim-preclusion due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal Whether Article III permits a federal court to impose a sua sponte dismissal with prejudice carrying a claim preclusive, merits level finality when no…
25-1174 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al. Massachusetts 2026-04-13 Pending defend-trade-secrets-act due-process-clause preemption supremacy-clause trade-secrets unconstitutional-condition 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. § 18350 d)) preempt state court orders that compel the public disclosure o…
25-1175 Archie Williams v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending civil-rights-section-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-identification qualified-immunity suggestiveness For the purposes of determining "clearly established" law under the qualified immunity analysis, does a Fourteenth Amendment claim alleging deprivatio…
25-1162 Christopher John Golberg v. North Dakota North Dakota 2026-04-10 Pending exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-privacy police-authority search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the police need a warrant to enter the attached garage in a single-family home, in the absence of any exception to the warrant requirement.
25-1165 Garrett M. Ziegler, et al. v. P. Kevin Morris California 2026-04-10 Pending anti-SLAPP-statute due-process fee-sanctions first-amendment private-right-of-action procedural-due-process Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute is unconstitutional, particularly as applied where a civil court, rather than dismissing claims predicated on …
25-1166 Charles Miller v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2026-04-10 Pending civil-rights-act employment-discrimination groff-v-dejoy religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Whether, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may satisfy its heightened burden, established by the Supreme Court's decision i…
25-1157 National Coalition for Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-09 Pending article-iii-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment justiciability military-selective-service-act sex-discrimination This petition presents an issue of national and constitutional significance under the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men, but not wome…
25-1161 Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair Massachusetts 2026-04-09 Pending appellate-jurisdiction attorneys-fees civil-contempt due-process frivolous-appeal prevailing-party-doctrine In Massachusetts, for most civil and criminal appeals, appellate jurisdiction is established only by appellate rules from which broad exercise of appe…
25-1163 Carlos Pena v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2026-04-09 Pending constitutional-liability fifth-amendment law-enforcement property-destruction public-necessity takings-clause 1. Whether the government is exempt from liability under the Takings Clause when law enforcement officers intentionally destroy an innocent person's p…
25-1164 Robert R.D. Callioux v. Tim Lang, Secretary, Washington State Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-09 Pending AEDPA-deference certificate-of-appealability exculpatory-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Sixth-Amendment 1. Whether the "independent judgment" required of federal courts under Article III, as reaffirmed in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369…
25-1155 Lucas Randall Nelson v. Robyn Griffith Texas 2026-04-08 Pending None The DISTRICT COURT OF BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, 149TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 80654-CR for the reasons below: 1. The …
25-1158 Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-04-08 Pending eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement-liability police-power takings-clause 1. Whether the Takings Clause has a police power exception, making no compensation due when the government damages private property under its police p…
25-1159 Duane Morley Cox v. Teresa Wilhelmsen, et al. Utah 2026-04-08 Pending administrative-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review water-rights A. First Constitutional Question: "Does the Order of the District Court Granting Respondents Motion To Dismiss Violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights…
25-1160 Korean Claimants v. Dow Silicones Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-08 Pending administrative-law due-process equal-protection foreign-nationals judicial-supervision mass-tort-settlement This petition arises from a decades-long mass tort settlement administered under federal court supervision in which over 2,600 South Korean nationals …
25-1153 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2026-04-07 Pending appearance-of-bias due-process fifth-amendment governmental-retaliation judicial-recusal summary-order Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth Amendment where the lower federal courts: I. Dismissed Petitioner's sworn claims of govern…
25-1154 Abrahim Mohamed Fofana v. Markwayne Mullin, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-04-07 Pending None
25-1156 Samsung SDI Company, Limited v. Shawn Peters Minnesota 2026-04-07 Pending due-process-clause forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction Whether, in a product-liability action, the plaintiff's claims relate to the defendant's forum contacts when the defendant manufacturer sells the prod…
25-1152 Jonathan Moreland v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-04-06 Pending Response Waived administrative-law bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights due-process school-attendance vaccine-mandate The United States District Court, District of West Virginia lacked lawful authority to require Petitioner to take a meningitis vaccine in order to att…
25-1148 Parker C. Myslow v. United States Armed Forces 2026-04-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-error courts-martial entry-of-judgment second-amendment uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after ent…
25-1149 Michael J. Hymel v. United States Armed Forces 2026-04-03 Pending Response Waived appellate-discretion court-martial guilty-plea military-law providence-inquiry standard-of-review Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion under 10 U.S.C. § 867 (a)(3) by failing to grant review "upon petition of the accus…
25-1150 Roger Lee Morse v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2026-04-03 Pending appellate-jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadlines notice-of-appeal post-trial-relief pro-se-representation procedural-default 1. Given Morse's untimely appeal, did the circuit court have jurisdiction to solicit a ruling from the district court, instead of dismissing the appea…
25-1151 Charles Bozzo v. Jennifer Nanasy, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-03 Pending accrual-of-claims arbitration due-process grievance-procedures procedural-due-process section-1983 Whether a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues at the moment of the initial deprivation, or only when the State-mandated grieva…
25-1144 Daisey Trust, By and Through Its Trustee Eddie Haddad, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending administrative-law appropriations-clause federal-housing-finance-agency nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, 601 U.S. 416 (2024) ("CFPB"), this Court u…
25-1145 Council For Responsible Nutrition v. Letitia James, in Her Official Capacity as New York Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending central-hudson-test commercial-speech content-based-restriction dietary-supplements first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny In 2023, the New York Legislature passed N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law §391-oo (the "Law"), which bans the sale to minors of dietary supplements that are "labele…
25-1146 Angelo Pesavento, et al. v. Eddie L. Bolden Seventh Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending civil-liability damages-calculation noneconomic-damages pain-and-suffering prejudgment-interest tort-law Whether prejudgment interest should be unavailable as a matter of law on awards of noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering and loss of a norma…
25-1147 Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending administrative-exhaustion Americans-with-Disabilities-Act continuing-violation-doctrine disability-discrimination equitable-tolling pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit 's affirmance of the district court 's dismissal of ADA and TCHRA claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies…
25-1140 Mark Andrew Bauersachs v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, et al. First Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending Response Waived coinage-power declaratory-relief equal-protection-clause injunctive-relief nondelegation-doctrine rational-basis-test In 12 U.S.C. § 225a, Congress commands the Federal Reserve to achieve stable prices using a legislative rule. The legislative rule eliminates price in…
25-1141 Jason Tywann Bell v. John Gilley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending Response Waived career-offender-guideline habeas-corpus mootness residual-clause sentencing-enhancement suspension-clause Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
25-1142 Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending Response Waived claims-administration disclosure-requirements employee-benefits ERISA fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation Whether a contract that governs the administration of benefit claims is a "contract … under which the plan is established or operated" within the mean…
25-1143 D. A., a Minor, By and Through his Mother, B. A., et al. v. Tri County Area Schools, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending first-amendment fraser-exception free-speech political-expression student-speech tinker-standard Students have a First Amendment right to wear political apparel to school unless it causes substantial disruption. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. S…
25-1138 Stephen D. Herto v. John T. Murphy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2026-03-31 Pending Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review substantial-constitutional-question A District Court failed to adjudicate a single claim from the petitioner in its final order dismissing his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petiti…
25-1139 Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-31 Pending Response Waived but-for-causation civil-rights-act diversity-policy employment-discrimination race-conscious-hiring summary-judgment 1. Should a judge or a jury decide the fact intensive question of whether intentional discrimination against white people in the workplace—done pursua…
25-1133 Palani Karupaiyan v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Third Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending Response Waived None Petitioner prayed 18 reliefs which were as Common-law Writ of Certiorari so the questions were part of three test conditions requirement of the Writs.
25-1134 Daniel J. Griffin v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal rule-12-motion vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3), requires a defendant to raise pretrial, or show good cause, an "as applied" constitutional Fif…
25-1135 Deryck Huelett v. Louisville Paving Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending ADA-discrimination burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas summary-judgment McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) set forth a judicially-created analytical framework which shifts the burdens in federal discrimi…
25-1136 Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund Ninth Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-approval chapter-11-bankruptcy contract-assumption debt-financing executory-contracts This case concerns the interpretation of a bankruptcy statute. Subject to the bankruptcy court's approval, debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy may genera…
25-1137 Nicholas Honchariw, Trustee, Honchariw Family Trust v. County of Stanislaus, California Ninth Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending Response Waived land-use property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause vested-rights vesting-tentative-map Whether an approved vesting tentative map which conferred a statutory vested right to finalize a subdivision upon substantial compliance with the cond…
25-1126 Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck Seventh Circuit 2026-03-27 Pending false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam-relator scienter separation-of-powers treble-damages 1. Whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions are unconstitutional. 2. Whether a legal interpretation can be deemed so "objectively unreasonab…
25-1121 Luxottica U.S. Holdings Corp., et al. v. Janet Duke Second Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending arbitration-agreements employee-benefits ERISA Federal-Arbitration-Act public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) protects the right to "traditional individualized arbitration." Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. 497, 509 (2018…
25-1122 American Telecom Company, L.L.C. v. Republic of Lebanon Sixth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure discovery judicial-recusal newly-discovered-evidence summary-dismissal 1. Did the District Court unreasonably deny Plaintiff's arguments that newly discovered evidence should require a) reversal of prior dismissal; and b)…
25-1123 Kevin Steele v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending administrative-law appellate-procedure implicit-denial notice-requirements statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Under the statutory and regulatory notice requirements governing VA decisions since 1990, is the VA permitted to retroactively deem a claim "implicitl…
25-1124 Schmidt Baking Distribution, LLC, et al. v. Nathaniel Silva, et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending arbitration-exemption business-entities commercial-agreements contracts-of-employment Federal-Arbitration-Act statutory-interpretation Whether the FAA's § 1 exemption, which on its face applies only to "contracts of employment," is inapplicable to commercial agreements between two bus…
25-1125 Jose Ruiz v. The Bradford Exchange, Ltd. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending Response Waived adequate-remedy-at-law equity-jurisdiction federal-judicial-authority injunctive-relief judiciary-act-of-1789 waiver-of-jurisdiction Can a defendant waive the lack of federal equity jurisdiction where it plainly does not exist, thereby compelling a federal court to exercise equitabl…
25-1127 United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. Federal Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending contractor-liability government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation Whether a downstream purchaser's liability for mishandling nuclear material that the purchaser obtained for private benefit, but that was originally p…
25-1128 Ronnie Alexander v. Philip R. Taft Psy D and Associates P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending bell-v-wolfish conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble motion-to-dismiss pretrial-detainee-rights 1. In Estelle v. Gamble , 429 U. S. 97 (1976), this Court held that the government has an obligation to provide care for the serious medical needs of …
25-1129 Sixto Gerardo Zuniga v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending None
25-1130 Cherry Grove Beach Gear, LLC, et al. v. City of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending antitrust-law clear-articulation-test market-participant-exception municipal-monopoly parker-immunity state-action-immunity 1. Whether the market participant exception to state action immunity should be adopted under the facts of this case, specifically where the municip…
25-1131 Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, Inc. v. Joel Frederic, et ux. Kentucky 2026-03-26 Pending Amici (1) equal-protection land-use-regulation religious-freedom RLUIPA substantial-burden zoning-law 1. Whether a land-use regulation that prohibits a religious institution from building a religious structure on its own property constitutes a "substan…
25-1132 Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending appellate-review functional-limitations patent-eligibility patent-trial-and-appeal-board section-101 written-description 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly applied this Court's and its own precedent in disregarding key functional limitations of the claims that …
25-1116 Jordan Zahler v. Jackson Lewis P.C., et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived appellate-review federal-rules-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-procedure mandamus-relief noerr-pennington-doctrine 1. Whether an entity not legally authorized to exist in a jurisdiction possesses the First Amendment right to petition tribunals in that jurisdictio…
25-1117 Essintial Enterprise Solutions, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending administrative-law independent-contractors loan-forgiveness paycheck-protection-program payroll-costs statutory-interpretation The Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") defines "payroll costs" to include "the sum of payments of any compensation to or income of a sole proprietor …
25-1118 Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund v. Alaska Department of Fish & Game, et al. Alaska 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived commerce-clause fish-stock-management interstate-commerce magnuson-stevens-act personal-use-fishery resident-only-restrictions 1. Does the Alaska -resident -only Personal Use ("PU") salmon fishery in C ook Inlet, Alaska, violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution? 2…
25-1119 Aila Curtis, et al. v. Jay Inslee, former Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived federal-rule-civil-procedure-12b6 investigational-medical-treatments jacobson-v-massachusetts party-presentation police-power substantive-due-process Question 1: Does Jacobson v. Massachusetts , 197 U.S. 11 (1905) limit a court's review of government-mandated investigational medical treatments to w…
25-1120 Michael Hild v. United States Second Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure Cuyler-v-Sullivan habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the framework from Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980) —where this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel …
25-1112 James Everett Hunt, et al. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Ninth Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending accountant-certification due-diligence-defense material-misrepresentation registration-statement section-11-liability securities-act 1. Whether to adequately plead a claim under Section 11(a)(4) of the Act against a certifying accountant based on material misrepresentations containe…
25-1113 Jain-Miecell Roberson v. United States Third Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending None The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), 5 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., provides a comprehensive framework for reviewing adverse personnel actions again…
25-1114 EscapeX IP, LLC v. Google LLC Federal Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending Response Waived appellate-review attorney-sanctions patent-fee-awards rule-59-motion section-1927 subjective-bad-faith 1. The Ninth Circuit has long held that sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 "must be supported by a finding of subjective bad faith," and that bad faith …
25-1115 Utah v. Morris T. Mullins Utah 2026-03-24 Pending cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation Whether a sentencing court can impose a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile murderer even if the court finds that the juvenile is not perman…
25-1104 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure judicial-opinion patent-law ptab-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit can affirm a PTAB decision without opinion in contravention of the clear statutory requirement of an "opinion" when review…
25-1105 Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson, Commissioner, Maine's Department of Marine Resources First Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending administrative-search fourth-amendment GPS-tracking reasonable-expectation-of-privacy trespass-doctrine warrantless-search Maine requires all federally-permitted lobstermen, including Petitioner Frank Thompson, to install a GPS tracker on their fishing boats and submit to …
25-1106 James Ethridge v. Samsung SDI Company, Limited Fifth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction product-liability state-jurisdiction When a company directly and regularly sells a product into a state, and that product causes injury in the state to one of the state's residents, does …
25-1107 Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al., v. Computer Sciences Corporation Fifth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived compensatory-damages defend-trade-secrets-act due-process punitive-damages trade-secrets unjust-enrichment 1. Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1836, can a plaintiff obtain a monetary award for unjust enrichment even if it suffered no harm bey…
25-1108 Christopher Zook, et al. v. Scott Fuqua Tenth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Video evidence standard at Rule 12(b)(6). Whether a district court may, or must, consider objective video evidence at the motion-to-dismiss stage w…
25-1109 Richard Gibson, et al. v. Cendyn Group, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response Waived algorithmic-pricing antitrust-law price-fixing rule-of-reason sherman-act-section-1 vertical-agreements Whether vertical licensing agreements between a common algorithmic pricing vendor and competing firms are categorically exempt from Section 1's rule-o…
25-1110 Cathy A. Harris v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-23 Pending adjudicatory-authority administrative-law merit-systems-protection-board presidential-removal-power removal-for-cause separation-of-powers 1. Whether Congress may provide by statute that members of the Merit Systems Protection Board—an adjudicatory body—"may be removed by the President on…
25-1111 Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response Waived appellate-review copyright-infringement federal-rules-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law secondary-liability sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether a court of appeals may assess the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a jury verdict by reviewing the denial of a Rule 50(a) motion. 2.…
25-1098 Ryan O'Donnell, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-03-20 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action equal-protection-clause farm-loan-forgiveness pigford-settlement racial-discrimination 1. Whether the United States Department of Agriculture's ("USDA") policy, codified within USDA's Discrimination Financial Assistance Program ("DFAP ")…
25-1102 James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2026-03-20 Pending Response Waived None
25-1103 U.S. Doge Service, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-20 Pending administrative-law executive-privilege freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandamus separation-of-powers The district court in this case entered a wide-ranging and intrusive discovery order against the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS) —a body within the Executive…
25-1097 Samuel Ghee, IV v. Flix North America, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-19 Pending Response Waived due-process-violation fourth-amendment-seizure motor-carrier-law qualified-immunity section-1983-conspiracy unreasonable-seizure 1. Why did both lower court judges say a fourth amendment seizure requires an arrest and refuse to challenge your stare decisis ruling, Hodari D., 499…
25-1099 Quashaun Melsun Reel v. North Carolina North Carolina 2026-03-19 Pending curtilage fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement-purpose search-doctrine When police enter the curtilage of the home to conduct a "knock-and-talk" investigation with the purpose of gathering incriminating evidence against t…
25-1100 Thomas Joseph Powell, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2026-03-19 Pending administrative-law first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint securities-regulation viewpoint-discrimination The question presented is whether the SEC's Gag Rule violates the First Amendment.
25-1101 Pauline Newman, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit v. Kimberly A. Moore, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-19 Pending Amici (2) constitutional-claims disability-act injunctive-relief judicial-council judicial-review ultra-vires 1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 357(c)'s bar on judicial review of previously issued "orders" and "determinations" apply to ultra vires acts that exceed the scope…
25-1086 Keith Pharms v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-18 Pending acquitted-conduct due-process-clause fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a sentencing court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence based on conduct of which a jury ac…
25-1094 Charles Barrett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-03-18 Pending Response Waived appellate-review evidentiary-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit prior-uncharged-conduct sexual-assault Whether, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing the government to admit evidence of prior uncharged allegations of sexual a…
25-1095 David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Transource Pennsylvania, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-18 Pending appellate-review federal-preemption intervention-standing land-use-regulation public-utility-commission state-sovereignty For years, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, while represented by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, defended a state statute agai…
25-1096 Amika T. Clark v. Tyrus J. Clark South Carolina 2026-03-18 Pending family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights prior-restraint strict-scrutiny Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a family court to impose an indefinite, content-based prior restraint on a parent's speech, based s…
25-1085 Elephant Insurance Company, et al. v. Christopher Holmes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending article-iii-standing common-law-harm fourth-circuit-seventh-circuit-split personal-information public-disclosure-of-private-facts tort-liability 1. The Court has held that a plaintiff can establish Article III standing through an intangible injury-in-fact where (1) that injury bears a close rel…
25-1087 William M. Hilton v. United States Armed Forces 2026-03-17 Pending Response Waived abuse-of-discretion certiorari court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces discretionary-review good-cause-standard military-appellate-procedure Petitioner made an unrebutted showing of good cause to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review his case. Nevertheless, the court denied re…
25-1088 Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending appellate-jurisdiction excessive-force Johnson-v-Jones party-presentation-principle qualified-immunity tasing Whether the Court of Appeals violated the party presentation principle by reversing the district court on grounds never raised, and in fact affirmativ…
25-1089 Fairfield Sentry Ltd., et al. v. Citibank NA London, et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending bankruptcy-code chapter-15 extraterritorial-application foreign-liquidators ponzi-scheme securities-safe-harbor Whether the Bankruptcy Code's safe harbor for securities settlement payments, 11 U.S.C. §546(e), applies extraterritorially to prevent foreign liquida…
25-1090 Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Georgia 2026-03-17 Pending municipal-ordinances nexus-requirement nollan-dolan-framework rough-proportionality stormwater-fees takings-clause Does the Takings Clause apply to municipal ordinances imposing fees on classes of property outside the permitting context? If the answer to Question …
25-1091 Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Juiliana Swink, Administratrix of the Estate of David Ray Gunter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending Response Waived constitutional-torts governmental-entity healthcare-provider monell-liability respondeat-superior section-1983 1) Given the Supreme Court's decision in Monell , can a governmental entity be held liable, either under the doctrine of respondeat superior or the…
25-1092 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending Response Waived excessive-force failure-to-train fourth-amendment municipal-liability section-1983 seventh-amendment In City of Los Angeles v. Heller, this Court held that "neither Monell, nor any other of our cases authorizes the award of damages against a municipal…
25-1093 Russian Federation v. Stabil LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-17 Pending arbitration-agreement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity FSIA international-arbitration sovereign-immunity Whether Section 1605(a)(6) requires a court to determine, as a threshold jurisdictional matter, that the foreign state offered (consented) to arbitrat…
25-1082 Joseph Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-03-16 Pending 18-USC-1505 administrative-proceeding circuit-split jury-instruction nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice Does 18 U.S.C. § 1505 carry the requirement, on which a jury must be instructed, that the defendant's conduct have a nexus to an agency proceeding?
25-1083 Markwayne Mullin, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Dahlia Doe, et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-16 Pending Amici (4) None
25-1084 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-16 Pending Amici (5) None
25-1080 Gustavo Adolfo Osabas-Rivera v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2026-03-13 Pending None
25-1081 Wuendy Celeny Zapet-Alvarado, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General First Circuit 2026-03-13 Pending administrative-law asylum extraordinary-circumstances immigration-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether the application of 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(D)'s "changed . . . or extraordinary circumstances" exception to undisputed facts presents a "questio…
25-1076 George Peterson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-03-12 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-challenge firearm-suppressors licensing-law National-Firearms-Act Second-Amendment taxation-and-registration 1. Whether the National Firearms Act's taxation-and-registration scheme for covered firearms can be justified as a licensing law. 2. Whether the Nati…
25-1077 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-12 Pending Response Waived None The question spresented are whether 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(5)(A) bars petitioners' APA claims and, assuming not, whether petitioners have shown a likelih…
25-1078 Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-12 Pending Response Waived due-process-clause explicit-bias procedural-due-process property-rights section-1983 variance-application Natural Lands, LLC, purchased an undeveloped beachfront lot in Palm Beach County, Florida, which was zoned for residential development and "grand fath…
25-1079 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-12 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law article-i-violation intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers vesting-clause Whether Congress violated the Vesting Clause of Article I by giving an executive agency unbounded discretion to choose which private parties are entit…
25-1070 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, et al. v. Mosaic Health, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-11 Pending antitrust-law conspiracy Illinois-Brick indirect-purchaser lost-profits trade-association Whether Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977), which bars antitrust claims by indirect purchasers and sellers, applies to a claim of "lo…
25-1071 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-11 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act finality nondiscretionary-action petition-for-review res-judicata 1. Whether this Court's supervising decision on nonjurisdictional 60-day windows bars res judicata? 2. Whether review of action unlawfully withheld r…
25-1072 Amanda Wood v. City of San Antonio, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-03-11 Pending Response Waived 911-call fourth-amendment monell-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 terry-stop Under Florida v. J.L. 529 U.S. 266 (2000), 911 callers must provide a modicum of factual details describing criminal conduct for Police to effect a la…
25-1073 Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-11 Pending americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure federal-funding-recipients party-presentation-principle section-504-rehabilitation-act vicarious-liability 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the party presentation principle by sua sponte inserting the derivative liability issue into the case? 2. Are pub…
25-1074 Risie Howard, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mrs. George Howard, Jr. v. Hormel Foods Corporation, Jim Snee, Chairman of the Board Eighth Circuit 2026-03-11 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure expert-witness food-labeling impeachment-evidence product-liability summary-judgment I. Whether the Court Violated Long-Standing U.S. Supreme Court Precedent in Granting the Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment. II. Whether a Non-R…
25-1075 Law Offices of Adam Zolonz, APC, et al. v. Christina Ramirez California 2026-03-11 Pending Amici (1) arbitrable-claims arbitration-agreement EFAA federal-arbitration-act piecemeal-litigation sexual-harassment Should claims within the scope of an arbitration agreement that are unrelated to sexual assault or sexual harassment continue to be arbitrated under t…
25-1065 Prentis Boles v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Missouri 2026-03-10 Pending None I. Whether Missouri Supreme Court and Appellant Court, application of Rule 84.04 strict formatting for Appellate brief, acting as a Jurisdictional bar…
25-1066 Marian A. v. Corina G. California 2026-03-10 Pending due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impairment-of-contracts parental-rights witness-tampering 1. Does the state of California 's sanctuary state policy disproportionality grant special solicitude to Hispanic illegal immigrants over and above …
25-1067 Gopher Media LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Corporation, fka Local Clicks, dba Doctor Multimedia, et al. v. Andrew Melone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-10 Pending anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine final-decision immunity-from-suit interlocutory-appeal "[A]ll final decisions" are appealable. 28 U.S.C. §1291. Whether a decision to deny a "pretrial request to dismiss" is final "will generally turn on w…
25-1068 CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-03-10 Pending Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act claim-construction inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board summary-affirmance Whether the Federal Circuit's use of its Local Rule 36, which allows summary affirmance without opinion, (a) improperly defers to the Patent Trial and…
25-1069 Victor Estuardo Camaja Ruiz v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Third Circuit 2026-03-10 Pending None
25-1060 R. R. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2026-03-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness due-process firearm-purchaser-permits historical-tradition-test interest-balancing-test Second-Amendment 1. May a court deny Second Amendment rights due to a person's lawful and peaceful expression of his religious beliefs and grievances with his governme…
25-1063 Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Florida 2026-03-09 Pending Response Waived domestic-injury foreign-plaintiff private-right-of-action racketeering RICO treble-damages Whether the Third District Court of Appeal misapprehended federal law by holding that a foreign plaintiff's RICO injury arises domestically solely bec…
25-1056 Wade R. Reeves v. Alisha M. Reeves, et al. California 2026-03-06 Pending constitutional-validity due-process-clause equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority record-suppression The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that no State may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. This Honorable Cour…
25-1057 Humphrey V. Forrester v. Benjamin Stepanoff, et al. California 2026-03-06 Pending breach-of-contract confidentiality-agreement privacy-rights professional-negligence psychotherapist-patient-privilege unauthorized-disclosure Whether a psychologist can claim "professional negligence" for his unauthorized disclosure of psychotherapy notes to his patient's employer, given tha…
25-1058 Samuel A. Cox v. Brian D. Thie, Individually and as Benewah County Prosecutor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-06 Pending Buckley-Fitzsimmons Franks-materiality-analysis functional-analysis Kalina-Fletcher prosecutorial-immunity warrant-affidavit 1. Whether the Franks v. Delaware requirement that courts conduct a materiality analysis upon a substantial preliminary showing that the affiant delib…
25-1059 Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC Ninth Circuit 2026-03-06 Pending false-claims-act fraud-allegations government-investigation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam-suit relator The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act precludes qui tam suits whose allegations are substantially the same as allegations or transactions …
25-1061 Holly Ann Elkins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-03-06 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived categorical-approach commerce-clause constitutional-limits-on-congress federal-regulatory-authority instrumentalities-of-interstate-commerce Lopez-framework This Court has identified three broad categories of activity that Congress may regulate under its commerce power, the second of which comprises "the i…
25-1062 Jessica Pitts, Officer, et al. v. Taylor Burke, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Gay, Deceased Tenth Circuit 2026-03-06 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity summary-judgment Despite this Court's repeated interventions— including its unanimous decision in City of Tahlequah v. Bond , 142 S.Ct. 9 (2021)—emphasizing that clea…
25-1064 Michael Prime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-06 Pending Response Waived equitable-defense federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41 laches motion-for-return prejudice seized-property Whether the government may satisfy the "prejudice" element of the equitable defense of laches by relying on its own voluntary destruction of seized pr…
25-1050 Operating Engineers Trust Fund of Washington, D.C., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending fifth-amendment group-health-plans just-compensation reinsurance-program takings-clause trust-assets Whether the ACA's requirement that group health plans contribute billions of dollars to subsidize reinsurance for third parties was a taking of the pl…
25-1051 Derek S., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of His Minor Child, J. S., et ux. v. Ballston Spa Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending administrative-exhaustion Americans-with-Disabilities-Act applied-behavior-analysis IDEA-exhaustion-requirement Section-504-Rehabilitation-Act special-education In Fry v Napoleon , 580 U.S. 154 (2017) this Court stated that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) exhaustion requirement does n…
25-1052 Samson Tug and Barge Co., Inc. v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Alaska Longshore Division, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending Response Waived arbitration hot-cargo labor-union national-labor-relations-act secondary-boycott work-preservation-defense 1. Does a union carry its burden of proof on the work preservation defense to a secondary boycott claim by citing its members' work for any employer i…
25-1053 Gregory Hanna v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending Response Waived administrative-review-board energy-reorganization-act equitable-tolling judicial-review regulatory-ambiguity separation-of-powers 1. Whether the regulation provision in question under the Energy Reorganization Act is genuinely ambiguous in determining federal courts' case law and…
25-1054 Joseph S. McFall v. Bernadine McFall Osborne Mississippi 2026-03-05 Pending divorce-judgment family-law federal-military-law military-disability-benefits preemption supremacy-clause Whether a state court's post-divorce judgment entered eleven years after the divorce and imposing an involuntary judicial division of a former service…
25-1055 Jessica Sweeney, et al. v. University of Colorado Hospital Authority, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending Amici (1) due-process fourteenth-amendment investigational-drugs public-employees rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) on rational-basis review where the complaint pla…
25-1039 United States v. Jason Robert Hopson Tenth Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending federal-criminal-procedure felony-assault indian-country jury-instruction lesser-included-offense major-crimes-act Whether respondents—Indians charged with felony assault in Indian country under the Major Crimes Act in violation of 18 U.S.C. 113(a)(6) and (8) and 1…
25-1040 Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC District of Columbia 2026-03-04 Pending audiovisual-services consumer-protection disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act The Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") prohibits a "video tape service provider" from "knowingly disclos[ing], to any person, personally identifi…
25-1041 Anthony Lewis v. HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending attorney-sanctions federal-rules-civil-procedure first-amendment procedural-due-process rule-11-violations thirteenth-amendment This petition seeks the following three-fold procedural and constitutional review: 1. Whether the district court deprived Dr. Lewis and his counsel o…
25-1042 Monsanto Company v. Daniel Anderson, et al. Missouri 2026-03-04 Pending None This case presents the same question that is presently before the Court in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, No. 24-1068 (cert. granted Jan. 16, 2026), which i…
25-1043 In Re Michael E. Tindall 2026-03-04 Pending appellate-procedure ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics mandamus prejudicial-error vacatur-and-reassignment Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit where an appellate panel: 1. Introduced a newly d…
25-1044 Princess Azizi Kuulei Kaiama v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending Response Waived federal-question-jurisdiction international-law land-title-dispute mandamus native-hawaiian-sovereignty removal-jurisdiction Whether the Native Hawaiian citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii are entitled to remove a land title dispute from State court to federal court on the bas…
25-1045 Charles Albert Massey v. Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing unavailable-witness Does the Confrontation Clause allow the Petitioner to be convicted at trial—using preliminary hearing testimony of an unavailable witness—of an offens…
25-1046 BNSF Railway Company v. Tanner Lynn Minnesota 2026-03-04 Pending Amici (3) consent-by-registration dormant-commerce-clause due-process-clause forum-non-conveniens nonresident-corporations personal-jurisdiction Whether the Commerce Clause permits a State to extract consent to jurisdiction from nonresident corporations as a condition of their right to do busin…
25-1047 Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause express-preemption federal-meat-inspection-act federal-preemption implied-preemption 1. Whether the Act imposes additional or different —even if non -conflicting —requirements on pork producers, and is thus preempted by the FMIA under …
25-1048 Amanda Wood v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution monell-policies municipal-liability qualified-immunity In 42 U.S.C. 1983 litigation, Discovery responses, Discovery answers, formal policies, and documents can concede issues of fact, law, and elements of …
25-1049 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending Amici (5) equitable-doctrine gap-filling-doctrine patent-act patent-examination patent-issuance prosecution-laches Whether the PTO may invoke the equitable doctrine of "prosecution laches" to deny a patent to an applicant who has complied with all the Patent Act's …
25-1035 Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice Second Circuit 2026-03-03 Pending Amici (1) agency-records exemption-7 foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act law-enforcement-purposes statutory-interpretation Whether "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes" encompasses all records or information compiled by a law enforcement agency, ev…
25-1036 Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly K. Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-03-03 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction felon-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether Iowa Code § 914.7 (2026) entitled "[r]ights not restorable " infringes the Petitioner 's right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second a…
25-1037 Santander Consumer USA Inc. v. Jabari Morese Lyles Maryland 2026-03-03 Pending arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement contract-assignment Federal-Arbitration-Act preemption state-court-rules Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt a state court rule that prohibits an assignee of a financing contract from enforcing an arbitration provision…
25-1038 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Mountain Laural Assurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-03-03 Pending attorney-ethics due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance-coverage protective-orders service-of-process 1. Whether the district court erred in not addressing defendant Deborah Malchow's December 29, 2023 default of service of civil action Edward Ronny Ar…
25-1030 Christopher R. Cummins v. Illinois Illinois 2026-03-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-protection emergency-exception fourth-amendment police-conduct warrant-requirement warrantless-entry Will a warrantless entry into a residence by the police be upheld under the "emergency exception" to the warrant requirement of the 4th Amendment when…
25-1031 Julius Janisse v. Martin Luther King Jr., Los Angeles (MLK-LA) Healthcare Corporation California 2026-03-02 Pending Response Waived appearance-of-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error-doctrine judicial-recusal structural-error 1. Whether a state appellate court may resolve a properly presented federal appearance-of-bias claim exclusively under state-law recusal doctrine with…
25-1032 Anthony Dwayne Williams v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2026-03-02 Denied Response Waived apportionment constitutional-taxation excise-tax income-tax sixteenth-amendment tax-law Whether the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes Congress to tax compensation for labor not arising from the exercise of a federal privilege (i.e., an "exci…
25-1033 NRA Group, LLC v. Nicole Durenleau, et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-02 Denied Response Waived computer-fraud-and-abuse-act defend-trade-secrets-act rule-of-lenity scienter-requirement trade-secrets unauthorized-access In Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021), the Court articulated a "gates up/gates down" formulation for determining whether an employee exce…
25-1034 Adam J. Sherman v. United States Armed Forces 2026-03-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review complete-record-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-trial-hearings statutory-interpretation Does statutory text imposing a duty for an appellate court to review the "entire record" require consideration of all the evidence from a post-trial f…
25-1028 Porter Smith v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-27 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived americans-with-disabilities-act anti-discrimination circuit-split private-right-of-action rehabilitation-act retaliation-claims Whether Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. 794, authorizes a private right of action for retaliation.
25-1029 United States v. Edward Cockerham Fifth Circuit 2026-02-27 Pending appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b…
25-1025 Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review brady-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct rule-33-motion witness-recantation 1. Whether due process and this Court's precedents (Napue v. Illinois , Giglio v. United States , Kyles v. Whitley ) require a federal trial court to …
25-1026 National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-26 Pending Amici (4) circuit-split firearms-liability predicate-exception Protection-of-Lawful-Commerce-in-Arms-Act statutory-interpretation tort-immunity Whether the PLCAA's predicate exception allows parties to bring the same common-law-style suits against firearms industry members that Congress enacte…
25-1027 San Diego Family Housing, LLC, a California Limited Liability Corporation, et al. v. Lena Childs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-26 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived causal-nexus federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal government-contractor military-housing-privatization-initiative state-court-removal 1. Whether a causal nexus test of any variety, including that used by the Ninth Circuit, survives the 2011 amendment to the federal officer removal st…
25-1020 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived common-law employee-benefit-plans ERISA estoppel plan-interpretation written-instrument Whether general estoppel can override an ERISA plan's unambiguous text.
25-1021 Richard Cornelius Jackson v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending Response Waived due-process equitable-tolling federal-circuit freedom-of-information-act merit-systems-protection-board veterans-employment-opportunities-act Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Federal Circuit erred in denying equitable tolling under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Ac…
25-1022 Arizona, et al. v. Promise Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending Response Waived clear-error-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection organizational-standing standing voting-rights 1) Does Article III allow an organization to sue when an unknown number of its unidentified members "may be" injured, as the Ninth Circuit held below …
25-1023 James Marshall Shoemaker, III v. Leslie R. Moore, Esq., as Personal Representative and Trustee of the Estate of James Marshall Shoemaker, Jr., et al. South Carolina 2026-02-25 Pending appellate-jurisdiction attorney-malpractice due-process judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-recusal vacatur 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process is violated when a judge knowingly rules on the merits of a case while maintaining an u…
25-1024 Frank Faillace v. Zoe Hollis Ninth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending employee-status fair-labor-standards-act misclassification private-right-of-action retaliation statutory-interpretation The Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") prohibits retaliation by an employer or "any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer…
25-1002 Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association New Jersey 2026-02-24 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived antidiscrimination-law constitutional-rights diversity-programs equal-protection first-amendment free-speech-clause A bar association reserves leadership positions for members of specific minority groups. These set-asides violate the State's antidiscrimination law. …
25-1005 Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtain Barnes, Deceased v. Felix Roberto, Jr. et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Response Waived deadly-force fleeing-felon-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause totality-of-circumstances unreasonable-force Whether the mere "risk of flight" renders a suspect so dangerous to the public at large that police are justified under the Fourth Amendment in using …
25-1006 Shop Rite, Incorporated v. Small Business Administration Fifth Circuit 2026-02-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-enforcement arbitrary-and-capricious judicial-review regulatory-standards Whether administrative agency enforcement action that reflects internally contradictory reasoning or inconsistent interpretation of applicable regulat…
25-1007 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-24 Pending Response Waived civil-rights-violations due-process excessive-force federal-tort-liability governmental-immunity habeas-corpus Can the Federal Government's get away with at tempted murder, modern-day lynching in a hospital and Human Rights violations again on an American Citiz…
25-1008 Aviagames, Inc. v. Andrew Pandolfi, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitration-agreements contract-enforcement equal-treatment-rule Federal-Arbitration-Act procedural-unconscionability severability-doctrine The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") requires courts to "place arbitration agreements on an equal footing with other contracts" and to "enforce them ac…
25-1009 National Association of Immigration Judges v. Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review Fourth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending administrative-jurisdiction civil-service-reform-act federal-employee-speech first-amendment judicial-review prior-restraint One year after this Court's decision in Thunder Basin Coal Co. v. Reich, 510 U.S. 200 (1994), the Court exercised jurisdiction over a pre-enforcement …
25-1010 Lee Michael Tomko v. Bruno Martin Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-24 Denied Response Waived bivens-action federal-employee-liability fourth-amendment motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards rule-12b6 Is my complaint frivolous or otherwise insubstantial, when applying the motion to dismiss standard of accepting all allegations in the complaint as tr…
25-1011 Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC Federal Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Amici (1) America-Invents-Act inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-estoppel patent-litigation real-parties-in-interest To discourage unnecessary litigation and protect patent owners' rights, the America Invents Act requires a petition for inter partes review to identif…
25-1012 HMTX Industries, LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law major-questions-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority trade-act Whether USTR's streamlined authority under Section 307 to "modify" an existing tariff action confers on the agency essentially unlimited power to expa…
25-1013 Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Bestwall LLC v. Bestwall LLC Fourth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Amici (10) asbestos-liability bankruptcy-clause chapter-11-bankruptcy corporate-restructuring good-faith-petition subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a debtor with a conceded ability to pay all liabilities now and in the foreseeable future properly can invoke bankruptcy protection.
25-1014 Laith Saud v. DePaul University Seventh Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending adverse-employment-action but-for-causation pretext race-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix-investigation 1. Whether a discriminatory Title IX investigation— whose findings are relied upon by a decisionmaker to impose concrete employment consequences—can …
25-1015 Nicholas Robles, West Covina Police Officer, et al. v. Ronnie Parham Ninth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived clearly-established-law evading-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity traffic-stop 1. Does probable cause exist to stop, search, arrest, and prosecute a criminal suspect for evading arrest where unrefuted video evidence and the suspe…
25-1016 Dmitry Kruglov v. Federal National Mortgage Association Pennsylvania 2026-02-24 Pending discovery-violations due-process equal-protection judicial-bias summary-judgment unconscionability I. Due Process and Equal Protection Questions (Fourteenth Amendment) 1. Whether the trial court violated procedural due process and equal protection…
25-1017 Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending citizenship-requirements consent-decree election-law federal-preemption national-voter-registration-act voter-registration (1) Does the National Voter Registration Act or a fed-eral consent decree prohibit Arizona from requir-ing voter-registration applicants to produce "s…
25-1018 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Sean O'Day, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Ninth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived compelled-disclosure first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny regulatory-takings takings-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether a government reporting requirement is subject to intermediate First Amendment scrutiny, and satisfies such scrutiny, so long as it aims to …
25-1019 Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending discriminatory-intent mail-in-voting National-Voter-Registration-Act preemption proof-of-citizenship voter-registration 1. Whether the NVRA or a prior consent decree precludes Arizona from requiring documentary proof of citizenship and residence when applicants use its …
25-1000 Adrienne L. Clark v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-23 Denied Response Waived None 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when evidence seized outside the scope of a search warrant is admitted in a military trial? 2. Whether th…
25-1001 United States v. Briani L. Doucet Fifth Circuit 2026-02-23 Pending constitutional-challenge drug-offense felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b…
25-1003 Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division v. Dexter Johnson Fifth Circuit 2026-02-23 Pending Amici (1) AEDPA collateral-review habeas-corpus new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity successive-habeas-petitions The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) prohibits successive habeas applications by state prisoners with only narrow except…
25-1004 Citizens Bank, N.A. v. John Conti First Circuit 2026-02-23 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived comparative-analysis dodd-frank-act federal-regulation mortgage-escrow-accounts national-bank-act preemption The National Bank Act grants federally chartered national banks enumerated and incidental powers, subject to federal regulators' detailed proscription…
25-999 Brandon Z. Miller v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived court-martial military-rule-of-evidence-412 public-trial-clause sexual-assault sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia Whether the Public Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires case-specific determinations of necessity and narrow tailoring before an M.R.E. 412 he…
25-995 Venisha Arnold v. 1600 West Loop South, L.L.C., dba The Post Oak at Uptown Houston, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-20 Pending Response Waived remand removal-jurisdiction reserve-law-enforcement section-1983-liability state-actor-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Where there is a lack of subject matter jurisdic tion after all federal claims have been dismissed from a case that started in state court and the …
25-996 Robert James McDonald v. Washington Washington 2026-02-20 Denied Response Waived citizenship-status constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment military-jurisdiction war-powers Does Petitioner hold the citizenship status of being a Pre-March 9, 1933, private citizen of the United States secured by Section 1 of the Fourteenth …
25-997 Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2026-02-20 Denied Response Waived firearm-regulation open-carry public-carry right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570, 612-613 (2008) explained that the Second Amendment protects the "right to carry arms openly." New York St…
25-998 Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC Tenth Circuit 2026-02-20 Pending Response Waived cat's-paw-liability decisionmaking-authority employment-discrimination employment-law independent-review proximate-cause In Staub v. Proctor Hospital , 562 U.S. 411 (2011), this Court held that an employer is liable under a "cat's paw" theory when a supervisor acts wit…
25-973 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz-Santiago v. José Sánchez-Acosta, et al. First Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending due-process-clause fifth-amendment government-contracts promesa property-rights ultra-vires 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in holding that Petitioner's contractual and constitutional rights were discharged under PROMESA's Title III Plan o…
25-981 Kyler Newby v. Gabriel J. Bassford Ninth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived false-arrest first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliatory-arrest The question presented is whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from a retaliatory arrest claim when the officer could have reaso…
25-982 Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Response Waived access-to-courts Americans-with-Disabilities-Act attorney-liability disability-accommodations due-process retaliation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits categorically exempting private attorneys from liability under Titles II and III when they interfe…
25-983 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending asset-acquisition due-process-clause forum-contacts general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause allows courts to exercise personal jurisdiction by imputing an unaffiliated nonparty's forum contacts to a defendant wi…
25-984 Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts Sixth Circuit 2026-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-transparency court-closure first-amendment freedom-of-information judicial-proceedings public-access 1. In determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, must a court apply the "experience …
25-985 Evan Norman v. Deputy Lee Ingle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-jurisdiction genuine-issue-of-fact interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence In an interlocutory qualified immunity appeal involving video evidence, under what circumstances, if any, may an appellate court review a district cou…
25-986 MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending bankruptcy ERISA multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation unfunded-vested-benefits withdrawal-liability 1. Whether the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can—through the auspices of imposing "reasonable conditions" on multiemployer pension plans…
25-987 Flying T Ranch, Inc., a Washington Corporation v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, a federally recognized Indian Tribe Washington 2026-02-19 Denied Response Waived immovable-property-rule indian-tribes quiet-title state-court-jurisdiction tribal-sovereign-immunity trust-land Under the immovable-property rule, may a party sue an Indian tribe, without the latter's consent, in a State court to quiet title to real property loc…
25-988 Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Amici (3) circuit-split innocent-taxpayer-liability internal-revenue-code statute-of-limitations tax-assessment-limitations tax-fraud Whether, under 26 U.S.C. § 6501(c)(1), the IRS may assess tax beyond the Code's three-year limitations period based solely on the fraudulent intent of…
25-989 California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, et al. v. Adam Nickels, Acting Regional Director, United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending agricultural-exemption clean-water-act irrigation-return-flows navigable-waters NPDES-permitting point-source-discharge 1. Whether the Clean Water Act exempts from its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") permitting program "discharges composed e…
25-990 Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2026-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law causation Collins-v-Yellen due-process presidential-removal stigma-plus-doctrine 1. Whether a party seeking retrospective relief under Collins v. Yellen may prove causation through circumstantial evidence —or must produce direct ev…
25-991 Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Response Waived civil-rights-action clearly-established-law constitutional-violation excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 I. To avoid dismissal of a § 1983 excessive-force suit, must a plaintiff plead, as an element of her claim, that the officer had a "superior alternati…
25-992 Reginald Johnson v. City of Satsuma, Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-act equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment racial-discrimination state-action Whether the City of Satsuma, acting in concert with Maurice Kirk Harless, individually and collectively, under color of law, deprived the plaintiff of…
25-993 Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur Second Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending choice-of-law diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts partnership-formation state-law summary-judgment Whether a federal court sitting in diversity may treat a single factor as dispositive in assessing partnership formation, contrary to this Court's pre…
25-994 Beverly Hennager v. Mary E. Deardon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of M.K. Jennings South Carolina 2026-02-19 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review due-process-clause equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires enforceable constitutional safeguards in state judicial systems where (1) judges bot…
25-969 Anthony Zottola, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-18 Denied Response Waived anonymous-jury declaration-against-penal-interest fair-trial-rights hearsay-exception presumption-of-innocence right-to-present-defense 1. Whether a defendant's right to present a defense is violated when he is precluded from offering a declarant's out-of-court, self-inculpatory narrat…
25-970 Rami Ghanem v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived acquitted-conduct beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit federal courts from increasing a criminal defendant's authorized punishment based on conduct—including…
25-971 Robert Wayne Hutton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Amici (2) child-sexual-abuse-material circuit-conflict criminal-law fourth-amendment privacy-rights statutory-interpretation Whether, as a matter of law, secretly recording a minor's ordinary and routine nonsexual activity falls outside the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)?
25-972 United States v. Leopoldo Rivera-Valdes Ninth Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending constitutional-adequacy deportation due-process immigration-and-nationality-act in-absentia-proceedings notice-requirements Whether service of a notice of the time and place for deportation proceedings, sent by certified mail to an alien's self-reported address, consistent …
25-974 Kevin D. Wickstrom, et al. v. Air Line Pilots Association, International Seventh Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending bad-faith duty-of-fair-representation pleading-stage-dismissal railway-labor-act status-quo-requirements union-discretion 1. Whether a union's duty of fair representation under the Railway Labor Act includes an obligation to enforce the Act's status quo requirements under…
25-975 CalPortland Company v. Robert Thomas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Response Waived administrative-law-judge administrative-procedure agency-deference factual-findings judicial-review substantial-evidence When the Commission rejects factual findings of an administrative law judge and makes its own contrary findings, must courts defer to the "findings of…
25-976 Robert Carlisle v. Board of Trustees of the American Federation of the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending asset-allocation defined-benefit-pension-plan ERISA-fiduciary-duty investment-performance pleading-standards prudent-man-standard Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a Fund fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t…
25-977 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Amici (4)Response Waived Basic-Inc-v-Levinson class-certification corrective-disclosure efficient-market-hypothesis inflation-maintenance-theory securities-fraud Securities-fraud class actions overwhelmingly rely on the "inflation-maintenance" theory, which posits that misrepresentations maintain an inflated st…
25-978 Adrianna Kondilis, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2026-02-18 Denied Response Waived discovery due-process first-amendment pretext religious-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the First, Second, Third, and Tenth Circuits are correct that courts must permit discovery when public employees allege the government's st…
25-979 Richard L. Livingston v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks Tenth Circuit 2026-02-18 Denied Response Waived None This Court ruled in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83, 89-90 (2020) that non-unanimous criminal verdicts are unconstitutional. The question presented is…
25-980 Mark DuHall v. Michael Samuels, et al. Colorado 2026-02-18 Pending appellate-procedure electronic-filing jurisdiction mandate-recall notice-of-appeal procedural-rules The question presented for review is whether the Colorado Courts of Appeals may dismiss an appeal pursuant to a court-made rule, C.A.R. 4(a), because …
25-963 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Amici (2) preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship vaccine-mandate 1. Whether an employer faces a per se Title VII undue hardship if granting an otherwise federally required religious accommodation would conflict with…
25-964 TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the …
25-965 Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived chilling-effect constitutional-injury first-amendment land-use-finality religious-exercise williamson-county-doctrine Whether the First Amendment's established chilling-effect doctrine—under which a credible government threat that deters the exercise of fundamental ri…
25-966 Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending administrative-law article-iii h-2a-visa-program immigration-law public-rights-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether Article III of the Constitution precludes Congress from assigning to the Secretary of Labor the initial adjudication of proceedings to collect…
25-967 Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived anderson-burdick-test election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-ballots voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's requirement that mail-in voters provide a handwritten date when signing a preprinted declaration on a ballot return envelope viola…
25-968 Kishore Kumar Kavuru v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim equal-protection immigration-fraud mandate-rule 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability (COA) by holding that no jurist of reason would find the petitioner 's…
25-960 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg…
25-961 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale QUESTIONS PRESENTED On October 3, 2025 this Court granted the petition for certiorari in Pung v. Isabella Cty., Mich. Case No. 25-95 ("Pung ") where …
25-962 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived anderson-burdick constitutional-law election-integrity mail-voting rational-basis voter-fraud 1. Whether a non-discriminatory rule imposing the usual burdens of voting is constitutional; 2. Whether a mail-voting rule is subject only to rationa…
25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti…
25-953 Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve, as every regional circuit …
25-954 Seville Industries, L.L.C. v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-11 Denied Response Waived independent-contractor loan-forgiveness payroll-costs ppp-loan sba-interpretation small-business Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program to fund "payroll costs," defined to include "the sum of payments of any compensation with respect to …
25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise all meritorious claims on di…
25-956 Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-11 Denied Response Waived covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") to fund "payroll costs" in order that small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandem…
25-957 Baoming Chen v. Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-11 Denied Response Waived None 1. Whether a claim alleging unreasonable agency delay under 5 U.S.C. § 706(1) becomes nonjusticiable when the Government takes the delayed action whil…
25-958 George Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California California 2026-02-11 Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived development-exaction impact-fee legislative-process permit-conditions rough-proportionality takings-clause El Dorado County conditioned issuance of George Sheetz's residential building permit on a requirement that he pay a $23,420 traffic impact mitigation …
25-959 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that…
25-947 Robert William Moss v. Shawn M. Latourette, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey 2026-02-10 Pending Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law When a state court dismisses a complaint as in conflict with the entire controversy doctrine, on the ground that it raises a question of state law of …
25-948 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-10 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a…
25-949 John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending Amici (5) child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking The Communications Decency Act encourages "Good Samaritan" acts to keep objectionable content off the internet. 47 U.S.C. §230(c). The Act states inte…
25-950 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment I Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district court's grant of the writ based on ineffective assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio…
25-951 Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court 1. May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congress's command (co…
25-942 In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. 2026-02-09 Pending Response Waived congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed "challengin…
25-943 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Amici (2) clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court…
25-944 Robinhood Markets, Inc., et al. v. Vinod Sodha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Amici (3) interim-financial-data item-303 misleading-omissions regulation-s-k section-11 securities-act 1. Whether an issuer violates Section 11(a)'s misleading-omissions prong by failing to disclose interim financial data that investors may consider mat…
25-945 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment 1. Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required …
25-946 In Re Haden Christian Yonce 2026-02-09 Pending ai-system-confession cognitive-architecture digital-cloning judicial-abandonment national-security-emergency writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether a district court's complete failure to rule on any motion for 102 days (first filing) and 73 days (dispositive motion), combined with defen…
25-925 Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. New York 2026-02-06 Pending arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process 1. The first question presented involves the proper scope of review of an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act. The Courts of Appeals …
25-929 Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights Issue I: Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond for the express ed purpose of inhibiting appellants ' pursuit of their statutory righ…
25-930 Pimlico, LLC v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived None 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to review the evidentiary error that infected the Tax Court's o…
25-931 BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas Arkansas 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property?
25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir…
25-933 Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors 1. How could the Second Circuit have reasonably concluded that the State Respondents Governor Cuomo and Ms. DeRosa, his Chief of Staff, could not have…
25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. First Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in…
25-935 United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b…
25-936 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t…
25-937 Linda Cabello Garcia v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived None
25-938 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending Amici (1) batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination Whether the State's considering race as a basis for striking prospective jurors, shown by its listing prospective jurors by race on a spreadsheet used…
25-939 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending Amici (2)Relisted (2) confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment 1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the…
25-940 Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage Question 1 Whether the circuit court improperly determined that a subsequent pleading rather than the initial complaint, is the operative bar date …
25-941 Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard Dr. Sorokina appeals to this Court the order of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit solely with respect to her pregnancy discrimination claim…
25-920 Louis Vargas, fka Louis Galynsky v. Vincent Rodriguez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending civil-rights due-process peonage-claim pro-se-litigation supplemental-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim under 18 U.S.C. § 1581, by failing to recognize that economic coer…
25-922 Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending Response Waived agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for …
25-923 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political.
25-924 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that a special masters' findings in Plaintiffs' claims filed in the Department of Health and Hu…
25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe…
25-927 Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation University of Texas officials threatened Professor Richard Lowery with reduced pay, loss of a research post, and other consequences, if he did not sto…
25-928 Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support 1. Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marria…
25-898 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2026-02-04 Denied district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act Respondents challenged Washington state legislative district 15 ("LD-15"), alleging it diluted Hispanic votes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
25-914 Chris Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Denied Response Waived court-procedure generative-ai judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-deference supreme-court-review 1. Whether it is appropriate for a standard of deference to be applied when the reviewing opinion demonstrates a clear lack of familiarity with the ca…
25-915 Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-04 Denied attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline Whether petitioner sustained his burden prohib iting United States Court of Appeals for Third Circuit exercising original jurisdiction from imposing…
25-916 OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re…
25-917 Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-04 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Air Carrier Access Act, 49 U.S.C. § 41705 — which provides that "an air carrier may not discriminate " against qualified individuals wi…
25-918 Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act 1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha…
25-919 Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Amici (3) admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence …
25-921 Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending due-process inmate-rights prison-disciplinary-board procedural-fairness restitution-sanction trust-account Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide "some evidence" of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate's ac…
25-900 Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft 1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso…
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless …
25-910 MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2026-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution 1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author…
25-911 Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tenth Circuit 2026-02-03 Denied Response Waived first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co…
25-912 InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2026-02-03 Denied civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff's claim "relates to" a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,…
25-913 Keegan L. Lovell v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-03 Denied Response Waived court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction The relevant federal criminal statute requires that "[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano…
25-902 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Amici (1) anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment The Drug Price Negotiation Program (Program) threatens enterprise-destroying fines unless a drug manufacturer both provides its products at government…
25-903 Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative …
25-904 La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh…
25-905 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors 1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot…
25-906 E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Amici (13)Relisted (2) first-amendment free-expression hazelwood-standard school-censorship student-clubs student-speech Noblesville High School freshman E.D. worked hard to bring Noblesville Students for Life (NSFL) and its life-affirming message to her school. She took…
25-907 Gerard Patrick Matthews v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-02-02 Denied Response Waived None
25-908 The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of "any challenge" to the jurisdictional status of a wetland "in any Federal court" limited to government suit…
25-897 Ronald Smith v. Hunter Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Denied Response Waived None Under Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989), the use of force by law enforcement during the course of an arrest, seizure, detention, or search must be…
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the …
25-901 Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d…
25-887 Sauer West LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law interim-trail-use physical-taking property-rights surface-transportation-board trails-act Whether the Surface Transportation Board's issuance of a Notice of Interim Trail Use and accompanying authorization of recreational trail use triggers…
25-888 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing 1. Should this Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing? 2. If there is a municipal-taxpayer ex…
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when dete…
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25-891 Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado Colorado 2026-01-29 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived None Whether Monge should be overruled.
25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules 1. Whether a court of appeals may, by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, refuse to accept for filing or to docket a timely petition for …
25-893 Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B) that a relator have "knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclos…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe…
25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review 1. Whether a legal argument concerning the standard of review may be deemed waived, notwithstanding that other courts of appeals—including the Sixth a…
25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury 1. "Whether" our Supreme Court will allow Plaintiff House their 7th Amendment rights of trial by jury shall be preserved by our U.S. Constitution per …
25-885 United States v. Donte J. Carter District of Columbia 2026-01-28 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of …
25-886 Kenneth Genalo, Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Carol Williams Black, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-28 Pending None
25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Denied constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant 1. Are States'! Vexatious-Litigant Law ("States' VL Law'), and specifically, California's VexatiousLitigant Law ("CA VL Law', Cal. Code Civ. Proc.? §§…
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch…
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading…
25-871 Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-rights burdick-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presidential-pardon 1. Whether a Presidential pardon automatically moots a pending appeal when the defendant has clearly expressed his intent to reject or refuse the pard…
25-874 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Amici (2) civil-procedure class-certification daubert-standard evidentiary-standards expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence Whether expert testimony must be admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the framework enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,…
25-875 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U…
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud …
25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction.
25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Denied constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions.
25-879 American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending Amici (11) administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to applia…
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, to perform its ministerial duty to vaca…
25-882 Andrew D. Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Requested district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions Petitioners brought claims on behalf of candidates in advance of the 2022 election, challenging the procedures Arizona would use to count votes in tha…
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness 1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding…
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Denied brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's …
25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Requested aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe…
25-868 Brandon Hughes v. National Football League Second Circuit 2026-01-21 Denied Response Waived consumer-rights data-disclosure personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act video-service-provider The Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") prohibits a "video tape service provider" from "knowingly disclos[ing], to any person, personally identifiab…
25-869 James T. Weiss v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Denied Response Waived custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant In Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692, 704–05 (1981), this Court held that pursuant to a lawfully executed search warrant, officers have a limited auth…
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Denied constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari I. WHETHER THIS COURT'S POWER TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN A STATE PRISONER IS CONFINED BY A COURT WITHOUT JURISDICTION A…
25-872 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibits possession of firearms in its public parks, which consist of almost 24,000 acres of mostly wooded land across 420 …
25-873 Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-21 Denied Response Waived None 1) Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a trial court denies a brief continuance to a civil litigant who has lost counsel, where the denial…