| 25A316 |
Patricia M. Cornell v. Ann Cornell |
California |
2025-09-18 |
Application |
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beneficiary-rights due-process life-estate property-rights trust-interpretation trustee-actions |
Whether a state court's interpretation of a trust instrument that allegedly deprives a beneficiary of a life estate and right of occupancy violates du… |
| 23-1306 |
Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. |
Michigan |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty |
Whether the Michigan Courts committed plain legal error construing and applying §700.7604(1)(b) by declining to apply the relevant statutory definitio… |
| 22-7576 |
Crystal Maye v. Ocean Tax Deed Investment, LLC |
Florida |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law beneficiary-rights civil-rights due-process jurisdiction legislative-authority property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-regulation trust-income |
whether tax appraiser has the authority to create a tax regulate private property not sanction by legislature or congress |
| 21-1571 |
Rozalyn Ragan, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Phillip Ragan, Deceased v. Melissa Ragan, aka Melissa Hudson |
Colorado |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
after an ERISA plan administrator has fully distr ERISA preempts a claimant's state-law right to th beneficiary-rights benefit-distribution distribution distribution-dispute erisa ERISA-preemption federal-court-jurisdiction life-insurance life-insurance-proceeds plan-administrator preemption state-law state-law-claim |
Whether ERISA preempts a state-law claim to recover life insurance plan proceeds after distribution |
| 20-1263 |
Gianinna Gallardo, an Incapacitated Person, By and Through Her Parents and Co-Guardians Pilar Vassallo and Walter Gallardo v. Simone Marstiller, In Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
beneficiary-rights federal-statute future-medical-expenses healthcare-reimbursement medicaid-act medicaid-recovery medical-expenses preemption reimbursement statutory-interpretation tort-recovery tort-settlement |
Whether the federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid's payment of a beneficiary's past medical… |
| 20-1087 |
Leonard Hartford Tunnell v. Public School Retirement System of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination erisa government-retirement-system government-retirement-systems retirement-equity-act spousal-rights |
Whether the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 protects the spousal rights of spouses of government retirement system members, including teachers, military… |
| 20-856 |
Gary Pisner v. Robert M. McCarthy |
Maryland |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
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asset-transfer beneficiary-rights civil-rights contempt court-appointed-trustee due-process ex-parte-contact procedural-due-process standing trust trust-governance trustee |
Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process |
| 20-413 |
Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins |
California |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments void a trial court order approving a trust account and distribution between trustee and beneficiary withou… |
| 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… |
| 19-961 |
Khashon Haselrig v. Stephanie Inslee |
Washington |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment armstrong-v-manzo beneficiary-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-terrorem-clause personal-representative public-policy |
Did the Washington Court err in finding that an infirmity in due process is cured by denial of a motion seeking to correct it and violate the 14th Ame… |
| 19-884 |
Rick V. Caldwell, et ux. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
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beneficiary-rights contra-proferentem discretionary-provision erisa fiduciary-duty insurance-policy judicial-deference trust-law |
Does construing ambiguous insurance policy terms against ERISA beneficiaries undermine the purpose of ERISA? |
| 19-444 |
Robert Hoch v. MBI Energy Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary beneficiary-rights cigna-corp-v-amara erisa erisa-beneficiary erisa-plan erisa-plan-administrator-reimbursement erisa-plan-document plan-administrator plan-document reimbursement reimbursement-provisions summary-plan-description |
Whether an ERISA Plan Administrator may enforce reimbursement provisions against an ERISA beneficiary that are contained only in a Summary Plan Descri… |
| 18-1446 |
Lettie Sexton, ex rel. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Kentucky |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
beneficiary-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-benefits medicaid-program medical-coverage personal-liability standing state-agency statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(3) requires a state participating in the Medicaid program to provide a 'fair hearing' to a beneficiary when coverage of h… |