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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-960 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement a 'reasonable' statewide response to a public-health emergency, and wh…
25-961 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale Does a federal district court lack jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine where a state-court loser of a challenge of a tax sale of the loser'…
25-962 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending anderson-burdick constitutional-law election-integrity mail-voting rational-basis voter-fraud Whether a non-discriminatory mail-voting rule imposing usual voting burdens is constitutional under rational-basis review
25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention Whether a Bivens claim can be brought for deliberate indifference to an inmate's chronic pain at a pretrial detention center under the Fifth and Eight…
25-953 Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve or a basis for judgment as …
25-954 Seville Industries, L.L.C. v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending independent-contractor loan-forgiveness payroll-costs ppp-loan sba-interpretation small-business Whether payments to independent contractors can be considered 'payroll costs' under the Paycheck Protection Program's statutory definition
25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise meritorious claims and syste…
25-956 Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation Whether payments to independent contractors constitute 'payroll costs' under the Paycheck Protection Program for businesses with no W-2 employees
25-957 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending None Question not identified.
25-958 George Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California California 2026-02-11 Pending development-exaction impact-fee legislative-process permit-conditions rough-proportionality takings-clause Does the Takings Clause's protection against unconstitutional permit conditions encompass an evidentiary requirement by which the government must demo…
25-959 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response Waived advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that…
25-947 Robert William Moss v. Shawn M. Latourette, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey 2026-02-10 Pending 14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law Whether a state court must explain why a plaintiff should have previously raised a state law issue under the entire controversy doctrine
25-948 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a…
25-949 John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking Whether Section 230's Good Samaritan immunity applies to the knowing possession and distribution of child pornography and knowingly benefiting from a …
25-950 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard when denying review of a Confrontation Clause violation
25-951 Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Pending anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congressional mandates re…
25-942 In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. 2026-02-09 Pending congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed challenging…
25-943 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, or is a viola…
25-944 Robinhood Markets, Inc., et al. v. Vinod Sodha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending interim-financial-data item-303 misleading-omissions regulation-s-k section-11 securities-act Whether an issuer violates Section 11(a)'s misleading-omissions prong by failing to disclose interim financial data without an inquiry into whether th…
25-945 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required sum…
25-946 In Re Haden Christian Yonce 2026-02-09 Pending ai-system-confession cognitive-architecture digital-cloning judicial-abandonment national-security-emergency writ-of-mandamus Whether a district court's complete failure to rule on motions and defendants' silence constitutes judicial abandonment warranting a Writ of Mandamus;…
25-925 Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. New York 2026-02-06 Pending arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process Is manifest disregard of the law a ground to vacate an arbitration award and if so, what does it mean?
25-929 Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending Response Waived 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond that inhibits appellants' pursuit of their statutory right of appeal, contrary to F.R.A.P. 7, …
25-930 Pimlico, LLC v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending None Question not identified.
25-931 BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas Arkansas 2026-02-06 Pending fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property?
25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the negligence standard that applies to Title VII workplace harassment by coworkers also applies to workplace harassment by customers
25-933 Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors Whether the Second Circuit erred in concluding that state officials could not have comprehended the potential rights violations in the COVID-19 nursin…
25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. First Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in…
25-935 United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de…
25-936 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t…
25-937 Linda Cabello Garcia v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending None
25-938 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination Whether the State's consideration of race in striking prospective Black jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky
25-939 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in admitting racially inflammatory rap lyrics as evidence and in allowing testimonial out-of-court s…
25-940 Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage Whether the circuit court improperly determined the operative bar date for claim preclusion in conflict with prior Supreme Court and Third Circuit pre…
25-941 Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) must establi…
25-920 Louis Vargas, fka Louis Galynsky v. Vincent Rodriguez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending civil-rights due-process peonage-claim pro-se-litigation supplemental-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim and denying procedural due process rights for a pro se litigant
25-922 Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and infringing on due process rights through procedura…
25-923 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political
25-924 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding res judicata effect for special masters' findings in Vaccine Injury Compensation Plan claims and in uphold…
25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Whether Pennsylvania's ABA law school accreditation monopoly violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Due Process protections
25-927 Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation Whether a public employer's threats against an employee can suffice to establish a First Amendment retaliation claim, if those threats would dissuade …
25-928 Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marriage?
25-898 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2026-02-04 Pending district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to challe…
25-914 Chris Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response Waived court-procedure generative-ai judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-deference supreme-court-review Whether a standard of deference is appropriate when a reviewing opinion demonstrates a lack of familiarity with the case and potentially sidesteps Sup…
25-915 Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals can impose reciprocal discipline on an attorney based on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court suspension without du…
25-916 OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response Waived disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights Whether Texas's prohibition on compensating individuals who assist voters with disabilities or limited English proficiency violates Section 208 of the…
25-917 Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation Whether the Air Carrier Access Act creates an implied private right of action for individuals with disabilities against air carriers
25-918 Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to challe…
25-919 Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence …
25-921 Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending due-process inmate-rights prison-disciplinary-board procedural-fairness restitution-sanction trust-account Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide 'some evidence' of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate's ac…
25-900 Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft Whether the Sunken Military Craft Act bars all admiralty salvage claims or only in rem claims directed at the res, and whether the party presentation …
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff may establish specific jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant based on its forum-agnostic 'business model,' or whether the pla…
25-910 MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2026-02-03 Pending civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution Whether an order directing a flat, unconditional restitution payment to a receiver constitutes civil or criminal contempt under due process
25-911 Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tenth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co…
25-912 InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2026-02-03 Pending civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff's claim 'relates to' a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,…
25-913 Keegan L. Lovell v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-03 Pending court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction Where a federal criminal statute for solicitation requires the person solicited to fall within a narrow class, can a conviction be sustained if the pe…
25-902 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment Whether the Anti-Injunction Act bars judicial review of a civil penalty labeled as a tax when the penalty is effectively unpayable, whether the Drug P…
25-903 Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative fai…
25-904 La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response Waived disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights Whether Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act preempts a Texas state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen ballot assisters…
25-905 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from an 'other…
25-906 E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending first-amendment free-expression hazelwood-standard school-censorship student-clubs student-speech Whether Hazelwood applies when student speech might be erroneously attributed to the school, in the context of student-led clubs and flyer distributio…
25-907 Gerard Patrick Matthews v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending None
25-908 The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of 'any challenge' to the jurisdictional status of a wetland 'in any Federal court' limited to government suit…
25-897 Ronald Smith v. Hunter Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending Response Waived None Question not identified.
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160 complies with the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause and 8 U.S.C. 1401(a)
25-901 Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d…
25-887 Sauer West LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law interim-trail-use physical-taking property-rights surface-transportation-board trails-act Whether the Surface Transportation Board's issuance of a Notice of Interim Trail Use and accompanying authorization of recreational trail use triggers…
25-888 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing Should the Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing, and if such an exception exists, must a mun…
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when determi…
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enforceme…
25-891 Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado Colorado 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived None Question not identified.
25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules Whether a court of appeals may refuse to accept a timely petition for panel rehearing by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, contrary to …
25-893 Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (e)(4)(B) that a relator have 'knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclo…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 Whether a district court violates pleading standards by sua sponte inferring probable cause against a pro se plaintiff at the motion to dismiss stage
25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review Whether a court may deem a standard of review argument waived despite circuit split, substitute its own determination in an administrative review, int…
25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Supreme Court will preserve the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury in a civil case involving patent infringement and constitutional righ…
25-885 United States v. Donte J. Carter District of Columbia 2026-01-28 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of …
25-886 Kenneth Genalo, Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Carol Williams Black, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-28 Pending None
25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant Whether States' Vexatious-Litigant Laws, specifically California's Vexatious-Litigant Law, are unconstitutional facial and as-applied challenges to fu…
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends criminal charge…
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct 'materiality' standard for false and misleading…
25-871 Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-rights burdick-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presidential-pardon Whether a Presidential pardon can be forcibly imposed on a defendant against his will when he seeks to continue pursuing appellate review and exonerat…
25-874 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending civil-procedure class-certification daubert-standard evidentiary-standards expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence Whether expert testimony must be admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the framework enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,…
25-875 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2026-01-22 Pending cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records Does compelled disclosure of public employees' personal cell phone call logs under state law violate federal law when the government cannot segregate …
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal Whether the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of 'fraud on the court' under Rule 60(d)(3) creates an untenable circuit split and contravenes…
25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction
25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Pending constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions
25-879 American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to an agency's legal interpretation of a statute despite the Supreme Court's holding in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,…
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court to vacate a fraudulent foreclosure judgment issued without trial and…
25-882 Andrew D. Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions May a district court sanction attorneys to 'send a message' not to file politically disfavored lawsuits?
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on an allegedly une…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 Whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding protective order issued b…
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence violates a litigant's due-process rights under Brady v. Maryland and Moone…
25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habeas …
25-868 Brandon Hughes v. National Football League Second Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived consumer-rights data-disclosure personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act video-service-provider Whether information identifying a person's video viewing history to a specific recipient constitutes 'personally identifiable information' under the V…
25-869 James T. Weiss v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant Whether police officers executing a search warrant must provide Miranda warnings during a detention and what criteria determine when such a detention …
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court's power to issue a writ of habeas corpus should be exercised when a state prisoner is confined by a court without jurisdiction and …
25-872 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly upheld Fairfax County's public park firearm ban based on the presence of four preschool programs across 420 parks
25-873 Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending None Question not identified.
25-856 William King, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending government-authorization monetary-rights pension-appropriation property-interest takings-clause vested-pension Under the Takings Clause, does a per se rule apply when a government authorizes one private party to appropriate another party's vested right to payme…
25-857 Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio…
25-858 Charlotte Chemuti v. North Carolina North Carolina 2026-01-20 Pending ancillary-proceeding criminal-defendant evidence-production law-enforcement-videos pennsylvania-v-ritchie trial-procedure Whether a state may prohibit a criminal defendant from compelling the production of law enforcement videos at trial where the state has established an…
25-859 Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard Whether police officers' own creation of a dangerous situation prior to using deadly force factors into the Fourth Amendment's 'totality of the circum…
25-860 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by merely reciting 'bad faith' when courts conflic…
25-861 Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law Whether state officials may disclaim enforcement authority over a law to avoid federal court review of the law's constitutionality
25-862 Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas Texas 2026-01-20 Pending brady-violation capital-murder due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review Where the Petitioner, the State, and the habeas court all agree that a conviction is unconstitutional and must be reversed, does it violate due proces…
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…