| 24-6965 |
Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on post-conduct agency guidance lacking statutory authority? |
| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary … |
| 22-1111 |
Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word 'established' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly? |
| 21-1604 |
Robin G. Thornton, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-guidance consumer-protection federal-meat-inspection-act federalism food-labeling labeling-regulations meat-inspection-act preemption |
Can the beef packing industry and United States of Agriculture override the clearly stated Congressional purpose of enacting the Federal Meat Inspecti… |
| 19-295 |
Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction |
Whether the court of appeals improperly afforded Auer deference to a federal agency's informal interpretation of a regulation |
| 18-1144 |
Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board |