| 25-514 |
Microchip Technology Incorporated, et al. v. Peter Schuman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
breach-of-duty employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty release-of-claims voluntary-release |
Whether, in a case involving a release of claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a plan sponsor's alleged breach of fiduciary duty … |
| 25-498 |
Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Granted |
Relisted (2) |
breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard |
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a plan fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t… |
| 23-84 |
Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation |
Did Shawn Jay-Z Carter have a legal duty owed to the Petitioner, and did he breach of that duty? |
| 20-1012 |
Charles Guenther v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
|
breach-of-duty concealment discovery-rule erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-exception statute-of-limitations uniformity-of-decision |
Whether the fraud and concealment exception in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applies when the underlying breach of fiduciary duty consists of fraud or concealment,… |
| 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? |
| 19-1401 |
April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) |
breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan |
Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative… |
| 19-1353 |
AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
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29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations |
What gives rise to abandonment of an issue on appeal? |
| 19-7660 |
Ronald Blue West v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion breach-of-duty causation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages duty-of-care federal-tort-claims-act prisoner-protection subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's civil rights and FTCA claims for failure to allege a physical injury |
| 19-784 |
University of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jennifer Sweda, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
breach-of-duty civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options iqbal pleading-standard twombly twombly-standard |
Whether Twombly's pleading standard governs breach of fiduciary duty claims under ERISA |
| 19-5960 |
Ben W. Bane v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption |
Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court can enforce a Local State Law requiring affidavits for a federal prisoner's Federal Tort Clai… |
| 18-8813 |
Jean Bultman v. Cigna Group Insurance Company, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-duty civil-procedure employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty plan-administration prudent-investor-rule retirement-plans standing statute-of-limitations |
Did the ERISA Plan Fiduciaries Breach their Duty to Provide |