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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-960 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement a 'reasonable' statewide response to a public-health emergency, and wh…
25-961 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale Does a federal district court lack jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine where a state-court loser of a challenge of a tax sale of the loser'…
25-962 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending anderson-burdick constitutional-law election-integrity mail-voting rational-basis voter-fraud Whether a non-discriminatory mail-voting rule imposing usual voting burdens is constitutional under rational-basis review
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 Whether a Bivens claim can be brought for deliberate indifference to an inmate's chronic pain at a pretrial detention center under the Fifth and Eight…
25-953 Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending 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 or a basis for judgment as …
25-954 Seville Industries, L.L.C. v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending independent-contractor loan-forgiveness payroll-costs ppp-loan sba-interpretation small-business Whether payments to independent contractors can be considered 'payroll costs' under the Paycheck Protection Program's statutory definition
25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending 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 meritorious claims and syste…
25-956 Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation Whether payments to independent contractors constitute 'payroll costs' under the Paycheck Protection Program for businesses with no W-2 employees
25-957 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending None Question not identified.
25-958 George Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California California 2026-02-11 Pending development-exaction impact-fee legislative-process permit-conditions rough-proportionality takings-clause Does the Takings Clause's protection against unconstitutional permit conditions encompass an evidentiary requirement by which the government must demo…
25-959 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response 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 14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law Whether a state court must explain why a plaintiff should have previously raised a state law issue under the entire controversy doctrine
25-948 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending 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 child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking Whether Section 230's Good Samaritan immunity applies to the knowing possession and distribution of child pornography and knowingly benefiting from a …
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard when denying review of a Confrontation Clause violation
25-951 Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Pending anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congressional mandates re…
25-942 In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. 2026-02-09 Pending 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 challenging…
25-943 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending 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, or is a viola…
25-944 Robinhood Markets, Inc., et al. v. Vinod Sodha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending interim-financial-data item-303 misleading-omissions regulation-s-k section-11 securities-act Whether an issuer violates Section 11(a)'s misleading-omissions prong by failing to disclose interim financial data without an inquiry into whether th…
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 Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required sum…
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 Whether a district court's complete failure to rule on motions and defendants' silence constitutes judicial abandonment warranting a Writ of Mandamus;…
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 Is manifest disregard of the law a ground to vacate an arbitration award and if so, what does it mean?
25-929 Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending Response Waived 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond that inhibits appellants' pursuit of their statutory right of appeal, contrary to F.R.A.P. 7, …
25-930 Pimlico, LLC v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending None Question not identified.
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 Pending 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 Whether the negligence standard that applies to Title VII workplace harassment by coworkers also applies to workplace harassment by customers
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 administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors Whether the Second Circuit erred in concluding that state officials could not have comprehended the potential rights violations in the COVID-19 nursin…
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) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de…
25-936 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 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 Pending None
25-938 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination Whether the State's consideration of race in striking prospective Black jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky
25-939 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in admitting racially inflammatory rap lyrics as evidence and in allowing testimonial out-of-court s…
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 Whether the circuit court improperly determined the operative bar date for claim preclusion in conflict with prior Supreme Court and Third Circuit pre…
25-941 Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) must establi…
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 Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim and denying procedural due process rights for a pro se litigant
25-922 Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and infringing on due process rights through procedura…
25-923 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending 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 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding res judicata effect for special masters' findings in Vaccine Injury Compensation Plan claims and in uphold…
25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Whether Pennsylvania's ABA law school accreditation monopoly violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Due Process protections
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 civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation Whether a public employer's threats against an employee can suffice to establish a First Amendment retaliation claim, if those threats would dissuade …
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 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 marriage?
25-898 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2026-02-04 Pending district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act 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 challe…
25-914 Chris Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response Waived court-procedure generative-ai judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-deference supreme-court-review Whether a standard of deference is appropriate when a reviewing opinion demonstrates a lack of familiarity with the case and potentially sidesteps Sup…
25-915 Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals can impose reciprocal discipline on an attorney based on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court suspension without du…
25-916 OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response Waived disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights Whether Texas's prohibition on compensating individuals who assist voters with disabilities or limited English proficiency violates Section 208 of the…
25-917 Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation Whether the Air Carrier Access Act creates an implied private right of action for individuals with disabilities against air carriers
25-918 Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act 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 challe…
25-919 Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending 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 Pending admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft Whether the Sunken Military Craft Act bars all admiralty salvage claims or only in rem claims directed at the res, and whether the party presentation …
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff may establish specific jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant based on its forum-agnostic 'business model,' or whether the pla…
25-910 MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2026-02-03 Pending civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution Whether an order directing a flat, unconditional restitution payment to a receiver constitutes civil or criminal contempt under due process
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 Pending 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 Pending 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 Pending court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction Where a federal criminal statute for solicitation requires the person solicited to fall within a narrow class, can a conviction be sustained if the pe…
25-902 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment Whether the Anti-Injunction Act bars judicial review of a civil penalty labeled as a tax when the penalty is effectively unpayable, whether the Drug P…
25-903 Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative fai…
25-904 La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response Waived disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights Whether Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act preempts a Texas state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen ballot assisters…
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 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 'other…
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 first-amendment free-expression hazelwood-standard school-censorship student-clubs student-speech Whether Hazelwood applies when student speech might be erroneously attributed to the school, in the context of student-led clubs and flyer distributio…
25-907 Gerard Patrick Matthews v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending None
25-908 The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending 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 Pending Response Waived None Question not identified.
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 complies with the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause and 8 U.S.C. 1401(a)
25-901 Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending 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 appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing Should the Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing, and if such an exception exists, must a mun…
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when determi…
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 declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enforceme…
25-891 Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado Colorado 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived None Question not identified.
25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules Whether a court of appeals may refuse to accept a timely petition for panel rehearing by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, contrary to …
25-893 Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending 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 disclo…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 Whether a district court violates pleading standards by sua sponte inferring probable cause against a pro se plaintiff at the motion to dismiss stage
25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review Whether a court may deem a standard of review argument waived despite circuit split, substitute its own determination in an administrative review, int…
25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Supreme Court will preserve the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury in a civil case involving patent infringement and constitutional righ…
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 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant Whether States' Vexatious-Litigant Laws, specifically California's Vexatious-Litigant Law, are unconstitutional facial and as-applied challenges to fu…
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending 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 criminal charge…
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 Pending Response Waived appellate-rights burdick-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presidential-pardon Whether a Presidential pardon can be forcibly imposed on a defendant against his will when he seeks to continue pursuing appellate review and exonerat…
25-874 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending 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 Pending cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records Does compelled disclosure of public employees' personal cell phone call logs under state law violate federal law when the government cannot segregate …
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal Whether the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of 'fraud on the court' under Rule 60(d)(3) creates an untenable circuit split and contravenes…
25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending 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 Pending 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 administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to an agency's legal interpretation of a statute despite the Supreme Court's holding in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,…
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending 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 to vacate a fraudulent foreclosure judgment issued without trial and…
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 district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions May a district court sanction attorneys to 'send a message' not to file politically disfavored lawsuits?
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on an allegedly une…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 Whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding protective order issued b…
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence violates a litigant's due-process rights under Brady v. Maryland and Moone…
25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habeas …
25-868 Brandon Hughes v. National Football League Second Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived consumer-rights data-disclosure personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act video-service-provider Whether information identifying a person's video viewing history to a specific recipient constitutes 'personally identifiable information' under the V…
25-869 James T. Weiss v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant Whether police officers executing a search warrant must provide Miranda warnings during a detention and what criteria determine when such a detention …
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari 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 and …
25-872 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly upheld Fairfax County's public park firearm ban based on the presence of four preschool programs across 420 parks
25-873 Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending None Question not identified.
25-856 William King, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending government-authorization monetary-rights pension-appropriation property-interest takings-clause vested-pension Under the Takings Clause, does a per se rule apply when a government authorizes one private party to appropriate another party's vested right to payme…
25-857 Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio…
25-858 Charlotte Chemuti v. North Carolina North Carolina 2026-01-20 Pending ancillary-proceeding criminal-defendant evidence-production law-enforcement-videos pennsylvania-v-ritchie trial-procedure Whether a state may prohibit a criminal defendant from compelling the production of law enforcement videos at trial where the state has established an…
25-859 Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard Whether police officers' own creation of a dangerous situation prior to using deadly force factors into the Fourth Amendment's 'totality of the circum…
25-860 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by merely reciting 'bad faith' when courts conflic…
25-861 Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law Whether state officials may disclaim enforcement authority over a law to avoid federal court review of the law's constitutionality
25-862 Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas Texas 2026-01-20 Pending brady-violation capital-murder due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review Where the Petitioner, the State, and the habeas court all agree that a conviction is unconstitutional and must be reversed, does it violate due proces…
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…
25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations and misapplied pleading standards …
25-851 Ashley Grayson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law Whether Section 2515's exclusionary rule contains an unwritten clean-hands exception
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights verdict …
25-853 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly extended the prohibition on patenting an 'abstract idea' to prohibit patenting concrete technological processe…
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action Whether a State may enact election laws that make success in a State-run party primary a mandatory prerequisite to appearing on the November general-e…
25-855 The Visionary, Books + Cafe, LLC v. Bank OZK Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived arbitral-award contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review party-presentation-principle sua-sponte-grounds Whether a court must examine arbitral authority under 9 U.S.C. §10(a)(4) when an arbitrator interprets a contract
25-835 Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC Florida 2026-01-15 Pending appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment Does a state trial court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it enters final summary judgment without holding the announce…
25-836 Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights Whether New York's Even Year Election Law violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by selectively restructuri…
25-837 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit Whether the Government can establish a pyramid scheme by shortcutting its burden of proving conspiracy elements and intent to defraud, and whether jur…
25-838 Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly reversed a district court's denial of qualified immunity by relying on potentially false or suppressed evidenc…
25-839 Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test or the …
25-840 International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc., et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending article-iii-standing child-welfare fundamental-liberty-interest gender-transition judicial-standing parental-rights Whether parents have standing to challenge a law or policy that deliberately displaces their decision making role as to 'gender transitions' of their …
25-841 Henry Troy Wade v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indictme…
25-842 Tamer S. Wassily, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending None
25-843 Disability Rights New York v. New York State Department of Health, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived article-iii-standing disability-rights federal-jurisdiction individual-rights protection-and-advocacy statutory-interpretation Whether a Protection & Advocacy System has Article III standing to bring a lawsuit on behalf of individuals with disabilities
25-844 Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending alcohol-regulation commerce-clause constitutional-law interstate-commerce physical-presence twenty-first-amendment Whether a physical-presence requirement that forbids out-of-state retailers from shipping alcohol directly to in-state consumers unless they establish…
25-845 Greg Abbott, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Appellants v. League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. Texas 2026-01-15 Pending None
25-846 Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining federal district court jurisdiction over alleged Jan6 officer misconduct, and will the Supr…
25-847 Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes Alabama 2026-01-15 Pending constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffin-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice
25-848 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2026-01-15 Pending constitutional-procedure context-analysis griffin-error prejudice-standard prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice
25-849 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell District of Columbia 2026-01-15 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power Whether church autonomy provides a structural limit on state power that protects churches from the burdens of litigating unconstitutional claims; Whet…
25-833 Duane Letroy Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe…
25-834 Erie Indemnity Company v. Troy Stephenson, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending claim-preclusion final-judgment issue-preclusion legal-theory ongoing-conduct res-judicata When a plaintiff challenges the same ongoing, continuing conduct that was fully adjudicated in an earlier suit, does the mere passage of time foreclos…
25-823 William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawful c…
25-824 Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Ohio 2026-01-13 Pending antidiscrimination-law burden-shifting due-process employment-retaliation equal-protection statutory-safeguards Whether the cumulative errors in applying established antiretaliation standards have deprived Petitioner of constitutional due process and equal prote…
25-825 Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal Whether a district court may categorically stay all discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil action on a closed record where adjudication o…
25-826 Lesly Pompy v. Lieutenant Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived bivens-action constitutional-tort fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity warrantless-search Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without judicial authorization falls within…
25-827 Joseph Leslie McClory v. Scott Hobbs California 2026-01-13 Pending appellant-rights form-deficiency judicial-council record-on-appeal rule-making state-court If a rule-making arm of a state court system approves a form for use, should an appellant be penalized or forfeit rights if the form is deficient
25-828 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there…
25-829 Matt Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived civil-liability indian-commerce-clause internet-contract rico-act state-regulation tribal-lending Whether the Indian Commerce Clause preempts state regulation of loans made on an Indian reservation by a tribal lender via internet, and whether a RIC…
25-830 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness Whether a court of appeals may issue binding merits precedent on constitutional claims after those claims have become moot during appeal, and whether …
25-831 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending disruption-test first-amendment free-speech school-regulation student-speech tinker-standard Is post hoc speculation about emotional harm that speech could cause to other students insufficient to meet Tinker's 'substantial disruption' standard…
25-832 Bonnie Michelle Smith v. Shirley Smith Georgia 2026-01-13 Pending constitutional-law judicial-activism legislative-interpretation policy-making rule-of-law separation-of-powers Does judicial activism violate the separation of powers and improperly transform the Court into a super legislature?
25-818 Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits Whether 'time credits' under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release
25-819 Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job
25-820 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel…
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides congressional consent for asserting individual rights acknowledged in the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment in…
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding 'bad faith' and whether they can issue s…
25-809 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Amici (1) allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. §1386(b)(1) requires a multiemployer plan to calculate withdrawal liability by reducing the amount in a subsequent plan year or appl…
25-810 John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-misconduct petition-for-certiorari Does the Third Circuit's affirmation of district court decisions involving alleged judicial misconduct warrant Supreme Court review for potential due …
25-811 Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is nonjurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence?
25-812 James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action Whether a prenuptial agreement and arbitration clause can be enforced when the plaintiff alleges the arbitration process denied fundamental rights to …
25-813 Kim Bogardus v. City of Yakima, Washington Washington 2026-01-09 Pending americans-with-disabilities-act credibility-determination disability-claims judicial-estoppel social-security-disability summary-judgment Whether the 'sufficient explanation' requirement under Cleveland allows reconciliation through textual or contextual evidence in SSDI and ADA disabili…
25-814 Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions?
25-815 Siddharth Kode v. Joseph Pargin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending contract-discrimination post-formation precedent-interpretation retaliation-claims statute-of-limitations time-barred Whether a court's ruling that §1981 postformation claims are time-barred because of its application of 2Y-SoL rather than 4Y-SoL constitutes reversibl…
25-816 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Whether defendants raising Brady violations that can show the government suppressed evidence are entitled to production of that evidence in discovery …
25-817 Charles W. Christopher v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity?
25-805 Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. New Mexico 2026-01-08 Pending Response Waived access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of fa…
25-806 Tarlochan Singh v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response Waived None
25-807 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived church-autonomy civil-law-claims internal-affairs ministerial-exception religious-institution self-governance Does the church autonomy doctrine apply to and foreclose civil law claims which are not disputes about the internal affairs or self-governance of a re…
25-791 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Allstate Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-evidence insurance-law statute-of-limitations Whether the district court erred in interpreting Tennessee statutes of limitation and constitutional rights in an insurance dispute
25-792 Neil Binder v. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC Third Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review procedural-due-process rule-1006 rule-60 summary-evidence Whether a court may exclude a Federal Rule of Evidence 1006 summary derived entirely from records already admitted into evidence without reviewing it,…
25-793 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petition for rehearing and objections to Defendants' Bill of Costs
25-794 Jordan Spatz v. Regents of the University of California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights intentional-discrimination medical-residency private-right-of-action Does the 1975 Age Discrimination Act apply to medical residency match applications and permit private right of action for age discrimination?
25-795 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Chauncey J. Watches, Judge, Steuben County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity petition-clause second-amendment Whether federal in forma pauperis litigants may be significantly denied immediate access to Court while filing-fee paying litigants suffer no such con…
25-796 Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1028A permits conviction based on a defendant's consensual use of his own identity and whether using a means of identification to …
25-797 Steven J. Hecke v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant Whether Franks v. Delaware applies to material omissions in a search warrant affidavit and how such omissions impact the credibility of the affiant
25-798 Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar California 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when they foreclose merits forum for preserved federal constitutional cla…
25-799 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (1) due-process economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment medicare-negotiation property-rights Is the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program immune from constitutional scrutiny due to economic coercion, and does it unconstitutionally condition …
25-800 Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when law enforcement directs probation officers to order a probationer to return home under false pretenses to fa…
25-801 Thomas Schramm v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, aka United Steel Workers, aka USW Sixth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived contract-negotiations duty-of-fair-representation individual-discharge labor-law objective-evidence union-grievance Whether the same standards for determining a breach of the duty of fair representation in contract negotiations should be imposed upon unions for indi…
25-802 Foothills Christian Ministries, et al. v. Kim Johnson, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived child-care-act compelled-speech first-amendment free-exercise religious-services zauderer-review Does California's religious services provision compel speech in violation of the First Amendment and interfere with free exercise rights of parochial …
25-803 In Re Andy Desty 2026-01-07 Pending constitutional-rights corporate-disclosure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-power mandamus-petition Whether the Supreme Court can compel the 11th Circuit and Exeter Finance LLC to provide due process and discovery in a mandamus petition involving aut…
25-804 George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ftca-claim government-liability service-of-process Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in requiring individual service of government employees in an FTCA lawsuit contrary to established precedent and Fe…
25-786 Julia Minkowski v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2026-01-06 Pending ada-compliance constitutional-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process supremacy-clause Does a systemic structural defect in California courts eliminate court access and due process for disabled litigants under the First and Fourteenth Am…
25-787 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (3) constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers Whether a court may relegate a due process claim to rational basis scrutiny merely because the asserted right is not enumerated in the Constitution or…
25-788 Reed Day, et al. v. Ben Henry, in His Official Capacity as Director, Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (3) alcohol-distribution constitutional-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation three-tier-system twenty-first-amendment Whether a physical-presence requirement that discriminates between in-state and out-of-state alcohol retailers can be deemed constitutional under the …
25-789 Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. Tennessee 2026-01-06 Pending civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation
25-790 New York Football Giants, Inc., et al. v. Brian Flores Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (1) arbitration-agreement commissioner-arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act procedural-fairness sports-league Whether an arbitration agreement governing disputes in a professional sports league is categorically unenforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act b…
25-778 Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh…
25-779 Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-claim-scope patent-disclaimer patent-prosecution trademark-office-proceedings When a patentee disclaims subject matter from the scope of its claims by written statements made at any time during U.S. Patent and Trademark Office p…
25-780 Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Does a law that bans the sale of otherwise lawful items based exclusively on the content of the seller's truthful marketing burden speech protected by…
25-781 Donald Wenger v. James T. Warren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending article-i-section-8 federal-preemption individual-liability subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformed-services-act veterans-judicial-review-act Whether state judges are bound by the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act and Veterans Judicial Review Act pursuant to Article I § 8 of …
25-782 Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin…
25-783 Sonia Hernandez Caruso v. Texas Medical Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending administrative-law due-process medical-licensing notice-requirements professional-discipline sovereign-immunity Whether the Texas Medical Board's actions in denying and restricting Dr. Caruso's medical license violated her due process rights under the Fourteenth…
25-784 Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending amendment-of-pleadings civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 and the Due Process Clause permit a district court to strike a non-movant's summary-judgment opposition and…
25-785 In Re Van Irion, et al. 2026-01-05 Pending None Question not identified.
25-774 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Amici (7) drug-detection fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search Whether police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they use a drug detection canine to sniff the door of an apartment home in a multi-unit building…
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident retail seller bas…
25-776 Youth 71Five Ministries v. Charlene Williams, Individually and as Director of Oregon Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment government-action grant-funding religious-autonomy Whether a religious organization can raise the First Amendment right to religious autonomy as an affirmative claim challenging government action and w…
25-777 Christopher L. Thompson v. Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response Waived None Question not identified.
25-767 Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Amici (2) csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle and failing to adhere to Supreme Court preceden…
25-768 Charity Mainville v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending circuit-court extraordinary-writ judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus procedural-standard Whether the Fourth Circuit may impose 'undue delay' as a standalone prerequisite to mandamus relief and categorically deny mandamus as a 'substitute f…
25-769 Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Marita R. Sciarrotta, Director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived commerce-clause corporate-taxation due-process interstate-commerce royalty-payments tax-deductibility Whether New Jersey's corporate business tax scheme for taxing royalty payments conditions deductibility on the extent of the royalty recipient's in-st…
25-770 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment Whether a defendant's systematic omission of qualifying language from a plaintiff's statement constitutes proof of actual malice under New York Times …
25-771 Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending appellate-review eleventh-circuit judicial-precedent jury-tampering presumption-of-prejudice trial-integrity Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the presumption of prejudice standard when evaluating unrefuted evidence of jury …
25-772 Lev Aslan Dermen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived None Question not identified.
25-773 Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause…
25-763 PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court should summarily reverse and remand a Fourth Circuit case in light of Loper Bright Enterprises and Chevron deference overrul…
25-764 Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims Whether placing the 'tort' label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract
25-765 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-scrutiny fundamental-rights government-mandate judicial-review medical-treatment rational-basis-review Does Jacobson v. Massachusetts limit judicial review of government-mandated medical treatments to rational basis review or require heightened scrutiny…
25-766 Justyna Jensen v. Maryland Cannabis Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived business-licensing dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection nonresident-discrimination pell-grant-eligibility state-university Whether a state statute discriminates against nonresidents in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause if it confers eligibility for a business licens…
25-752 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant and uphold a…
25-753 Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act legal-standing source-identification trademark-ownership Whether a court may find joint ownership of a trademark between competing entities without violating the Lanham Act's requirement of a single source o…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright Whether copyrightability is a pure question of law or includes considerations of background facts, given a Circuit split on the issue
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether the government violated the First Amendment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and Ministerial Exemption by seizing church property through a…
25-756 Larry Householder v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo Is McCormick's requirement of a 'quid pro quo' satisfied when a political candidate accepts a political contribution knowing that the donor believes t…
25-757 Matthew Borges v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo When alleged bribery rests solely on lawful campaign contributions, must the government prove an explicit, unambiguous quid pro quo conditioning an of…
25-758 Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived cercla cost-recovery environmental-law national-contingency-plan private-party-cleanup substantial-compliance Whether a private party whose cleanup is reviewed and approved by a State enjoys a presumption of substantial compliance with the National Contingency…
25-759 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy Whether a court can rely on a probable alternative explanation at the 12(b)(6) stage to dismiss a claim, and whether a parent's fundamental constituti…
25-760 Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983
25-761 Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-constraints medicare price-controls separation-of-powers Is the separation of powers violated when an agency exercises sweeping price-setting and rulemaking authority with no constraints to ensure that it ac…
25-762 Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency Did FinCEN exceed its statutory authority by interpreting 'funds' in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to require registration of virtual currency businesses before co…
25-745 Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. Tennessee 2025-12-23 Pending Response Waived appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a state from maintaining a judicial system which (1) enforces a void judgment issued w…
25-746 Carvin L. Thomas, et al. v. Roberta Kustoff, Chairman, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights liberty-rights parole-interest procedural-due-process tennessee-law Does a parole applicant in Tennessee have a liberty interest based on the expectation of parole?
25-747 Matthew Cline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely…
25-748 Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending aedpa jury-deliberations jury-instruction pretrial-suppression seibert-rule state-court-findings Did the Second Circuit violate AEDPA by finding a state jury instruction invalid under Seibert when the Supreme Court has never held that Seibert's ru…
25-749 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending drug-pricing economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation Does the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program violate the First Amendment by compelling pharmaceutical companies to express the government's disput…
25-750 Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC Louisiana 2025-12-23 Pending causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort Whether under the Jones Act's relaxed causation standard, a plaintiff must meet Daubert requirements for scientific causation in toxic tort claims
25-751 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Amici (1) constitutional-rights drug-pricing first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation takings-clause Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program violates the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause and First Amendment by compelling manufacturers to s…
25-733 Joseph Soaris v. Tony Aikhionbare California 2025-12-22 Pending civil-rights equal-protection legal-equality state-law Whether the state is applying its laws equally amongst its citizens?
25-734 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official New York 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine Whether the New York Court of Appeals improperly found a constitutional challenge to a presidential candidate's eligibility 'moot' by ignoring the 'ca…
25-735 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (2) congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of jurisdiction to hear challenges to the constitutionality of acts of Congress affecting …
25-736 World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether lower courts must avoid a factor-by-factor analysis that balances competing evidence and the weight to be given likely confusion factors in La…
25-737 John S. Morter v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived agency-discretion essential-job-function medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act security-screening Whether a federal agency may redefine a security screening requirement as an 'essential job function' and eliminate reasonable accommodation duties un…
25-738 Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King Sixth Circuit 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test fails to comport with the Fourth Amendment and Graham v. Connor because the test does …
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the right…
25-740 Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (1) diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability Whether a federal court may determine negligence and strict liability claims in a diversity action involving novel claims of abnormally dangerous rese…
25-741 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review Whether the petition stage of Supreme Court review constitutes a 'federal court proceeding' for purposes of tolling state tort statute of limitations …
25-742 Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-22 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived courts-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice post-trial-process second-amendment statutory-authority Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has statutory authority to hold that a conviction is factually insufficient under 10 U…
25-743 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-12-22 Pending constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics Whether a court with jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue disbarment orders without first addressing constitutional due process def…
25-744 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity Whether recognition of a foreign judgment based on a fictitious assertion of in rem jurisdiction is barred as contrary to fundamental principles of du…
25-722 Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-disclosure foia-exemptions government-transparency national-security records-search Does FOIA allow agencies to refuse to confirm or deny the existence of responsive records when invoking statutory exemptions, and may they do so witho…
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction Whether 12 U.S.C. §3410(d) and (e) unconstitutionally restrict judicial review and appeal rights in financial record disclosure cases
25-724 Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-common-law insurance-law reinsurance state-law Whether a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction exceeds its authority under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins by creating a new state law duty for ins…
25-725 Edward Weinhaus v. Regina A. Scannicchio, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived district-court-jurisdiction federal-lawsuit jurisdictional-challenge merits-dismissal rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-decision Whether the District Court is precluded from exercising jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine when Petitioner's injury occurred prior to the …
25-726 Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for 'circumstances' that render state proceedings 'ineffective' can ap…
25-727 Douglas M. Folts v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California
25-728 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme…
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-730 Jennesis V. Dominguez-Garcia v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived appellate-authority firearms-prohibition military-courts-martial post-trial-processing second-amendment ucmj Whether the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals has authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after …
25-731 Yellow Turtle Design, LLC, et al. v. Sonya Salkin Slott, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-distribution chapter-7-liquidation creditor-priority settlement-approval statutory-interpretation Whether distributions to creditors in bankruptcy shall be done in the manner prescribed in the Bankruptcy Code?
25-732 Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (4) capital-sentencing constitutional-rights expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether trial counsel provides constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase of a capital trial by presenting evidence th…
25-705 Carter Page v. James B. Comey, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-18 Pending Amici (2) accrual-of-claims fbi-misconduct fourth-amendment government-liability inspector-general-report surveillance-warrant Do claims that the government violated surveillance authorities accrue as a matter of law based merely on facts that might lead a victim to suspect un…
25-706 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-12-18 Pending arbitration-rights civil-procedure contract-law equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act preclusion-doctrine Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides equitable estoppel in enforcing arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
25-707 Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona…
25-708 Rupert Baptiste v. Fatou Jallow Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner judicial-act pro-se-rights self-representation Whether a pro se litigant's case can be summarily dismissed in deference to an attorney without full adjudication on the merits
25-709 West Virginia v. Michael Keith Allman West Virginia 2025-12-18 Pending custodial-arrest evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the State must show that an arrestee could access a weapon or destructible evidence from a bag the arrestee was carrying immediately before ar…
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania 2025-12-18 Pending appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal and whether the Pennsylvania appellate co…
25-711 Deborah Cooney v. San Diego Gas & Electric, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech privacy smart-grid Whether the federally-mandated Smart Grid violates constitutional rights through potential infringements on privacy, free speech, religious freedom, a…
25-712 Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation Whether a referral by a governmental official to another official for potential criminal investigation constitutes adverse action under First Amendmen…
25-713 George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr…
25-714 Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination Whether an employer violates federal anti-retaliation laws by disciplining the sole employee who reported workplace discrimination, while failing to d…
25-715 Masahide Kanayama v. Scott Kowal, Chief Pretrial Services Officer, Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure damage-calculation district-court dual-criminality extradition japanese-law Whether the District Court improperly relied on a hypothetical damage calculation to satisfy the dual criminality element in Dr. Kanayama's extraditio…
25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion Whether a state court may extend claim preclusion to deprive a nonparty of its claims based on a prior arbitration award without jurisdiction, and whe…
25-717 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order
25-718 Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District Missouri 2025-12-18 Pending appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest Whether a state appellate court violates due process rights by deciding an appeal on fabricated facts contrary to the undisputed record, thereby depri…
25-719 Stanley Battat, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending administrative-procedure initial-determination irc-section-6751 managerial-approval tax-assessment tax-penalty Is a formal written communication from the IRS informing a taxpayer that penalties have been determined to apply and that solicits payment of those pe…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's refusal to apply Kemp v. United States creates an irreconcilable Circuit Split regarding judicial error under Rule 60(b…
25-721 Jennie Landsman, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of J. L. v. Melissa Aviles-Ramos, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure burlington-carter-test due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act reimbursement special-education Whether a parent seeking reimbursement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act must overcome a rebuttable presumption of full reimbursem…
25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and summary judgment decisions must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory framework regarding…
25-699 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (1) arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive …
25-700 Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority Did Congress provide the ultimate remedy to federal overreach by releasing and relinquishing the United States' complaint for Clean Water Act environm…
25-701 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund Second Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived critical-declining-status mass-withdrawal multiemployer-pension pension-plan-termination special-financial-assistance statutory-interpretation Whether a multiemployer pension plan that terminated through mass withdrawal before the 2020 plan year is eligible for Special Financial Assistance un…
25-702 CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis…
25-703 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (7) church-autonomy covid-restrictions excessive-fines free-exercise-clause religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Do COVID restrictions with multiple exceptions trigger strict scrutiny under Employment Division v. Smith when they are not generally applicable?
25-704 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending breach-of-contract constitutional-authority elections-clause procedural-error standing voting-machines Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the Petitioners' breach of contract suit against Dominion for voting machine defects, based on lack of …
25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a suitable federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § …
25-697 Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation Whether an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA joint operating agreement needs additional Attorney General written consent to be lawful or en…
25-694 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending Response Waived judicial-immunity just-compensation permitting-monopoly property-rights res-judicata takings-clause Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion citing res judicata allows the government to overextend and leverage its permitting monopoly to take private pr…
25-695 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice Did the Convening Authority's action of ordering a second court-martial for the same offenses violate the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause?
25-686 Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation District of Columbia 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency Whether an agency invoking FOIA Exemption 7(D) must demonstrate foreseeable harm after the 2016 FOIA Improvement Act and whether recognition risk by w…
25-687 Richard Eugene Bryant, aka Ritshard Anu Bey v. Mark S. Braunlich, Judge, 38th Circuit Court of Michigan, Monroe County, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause Whether a warrant and license suspension issued without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment and constitutes a violation of constitutional rig…
25-688 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz Fourth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation Does a police officer's observation of an undisputed legal act provide probable cause or reasonable suspicion for a traffic violation or crime, and ar…
25-689 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-12-12 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether testimony by a 'peer review' pathologist who did not perform the original autopsy violates the Confrontation Clause when the original patholog…
25-690 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived burden-shifting constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review Did the Ninth Circuit fail to apply the correct deferential standard of review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and misapply Supreme Court precedents regardi…
25-691 Lonnie Joseph Parker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response Waived controlled-substances criminal-conviction federal-regulation medical-prescription prescribing-authority standard-of-care Whether a doctor can be convicted of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) (1) and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) based on a d…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline Whether a state may impose professional discipline on attorneys for out-of-court criticism of a judge without clear and convincing proof of false stat…
25-693 Juan Jose Garcia Morin v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending None
25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information when the statut…
25-680 Bernard T. Swift, Jr., et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) administrative-procedure internal-revenue-code penalty-assessment statutory-construction supervisory-approval tax-law When must an IRS employee secure written supervisory approval for a penalty assessment to be valid?
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality Whether a state court violates due process by allowing a privately compensated discovery referee to continue exercising judicial authority after their…
25-682 Nikolas S. Casillas v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-notice military-justice sexual-assault statutory-liability yates-error Were the factfinders able to convict Petitioners on an invalid alternate theory of liability after being instructed on the statutory definition of con…
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed?
25-684 Malcolm Curtis, et ux. v. Department of the Treasury, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection income-reporting judicial-presumption tax-law Whether granting the IRS a judicial presumption of correctness violates due process and equal protection when the IRS fails to introduce evidence of u…
25-685 Robert D. Schneider v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-appeals entry-of-judgment firearms-ban military-courts second-amendment ucmj Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. §§ 860c and 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated…
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech Whether public employee speech made as a private citizen and about a controversial subject loses First Amendment protection unless the speech is inten…
25-673 Bradley Andrew Herbst v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Response Waived civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute statute-of-limitations Whether a statute of limitations should be applied to constitutional rights violations under Article 6 and the 14th Amendment
25-674 George Sachs v. Ricardo Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Response Waived client-representation conflict-of-interest defense-strategy legal-dismissal multi-defendant-case statute-of-limitations Whether a statute of limitations can be raised to dismiss a case with significant national implications and potential taxpayer consequences, and to wh…
25-675 Lawrence Rudolph v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute to allow prosecution of a federal crime committed abroad in any district chose…
25-676 In Re John A. Shepardson 2025-12-10 Pending Response Waived attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s…
25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25-678 Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. Virginia 2025-12-10 Pending bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises militates in favor of abrogating prosecutorial discretion of the Virginia State Bar f…
25-668 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-09 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived clean-water-act environmental-enforcement epa-authority sackett-decision surface-water-connection wetlands-regulation Was the Second Circuit correct to uphold Clean Water Act authority over wetlands that are not 'as a practical matter indistinguishable' from covered w…
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal Whether a certified public-school principal's involuntary transfer constitutes an administrative transfer or demotion, and whether such transfer witho…
25-670 James Console, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived due-process federal-tort-claims ftca-exception mandatory-duty restitution-statute victim-rights Whether the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act bars liability when federal employees violate mandatory statutory duties r…
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy 2025-12-09 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25-658 Matthew Jones, et al. v. Amber M. King, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending administrative-acts civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity jury-selection political-retaliation Whether a justice of the peace's administrative acts in ordering wrongful arrests of political rivals are shielded by absolute judicial immunity
25-659 Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence Whether the clandestine replacement of a Jewish Administrative Law Judge with a Muslim ALJ was prejudicial and violated due process rights, and whethe…
25-660 Nicole Klum, Estate of Bobby Jo Klum, et al. v. City of Davenport, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment police-action second-amendment use-of-force Whether the Second and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution forbid police from using deadly force against a suspect exclusively for hol…
25-661 Erik Blecher, et al. v. The Holy See, aka The Apostolic See Second Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending discretionary-function foreign-sovereign-immunities-act mandatory-policy sexual-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether the FSIA's discretionary function exclusion denies federal subject matter jurisdiction for tort claims arising from mandatory foreign governme…
25-662 Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 Did the Seventh Circuit lack jurisdiction to deny qualified immunity by rewriting the factual record and creating an emergency exception to investigat…
25-663 Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance Whether the Supreme Court should require a judicial test for determining when color-of-law actors have used Unconstitutional Avoidance to violate a ci…
25-664 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence Whether the 'new' evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo includes only newly discovered evidence that was not availa…
25-665 Colin R. Covitz v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice Did the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals err when it held there was 'no basis for relief' under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) merely because there was not …
25-666 Samantha Estefenia Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived child-abduction clear-error de-novo-review habitual-residence hague-convention well-settled-defense Is a trial court's determination that a child is 'well settled' subject to de novo review, or is it reviewed for clear error?
25-667 CoStar Group, Inc., et al. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust exclusive-dealing ninth-circuit plausible-relief refusal-to-deal sherman-act Whether a 'de facto' exclusive dealing claim is cognizable under the Sherman Act in the absence of exclusive contractual terms, programs, or policies,…
25-652 Patricia J. Curto v. Erie County Water Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process notice-requirements procedural-fairness water-service-termination Whether the Erie County Water Authority's alleged notice procedures violated due process rights when terminating water service to a customer based on …
25-653 Shannon McKinnon v. Genaro Hernandez Fifth Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine federal-jurisdiction final-judgment-rule sovereign-immunity state-law-immunity Whether an order denying a local official's claim of state-law immunity is immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral-order doctrine
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error Did the 3rd Circuit Court err by accepting District Court's interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order not signed by a Judge, violatin…
25-655 In Re Rayon Payne 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations due-process judicial-bias procedural-limbo statutory-interpretation venue-transfer Whether a United States District Court may transfer a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) to a judicial district where the Plaintiff has already demonstrat…
25-656 In Re Rayon Payne 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived due-process immigration-law judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default supervisory-authority Whether the Supreme Court should exercise supervisory authority to resolve a jurisdictional conflict between federal courts and address potential due …
25-657 Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner's appeal, constituted such a substantial departure from th…
25-638 Zhongxiao Michael Chen v. Michigan State University Sixth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure electronic-filing in-forma-pauperis prima-facie rule-12b6 Whether a civil action is 'commenced' under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 3 when a complaint is electronically delivered and date-stamped by the cou…
25-644 Albert G. Gerhart v. Charity Linch, Chairwoman, Oklahoma Republican Party Oklahoma 2025-12-04 Pending Response Waived anti-slapp derivative-action due-process judicial-bias procedural-conflict shareholder-rights Whether due process was violated in a derivative action lawsuit involving shareholder rights and procedural conflicts
25-645 Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones Virginia 2025-12-04 Pending None Question not identified.
25-646 Mary E. Hill v. Malcolm S. Spratley, Sr. Virginia 2025-12-04 Pending None Question not identified.
25-647 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant raised the substance of those arguments but did not…
25-648 Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, fka Greenback Business Services LLC, dba Cleer Tax Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review contempt-sanctions due-process legal-consequences mootness temporary-restraining-order Whether due process permits contempt sanctions to be imposed under a Temporary Restraining Order that was never reviewed on appeal, where the court of…
25-649 Tamim Shansab v. Nasir Shansab, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations-doctrine due-process evidence-tampering rule-12b6 statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether newly disclosed Department of Justice evidence can serve as grounds for reversing a district court's dismissal of a complaint, and whether the…
25-650 Raymon Walters v. United States Third Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived counsel-strategy criminal-defense defendant-rights jury-trial legal-ethics sixth-amendment When guilt is the sole issue for the jury, is it ever permissible for counsel to make the unilateral decision to concede an element of the offense cha…
25-651 Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending Response Requested bankruptcy-code debt-discharge intentional-tort legal-injury subjective-intent willful-injury Whether the term 'injury' in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) requires intent to invade a legally protected interest or merely denotes harm, and whether a debt f…
25-628 Kevin Mitchell v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Fifth Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Response Waived None
25-629 Billy Puckett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment by prolonging a traffic stop with unrelated investigatory questions
25-630 Ruth Moton v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-12-03 Pending Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights court-access due-process election-claims impartial-adjudication Whether the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision violated Petitioner's due process rights by dismissing election-related claims without consider…
25-631 Jae S. Nah v. Andrew V. Jablon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response Waived copyright-discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-courts judicial-procedure remand-order Can DC and Appeal courts dismiss the complaint of the case 2:23-cv-06909 without further inquiry into the factual evidence of 5 courts and allegation …
25-632 Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court may independently determine the scope of claims in arbitral pleadings without deference to the arbitrator's determination under 9 U.S.…
25-633 Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-03 Denied Response Waived charging-document due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment Under the Fifth Amendment right to due process and the Sixth Amendment right to fair notice, may a conviction be affirmed as legally sufficient based …
25-634 Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-03 Pending church-autonomy church-leadership first-amendment neutral-principles property-dispute religious-entanglement Where necessary to resolve a church-property dispute, does the First Amendment prohibit courts from examining church-related facts to determine who le…
25-635 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review and whether the court violat…
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-12-03 Pending confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets Whether state courts may adjudicate trade secret interests without applying federal confidentiality requirements under the Supremacy Clause
25-637 Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether an appellate court can dismiss a qualified immunity appeal for lack of jurisdiction when video evidence and factual allegations suggest the of…
25-639 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe…
25-640 Randall Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Shanice R. Dantzler-Williams and Miranda R. Dantzler-Williams, et al. v. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending arm-of-the-state county-office eleventh-amendment judgment-analysis sovereign-immunity state-liability When the State is not liable for a judgment against an entity, what weight should this fact be given in the arm-of-the-state immunity analysis of that…
25-641 Abdulmalik Mahyoub Mulhi Abdulla v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Third Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending None
25-642 Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Response Waived as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1)
25-643 Onwy Uzoigwe v. Charter Communications, LLC Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure forum-defendant-rule pro-se-pleading removal-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's late return of a CPLR 312-a acknowledgment form does not constitute proper service unde…
25-622 Office and Professional Employees International Union v. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules intervention labor-law nlrb writ-of-certiorari Whether leave to intervene to file a petition for a writ of certiorari may properly be denied for a failure to show 'exceptional' circumstances and 'i…
25-623 Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity Whether Courts and Police improperly conflate subjective personal traits with true 'mental illness' in the context of street encounters resulting in u…
25-624 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard Whether a mixed question of law and fact under Strickland v. Washington is reviewed for clear error or de novo, and whether an appellate court can rel…
25-625 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 Whether a federal court may certify a class action with uninjured members and rely on representative evidence to prove individualized reliance
25-626 Moises Cruz Cruz v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending None
25-627 Macy's Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law circuit-split labor-board nlra pecuniary-damages unfair-labor-practice Whether the National Labor Relations Board has statutory or constitutional authority to order employers to pay pecuniary harms resulting from an alleg…
25-618 Craig Jonathan Warner v. Texas Texas 2025-12-01 Pending constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the knowing or unknowing presentation of false testimony by a state violates a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
25-619 Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response Waived criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. §1958(a) permits the district court to impose a sentence of death or life imprisonment or a fine or some…
25-620 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-12-01 Pending class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour Does the 'opt-out' class action notice procedure in California burden employee privacy rights and conflict with constitutional privacy protections?
25-621 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response Waived attempted-kidnapping attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-act Can the Federal Government get away with attempted kidnapping, multiple attempted murder, terrorist act, and Human Rights violations on an American Ci…
25-613 Marquise Miller v. Legacy Bank Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-discouragement equal-credit-opportunity-act loan-application prospective-applicants Whether the Equal Credit Opportunity Act authorizes a cause of action for individuals who are prospective applicants or inquirers subject to discrimin…
25-614 Jefferson A. McGee v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeal district-court federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination Whether the appeal in this action lacked merit to proceed and therefore should not have been allowed to proceed
25-615 Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-enclaves legal-borrowing legislative-authority military-servicemembers state-law Whether federal law on federal enclaves borrows current state law, rather than state law only as it existed when the enclave was created
25-616 Juston D. Beyer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review judicial-review military-justice Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion by failing to grant review?
25-617 Jakalien J. Cook v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived court-martial due-process military-justice punishment-calculation sentencing-range uniform-code-military-justice Whether a criminal defendant can waive a judge's incorrect maximum punishment calculation
25-609 Clinton Siples v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-11-25 Pending Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law agency-decision clear-unmistakable-error judicial-review legal-interpretation veterans-benefits To establish 'clear and unmistakable error' based on legal error, must a veteran show that there was an error of law at the time of the challenged dec…
25-610 Hansueli Overturf v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District California 2025-11-25 Denied civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment hague-service-convention service-of-process Whether entry of default based on defective service of process violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of notice and an opportunity to be heard?
25-611 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue Oregon 2025-11-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible …
25-612 Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2025-11-25 Pending criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation Does the word 'expunged' in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or require a complete undoing of a conviction's e…
25-600 John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing this case on standing and pleading standards? Whether meritorious cases filed in U.S. Courts are habituall…
25-601 Ralston Brown v. Mellekas, Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process judicial-estoppel megan's-law plea-agreement retroactive-statute Whether the New York Court of Appeals erred in its conclusion regarding the retroactive application of Connecticut Megan's Law and its impact on Mr. B…
25-602 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay Whether a federal court of appeals violates Due Process and exceeds its jurisdiction under Article III by denying an emergency stay request without ac…
25-603 Wenbin Que v. Lihua Song Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending arbitration-fairness arbitrator-misconduct due-process foreign-award-enforcement fundamental-fairness panel-integrity Do arbitration proceedings held by a three-member panel lack fundamental fairness if one arbitrator has functionally abandoned his post?
25-604 Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly applied a collective qualified immunity analysis and evaluated clearly established rights at an impermissibly hig…
25-605 James Maharg v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu…
25-606 John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of Younger abstention doctrine improperly defers judicial review of a state medical board's COVID-19 misinform…
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause by creating de facto respondeat superior liability forbidden by Section 1983
25-608 Cambra L. Lucas v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board overpayment-recovery statutory-jurisdiction Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) violated its statutory jurisdiction and due process obligations by failing to provide adequate notic…