Recent Paid Petitions
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-960 | Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity | Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement a 'reasonable' statewide response to a public-health emergency, and wh… | |
| 25-961 | Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale | Does a federal district court lack jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine where a state-court loser of a challenge of a tax sale of the loser'… | |
| 25-962 | Republican National Committee, et al. v. Bette Eakin, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | anderson-burdick constitutional-law election-integrity mail-voting rational-basis voter-fraud | Whether a non-discriminatory mail-voting rule imposing usual voting burdens is constitutional under rational-basis review | |
| 25-952 | Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention | Whether a Bivens claim can be brought for deliberate indifference to an inmate's chronic pain at a pretrial detention center under the Fifth and Eight… | |
| 25-953 | Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law | Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve or a basis for judgment as … | |
| 25-954 | Seville Industries, L.L.C. v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | independent-contractor loan-forgiveness payroll-costs ppp-loan sba-interpretation small-business | Whether payments to independent contractors can be considered 'payroll costs' under the Paycheck Protection Program's statutory definition | |
| 25-955 | Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Colorado | 2026-02-11 | Pending | constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar | Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise meritorious claims and syste… | |
| 25-956 | Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation | Whether payments to independent contractors constitute 'payroll costs' under the Paycheck Protection Program for businesses with no W-2 employees | |
| 25-957 | Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | None | Question not identified. | |
| 25-958 | George Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California | California | 2026-02-11 | Pending | development-exaction impact-fee legislative-process permit-conditions rough-proportionality takings-clause | Does the Takings Clause's protection against unconstitutional permit conditions encompass an evidentiary requirement by which the government must demo… | |
| 25-959 | CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Response Waived | advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act | Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that… |
| 25-947 | Robert William Moss v. Shawn M. Latourette, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection | New Jersey | 2026-02-10 | Pending | 14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law | Whether a state court must explain why a plaintiff should have previously raised a state law issue under the entire controversy doctrine | |
| 25-948 | Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law | Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a… | |
| 25-949 | John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Whether Section 230's Good Samaritan immunity applies to the knowing possession and distribution of child pornography and knowingly benefiting from a … | |
| 25-950 | Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard when denying review of a Confrontation Clause violation | |
| 25-951 | Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-10 | Pending | anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court | May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congressional mandates re… | |
| 25-942 | In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. | 2026-02-09 | Pending | congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed challenging… | ||
| 25-943 | Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity | When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, or is a viola… | |
| 25-944 | Robinhood Markets, Inc., et al. v. Vinod Sodha, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | interim-financial-data item-303 misleading-omissions regulation-s-k section-11 securities-act | Whether an issuer violates Section 11(a)'s misleading-omissions prong by failing to disclose interim financial data without an inquiry into whether th… | |
| 25-945 | Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment | Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required sum… | |
| 25-946 | In Re Haden Christian Yonce | 2026-02-09 | Pending | ai-system-confession cognitive-architecture digital-cloning judicial-abandonment national-security-emergency writ-of-mandamus | Whether a district court's complete failure to rule on motions and defendants' silence constitutes judicial abandonment warranting a Writ of Mandamus;… | ||
| 25-925 | Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. | New York | 2026-02-06 | Pending | arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process | Is manifest disregard of the law a ground to vacate an arbitration award and if so, what does it mean? | |
| 25-929 | Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response Waived | 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights | Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond that inhibits appellants' pursuit of their statutory right of appeal, contrary to F.R.A.P. 7, … |
| 25-930 | Pimlico, LLC v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | None | Question not identified. | |
| 25-931 | BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas | Arkansas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause | Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property? | |
| 25-932 | Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment | Whether the negligence standard that applies to Title VII workplace harassment by coworkers also applies to workplace harassment by customers | |
| 25-933 | Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors | Whether the Second Circuit erred in concluding that state officials could not have comprehended the potential rights violations in the COVID-19 nursin… | |
| 25-934 | Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. | First Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in… | |
| 25-935 | United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de… | |
| 25-936 | Nadarius Barnes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea | Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t… | |
| 25-937 | Linda Cabello Garcia v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-938 | James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination | Whether the State's consideration of race in striking prospective Black jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky | |
| 25-939 | James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment | Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in admitting racially inflammatory rap lyrics as evidence and in allowing testimonial out-of-court s… | |
| 25-940 | Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage | Whether the circuit court improperly determined the operative bar date for claim preclusion in conflict with prior Supreme Court and Third Circuit pre… | |
| 25-941 | Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) must establi… | |
| 25-920 | Louis Vargas, fka Louis Galynsky v. Vincent Rodriguez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | civil-rights due-process peonage-claim pro-se-litigation supplemental-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim and denying procedural due process rights for a pro se litigant | |
| 25-922 | Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and infringing on due process rights through procedura… | |
| 25-923 | Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation | Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political | |
| 25-924 | Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding res judicata effect for special masters' findings in Vaccine Injury Compensation Plan claims and in uphold… | |
| 25-926 | Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners | Pennsylvania | 2026-02-05 | Pending | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination | Whether Pennsylvania's ABA law school accreditation monopoly violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Due Process protections | |
| 25-927 | Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation | Whether a public employer's threats against an employee can suffice to establish a First Amendment retaliation claim, if those threats would dissuade … | |
| 25-928 | Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro | Pennsylvania | 2026-02-05 | Pending | divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support | Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marriage? | |
| 25-898 | William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias | Colorado | 2026-02-04 | Pending | district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act | Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to challe… | |
| 25-914 | Chris Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response Waived | court-procedure generative-ai judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-deference supreme-court-review | Whether a standard of deference is appropriate when a reviewing opinion demonstrates a lack of familiarity with the case and potentially sidesteps Sup… |
| 25-915 | Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals can impose reciprocal discipline on an attorney based on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court suspension without du… | |
| 25-916 | OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response Waived | disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights | Whether Texas's prohibition on compensating individuals who assist voters with disabilities or limited English proficiency violates Section 208 of the… |
| 25-917 | Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation | Whether the Air Carrier Access Act creates an implied private right of action for individuals with disabilities against air carriers | |
| 25-918 | Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act | Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to challe… | |
| 25-919 | Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split | Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence … | |
| 25-921 | Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | due-process inmate-rights prison-disciplinary-board procedural-fairness restitution-sanction trust-account | Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide 'some evidence' of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate's ac… | |
| 25-900 | Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft | Whether the Sunken Military Craft Act bars all admiralty salvage claims or only in rem claims directed at the res, and whether the party presentation … | |
| 25-909 | Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction | Whether a plaintiff may establish specific jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant based on its forum-agnostic 'business model,' or whether the pla… |
| 25-910 | MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. | Nevada | 2026-02-03 | Pending | civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution | Whether an order directing a flat, unconditional restitution payment to a receiver constitutes civil or criminal contempt under due process | |
| 25-911 | Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud | Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25-912 | InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2026-02-03 | Pending | civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction | Whether a plaintiff's claim 'relates to' a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,… | |
| 25-913 | Keegan L. Lovell v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-03 | Pending | court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction | Where a federal criminal statute for solicitation requires the person solicited to fall within a narrow class, can a conviction be sustained if the pe… | |
| 25-902 | Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment | Whether the Anti-Injunction Act bars judicial review of a civil penalty labeled as a tax when the penalty is effectively unpayable, whether the Drug P… | |
| 25-903 | Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. | New Hampshire | 2026-02-02 | Pending | administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative fai… | |
| 25-904 | La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Response Waived | disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights | Whether Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act preempts a Texas state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen ballot assisters… |
| 25-905 | Andrew J. Johnston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors | Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from an 'other… |
| 25-906 | E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | first-amendment free-expression hazelwood-standard school-censorship student-clubs student-speech | Whether Hazelwood applies when student speech might be erroneously attributed to the school, in the context of student-led clubs and flyer distributio… | |
| 25-907 | Gerard Patrick Matthews v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-908 | The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver | Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of 'any challenge' to the jurisdictional status of a wetland 'in any Federal court' limited to government suit… |