civil-claims
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-805 | Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. | New Mexico | 2026-01-08 | Pending | Response Waived | access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of… |
| 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… |
| 24-201 | Daniel S. Fitzgerald v. United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-stay civil-claims civil-procedure criminal-defendant statutory-interpretation trafficking-victims-protection-act | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1595(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act requires an automatic stay of all civil claims pending a crim… |
| 23-474 | Hearst Newspapers, L.L.C., et al. v. Antonio Martinelli | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 17-usc-507(b) civil-claims civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-law discovery-rule judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations | Whether the 'discovery rule' applies to the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil claims |
| 21-1608 | McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix | Second Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities | Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 21-81 | Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. | Alabama | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal | Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery |
| 20-1174 | Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. | North Carolina | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims | Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c… |
| 18-5862 | Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing | Whether a prisoner has a constitutional right of access to the courts to litigate civil claims unrelated to his/her sentence or conviction? |