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25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review 1. Whether a legal argument concerning the standard of review may be deemed waived, notwithstanding that other courts of appeals—including the Sixth a…
25A794 Segundo Inga-Inga v. Robert A. McDonald, etc., et al. New York 2026-01-08 Application administrative-review appellate-procedure case-controversy judicial-standing legal-dismissal mootness Question not identified.
25A662 Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges Fourth Circuit 2025-12-05 Application administrative-review civil-service-reform-act employment-policy federal-employee-rights jurisdictional-channeling merit-systems-protection-board Question not identified.
25-375 CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r…
24A741 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2025-01-28 Presumed Complete administrative-review employment-discrimination federal-employment judicial-appeal veterans-preference veterans-rights Whether the Veterans' Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (VERRRA) requires federal agencies to provide substantive preference and procedural prote…
24-698 Rose Ann Kimble-Davis v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review beneficiary-designation due-process evidence-standard opm-procedure Whether an agency or court can determine an individual is not a designated beneficiary without providing the claimed beneficiary with the appropriate …
24-416 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jennifer Zuch Third Circuit 2024-10-15 Judgment Issued Amici (4) administrative-review internal-revenue-service jurisdictional-challenge pre-deprivation-proceeding tax-court tax-levy Whether a pre-levy proceeding under 26 U.S.C. 6330 becomes moot when there is no longer a live dispute over the proposed levy
24-5631 Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review citizenship-petition federal-court-jurisdiction naturalization-jurisdiction uscis-procedure Whether the district court has exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction in naturalization cases filed under 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c) after USCIS issues a final …
24-5520 Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether the USCIS misinterpreted 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) in denying a spousal visa petition based on alleged marriage fraud
24A147 Martin Akerman v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-review civil-service interlocutory-appeal mspb-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation whistleblower-protection Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can be properly named as a respondent in federal appeals challenging its procedural or jurisdictiona…
24-5201 Rebecca Wu v. California State Teacher's Retirement System California 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review due-process employee-classification equal-protection erisa fiduciary-duty public-retirement-systems retirement-system Is the California State Teachers Retirement System required to review and correct contributions and credits based on employee misclassification?
24-5081 Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti…
23-7705 Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-13 Denied IFP administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Whether Sohnson's sentence was improperly calculated and should be reduced under the 'safety valve' (18 U.S.C. 3553(f)) sentencing law in effect at th…
23-7664 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand Question not identified.
23A955 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veteran Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-04-24 Presumed Complete administrative-review certiorari-review federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether a federal whistleblower who alleges retaliation and wrongful termination can challenge an agency's credibility determination and seek correcti…
23-745 In Re Henry L. Klein 2024-01-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-review attorney-discipline attorney-regulation axon-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure louisiana-supreme-court sec-v-cochran supremacy-clause Did the Louisiana Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause by denying Petitioner's request to enforce Axon v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran as the supreme …
23-5957 Khadijah Bronson v. District of Columbia Department of Buildings District of Columbia 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-judicial-process administrative-review civil-procedure court-dismissal default-judgments due-process judicial-access notice-of-infractions procedural-deficiency service-of-process appropriateness-of-dismissing-appeal-petition
22-1221 Marvin L. Stewart v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-review board-for-correction-of-military-records claims-preclusion coast-guard mandatory-physical-examination military-records res-judicata service-health-records statutory-obligation Whether a claim based on actions of the Respondents, and facts that were not yet in existence at the time of the original action is precluded by claim…
22-1213 Roslyn Gonzalez v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies administrative-review benefits benefits-denial coverage-denials federal-employee-health-benefits-act fehba opm-review plan-participant Does the denial of 'benefits' under FEHBA include denial of the plan participant's access to services, or access to the OPM administrative review of c…
22-6692 Jerez Coleman v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-02 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-burden property-rights property-tax takings tax-assessment tax-sale Whether the petitioner's appearance at a tax sale violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law
22-484 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law administrative-review board-determination civil-rights due-process federalism fiscal-plan legislative-oversight promesa puerto-rico-sovereignty statutory-interpretation territorial-self-rule What standard of review governs a district court's evaluation of the Board's determination that Puerto Rican legislation 'would impair or defeat the p…
22-403 Frances Endencia v. American Psychiatric Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1347 42-usc-1983 administrative-review civil-rights civil-rights-violation health-care-fraud license-suspension medical-records-sharing psychiatric-diagnosis stigma unemployment Is the American Psychiatric Association's design and training of students to rewrite complaints into psychiatric disorders, with the goal of altering …
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute Can a state statute providing a right of appeal from an administrative decision serve as an 'exclusive remedy' to bar separate federal claims under 42…
21-1570 Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice Third Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied administrative-review exclusive-liability federal-employees-compensation-act labor-secretary-decision statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction work-related-injuries Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to address what injuries fall within the scope of FECA's statutory scheme
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels
21-818 EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals may refuse to consider constitutional issues raised at the administrative level when reviewing the Secretary of Housing a…
21-350 Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-07 GVR administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and remand so that the United St…
20-7997 John Sloan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-care retaliation Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated when he was denied work opportunities, retaliated against for seeking medical care, and denied due…
20-7875 Lisa Truong v. UTC Aerospace Systems Eighth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights discrimination due-process emotional-damage emotional-damages employment employment-discrimination harassment personal-file-disclosure workplace-harassment Whether the Supreme Court will authorize the release of Petitioner's 'complete' Personal File to determine the reason and legitimacy of job terminatio…
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication Due-process-rights-of-healthcare-workers
20-7420 Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving good-time credits toward the service of his sentence, when such credits are mandated by statute…
20-7075 J. P. Parnell v. Doctor Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inmate-litigation judicial-discretion medical-need prison-reform procedural-bar standing At what point does the judiciary have an obligation to curtail efforts to procedurally bar inmate litigation and consider gross salient factors that a…
20-6723 Akando Ducksworth v. Hal MacMurdo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights correctional-institute due-process medical-care prisoner-rights standing Whether this Petitioner's case should have proceeded past the dismissal phase based on the merits of his claim
20-784 Jeffry Schmidt v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-review arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-standard disability-evaluation disability-ratings judicial-notice medical-evidence military-compensation military-disability new-and-material-evidence veterans-affairs veterans-disability Did Federal Circuits refuse to recognize consistent disability ratings between the U.S. Military and Department of Veterans Affairs
20-760 In Re Libby A. Demery 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge administrative-review federal-circuit merits-systems-protection-board procedural-errors supervisory-power whistleblower-protection-act Whether the Supervisory Power of this Court invoked recall of the mandate of Federal Circuit to vacate an unreviewed, Merits Systems Protection Board …
20-732 David Wyche v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Second Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-review civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-termination occupational-safety prima-facie-case termination whistleblower whistleblower-protection workplace-safety Under the OSH Act of 1970 Do I fit the criteria as a whistleblower
20-5532 Larry Golden v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-review fifth-amendment government-taking government-use implied-in-fact-contract intellectual-property just-compensation takings Has the Government taken private property under the Fifth Amendment Clause of the U.S. Constitution for the benefit of the public without paying just …
20-148 Marvin Washington, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Amici (9)Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-review controlled-substances-act due-process federal-patents medical-cannabis Can Congress criminalize medical cannabis without exception?
20-5310 Benjamin Franklin v. Glenna S. Blair Fifth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-association judicial-review presumption-of-intent presumption-of-reasonableness procedural-due-process standing Did the District Court abuse discretion in denying appeal of counsel but found several arguable claims under pre-RICO UTPA?
20-5049 Kevin L. Martin v. John Galipeau, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights disciplinary-hearing disclosure-of-evidence due-process facility-proceedings giglio-v-united-states judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the district court of appeals properly applied the standards of Brady v. Maryland and Giglio v. United States in evaluating the petitioner's c…
20-5024 Calvin Earl Brown v. Blair Williams, Clerk, Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing state-court-procedure state-official Whether it is unconstitutional that this pro se litigant (Petitioner) is denied the ability to be able to challenge the explicit correctness of a stat…
20-3 Terry Balvin v. Rain and Hail, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appraised-production arbitration arbitration-authority crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance-act good-farming-practices policy-interpretation statutory-rights Whether a private arbitrator has authority to determine 'Good Farming Practices' in a federal crop insurance dispute
19-1471 Jessica Lynn Tkacz v. Daniel G. Bogden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process evidentiary-standard. immigration standard-of-review administrative-law administrative-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence-standard immigration immigration-law judicial-review marriage-fraud standard-of-review Is the deferential 'substantial evidence' standard employed by federal courts to review decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals fundamentally in…
19-1124 Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other circui…
19-1074 Celgene Corporation v. Laura A. Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-review america-invents-act fifth-amendment inter-partes-review lucas-test patent-rights patent-rights-takings patent-trial-and-appeal-board patents penn-central-test property-rights takings takings-clause Whether retroactive application of inter partes review to patents issued before passage of the America Invents Act violates the Takings Clause of the …
19-6783 Virgil Lamont Jarvis v. David Allison, Sheriff, Pearl River County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-review appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies in-forma-pauperis jury-trial legal-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing summary-judgment Whether officials can refuse to process inmate grievances and then dismiss a subsequent civil rights lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative rem…
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process deprives claimants of their statutorily-created property interest without due process
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations Whether the ex post facto clause is violated when a newly modified state parole regulation is applied
19-146 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac…
19-5235 James P. Arlotta v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-07-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review board-for-correction-of-naval-records civil-rights due-process judicial-review medical-records military-justice naval-discharge procedural-due-process procedural-errors ucmj How the alleged 'behavioral problems' of this petitioner are of no comparison to those, (and the way the U.S. Navy handled the 'situation(s)',) of U.S…
19-5005 Ahmadou Sankara v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review asylum-application burden-of-proof cardoza-fonseca country-conditions immigration-law persecution political-persecution reasonable-possibility well-founded-fear What is the reasonable possibility standard for establishing a well-founded fear of persecution for asylum applicants?
18-1432 Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin…
18-9209 H. F. v. Board of Education of the Township of Teaneck New Jersey 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review due-process free-appropriate-public-education homeless-student homelessness idea-act individuals-with-disabilities-education-act special-education stay-put-provision Is the District of residence legally required to 'stay-put' and not TERMINATE a multi-handicapped and homeless students legal right to a 'Free Appropr…
18-1331 William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records Sixth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial Whether the Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records has the authority to remove an unjust summary court-martial sentence from a service member's …
18-1106 Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment May a federal court preempt a state's administrative-review-process by substituting a federal-finality-standard for a state-finality-standard
18-1037 Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab Disputed marks with foreign language and cultural symbols, lack of judges knowledgeable in foreign languages and cultures leads to erroneous trademark…
18-7695 Leroy O. Williams v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error constitutional-law constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment veterans veterans-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects veterans seeking review of allegations for Clear and Unmistakable Error?
18-999 Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review
18-570 Felisa Tunac, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Randy Tunac, Deceased v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review civil-procedure healthcare judicial-review judicial-review-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation medical-malpractice negligence negligence-claims va-healthcare veterans-affairs veterans-judicial-review-act Whether the court below erroneously held that its jurisdiction was limited by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act to negligence claims against Departmen…
18-561 Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Amici (1) 15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Is a delegation of Congressional power an 'agency order' or 'agency action' such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that chal…
18-5401 Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations Gender-discrimination
25A448 Benjamin Dykman v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Seventh Circuit Application administrative-review eeoc government-shutdown petition-deadline pro-se supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition based on a pending administrative agency review and governm…