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