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25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud …
25A818 Dana Escoffier v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2026-01-14 Application appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline motion-for-relief pro-se time-extension Question not identified.
25A742 Shameek J. Halls v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Application bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-agreement second-circuit summary-order Question not identified.
25A743 Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25A663 Amigo Shuttle Inc., et al. v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Application antitrust competition monopoly port-authority sherman-act transportation Question not identified.
25A560 Jane Doe v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application alternative-remedy appellate-review extraordinary-writ judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se Whether a pro se litigant can obtain mandamus relief when alternative legal remedies exist and the right to extraordinary relief is not clearly establ…
25A510 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Application batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defense attorney's failure to demand a remedy for a proven Batson violation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel when raci…
25-6017 John Todd Williams v. Richard J. Sullivan, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion 1. Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status to an indigent litigant raising substantial constitutional claims — including violations of the Four…
25A501 Nicholas Hansen v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-11-03 Application legal-filing prison-resources pro-se statute-of-limitations time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to limited access to legal resources
25A432 Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete cold-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-standard jurisdiction-review missing-child Whether the constitutional rights of a criminal defendant are violated when a conviction is based on decades-old circumstantial evidence in a high-pro…
25A433 Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a pro se litigant's appeal based on a procedural default without considering exceptional…
25A381 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Application constitutional-review content-based-restriction first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny purpose-based-distinction speech-regulation Whether content-based speech restrictions that purport to draw distinctions based on the purpose of regulated speech are subject to strict or intermed…
25A337 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands Whether the Second Circuit's test for determining 'waters of the United States' under the Clean Water Act conflicts with the Supreme Court's interpret…
25A271 Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Presumed Complete burden-shifting civil-rights employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework remains a viable standard for analyzing employment discrimination claims under Title VII
25A250 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll Second Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act Whether a former president can be held liable for defamatory statements made about a public accusation while serving in office, and the proper standar…
25-5449 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error 1. Whether a federal judge who is not properly designated under 28 U.S.C. §§ 291-296 may lawfully preside over a criminal case and its post-conviction…
25-5450 John Todd Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied article-three due-process federal-appellate-judge judicial-designation jurisdiction post-conviction-motion 1. Whether a federal appellate judge who was never properly designated under 28 U.S.C. § 294 may lawfully adjudicate a post-conviction 28 U.S.C. § 22…
25A209 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias Whether an employment discrimination claim can proceed when a pro se plaintiff alleges workplace bias without meeting specific pleading requirements
25A141 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-04 Presumed Complete burden-shifting contributing-factor employment-discrimination retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provision requires a plaintiff to prove that their protected activity was a substantial or m…
25-90 Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen…
25A74 Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon Second Circuit 2025-07-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeal non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata substitute-trustee-deed Question not identified.
25A34 Steven Pitts v. New York New York 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete apprendi-rule jury-right prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment tolling-period Whether the Sixth Amendment jury right requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine the length of a defendant's prior incarceration for purposes…
24A1280 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the lower appellate court's ruling improperly interpreted or applied the legal standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition f…
24A1262 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation state-court-proceedings Whether state officials can be enjoined from pursuing allegedly retaliatory and bad-faith criminal and civil proceedings that purportedly violate a pl…
24-7364 Philip Emiabata, et ux. v. Bank of New York Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-foreclosure pre-service-dismissal section-1915 Whether judicial foreclosure under Texas law and pre-service dismissal of a complaint violate constitutional due process protections
24A1081 Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
24A983 Delowar Mohammed Hossain v. United States Second Circuit 2025-04-15 Presumed Complete CIPA classified-information due-process material-support-terrorism need-to-know sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the government from denying defense counsel access to classified information used in the investigation…
24-1038 Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s…
24-6823 Thomas Caves v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm a judgment of conviction for fe…
24-6753 John Martin v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j…
24-776 Paul S. Astrup v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment petition-clause seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower court appropriately entertained an untimely petition for rehearing and denied Astrup's motions within the context of SCOTUS Rule 13.…
24-6278 In Re Sherly Cadet 2025-01-13 Denied civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing a pro se litigant's appeal challenging the interpretation of 42 U.S.C. §1981 and the right to be heard
24-6020 Justin Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin…
24-5778 Akmal Narzikulov v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied due-process fifth-amendment jury-reliability perjury reasonable-doubt witness-testimony Whether government witnesses committed perjury during trial that was so inherently contradictory and unreliable that no reasonable jury could conclude…
24-5759 Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal Whether a bankruptcy court's denial of a debtor's motion to voluntarily dismiss a Chapter 7 case is a final appealable order under 28 U.S.C. § 158
24-408 Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent Did the Second Circuit correctly apply standing requirements under Article III and recent Supreme Court precedents for a Section 16(b) Securities Exch…
24-364 Anthony Futia, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied constitutional-question federal-appellate-review guarnieri-precedent petition-for-certiorari second-circuit summary-order Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order in Futia v. United States conflicts with Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri and presents an unsettled federal c…
24-5666 Lidia M. Orrego v. Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice Whether the Second Circuit recognizes constitutional due process and equal protection rights before their deprivation, and whether judicial bias viola…
24-5619 Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion Whether the denial of a pro se Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the United States Court of Appeals constitutes a merits denial of civil habeas co…
24-5602 Raymond Christian v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied collateral-statements criminal-confession federal-evidence-rule hearsay-exception non-testifying-declarant statement-against-penal-interest Does Williamson v. United States permit a lower court to admit collateral statements in a non-testifying declarant's confession as providing 'context'…
24-289 Yolanda D. Tyson v. Town of Ramapo, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test prima-facie-case racial-discrimination May an employer dispute a plaintiff's prima facie case of racial discrimination by using a comparator status determination that violates the Americans…
24-5379 Stephen T. Mitchell v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus hearsay-exclusion Whether the exclusion of a habeas petitioner's proffered testimony on hearsay grounds violated the petitioner's federal constitutional rights to due p…
24A172 Evan Wald v. New York New York 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-evidence cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Whether an autopsy report created during a homicide investigation constitutes 'testimonial' evidence under the Confrontation Clause requiring the oppo…
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
23-7319 Yudith Reynoso-Hiciano v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt Whether repeatedly arguing in closing that the defendant 'needed the jury to believe' certain things impermissibly shifted the burden of proof and evi…
23-7273 Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recognizes the mitigating effects of upholding the Constitutional Rights to Due Proc…
23-7121 Basilio Hernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Did the court err in finding that the good-faith-exception to the exclusionary-rule applied?
23-6866 Cesar Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the …
23A751 Samuel D. Isaly v. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete certiorari judicial-procedure petition second-circuit supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period
23A673 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to a state prisoner was improper under federal constitutional standards for reviewing stat…
23A640 Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth Second Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction Whether a state court's application of the harmless error doctrine to post-conviction DNA evidence violates a criminal defendant's constitutional righ…
23A636 Weili Cao-Bossa v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete civil-service-law employment-discrimination negligent-misrepresentation rule-of-three statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether a state agency's alleged discriminatory hiring practices and fabricated declination letter violate New York's Civil Service Law Section 61 and…
23-6400 Michael Hewitt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy drug-distribution evidence jury-instructions Should the trial court have acquitted Petitioner of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires plaintiffs to trace property exchanged for expropriated assets to esta…
23A575 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access Whether a contractual confidentiality provision in an arbitration agreement can override the First Amendment's presumption of public access to judicia…
23A563 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se rule-59e rule-60b Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability to challenge the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) and Rule 59(e) post-convict…
23A524 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness Whether a government's land use decision constitutes a final decision sufficient to render an as-applied regulatory takings claim ripe for federal cou…
23A499 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner mootness section-2255 supervised-release Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability and hold an appeal in abeyance after fully serving his sentence for a supervised …
23A425 Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of vexatious legal actions can constitute an abuse of judicial process warranting sanctions
23A174 Maria Navarro Carrillo, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete congressional-intent disabled-students FAPE free-appropriate-public-education individuals-with-disabilities-education-act state-administrative-deference Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act permits states to provide greater protections to disabled students than those mandated by the …
23A150 William Bazemore v. United States Second Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A109 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A115 Eileen Mendez, Individually and as Legal Guardian of A. C., et al. v. David C. Banks, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete individuals-with-disabilities-education-act irreparable-harm pendency-placement preliminary-injunction special-education-funding stay-put-provision Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's stay-put provision, 20 U.S.C. § 1415(j), requires a school district to fund a student's pend…
23A69 James Owens, et al. v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete forum-non-conveniens judicial-deference piper-aircraft plaintiff-choice-of-forum second-circuit terrorism-victims Whether the strong presumption in favor of a plaintiff's choice of forum under Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno applies with equal force when a suit includ…
22-7610 Othniel Evans Maragh v. Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-bias standing summary-judgment Is it ethical or legal for the Southern District Court of New York's Judge, Jesse M Furman to disregard every shred of evidence presented by the Plain…
22-7150 Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios
22-7151 Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios
22-6283 James R. Turner v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction-dismissal psychiatric-disability standing statute-of-limitations Whether the United States Court of Appeals was justified by DISMISSING Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court Whe…
22-416 Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated?
22-294 County of Ontario, New York v. Brian Gunsalus, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied bankruptcy-code bfp-v-resolution-trust-corp due-process foreclosure fraudulent-conveyance judicial-oversight real-estate-titles state-law tax-collection tax-foreclosure Did the Second Circuit err in refusing to extend the holding of BFP to a lawfully conducted tax foreclosure?
22-5697 Robert Capelli v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane
22-5399 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation Whether Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act limits restitution for 'necessary ... other expenses' to out-of-pocket expenses simila…
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with releva…
21-7711 Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court …
21-1291 Rodney Muschette v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied 404(b)-evidence 5th-amendment circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment fundamentally-unfair-trial hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment Was Mr. Muschette denied his 5th Amendment right to due process?
21-1142 James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 Does Section 230(c)(1) preempt discrimination claims against an interactive computer service?
21-6862 In Re Daniel Jones 2022-01-14 Denied civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing is-petitioner-entitled-to-immediate-relief
21-699 Collette Campbell v. We Transport, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied beneficiary-designation cat-paw-doctrine death-benefits employer-duties erisa erisa-claims-procedures fiduciary-duty fraud insurance-carrier-duties insurance-claim Whether the 'Cat's Paw Doctrine' is applicable in this case
21-672 Steven B. Barger v. First Data Corporation Second Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied cost-savings employee-rights employer-obligations employment-rights fmla fmla-restoration leave-of-absence restoration-entitlement statutory-interpretation termination Whether the FMLA prohibits an employer from refusing to restore an employee to work when the employee has timely requested restoration and satisfied a…
21-5877 Brian J. Neary v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied administrative-law age-discrimination article-1 employment-discrimination executive-order federal-excepted-service federal-hiring-authority legislative-authority pathways-program separation-of-powers Has the Executive Branch breached the Separation-of-Powers principle?
21-157 Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation Second Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of…
20-1727 James David O'Brien v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure federal-agency immunity legal-interpretation proffer-agreement subpoena testimony testimony-protection Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit err in deciding that a proponent of testimony pursuant to a proffer agreement is not lat…
20-1642 Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation Whether the injured worker was entitled to a jury determination of his status as a Jones Act seaman
20-7189 Bernard Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
20-6895 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where a trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional rig…
20-6638 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where the trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional r…
20-6381 Domenico Anastasio v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
20-684 Benjamin Tagger v. Strauss Group Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction fcn-treaties federal-courts friendship-commerce-navigation-treaties international-commercial-relations national-treatment permanent-resident standing treaty-interpretation Does the National Treatment clause in Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties provide permanent resident aliens from treaty nations access to fe…
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah 2020-11-16 Denied bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred
20-577 Moaze Ibrahim v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Question not identified
20-6033 Arrello Barnes v. Louis Fedele, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims
20-36 Michael J. McGowan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness pro-se Whether Petitioner demonstrated the requisite 'diligence' and 'extraordinary circumstances' to warrant equitable tolling
19-8564 David Ojeda v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokeling v. United States
19-8543 Carl L. Burdick v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker Whether the District Court accorded the advisory sentencing guidelines a presumption of reasonableness
19-8408 Stanley West McPherson v. Tompkins Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error motion-to-dismiss pretrial-procedures procedural-rules scheduling-conference standing summary-judgment Whether the United States Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles erred and violated in failure and refuse to give petitioner a scheduled conference
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the 2009 amended version of 18 U.S.C. §1014 was retroactively applied in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause
19-8048 Collyer Goodman v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
19-1128 Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances is violated by the claim preclusion Res Judicata, Bar Order
19-1113 Peter R. Rumbin v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process equitable-estoppel government-seizure plaut-v-spendthrift-farms property-rights standing takings u.s.-government-v.-espinosa Whether the courts should overrule the decision of the District Court of Connecticut
19-986 Mary Lou Vosburgh, et al. v. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied civil-rights due-process government-action liberty-interest mandamus name-clearing procedural-rights reputation reputation-harm When a government actor deprives an individual of his liberty interest in his reputation, is a state court proceeding in the nature of mandamus to com…
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)…
19-938 Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services Second Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray 2020-01-24 Denied all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration Whether Mandamus should issue to compel the Second Circuit Court to enter a Finding of Contempt
19-810 Avtar S. Badwal v. Ramandeep Badwal, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied civil-rights divorce due-process judicial-bias judicial-complaint matrimonial matrimonial-law section-1983 Can the Petitioner request and receive a new trial from the Matrimonial Judge in a Divorce case whom acted against him with bias because he filed a ju…
19-6613 Jaime Rodriguez, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied appellate-review counsel-performance deliberate-misrepresentations due-process factual-predicates false-positions false-positions-and-deliberate-misrepresentations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule newly-raised-claims sixth-amendment Whether the mandate rule bars consideration and adjudication of newly raised claims under a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim
19-6571 Francisco Illarramendi v. John J. Carney, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations-sec-28-usc- collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process pdvsa-venezuela sec sec-enforcement sec-receiver-parallel-criminal-proceedings statute-of-limitations summary-judgment summary-judgment-collateral-estoppel summary-judgment-standard-tolan-v-cotton supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
19-6565 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-rights due-process estoppel exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review sanctions work-product work-product-protection Whether the judicial officials and clerical employees of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in intentionally laching upon…
19-553 Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment Is the Second Circuit's refusal to apply the 'totality of circumstances' test for probable cause in a Monell suit constitutional?
19-478 Amadou Sowe v. Pall Corporation Second Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied 28-usc-1746 affidavit affidavit-substitution age-discrimination civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure local-rule-violation local-rules owbpa perjury-statute summary-judgment sworn-declaration unsworn-declaration Whether plaintiff's counter statement sworn under 28 U.S.C. § 1746 can be used to show lack of compliance with OWBPA statute despite local rule violat…
19-5631 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's decis…
19-107 Vincent Asaro v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t…
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether lower courts should follow the Supreme Court's mandate in Tolan v. Cotton when ruling on a motion for summary affirmance
18-9224 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights habeas-corpus sec securities-enforcement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
18-1391 N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii Whether the plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York State Physicians Board was a protected activity under Title VII
18-8631 Bekim Fiseku v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances Whether the Second Circuit disregarded its prior decisions and created precedent that undermines the rule that officers may not handcuff a suspect dur…
18-8239 Negus Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand
18-8198 Brandon Lisi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge whether-petitioner's-guilty-plea-was-involuntary
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und…
18-6030 Jason M. Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing Whether a plea agreement in which a defendant agrees to waive his right to appeal and collaterally attack any legal sentence imposed violates due proc…
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability