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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6798 | Jay Pemberton v. Bell's Brewery, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Pending | civil-procedure disability-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-standard mcDonnell-douglas summary-judgment | Whether, in disability discrimination and related employment discrimination cases, a court of appeals may affirm summary judgment by resolving dispute… |
| 25-954 | Seville Industries, L.L.C. v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | independent-contractor loan-forgiveness payroll-costs ppp-loan sba-interpretation small-business | Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program to fund "payroll costs," defined to include "the sum of payments of any compensation with respect to … |
| 25-956 | Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation | Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") to fund "payroll costs" in order that small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandem… |
| 25-6760 | Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii | Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days? |
| 25-6745 | Linda Sun v. D.C. Office of Employee Appeals, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Pending | administrative-law due-process fraud-on-court judicial-integrity mandate-rule party-presentation | 1. Whether a court's inherent power to set aside a judgment for fraud on the court — as preserved in Super. Ct. Civ. R. 60(d) — is subject to a "reaso… |
| 25-932 | Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment | This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir… |
| 25-941 | Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard | Dr. Sorokina appeals to this Court the order of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit solely with respect to her pregnancy discrimination claim… |
| 25-927 | Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation | University of Texas officials threatened Professor Richard Lowery with reduced pay, loss of a research post, and other consequences, if he did not sto… |
| 25-922 | Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for … |
| 25-904 | La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights | Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh… |
| 25-875 | Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Texas | 2026-01-22 | Pending | cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records | The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U… |
| 25A825 | Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator | Question not identified. |
| 25-861 | Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law | Minnesota enacted a law prohibiting employers from requiring employees to attend meetings in which the employer discusses its views on political or re… |
| 25-6605 | Julian Francis Bates v. General Motors, LLC, dba GM | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | burden-shifting discovery-rules employee-resource-group employment-discrimination gender-bias summary-judgment | Can a party fail to cooperate in discovery, disobey court rules, interrupt the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green burden-shifting evidence approach and … |
| 25-828 | The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program | Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there… |
| 25-819 | Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination | Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job. |
| 25-6519 | Cornelius Davis v. Southeast QSR LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment-law racial-discrimination workplace-retaliation | Fact 1. Racial Discrimination. Based on my first argument Tenecca Brunner is Caucasian, she is a female and I'm black male. She got her job back. Fac… |
| 25-804 | George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ftca-claim government-liability service-of-process | 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's requirement that Petitioner serve individual government employees in a Federal Tort … |
| 25A782 | Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Application | asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh… |
| 25-759 | Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board | First Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy | In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child's room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worke… |
| 25A744 | Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | basic-presumption class-certification corrective-disclosure market-efficiency price-impact securities-fraud | 1. This case warrants the Court's review because it presents an ideal vehicle for the Court to resolve two related splits of authority about the prope… |
| 25-6420 | In Re Ryan D. Mumme | 2025-12-23 | Pending | article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction federal-court government-liability judicial-power sovereign-immunity | 1. Whether the applicant has a right to the relief he demands; 2. If he has a right, and that right has been violated, whether the laws of his countr… | |
| 25-737 | John S. Morter v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | District of Columbia | 2025-12-22 | Pending | agency-discretion essential-job-function medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act security-screening | 1. Whether a federal agency may, consistent with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and EEOC regulations, redefine a security screening requirement —suc… |
| 25-729 | James King v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Pending | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 | Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re… |
| 25-714 | Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination | 1. Federal anti-retaliation protections prohibit adverse treatment in response to protected activity, particularly where comparable conduct by others … |
| 25A713 | Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Application | america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a patent owner has a statutory right to know the identity of all real parties in interest in an inter partes review petition under the America… |
| 25A711 | Dale Sundby, as Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | appellate-procedure intervention post-judgment pro-se property-refinancing trustee | Whether a pro se trustee's post-judgment intervention and appeal challenging property refinancing claims can overcome procedural barriers and district… |
| 25-698 | Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Pending | age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii | Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram… |
| 25-6370 | Evelyn Courtney v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Pending | administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-employment mspb-jurisdiction prohibited-personnel-practices | WHY WILL THE MSPB NOT TAKE JURISDICTION OVER MY REQUEST FOR GRIEVANCE WHEN NUMERQUS PROHIBITED PERSONNEL PRACTICES WERE PERFORMED, THREATS TO MY SAFET… |
| 25A688 | Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Application | americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability | Whether a state can be held vicariously liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act for medical care violations committed … |
| 25A687 | Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Texas | 2025-12-11 | Application | cell-phone-logs constitutional-privacy fourth-amendment government-employees privacy telephone-records | Whether the Fourth Amendment and the Telephone Records and Privacy Act prohibit compelled disclosure of government employees' personal cell phone call… |
| 25-680 | Bernard T. Swift, Jr., et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Pending | administrative-procedure internal-revenue-code penalty-assessment statutory-construction supervisory-approval tax-law | When must an IRS employee secure written supervisory approval for a penalty assessment to be valid? |
| 25A682 | Medical Staffing of America, LLC, dba Steadfast Medical Staffing, a Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Secretary of Labor | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Application | economic-realities-test employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor statutory-interpretation worker-status | Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires courts to apply a uniform, predictable test for distinguishing between employees and independent contrac… |
| 25-672 | Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech | This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private … |
| 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… |
| 25-670 | James Console, et ux. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | due-process federal-tort-claims ftca-exception mandatory-duty restitution-statute victim-rights | 1. Whether the discretionary-function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 2680(a)) bars liability when federal employees violate m… |
| 25-661 | Erik Blecher, et al. v. The Holy See, aka The Apostolic See | Second Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Pending | discretionary-function foreign-sovereign-immunities-act mandatory-policy sexual-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims | Whether the FSIA's discretionary-function exclusion, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(5)(A), denies federal subject matter jurisdiction for a tort claim that alleg… |
| 25A663 | Amigo Shuttle Inc., et al. v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Application | antitrust competition monopoly port-authority sherman-act transportation | Whether the Sherman Antitrust Act permits a finding of monopolization when a public authority allegedly facilitates an anticompetitive agreement betwe… |
| 25-652 | Patricia J. Curto v. Erie County Water Authority, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | administrative-law civil-rights due-process notice-requirements procedural-fairness water-service-termination | Assuming the Rule of Law exist, have you ever seen a case that deviates so far from the Rule of Law? For example (including but not limited to): Plai… |
| 25-6296 | Emmanuel Folly v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Pending | arbitration-findings civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigant | 1. Whether systemic barriers preventing a pro se litigant from securing counsel, where stigma impedes representation, constitute "extraordinary circu… |
| 25A640 | Tetiana Semeniuk v. Abdelrahman Abouelmagd | Second Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | asylum-confidentiality child-protection domestic-violence family-separation immigration-law passport-restrictions | Whether federal immigration law and confidentiality protections under VAWA and asylum regulations preclude forced family separation and document discl… |
| 25-627 | Macy's Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | administrative-law circuit-split labor-board nlra pecuniary-damages unfair-labor-practice | 1. Whether an employer's practice that has no noted effect on employees' collective-bargaining rights and is not motivated by anti-union animus is inh… |
| 25-622 | Office and Professional Employees International Union v. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | civil-procedure federal-rules intervention labor-law nlrb writ-of-certiorari | Whether leave to intervene to file a petition for a writ of certiorari may properly be denied for a failure to show "exceptional" circumstances and "i… |
| 25-620 | California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2025-12-01 | Pending | class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour | After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment… |
| 25-6251 | Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportu… |
| 25A614 | Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Application | employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment | Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary judgment ruling contravenes Supreme Court precedents governing employment discrimination claims under Title VII a… |
| 25-608 | Cambra L. Lucas v. Office of Personnel Management | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | administrative-law due-process judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board overpayment-recovery statutory-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) violated its statutory jurisdiction and due process obligations by failing to provide Petitione… |
| 25-607 | Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause | Whether, as applied, Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it creates de facto respon… |
| 25A601 | Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Application | erisa multiemployer-pension pbgc-deference pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability | Whether the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act requires withdrawal liability credits from a partial withdrawal to be applied as a direct reduct… |
| 25A599 | Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2025-11-20 | Application | forum-state internet-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment social-media specific-jurisdiction | Whether the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over an internet-based company requires a direct causal connection between the defendant's foru… |
| 25A593 | Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Application | alcohol-regulation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce physical-presence three-tier-system twenty-first-amendment | Whether a state's requirement that wine retailers establish an in-state physical presence before shipping alcoholic beverages to consumers discriminat… |
| 25-6157 | Eric King v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment identity-theft indictment-defects | I. DUBIN MISAPPLICATION Whether Petitioner's conviction for aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A can stand where, contrary to Dubin v. Un… |
| 25-590 | Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Pending | None | Under § 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (a)(3), a beneficiary may bring suit to obtain "appropriate… |
| 25A562 | Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | first-amendment free-speech pickering-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a public employer violates the First Amendment by terminating an employee for expressing political views on social media while off-duty |
| 25A570 | Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii | Whether a federal agency's adverse employment action constitutes unlawful retaliation under Title VII when an employee has engaged in protected EEO ac… |
| 25-6084 | Paul Gregory Perry v. Robert Van Gorder, Warden | North Carolina | 2025-11-12 | Denied | appellate-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment | 1) Whether "Carpenter 222. ters" hralding i ratzaac hive ta Renton S Whee Convictiansand. Sentence 5 xele 2) jae Phar-capppellate counsel. tua je Fle… |
| 25-6072 | William Douglas Marcum v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | discovery-denial due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment merit-systems-protection-board perjured-testimony | 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the Merit Systems Protection Board relies on perjured testimony, denies discovery… |
| 25A529 | FemtoMetrix, Inc., et al. v. Hovik Nazaryan | California | 2025-11-07 | Application | civil-liability form-1099 fraudulent-filing information-return statutory-interpretation tax-statute | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7434 allows civil liability for fraudulent information returns to extend beyond the individual or entity legally required to file … |
| 25-559 | Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Pending | circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated | Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evid… |
| 25A518 | John T. Hardee v. Jeff Vergakis, Individually and as Superintendent, Hampton Roads Regional Jail, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | constitutional-rights court-access document-preparation legal-access prison-conditions pro-se-litigation | Whether a state corrections facility's restrictions on legal research access and document preparation violate an incarcerated individual's constitutio… |
| 25-6031 | Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure | THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING IS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT A MAN IS NOT UNJUSTEY IMPISONED; AND IF FOR SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS AS IN… |
| 25-543 | Thomas John Styczinski, et al. v. Grace Arnold, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | article-three constitutional-avoidance dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation judicial-power state-law | 1. Whether a federal court exceeds its "judicial power" under Article III and Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood when the federal court unilaterally imposes… |
| 25M35 | Office and Professional Employees International Union v. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Pending | None | |
| 25A506 | Walter W. Bullock, et al. v. Rivian Automotive, Inc., et al. | California | 2025-11-04 | Application | corporate-charter federal-court forum-provision initial-public-offering securities-act state-court | Whether a publicly-traded corporation can unilaterally amend its corporate charter to include a forum-steering provision that requires Securities Act … |
| 25A495 | Mark Hanna v. John Bel Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Application | appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights good-faith-standard in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation procedural-default | Whether a prisoner's in forma pauperis (IFP) status can be denied on appeal when procedural challenges prevent full review of the underlying civil rig… |
| 25-5966 | Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii | 1) Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, can employers demand statements of apostasy as well as set restrictions on how an employee can c… |
| 25-514 | Microchip Technology Incorporated, et al. v. Peter Schuman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | breach-of-duty employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty release-of-claims voluntary-release | Whether, in a case involving a release of claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a plan sponsor's alleged breach of fiduciary duty … |
| 25-5929 | Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii | 1. Whether the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions' (EEOC) federal employment discrimination laws under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o… |
| 25-499 | Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment | I. To resolve the confusion among circuit courts, the Court should decide whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for analysis at … |
| 25-498 | Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Granted | breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard | Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a plan fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t… |
| 25-495 | The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members | Texas | 2025-10-22 | Pending | airline-industry collective-bargaining-agreement preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claims third-party-liability | Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law claims against a third party that cannot be resolved without interpreting a collective bargaining agr… |
| 25-488 | Valerie Asato v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, et al. | Hawaii | 2025-10-20 | Denied | constitutional-search duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights fourth-amendment grievance-process labor-law | 1. Whether the Hawaii Government Employees Association ("HGEA") breached its duty of fair representation under federal and state labor law by engag… |
| 25-486 | David Perez v. City and County of Denver, Colorado | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | administrative-remedies due-diligence eeoc-complaint fraud-of-court pro-se-litigation title-vii | On June 3, 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the precondition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requiring employees to file a charge with … |
| 25-476 | Eli Lilly and Company, et al. v. Monica Richards, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Denied | None | 1. Whether this Court should overrule Hoffmann-La Roche's holding that district courts may authorize and facilitate notice to nonparties on behalf of … |
| 25-471 | Tami M. Dixon v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-10-16 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act covid-testing disability-discrimination rehabilitation-act title-vii unvaccinated-status | 1. Whether an employer's requirement that an employee undergo COVID-19 testing, based solely on the employee's unvaccinated status, constitutes rega… |
| 25A434 | James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eighth-circuit res-judicata serious-mental-illness solitary-confinement | Whether res judicata precludes a prisoner with serious mental illness from bringing a new lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement based on … |
| 25A431 | Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | bodily-autonomy covid-19 fundamental-rights medical-treatment substantive-due-process vaccine-mandate | Whether the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permits a government entity to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for emp… |
| 25-452 | UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al. v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al. | Nevada | 2025-10-15 | Denied | erisa-preemption health-plan-administration out-of-network-care plan-reimbursement state-law-claims unjust-enrichment | Whether ERISA § 514 preempts a claim asserting that the administrator of an ERISA-governed health plan was required by state law to reimburse out-of-n… |
| 25-450 | Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | adverse-employment burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence personnel-action protected-conduct whistleblower-protection | Whether AIR 21's affirmative defense is satisfied where an employer proves protected activity played only a limited role along with non-protected cond… |
| 25-440 | Thomas Anderson, et al. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | None | Section 564 of the Food , Drug, and Cosmetics Act ("FDCA") provides that the Food and Drug Administration 's ("FDA") standard process for approving … |
| 25-5854 | Dmt MacTruong v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Dismissed | citizen-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-standing declaratory-judgment due-process separation-of-powers | 1. Does Appellant-Petitioner, a U.S. citizen, living in one State of the Union, have standing to commence a civil action for a declaratory order/opini… |
| 25-431 | Ealaila Conard v. Chanel, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | ada-discrimination employment-law informed-consent job-related-standards medical-privacy medical-treatment | Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal tradition … |
| 25A400 | Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split equitable-remedy erisa fiduciary-breach section-1132 surcharge | Whether a plaintiff can seek equitable surcharge as a remedy under ERISA Section 1132(a)(3) when federal circuit courts are split on the availability … |
| 25-5821 | Gregory Lee Rodvelt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment official-duties sixth-amendment statutory-authority | 1. Is a federal employee "engaged in. . . the performance of official duties" to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 111 when there is no statutory… |
| 25-5810 | Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Rehearing | circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii | 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " … |
| 25A396 | Robert Tatum v. Chris Stevens | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Application | alibi-defense complete-defense due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense is violated when a state court denies the opportunity to present an … |
| 25-408 | Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Denied | employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii | To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies… |
| 25-388 | Adam Pajer, et al. v. Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | ada-interpretation congressional-intent disability-discrimination judicial-usurpation separation-of-powers statutory-construction | (1) Whether a judicial conclusion that no set of facts can plausibly exist to plead under the ADA that an employer regards an employee as presently di… |
| 25A373 | Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-review employment-discrimination medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation workplace-injury | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations for an employee with medical work restrictions f… |
| 25-373 | Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation | Federal Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers | Whether the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmances without opinion in Merit Systems Protection Board cases violate separation of powers and due process… |
| 25A367 | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund | Second Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Application | erisa mass-withdrawal multiemployer-plan pension-plan special-financial-assistance zone-status | Whether a multiemployer pension plan that has terminated by mass withdrawal remains eligible for Special Financial Assistance under the American Rescu… |
| 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 |
| 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 … |
| 25-362 | James Griffiths, Individually and as Employee of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority v. Rita Keith, Individually and as the Natural Parent of Arthur Keith and as Administrator of the Estate of Arthur Keith, Deceased | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-353 | Sally W. Tarquinio v. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act cdc-guidelines employment-discrimination medical-decision-making medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and this Court's decisions recognizing liberty in medical decision-making permit an employer to term… |
| 25-5701 | William Scales v. Hotel Trades Council of New York Local 6 | Second Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | arbitration-rights constitutional-violation employment-contract fair-business-practices freedom-of-speech union-representation | Whether the Hotel and Motel Trades Council violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights by restricting freedom of speech and fair representation in … |
| 25A320 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights effective-assistance legal-research prison-access sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial was violated when the petitioner was denied adequate access to l… |
| 25-5692 | Pete Szmurlo v. TK Elevator Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Denied | anti-injunction-act appellate-review due-process rule-65 subject-matter-jurisdiction tro-duration | Whether a temporary restraining order (TRO) exceeding 14 days becomes a de facto preliminary injunction requiring immediate appellate review under Sam… |
| 25A318 | William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2025-09-18 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts in-forma-pauperis law-library-access legal-communication prison-mail-policy pro-se-litigant | Whether prison mail policies and limited law library access unconstitutionally impede an indigent prisoner's ability to timely file a petition for wri… |
| 25-309 | Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action | Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of criminal p… |
| 25-303 | Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Does the Americans with Disabilities Act allow an employer to be held liable for discrimination on the basis of disability where the employee has no p… |
| 25-300 | William A. Goddard, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | administrative-procedure bad-faith evidentiary-hearing irs-summons law-firm-records tax-law | Whether a law firm can be denied the opportunity to challenge an IRS summons for law firm trust account records based solely on an IRS declaration, an… |
| 25A298 | The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members | Texas | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | collective-bargaining labor-union preemption railway-labor-act state-law-tort third-party-claim | Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law tort claims brought by a labor union against a third party that require interpretation of a collectiv… |
| 25-5617 | Magdoulen A. Sawires v. Elizabeth Board of Education, et al. | New Jersey | 2025-09-11 | Denied | administrative-law due-process employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation teacher-dismissal whistleblower-protection | Whether a public school teacher can be dismissed without prior investigation under New Jersey employment law |
| 25-280 | Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | constitutional-protection disassociation-rights first-amendment government-unions public-employees union-membership | Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to disassociate from the union? |
| 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… |
| 25-5583 | Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest | Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges constitutes a property interest under the Fourteenth Amendment that protects ag… |
| 25-5576 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether employment and its employee benefits constitute 'money or property' under the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and whether concea… |
| 25A266 | Amanda Luz Marin, aka Amanda L. Leon v. Gaston Leon | Nevada | 2025-09-05 | Presumed Complete | administrative-discretion alternate-payee due-process judicial-review qdro-modification retirement-benefits | Whether a state retirement system administrator can unilaterally modify a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) without the alternate payee's cons… |
| 25A265 | Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Presumed Complete | asset-seizure due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction receivership securities-law | Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can obtain a prejudgment receivership seizing entire companies without demonstrating clear necessity an… |
| 25-261 | Christine Asing v. Hawaii Government Employees Association - AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | grievance-procedure labor-organization mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii | Whether a labor organization violates Title VII when it refuses to pursue grievances based on religious objections while pursuing comparable secular g… |
| 25A263 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention | Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent … |
| 25-5542 | Francis Burns v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-tax-code tax-law taxpayer-bill-of-rights | Whether the Internal Revenue Service violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to follow proper tax assessment procedures and disclos… |
| 25-5541 | Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force | Federal Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal | Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using summary procedures fo… |
| 25A250 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll | Second Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act | Whether a former president can be held liable for defamatory statements made about a public accusation while serving in office, and the proper standar… |
| 25-5495 | Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | administrative-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights judicial-accountability procedural-fairness | Whether the Supreme Court should provide counsel for an indigent plaintiff and hold the judiciary accountable for potential due process violations in … |
| 25-5457 | Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. | Nevada | 2025-08-25 | Dismissed | appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a conflict exists between 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and procedural jurisdictional standards for tolerable collateral jeopardy subject-matter juri… |
| 25A211 | Tamika D. Pless v. State Employees' Credit Union. et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights eviction fair-housing-act housing-discrimination irreparable-harm pro-se-litigation | Whether federal courts can provide emergency injunctive relief to prevent a potentially discriminatory eviction under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.… |
| 25-214 | Kenneth Fitch, et al. v. Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | constitutional-discrimination healthcare-benefits medicare-part-d statutory-employment unilateral-contract unmistakability-doctrine | Whether the unmistakability doctrine renders a statutory unilateral employment contract illusory and whether Maryland's discriminatory healthcare prov… |
| 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… |
| 25-202 | Adrienne Apuzza v. NYU Langone Long Island | Second Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | ada-discrimination business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat employment-qualification medical-privacy | Whether the Court erred in its interpretation of ADA protections and COVID-19 medical treatment policies for employees |
| 25-191 | James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii | Whether the opinion of the court of appeals disregarding evidence of employer bias against male employees is contrary to the Supreme Court's decision … |
| 25A189 | Mawule Tepe v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Presumed Complete | due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-practice removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment state-court-removal | Whether federal district courts may improperly remove state court cases when attorneys are not admitted to practice in that federal district court and… |
| 25A186 | Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Presumed Complete | amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 | Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies to an amended complaint filed after a prisoner's release when the original c… |
| 25-183 | Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Pending | educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix | Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment |
| 25-5355 | Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | catering-industry contract-interpretation covid-19-restrictions employment-discrimination employment-guide workplace-rights | Whether an employee was discriminated against by a catering company during the 2020 Women's Open due to Covid-19 restrictions and denied guaranteed wo… |
| 25-5351 | Roberta A. Lee v. Department of the Army | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment merit-system-protection-board wrongful-termination | Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment allow federal employees equal protection and accountability for wrongful termination |
| 25-164 | Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | employment-law individual-right-action retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection | Whether federal whistleblowers have to prove 'retaliatory intent' in an Individual Right to Action (IRA) under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancemen… |
| 25-157 | Richard Hall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | anti-kickback-statute burden-of-persuasion criminal-defense federal-health-care-program safe-harbor statutory-interpretation | Which party bears the burden of persuasion for an AKS safe harbor, once the defendant has produced sufficient evidence to put the defense in play |
| 25-156 | Freedom Foundation v. Rita Gail Turner, in Her Official Capacity as Litigation Research Coordinator in the Public Records Act Unit, Office of General Counsel, Los Angeles School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | access-to-information first-amendment labor-law public-employees union-membership viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a law that prevents anyone but incumbent unions from accessing information necessary to communicate with public employees before they are recr… |
| 25-155 | Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County, Michigan, et al. | Michigan | 2025-08-08 | Denied | compensation-rights constitutional-violations contract-impairment due-process equal-protection takings-clause | Whether Michigan county officials violated the Takings Clause, Due Process, and Equal Protection Clauses by removing an employee's earned compensation… |
| 25A162 | Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | affirmative-defense burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence de-novo-review federal-railroad-safety-act protected-activity | Whether a district court's determination of an employer's affirmative defense under the Federal Railroad Safety Act involves a mixed question of law a… |
| 25-5298 | Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection | Whether a federal employee's speech reporting unsafe conditions and potential misconduct is protected under the First Amendment and whether agency ret… |
| 25-5288 | Eddie Mekasha v. Christy Chapplear, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | covid-19-complications disparate-treatment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity performance-review workplace-termination | Whether Tyson Fresh Meats' termination of an employee with an excellent performance record constitutes workplace discrimination under EEOC guidelines |
| 25-143 | Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice | Whether the fundamental constitutional right of parents to control their children's education extends beyond school selection and continues within pub… |
| 25A146 | Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-performance pleading-standard prudence-claim | Whether a plaintiff must plead a 'meaningful benchmark' with similar objectives to state a claim for breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA's prudence s… |
| 25-136 | Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. | Texas | 2025-08-05 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation | Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in vi… |
| 25A142 | Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment | Whether an employer's multiple evaluation attempts and termination of an employee after failed performance assessments constitute unlawful race and ag… |
| 25A141 | Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting contributing-factor employment-discrimination retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection | Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provision requires a plaintiff to prove that their protected activity was a substantial or m… |
| 25-5251 | Shahriar Behnamian v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | court-clerk deficiency-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se service-of-process summons | Whether a pro se plaintiff has properly served a defendant when the plaintiff serves the defendant himself at the advice of the court's clerk and then… |
| 25-118 | Hood River Distillers, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | District of Columbia | 2025-07-31 | Denied | bargaining-impasse judicial-review labor-law national-labor-relations-board substantial-evidence unilateral-changes | Does review for 'substantial evidence' require courts to ensure that the Board's decision is reasonably supported by the evidence as a whole, includin… |
| 25-121 | Kera Morgan, as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of Phillip Raymond Morgan v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation | Iowa | 2025-07-31 | Denied | employee-suicide federal-employers-liability-act negligence workplace-harassment wrongful-death zone-of-danger | Whether the 'zone of danger' test from Gottshall applies to FELA wrongful death claims involving employee suicide, and whether workplace harassment-in… |
| 25-122 | David Alan Carmichael, et al. v. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-31 | Denied | damages-liability due-process free-exercise official-capacity religious-freedom right-to-travel | Does the 'appropriate relief' of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allow for damages liability or nominal damages against the United States for br… |
| 25-5236 | Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment | Does the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes a substantial burden upon religious practice and did it make erroneous and impermissible… |
| 25-103 | BofI Federal Bank, nka Axos Bank v. Charles Matthew Erhart | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law personnel-action sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection | Under AIR-21's two-step framework, can evidence showing an employee's protected activity was a contributing factor in the unfavorable personnel action… |
| 25A88 | Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry | Question not identified. |
| 25A86 | Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection | The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions: 1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System… |
| 25-80 | Studco Building Systems US, LLC v. 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | actual-knowledge due-diligence financial-institution fund-transfer privity ucc-article-4a | Whether 'know' in UCC § 4A-207 imposes a due diligence standard or requires actual knowledge, and whether UCC § 4A-207 allows a defrauded party to fil… |
| 25-66 | Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math & Science High School, et al. v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. | California | 2025-07-18 | Denied | administrative-law first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-employers union-membership | Whether the government-speech doctrine allows states to categorically prohibit public employer agents and employees from sharing disfavored views cons… |
| 25-5143 | Mary Lynn Taylor v. Michigan, et al. | Michigan | 2025-07-17 | Denied | contractual-obligation due-process economic-liberty employment-rights property-interest school-denial-period | Did the implementation of Michigan's School Denial Period create an established property interest, and/or an economic liberty interest for Appellant, … |
| 25-5140 | Amy Pickett v. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-17 | Denied | ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment | Did the Respondents violate the Petitioner's constitutional rights through discrimination, retaliation, and failure to provide ADA accommodations in a… |
| 25-56 | Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements | Does inadmissibility of F.R.E. 408 apply to severance agreements when no claims exist? |
| 25-5113 | Benjamin Dykman v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | civil-rights disability-discrimination eeoc-guidelines employer-responsibility institutional-liability workplace-discrimination | Whether an employer at a large institution can deny and uphold workplace disability discrimination in violation of EEOC guidelines |
| 25-5098 | Elizabeth Nelson, et al. v. Service Towing, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | civil-rights due-process municipal-liability property-rights section-1983 towing-dispute | Do pro'se appellants state a 42 USC Sec 1983 claim when city of Warren MI property and maintenance employees and Service Towing Inc. tow 4 plated, ins… |
| 25-47 | Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii | Whether the courts improperly applied zero tolerance harassment policies under Title VII, EPA, ADA, and EEOC standards in evaluating multiple alleged … |
| 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 … |
| 25-41 | Jan Peters v. Malia M. Cohen, In Her Official Capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer, State Controller of California, and as Trustee of the Unclaimed Property Fund | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-11 | Denied | constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause unclaimed-property | Whether the Controller's actions under the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process and Takings Clauses of the Fourteenth and Fifth A… |
| 25-37 | Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. | Indiana | 2025-07-10 | Denied | common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor | Whether Indiana courts violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring a common law cause of action against third-party tortf… |
| 25-5040 | Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance | Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) deny a naturalization application based on a modified oath of allegiance due to con… |
| 25A5 | Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix | Whether Title IX provides an implied private right of action for employees to sue for sex discrimination in educational institutions |
| 24A1295 | Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Presumed Complete | eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii | Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the proper application of pleading standards under Rule 8 and the McDonnell Douglas framework in employment d… |
| 24-1317 | Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | employer-liability income-tax internal-revenue-service perjury tax-code tax-determination | Does the Tax Code authorize the employer to determine the employee's income tax liability without consent and may the Commissioner of Internal Revenue… |
| 24A1279 | Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium … |
| 24-1314 | Sberbank of Russia PJSC v. Thomas Schansman, Individually and as Surviving Parent of Quinn Lucas Schansman and as the Legal Guardian on Behalf of X.S., a Minor, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | anti-terrorism-act commercial-activity-exception correspondent-accounts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity terrorist-attack | Do the general exceptions to foreign state immunity under Section 1604 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act pierce the separate immunity provision … |
| 24A1276 | Andrew Grimm v. City of Portland, Oregon | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process mullane-test predeprivation-notice property-seizure technology-communication | Whether the Due Process Clause requires meaningful predeprivation notice of government property seizure when alternative notification methods are tech… |
| 24-1306 | Terry Klee v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 501, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | first-amendment janus-decision section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action union-dues | Whether a public-sector union that invokes the aid of state officials to deduct union dues from a nonconsenting public-sector employee acts 'under col… |
| 24-1305 | Marcus Todd v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5 | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | consent-diversion employee-rights first-amendment janus-standard public-sector-union state-action | When a public-sector union gets the government to divert an employee's pay by stating that he consented to join the union, is it a state actor such th… |
| 24-7447 | Gilbert Aguirre v. Department of Defense | Federal Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | administrative-procedure chevron-deference fraud-upon-court judicial-review rule-60-motion veterans-preference | Is a Rule 60 Motion for Fraud upon the Court sufficient basis for judicial intervention and review on its merits? |
| 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… |
| 24-7428 | Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Gavin Newsom, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | employer-mandate false-claims-act honest-services-fraud immigration-status medicaid-fraud rico-act | Whether federal funds for Medicaid were fraudulently used to subsidize health coverage for undocumented immigrants through California state legislatio… |
| 24-1274 | R. Michael Cestaro v. Clarissa M. Rodriguez, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chair of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | first-amendment mt-healthy public-employee retaliation section-1983 subjective-intent | Whether a public employee's First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires proof of subjective intent and distinct 'other conduct' … |
| 24-1263 | Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. | California | 2025-06-11 | Denied | due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights | Did the state courts, including the California Supreme Court, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to rule on substan… |
| 24-7366 | Damien Deshawn Pugh v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-05 | Denied | administrative-law disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security supplemental-security-income | Whether social security applicants are unfairly subjected to political opinions that deviate from medical facts in disability determinations |
| 24-1239 | Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Denied | civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii | Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an 'employee' within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)? |
| 24-1229 | Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity | At the motion to dismiss stage, can a court disregard the 'light most favorable' standard and require the plaintiff to prove her rights were 'clearly … |
| 24A1174 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-7336 | Blondell F. Mitchell v. Raytown Water, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process eeoc-discrimination employment-discrimination equal-protection media-harassment | Whether the EEOC and various defendants violated Mitchell's constitutional rights through discriminatory actions, media harassment, and procedural mis… |
| 24-1213 | In Re Bahig Bishay | 2025-05-29 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity | Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief when sued in individual cap… | |
| 24A1157 | Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Presumed Complete | due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment imposes temporal or procedural limits on the government's authority to detain noncitizens pendin… |
| 24-1204 | Yaakov Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, a Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | contract-breach employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception overtime-compensation religious-institutions | Whether religious institutions can invoke the Ministerial Exception to breach contracts and avoid liability for employment claims |
| 24-1186 | Alvin Boone, et al. v. Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Denied | covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health religious-exemption workplace-safety | Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent th… |
| 24A1106 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Presumed Complete | administrative-procedure-act executive-order federal-workforce injunction reduction-in-force separation-of-powers | Whether the President possesses constitutional and statutory authority to implement a reduction in force and reorganization of the federal workforce t… |
| 24-1171 | Nursing Home Care Management, Inc., dba Prestige Home Care Agency, et al. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor | Third Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | department-of-labor employee-compensation fair-labor-standards-act notice-requirement portal-to-portal-act willful-violation | Whether an employer's single prior interaction with the DOL is sufficient to establish notice of FLSA provisions for future alleged willful violations… |
| 24A1096 | Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii | Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour… |
| 24A1098 | Marcus Todd v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5 | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-1164 | Jacqueline R. Everson v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | circuit-split disability-rights due-process equitable-tolling erisa-plan statutory-violation | Whether the courts are precluded from violating statutory laws affecting the rights of ERISA plan participants nationwide and whether such violations … |
| 24-1150 | Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection | Whether the burden of proof in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint is prima facie or preponderance of evidence |
| 24-1149 | T. Kimberly Williams v. Elton Corporation, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | coverage-provision employee-retirement erisa multiple-employer-plan pension-plan statutory-interpretation | Whether a pension plan designed for three generations of a family is a multiple employer plan under ERISA and subject to its coverage provisions |
| 24A1073 | Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Presumed Complete | disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security | Whether law enforcement may conduct warrantless, forcible home searches of Social Security disability applicants without violating their Fourth Amendm… |
| 24A1063 | Social Security Administration, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-1101 | Ali Bahreman v. Allegiant Air, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights labor-organization railway-labor-act union-representation | Do a union and employer violate the Railway Labor Act by requiring non-members to financially support a union in a manner not authorized by statute, a… |
| 24-7067 | Manuel Tijerino v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | consumer-protection due-process employer-misconduct equal-protection fmla-retaliation legal-presumption | Did the lower courts err in misapplying the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) waiver of standards denying Petitioners FMLA, due to a concealed missrepre… |
| 24-1085 | David P. Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Denied | class-of-one constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment municipal-retaliation property-rights | When a property owner exercises his First Amendment right to speak out at public meetings, does it violate that Constitutional guarantee when the gove… |
| 24-1087 | David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Denied | disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix | May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a 'no state action' defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa… |
| 24-1078 | Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights | Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against servicemembers' tort claims is limited to injuries directly caused by military duties or should be narrowed/o… |
| 24-1080 | Suzanne Gifford, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Michael Gifford v. Operating Engineers 139 Health Benefit Fund | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure discovery-limitations erisa fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion | Whether courts may effectively preclude ERISA plaintiffs from engaging in any discovery and whether plan administrators' fiduciary obligations require… |
| 24-7004 | Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction immunity labor-management political-subdivision wrongful-discharge | Whether a political subdivision has immunity under 301 labor management (duty of fair representation) and whether such immunity can be waived when fed… |
| 24-1072 | Raizel Blumberger v. Ian B. Tilley, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | attorney-general-removal federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption health-center-liability public-health-service statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant who disagrees with the Attorney General's state-court filing may remove the action to federal district court without a statutory b… |
| 24-6975 | Samuel T. Whatley, II v. T-Mobile USA, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Dismissed | federal-judges governmental-immunity misconduct privacy-rights property-rights stock-equities | Are private entities invested with stock equities of assigned federal judges exceeding $10,000 subject to federal law prosecutions, review, lawsuits, … |
| 24-6944 | Andrew Isaacs v. Interplex Sunbelt, Inc., et al. | Florida | 2025-04-08 | Denied | fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction labor-law osha-regulations workers-compensation workplace-safety | Whether a Judge of Compensation Claims' jurisdictional ruling over an employee's Fourteenth Amendment claim creates an unconstitutional judicial void … |