| 25-6284 |
Leonard W. Houston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-litigation individual-actions jurisdiction pleadings statutory-provisions |
Whether it constitutes an abuse of discretion to stay individual CLJA actions without requiring responsive pleadings from defendant counsel |
| 25-391 |
Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud |
Whether the PSLRA bars a civil RICO claim based on conduct actionable as securities fraud by another potential plaintiff even if the particular RICO p… |
| 24-7325 |
Tracie L. Green, aka Tracie Ledora Mitchem-Green v. US Bank National Association |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bank-misconduct civil-litigation false-statements foreclosure-fraud intent-to-defraud property-theft |
Are the elements of fraud satisfied in this foreclosure case involving U.S. Bank National's alleged scheme to steal property? |
| 24-918 |
Exclusive Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees civil-litigation court-procedure federal-removal judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether district courts are required to expressly determine 'unusual circumstances' when adjudicating motions for attorneys' fees and costs under 28 U… |
| 24-5502 |
William L. Mitchell, Jr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adjudication-on-merits appellate-procedure civil-litigation federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a second voluntary dismissal under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A) and (B) acts as an adjudication on the merits and forms a basi… |
| 24-5228 |
Thomas Waters v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-process amendment civil-litigation civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-rules standing |
Question not identified |
| 23-6753 |
Michael Avenatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 civil-litigation criminal-extortion federal-criminal-law honest-services-fraud legal-ethics settlement-negotiations statutory-vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is § 1346 void for vagueness? |
| 23-6456 |
Tyree Earl Ford v. Carmine Marceno, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-orders due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review legal-procedure standing summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court followed the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and granted summary judgment for non-compliance with the Court's order |
| 23A534 |
Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of Interior |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-litigation court-fees filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) permits district courts to impose partial filing fees on non-prisoner civil litigants or requires complete fee waiver |
| 23-6096 |
Thomas Oliver v. Joseph Leonard Michaud, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing |
Can a party to civil litigation commit crimes to win its case while judges violate laws to assist the party? |
| 23-61 |
Martin E. O'Boyle, et al. v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-litigation first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-policy official-policy probable-cause retaliation |
Whether the no-probable-cause requirement extends beyond claims for retaliatory criminal prosecution and arrest and applies to claims for retaliatory … |
| 22-7171 |
Aczel Cardena-Sosa, aka Jesus Garcia, aka Jorge Cardenas-Sosa, aka Gasel Sosa, aka Jorge Cardenas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act pfoa-contamination pfos-contamination standing |
Whether Certiorari should be granted to determine whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 54 (U.S. June 27, 2022) govern Civil Litigation agai… |
| 22-5817 |
Brandon Craig Wood v. Eric Sellers, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abatement administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-litigation civil-procedure collateral-estoppel dismissal-without-prejudice exhaustion full-and-fair-opportunity judicial-procedure |
Does collateral estoppel bar a plaintiff from challenging the defendants' failure to exhaust administrative remedies defense? |
| 22-27 |
Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order |
Whether orders requiring the turn over of cell phones for cloning and global searching have the practical effect of granting or denying an injunction … |
| 21-1480 |
James Acres v. Lester Marston, et al. |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity california-common-law civil-litigation commercial-enterprise federal-law personal-immunity prosecutorial-immunity state-law tribal-immunity tribal-officials |
What personal immunities are available to tribal officials? |
| 21-842 |
Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards |
Whether class allegations can be struck under FRCP 12(f) |
| 21-6499 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred by precluding the use of a civil settlement agreement between the parties, which was admissible to show the defendant's … |
| 20-1223 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Gail L. Ingham, et al. |
Missouri |
2021-03-04 |
Denied |
Amici (10) |
civil-litigation civil-procedure consolidation due-process jury-consolidation jury-instructions plaintiffs prejudice trial-procedure |
Whether a court must assess if consolidating multiple plaintiffs for a single trial violates due process |
| 20-667 |
Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
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civil-litigation civil-procedure federal-action federal-procedure procedural-waiver state-procedural-mechanisms statute-of-limitations third-circuit waiver writ-of-summons |
Whether the failure to contest a writ of summons constitutes waiver of the statute of limitations defense in a subsequent federal action |
| 20-6318 |
Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Erin Anderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-procedure standing |
Whether a litigant has a First Amendment right to freedom of speech in civil litigation |
| 20-169 |
Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in imposing sanctions on the defendant's lawyer for removing the case to federal court? |
| 19-1436 |
Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a 'lack of probable cause' requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising… |
| 19-7728 |
Wayne English v. Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chose-in-action civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights claims-transfer common-law contract corporate-securities damages mitigation mitigation-doctrine party-standing securities standing |
Whether creditors and debtors, plaintiffs and defendants, and parties in interest are allowed, required, or exempt from instituting the mitigation doc… |
| 19-875 |
OTO, L.L.C. v. Ken Kho, et al. |
California |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-proceeding arbitration-agreement civil-litigation federal-arbitration-act preemption procedural-protections state-law substantive-unconscionability unconscionability |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a State from invalidating an arbitration agreement as substantively unconscionable |
| 19-6988 |
Marlon Jessie Blacher v. S. Johnson, Chief Deputy Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure contract due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fraud interstate-conflict jurisdiction jurisdictional-statute legal-standing non-resident-parties standing |
Whether the magistrate had valid jurisdiction when Congress has not conferred any jurisdiction by law |
| 19-741 |
Estate of Esther Klieman, By and Through Its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. v. Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
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anti-terrorism-act civil-liability civil-litigation congress-power congressional-intent criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment foreign-sovereign |
Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment |
| 19-674 |
James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company |
Delaware |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue… |
| 19-6734 |
Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing |
Whether a petitioner who is indigent and unable to afford private counsel is entitled to a court-appointed attorney for a civil proceeding under the D… |
| 19-539 |
Office of Recovery Services v. John R. Latham |
Utah |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
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ark-dept-of-health-v-ahlborn civil-litigation future-medical-expenses liens medicaid-reimbursement medical-expenses past-medical-expenses settlement settlement-allocation state-recovery third-party-liability third-party-tort third-party-tortfeasor |
Whether a State may seek reimbursement for its medical expenses from the portion of a settlement that represents all medical expenses—past and future—… |
| 19-472 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Charles Hunt, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion bifurcation civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-procedure-bifurcation discretion emergency-vehicle-immunity expert-witness-testimony juror-misconduct manifest-weight-of-evidence motion motion-to-bifurcate trial trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioners' Motion to Bifurcate the trial |
| 19-332 |
Steven E. Davis, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1915 civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forma-pauperis judicial-access legal-costs pro-se pro-se-litigants standing |
Do pro se litigants have any 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS' |
| 19-5784 |
Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing |
Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases |
| 19-5361 |
Luis D. Cabrera Mejia v. Walmart |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights class-action court-procedure due-process employment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-parties lower-court-error standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in violation of 4 U.S.C. § 4 |
| 18-1567 |
Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the discovery rule applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq… |
| 18-1546 |
Century III Mall PA LLC v. Sears Roebuck & Co. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
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9-usc-10a4 arbitration-award arbitration-review arbitrator-authority binding-arbitration civil-litigation contract-interpretation contractual-rights dispute-resolution judicial-restraint lease-valuation prudential-restraint scope-of-authority statutory-interpretation |
At what point does an arbitrator's exercise of his or her authority to interpret a contract cross a boundary into an impermissible re-writing of that … |
| 18-1098 |
Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco |
Utah |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny |
Is a pro se civil litigant's right of self-representation in state court protected as a fundamental federal constitutional right subject to the strict… |
| 18-605 |
Mitchell J. Stein v. California |
California |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error |
When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s… |
| 18-541 |
Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on pleading standards, circuit court rulings on discovery law, and the scope… |
| 18-264 |
New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal |
Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… |