actual-knowledge

11 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) must establi…
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…
23-756 Angela Robinson, et al. v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge civil-rights civil-rights-violation constructive-knowledge county-liability monell monell-claim municipal-liability section-1983 Whether county policymakers' actual or constructive knowledge of contractor's misconduct is required for Monell claim
22-1020 H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s 'knowledge' element requires 'actual knowledge,' as this Court held, or 'intent to defraud,' as the Ninth Circuit held on rem…
22-423 Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, dba Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools v. John Doe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived actionable-harassment actual-knowledge civil-rights deliberate-indifference peer-harassment peer-on-peer-harassment school-district-liability school-liability title-ix In a peer-on-peer harassment Title IX claim, under what circumstances can a school district be liable when a plaintiff relies on the harassment of oth…
21-968 Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe Fourth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (4) actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassment…
21-6736 Steven R. Henson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-28 GVR Relisted (2)IFP actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate review w…
19-1353 AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations What gives rise to abandonment of an issue on appeal?
19-6544 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the Court can stay this matter until final resolution of a related and dependent money damages case, or order the petitioner be allowed to obt…
18-1116 Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of ERISA bars suit where all relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff more than…
18-235 Ventura Content, Ltd. v. Motherless, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied actual-knowledge apparent-knowledge copyright-infringement copyright-liability digital-millennium-copyright-act dmca-safe-harbor knowledge-standard online-service-provider repeat-infringer repeat-infringer-policy repeat-infringers termination-policy volitional-conduct Whether an online service provider can be held to have adopted a reasonable termination policy for repeat copyright infringers under the DMCA, where t…