arbitrary-capricious

9 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-149 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision arbitrary-capricious patent-challenge patent-trial-appeal-board Whether an agency decision is arbitrary and capricious when it fails to justify a different result reached on saliently similar facts, but involving a…
24-6172 Tyrone T. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2024-12-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-capricious capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review Has the Florida Supreme Court misapplied Pulley v. Harris and rendered Florida's capital sentencing scheme unconstitutional by abandoning comparative …
23-1315 Maxwell Jones v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious conflict-of-interest dfas-denial forged-documents judicial-immunity military-pay military-records records-correction wrongful-discharge Whether the military pay and records correction case involves issues of wrongful discharge, forged documents, and conflict of interest
23A779 Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Third Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-rulemaking arbitrary-capricious electronic-nicotine fda-regulation marketing-application Whether the FDA improperly adopted a new and heightened evidentiary burden for marketing applications for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) …
22-5978 Richard R. Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention-versus-arrest due-process evidentiary-hearing sworn-testimony Whether a determination by the lower courts that the officers only detained the petitioner, and not arrested him, which finding was in direct conflict…
22-351 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing Whether the Lower Courts' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States Appea…
21-7809 Urshawn Eric Miller v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-05-09 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious capital-punishment comparative-proportionality-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review sentencing-review Whether Tennessee's comparative proportionality review satisfies the Eighth Amendment
21-7534 Alan L. Gallagher v. Capella Education Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-capricious civil-procedure contract contract-disclaimer contract-elements educational-malpractice failure-to-state-cause-of-action motion-to-dismiss reciprocity standing university-immunity Are elements of contract properly pled (to survive motion to dismiss for failure to state cause of action)?
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review Does a fiduciary's decision take priority over compliance with ERISA statute and regulations?