confidentiality

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-12-03 Pending confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote…
25A630 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al. Massachusetts 2025-12-01 Application confidentiality conflict-preemption dtsa export-controlled licensing-agreements trade-secrets Whether federal trade secret protections under the Defend Trade Secrets Act preempt state court adjudications that fail to provide mandatory confident…
25A76 Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete confidentiality first-amendment improper-purposes judicial-records media-access privacy-interests Question not identified.
24-1060 Leticia T. Moreno, et al. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. California 2025-04-08 Denied alien-registration confidentiality federal-preemption immigration-law regulatory-authority standing Whether a state may create a private cause of action allowing a non-aggrieved, non-governmental entity to regulate federal practitioners
24-5777 Daniel Loren Jenkins v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Supreme Court precedent establishes an exception to attorney-client confidentiality privilege when defense counsel determines a need to disclo…
23-1349 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived confidentiality federal-circuit inter-partes-review on-sale-bar patent-law patent-law-35-usc-311-b printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility Did the Federal Circuit err in holding that a product manual distributed with an on-sale product constitutes a printed publication that can be asserte…
23-6772 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. District Court Colorado 2024-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidentiality defendant-rights discovery due-process federal-litigation jurisdiction service-of-process standing Did the Supreme Court err when it failed to issue a writ of prohibition to preclude the District Court of El Paso County, Colorado from compelling the…
23-6348 Danial Leanos v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation interrogation-tactics miranda-rights suspect-waiver totality-of-circumstances Should an interrogator's promise of confidentiality invalidate a suspect's Miranda waiver only if it immediately induces them to confess, or should it…
23A575 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access Whether a contractual confidentiality provision in an arbitration agreement can override the First Amendment's presumption of public access to judicia…
22-578 Richard Behar v. Department of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Amici (2) agency-records appellate-procedure confidentiality foia-exemption-7c freedom-of-information-act party-presentation-principle presidential-administration privacy-interests statutory-interpretation Whether documents obtained and used by a federal agency in the legitimate conduct of its official duties are not 'agency records' and thus never subje…
21-1397 In Re Grand Jury Ninth Circuit 2022-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege
20-1599 John Doe 7, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof civil-procedure confidentiality disclosure modification-standard protective-order rule-26c stipulated-order stipulation Does a party seeking to modify a stipulated Rule 26(c) protective order bear the burden of showing good cause for the modification?
20-6254 Roberto Yoquigua Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidentiality criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process duress-defense fair-trial fifth-amendment pre-trial-disclosure sixth-amendment testimonial-confidentiality Whether and to what extent the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a defendant to keep all of the details of his duress confidential before trial, or wh…
20-583 Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-breach due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus-petition pro-bono Should the Maryland Court of Appeals have granted Petitioner's request for a hearing on her Petition for Writ of Mandamus
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in Jn re Ruffalo, fail to…
18-7604 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights confidentiality confidentiality-statute due-process mailroom-search medical-records medical-records-privacy prisoner-rights privacy privacy-rights veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether privacy rights extend to a prisoner's military medical records
18-269 Alan Mapuatuli, et al. v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied attorney-client-privilege attorney-work-product civil-rights confidential-communication confidentiality criminal-procedure due-process federal-inmates prison-litigation-reform-act prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment work-product-doctrine Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated by interception of prison emails with counsel
18-5802 John Doe v. Kaweah Delta Hospital, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations civil-rights confidentiality district-court-review due-process employment employment-conditions equitable-tolling medical-information-act statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Why did the District Court ignore material facts on equitable tolling and statute of limitations?