| 25-5988 |
Huong Thi Nguyen v. Corporation of Catholic Archbishop, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees claims-management court-procedure judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-dispute supreme-court |
6/ Why did Judge Timothy L. Ashcraft, Let Attorney William do the complaint again, while Judge Timothy stated in the trial that, William to appear in … |
| 25-185 |
Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California |
California |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code |
The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove… |
| 25-96 |
Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights |
This case presents a classic vehicle for this Court to clarify that a judicial decision which changes legal precedent cannot be applied retroactively … |
| 25-88 |
Delco LLC, dba Delco Products v. Leviathan Group LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-award attorney-fees circuit-court-review contract-breach contract-deliverables michigan-law |
1. Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") erred by not remanding to the District Court to order Leviathan to pro… |
| 25-16 |
Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri… |
| 24-1294 |
Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law |
In a diversity jurisdiction case, did the lower court err in awarding attorney's fees under a state procedural rule that conflicts with the federal of… |
| 24A1205 |
Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard |
Whether a federal appellate court may vacate a district court's award of attorney's fees without providing a substantive legal rationale |
| 24-1081 |
Saundra Rhodes v. Jessica Gifford |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees frcp-54d nominal-verdict rimini-street-precedent taxable-costs |
Did the circuit court err in affirming an award of attorney's fees in excess of $800,000 where the Appellee received only a nominal verdict of one dol… |
| 24-870 |
AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness |
Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p… |
| 24-726 |
DISH Network L.L.C. v. Dragon Intellectual Property LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
administrative-proceeding attorney-fees district-court-discretion fee-shifting joint-and-several-liability patent-law |
Whether the Patent Act's fee-shifting statute allows a district court discretion to impose joint and several liability for attorney fees and to award … |
| 24-703 |
Ryan Haygood, et al. v. Camp Morrison, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights due-process frivolity section-1983 time-bar |
Whether a § 1983 civil rights claim can be deemed frivolous and time-barred solely based on an uncertain analogous tort, justifying prevailing defenda… |
| 24-692 |
Covenant Construction Services, LLC, et al. v. Five Rivers Carpenters District Council Health and Welfare Fund, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
|
american-rule attorney-fees claim-assignment contractual-exception miller-act notice-requirement |
Does the Miller Act modify the contractual exception to the American Rule governing attorney fees to allow their recovery against a contractor who is … |
| 24-688 |
Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fees under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a co… |
| 24A610 |
AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees fee-calculation hensley-standard legal-misconduct summary-judgment trademark-dispute |
Whether attorney fees awarded in a trademark dispute can be reduced when the prevailing party's fraud or misconduct artificially inflated legal time u… |
| 24-561 |
RSBCO v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees fifth-circuit-review invited-error jury-instructions procedural-violation tax-dispute |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in reversing a lower court ruling by interpreting undefined jury instructions and verdict forms in a tax dispute against the… |
| 24-448 |
Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC |
Virginia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law |
Whether a state appellate court can refuse full appellate review without a transcript when state law requires review based on written pleadings |
| 24-385 |
Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees canon-of-judicial-conduct fair-housing-act fraud-allegations judicial-sanctions procedural-errors |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in imposing sanctions without demonstrating frivolous claims and in denying motions to investigate alleged fraud in… |
| 24-259 |
Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds |
May district courts approve payments from class-action settlement funds to reward and encourage litigants for service as representative plaintiffs? |
| 24-237 |
Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. |
Colorado |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation |
Whether an HOA may require intrusive medical record disclosure as a condition for a reasonable accommodation exemption from a mask mandate under the F… |
| 24-96 |
Xanadu Corp., et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees claims-administration class-action due-process judicial-review settlement-distribution unclaimed-property |
Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class action… |
| 24A91 |
John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees copyright-infringement eleventh-circuit prevailing-party rule-68 voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant who successfully defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit and obtains a voluntary dismissal without prejudice can be consi… |
| 24-31 |
Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Antwon Jones, et al. |
California |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment excessive-fines professional-conduct proportionality-test |
Does the court-ordered disgorgement of attorney fees for violation of state rules of professional conduct fall under the 'excessive fines' clause of t… |
| 23A1112 |
Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees class-action-settlement internet-tracking privacy-rights service-awards wiretap-act |
Whether class action settlements that provide minimal recovery to class members while awarding substantial attorney's fees and 'service awards' to rep… |
| 23A1044 |
Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state court from disgorging an attorney's fees without finding harm to clients or assessing the attorney's ab… |
| 23-1163 |
David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights class-action common-benefit-fund due-process legal-method lodestar-method reasonable-attorney-fee reasonable-compensation settlement |
When determining a reasonable attorney's fee in a class action settlement with a common benefit fund, are district courts required to apply the lodest… |
| 23-1142 |
Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees cease-and-desist compensation doctrine-of-equivalents non-infringement patent-compensation patent-rights tortious-interference |
Whether the Court erred in denying proper compensation, including 'Cease and Desist order', requested by the patentee |
| 23-1086 |
Megan Marie Teter v. United States Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-action equal-access-to-justice-act remedial-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a contested matter initiated by the United States in a bankruptcy case is a 'civil action' within the ambit of the Equal Access to Justice Act |
| 23A867 |
Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees eaja equal-access-to-justice-act erisa government-litigation substantial-justification |
Whether the Equal Access to Justice Act requires a federal agency's litigation position to be objectively reasonable based on the actual record eviden… |
| 23-815 |
Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC |
Texas |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure |
When a law firm sues its own clients, are the clients' Due Process rights violated? |
| 23-6163 |
Vidala Aaronoff v. Curtis Olson |
California |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees civil-harassment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se pro-se-litigant |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a court to construe a pro se litigant's filings liberally in order to enable the litigant to participate as fu… |
| 23-574 |
Traxcell Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company LP, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees attorneys-fees claim-baselessness exceptional-case final-ruling litigation-conduct magistrate-ruling patent-infringement |
Where petitioner's patent infringement claims were not finally rejected until the district court judge approved the Magistrate Judge's ruling disposin… |
| 23-487 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure |
Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants' contractual dues is discriminatory? |
| 23A390 |
Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains a preliminary injunction that becomes moot can be considered a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees under 42… |
| 23-297 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York |
Indiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata |
Whether the Indiana courts' judgments violated Newman's Constitutional rights to due process by denying hearings, imposing punitive attorney fee award… |
| 23A235 |
Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property |
Whether courts should apply a presumption in favor of awarding attorney's fees to prevailing parties in copyright infringement cases under 17 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-214 |
Juannelious Benjamin Murray, Sr. v. Safir Law P.L.C. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-362k1 attorney-fees automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 core-proceedings jurisdiction legal-services property-of-estate segal-v-rochelle |
Is it sound discretion for a bankruptcy court to disregard nearly sixty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding what comprises property of a ba… |
| 23-132 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation |
Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju… |
| 23-57 |
Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency |
Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter to withhold all indication of its reasons for ruling |
| 23-5104 |
Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang |
Montana |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings |
Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the US Supreme Court's definition of 'prevailing party'? |
| 23-10 |
Miriam Brysk, et al. v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-semitism attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-bias synagogue synagogue-picketing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a decision awarding attorney fees to defendant protesters |
| 22-7719 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. |
Nebraska |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing |
Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve… |
| 22-1132 |
Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides |
New York |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal |
| 22-1084 |
Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing |
Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned |
| 22-901 |
Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson |
Utah |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver |
Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process |
| 22-6889 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and if so attorney-fees civil-discovery civil-rights" Res-Judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine whether the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure discovery hyde-amendment res-judicata rooker-feldman |
Whether the Hyde Amendment Attorney fees Award is 'Civil |
| 22-773 |
Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a 'prevailing party' elig… |
| 22-717 |
Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees |
| 22-680 |
Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power |
May a court of appeals refuse to conduct any appellate review of attorney fees awarded under state law? |
| 22-557 |
Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP |
California |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication |
Does California's legal framework for adjudicating prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal… |
| 22-517 |
Jenna Dickenson v. Charles T. Johnson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
attorney-fees common-fund equitable-fund johnson-factors judicial-discretion lodestar-method percentage-fee percentage-of-fund perdue-v-kenny |
Whether district courts may be required to use the inherently subjective and effectively unreviewable Johnson factors to determine common-fund fee awa… |
| 22-482 |
Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., et al. v. Janet Yijuan Fou |
New Jersey |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
attorney-fees causation causation-damages constitutional-rights damages due-process jury-award legal-malpractice |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated |
| 22-390 |
Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-rights attorney-fees attorneys-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-sanction limited-jurisdiction rule-of-law sanctions |
whether-the-superior-court-of-california-has-exceeded-its-jurisdiction |
| 22-288 |
TD Bank, N.A. v. Tania Pulliam, et al. |
California |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
attorney-fees civil-procedure consumer-credit contract-law creditor-liability holder-rule recovery-limitation seller-misconduct |
Whether the Holder Rule's limit on 'recovery' by the debtor applies to and caps an attorney's fee award in a Holder Rule suit against a creditor based… |
| 22-36 |
Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages |
Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitute RICO economic damages? |
| 22-5041 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia Talley Dunn |
Texas |
2022-07-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
attorney-fees bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fraud motion-to-dismiss texas-rules-civil-procedure trial-court-judgment void-judgment want-of-prosecution |
Whether the trial court judgments were the result of fraud, and are thus void; and whether such a judgment violates Due Process |
| 21-1462 |
Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions requires fees to be determined under Blum v. Stenson's prevailing market r… |
| 21-7518 |
Jay Alan Myers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-rights due-process prevailing-party standing |
Whether a court can award a prevailing party attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for time spent litigating a fee petition |
| 21-1277 |
David Allen O'Neal v. Crawford County, Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure county-employee county-liability personal-jurisdiction third-party-release third-party-releases void-judgment |
Whether a judgment against a county employee in his official capacity is unenforceable without personal jurisdiction over the attorney |
| 21-1256 |
Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t… |
| 21-1005 |
Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation |
Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285? |
| 21-738 |
Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-jurisdiction remand removal standing |
Whether the appeal was frivolous |
| 21-666 |
Parker Waichman, LLP, et al. v. Arnold Levin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
|
Alyeska-Pipeline-Serv.-Co.-v.-Wilderness-Soc'y attorney-fees Boeing-Co.-v.-Van-Gemert Common-benefit-doctrine common-fund-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction Equitable-common-fund-doctrine erie-doctrine Erie-R.-Co.-v.-Tompkins federal-equity-power Hensley-v.-Eckerhart multi-district-litigation |
Authority-of-court-in-diversity-jurisdiction-to-allocate-contractual-attorney-fees |
| 21-566 |
Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. |
Texas |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty? |
| 21-491 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata |
Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a 'closely interwoven' co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclusiv… |
| 21-299 |
Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees |
| 21-247 |
Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech |
Should the Lanham Act be extended to non-commercial political speech? |
| 21-229 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York |
Indiana |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-review takings |
Whether the Indiana courts violated Newman's due process rights by awarding $167,437.50 in appellate attorney fees against him without affording him C… |
| 21-5188 |
Malik Nasir v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit |
Should the Ashrict court's denial of the defendant's motion for payment of attorney's fees be reversed by the Third Circuit? |
| 20-1695 |
Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees callon-petroleum-v-frontier civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review frcp-60(b) frcp-60b4 jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements rule-41-dismissal rule-54 standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the denial of a FRCP 60(b)(4) motion under the de novo standard of review |
| 20-1489 |
Russell Baldwin v. Suzanne Seida, et al. |
Oregon |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain lien lien-foreclosure state-court-procedure takings |
Did the state courts effectuate a taking of petitioner's attorney fees under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 20-1420 |
Roadie, Inc. v. Baggage Airline Guest Services, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees claim-construction exceptional-case highmark-v-allcare infringement infringement-claim judicial-discretion octane-fitness-v-icon patent-law patent-statute-35-usc-285 |
Whether district courts should consider the weakness of an infringement claim after ruling in favor of the defendant on invalidity |
| 20-1422 |
76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing |
Should the Supreme Court adopt Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports as a national standard to balance the need to deter abusive serial ADA filings with the need … |
| 20-1363 |
Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 |
Whether the denial of additional attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 should be vacated if the Rule 11 sanctions are disturbed on appeal |
| 20-1349 |
Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h |
Whether a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding 'reasonable attorney's fees' under Rule 23(h) |
| 20-1213 |
Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner |
Georgia |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in ordering a non-party corporation and attorney to pay attorney's fees without due process |
| 20-1153 |
Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bad-faith civil-procedure costs-and-fees court-discretion inherent-authority judicial-power legal-costs objective-conduct procedural-standard subjective-bad-faith |
Whether a court considering a motion for an award of costs and attorney's fees pursuant to the court's inherent authority must require the movant to p… |
| 20-965 |
Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez |
California |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause |
Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as … |
| 20-773 |
Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process |
Whether a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be granted despite the movants' failure to serve the motion prior to filing |
| 20-749 |
Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. |
Texas |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions |
Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal… |
| 20-718 |
Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-rights criminal-procedure eaja equal-access-to-justice-act government-misconduct hyde-amendment standing united-states-position |
Does the Hyde Amendment inquiry into whether 'the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith' encompass actions of non-pr… |
| 20-710 |
John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings |
Does Grove have a protected property interest under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil-rights-claim and takings-claim agains… |
| 20-638 |
Samuel Gonzales v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees burden-shifting civil-rights discretion employee-benefits erisa |
Whether and to what extent district courts must consider ERISA's purpose in awarding attorney's fees to a successful defendant |
| 20-589 |
Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure |
Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? |
| 20-565 |
George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Distr… |
| 20-5989 |
Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. |
Ohio |
2020-10-09 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights court-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation pro-se sanctions |
Whether it was proper to impose sanctions and attorney's fees on a pro se petitioner, when the petitioner did not have an opportunity to respond at th… |
| 20-442 |
Kelly Colvard Parsons v. Richard Jearl Parsons |
Tennessee |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees divorce-decree marital-property modification property-rights retirement-benefits vested-interest |
Did the Appellate Court err in concluding that Wife did not obtain a vested, nonmodifiable property interest in her share of Husband's marital retirem… |
| 20-409 |
Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation |
Whether debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation |
| 20-311 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellants' 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees |
| 20-5314 |
Jared Stubblefield v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing |
Whether a plaintiff is allowed to receive an 'attorney fee' when filing a civil action for deprivation of rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? |
| 19-1288 |
Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation |
Arizona |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver |
Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al… |
| 19-1244 |
Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process |
| 19-1217 |
Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19… |
| 19-1132 |
Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation |
Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional? |
| 19-980 |
Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Texas, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees beneficiary-rights civil-rights employee-benefits erisa fee-award health-plan judicial-review legal-success legal-victory standard-of-review |
Whether a beneficiary achieves 'some success on the merits' for purposes of a fee award under ERISA Section 502(g)(1) when she obtains a significant l… |
| 19-7463 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988 |
| 19-931 |
Jay Lawrence Friedheim v. Dane Field |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
|
admiralty-law attorney-fees bankruptcy civil-procedure jones-act maintenance-and-cure maritime-law seaman-contract |
Whether a seaman's wage contract that includes maintenance and cure entitles the prevailing party to attorney's fees |
| 19-7122 |
Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-12-31 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed his petition for writ of habeas corpus |
| 19-6900 |
Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change |
Does Buckhannon apply in fee determinations under the Equal Access to Justice Act? |
| 19-677 |
Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? |
| 19-504 |
Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough |
Do the holdings of Greenough and Pettus, which prohibit payments in common-fund cases to compensate representative plaintiffs for their service to the… |
| 19-480 |
John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law |
Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law? |
| 19-6224 |
Philong Huynh v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-statutes court-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception discretionary-standard due-process government-oversight investigation-power judicial-review legal-interpretation |
Whether the government oversight function, including the power of investigation, is subject to the discretionary function exception under congressiona… |
| 19-5939 |
Frank R. Montero v. Tulsa Airport Improvements Trust |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-rights due-process federal-due-process federal-question-jurisdiction standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit-court title-28-usc-1443 writ-of-mandamus |
When the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma states in a 'Writ of Mandamus' that a State District Judge violated 'Federal Due Process' did it raise… |
| 19-5745 |
Mary Ryan v. Robert J. Connelly, III, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction parties self-represented-litigant standing |
Whether the Court has jurisdiction to proceed with a case without having the proper parties to a case |
| 19-270 |
Patricia Rodriguez v. LPP Mortgage Ltd., LP |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure client-advocacy credible-arguments due-process legal-ethics rule-11 sanctions zealous-representation |
Whether rule-11-sanctions-against-attorney-should-be-reversed |
| 19-244 |
Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law |
Do this Court's decisions defining 'a reasonable attorney's fee' in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding 'reaso… |
| 19-201 |
Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert |
California |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing |
Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402 foreclosed Respondent's efforts to seek attor… |
| 19-5372 |
Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. |
Florida |
2019-07-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe… |
| 19-73 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis |
Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically contravene this Court's decision in Fogerty v. Fantasy Inc.? |
| 19-34 |
Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness |
Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact in … |
| 19-2 |
Jackie Hosang Lawson v. FMR LLC, dba Fidelity Investments, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness-testimony federal-securities-law federal-securities-laws fraud fraud-allegations jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standards sarbanes-oxley-act securities |
Is the jury verdict just and proper on the two deciding questions where the jury was not made aware of what constitutes violation of Federal law relat… |
| 18A1274 |
Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure fee-shifting prevailing-party statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a voluntary dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1) precludes a defendant from being considered a 'prevailing party' for purp… |
| 18A1269 |
Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees buckhannon-doctrine equal-access-to-justice federal-circuit judicial-review tactical-mooting |
Whether the Equal Access to Justice Act permits attorney's fees when a plaintiff achieves a 'catalyst' legal change without a formal judicial judgment |
| 18A1209 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees fee-shifting foia litigation-costs statutory-interpretation substantial-prevailing |
Whether a court may award attorney's fees under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when a plaintiff has technically 'substantially prevailed' but o… |
| 18-1380 |
Thomas P. Gannon v. Riverwatch Condominium Owners' Assn., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1927 appeal-procedure appellate-procedure attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal due-process judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-technicality standing |
Whether an attorney's notice of appeal that identifies the judgment being appealed but does not specify the attorney as the party taking the appeal sh… |
| 18-1371 |
Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent |
Whether conflicts within the D.C. Circuit and between the D.C. Circuit and other circuits created by Morley XI require reversal in order to maintain n… |
| 18-1347 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity |
Whether the removal was due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact |
| 18-1349 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the motion to re-open was justified due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact |
| 18-1225 |
Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement |
Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o… |
| 18-1167 |
Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity |
Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976 |
| 18-1136 |
Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing |
Whether charging liens should be clarified to apply only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance, not client funds, to protect constitution… |
| 18-1115 |
Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura |
Whether petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1983 are barred by claim preclusion and res judicata despite lack of no… |
| 18-1095 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor |
Whether 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) and 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(2) void court judgments that determine a discharged Chapter 7 no asset' debtor still has pe… |
| 18-1012 |
Patrick Lafferty, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
California |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees california-consumers-legal-remedies-act consumer-legal-remedies-act consumer-protection consumer-protection-act federal-trade-commission holder-rule implied-cause-of-action preemption private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action unfair-or-deceptive-acts |
Whether the Holder Rule" implies a new private cause of action and whether the "Holder Rule" cap preempts the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act" |
| 18-922 |
Abraham M. Fisch v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees client-rights criminal-defense-attorney criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeiture sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
What is the appropriate standard of review for the forfeiture of attorney's fees? |
| 18-914 |
Gerald E. Bove v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees circuit-precedent due-process frivolous frivolous-prosecution hyde-amendment labor-law labor-laws legal-theory standing |
Whether a government theory of prosecution lacking support in case law and contrary to the purpose of existing labor laws can be considered not 'frivo… |
| 18-796 |
Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing |
Did the Western District Court err in not allowing all parties to respond to the original complaint? |
| 18-771 |
Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions |
Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff |
| 18-5943 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham, et al. |
Oregon |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence costs-and-fees due-process elder-care guardianship guardianship-petition medical-decision-making mental-health standing trial-court-error |
Did the trial court err in dismissing the guardianship petition with prejudice? |
| 18-301 |
Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law |
Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law |
| 18-208 |
New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance |
Whether a non-party subpoena recipient is automatically entitled to recover significant expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena before a court o… |
| 18-5619 |
Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees california-rules-of-professional-conduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights professional-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-created-rights |
Does a state-created right to require written consent from a client when others pay the attorney's fees constitute a denial of conflict-free counsel, … |
| 18-90 |
Colonial School District v. Rena C. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion attorney-fees buckhannon-board-and-care-home buckhannon-rule catalyst-theory disabilities-education frivolous-litigation individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-2004 individuals-with-disabilities-education-improvemen pierce-v-underwood plenary-review settlement-offer |
Whether the court of appeals' decision regarding the phrase 'substantially justified' fails to follow Pierce v. Underwood and conflicts with Gary G. v… |
| 18-5200 |
Kerry Kruskal v. Allan Meltzer, et al. |
New Mexico |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collection-fees contract contract-dispute due-process judgment-lien punitive-damages standing takings trust-account |
Should Kruskal be entitled to a full release for paying off the entire judgment lien on 10/1/2015 |
| 18-5192 |
Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services |
Ohio |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection in the denial of disability financial assistance by the Ohio Department of Job and … |