| 25-6029 |
Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 |
1. Discovery Rights in § 1983 Cases: Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defe… |
| 23-422 |
Shirley T. Sherrod, et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-defenses amendment civil-procedure erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duties rule-15 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the underlying rulings contradict the plain text of the applicable ERISA provisions in finding a breach of Petitioners' fiduciary duties and d… |
| 20-1296 |
Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent |
Does precedent in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allow defendants to circumvent FRCP 15 and FRCP 16 requirements for amendin… |
| 19-6826 |
Jennifer Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense? |
| 18-987 |
McKesson Corporation, et al. v. True Health Chiropractic, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-defenses burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-certification federal-rules-of-civil-procedure halliburton-v-erica-p-john-fund predominance rule-23 |
Whether the burden at class certification shifts to the defendant when predominance turns on affirmative defenses |
| 18-901 |
Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual suffi… |
| 18-74 |
Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations |
Does the D'Oench, Duhme doctrine permit the NCUA to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative defenses, and federal law? |