bad-faith
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-860 | ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions | 1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec… | |
| 25-808 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure | Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th… |
| 25A606 | ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions | Whether federal courts can impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith in the context of discovery disputes | |
| 25A559 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Application | bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions | Whether federal courts may impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith when dismissing a pro se prisoner's civil ri… | |
| 25-565 | Yogesh K. Pancholi v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bad-faith compulsory-process criminal-procedure discovery-violation sixth-amendment witness-preclusion | Whether the Constitution permits a trial court to impose witness preclusion as a sanction for a discovery violation in a criminal case, absent a findi… |
| 25-300 | William A. Goddard, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure bad-faith evidentiary-hearing irs-summons law-firm-records tax-law | 1. Whether a law firm can be denied the opportunity to challenge an IRS summons for law firm trust account records based solely on an IRS declaratio… |
| 25A1 | Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | bad-faith civil-procedure discretionary-power eighth-circuit rule-11-sanctions standard-of-review | Whether a federal district court may impose Rule 11 sanctions against a party without individualized findings of bad faith | |
| 25-6 | Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Granted | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bad-faith bankruptcy-law civil-claims judicial-estoppel judicial-integrity procedural-doctrine | Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing th… |
| 24-5738 | Corloyd Anderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affiant-misconduct bad-faith criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant-clause | Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly-discovered evidence establishes that a law enforcement affiant concealed prior felonious conduc… |
| 24-5513 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith franks-hearing good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant | May a search warrant affiant be excused under the Good Faith Exception when intentionally withholding critical information about prior state court sup… |
| 24-233 | Johnmack Cohen v. Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | attorney-conduct bad-faith civil-procedure inherent-powers rule-11 sanctions | Whether a court can use the implicit Rule 11(b) certification of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that automatically attaches to all attorneys' pa… | |
| 24-5412 | Derrick Hills v. Richard A. Roble, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith civil-procedure federal-rules motion-for-relief rule-60b zoom-deposition | Whether the district court properly denied a Rule 60(b) motion when insufficient evidence demonstrated bad faith in a Zoom deposition appearance |
| 24-5300 | Shakeen Davis, Jamal Lockley, and Dante D. Bailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrants warrant-clause wiretap-orders | Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly discovered evidence establishes that an affiant who applied for wiretap orders and search warra… |
| 24-26 | Hugh H. Baldwin, Jr. v. Maryland | Maryland | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith collateral-consequences due-process due-process,collateral-consequences,bad-faith,lega ineffective-assistance legal-counsel post-conviction-relief | Did the State commit a Bad Faith Due Process Violation resulting in outstanding legal consequences to the petitioner, to wit: Significant Collateral C… |
| 23-1301 | Ben Brinkmann, et al. v. Town of Southold, New York | Second Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (3) | bad-faith bad-faith-taking constitutional-protection pretext property-rights public-use section-1983 state-federal-split takings-clause | Whether the Takings Clause is violated when a property is taken for a public amenity as a pretext for defeating an owner's plans for another use |
| 23-7614 | Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim | When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly ripe… |
| 23-211 | Joseph G. Wortley v. James Juranitch, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition business-divorce closely-held-business closely-held-company deadlock insider-filing involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition | Whether an insider's involuntary bankruptcy petition against his closely-held business for the express purpose of 'breaking a deadlock' or to get a 'b… |
| 23A107 | Matthew Edwin Gronda, et al. v. Title Check, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Presumed Complete | 28-u-s-c-section-1927 attorney-liability bad-faith first-impression frivolous-claims sanctions-on-counsel | Whether sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 may be imposed on trial counsel for advancing a novel legal theory in a case of first impression without evid… | |
| 22-1245 | Brent A. Ristow v. Douglas R. Peterson, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-law bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-capacity prosecutorial-immunity standing | Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the crimi… |
| 22-1215 | Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena | Did the Bankruptcy Court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Delafield for asserting attorney-client privilege on behalf of his clients? | |
| 22-7605 | Sealed Appellant v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith cooperation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion section-3553e sentencing sentencing-relief | Did the government act in bad faith by denying 18-U.S.C.-3553(e) relief to Petitioner |
| 22-6161 | Melvin Lavon Shields v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process government-delay lovasco-v-united-states marion-v-united-states pre-charging-delay prejudice state-v-shields | Whether a criminal defendant who has established prejudice from the government's pre-charging delay must show that delay was the result of the governm… |
| 22-228 | In Re Urvashi Bhagat | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim | Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice | |
| 21-1322 | Jan M. Sensenich v. PHH Mortgage Corporation | Second Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Amici (4) | appellate-review bad-faith bankruptcy-court-enforcement bankruptcy-rule-3002.1 bankruptcy-sanctions inherent-authority inherent-judicial-power judicial-power punitive-fines rule-enforcement | Whether appellate courts may affirm a bankruptcy sanctions order on an alternate correct ground even if the order does not analyze the ground |
| 21-1142 | James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 | Does Section 230(c)(1) preempt discrimination claims against an interactive computer service? |
| 21-803 | Wendy Dale v. Algernon Lee Butler, III | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith bankruptcy-conversion bankruptcy-court chapter-13 means-test pending-lawsuit pro-se-debtor social-security social-security-disability | May a bankruptcy court deny a Motion to Convert to Chapter 13 Bankruptcy on the basis of bad faith and inability to qualify as a Chapter 13 debtor |
| 21-685 | Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland | District of Columbia | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity | Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth… |
| 20-1538 | Angela W. DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | bad-faith burden-of-proof civil-procedure independent-action judicial-fraud res-judicata rule-60 rule-60(b) rule-60(d) | Whether a Rule 60(d) Independent Action to Attack a Final Judgment is a continuation or re-litigation of the prior case, barred by the doctrine of res… | |
| 20-7491 | Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence | whether-pattern-jury-instructions-have-independent-legal-force |
| 20-1177 | National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment | Whether punitive damages are to be awarded when an involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in bad faith |
| 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… |
| 20-669 | Billy John Bell v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | bad-faith due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory state-destruction trombetta trombetta-test youngblood youngblood-standard | When a defendant has proven that the state has destroyed evidence that is material and exculpatory, does he bear the extra burden of proving the actio… |
| 20-6267 | In Re Graham Schiff | 2020-11-10 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-intervention post-conviction-relief state-criminal-proceedings state-officials | Whether federal intervention in a state criminal proceeding is appropriate given the petitioner's showing of 'bad faith and harassment by state offici… | |
| 20-5318 | Dimitri Rozenman v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith brady-violation disclosure-requirement due-process evidence-preservation tampering youngblood-standard | Whether the U.S.D.C. erred in its finding that, in order to obtain relief under Arizona v. Youngblood, Petitioner needs to prove either that evidence … |
| 20-5288 | Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement | Where contract law identifies that an agreement can be signed under bad faith and made voidable by either extrinsic fraud or an intentional omission o… |
| 20-5239 | Junior Griffin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct joinder severance | Whether courts must consider allegations of 'bad faith' by the government when deciding motions to join counts pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 8(a), or m… |
| 19-8809 | Brandon Lee Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery inventory-search law-enforcement primary-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the inevitable discovery rule exception to the exclusionary rule applies to primary evidence discovered during an unconstitutional warrantless… |
| 19-8362 | Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California | California | 2020-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct | Whether the police may rely on unsubstantiated evidence to absolve them of bad faith intentional destruction of potentially useful evidence? |
| 19-8216 | Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard | Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a precedent-setting error in interpreting the requirements for 'bad faith… |
| 19-6369 | Kelly Dutton v. American Bankers Insurance Company | Pennsylvania | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith bad-faith-claim breach-of-contract civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract jurisdiction municipal-court statute-of-limitations summary-judgment | Does this rule exclude municipal court from statute of limitation? |
| 19-5816 | Gabriel A. Maalouf v. Praetorian Insurance Company | Nevada | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-impact contract contract-breach insurance-coverage insurance-guarantee-association negligence negligence-claim uninsured-motorist | Whether financial liability should have reverted back to the motorist's uninsured/underinsured motorist policy after the Tortfeasor became uninsured d… |
| 19-5503 | Patricia Gill v. Mercy College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech harassment judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials were in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exe… |
| 19-5237 | Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | IFP | antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging bad faith conduct by the respondents in a patent settlement agreement |
| 18-9552 | Patricia Gill v. Nyack College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process harassment in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct poor-person-status prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials | Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exercisi… |
| 18-1509 | Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Relisted (2) | administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct |
| 18-1303 | Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell | California | 2019-04-15 | Denied | appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing | Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa… | |
| 18-1246 | BNSF Railway Company, et al. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, et al. | Montana | 2019-03-26 | Dismissed | Amici (2) | bad-faith bad-faith-claims federal-framework federal-preemption fela fela-preemption litigation-conduct railroad-liability self-insured-employer state-law-liability | Whether FELA preempts bad-faith claims under Montana law that seek to impose state-law liability based on the litigation conduct of a self-insured emp… |
| 18-7708 | Philip Eberhard Koebel v. Stevan Chandler, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 11-usc-109e attorney-discipline automatic-stay bad-faith bankruptcy-code chapter-13 debtor-attorney-discipline debtor-eligibility dismissal homestead-exemption | Whether a bankruptcy court contravenes the Bankruptcy Code |
| 18-909 | Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings | Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial-estoppel, from pursuing her claim—ev… | |
| 18-645 | Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Dismissed | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 | Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) requir… |
| 18-5568 | Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. | Ohio | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge opinions-below patent procedural-defect standing summary-judgment takings | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 18-5564 | Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon | Oregon | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video | Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… |