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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6785 | Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Pending | alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard | Generally, relevant evidence is admissible at trial. Evidence is relevant —in civil and criminal cases alike —if "it has any tendency to make a fact m… |
| 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… | |
| 25-6706 | Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | bankruptcy-appeal equitable-review excusable-neglect fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-deadline pioneer-standard | 1. Whether bankruptcy-appeal deadlines under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8002(d) are jurisdictional or subject to equitable excusable-neglect review consistent … |
| 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 | In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe… |
| 25A825 | Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator | Question not identified. |
| 25-850 | California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets … |
| 25-838 | Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity | 1. Whether Petitioner Heid's two grounds for challenging the arresting officers' defense of qualified immunity defense constitute a valid "Franks chal… |
| 25-6584 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | (1) Whether Standley Counsel Richard Hoke Violated Sullivans waht +0 eelt vepresentahon when he filed a Nohcee of Tntent that =) to Judge wt. Michael … |
| 25-6546 | Miguel Bocardo and Cyr Dino Banguguilan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | court-of-appeals district-court evidence-challenge federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sexual-abuse | In Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519, 534 (1992), this Court held that "[o]nce a federal claim is properly presented, a party can make any argume… |
| 25A799 | Eva Migliore, By Her Next Friend Joseph Migliore v. Sunlight Financial LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Application | circuit-split consumer-authorization credit-report fair-credit-reporting-act fraud privacy-rights | Question not identified. |
| 25-6431 | Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing | Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 25A745 | Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 | Question not identified. |
| 25-744 | Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity | This proceeding was brought by the United States on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines, seeking recognition and enforcement of a Philippine for… |
| 25-6405 | Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial | Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea… |
| 25A711 | Dale Sundby, as Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | appellate-procedure intervention post-judgment pro-se property-refinancing trustee | Whether a pro se trustee's post-judgment intervention and appeal challenging property refinancing claims can overcome procedural barriers and district… |
| 25A699 | Larry E. Harrison v. Sharon A. Oliver, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Application | eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights | Whether a prison medical staff's deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical condition constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's p… |
| 25-683 | Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Pending | administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention | 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S… |
| 25A649 | Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations | Whether a federal habeas petitioner's mental health conditions can constitute an extraordinary circumstance warranting equitable tolling of the statut… |
| 25-600 | John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing this case on standing and pleading standards? Whether meritorious cases filed in U.S. Courts are habituall… |
| 25-6167 | Amir Golestan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | denaturalization guilty-plea immigration-consequences rule-11 substantial-rights wire-fraud | Whether the failure to give the Rule 11(b)(1)(O) warning affects the substantial rights of a naturalized United States citizen who could be denaturali… |
| 25A565 | Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 | Whether federal district courts must apply the full rigor of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 at the class certification stage, or may conduct a more limi… |
| 25-6118 | Jane Doe v. University of Chicago, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | civil-procedure fact-construction judicial-review medical-records pleading-standards pro-se | 1. Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) and 8(e), does a court's failure to consider at all a pro se plaintiff's well-pled facts, including Complaint Exhibit… |
| 25-6100 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Dismissed | constitutional-rights identity-theft judicial-misconduct plea-withdrawal statute-of-limitations video-testimony | (1) Whether Petitioner was induced to take a plea agreement when Judge T. Michael Scolnghts stated "The Court... we go through all this, tell these ot… |
| 25A541 | United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Application | circuit-split false-claims-act medical-billing medicare-fraud pleading-standard rule-9b | Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires False Claims Act plaintiffs to identify specific false claim submissions when pleading a fraudul… |
| 25A528 | Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Application | breach-of-warranty constitutional-authority election-administration election-contract subject-matter-jurisdiction voting-systems | Whether a county election board and county commissioners have standing to bring a breach of contract claim against a voting machine vendor for alleged… |
| 25A520 | Ethan West-Helmle v. Denver District Attorney's Office, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | ada-violation disability-discrimination medical-impairment professional-externship reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act protect law students with medical impairments from discriminatory treatment during … |
| 25A497 | Arthur Torlucci v. California | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Application | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 | Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be appealed when the underlying petition fails to state a debatable fed… |
| 25A495 | Mark Hanna v. John Bel Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Application | appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights good-faith-standard in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation procedural-default | Whether a prisoner's in forma pauperis (IFP) status can be denied on appeal when procedural challenges prevent full review of the underlying civil rig… |
| 25-5979 | Hubert Arvie v. Cathedral of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process federal-intervention judicial-immunity section-1983 younger-abstention | Questions have risen out of state and federal court final judgments involving retaliatory, fraudulent, conspiratorial, and ultra vires acts or omissi… |
| 25-5974 | Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing | Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d… |
| 25-5978 | Edgard Velasquez v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | appellate-review federal-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-transcripts judicial-discretion supervisory-authority | Does the district court's clearly erroneous denial of Petitioner's motion for grand jury transcripts pursuant Fed. R. Crim. P. 6 and the Fifth Amendme… |
| 25-5981 | Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing | Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25A472 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters & Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, third-party healthcare payor fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Application | causation class-certification individualized-damages injury-requirement rico-claim third-party-payor | Whether a class action under Rule 23(b)(3) can be certified for a RICO claim when individual plaintiffs cannot demonstrate uniform injury or causation… |
| 25A458 | Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Application | exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations | Whether a federal habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is timely when the petitioner has pursued multiple state post-conviction remedies and f… |
| 25-5922 | Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing | Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5895 | Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment | L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi… |
| 25-409 | Sherry L. Miller v. Campbell Soup Company Retirement & Pension Plan Administrative Committee | Third Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Rehearing | disclosure-requirements erisa fiduciary-breach procedural-protections state-law-release welfare-benefits | 1. Whether ERISA permits fiduciaries to enforce a state-law general release as a condition of receiving welfare benefits, where the release bars plan-… |
| 25A380 | William Scott v. Howard Hanna | Third Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-defect mandatory-deadline notice-of-appeal time-limit | Whether the federal appellate courts properly dismissed an appeal for untimely filing under the mandatory 30-day notice of appeal deadline |
| 25A363 | Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation | Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie… |
| 25A342 | Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass | Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont… |
| 25A320 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights effective-assistance legal-research prison-access sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial was violated when the petitioner was denied adequate access to l… |
| 25A305 | Ernest Edward Gaines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief | Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief based on alleged due process violations during post-conviction DNA testing when the testing … |
| 25A263 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention | Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent … |
| 25-249 | Christy Poon-Atkins, et vir v. Riversprings at Alcovy Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | constitutional-jurisdiction due-process eminent-domain inverse-condemnation private-benefit property-rights | Are the Appellees' inverse condemnation actions without eminent domain proceedings but for 'private benefit' consistent with United States property ac… |
| 25A225 | Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement | Whether a district court may impose a substantially equivalent sentence through alternative sentencing enhancements after a partial reversal and reman… |
| 25A221 | Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | confidential-informant criminal-discovery electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-surveillance | Whether a defendant can challenge the admissibility of evidence obtained through warrantless surveillance by a confidential informant under the Fourth… |
| 25A211 | Tamika D. Pless v. State Employees' Credit Union. et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights eviction fair-housing-act housing-discrimination irreparable-harm pro-se-litigation | Whether federal courts can provide emergency injunctive relief to prevent a potentially discriminatory eviction under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.… |
| 25A202 | Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se | Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can overcome judicial immunity and First Amendment barriers to challenge a state court judge's actions in fede… |
| 25-5379 | Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-17 | Denied | discrimination-standard habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss section-1983-challenge statistical-evidence supreme-court-precedent | Whether the standard of proof for statistical evidence of discrimination conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and whether such evidence can support … |
| 25-182 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure | Whether law enforcement officers can infer consent to searches and seizures without objective indicia, and whether the 'community caretaker exception'… |
| 25-5364 | David R. Kauffman v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-procedure judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition rule-16 | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of certiorari to correct the Third Circuit's denial of a mandamus petition and order the district court … |
| 25-166 | Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970) |
| 25A171 | Robert Monteiro v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Application | drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-admission prior-bad-acts rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the admission of prior bad act evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) and reliance on extra-record statements violated the defendant's… |
| 25A148 | Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest | Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo… |
| 25-5251 | Shahriar Behnamian v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | court-clerk deficiency-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se service-of-process summons | Whether a pro se plaintiff has properly served a defendant when the plaintiff serves the defendant himself at the advice of the court's clerk and then… |
| 25-5249 | Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment | Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense by arbitrarily removing Evidence Rule 801(d)(2)(D) from the availab… |
| 25A125 | Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions murder-conviction sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires reversal of a murder conviction where trial counsel allegedly failed to … |
| 25-5189 | Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A98 | Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification | Question not identified. |
| 25-5146 | Ahmad Abouammo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-18 | Pending | criminal-procedure federal-rules indictment prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations venue-statute | Whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, and whether a criminal information without a waiver of indictment can exten… |
| 25A69 | Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-17 | Presumed Complete | ballot-access election-law electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-eligibility | Whether a state election official can constitutionally exclude potential presidential electors from the ballot based on the perceived ineligibility of… |
| 25A64 | United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Presumed Complete | false-claims-act government-healthcare medicare-fraud pleading-standard qui-tam rule-9b | Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s heightened pleading standard requires False Claims Act plaintiffs to identify specific false claim subm… |
| 25-5118 | George Hamilton v. California Department of General Services, Government Claims Program, et al. | California | 2025-07-15 | Denied | administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process government-claims mental-health-claims procedural-safeguards | Does the Office of General Services' Government Claims Program violate due process by failing to process mental health claims filed by petitioner? |
| 25A55 | Dawn Eagle Feather Floyd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Presumed Complete | drug-offenses fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing suppression-motion | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on independent probable cause derived from the… |
| 25-24 | Joshua Clay McCoy, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Pending | age-restriction constitutional-rights federal-law firearms-regulation gun-purchase second-amendment | Whether federal laws banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing handguns from federally licensed dealers violate the Second Amendment right to keep an… |
| 25A1 | Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | bad-faith civil-procedure discretionary-power eighth-circuit rule-11-sanctions standard-of-review | Whether a federal district court may impose Rule 11 sanctions against a party without individualized findings of bad faith |
| 24A1270 | Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling |
| 24-7462 | Henry Weaver v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | allen-charge due-process evidence-rule fifth-amendment grand-jury lay-opinion | Should the Fifth Amendment apply to grand jury proceedings, and do Allen charges unconstitutionally influence minority jurors, and do law enforcement … |
| 24A1246 | Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Presumed Complete | appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction timely-filing | Whether a federal court can dismiss an appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed well beyond the prescribed 60-d… |
| 24-7387 | Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Denied | capital-litigation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-bono-counsel | Whether a State violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by preventing capital litigants from accessing state habeas process with pro bon… |
| 24-1193 | In Re Sean Murphy, et al. | 2025-05-22 | Denied | appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process | Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation; whether una… | |
| 24-1188 | Over the Line, LLC, et al. v. Christine Thompson | Third Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process fraud-allegation rule-9b summary-judgment third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit can raise and rule on a non-jurisdictional argument alleging fraud that was expressly disavowed by the benefitting party and… |
| 24-1179 | United States, ex rel. Ganesa Rosales, et al. v. Amedisys North Carolina, L.L.C., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | false-claims-act federal-civil-procedure first-to-file-rule government-intervention qui-tam subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether an action asserting False Claims Act claims is a 'related action' under the First to File rule when the government declines intervention and t… |
| 24-7234 | In Re David Diehl | 2025-05-16 | Dismissed | district-court-jurisdiction federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-successive-claims statutory-interpretation | Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … | |
| 24A1096 | Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii | Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour… |
| 24-7211 | Jeffrey Spivack v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal | May a Court of Appeals disregard the scope of an appeal when the appellant has clearly articulated the scope and nature of the appeal by identifying t… |
| 24A1083 | Thomas J. Zajac v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Presumed Complete | 70-day-period judicial-discretion mistrial speedy-trial-act time-exclusion trial-delay | Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits a district court to exclude time from the 70-day trial calculation without making explicit on-the-record findings… |
| 24-7129 | Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant | Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26(a)(1)(B)(iv) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, thereby rendering the Confrontation and Equal Pro… |
| 24-6971 | D. R. v. T. R. | Hawaii | 2025-04-11 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-law family-court-dispute federal-criminal-law judicial-corruption mental-incompetence | Whether a mentally incompetent father can challenge the Hawaii state judiciary's alleged constitutional and civil rights violations through a Supreme … |
| 24-1064 | John Doe v. Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Denied | ada-title-ii civil-rights disability-discrimination parent-child-rights sovereign-immunity state-court-proceedings | Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit disability discrimination in state court proceedings and abrogate sovereign immunity whe… |
| 24-1052 | Open Justice Baltimore, et al. v. Baltimore City Law Department, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | alternative-explanation burden-of-proof civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss plausibility-threshold pleading-standard | Whether a defendant who offers a competing alternative explanation for conduct alleged in a plaintiff's complaint bears the burden of showing that the… |
| 24A946 | Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-04 | Presumed Complete | bristol-myers-squibb collective-action fair-labor-standards-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4 opt-in-plaintiff personal-jurisdiction | Whether each opt-in plaintiff in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action must independently establish personal jurisdiction in the forum where th… |
| 24-1044 | Erroll Tyler, individually and as President and CEO of Nautical Tours, Inc., et al. v. Michael Cox, Commissioner, Boston Police Department, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Denied | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection summary-judgment void-judgment | Whether the First Circuit erred in holding that City officials' decision not to act on Petitioners' completed sightseeing vehicle license applications… |
| 24A906 | Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's appeal of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation can be considered jurisdictionally valid when the underlying orde… |
| 24-950 | Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | constitutional-standards due-process expert-testimony innovation nutrition-arts patent-law | Whether lower courts erred in prejudicing innovation in nutrition arts by failing to uphold constitutional standards for patent advancement and due pr… |
| 24-945 | Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | constitutional-issue default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-procedure pre-answer-motion void-judgment | Whether bombing courts or shooting judges is a holy mission to counter a corrupt judicial system? |
| 24A838 | Phillip Frazier v. American Airlines, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Presumed Complete | age-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act pretext prima-facie-case reduction-in-force summary-judgment | Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied summary judgment standards in rejecting an employee's prima facie case of age discrimination under the Fair… |
| 24A815 | D. R. v. T. R. | Hawaii | 2025-02-24 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-888 | Richard R., et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. | Arizona | 2025-02-19 | Denied | child-custody due-process fraud-allegation judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge void-judgment | Did the courts err in failing to review and address lower court findings that judgments were 'devoid of competent evidence'? |
| 24-880 | NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., fka Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | circuit-split credibility-determination material-fact non-moving-party self-serving-testimony summary-judgment | Whether, contrary to the decisions of multiple other circuits that properly preserve the province of the jury to decide genuinely disputed issues of m… |
| 24-866 | Converter Manufacturing, LLC v. Tekni-Plex, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | administrative-law burden-of-proof patent-enablement patent-validity prior-art statutory-interpretation | Whether the patent challenger bears the burden of proving enablement of prior art under Sections 102 and 103 of the Patent Act |
| 24-849 | Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | admiralty-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction federal-court maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction wrongful-death | Whether a federal court can have exclusive admiralty jurisdiction over a claim when a non-admiralty state court would have concurrent jurisdiction ove… |
| 24-846 | Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process | Whether the Sixth Circuit violated Petitioner's due process rights by improperly dismissing a lawsuit under Rule 12(b)(6) and charging him with a misd… |
| 24-6468 | Leonard W. Houston v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | camp-lejeune-justice-act constitutional-rights federal-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se seventh-amendment | Whether the Plaintiff has a right to a jury trial under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act and the Seventh Amendment |
| 24-6453 | Steven Michael Cenephat v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | character-evidence evidence-rule federal-procedure intent-element mental-state prior-crime | Does a court, in deciding whether a defendant's prior crime is relevant to the non-character issue of intent under Rule 404(b), need only determine wh… |
| 24A751 | Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Presumed Complete | ada disability-rights employment-discrimination fmla medical-leave reasonable-accommodation | Whether an employer's termination of an employee who has requested medical accommodations and taken intermittent leave constitutes unlawful discrimina… |
| 24-808 | Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Judgment Issued | circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment | Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) imposes any time limit to set aside a void default judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction |
| 24A719 | Todd White v. ACell, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Presumed Complete | evidentiary-ruling false-claims-act jury-verdict pro-se-plaintiff retaliation-claim summary-judgment | Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a jury verdict in a False Claims Act retaliation case without first moving for judgment as a matter of law or… |
| 24-6353 | Jonathan Tarek Nassar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-762 | Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review opinion-explanation procedural-requirements right-of-appeal | Is there a minimum amount of explanation in an appellate opinion necessary to meet due process requirements, to verify that an appellate court has act… |
| 24-6330 | Michael R. Capps v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | appellate-review claim-of-error court-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure legal-objection preservation-of-issues | To preserve a claim of error, is it enough that a party has informed the court of the action it wishes the court to take, as Rule 51(b) provides, or m… |
| 24-6310 | Descart Austin Begay, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | circuit-split evidence-rule fabrication impeachment prior-consistent-statement witness-testimony | Did the 2014 amendment to Rule 801(d)(1)(B) supplant this Court's decision in Tome to permit introduction of a declarant witness's prior consistent st… |
| 24-6265 | Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | criminal-procedure guilty-verdict miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony video-evidence weight-of-evidence | Whether video evidence refuting police testimony that a defendant personally held a gun required reversal of a guilty verdict as sufficiently against … |
| 24A656 | Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Presumed Complete | asset-forfeiture criminal-restitution district-court-order federal-court retirement-assets sentencing-judgment | Whether a federal district court may order the turnover of a defendant's retirement assets to satisfy a criminal restitution judgment |
| 24A645 | Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal | Whether pro se litigants can overcome procedural deficiencies in a federal civil rights action when alleging systemic filing interference |
| 24-6218 | Anthony McCarary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness | Does advocating for a particular sentence preserve the procedural reasonableness claim that a court failed to adequately explain the sentence when it … |
| 24-6162 | Gregory A. Tolliver v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Denied | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion | Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)? |
| 24-587 | Scandinavian Airlines System, aka SAS, dba Scandinavian Airlines of North America, Incorporated v. Susan Hardy | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment foreign-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment authorizes federal courts to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation … |
| 24-5999 | Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico | First Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review | Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the convi… |
| 24-5978 | In Re Marquis Deron Heard | 2024-11-15 | Denied | 2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit | Whether a federal prisoner's multiple appeals of a 2255 motion and unresolved search warrant issues constitute grounds for mandamus relief | |
| 24-5945 | Jodi Rouviere v. Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, dba Stryker Orthopaedics, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | federal-rules-of-evidence jury-consideration material-fact reasonable-diligence seventh-amendment summary-judgment | Whether the trial court improperly removed the factual inquiry into reasonable diligence and material fact questions from jury consideration in violat… |
| 24-527 | Emory D. Christian v. Rancho Grande Manufactured Home Community, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | causation civil-rights constitutional-intent judicial-discretion procedural-law rule-12b6 | Whether lower district courts have unconstrained discretion to dismiss civil rights complaints at the 12(b)(6) stage based on flawed interpretations o… |
| 24-5925 | Francis Yomi v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | discovery-dispute judicial-misconduct motion-to-stay procedural-rules protective-order sanctions-motion | Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's case and denying multiple motions for procedural and medical reasons |
| 24-5918 | Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | constitutional-rights federal-procedure judicial-review rule-59-motion rule-60-motion subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to order relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b)(4) and Rule 59(e), and whether such actions v… |
| 24-5881 | Deshon Aaron Atkins v. David Holbrook, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | article-three dispositive-order exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-jurisdiction | Whether the Central District of California's practice of allowing magistrate judges to issue orders with dispositive effects on habeas petitioners' ri… |
| 24-468 | Jo Spence v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-10-25 | Denied | administrative-procedure liberal-pleading-standard pro-se-pleading rule-12b6 veterans-affairs whistleblower-protection | Whether the Supreme Court's ruling on the liberal pleading standard for pro se attorneys was premature and inconsistent with precedent, and whether th… |
| 24-464 | Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. Quintin Scott | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Denied | article-iii-standing circuit-conflict class-action incentive-award judicial-standing redressability | Does a putative class representative have Article III standing solely to seek an 'incentive award' nowhere authorized by statute, rule, or historic pr… |
| 24-426 | Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine | Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split on the proper approach to determining Article III standing in class action lawsuits |
| 24-5758 | Eriston Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | circuit-split conspiracy-charge evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent-determination rule-404b | Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that a plea of not guilty to a conspiracy charge automatically renders similar, extrinsic acts admissible as relevant to… |
| 24-400 | Jennifer Tom v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-09 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment-rights ninth-circuit-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act | Can the Supreme Court allow the Ninth Circuit's decision to stand in a case involving termination of a disabled employee by the Social Security Admini… |
| 24-5714 | Gerardo Farias-Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-07 | Denied | circuit-court-variation criminal-procedure government-breach plain-error-review plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation | Does plain-error review of a government's plea agreement breach focus on the scope of commitments to determine if the breach constitutes a 'plain' err… |
| 24-5703 | Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | administrative-law agency-action discrimination-claims judicial-review procedural-due-process whistleblower-protection | Whether the district court improperly dismissed a pro se plaintiff's administrative law claims challenging the International Holocaust Remembrance All… |
| 24-378 | Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | burden-shifting civil-procedure excusable-neglect pioneer-factors qualified-immunity summary-judgment | Whether the Pioneer factors for excusable neglect are weighted unequally and whether summary judgment standards change when qualified immunity is rais… |
| 24-352 | United States, et al., ex rel. Michael Angelo and MSP WB, LLC v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | false-claims-act government-obligation pleading-standard qui-tam reverse-false-claim third-party-contractor | Whether relators can state a reverse false claim based on defendants' impairment of third-party government contractors' obligations and whether knowle… |
| 24-341 | Juan Carlos Emden, et al. v. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | act-of-state-doctrine federal-civil-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunity judicial-inference nazi-art-restitution rule-12(b)(6) | Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with precedent regarding adjudication of foreign sovereign acts and whe… |
| 24-5641 | In Re Nawaz Ahmed | 2024-09-26 | Dismissed | appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus lack-of-finality voluntary-dismissal writ-of-prohibition | Whether a writ of prohibition is available to challenge an appellate court's jurisdiction when district court orders lack finality due to unadjudicate… | |
| 24-5642 | Nawaz Ahmed v. Bill Cool, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Dismissed | appellate-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss voluntary-dismissal | Whether the Court of Appeals lacks appellate jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case 21-3542 due to district court orders lacking finality and failure … |
| 24-5605 | In Re Shannon Clark | 2024-09-20 | Denied | all-writs-act constitutional-interpretation equitable-remedy federal-court-procedure judicial-power mandamus | Whether the All Writs Act empowers the Supreme Court to issue a mandamus order compelling a federal court clerk to fulfill his duty | |
| 24-311 | Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | agency-deference environmental-review federal-action nepa-compliance public-trust-doctrine segmentation | Whether the Obama Presidential Center project constitutes a major federal action under environmental laws when roadwork is federally funded, and wheth… |
| 24-306 | Michael Bush, et al. v. Linda Fantasia, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Denied | injunctive-relief mootness pro-se-plaintiffs rule-12-procedure standing sua-sponte-dismissal | When pro se plaintiffs face sua sponte dismissal, what procedural safeguards must courts observe under Rule 12(b)(1) or 12(b)(6) regarding hearings an… |
| 24-5558 | Bryant D. Aron v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | fairness-doctrine federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement review-standard sentencing | Whether a district court's ambiguous status regarding a plea agreement under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C) should be considered accepted by a reviewing… |
| 24-275 | Donte Parrish v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Judgment Issued | appeal-period district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation | Whether a litigant must file a second notice of appeal after the appeal period is reopened under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) |
| 24-207 | Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-rights fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion pro-se-representation transcript-integrity | Whether a federal court can prohibit pro se representation in a civil case when the plaintiff has demonstrated prior ability to represent themselves, … |
| 24A109 | Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump | District of Columbia | 2024-07-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar | Whether a notice of appeal filed beyond the 60-day period established in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(1)(B) can be deemed timely when the … |
| 24-94 | SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP | Third Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | 11-usc-1127 11-usc-1144 attorney-malpractice bankruptcy-plan bankruptcy-reorganization-plan chapter-11 informed-consent malpractice-claims procedural-rules third-party-release | Whether a non-consensual third-party release of debtors' attorneys for malpractice claims is enforceable when included in a confirmed Chapter 11 plan … |
| 24-5174 | Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity | Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa… |
| 24-89 | Cory Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure digital-evidence digital-privacy fourth-amendment gps metadata metadata-search probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant-requirements warrant-scope | Does Riley v. California prohibit the Government from searching privacy protected GPS information in the metadata of a digital video labeled contraban… |
| 24-5165 | Leonard W. Houston, as Beneficiary of Estate of Luis Houston Sr., Deceased v. Highland Care Center, Inc., Skilled Nursing Home | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process federal-court-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant judicial-screening nursing-home pro-se-litigation resident-rights standing | in-forma-pauperis |
| 24A99 | Nicolyn Plummer v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure dismissal human-rights insurance-underwriting motion-for-reconsideration pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge an insurance underwriting decision through an appeal lacking an arguable basis in law or fact |
| 24-5133 | Brian Wright v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | district-court equitable-jurisdiction exceptional-circumstances federal-insurance federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-return person ramsden-factors rule-41g standing | Did Federal Insurance Company have standing to file a motion under Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) |
| 24-5071 | Dennis German v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct… |
| 24-5028 | Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver | Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 12, as amended in 2014, mandates a forfeiture or waiver of a multiplicity claim not timely raised in the district court, and … |
| 23-1348 | In Re Charles Simon | 2024-06-27 | Denied | administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation | Whether the Three Judge Panel's order denied and rubber-stamped the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ignor… | |
| 23-1317 | Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-06-18 | Denied | civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer | Personal-jurisdiction-versus-forum-non-conveniens |
| 23-7738 | Terrill Goods v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-17 | Denied | criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver | Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim. P… |
| 23-7657 | Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights | Ongoing violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights,judicial-misconduct,bias-and-prejudice,disqualification,perpetuation-of-evidence,trust-do… |
| 23-7641 | Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b | Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e… |
| 23-7445 | Lloyd Kidd v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process electronic-evidence jurisdiction motion-to-suppress sufficiency-of-evidence summary-charts venue venue-challenge | Was there legally insufficient evidence to establish that venue was proper in the Southern District of New York for each count of conviction? |
| 23-7398 | Jamaal Parker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation | Whether a new criminal trial requires trial error that would have been reversible on appeal |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff experiencing personal hardship and property damage may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… |
| 23-7349 | Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer | whether-mandamus-relief-is-available |
| 23-7291 | In Re Furvio Flete-Garcia | 2024-04-23 | Denied | civil-procedure clerical-error court-orders due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure standing | Does the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the failure to serve Mr. Field-Garazo with notice of entry of a court-ordered mandate v… | |
| 23-1102 | Timothy Allen Davis, Sr. v. City of Apopka, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | civil-rights due-process false-arrest immunity law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 stand-your-ground | Whether the federal court denied effect to the immunity provision of the state statute |
| 23A894 | Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation | Whether a pro se litigant's notice of appeal filed outside the standard 30-day window can be considered timely under federal appellate procedural rule… |
| 23A873 | Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Presumed Complete | deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment | Whether a prison official's medical treatment of an inmate's foot condition constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eig… |
| 23-7110 | Ileen Cain v. Mercy University, fka Mercy College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-03-29 | Denied | civil-procedure document-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality first-amendment frcp-60b judgement judgment-finality pro-se-pleading rule-60(b) standing | Which juncture of federal civil proceedings constitute Judgement entered establishes the finality of a civil complaint, Pursuant to Federal Rule Civil… |
| 23-1061 | Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver | Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de… |
| 23-7077 | Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing | Whether the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal as untimely conflicts with the 'mailbox rule' established by this Court and other cir… |
| 23A859 | Lester Dobbey v. Uptown People's Law Center, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Presumed Complete | administrative-remedies constitutional-rights legal-services mail-handling prison-grievance tax-documentation | Whether a legal services organization and state corrections officials can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations when assisting an incar… |
| 23A853 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-20 | Presumed Complete | collateral-review crime-of-violence first-step-act ineffective-assistance plea-agreement section-924c | Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a § 924(c) charge precludes collateral review of the underlying crime of violence in light of the Supreme Court's… |
| 23-995 | Nadine Gazzola, et al. v. Kathleen Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Denied | 2nd-amendment bruen-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-standing due-process firearms-regulation free-speech preliminary-injunction regulatory-overburden second-amendment standing takings | Did the Second Circuit err in the Winter analysis of Petitioners' request for preliminary injunctive relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 65, including (1.) w… |
| 23-6956 | David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction | Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und… |
| 23-970 | NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Judgment Issued | class-action expert-opinion falsity falsity-allegations internal-documents pleading-requirements pslra scienter securities-fraud | Whether plaintiffs seeking to allege scienter under the PSLRA based on allegations about internal company documents must plead with particularity the … |
| 23A798 | John Seely v. James Seely, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-lawsuit fourteenth-amendment rooker-feldman state-court-judgment | Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permits a federal lawsuit seeking damages for alleged extrinsic fraud that resulted in an adverse state court judg… |
| 23-6835 | R. Allen Stanford v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | civil-enforcement district-court-jurisdiction equity-receiver equity-receivership federal-civil-procedure federal-venue general-jurisdiction securities-enforcement securities-regulation ultra-vires venue-laws | Whether the SEC properly construed and applied federal venue laws |
| 23-6794 | Isaac Cardona v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | whether-the-promotional-money-laundering-provision-violates-due-process |
| 23-6717 | Steve Van Horne v. Robert Jones, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner legal-technicalities timeliness united-states-v-lee | Whether the circumstances surrounding the petitioner's late filing of an appeal qualify as surprise, excusable neglect, and other compelling circumsta… |
| 23-841 | Emily Evans, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud perjury rooker-feldman rule-60d state-court-judgment | Whether a federal court had the authority and obligation to vacate a state court judgment obtained through perjury suborned by the prevailing party's … |
| 23A722 | Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture concrete-injury pleading-amendment property-seizure section-853(n) | Whether a timely-filed Section 853(n) civil forfeiture petition can be amended when the government identifies a pleading deficiency and whether an int… |
| 23A720 | Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release | Whether supervised release conditions that a defendant claims violate double jeopardy protections can be challenged under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) witho… |
| 23-6616 | Fan Yang v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 | Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to… |
| 23A698 | Martha Carrascal v. American Airlines, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Presumed Complete | discovery-sanctions dismissal employment-discrimination judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant rule-37 | Whether a district court may impose the sanction of dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b)(2)(A)(v) for a plaintiff's failure to comply… |
| 23-806 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-procedure electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-cause intervening-circumstances judicial-discretion pioneer-investment-services | Whether Congress intended to treat 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' separately in Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5)(A)(ii) and the appropriate standard of r… |
| 23A662 | Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions | Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of substantially similar lawsuits challenging a mortgage default constitutes vexatious litigation warranti… |
| 23-6489 | Robert E. Harrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether prior gun possession convictions are admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date |
| 23-6451 | Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review | Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review? |
| 23-6369 | Joseph R. Cyr v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | burden-of-proof conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions malice-aforethought sandstrom-standard sandstrom-v-montana | Whether the trial court's jury charge violated the defendant's due process rights by creating an impermissible conclusive presumption that relieved th… |
| 23A579 | Deonte Marques Curry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte | Whether the exception to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) applies to a district court's sua sponte amendment of a final judgment when a defend… |
| 23-6333 | Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial |
| 23-658 | Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-12-19 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification commonality federal-rules-of-civil-procedure policy-uniformity rule-23 significant-proof uniform-policy | Where class certification is based on allegations that a defendant's policy or practice has injured class members, what constitutes 'significant proof… |
| 23-6306 | Devon Austin Earl v. Brandon Harris, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-19 | Denied | civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process false-arrest forma-pauperis jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations university-police | issue being raised |
| 23-6288 | Carlos Velasquez v. Robert Baldock, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | civil-rights court-procedure fed-r-civ-p-59 fed-r-civ-p-60(d) fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-immunity judicial-malpractice new-trial-timing rule-60 | Will the Supreme Court of the United States reject Political-Fraud,fraud-and-false-statements-in-official-transactions,when-expressed-by-political-aut… |
| 23A548 | Mary M. Mooney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | circuit-court clerk-error federal-rules motion-for-reconsideration pro-se timely-filing | Whether a pro se litigant's timely motion for reconsideration can be deemed untimely due to a clerk's administrative error when the motion was receive… |
| 23A526 | Jacob Smith v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-right criminal-procedure faretta-right preliminary-hearing self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to self-representation established in Faretta applies to preliminary hearings in state criminal proceedings |
| 23-616 | Estate of William Han Manstrom-Greening, Through Carol J. Manstrom, Personal Representative v. Lane County, Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-relevance expert-testimony free-speech gun-violence negligence psychological-impact standing suicide | Is an expert's testimony about the psychological connection between the visible presence of unsecured firearms and death by suicide relevant to a jury… |
| 23-6191 | In Re Colby Jerome Hale | 2023-12-07 | Denied | civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation | What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an appeal from the U.S. District Court | |
| 23A508 | Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b | Whether a death row inmate with an intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can seek federal habeas relief through a Rule 60(b) motion a… |
| 23A493 | Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion | Whether federal courts must distinguish between 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' when evaluating untimely filing of a notice of appeal during extr… |
| 23-6117 | Gordon Lagerstrom v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion standing | Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)? |
| 23-6107 | Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations | Whether exceptions to the AEDPA one-year time limitations rendered the district court's 2015 dismissal for untimeliness of Cua's habeas petition and d… |
| 23A433 | Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | district-court-order federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal rule-59-motion timely-filing | Whether a district court's denial of a Rule 59(e) motion can be appealed after the 30-day jurisdictional deadline for filing a notice of appeal has el… |
| 23-497 | L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing | Whether an attorney whose name is designated as 'Of Counsel' on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, submi… |
| 23-5972 | Barney A. Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-statement notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appellant procedural-default | Whether the Court of Appeals' disposition on the notice of appeal issue should be vacated |
| 23A396 | Robert E. Harrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-404b jury-trial prior-conviction propensity-evidence | Whether the admission of a defendant's prior conviction under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) violates due process when the prosecution introduces the… |
| 23A392 | Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 | Whether a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against multiple judicial and law enforcement officials can survive dismissal when alleging potenti… |
| 23-5897 | Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit | Whether the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit misused FED. R. CIV. P. 56 (c)(1)(a) i… |
| 23-5894 | Myron Lee Brandon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment consent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment transportation-of-minors | Exclusion of evidence on prostitution and lying by alleged victim |
| 23A377 | Anthony Andrews v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure frivolous-dismissal imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act serious-physical-injury | Whether a prisoner with three prior frivolous dismissals can proceed in forma pauperis under the Prison Litigation Reform Act without demonstrating im… |
| 23-420 | UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. v. EVA Airways Corporation | Second Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | air-carrier cargo-claim civil-procedure indemnity-contribution international-carriage montreal-convention personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 third-party-complaint treaty-law | Should the Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction have been granted? |
| 23A337 | Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure federal-rule-appellate-procedure-4 incarcerated-litigant petition-for-rehearing prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing | Whether the prison mailbox rule under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c)(1)(A)(i) and 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires a federal appellate court to dee… |