consideration

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6731 Keith Lashon Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-waiver consideration contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plea-agreement Whether general contract principles, such as the requirement of consideration, and negotiated exclusive remedies, apply to the enforcement of appellat…
25-812 James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action Whether a prenuptial agreement and arbitration clause can be enforced when the plaintiff alleges the arbitration process denied fundamental rights to …
25A218 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-25 Presumed Complete arbitration-provision circuit-split consideration equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act prima-paint Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state contract law rule that requires arbitration provisions to have separate, independent consideratio…
25-34 Continental Finance Company, LLC, et al. v. Tiffany Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-10 Pending Response Waived arbitration-provision consideration contract-law federal-arbitration-act fourth-circuit maryland-law Does the Federal Arbitration Act permit courts to apply a heightened consideration standard solely to contractual arbitration provisions?
24-7166 David Eugene Rush, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver consideration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides no actual benefit to the defendant beyond what he wo…
23-699 Anthony Emposimato v. Stephen N. North New Jersey 2023-12-29 Denied civil-procedure consideration consideration-in-contract-law constitutional-rights contract-law de-novo-review due-process Friedman-v-Tappan-Dev-Corp legal-precedent mutual-assent uniform-application-of-contract-law-across-jurisdi Did the Superior Court and the Appellate Division of New Jersey violate the Defendant's constitutional rights by disregarding established precedent (c…
23-314 Debra Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association Massachusetts 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) consideration default due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud government-instrumentality mortgage property-ownership standing takings Whether FNMA as an instrumentality of the U.S. Government and/or state government can take private citizens' property without due process of law const…
21-781 NVS Technologies, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied administrative-law consideration contract-law contract-termination due-process federal-agency funding-limitation good-faith good-faith-dealing government-contracts termination Can a federal agency refuse to allot available funds to an incrementally funded contract for any reason or no reason, and so terminate that contract, …
21-680 Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response Waived consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires landlords to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the re…
21-231 Julie Ellen Wartluft, fka Julie Ellen Bartels, et al. v. The Milton Hershey School, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights civil-rights-act consideration consideration-definition disability disability-discrimination fair-housing fair-housing-act housing-discrimination rental-definition renter student-housing Whether participation in a mandatory chore program at a student home is 'consideration' under the Fair Housing Act sufficient for the child to qualify…
20-6720 Terek Harper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration Whether a federal criminal plea agreement is void and unenforceable when it lacks consideration
20-5785 Michael Hunter Cook v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure consideration contract contract-law due-process judicial-review standing Whether, consistent with due process, an appellate court may enforce an appellate waiver unsupported by consideration
19-6560 Matthew Joseph Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus plea-agreement united-states-court-of-appeals Whether Mr. Lucio's plea agreement which extracted his guilty plea lacks consideration, and if so, whether his guilty plea violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-5407 Fabian Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
18-8130 Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
18-6125 Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal Whether a court can rely on material outside the pleadings when ruling on a motion to dismiss
18-6020 Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (a), (b), (c) of the Supreme Court?