| 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 |
Whether multiple alleged judicial and prosecutorial errors in a criminal case constitute grounds for reversal of conviction and sentencing, including … |
| 25-6320 |
Dean Spencer v. Utah |
Utah |
2025-12-09 |
Pending |
blood-alcohol-concentration criminal-prosecution measurement-error per-se-threshold reasonable-doubt toxicological-evidence |
Whether conflicting toxicological testimony with measurement errors can support a beyond-a-reasonable-doubt finding of blood alcohol concentration abo… |
| 25A631 |
John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Application |
child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking |
Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin… |
| 25A607 |
Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to criminal defendants' rights |
| 25-5954 |
In Re Michael Albert Focia |
|
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment |
Whether the Gun Control Act's application to private arms sales on the secondary market exceeds federal jurisdiction and violates constitutional prote… |
| 25-5873 |
In Re Donald Bowers |
|
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25-270 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment of non-infringement based on estoppel and constitutional standing in patent infringeme… |
| 25A17 |
Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s jurisdictional element for firearm possession violates the Commerce Clause when applied to a defendant whose firearm p… |
| 24-7354 |
Seth Stewart v. City of American Fork, Utah |
Utah |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial stare-decisis |
Whether stare decisis can be invoked to undermine constitutional guarantees when interpreting the Constitution |
| 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… |
| 24-7043 |
Sean Christopher Owen v. Kristin Keisel, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
age-discrimination constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection minor-rights sexual-conduct |
Whether Utah statutes criminalizing sexual conduct between consenting post-pubescent minors violate constitutional rights to equality and liberty |
| 24-1086 |
America West Bank Members, LC v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process fdic-receivership federal-rule-54c state-official-action |
Whether a court is obligated to afford relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(c) when relief was not sufficiently requested, and whether due … |
| 24A870 |
America West Bank Members, LC v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24A661 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's summary judgment ruling in a patent-related case can be affirmed without a comprehensive written opinion explaining the leg… |
| 24-643 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine |
Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… |
| 24-630 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine |
Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… |
| 24-610 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine |
Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… |
| 24A521 |
Kane County, Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law federal-lands historical-access land-management public-lands right-of-way |
Whether federal land management agencies can restrict local government access to and use of historical roads and trails on federal lands under the Rev… |
| 24-581 |
Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell |
Utah |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing death-penalty ineffective-assistance-counsel mitigation-evidence strickland-standard |
Did the Utah Supreme Court violate binding case law by improperly assessing Strickland deficient performance and prejudice in a death penalty case inv… |
| 24A515 |
Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-authority federal-lands land-management statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit wilderness-study-areas |
Whether federal land management agencies can unilaterally designate and manage wilderness study areas without explicit congressional authorization |
| 24A504 |
United States v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
environmental-intervention federal-rules-civil-procedure intervention-of-right right-of-way scope-of-litigation tenth-circuit |
Whether an environmental organization can intervene as of right in a federal land dispute when challenging the scope of a claimed right of way under R… |
| 24-528 |
Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
associational-rights candidate-selection convention-process first-amendment political-party-rights primary-election |
Did the Utah Supreme Court improperly mandate a convention-nominated candidate to participate in a direct primary after a losing candidate collected s… |
| 24-5912 |
David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
absolute-immunity case-assignment due-process judicial-function jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether absolute immunity shields prosecutors and judges from liability for fabricating evidence and potential jurisdictional overreach |
| 24A362 |
Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell |
Utah |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-murder ineffective-assistance mitigation-witness religious-testimony strickland-standard trial-strategy |
Whether a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim can be established when trial counsel strategically chose not to object to pote… |
| 24-5665 |
Shari Lynn Oliver v. Julie A. McDonald, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights family-court-enterprise parent-child-rights racketeering title-iv-d |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged constitutional violations in a family court federal-state enter… |
| 24-5647 |
David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 24-5635 |
Kim Bowers v. Payson City, Utah |
Utah |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process sixth-amendment trial-rights |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to be physically present during trial can be abridged when the defendant is absent voluntarily after the trial ha… |
| 24-5431 |
Jacob Valle v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 22O160 |
Utah, Plaintiff v. United States |
|
2024-08-23 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 24-5062 |
Amanda Reynolds v. City of Sandy, Utah |
Utah |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
birchfield-v-north-dakota constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment implied-consent miranda-rights sixth-amendment standing-mootness-public-interest-doctrine |
Does Petitioner have standing to challenge the constitutionality of Utah's Implied Consent Statute? |
| 24-5015 |
Eduardo Alvarez, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
arrest-warrant attenuation-doctrine criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-stop search-and-seizure standing utah-v-strieff |
Whether an officer's discovery of someone else's outstanding arrest warrant necessarily attenuates the illegality of a defendant's own detention under… |
| 23-7685 |
Edwin K. Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 23-1067 |
Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan |
Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C… |
| 23-1020 |
Utah v. Alfonso Valdez |
Utah |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
cellphone cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode self-incrimination testimonial testimonial-communication |
Whether disclosing a cellphone passcode with no substantive meaning is testimonial under the Fifth Amendment |
| 23-975 |
Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority |
Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which … |
| 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… |
| 23A513 |
Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing |
Whether a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenger lacks standing to challenge a vague anti-harassment rule based on a nonbinding, reversible enforc… |
| 23A445 |
United States v. David L. Miller |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Presumed Complete |
bankruptcy-code fraudulent-transfer section-106(a) section-544(b) sovereign-immunity trustee-action |
Whether Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the federal government's sovereign immunity for both a trustee's federal claim under Section 5… |
| 23-487 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure |
Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants' contractual dues is discriminatory? |
| 23-448 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal |
Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5 |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) is a part of the mitigation of a defendant's sentence that can challenge the subject-matter jurisdict… |
| 23-5660 |
Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver |
When a capital defendant on federal habeas review challenges as ineffective his counsel's performance as it relates to the defendant's waiver of a sta… |
| 23A29 |
Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice |
Whether the standard for assessing Strickland prejudice in capital cases involving counsel's deficient advice to waive a defendant's statutory right t… |
| 23-5044 |
Marvin Belser v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 22-7823 |
Weston Ray Kubbe v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
14th-amendment criminal-defendants criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause |
Equal protection in sentencing for criminal defendants |
| 22-7241 |
Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Salerno's 'no set of circumstances' test, the Hoffman/Grayned 'more stringent vagueness test,' or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-949 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations |
If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner? |
| 22-901 |
Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson |
Utah |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver |
Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process |
| 22-904 |
Jane Doe 8, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
american-pipe civil-procedure class-action federal-claims non-federal-claims rule-23 statute-of-limitations tolling-rule |
Does American Pipe class action tolling apply to non-federal claims? |
| 22-817 |
Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard |
Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below conflicts with Staub v. Proctor Hospital |
| 22A765 |
Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-758 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 |
Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11? |
| 22-724 |
San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action |
Whether a municipality may be exposed to liability under Section 1983 and Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), if … |
| 22-678 |
Keming Lu v. Northern Utah Healthcare Corporation, dba St. Mark's Hospital |
Utah |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process labor-commission trial-de-novo witness-testimony workplace-termination |
Did Petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 7th amendments to testify for herself and due process under the 14th amendment get violated w… |
| 22-513 |
Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 |
Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm… |
| 22-479 |
Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection |
Whether the Tenth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review under the Administrative Procedure Act |
| 22-6083 |
Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah |
Utah |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection impeachment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether statements obtained during a custodial police interrogation in violation of the Constitution, law, and state law should be suppressed by the d… |
| 22-6012 |
Paige Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure utah-v-strieff |
Is it error to apply the attenuation test articulated in Brown v. Illinois to determine whether evidence discovered during an illegal search should be… |
| 22-276 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. |
Utah |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant |
Whether application of the contempt analysis associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant order is f… |
| 22A227 |
Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah |
Utah |
2022-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
Whether the differing penalties established by Utah's drug and measurable substance provisions violate due process or equal protection |
| 21-1526 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment |
Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action |
| 21-1225 |
The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
qualified-immunity |
| 21-7199 |
Bryan Matthew Brewer v. Oklahoma Bar Association |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
administrative-rules bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emolument-violation free-speech judicial-procedure oaths-and-emoluments remedies republican-form-of-government state-government |
Where does the law originate from? |
| 21-777 |
Blake Edward Halfacre v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
administrative-law employment-rights exclusive-provisions federal-employees federal-employment-compensation-act federal-tort-claims-act light-duty-job light-duty-job-offer united-states-court-of-appeals workers-compensation |
Are the 'exclusive provisions' in the FECA (Federal Employment Compensation Act) applicable, or available to Federal Employees who also have no formal… |
| 21-656 |
John Oirya v. Brigham Young University |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix |
Should federal courts review school disciplinary decisions for substantial evidence of guilt? |
| 21-600 |
Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent |
Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in … |
| 21-5881 |
In Re Marjorie Creamer |
|
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statutory-interpretation workplace-policies writ-of-certiorari |
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND INDECENT, LEWD, OR VULGAR CONDUCT |
| 21-5652 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
abuse-of-procedure civil-petition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contempt due-process fraud fraud-on-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation standing |
Whether effective limitations on government power can define fraud on the court and criminal contempt in judicial misrepresentation of citizens' civil… |
| 21-5331 |
Zachary R. E. Rusk v. Fidelity Brokerage Services |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Dismissed |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-interference judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-11-motion rule-60-motion standing timeliness |
Did the 10th circuit apply the law incorrectly? |
| 21-111 |
NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia, ex rel. Mark R. Herring, Attorney General |
Virginia |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process federal-preemption individual-relief litigation-exception non-signatory standing state-attorney-general |
Whether a state attorney general who is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement may bring claims that are covered by the agreement and seek indivi… |
| 21-71 |
Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents |
Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment for denial of inmate medical care under § 1983 |
| 20-1750 |
Danesh Rahimi v. Troy Kohler |
Utah |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment group-quiet-title judicial-taking property-rights real-property standing state-courts takings |
May the Utah State Courts enter orders on the basis of a 'group quiet title doctrine' which has no precedential authority? |
| 20-8300 |
Lonnie Norton v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013) require that when a single statute creates a tier… |
| 20-7736 |
John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing |
Whether the petitioner has standing to bring claims against the defendants for alleged abuse, negligence, incompetence, conspiracy, malfeasance, and d… |
| 20-7612 |
Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop |
May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous? |
| 20-1257 |
Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii |
Whether damages should be apportioned among multiple claims for the same damages, and whether pension benefits awarded for a Title VII violation are s… |
| 20-7352 |
In Re Henry Lee Rudolph |
|
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion |
Did the Utah Supreme Court commit error by stating the Franses' rights were not violated and Rodolph requested, and by stating three flawed reasons fo… |
| 20-7343 |
Justin David Williams v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony |
Whether the court of appeals erred in its admission of the father's 911 call under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule |
| 20-1082 |
Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop |
Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5() for refusal to hand over an identification document vio… |
| 20-847 |
Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority |
Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs |
| 20-6536 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
2020-12-04 |
Dismissed |
appeal civil-rights conspiracy court-integrity due-process federal-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct legal-procedure malicious-prosecution predetermination |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Respondents conspired to predetermine the outcome of federal proceedings prior t… |
| 20-5859 |
Kevin Blanke v. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole |
Utah |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process judicial-review right-to-counsel standing |
Can a state supreme court or state court of appeals make dispositive rulings on issues in a civil case that were never properly adjudicated in the sta… |
| 20-5535 |
Randy Platt v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether robbery convictions for purposes of the career offender provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be limited to only those t… |
| 20-96 |
United States v. Kane County, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure environmental-advocacy environmental-concerns federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intervention intervention-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action standing |
Whether an advocacy organization's environmental concerns qualify as an 'interest' required by Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure f… |
| 20-82 |
Kane County, Utah, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
administrative-representation civil-procedure environmental-interest federal-civil-procedure federal-government intervention intervention-as-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action special-interest-groups standing tenth-circuit-precedent |
Whether private special interest groups have an interest to intervene as of right in a quiet title action |
| 20-9 |
Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, et al. v. Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
civil-rights corporate-law de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment ministerial-exception standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
May a court of appeals on de novo review refuse to decide a claim predicated on a failure of non-religious corporations to comply with neutral princip… |
| 19-1433 |
Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. |
Utah |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change |
Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat… |
| 19-8099 |
Brandon Perry Smith v. Utah |
Utah |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment heightened-clarity miranda-rights sixth-amendment state-courts suspect-comprehension waiver-standard |
Have the Utah courts adopted a rule of law which, in applying the 'heightened clarity' standard as expanded by Berghuis v. Thompkins, dispensed with a… |
| 19-1157 |
Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the tolling rule of American Pipe & Const. Co. v. Utah applies in a class action filed in federal court based on diversity jurisdiction |
| 19-8021 |
Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle |
Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho… |
| 19-7989 |
Roger Bryner v. Clearfield City, Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-bias rule-of-law standing summary-judgment utah-rule-of-civil-procedure-83 |
Issues being raised |
| 19-1091 |
Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety |
Whether a government may ban expressive conduct without first trying to advance its interests using less speech-restrictive measures |
| 19-950 |
Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter |
Must a plaintiff seek a stay to avoid preclusion of later claims? |
| 19-7061 |
Charles Edward Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination? |
| 19-755 |
Robert C. Steiner, et ux. v. Utah State Tax Commission |
Utah |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation equal-protection foreign-commerce interstate-taxation state-residency state-tax-credits state-taxation tax-credit tax-credits |
Whether Utah's tax code discriminates against foreign commerce in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause |
| 19-6441 |
In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch |
|
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard |
| 19A426 |
Robert C. Steiner, et ux. v. Utah State Tax Commission |
Utah |
2019-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6263 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine? |
| 19-5971 |
Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Dismissed |
appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing |
Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts? |
| 19-315 |
Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws |
| 19-316 |
Larry Drake Hansen v. Salt Lake City Corporation |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
10th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process monell-claim municipal-liability Question not identified. standing state-law takings |
access-to-the-courts |
| 19A227 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-5305 |
Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing |
Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception |
| 18-9802 |
Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. |
Utah |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation |
Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights |
| 18-1464 |
Milos Jiricko v. Frankenburg Jensen Law Firm, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-oath due-process judicial-review legislative-statute medical-malpractice standing supreme-court-review takings |
Whether the US Supreme Court can apply a blind eye to the alleged unconstitutionality of the Utah State Medical Malpractice statute, Code 78B-3-401 |
| 18-9201 |
Galen Lemar Amerson, et al. v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-rule civil-procedure conceivable-effect de-novo-review due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction testate-estate wills-and-trusts withdrawal-of-reference |
Does the bankruptcy court have subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's Florida counterclaims? |
| 18-1353 |
Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class… |
| 18-1340 |
Bonnie R. Fowler v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel dismissal due-process federal-question res-judicata standing state-actor supervisory-power |
Does the doctrines of res-judicata and collateral estoppel fail when the Petitioner has repeatedly disputed and proven that not any one of the necessa… |
| 18-8581 |
Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud |
Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights |
| 18-8590 |
Harlin Argelio Ramos v. Utah |
Utah |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice self-defense |
Did the Utah appellate court err in holding that the erroneous jury instruction, which impermissibly shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner/Defen… |
| 18-1216 |
R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis |
Retaliation against pro se respondents, emolument manipulation, falsification of facts, lack of due process, election irregularities, anti-American bi… |
| 18-8456 |
Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in … |
| 18A933 |
Mark Anthony Beverly v. Utah |
Utah |
2019-03-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-1147 |
Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. |
Utah |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing |
Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence that contradicts its own precedence's |
| 18-8284 |
Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment appeal-restrictions appeals constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction jurisdictional-bars pro-se standing |
Does it violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment for pro se parties to have less time and more restrictions to file … |
| 18-7463 |
Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law |
Whether a federal judge or justice condones fraudulent misrepresentation, perjury, disregard of the rule of law, denial of newly discovered evidence, … |
| 18A687 |
Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2019-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-539 |
George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly |
Rhode Island |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing |
Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin… |
| 18-450 |
Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination |
Does the First Amendment permit a government to compel a political party to use a state-preferred process for selecting a party's standard-bearers for… |
| 18-332 |
Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah |
Utah |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection |
Whether the Utah State Supreme Court erred in affirming the Utah Court of Appeals in denying that a specific remedy exists for a citizen to challenge … |
| 18A216 |
Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24A529 |
Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. |
Utah |
|
Presumed Complete |
candidate-selection convention-nomination political-party primary-election right-of-association state-interference |
Whether a state can constitutionally mandate a direct primary election that overrides a political party's convention-based candidate nomination proces… |