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25-6583 John Hotaling v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement santobello-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the government breaches a plea agreement, and violates due process under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971), when it enters into an a…
25-812 James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action 1) When a woman signs a Prenuptial Agreement for a set amount, she cannot argue in divorce court that the Law says "she has the right" to half. Theref…
25-704 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending breach-of-contract constitutional-authority elections-clause procedural-error standing voting-machines Article I, § 4, cl. 1 , the " Elections Clause " of the United States Constitution , delegates to the states, the Time, Manner, and Place of conduct…
25-6075 Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement Whether the prosecution breached the plea agreement by vigorously advocating, at sentencing, for the application of two enhancements, that the parties…
25-480 Karim Annabi v. New York University Second Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied alumni-benefits breach-of-contract civil-rights contractual-rights discrimination university-obligations Petitioner, a two-time New York University ("NYU") alumnus, was banned from alumni entrepreneurship programs and later in retaliation was designated a…
25A342 Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont…
25-5206 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. George Washington University Hospital District of Columbia 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process eeoc-rights equitable-tolling pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims as untimely, given the ongoing internal adjud…
25-5154 Elijah Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process four-corners-doctrine plea-agreement 1. Whether a court should only look at the "four corners" of the plea agreement language when determining whether a breach of the plea agreement occur…
24-7375 Victor Rogers v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company New York 2025-06-06 Denied IFP breach-of-contract contract-enforcement court-review legal-claim unpaid-installments writ-of-certiorari Why have the courts not upheld my valid breach of contract claim against NYCM with unpaid installments of $54,221 as outlined in this Writ of Certiora…
24-7064 Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP accrual-date breach-of-contract cause-of-action eleventh-circuit oral-contract statute-of-limitations Whether a cause of action accrual date for a breach of oral contract claim can be definitively determined under Georgia law when the specific date of …
24-1007 Thomas J. Ayers v. Joseph Markiewicz, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement breach-of-contract constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty tortious-interference Whether the denial of dispute resolution and arbitration by Defendants constitutes a breach of contract, violation of due process, and infringement of…
24-6555 Bianca A. Hughley v. Southwest Airlines Fourth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration breach-of-contract employment-law grievance-procedures minor-disputes railway-labor-act Did the United States District Court of Maryland err in dismissing Ms. Hughley's Breach of Contract claim when she was denied grievance and arbitratio…
24-759 Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements Whether in a breach of contract case under the FSIA's third clause, courts must apply traditional causation principles or require an additional findin…
24-8 John Meyer v. John Pellegrin Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied attorney-liability breach-of-contract civil-procedure criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney exoneration legal-malpractice post-conviction-relief Whether a criminal defense lawyer should be held responsible for his actions and inactions even if his client is guilty of a lesser offense
23-7626 Jasper Frazier v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-law damages federal-damages standing state-services Whether the receiving state is liable for damages caused by the breach of a contract for new border security services
23-6778 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2024-02-16 Denied IFP breach-of-contract contract-breach court-of-appeals district-court expedited-relief expedited-review habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-delay release-pending Can the district court or Court of Appeals refuse to rule on Petitioner's motions for expedited review and for release pending adjudication in a habea…
23-6670 Catherine Fernandez v. Board of Pemberton Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1367 42-usc-1983 breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the Appeals Court 3rd Circuit erred by omitting new evidence that could re-establish the Statute of Limitation or grounds for tolling or excus…
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Whether the domestic relations exception to federal question jurisdiction bars federal courts from adjudicating breach of contract claims arising from…
23-338 Byron V. Bush, et ux. v. Reliant Bank, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) breach-of-contract civil-rights due-process fdic-bank fraud-upon-the-court judicial-defendants rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that facts from one party are sufficient to determine subject matter jurisdiction and case outcome
23-326 Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's 'unprotected speech
22-7804 Ricky Simmonds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the United States breaches a negotiated plea agreement
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…
22-1007 Jericho Baptist Church Ministries, Inc., Jericho DC v. Bank of America, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived account-control banking-negligence breach-of-contract business-account expert-testimony litigation-between-factions litigation-knowledge standard-of-care Whether expert testimony is required in a banking negligence and breach-of-contract case when the bank's mishandling of a business account is open and…
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right …
22-788 Paul Edwards v. McMillen Capital, LLC Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied amendment breach-of-contract breach-of-implied-covenant court-of-appeals cutpa implied-covenant negligence nied statute-of-limitations tila Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled contrary to prior holdings of the Supreme Court, other Circuits, and state courts on the sta…
22-774 Adam Delgado v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived breach-of-contract false-documentation foia government-liability official-misconduct perjury Whether the Federal government can breach a contract without justification and subsequently submit allegedly false documentation, evidence, and affida…
22-6426 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial strickland-standard Question not identified
22-121 ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use…
22-17 Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners is permitted under Honeycutt
22-6 Mortgage Resolution Servicing, LLC, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-violation damages due-process mortgage-loans standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its holding regarding damages
21-1600 Jian-Yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2461c asset-seizure breach-of-contract contract-breach criminal-forfeiture federal-criminal-law honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states ownership-interest personal-gain statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment is permitted under Honeycutt v. United States
21-1534 Rahila Tarverdiyeva v. Coinbase Global, Inc., aka Coinbase Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit-court appeal arbitration arbitration-agreement breach-of-contract contract-defenses federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-exception judicial-authority theft Whether the Judge exceeded her authority when she ruled only 'breach of contract' and granted compelling arbitration if the Petitioner's claim concern…
21-7944 Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank New Hampshire 2022-05-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process plain-error res-judicata superior-court Is the N.H. Superior Court's allowance of a second, same-named breach of contract claim against the Rule of Law, Res Judicata, a plain error that viol…
21-7390 Choya Dwayne Hailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5k1.1 5K1.1-motion breach-of-contract criminal-procedure downward-departure government-breach government-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether the government breached the supplemental plea agreement
21-7322 James Earl Harper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained therei…
21-6730 Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether petitioner's appellate waiver was enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea agreement
21-652 Lynette Duncan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Duncan, Deceased v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing breach-of-contract circuit-conflict injury-in-fact insurance-coverage medical-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer-act private-cause-of-action Does a person suffer Article III injury-in-fact when an insurer breaches its contractual obligation to pay for the person's medical care?
21-303 Vignaraj Munsami Pillay v. Public Storage Inc. Florida 2021-08-30 Denied Relisted (2) breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process evidence exculpatory-clause motion-to-dismiss negligence property-damage standing tenant-rights Can a motion to dismiss a complaint using citations out of context from distinguishable cases,polished and crafted , and completely unrelated to this …
20-8239 Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run whe…
20-7841 Sylvia J. Manor v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation date-of-accrual insurance-law legal-interpretation life-insurance statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions What is the proper and legal Date Of Accrual in this case?
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case 'arising under' federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-1408 Keith Fernandez v. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-dismissal academic-fellowship breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights contract discrimination due-process education ethnicity-discrimination federal-precedent standing Breach-of-contract-and-ethnicity-discrimination
20-1162 Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (3) affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua…
20-6998 Clara Lewis Brockington v. Ronald L. Havner, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-contract contract-breach contract-enforcement damages district-manager legal-remedy south-carolina-law storage-auction verbal-agreement written-contract Why did Danielle Jones, District Manager make a verbal contractual agreement that was not included in the written contract?
20-960 Khue Nguyen v. Hai Phu Nguyen, as Administrator of the Estate of Thin Thi Ta, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied appellate-jurisdiction breach-of-contract civil-procedure immunity mediation mediation-immunity non-final-judgment summary-judgment tort-claims Whether an appellate court can take the act of refusal to settlement at mediation out of the mediation context to strip off the immunity from liabilit…
20-6423 Byron Lee v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract breach-of-duty equal-protection federal-question feha feha-violation procedural-due-process removal removal-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the lower courts commit Equal Protection or FEHA violations?
20-428 Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss Whether the proper procedure for a district court to follow in FSIA breach of contract cases is to apply the FSIA to avoid converting a Motion to Dism…
20-296 Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii Whether an employee is entitled to file suit for breach of settlement agreement as discrimination or retaliation under Title VII
20-5013 Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause Malicious prosecution - favorable termination, abuse of process, Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act, extradition, mandamus, habeas corpus
19-1007 Zaid Abdul-Aziz v. National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan Second Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefit actuarial-equivalent anti-cutback-rule breach-of-contract circuit-split civil-procedure denial-of-benefits erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits statute-of-limitations Whether the Second Circuit legally erred in its application of ERISA by holding that the statute of limitations on a player's ERISA denial-of-benefits…
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?
19-6215 Twila Haynes v. Assets Protection, Inc. Pennsylvania 2019-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process error-of-law in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff rule-240 standing Under Pa. Rule 240, were the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permits a…
19-6012 Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducated P…
19-5957 Twila Haynes v. Riverside Presbyterian Apartments Pennsylvania 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process error-of-law in-forma-pauperis negligence rule-240 standing Under Pa. Rule 240, did the court abuse its discretion and commit an error of law?
19-354 Colleen A. Easterday v. Estate of Michael J. Easterday Pennsylvania 2019-09-17 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-designation breach-of-contract common-law-waiver contract-claim erisa erisa-preemption joint-survivor-annuity kennedy-v-plan-administrator plan-documents preemption Can an Estate bring an action against a Joint Survivor Annuity beneficiary to obtain benefits after distribution based on a putative common law waiver…
19-268 Park Properties Associates, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied breach-of-contract contract-administration contract-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit federal-claims-court government-contracts privity privity-doctrine third-party-administrator tucker-act Whether the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a breach-of-contract claim against the government, where the government signs a contract tha…
19-5539 Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b…
19-5362 Kasine Deleston v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfi ambiguity breach-of-contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-stipulation withdrawal-of-plea Whether a Plea Can be Ambiguous, and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfillable Sentencing Stipulation and the Government Fails to Offer the …
19-82 Paul V. Cannon v. Bank of America, National Association, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied borrower-rights breach-of-contract civil-rights contractual-obligations due-process failure-to-state-claim loan-disclosure mortgage-securitization securitization standing unjust-enrichment Whether the district court properly dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim
18A1235 Kelly Dutton v. American Bankers Insurance Company Pennsylvania 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete bad-faith-claim breach-of-contract insurance-contract municipal-court statute-of-limitations third-party-beneficiary Whether Pennsylvania's statute of limitations for insurance bad faith claims under 42 Pa. C.S. § 8371 was improperly applied to bar a third-party plai…
18-8995 Maurice Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement When a judge can deem himself unbound to a Type-C plea agreement and impose a greater sentence
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process
18-7709 John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-7241 Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether QBE insurance improperly denied coverage for insured damages caused by criminal activity
18-828 Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations Whether the separate accrual rule should apply to commissions earned by insurance agents and collected monthly by the insurance company, compelling ac…
18-7125 Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance Was the immunity under the FSIA affected when the invasion of Iraq occurred?
18-7106 Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge…
18-652 Oussama El Omari v. Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied amendment-of-complaint breach-of-contract commercial-activity-exception federal-common-law-immunity federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-15(a)(2) foreign-sovereign-immunities-act fraudulent-scheme fraudulent-smear-report fraudulent-smear-scheme government-instrumentality retaliation smear-campaign u.s.-citizen us-citizen us-citizen-employee us-citizen-employment Whether federal common law immunizes a foreign rul Whether leave to amend the complaint should have b Whether the commercial activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applies to a foreign government instrumentality's alleged breach of …
18-6386 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred
18-6228 John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou…
18-6125 Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal Whether a court can rely on material outside the pleadings when ruling on a motion to dismiss
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed, sentencing re…
18-24 Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco…