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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A911 | Jane Elizabeth Roberts, et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Application | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-953 | Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law | Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve or a basis for judgment as … |
| 25A903 | Nima Moradi v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-09 | Application | deadly-force ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prejudice-prong self-defense strickland-standard | Whether a criminal defendant can demonstrate prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland when trial counsel fails to object to a ju… |
| 25-6758 | Quintin Washington v. Jeff Tanner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a one-man grand jury lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to issue an indictment when a judge initiates charges without statutory authorization |
| 25-6742 | Gezo Goeong Edwards v. United States | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Pending | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance mens-rea | Whether an indictment charging conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance fails to state an offense due to grammatical placement of the adverb 'k… |
| 25A876 | Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Application | disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a federal court to dismiss a pro se plaintiff's claims for disability retirement, back pay, and mil… |
| 25-918 | Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act | Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to challe… |
| 25-6721 | Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect | Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues based on an affidavit lacking objective facts, and… |
| 25-6702 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Did the lower courts commit plain error by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250 to criminalize a law-abiding modus operandi of moving betwe… |
| 25-898 | William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias | Colorado | 2026-02-04 | Pending | district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act | Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to challe… |
| 25A872 | Djavon Holland v. United States | Third Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Application | appellate-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to discharge appointed appellate counsel and proceed pro se after counsel has filed an opening… |
| 25-909 | Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2026-02-03 | Pending | due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction | Whether a plaintiff may establish specific jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant based on its forum-agnostic 'business model,' or whether the pla… |
| 25-6694 | Donny Ray Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant | Whether the 'materiality' prong of Franks v. Delaware allows law enforcement to omit a confidential informant's credibility issues when corroborating … |
| 25A867 | Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama | Alabama | 2026-02-02 | Application | alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a new trial when the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence identifying an alternative suspect pri… |
| 25-6685 | Rodrigue Alain Ndje Nlend v. Suzanne Parisien, Judge, Superior Court of Washington, King County | Washington | 2026-02-02 | Pending | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion postjudgement-motions writ-of-certiorari | Whether the DecEnation Order is clearly erroneous and whether Judge Parisien's refusal to hear postjudgement motions deprives Rodrigue of fundamental … |
| 25A856 | James Daryl West v. Sabrina Schultz, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment monell-claim prison-medical-services supervisory-liability | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a deliberate indifference claim against supervisory officials or medical service providers in state prisons under… |
| 25A855 | Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | continuing-criminal-enterprise effective-assistance jury-trial narcotics-violation sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires unanimous jury findings for each separate narcotics violation in a Continuing Cri… |
| 25-901 | Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Pending | appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering | Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d… |
| 25A852 | John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. | California | 2026-01-29 | Application | docketing-fee extension-of-time filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant facing financial hardship can obtain an extension of time to comply with Supreme Court filing requirements after denial of i… |
| 25-896 | Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Supreme Court will preserve the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury in a civil case involving patent infringement and constitutional righ… |
| 25-6670 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas | Texas | 2026-01-27 | Denied | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process medical-evidence sixth-amendment | Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in failing to apply Supreme Court precedents regarding the Confrontation Clause when allowing a surrogate … |
| 25-6655 | Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana | Indiana | 2026-01-23 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard | Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in conflict with Seventh Circuit and Supreme Court precedent |
| 25A842 | Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Application | appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the district court's exercise of jurisdiction violated Article III of the Constitution by improperly adjudicating a case without proper subjec… |
| 25A835 | Vikram Valame v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | equal-protection equal-rights-amendment fifth-amendment military-integration rostker-v-goldberg selective-service | Whether the male-only Selective Service registration requirement violates the Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendment in light of women's fu… |
| 25A829 | Albert Whitney Coburn v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families | Washington | 2026-01-21 | Application | child-protective-services constitutional-violations family-law negligence parental-rights statute-of-limitations | Whether a state child protective services agency can be held liable for negligence in its investigation of a child abuse report when the investigation… |
| 25-840 | International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc., et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | article-iii-standing child-welfare fundamental-liberty-interest gender-transition judicial-standing parental-rights | Whether parents have standing to challenge a law or policy that deliberately displaces their decision making role as to 'gender transitions' of their … |
| 25A813 | Jason Tywann Bell v. J. C. Streeval, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Application | counsel-preparation legal-research petition-filing supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a 60-day extension for filing a petition for a writ of certiorari based on counsel's need for additional time t… |
| 25-6564 | Ambreia Washington v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2026-01-13 | Pending | fifth-amendment fourth-amendment plain-view-exception probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-seizure | Whether information obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause can establish the probable cause necessary to authorize a… |
| 25A806 | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Sean O'Day, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Application | compelled-speech first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny pharmaceutical-regulation takings-clause trade-secrets | Whether a state law requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose confidential trade secrets and create narrative justifications for drug pricing… |
| 25-813 | Kim Bogardus v. City of Yakima, Washington | Washington | 2026-01-09 | Pending | americans-with-disabilities-act credibility-determination disability-claims judicial-estoppel social-security-disability summary-judgment | Whether the 'sufficient explanation' requirement under Cleveland allows reconciliation through textual or contextual evidence in SSDI and ADA disabili… |
| 25A783 | Crystal Greenlaw v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Application | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process sentence-reduction | Whether a pro se prisoner was denied procedural due process when a district court denied her motion for compassionate release without allowing her an … |
| 25A781 | Joquetta Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Application | conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability | Whether the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act permits vicarious liability for conspiracy defendants based on the total foreseeable losses of a co-cons… |
| 25-780 | Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Pending | commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination | Does a law that bans the sale of otherwise lawful items based exclusively on the content of the seller's truthful marketing burden speech protected by… |
| 25A758 | Sean Paul Baker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-rule-412 sexual-abuse witness-credibility | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits exclusion of evidence that a witness created online videos about fictional sexual conduct when the defendant … |
| 25A733 | Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions | Whether a federal district court can impose sanctions on an attorney for refusing to file substantive presentations while challenging the court's auth… |
| 25A731 | Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | 922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release | Whether a conviction for a § 922(g)(1) offense that bars firearm possession for individuals with prior criminal records violates the Second Amendment … |
| 25-6398 | Loni Nicole Granger, et al. v. Lauren J. King, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mandamus ninth-circuit random-assignment | Whether the Ninth Circuit violated petitioners' Fifth Amendment due-process rights by summarily denying in-forma-pauperis status and dismissing appeal… |
| 25-705 | Carter Page v. James B. Comey, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-12-18 | Pending | accrual-of-claims fbi-misconduct fourth-amendment government-liability inspector-general-report surveillance-warrant | Do claims that the government violated surveillance authorities accrue as a matter of law based merely on facts that might lead a victim to suspect un… |
| 25A715 | Flying T Ranch, Inc., a Washington Corporation v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe, et al. | Washington | 2025-12-18 | Application | adverse-possession indian-tribe nonreservation-land property-exception quiet-title tribal-sovereign-immunity | Whether a common law immovable property exception exists that would abrogate tribal sovereign immunity for quiet title actions involving nonreservatio… |
| 25A718 | Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-12-18 | Application | batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard | Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may apply an impossible standard of prejudice in reviewing ineffective assistance of counsel claims related to B… |
| 25A706 | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services | Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law |
| 25A703 | Aila Curtis, et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | certiorari judicial-discretion petition-filing procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Rule 10 of the Court's Rules |
| 25-700 | Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Pending | clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority | Did Congress provide the ultimate remedy to federal overreach by releasing and relinquishing the United States' complaint for Clean Water Act environm… |
| 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… |
| 25-6377 | Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Pending | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability improperly applied standards for habeas corpus review and ineffective assistance … |
| 25-6365 | Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Pending | ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access | Whether a state judge can issue substantive orders after formal recusal and whether federal courts can affirm void orders |
| 25A689 | Edward Allen Moore v. Gregory Hancock, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Application | certificate-of-appealability court-access eighth-circuit habeas-corpus prison-library pro-se-litigation | Whether a state prison's library copy limit impermissibly burdens an incarcerated individual's constitutional right of access to the courts |
| 25A680 | MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | agency-overreach erisa multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability | Whether the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation can impose 'reasonable conditions' on multiemployer pension plans that deviate from the express statu… |
| 25-6322 | Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington | Washington | 2025-12-09 | Pending | factual-findings fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction-exception sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was subject to an increased standard sentence based on the trial cour… |
| 25A667 | Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC | District of Columbia | 2025-12-08 | Application | certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules |
| 25A653 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Application | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not actually commit three qualifying predicate offenses can assert an actual innocence exception to procedural bars on h… |
| 25A658 | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Application | anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights | Whether a state's requirement that mail-in ballot envelopes include a handwritten date violates voters' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under th… |
| 25A652 | Zbigniew M. Laskowski v. Washington Department of Labor & Industries | Washington | 2025-12-03 | Application | certiorari-petition disability-accommodation judicial-process legal-representation pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant with a disability can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court certiorari petition when facing challenges in secu… |
| 25A646 | Albert Whitney Coburn v. Lara Brooke Seefeldt | Washington | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-issues indigent legal-extension petition-for-certiorari pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se, indigent litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition for writ of certiorari based on the complexit… |
| 25A645 | Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-12-03 | Application | capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard third-party-culpability | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated by trial counsel's failure to investigate and present third-party cu… |
| 25A637 | Arun K. Chhabra v. ACW New Jersey, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | deadline-extension disability-accommodation legal-assistance medical-limitation pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether a pro se litigant's physical disabilities and temporary lack of assistance constitute grounds for extending a deadline to file a petition for … |
| 25-624 | Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard | Whether a mixed question of law and fact under Strickland v. Washington is reviewed for clear error or de novo, and whether an appellate court can rel… |
| 25A628 | Operating Engineers Trust Fund of Washington, D.C., et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Application | fifth-amendment government-program property-interest reinsurance-fund takings-clause trust-requirement | Whether a government program that requires group health plans to pay into a reinsurance fund without receiving any benefits constitutes a taking under… |
| 25A623 | Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Application | conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud | Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud |
| 25A619 | Jose M. Gonzalez v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Application | circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court en-banc-review judicial-conflict petition-for-certiorari | Whether a circuit court panel's decision that conflicts with a prior United States District Court ruling constitutes a violation of a petitioner's con… |
| 25-6225 | Alejandro Peña Salvador v. Washington | Washington | 2025-11-24 | Denied | constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance | Whether ineffective assistance of counsel during direct appeal constitutes a violation of due process rights that warrants federal habeas review |
| 25-606 | John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention | Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of Younger abstention doctrine improperly defers judicial review of a state medical board's COVID-19 misinform… |
| 25A612 | Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. | Texas | 2025-11-24 | Application | internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act | Whether the Wiretap Act preempts state procedural laws and jurisdictional doctrines under the Supremacy Clause when a privacy invasion claim involves … |
| 25A613 | Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Application | appellate-litigation-clinic certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel jurisdictional-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a court-appointed counsel from an appellate litigation clinic may be granted an extension of time to file a certiorari petition due to personn… |
| 25A602 | Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights | Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas voting assistance laws in a manner that potentially restricts minority voters' access to electo… |
| 25A600 | Raymon Walters v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Application | counsel-concession criminal-defense element-challenge mccoy-right sixth-amendment trial-strategy | Whether the Sixth Amendment permits defense counsel to concede an element of a charged crime over the defendant's objection |
| 25A595 | Katy Elizabeth Kabha v. Texas | Texas | 2025-11-20 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time felony-conviction judicial-efficiency newly-discovered-evidence pro-se | Whether a pro se petitioner's request for a 60-day extension to file a certiorari petition should be granted based on pending state-court motions and … |
| 25A591 | Nadarius Barnes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Application | appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver | Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea waives the right to challenge on appeal that the admitted facts do not constitute the char… |
| 25-6163 | Terrance Deshun Cash v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner Cash's constitutional rights by allowing hearsay testimony and failing to address his F… |
| 25A585 | G'Ante Butler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on interfering with federal officers requires intentional violence or can include inadvertent contact |
| 25A564 | Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation | Whether a federal court retains jurisdiction to review a case when an agency unilaterally ceases allegedly unlawful conduct to evade judicial review |
| 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… |
| 25-6087 | Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent | Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal when its mandate conflicts with Supreme Court precedents regarding transcription of … |
| 25-564 | Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity | Whether the district court's dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint was an abuse of discretion and violated his Second Amendment and due process right… |
| 25A525 | Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Application | constitutional-issues counsel-change eleventh-circuit legal-review summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's summary judgment ruling improperly interpreted the constitutional issues presented by the Applicant |
| 25A522 | Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A519 | Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation | Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 violates the Fifth and First Amendments |
| 25A509 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud | Whether a defendant can be ordered to forfeit criminal proceeds that were briefly under his control but immediately transferred to a co-conspirator |
| 25A505 | Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | cercla cost-recovery environmental-cleanup national-contingency-plan state-regulators substantial-compliance | Whether a state's approval of a private environmental cleanup action is sufficient to establish substantial compliance with the National Contingency P… |
| 25-6021 | Danny Raymond Morgan v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-04 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A503 | William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias | Colorado | 2025-11-03 | Application | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure | Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc… |
| 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 |
| 25-6000 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-30 | Denied | confrontation-clause crawford-rule criminal-procedure due-process hearsay testimonial-evidence | Whether permitting a detective to testify to unconfronted, testimonial hearsay statements that directly inculpate a defendant statements, made by witn… |
| 25-5988 | Huong Thi Nguyen v. Corporation of Catholic Archbishop, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | attorney-fees claims-management court-procedure judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-dispute supreme-court | Question not identified. |
| 25A482 | Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A481 | Steven J. Hecke v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty extension-of-time supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the lower court's ruling in Sockwell v. Hamm improperly applied constitutional protections in a criminal proceeding |
| 25A477 | Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Application | death-penalty future-dangerousness genetic-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether defense counsel's introduction of genetic predisposition evidence constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment when… |
| 25A464 | The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | federal-contractors federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage voluntary-work-program | Whether a state law requiring federal contractors to pay state minimum wage to federal detainees in a voluntary work program violates intergovernmenta… |
| 25A452 | Leda Health Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | bill-of-attainder commercial-speech constitutional-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment medical-testing | Whether a state statute regulating medical testing constitutes an unconstitutional content-based restriction on commercial speech and a bill of attain… |
| 25-474 | Justin Baggett v. Texas | Texas | 2025-10-17 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement strickland-standard | Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and discover impeachment evidence against a key prosecution witness before a defendant accepts a plea a… |
| 25-5908 | Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Pending | circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment | May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant to … |
| 25A435 | The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Presumed Complete | internal-revenue-service nominee-theory property-rights religious-organization tax-levy tax-lien | Whether the IRS may impose a tax lien and levy on a religious organization's property based on the theory that the organization is a nominee for taxpa… |
| 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… |
| 25-5894 | Kenneth Lavigne v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard time-barred | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Sixth Amendment and Supreme Court precedent by requiring a habeas petitioner asserting ineffective assistance o… |
| 25A419 | Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Presumed Complete | antitrust class-certification damages-class-action expert-evidence federal-rule-civil-procedure predominance | Whether a district court must resolve disputes about expert evidence when determining class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(… |
| 25A412 | Jamaur Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-preparation petition-filing professional-obligations supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on counsel's professional obligations an… |
| 25-5851 | Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-10-09 | Denied | burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error | Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b… |
| 25A407 | Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice | Whether an appellate court's de novo review of a trial court's Strickland prejudice determination can disregard the trial court's express factual find… |
| 25A409 | Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a federal statute or constitutiona… |
| 25-5827 | Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-08 | Denied | constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment | Whether a state's racially motivated statute denying African American citizens equal protection is considered government oppression under the U.S. Con… |
| 25A395 | Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Presumed Complete | bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with non-violent felony convictions violates the Second Amendment under the hi… |
| 25-407 | Scott Breimeister v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Pending | double-jeopardy government-misconduct implied-consent mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct strict-scrutiny | What constitutes implied consent to a mistrial when determining if a defendant has forfeited a Double Jeopardy claim, and does strict scrutiny apply t… |
| 25-405 | Audrey Clement v. The Washington Post | District of Columbia | 2025-10-06 | Denied | administrative-exhaustion age-discrimination candidate-questionnaire federal-jurisdiction first-amendment-rights procurement-contracts | Whether the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 provides federal court jurisdiction over age discrimination claims when no administrative agency of jurisdi… |
| 25A392 | Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits | Whether 38 U.S.C. § 503 permits equitable relief for veterans when a VA Regional Office commits clear and unmistakable error in adjudicating a benefit… |
| 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 |
| 25-5779 | Teddy Roosevelt Sibley v. Robert Jackson, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus | Question not identified. |
| 25-5770 | Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-10-01 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard | Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional as applied to Petitioner because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution … |
| 25-380 | Sean Kuhlmeyer v. Isabelle Latour | Washington | 2025-10-01 | Denied | constitutional-standard due-process family-court fundamental-rights no-contact-order parental-rights | What due process is owed a parent when the state terminates, or significantly interferes with, the parent/child relationship by issuing a lifetime no … |
| 25-5769 | Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal based on prior Georgia burglary convictions and a controlled substance offen… |
| 25A366 | Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. | California | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure | Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful … |
| 25A362 | Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech | Whether speech condemning racist memes constitutes a matter of public concern under the First Amendment's protections for public employee speech |
| 25A359 | Pierre Robinson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-364 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Pending | birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law | Whether the Executive Order restoring the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause is constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment and 8 U.S.C. 140… |
| 25A354 | Google LLC, et al. v. Epic Games, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | corporate-disclosure corporate-transparency publicly-traded rule-29-6 subsidiary-ownership supreme-court-rules | Whether a corporate subsidiary's Rule 29.6 disclosure statement satisfies Supreme Court procedural requirements for corporate ownership transparency |
| 25A352 | Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | article-iii concrete-harm jurisdiction privacy-rights standing statutory-damages | Whether a federal court may exercise Article III jurisdiction over a state law privacy claim where the plaintiff alleges a statutory violation but can… |
| 25-5743 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Denied | apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error | Does sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense qualify as structural error under Supreme Court precedent, and if harmless-e… |
| 25A346 | Caylon James Washington v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-25 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure hearsay-objection rebuttal-witness sexual-assault substantial-rights trial-court-discretion | Whether the admission of a rebuttal witness's testimony over a defendant's hearsay objection constitutes a reversible error in a sexual assault prosec… |
| 25A345 | Dennis Michael Hogan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Presumed Complete | administrative-remedies extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-filing section-3553a section-3582 sentence-reduction | Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) when the district court finds no extraordinary and compelli… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 25-336 | Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-09-23 | Denied | adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony | What constitutes an 'adequate opportunity' for cross-examination under Crawford v. Washington when new evidence emerges after initial testimony |
| 25A328 | Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability federal-appeal legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when denied a Certificate of Appealability and fac… |
| 25-326 | Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act | Whether a business association that publishes an optional rule for its members can immunize the rule from being considered a conspiracy under Sherman … |
| 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 … |
| 25A283 | Thomas Oscar Cady v. Washington | Washington | 2025-09-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-privacy criminal-evidence due-process hospital-records medical-records patient-privacy | Whether a criminal defendant's medical records from a hospital stay following an alleged attack can be obtained and used as evidence in a criminal pro… |
| 25-5616 | Andrew Caballero v. Marlyn Kopp, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-288 | Vinaykumar Patel v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment | Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer violates the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights and eviden… |
| 25A279 | Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond standard deadlines for personal and health … |
| 25-5600 | In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard | 2025-09-10 | Denied | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | Whether the jury instructions adequately informed the jury of the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea for 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) counts as interprete… | |
| 25A274 | John Benton Ragland v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default | Whether a state prisoner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was procedurally defaulted when the district court denied a certificate of appealabili… |
| 25-259 | January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy | When a plaintiff alleges that the application of a state policy infringed a fundamental right 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,' … |
| 25A262 | Vincent Cannady v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge | Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n… |
| 25-5526 | Fouzia Lakhloufi v. Mohammad Ali Nimber Abuzanet | Oregon | 2025-09-03 | Denied | appellate-review covid-19-impact default-judgment dissolution-of-marriage due-process judicial-discretion | Did the Oregon Court of Appeals abuse its discretion by not reversing and remanding to the trial court after finding a plain error in a dissolution de… |
| 25-241 | Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-29 | Denied | evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims without an evidentiary hearing violates constitution… |
| 25-5431 | Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-08-22 | Denied | drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance | Whether a brief, unverified proximity of a drug dealer to a citizen's residence, without any observed interaction, constitutes sufficient probable cau… |
| 25-5428 | Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether a defendant can obtain exculpatory evidence withheld by prosecutors and challenge due process violations through habeas corpus when potentiall… |
| 25-209 | Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii | Whether federal courts of appeal are divided on standards for sexual harassment, disability discrimination, and collective bargaining agreement interp… |
| 25A194 | EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. | Missouri | 2025-08-19 | Presumed Complete | bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction | Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly … |
| 25A192 | Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Presumed Complete | begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories | Whether historical practice and tradition at the time of the founding categorically exclude begging from First Amendment free speech protection |
| 25-5324 | Kenneth Alfred Linville, Jr. v. Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | civil-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief | Whether evidence presented from outside the record is considered newly discovered evidence |
| 25-153 | Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al. v. Washington | Washington | 2025-08-08 | Pending | ammunition-feeding-devices arms circuit-split constitutional-protection precedent second-amendment | Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are 'Arms' presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under… |
| 25A168 | Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Presumed Complete | choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden | Whether federal courts should apply a uniform standard for determining which party bears the burden of proving venue in a motion to dismiss under Rule… |
| 25A155 | Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment | Whether a defendant may raise an affirmative defense by motion for summary judgment without first amending a pleading that did not originally include … |
| 25A163 | Cheryl Steele v. Micah Salb | District of Columbia | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | attorney-of-record en-banc-review judicial-procedure mandate-recall notice-requirements pro-se-representation | Whether a pro se litigant can challenge a court of appeals mandate when not timely informed by counsel about potential en banc review options |
| 25A150 | Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard | Whether a state court's denial of a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim constitutes an unreasonable application of clearly es… |
| 25-5257 | Eric Sean Roloson v. Washington | Washington | 2025-08-01 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-alternative | Whether the State's misrepresentation that the victims would support a SSOSA rendered Petitioner's plea involuntary, in violation of the Due Process C… |
| 25-5206 | Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. George Washington University Hospital | District of Columbia | 2025-07-28 | Denied | breach-of-contract due-process eeoc-rights equitable-tolling pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims as untimely and denying equitable tolling despite ongoing internal adjudication a… |
| 25A116 | Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library | Whether the First Amendment protects a right to receive information from a public library and how the government speech doctrine applies to library co… |
| 25-99 | William Thomas Hudson, III v. Michael Meisner, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-25 | Denied | ineffective-assistance investigation-deficiency prejudice-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test | Whether a court evaluating an ineffective assistance of counsel claim may rely on the testimony of counsel who has failed to conduct an adequate inves… |
| 25A93 | Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a new trial or resentencing where a defendant alleges ineffective assistance of counsel a… |
| 25A80 | Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate ineffective assistance of counsel claims when a certificate of appealabil… |
| 25A82 | Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-21 | Presumed Complete | ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work | Whether an artificial intelligence system can be recognized as a valid copyright author under U.S. intellectual property law |
| 25-5102 | Dannie Christopher Brashear v. Washington | Washington | 2025-07-15 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-43 | Freedom Foundation, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 117, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | constitutional-rights first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues | Whether public-sector unions that invoke the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee act 'under color … |
| 25-5095 | Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements | Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant… |
| 25A47 | Sandra A. Zikry, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of N. D., a Minor, et vir v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, et al. | Florida | 2025-07-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review district-court due-process florida-supreme-court jurisdiction-dismissal mandatory-jurisdiction | Whether the Florida Supreme Court improperly dismissed a mandatory jurisdiction review petition without providing substantive explanation, potentially… |
| 25A39 | Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors… |
| 25-39 | John Does 1-2, et al. v. Seattle Police Department, et al. | Washington | 2025-07-10 | Dismissed | anonymous-expression first-amendment government-disclosure political-association privacy-rights public-records | Whether compelled public disclosure of politically sensitive information in response to public records requests violates the First Amendment right to … |
| 25A35 | Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Presumed Complete | antitrust enforcement-delegation market-competition no-commingling-rule sherman-act trade-association | Whether a dominant national trade association may avoid antitrust liability under Section 1 of the Sherman Act by promulgating a facially anticompetit… |
| 25A38 | Angela Powell v. Edmondson & Gallagher Property Services, LLC | District of Columbia | 2025-07-09 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5018 | Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error judicial-review sentencing-error | Whether Apprendi errors, including Erlinger violations, should be treated as trial errors subject to the Neder harmless-error test or as sentencing er… |
| 25A8 | Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation criminal-trial jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment williams-v-florida | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a 12-member jury and mandates overruling Williams v. Florida's precedent allowing smaller juries |
| 25A4 | Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent | Whether a federal habeas court may deny relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) based on hypothetical reasoning not actually used by the state court, and whe… |
| 25-5004 | Delano Hale v. Bill Cool, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | capital-murder criminal-defense forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance strategic-decision strickland-standard | In a capital murder case, does defense counsel perform deficiently when they choose not to consult forensic experts without investigation, despite exp… |
| 24A1294 | Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions, including non-violent offenses, violates the Se… |
| 24A1286 | Dion Horton, et al. v. Jill Rangos, Administrative Judge, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Presumed Complete | bail-hearing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty pretrial-detention | Whether prolonged pretrial detention without individualized bail hearings violates the constitutional right to due process and equal protection |
| 24-7497 | Michael Marion Cotham v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance self-representation | Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision was 'contrary' to Faretta v. Arizona regarding termination of self-representation rights |
| 24A1278 | Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for summary judgment in a complex commercial litigat… |
| 24-7468 | Donald Perry v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust | Massachusetts | 2025-06-18 | Denied | asset-transfer fdic-transfer judicial-scrutiny mortgage-assignment operation-of-law stare-decisis | Whether the FDIC's transfer of Washington Mutual Bank to JPMorgan Chase constituted an 'operation of law' immunizing the transaction from judicial scr… |
| 24A1248 | Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Presumed Complete | dues-deduction first-amendment free-association public-employees resignation-restrictions union-membership | Whether a public sector union can impose conditions on an employee's resignation from union membership that restrict their First Amendment rights to f… |
| 24-1246 | U.S. Doge Service, et al. v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | District of Columbia | 2025-06-09 | Denied | None | |
| 24A1182 | Ayana Saunders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud | Whether a constructive variance or improper venue can serve as grounds for overturning a federal criminal conviction for wire fraud and money launderi… |
| 24-7302 | Sterling Atkins, Jr. v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel | Can a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel be denied on the basis of an alleged failure to show what trial counsel did rather than what they fai… |
| 24A1140 | Johanna McGee, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jacqueline McGee, et al. v. Alger County Treasurer, et al. | Michigan | 2025-05-23 | Presumed Complete | due-process notice-requirements property-rights surplus-proceeds takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Whether the government violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process and takings protections when it retains surplus proceeds from tax for… |
| 24A1137 | Braun Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Presumed Complete | due-process first-amendment legal-mail mailbox-rule prisoner-rights supreme-court | Whether the First Amendment protects a prisoner's right to timely and unimpeded legal mail communication with courts and legal counsel |
| 24-7262 | Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim | When a state court issues a reasoned merits decision on only one component of a multi-component claim, does AEDPA require federal habeas courts to def… |
| 24A1122 | U.S. Doge Service, et al. v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | District of Columbia | 2025-05-21 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-7223 | Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court | Question not identified. |
| 24-7215 | In Re Jamie Varieur | 2025-05-15 | Denied | appellate-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process strickland-standard summary-order writ-of-mandamus | Whether, as a matter of procedural due process, a writ of mandamus directing the Second Circuit to consider and issue a decision on the points present… | |
| 24-7194 | Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas | Texas | 2025-05-13 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing | Whether ineffective assistance of counsel standards in capital cases apply equally to non-capital cases with severe sentencing ranges |
| 24-7190 | Danny Lee Jones v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-13 | Dismissed | cumulative-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a court reviewing an ineffective assistance-of-counsel claim to consider the cumulative prejudice stemming from t… |
| 24-7181 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the Cuyler v. Sullivan standard for conflict of interest apply uniformly across circuits when assessing Sixth Amendment violations in successive … |
| 24-1139 | Joe Patrick Flarity v. Washington | Washington | 2025-05-06 | Denied | administrative-action constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias state-court-review supreme-court-precedent | Whether Washington State courts have shown contempt for Supreme Court precedents and constitutional rights through biased judicial proceedings |
| 24A1065 | Freedom Foundation, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 117, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-7120 | Selene Violet Henderson, fka Bryan Paul Hernandez v. Washington | Washington | 2025-05-02 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-1127 | Thomas E. Clardy v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance strickland-standard | Does a criminal defense attorney perform deficiently under Strickland v. Washington when failing to present expert testimony about the reliability pro… |
| 24A1058 | Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton | Second Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights emergency-staffing habeas-corpus legal-access prison-conditions pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional right to meaningful access to legal resources is impermissibly burdened when a state correctional facility'… |
| 24-7036 | Jose Padilla-Galarza v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard | Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the First Circuit conflicts with Slack v. McDaniel and involves substantial constitution… |
| 24-1079 | Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity | Should this Court grant certiorari to correct errors by the Court of Appeals regarding Ex Parte Young claims, complaint amendment opportunities, and c… |
| 24-6989 | Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation post-conviction-relief strickland-standard williams-v-taylor | Did the lower federal courts violate the rule of Williams v. Taylor by attributing fault for not developing factual support of a claim in state court … |
| 24-6957 | Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-04-11 | Denied | civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony | Whether the trial court erred by precluding Addie Brice's civil suit statement from evidence and improperly withholding crucial testimony |
| 24-6926 | Elijah Bankston, aka Tommy Lee v. Florida | Florida | 2025-04-03 | Denied | appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-separation manifest-injustice | Whether appellate counsel's failure to challenge jury separation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel and a manifest injustice under Strickla… |
| 24-6915 | George Valentino Sloan v. Washington | Washington | 2025-04-02 | Denied | constitutional-rights continuance due-process judicial-discretion speedy-trial trial-court | Did the Trial Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional right to a speedy trial by denying continuance motions over ten months before trial? |
| 24-1032 | Kay Ellison v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-03-28 | Denied | constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-test strickland-standard | Is the loss of the opportunity to present an affirmative case due to Constitutionally-deficient representation during trial the loss of a 'proceeding'… |
| 24-6876 | Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-27 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard | Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance o… |
| 24-1027 | Invenergy Thermal LLC, et al. v. Casey Sixkiller, Director, Washington State Department of Ecology | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6850 | Philip Jude Moran v. Florida | Florida | 2025-03-25 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether the state appellate court misapplied the Strickland prejudice standard when affirming the denial of Petitioner Moran's ineffective assistance … |
| 24-6837 | Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court | Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un… |
| 24-6801 | Birdell West v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-03-19 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6791 | Ladarrell C. Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |