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25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages 1. Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information, specificall…
25-639 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe…
25-620 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-12-01 Pending class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment…
25-585 SunTrust Bank v. Charles Daniel Bickerstaff, as Administrator of the Estate of Jeff Bickerstaff, Jr., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated Georgia 2025-11-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreement class-action federal-arbitration-act opt-out preemption state-court-rule Whether the FAA preempts a state court rule permitting a proposed class representative to effectively opt out of arbitration on behalf of all unnamed …
25-351 Shanda Games Limited, et al. v. David Monk Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived class-action fraud-on-the-market investor-reliance market-efficiency presumption-of-reliance securities-fraud Whether the fraud-on-the-market presumption applies to all securities plaintiffs or only those trading at market price in an efficient market
25-5464 Jaime A. Diaz ONeill v. Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP attorneys-fees class-action fairness-hearing notice-requirements rule-23 settlement-approval Whether the proposed class action settlement against Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. meets the legal standards for fairness, reasonableness, and adequacy…
25A194 EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. Missouri 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly …
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
24-1289 Nissan North America, Inc. v. Sherida Johnson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action federal-court injury-in-fact rule-23 Whether a federal court may certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class when almost no one in the class has suffered an Article III injury, and whether a federal co…
24-1218 Phillip Alig, et al. v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived article-iii certification class-action federal-rule-civil-procedure injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack a…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing Whether named plaintiffs in a class action retain standing to appeal a district court's denial of class certification when the named plaintiffs' claim…
24A728 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete antitrust class-action consumer-protection due-process settlement ticket-sales Whether a class action settlement involving Ticketmaster and Live Nation violated due process or consumer protection standards by allegedly failing to…
24-750 Martha Adams, et al. v. Angelo Rescigno, Sr., as Executor of the Estate of Cheryl B. Canfield, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action evidentiary-analysis settlement-certification transunion-ramirez Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 as amended in 2018 permit courts to apply a policy favoring settlement in place of a rigorous evidentiary anal…
24A671 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law Whether federal courts can apply state-law class action restrictions when a plaintiff files a putative class action in federal court under a state con…
24-643 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-630 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-610 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-583 Xunhui Cheng, et al. v. Dan Liu, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived certification civil-procedure class-action equity-jurisdiction property-rights stolen-property Did the Court of Appeals err in denying plaintiffs' application to certify a conventional class action seeking return of property stolen by defendants…
24A500 Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete class-action internet-platform negligence section-230 technology-liability user-harm Whether a technology platform can be held liable for alleged harm caused by its user interactions under Section 230 immunity provisions
24-464 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. Quintin Scott Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Amici (1) article-iii-standing circuit-conflict class-action incentive-award judicial-standing redressability Does a putative class representative have Article III standing solely to seek an 'incentive award' nowhere authorized by statute, rule, or historic pr…
24-5805 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP administrative-law class-action public-safety standing statutory-warning texas-dps Whether Petitioner and similarly situated class members lack standing to challenge Statutory Warning DIC-24 Department of Public Safety forms promulga…
24A389 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete american-pipe-tolling burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations Whether a plaintiff seeking to benefit from American Pipe tolling must definitively demonstrate inclusion in a previously decertified class definition…
24-426 Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split on the proper approach to determining Article III standing in class action lawsuits
24A340 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Nicholas DeFries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action class-certification employment-discrimination statute-of-limitations Whether courts should resolve ambiguity in a class definition by presumptively applying American Pipe tolling unless a defendant can definitively prov…
24-304 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii certification class-action federal-court injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury
24-259 Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds May district courts approve payments from class-action settlement funds to reward and encourage litigants for service as representative plaintiffs?
24-197 Rose Izzo v. AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., et al. Delaware 2024-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 14th-amendment Can the Third Circuit disobey the Supreme Court's class-action disability-rights due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act opt-out 24-196" opt-out-rights settlement stay-put-provision stockholder-rights supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-ruling Does the due process clause of the 14th Amendment require courts to give objecting stockholders the right to opt-out in a monetary settlement of a cla…
24-165 Trina Wilkins, et al. v. Genzyme Corporation First Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived class-action equitable-tolling fairness-act federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity relation-back-doctrine Whether the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) establishes a unique jurisdictional framework combining federal question and diversity jurisdiction for i…
24-96 Xanadu Corp., et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied attorney-fees claims-administration class-action due-process judicial-review settlement-distribution unclaimed-property Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class action…
23-1183 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez California 2024-05-02 Denied attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings?
23-1163 David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights class-action common-benefit-fund due-process legal-method lodestar-method reasonable-attorney-fee reasonable-compensation settlement When determining a reasonable attorney's fee in a class action settlement with a common benefit fund, are district courts required to apply the lodest…
23-1063 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied antitrust-law class-action competition-restraint injunctive-relief private-enforcement prospective-waiver settlement-agreement Whether settlement agreements may immunize ongoing restraints on competition from private enforcement under the federal antitrust laws by releasing ce…
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a primary defendant' under CAFA's ho…
23-6959 Lionel Scott Ellison v. Peter Bludworth, Warden, et al. Montana 2024-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-970 NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (2) class-action expert-opinion falsity falsity-allegations internal-documents pleading-requirements pslra scienter securities-fraud Whether plaintiffs seeking to allege scienter under the PSLRA based on allegations about internal company documents must plead with particularity the …
23-6785 Raleigh G. Rogers v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. North Carolina 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure class-action class-actions contact-information due-diligence due-process notice opt-out rule-23 service-by-publication service-of-process Is it Substantial Harm to the Public to allow the Defendant in a Rule 23(b)(3) 'opt-out' class actions to withhold contact information it maintains in…
23-6720 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment right to petition for declaratory and injunctive relief?
23-814 Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-29 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-impact civil-procedure class-action class-certification classwide-impact federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-dispute merits merits-determination Whether a district court validly certifies a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3)
23A642 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Presumed Complete cafa class-action home-state-controversy insurance-litigation internal-affairs jurisdictional-exceptions Whether the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) permits federal courts to exercise jurisdiction over class actions involving state-specific insurance dis…
23A578 NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete class-action expert-testimony pleading-standards pslra scienter securities-fraud Whether plaintiffs can satisfy the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's heightened pleading standards by relying on a hired expert report withou…
23-648 Brinker International, Inc. v. Eric Steinmetz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure class-action class-certification consumer-credit damages damages-uniformity federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-injury predominance-requirement rule-23 rules-enabling-act Whether a class can be certified by ignoring individualized issues of damages and injury and instead proposing to award every class member the same 'a…
23-470 Kimberly Bruce, aka Kimberly A. Bruce, aka Kimberly Antrell Bruce v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification due-process national-class rule-7023 statutory-injunction Whether a bankruptcy court has jurisdiction under Bankruptcy Rule 7023 to certify a national class
23-465 Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals Whether a named plaintiff whose individual claim becomes moot after the denial of a request for class certification and class action can still appeal …
23-434 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, By Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, Trustees ad Litem Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) CAFA cafa-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdictional-rules procedural-gamesmanship removal standing voluntary-dismissal Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA-jurisdiction through pleading-artifices
23-225 Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document relates to the…
23-5494 Dominic Asquith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
23-35 City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. v. Ivana Kirola, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied civil-procedure class-action injunctive-relief legal-injury standing trial-record unnamed-class-members unnamed-plaintiffs Whether a court may order injunctive relief in a case where the sole named plaintiff failed to prove she suffered any legal injury at trial but the tr…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA-claims can be compelled to individual-arbitration
22-1237 Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. Massachusetts 2023-06-23 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts Mass. R. Civ. P. 23
22-1181 Evenflo Company, Inc. v. Mike Xavier, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights class-action concrete-harm consumer-protection due-process economic-injury judicial-inference pleading-standard standing Whether a plaintiff alleging economic injury must plead facts to support his theory of harm, as several circuits require, or whether a court may suppl…
22-920 ViSalus, Inc. v. Lori Wakefield, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process marketing-communications standing statutory-damages tcpa-violation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether receipt of a phone call after opting in to receive marketing communications is a 'concrete injury in fact' sufficient to confer Article III st…
22-904 Jane Doe 8, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action federal-claims non-federal-claims rule-23 statute-of-limitations tolling-rule Does American Pipe class action tolling apply to non-federal claims?
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-6773 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether Petitioner's in forma pauperis status from state court applies post removal to Federal Court
22-651 Kenneth Kellogg, et al. v. Watts Guerra LLP, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-deceit class-action due-process fee-contract judicial-recusal mass-tort multidistrict-litigation Can lawyers privately contract clients and absent class members out of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action?
22-634 Richard Estle Carson, III v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response Waived class-action class-actions common-fund incentive-award incentive-awards representative-plaintiff representative-plaintiffs rule-23 service-award supreme-court-precedent Does Rule 23 abrogate this Court's holdings that payments in common-fund class actions to compensate representative plaintiffs for their personal serv…
22-6464 Leonard Chase, Jr. v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
22-566 William Yeatman v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (2) class-action class-certification class-counsel cy-pres due-process first-amendment rule-23 settlement-approval student-loan third-party-beneficiary Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as 'fair, reasonable, and adequate' under Rule 23(e) or certify a class under Rule…
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action 'alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact' when the complaint contains no such allegati…
22-554 Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as 'fair, reasonable, and adequate' under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial…
22-389 Charles T. Johnson v. Jenna Dickenson Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (4) class-action eleventh-circuit fiduciary-duty greenough greenough-precedent incentive-payments judicial-oversight rule-23 Are incentive payments in Rule 23 class-action settlements per se unlawful under the rule from Greenough, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or sometimes p…
22-240 Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia, et al. v. Jonathan R., Minor, By Next Friend Sarah Dixon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights class-action due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism standing state-court-proceedings state-courts younger-abstention Must federal courts abstain from interfering with state-court child-welfare proceedings under Younger-v-Harris
22-131 StarKist Co., et al. v. Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc., On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure class-action class-certification injury-proof representative-evidence rule-23 standing uninjured-class-members Whether, and in what circumstances, the presence of uninjured class members precludes the certification of a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedu…
21-1535 David Lowery v. Benjamin Joffe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1) class-action copyright cy-pres first-amendment google-litigation privacy-rights rule-23 settlement-fairness standing Whether a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with Rule 23(e)
21-7949 John D. Horton v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation Did the courts below improperly construe the notice requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.11(e)(1)?
21-7688 Raleigh Rogers v. Wells Fargo Fourth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure class-action due-process individual-notice notice opt-out rule-23 wells-fargo Can the court disregard that Wells Fargo failed to provide promised next steps, failed to provide individual notice and opt-out opportunity as require…
21-1316 In Re Darru Hsu 2022-04-01 Denied agency-authority chevron-deference class-action constitutional-rights federal-arbitration-act finra finra-arbitration fraud investment-advisers-act judicial-review Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) contradicts the Investment Advisers Act (IAA) when fraud is inside an investment contract, and whether inves…
21-1307 Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon California 2022-03-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1303 Abigail Walsh, et al. v. Amy Cohen, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process notice procedural-fairness rule-23 settlement settlement-revocation Does the Constitutional Due Process driven analysis set forth in Rule 23 have exceptions?
21-1218 Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court possess subject-matter-jurisdiction to allow class-members to intervene-of-right in an MDL-proceeding?
21-1121 Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote California 2022-02-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1031 Estate of Cheryl Beaudry v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing check-reporting class-action consumer-protection consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act injury-in-fact positive-checkwriting-information putative-class-action risk-of-check-declines Whether Cheryl Beaudry suffered an injury in fact sufficient to confer Article III standing for an action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
21-6907 Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying equitable tolling to allow an untimely petition for permission to appeal a class decertification order
21-6741 Jamor J. Demby v. County of Camden, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-tolling due-process incarceration legal-procedure standing statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations tolling Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to the tolling of the statute-of-limitation due to being a class-member in a previous-class-action
21-948 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates v. Monique Russell, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) certification civil-procedure class-action common-issues individual-issues predominance rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) rule-23(c)(4) Whether a court may certify common questions for class treatment under Rule 23(b)(3) without finding that the common questions predominate over the in…
21-6613 DeAndre Russell, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-act pro-se standing stare-decisis Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
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)
21-6488 Bertram S. Mann v. Florida Florida 2021-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing
21-724 New York University v. Dr. Alan Sacerdote, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) class-action class-shares employee-retirement-plans erisa fiduciary-duty mutual-funds prudence retirement-plans Whether the bare allegation that New York University offered retail-class shares of certain mutual funds rather than lower-cost institutional-class sh…
21-640 Five Star Automatic Fire Protection, L.L.C. v. Department of Labor Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied burden-shifting civil-rights class-action due-process evidentiary-rule fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay representative-testimony wal-mart-v-dukes In light of Dukes and Tyson Foods, is this an important decision of a federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court?
21-638 David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims Whether it violates due-process for a district-court to adopt verbatim a final-opinion on discretionary-matters ghostwritten by a prevailing-party's l…
21-571 Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine Texas 2021-10-20 Denied class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions Whether the First Amendment bars tort actions seeking damages for speech on matters of public concern directed at a loosely associated, large class of…
21-464 Ohio, ex rel. Robert Merrill, Trustee, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Ohio 2021-09-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action constitutional-rights due-process notice property-rights settlement takings Whether the failure of a state court to provide individual notice to readily identifiable class members in a class action settlement of a case asserti…
21-428 Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-21 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized
21-385 Drasc, Inc., et al. v. Navistar International Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure class-action due-process excusable-neglect opt-out reasonable-indication settlement Does an unnamed class member who provides reasonable indication of its intent to opt out sufficiently opt out, or must the class member rigidly adhere…
21-336 Shiyang Huang v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action class-certification future-harm monetary-damages money-damages risk-of-harm supreme-court-precedent transunion-v-ramirez Whether class-action plaintiffs can still rely on mere 'risk of future harm' allegations alone to establish Article III standing, achieve class certif…
20-1757 Lecia L. Shorter v. Mary Amador, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-certification due-process monelle-liability rule-23-certification standing strip-search unnamed-class-member what-are-the-collateral-attack-options-of-an-unnamed-class-member
20-1717 Harris County Hospital District v. Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights class-action collateral-review cy-pres due-process judicial-procedure settlement-class standing Whether the scope of collateral review of class action judgments comports with the Due Process Clause
20-1573 Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Angie Moriana California 2021-05-13 Judgment Issued Amici (27)Response RequestedRelisted (2) bilateral-arbitration class-action concepcion employee-rights epic-systems federal-arbitration-act iskanian paga private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative c…
20-1570 HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief Whether California's public-policy rule declining to enforce agreements for individualized arbitration whenever a plaintiff seeks a public injunction …
20-1349 Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h Whether a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding 'reasonable attorney's fees' under Rule 23(h)
20-1290 In Re Adesijuola Ogunjobi 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights class-action covid-19 covid-19-challenge doj-officials due-process intervention-motion loan-blocking standing statutory-relief Whether DOJ officials have the authority to block $25,000,000 in loan secured by Petitioner to retain attorneys to prosecute the COVID-19 class action…
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 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, and…
20-6499 Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions Whether the county government was deliberately indifferent towards the detainee class by providing inadequate sleeping conditions, limited recreation …
20-6349 Larry D. Odum v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-510 IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members…
20-492 Charles D. Gonzalez, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived adequate-representation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadequate-representation intra-class-conflict release rule-23 settlement settlement-approval Whether the district court and the court of appeals improperly applied obsolete standards for approval of settlement class actions under prior caselaw…
20-393 Alex Rahmi v. Pill & Pill, PLLC West Virginia 2020-09-25 Denied asset-liquidation bankruptcy-fraud class-action due-process federal-rules foreclosure-fraud foreclosure-scheme retaliation whistleblower-protection What legal issues are being raised?
20-297 TransUnion LLC v. Sergio L. Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Judgment Issued Amici (28) article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action damages due-process fair-credit-reporting-act punitive-damages standing statutory-damages Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an inju…
20-201 Debe Olson v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure class-action due-process equitable-tolling motion-to-dismiss notice rule-23 rule-23(e)-frcp Whether the trial court improperly granted a Motion to Dismiss the putative class because there was no notice to the putative class and therefore no r…
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-181 Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision conflicts with the Thirteenth and Fifth Amendments
20-5364 John S. Kaminski v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions standing Whether the conditions of confinement and deliberate obstruction of due process by prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on crue…
20-152 Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction class-action fake-products federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-procedure marketing state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred in finding federal question jurisdiction over a state-law class action complaint alleging marketing of fake pet foo…
19-8805 Shane Bruce v. Great Britain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-animus district-conspiracy due-process equal-protection foreign-litigation industrial-poisoning medical-malpractice pro-per-amendment standing toxic-torts Are victims of industrial poisoning persecuted as a group with grounds for claims a subclass facing Unconstitutional animus?
19-1366 Shiyang Huang v. Valeska Schultz, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action due-process in-personam-claims monetary-relief rule-23 rules-enabling-act settlement standing Whether unnamed class members under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 must have Article III standing for class certification
19-1339 Kansas City Royals Baseball Corp., et al. v. Aaron Senne, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) class-action class-certification commonality predominance rule-23 statistical-surveys tyson-foods tyson-foods-v-bouaphakeo wage-and-hour Whether Tyson sanctions the use of statistical surveys to establish commonality and predominance for a wage-and-hour class that encompasses different …
19-1180 Robert Radcliffe, et al. v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-actions class-counsel conflicts-of-interest due-process fair-settlement legal-representation material-conflict rule-23 settlement-fairness Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 permits class counsel whose interests are in material conflict with those of the class to represent the class so long as th…
19-1157 Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the tolling rule of American Pipe & Const. Co. v. Utah applies in a class action filed in federal court based on diversity jurisdiction
19-7829 Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs …
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others
19-1013 Darru K. Hsu v. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied class-action controlling-question-of-law exculpatory-clause interlocutory-review appellate-jurisdiction arbitration civil-rights class-action due-process federal-arbitration-act investment-contract jurisdictional-challenge sec-regulation securities standing statutory-violation Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investment contract …
19-887 Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court can disregard the requirement of minimal diversity to exercise jurisdiction over a case that undisputedly lacks diversity, bas…
19-765 Michael Faust, Director, Arizona Department of Child Safety v. B. K., By Her Next Friend Margaret Tinsley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Amici (3) accountability civil-rights class-action commonality due-process federalism injunctive-relief rule-23 standing systemwide-failures Whether a state-run child-welfare system can be challenged as a class action based on alleged 'systemwide failures'
19-739 Julius Barbour, et al. v. Halliburton Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement-notice class-action-settlement-notice,due-process,hisen-v class-member-compensation compensation due-process hisen-v-carlisle-jacquelin judicial-discretion notice notice-requirement post-settlement-requirements procedural-fairness procedural-order settlement settlement-procedure Whether class members received constitutionally adequate notice under Hisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Whether the lower courts prejudicially abused their discretion in denying both COA and the Rehearing request to review the district court's summary di…
19-503 Apache Corporation v. Bigie Lee Rhea Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied administrative-feasibility ascertainability class-action class-actions class-certification class-membership class-notice due-process rule-23 Whether Rule 23 and due process require district courts to undertake a rigorous analysis to determine whether the plaintiff has established that class…
19-504 Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough Do the holdings of Greenough and Pettus, which prohibit payments in common-fund cases to compensate representative plaintiffs for their service to the…
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a bare violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act constitutes concrete injury for purposes of Article III standing
19-427 Durant Brockett, et al. v. Matthew E. Orso, as Receiver for REX Venture Group, LLC, dba ZeekRewards.com Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived absent-defendants adequate-representation circuit-court civil-procedure class-action defendant-class due-process error-correction fifth-amendment hansberry-v-lee Is the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment violated by the entry of a final judgment against a class of absent defendants, if the absent defenda…
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act Does a trust beneficiary's allegations that a trustee used trust assets to buy and sell the trustee's own proprietary securities for the trustee's own…
19-397 Susan Levy v. BASF Metals Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action commodity-exchange-act discovery-accrual-rule discovery-rule due-process equitable-tolling opt-out rico statute-of-limitations Whether the lower courts erred in failing to apply American Pipe tolling to petitioner's opt-out case?
19-244 Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law Do this Court's decisions defining 'a reasonable attorney's fee' in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding 'reaso…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the Seventh Circuit's application of the 'dark web' doctrine creates a circuit split
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
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes Whether non-class counsel is entitled to an award of counsel fees and costs for pre-appointment work, whether a class action settlement agreement prov…
18-9286 Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs should proceed without summary judgment
18-1362 James Hall v. John H. Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Amici (1) ballot-access capable-of-repetition class-action courts-of-appeals election election-law elections-mootness evading-review judicial-review mootness-doctrine standing Under what circumstances can a candidate continue to challenge a ballot-access rule after the election over which he originally sued has passed?
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is any defendant' entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional …
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class…
18-8789 Roy Easterwood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-11 Dismissed IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions res-judicata Will this Court require Oklahoma courts to treat similarly situated persons inmates alike?
18-1256 BP West Coast Products, LLC v. Steven Scharfstein, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Oregon 2019-04-01 Dismissed civil-procedure class-action class-certification cy-pres due-process oregon oregon-law punitive-damages signage-laws statutory-damages Whether the aggregated $409 million statutory-damages award to the class members, class counsel, and cy pres beneficiaries violates due-process
18-8598 Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing Should courts be required to uphold laws that protect underprivileged, federally protected classes?
18-1125 ZocDoc, Inc. v. Radha Geismann, M.D., P.C. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-standing deposit federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individual-relief judgment-entry mootness mootness-doctrine rule-67 rule-68 rule-68-offer standing Whether the deposit of full amount of plaintiff's individual claim with the court moots the plaintiff's claim
18-1120 Theresa Riffey, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights damages due-process first-amendment free-speech harris-precedent janus-precedent janus-v-afscme standing subjective-opposition union-fees First Amendment injury to individuals from whom union fees were seized without consent
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Whether plaintiffs who settle their individual claims may appeal an earlier denial of class certification under Microsoft v. Baker
18-1074 Brian Perryman v. Josue Romero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-counsel cy-pres cy-pres-award due-process fair-reasonable-adequate fairness-standard fees rule-23 settlement settlement-scrutiny Whether the cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirement that a settlement bindin…
18-969 Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-25 Dismissed circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption of injury
18-876 Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to opt-…
18-768 In Re Kenneth P. Kellogg, et al. 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct civil-procedure class-action common-questions-of-fact contingent-fee-contracts fee-contract judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation mdl-transfer minnesota-law multidistrict-litigation pretrial-proceedings Whether the MDL Panel transfer of Kellogg
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…
18-654 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…
18-631 Kevin McCabe v. Gerardo Aranda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement-agreement class-members cy-pres district-court due-process guidance judicial-discretion potential-recipients procedural-fairness recipient-selection settlement-agreement standing Whether a cy pres provision of a class-action settlement agreement may authorize class members to make recommendations for the selection of a cy pres …
18-618 Dolores Gutierrez, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied arbitration civil-procedure class-action dispute-resolution due-process efficient-dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act litigation-tactics procedural-strategy standing Is the Federal Arbitration Act's goal of 'providing efficient streamlined procedures tailored to the type of dispute' compromised by allowing a defend…
18-551 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Jordan Florida 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure class-action constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings issue-preclusion jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding tobacco Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings …
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a nationwide class action when the alleged conduct …
18-449 Pharmavite LLC v. Noah Bradach Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived class-action class-certification class-members federal-preemption federal-statute individual-inquiry preemption state-law-claims supremacy-clause Is it a violation of the Supremacy Clause for a federal court to certify a class that includes class members asserting state law claims that are expre…
18-398 FCA US LLC, et al. v. Brian Flynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (4) article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-procedure-23(f) class-action class-certification interlocutory-review manifest-error predominance standing superiority Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) allows a court of appeals to grant interlocutory review of a class-certification decision based solely o…
18-381 Donald C. Marro v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System Sixth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-settlement class-action class-representation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees fees-and-expenses frcp-23 notice property-rights public-policy settlement-fairness Whether a pro se party can be characterized as vexatious and deprived of equal access to courts, equal protection, and property rights under the Fifth…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-169 Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald Whether an unnamed putative class member may intervene to appeal the denial of class certification after the named plaintiff's individual claims are d…
18-59 Eduardo Pineiro Perez, et al. v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived class-action class-action-rule-23 district-court-dismissal docket-management federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure multi-district-litigation multi-plaintiff multi-plaintiff-lawsuits procedural-rights rule-23 shady-grove shady-grove-v-allstate supreme-court Was the Court of Appeals' affirmance of the district court's dismissal with prejudice of the class action complaints contrary to the holding of this C…
18-42 GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana Third Circuit 2018-07-09 Dismissed Amici (4) 11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on …
18-4 Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing Whether manifest injustice results from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appella…
23A1019 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete attorneys-fees class-action eleventh-circuit petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit Whether a district court may grant a motion to exceed standard word limits for a combined response to multiple petitions seeking review of distinct le…
23A1020 David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete appellate-review attorneys-fees class-action petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit Whether a district court may grant a motion to exceed standard word limits for a combined response to multiple petitions seeking review of distinct le…