| 25-6776 |
Carol Engen v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
claim-preclusion due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure-proceeding tax-lien tucker-act |
Whether a summary judgment entered in a 26 U.S.C. § 7403 lien-foreclosure proceeding — whose purpose is limited to enforcing a tax lien and where taxp… |
| 25-940 |
Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage |
Question 1
Whether the circuit court improperly determined that
a subsequent pleading rather than the initial complaint, is
the operative bar date … |
| 25-834 |
Erie Indemnity Company v. Troy Stephenson, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
|
claim-preclusion final-judgment issue-preclusion legal-theory ongoing-conduct res-judicata |
This Court has emphasized that a previous court's judgment bars any claims between the parties or their privies that "involve a common nucleus of oper… |
| 25-716 |
ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. |
New York |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion |
1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth
Amendment of the United States Constitution and the
Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the… |
| 25-5799 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process non-existent-offense res-judicata separation-of-powers |
1. Under Arkansas law, Mr. Burgie had a right to have his illegal sentences corrected but the Arkansas state courts denied his petition and post-convi… |
| 25-5558 |
Matthew Andrew Garces v. Cindy Hernandez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-preclusion default-judgment due-process fifth-circuit jurisdictional-limit pro-se-litigant |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a default judgment, entered against a pro se litigant who was incapacitated and hospitalized during… |
| 25A226 |
Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder claim-preclusion criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge res-judicata underlying-felony |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5308 |
Michael J. Gaddy v. C. Pfeiffer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ninth-circuit parole-hearing |
1. WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN APPLYING CLAIM PRECLUSION
TO BAR PETITIONER'S FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CLAIM
WHEN THE ALLEGED CONS… |
| 24-7406 |
Doug Kisaka v. University of Southern California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-court-interpretation judicial-discretion res-judicata |
(a) . "In a case originating in federal court, can a district court judge in the final and 5th Action, rely on a state court 's intermediate interpret… |
| 24-7392 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 |
1. Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the … |
| 24-7227 |
Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California |
California |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture claim-preclusion due-process federal-judgment issue-preclusion state-criminal-prosecution |
Does the Due Process Clause, independent of the Double Jeopardy Clause, require a state to apply issue and/or claim preclusion to a federal judgment i… |
| 24A833 |
Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
claim-preclusion district-court-jurisdiction exhaustion-doctrine federal-question-jurisdiction personal-injury product-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 24-869 |
Randall P. Ewing, Jr., et ux. v. Erik Carrier, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion district-court judicial-discretion motion-to-amend |
Should a court dismiss a plaintiffs claim, using its inherent authority or otherwise, because they first filed a motion for leave to amend to join the… |
| 24-852 |
Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination |
The Panel required petitioner to include within his § 1983 complaint for racial discrimination against School Board members individually his separate … |
| 24A586 |
Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cause-of-action civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata school-board title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5140 |
Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-sunnen constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-retaliation fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford-empire judicial-misconduct kremer-v-chemical-construction naacp-v-button res-judicata |
1. Claim Preclusion and Due Process:
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of
petitioner's claims on the grounds of claim preclus… |
| 23-1119 |
Loredana Ranza v. Nike, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
|
adea administrative-agency civil-rights claim-preclusion discrimination extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens title-vii |
1. Does claim preclusion bar an expatriate U.S. citizen from bringing discrimination claims under the extraterritorial provisions of Title VII of the … |
| 23-635 |
Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure |
1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never … |
| 23-78 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed |
Petitioner's prayed 9 reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly … |
| 22-7892 |
Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
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| 22-7860 |
Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice |
Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents regarding fundamental miscarriage of justi… |
| 22-1212 |
Barbara Lindsey v. Max. F. Adler, M.D., P.A., fka Park Cities Dermatology Center, aka Coppell Dermatology Center, et al. |
Texas |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion claim-splitting due-process foreign-object full-and-fair-opportunity res-judicata texas-law unknown-injuries |
This appeal presents an important and novel question concerning the claim splitting branch of res judicata or claim preclusion. In-this case, Petition… |
| 22-7181 |
Kerrin Ann Barrett v. PAE, Incorporated |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-timeline civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-statutes judicial-expediency res-judicata whistleblower whistleblower-statutes |
Whether applying res judicata doctrine to deny separate and distinct claims under Federal whistleblower statutes, including those that have specific a… |
| 22-6859 |
Eddie Turner v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
California |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure claim-preclusion deed-of-trust demurrer final-judgment judicial-ruling operation-of-law privity void-deed void-deed-of-trust |
A void deed of trust is without legal effect. It binds no one and is a mere nullity. Such a contract has no existence whatsoever. It has no legal enti… |
| 22-6757 |
In Re Louis Matthew Clements |
|
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion diversity-jurisdiction federal-common-law full-and-fair-opportunity manifest-injustice res-judicata writ-of-mandamus |
1) Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to comply with this Courts previous ruling in Semtek International Inc. v. L… |
| 22-440 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction |
This case presents the following question: whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts … |
| 21-6543 |
Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing |
Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial … |
| 21-831 |
Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case?
2. Must a District Court find f… |
| 21-586 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment |
1. Is the Seventh Circuit decision, requiring that claims between the parties that occur after the filing of a lawsuit must be filed in a pending laws… |
| 21-47 |
Khai Quang Bui v. Abdul Alshaer |
Virginia |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causes-of-action civil-procedure claim-preclusion issue-preclusion judicial-review legal-procedure question-not-identified res-judicata standing supreme-court |
The question asks this Court should separate and distinct causes of action overrule res judicata defense. |
| 20-1394 |
PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre… |
| 20-1339 |
Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv… |
| 20-1316 |
Daniel Fling v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion constitutional-claim district-court due-process federal-common-law standing statute-of-limitations |
Does the federal common law of claim preclusion bar a party's due-process claim against the United States Government in a United States district court… |
| 20-1170 |
James Ben Feinman v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-act claim-preclusion class-action due-process in-personam injunction judgment party service-of-process |
1. Is one bound by a judgment in personam in a class action litigation in which he or she is not designated as a party, is not a member of the class, … |
| 20-615 |
Petra Martinez, et al. v. America's Wholesale Lender |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capacity civil-procedure claim-preclusion conflict-of-laws corporate-capacity corporate-dissolution dissolution federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit-conflict notice-of-removal removal standing |
1. Is the Opinion below in conflict with the opinions of the Courts of the State of New York in that Respondent America 's Wholesale Lender is a disso… |
| 20-532 |
Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions |
U.S. court of appeals for the Federal Circuit has entered a decision in this case in conflict with the decision of U.S. Court of appeals for the Feder… |
| 20-467 |
Arthur Talbot, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion covid-19-pandemic foreclosure-fraud homeowner-rights judicial-procedure mortgage-electronic-registration-system mortgage-relief res-judicata standing |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit has negated the relief it otherwise affords in Conlin to homeowners whose homes have been foreclosed through fraudulent m… |
| 20-388 |
Lingfei Sun v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel continuing-violation-doctrine district-court due-process res-judicata standing |
Did Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit must determine the Petitioner's current U.S. district court suit whether applicable continuing violation d… |
| 19-1281 |
Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) |
Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion as practiced in the Ninth Circuit preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent… |
| 19-8171 |
Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute |
In litigation between two parties, time-tested principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion govern when parties may —and may not—litigate issue… |
| 19-1128 |
Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata |
1. Whether the right to petition the government
for redress of grievances in 42 U.S.C. § 1983, U.S.
Const. Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the… |
| 19-950 |
Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter |
1. Must a plaintiff who has filed a civil action which asserts various claims (but whose claims do not include claims for later acts of employment dis… |
| 19-769 |
Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata |
Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid… |
| 19-319 |
Bonnie Cruickshank-Wallace, et vir v. CNA Financial Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
|
alter-ego-doctrine civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process holding-company issue-preclusion jurisdiction malpractice precedent standing subsidiary-liability technicality |
1. This case provides an issue of first impression before this Court: should this Court affirm the standard that '"cZaim preclusion ' requires...the [… |
| 19-125 |
Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit can ignore Exxon Mobil and apply its own discarded standard |
| 19-36 |
Lourdes Fontanillas Lopez v. Morell Bauza Cartagena & Dapena, LLC, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process equal-protection federal-common-law res-judicata supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals erred in holding that federal claim preclusion principles bar subsequent state court claims previously dismis… |
| 18-8878 |
Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii |
What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give rise to a new claim? |
| 18-1155 |
James Michael Murphy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata |
Defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of first lawsuit due to withholding of key information about additional, later, widesprea… |
| 18-1115 |
Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura |
Whether petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1983 are barred by claim preclusion and res judicata despite lack of no… |
| 18-1086 |
Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata |
Whether federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated and resolved in any prior case betwee… |
| 18-871 |
Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order |
Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde… |
| 18-654 |
Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. v. Richard Boatright, et ux. |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action due-process engle-progeny issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion procedural-due-process |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 18-649 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Cheryl Searcy, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol LaSard |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
|
actually-decided civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 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… |
| 18-5401 |
Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations |
Gender-discrimination |