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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…
25-798 Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar California 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules 1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional …
25-706 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-12-18 Pending arbitration-rights civil-procedure contract-law equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act preclusion-doctrine Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides equitable estoppel in enforcing arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
25-6115 Anton Lazzaro v. LGM Consulting Group, Inc. Florida 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights contract-law damages first-amendment fundraising political-speech The State of Florida authorizes political fundraising consultants to recover expectancy damages in breach of contract actions against political campai…
25-560 Sheffield Korte Joint Venture v. Daniel P. Driscoll, Secretary of the Army Federal Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response Waived contract-law design-build government-contract government-liability implied-warranty spearin-doctrine In a landmark decision, this Court held in United States v. Spearin, 248 U.S. 132 (1918) (Spearin), that the federal government impliedly warrants to …
25-404 Mark Hunt v. Zuffa, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-law mma-sports performance-enhancing-drugs public-policy summary-judgment Firstly, did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming summary judgment on the Petitioner's battery and aiding-and-abetting battery claims by holding that co…
25-311 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to …
25-220 John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any …
25-5447 La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC Georgia 2025-08-22 Denied IFP contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce The Federal Arbitration Act FAA 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16 is a substantive rule applicable in state as well as in federal Courts. The FAA withdrew the power of…
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, 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit courts to apply a heightened consideration standard solely to contractual arbitration provision…
24-1293 Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t…
24-1143 Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are 'for,' as Brulotte and Kimble require
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
24-935 Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock Tenth Circuit 2025-02-28 Granted Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles…
24-6465 Leslie Robert Burk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied IFP 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statement i…
24-633 Matthew McCurley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response Waived bid-rigging contract-law fair-housing-act housing-discrimination privity third-party-beneficiary Whether the signing of Form HUD-9548 establishes privity and constitutes a violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA)
24-5844 Kimberly Edelstein v. Max Edelstein Ohio 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights contract-law due-process free-exercise-clause neutral-principles religious-marriage Whether Ohio courts improperly invalidated a Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah) by refusing to enforce religious marriage agreements and applying inco…
24-5685 Okwuchukwu Jidoefor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation contract-law criminal-procedure government-breach judicial-review plea-agreement Whether the Eighth Circuit's holding that a government breach of a plea agreement can be cured by a partial retraction conflicts with prior Supreme Co…
24-335 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant with no forum contacts based solely on a …
24-5511 Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Second Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix Does fraudulent tailoring of sexual assault case outcomes and failure to protect student privacy constitute deliberate indifference under Title IX?
24-5383 Samuel James Kent v. Darryl LaCounte, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure contract-law federal-procurement indian-self-determination-act statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protections Did the Ninth Circuit err in construing a statutory provision to exempt self-determination contracts from whistleblower protections?
24-5345 Benjamin-Macon Bell, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights-violation contract-law federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-immunity state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state judge can be held accountable for actions taken outside judicial capacity and without jurisdiction, and if judicial immunity applies i…
24-119 Alan Safahi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation Whether a party who subsequently breaches a contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud in the absence of fraudulent inducement
24-104 Commerzbank AG v. U.S. Bank, N.A. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law conflict-of-laws contract-dispute contract-law fiduciary-obligation restatement-analysis restatement-second securities-industry securities-trade third-party-activities trustee-liability Whether the Restatement's choice-of-law analysis for contract claims is properly determined by the actions and expectations of the contract parties, n…
23-7626 Jasper Frazier v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-law damages federal-damages standing state-services Whether the receiving state is liable for damages caused by the breach of a contract for new border security services
23-7630 Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement Was the appeal barred by the appeal waiver in the plea agreement?
23-1246 Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law Whether oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualifies as 'maritime commerce' triggering maritime law, when th…
23-7515 Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract Does the 5th Circuit's circuit rules supersede The Federal Circuit and U.S Supreme Court, particularly when parties may present new arguments for the …
23-1208 David Do v. County of Santa Clara, California California 2024-05-10 Denied administrative-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process fraud judicial-estoppel labor-dispute labor-relations statutory-interpretation Does rule of law exist in California, where the US. Constitution is just a piece of paper, statutes are ignored and MOU/CBA/contract is not contract, …
23-1169 Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te…
23-6860 Keyron Lamonte Binns v. American General Life and Accident Insurance Company, AIG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion amendment contract-interpretation contract-law diversity-jurisdiction extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdictional-standing stare-decisis Did the U.S. Eastern District Court err in using extrinsic evidence to deny the plaintiff's complaint with prejudice despite no ambiguity in the insur…
23-909 Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) civil-rights commercial-exchange contract contract-law due-process mail-fraud property property-rights sovereign-interest wire-fraud Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not th…
23-6675 Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Timothy Ryan, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure contract-law discretion equity-principles judicial-discretion litigation public-policy rescission settlement-agreement settlement-agreements Does public policy strongly favor settlement of disputes without litigation or do courts have discretion to not enforce settlement agreements?
23-800 Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act Can federal courts import state statutes of limitations to bar an action to enforce a timely TILA rescission when TILA itself has no such limitation p…
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…
23-6290 In Re Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure contract-law due-process in-personam in-personam-judgment jurisdiction license-agreement parol-evidence personal-jurisdiction service-of-process void Is a judgment rendered in personam against a defendant without jurisdiction of his person void?
23-647 Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2) 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing Should this Court adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, reverse the Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. decision, …
23A480 HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete aaa-rules arbitration-agreement contract-law delegation-provision non-signatory threshold-arbitrability Whether a non-signatory corporate parent can compel arbitration under an arbitration agreement signed by its wholly-owned subsidiary when the agreemen…
23-479 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers Does the FAA's residual clause exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but primarily performs…
23-209 Ottawa OH, LLC v. Pandora Distribution, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law contract-law due-process land-ownership property-rights real-estate real-estate-transfer standing takings Is due process denied by holding, contrary to the laws of every state, that a buyer of land owns things on land for which the buyer has no title or co…
22-7804 Ricky Simmonds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the United States breaches a negotiated plea agreement
22-7759 Shirley Douglas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-protection contract contract-law due-process government-intrusion medical-consent medical-privacy plea-agreement privacy Is a plea proffer agreement and defense counsel retainer fee agreement legally enforceable contracts?
22-7569 Andrew Payton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors voluntary-forfeiture Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-7472 Raj K. Patel v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty whether-the-judiciary-must-reverse-and-allow-trial-of-bounty-clause-contract
22-7286 Vonteak Alexander v. Jane Doe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-reformation mistake-of-law mutual-mistake plea-agreement May a court reform an accepted, valid, federal plea agreement containing a mutual mistake of law to circumvent the mistake to the defendant's prejudic…
22-886 Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial-activity
22-804 Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions…
22-6702 Jason Boyet v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors waiver-enforceability Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-722 Frank Calapristi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived contract-law federal-circuit government-contractor government-contracts government-control government-involvement implied-contract implied-contracts tucker-act Whether the Federal Circuit's rule that no degree of government involvement or control over a contract between a government contractor and a third par…
22-557 Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication Does California's legal framework for adjudicating prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal…
22-6106 David Shane Paquette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit
22-5928 David L. Hildebrand v. Wilmar Corporation Tenth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust business-dealings contract-law contractual-law due-process patent-expiration patent-law royalties royalty-agreement settlement-intent standing Is it illegal to agree to continue to pay royalties or fees of any kind to an inventor following the expiration of his patent?
22-306 Lindsay O'Brien Quarrie v. Stephen Wells, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act contract-law due-process mendacity property-rights racial-discrimination standing title-vi Whether ignorance of the law can excuse racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
22-288 TD Bank, N.A. v. Tania Pulliam, et al. California 2022-09-27 Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees civil-procedure consumer-credit contract-law creditor-liability holder-rule recovery-limitation seller-misconduct Whether the Holder Rule's limit on 'recovery' by the debtor applies to and caps an attorney's fee award in a Holder Rule suit against a creditor based…
22-257 Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Sixth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act Whether the voluntariness of the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and co…
22-230 The Golden 1 Credit Union v. Dwaine Burgardt California 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived discriminates against arbitration and is contrary when such modifications are permitted under ordin arbitration-agreement contract-law contract-modification federal-arbitration-act jury-trial jury-trial-waiver kindred-nursing mutual-assent state-common-law state-law Whether a special rule that prohibits parties from adding an arbitration provision to a contract by mutual assent manifested by conduct, when such mod…
22-26 Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee…
21-1536 Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of INA requirement…
21-1474 Candace Owens, et al. v. Lead Stories, LLC, et al. Delaware 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract contract-law defamation first-amendment free-speech marketplace-regulation tortious-interference Should the First Amendment provide a defense to claims of tortious interference and similar torts that involve speech?
21-1359 Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver Whether prejudice is required to prove waiver of arbitration rights
21-7418 James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments Whether the prosecution's conduct in making sentencing arguments outside the pre-sentence investigation report constitutes a breach of the plea agreem…
21-1188 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. North Carolina 2022-02-28 Denied arbitration-rights assignee-rights assignees contract-law discrimination-against-arbitration evidentiary-burden federal-arbitration-act preemption third-party-beneficiary Whether the FAA preempts a state rule of contract law that requires assignees seeking to enforce arbitration rights to meet a higher evidentiary burde…
21-1154 Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey New Jersey 2022-02-22 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy?
21-7077 Catherine Kurkjian v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Federal Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-obligations bad-faith-doctrine civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law contract-reprisal government-contracts lost-profits statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation Whether a Court can neglect the legal and statutory obligations of an agency to adhere to a signed contract and the referenced clauses
21-6987 Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing Whether a defendant can knowingly, voluntarily, and/or intelligently execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, vis-à-vis se…
21-856 Barry D. Bilder v. Janice Dykstra Seventh Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response Waived agreement-construction civil-procedure clean-hands contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation contract-law contract-terms due-process fact-determination fraud good-faith legal-definition In contracts, after signing an agreement, is the term, 'new fact,' applicable to a fact that is new and previously unknown to one party, or new and pr…
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, …
21-526 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Damaris Rosales California 2021-10-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-508 In Re William J. French, et al. 2021-10-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion class-certification contract-law district-court-discretion economic-discrimination insurance-discrimination long-term-care-insurance qualified-long-term-care-insurance summary-judgment tax-benefits Whether the District Court exceeded its authority and clearly abused its discretion by ordering that the PSJ Motion, which confirms that NML's Scheme …
21-453 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2021-09-23 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-5708 Rodney Dale Hood v. Texas Texas 2021-09-17 Denied IFP contract-law contractual-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings judgment judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-power Whether the current Due Process standard for interpreting the obligations of parties in plea agreements is appropriate
21-416 Darell Anthony Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) breach civil-procedure contract contract-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure plea-agreement Due process of law, plea-agreement, contract, breach
21-365 Branch Banking and Trust Company v. Sevier County Schools Federal Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) arbitration-requirement circuit-court-split contract-law customer-dispute-resolution dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act standard-form-contract state-common-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act displaces a state common-law rule forbidding companies from adding an arbitration requirement to their standard-fo…
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-5335 Omar Israel-Griffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-provisions contract-law cooperation criminal-procedure due-process federal-procurement government-contract government-discretion plea-agreement statutory-interpretation withdrawal Whether a defendant who has entered a plea agreement with the government and provided cooperation should be allowed to withdraw the plea if the govern…
21-119 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Jacob Rimler, et al. California 2021-07-28 Dismissed Amici (1)Response Requested california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule paga-claims preemption private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial-officers-acting-beyond-judicial-capacities
21-5040 Joseph A. Cunningham, Jr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP banking civil-rights consumer-protection contract-law due-process mortgage Whether the Mortgage Loan transaction is legal, given the issues raised regarding the Deceptive or Unconscionable nature of the Mortgage Contract, the…
20-1724 David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. New York 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata Whether the lower courts should have granted the petitioner's cross-motion to compel arbitration of arbitrability and denied or stayed the respondents…
20-8239 Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run whe…
20-1597 Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company Sixth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans Whether commercial lenders can create non-dischargeable debts by using language in promissory notes that identifies the loan as a 'student loan' or 'e…
20-7902 John Laponte v. California California 2021-04-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement
20-1494 Nob Hill General Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause ninth-circuit precedent precedential-value publication-rules Whether a contractual 'notwithstanding' clause precludes the applicability of competing contractual language
20-1487 Donna M. Gilbert, et al. v. RADM Michael D. Weahkee, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law due-process eligibility-requirements federal-agency federal-law non-profit non-profit-corporation standing Whether a federal agency is allowed to enter into a contract with a state non-profit corporation when the state non-profit corporation was established…
20-1352 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in…
20-1200 Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (1) affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the United States may invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection…
20-1162 Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (3) affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua…
20-7143 Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash New York 2021-02-12 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
20-1016 Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code Under Florida law, false arrest occurs when a person provides false information to the arresting officer, did the District Court properly rule that th…
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
20-642 Jorge Mendoza v. Uber Technologies Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-law contract-law dispute-resolution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure procedural-rights Whether Constitutional Due Process can be part of Arbitration Jurisdiction
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
20-151 Joe Blessett v. Beverly Ann Garcia Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process federal-contract federal-court-jurisdiction homestead-exemption property-seizure standing title-iv-d Question not identified
20-153 Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied 10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D 42 U.S.C 654(3) contractors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th amendment protections unde…
20-5288 Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied IFP bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement Where contract law identifies that an agreement can be signed under bad faith and made voidable by either extrinsic fraud or an intentional omission o…
20-68 Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a …
20-55 William A. Anderson v. American General Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied arbitration arbitration-defense contract-interpretation contract-law due-process evidence-falsification false-evidence judicial-misconduct officer-of-court officer-of-the-court Is an arbitrator's assertion of a defense on behalf of a defendant a violation?
19-8768 Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court Question not identified
19-8639 Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit Whether a plaintiff-African American male has been denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Caucasian …
19-1334 Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this …
19-8553 Devian Phillips v. Ohio Ohio 2020-05-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-validity contract-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-inducement prosecutorial-promise Whether a guilty plea is voluntarily and intelligently made when it rests on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor that cannot be fulfilled
19-1314 Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille New Hampshire 2020-05-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights Whether the NH statute governing tenant eviction or the NH Supreme Court's interpretation of that statute resulted in an unlawful impairment of a cont…
19-1285 Andrea Lea, Arkansas State Auditor v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied contract-law escheatment federal-preemption property-rights savings-bonds takings-clause treasury-regulations us-savings-bonds Whether the federal statute, regulations, and contractual provisions governing the transfer and redemption of United States Savings Bonds preempt the …
19-1230 Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection Did the court below fail to use an appropriate standard of review when granting all the dismissal motions without recognizing the petitioner's evidenc…
19-1198 CANVS Corporation v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law due-process government-contracts government-liability intellectual-property small-business small-business-innovation takings Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process…
19-1154 Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, et al. v. Andrew Phillips, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Phillips, et al. Arkansas 2020-03-20 Denied contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law federal-arbitration-act mutuality-of-assent mutuality-of-obligation preemption state-law-rules third-party-beneficiaries Whether the FAA preempts a state-law contract rule that singles out arbitration agreements
19-7897 Brent Evan Webster v. CorVel Enterprise Company, Inc., et al. Oregon 2020-03-06 Denied IFP arrest-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process fraud human-trafficking identity-theft legal-abuse legal-coercion remedy standing Can this man Reverse-Fraudulently Incurred Jail-Bond-Contracts
19-1079 M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing Does a person or entity lack standing to enforce a federal court's consent decree that includes an injunction if it was not a party to the original co…
19-985 Native Wholesale Supply Company v. California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, et al. California 2020-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) contract-law indian-commerce-clause indian-reservation indian-tribe interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction state-regulation tribal-corporation tribal-sovereignty Whether a contract for the purchase of goods entered into, and fully performed by, an Indian Tribe outside the exterior boundaries of the state in whi…
19-963 Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (3) appellate-conflict arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law delegation-doctrine federal-arbitration-act federal-courts questions-of-arbitrability state-courts Whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of…
19-879 Heon Seok Lee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law contractor-payment court-jurisdiction federal-funding federal-funds federal-jurisdiction municipal-jurisdiction municipality-customer sub-award sub-vendor sub-vendor-status whether federal court has jurisdiction to determine that (1) a municipality is a customer of its sub-vendor, and (2) a municipality sub-awards federal…
19-873 Geophysical Service, Inc. v. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof contract-law copyright-infringement foreign-government-compulsion implied-license kirtsaeng-doctrine kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons seismic-works Whether the nature and scope of the defense of implied license to copyright infringement requires proof of the grantor's intent by concepts familiar t…
19-7152 Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. Massachusetts 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substanti…
19-7065 Carrie A. Braspenick v. Johnson Law PLC Michigan 2019-12-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure contract contract-law court-judgment judgment legal-ethics legal-representation order professional-ethics statute-of-limitations termination Can an attorney terminate the attorney-client relationship prior to the Circuit Court issuing a JUDGMENT/Order in the client's case?
19-776 James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response Waived contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the police can promise someone who they have arrested a specific benefit in exchange for the arrestee's cooperation and whether that contract …
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…
19-6409 Sean Reilly v. Florida Florida 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding plea-bargaining sixth-amendment written-plea-offers Whether counsel for the accused has a constitutional duty under the Sixth Amendment to document and present the client plea offers (contracts) in writ…
19-6400 Robert W. Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. South Carolina 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP borrower-protection civil-rights contract-law default due-process foreclosure lender-misconduct mortgage mortgage-foreclosure property-rights standing takings Whether the Respondent's actions in refusing mortgage payments from Petitioner's wife, defaulting on the property mortgage, and then pursuing Petition…
19-526 Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish…
19-480 John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law?
19-6183 Reginald Chatman v. Florida Florida 2019-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution Whether the State of Florida violated the Defendant Reginald Chatman's 14th Amendment Constitutional right to due process?
19-407 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post-conviction relief
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permits a…
19-341 Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting Whether the Eighth Circuit conflicts with this Court's holding that retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by 'explicit terms', 'implied terms', …
19-331 Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC v. Jessica Gingras, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied arbitrability arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation contract-law court-jurisdiction delegation-provision federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction Whether Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to decide any challenge to a delegation provision's validity before the court may pr…
19-314 Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin California 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law?
19-5811 Joe Edger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity conflict constitutional-rights contract-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-process due-process government-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Does the phrase 'cited in the defense of conviction' have a specific legal definition?
19-5539 Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b…
19-154 Zafer Construction Company v. Army Corps of Engineers Federal Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied administrative-procedure bid-mistake bid-mistakes bid-verification cfr-14.407-3 contract-law drawing-errors government-contracts hollerbach-v-united-states judicial-precedent precedent reliance-on-drawings sulzer-bingham-pumps-v-lockheed Whether the government can reap the benefit of a contractor's mistaken bid caused by incorrect government drawings
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
19-5161 Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property Whether industry standards and customs should be considered as a factor during the analysis of perceived intent and duty of the implied contract parti…
19-5038 Donald Willems v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speedy tr…
18-9749 Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabitant …
18-9704 Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance Did the lower courts erroneously decide in favor of a governmental agency that broke a contract between a Black American citizen and that agency?
18-9386 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process — a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches
18-1437 Winston & Strawn LLP v. Constance Ramos, et al. California 2019-05-16 Denied Amici (6) arbitration arbitration-agreements armendariz civil-rights contract-law employment employment-arbitration federal-arbitration-act preemption severability unconscionability Whether California's Armendariz requirements and arbitration-specific unconscionability rules are preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act
18-1394 Waterfront Marine Construction, Inc., et al. v. Heard Construction, Inc. Virginia 2019-05-06 Denied bid-protest contract-law federal-contract federal-procurement federal-regulations state-tort-action subject-matter-jurisdiction tucker-act Where a disappointed bidder to a federal contract fails to file a bid protest pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (2016), does a state trial …
18-9114 Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations Is it a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ignore, alter or reinterpret commitments not to charge or prosecute individuals over time?
18-9049 Jackie Madore v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether the Supreme Court should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law
18-8517 Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law Whether Sprint failed to disclose information about network management practices for its Unlimited Freedom Plan and Apple iPhone 7 Plus
18-8515 E. Drake v. Murphy, Austin, Adams, Schoenfeld, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied IFP choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-personal-jurisdiction civil-rights contract contract-law due-process fraud fraud-claims internet internet-commerce internet-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction websites zippo-standard Whether the district court and Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the case for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendants, Niello and the Murphy…
18-1224 NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contract-relationships contractual-relationships federal-maritime-law maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner vessel-supplies Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut…
18-1211 NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contractual-relationships maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut…
18-8175 Wessley J. Gunchick v. Bank of America, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure contract-law due-process employment-contract employment-dispute erisa erisa-standards legal-precedent standing Question not identified
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
18-7897 Larael Owens v. Maria Zucker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation contract-law due-process federal-question-jurisdiction immunity judicial-immunity standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
18-1048 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitrat…
18-7618 David S. Neal v. ASTA Funding, Inc. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP alternative-theories arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure condition-precedent contract contract-law dispute-resolution due-process non-parties non-party-enforcement standing Can non-parties to a contract with an arbitration provision be compelled to arbitrate based on alternative theories when the contractual condition pre…
18-7551 Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining the existence of a valid contract under state law
18-929 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Inc., et al. v. Rae Weiler California 2019-01-17 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-forum arbitration-agreement arbitration-costs arbitrator-role contract-law cost-sharing cost-sharing-provision federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption state-contract-law state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state rule that denies enforcement of a cost-sharing provision in an arbitration agreement without a fi…
18-925 A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter Missouri 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t…
18-828 Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations Whether the separate accrual rule should apply to commissions earned by insurance agents and collected monthly by the insurance company, compelling ac…
18-700 Tiby J. Saunders-Gomez v. Rutledge Maintenance Corporation Delaware 2018-11-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the Delaware Superior Court erred in asserting jurisdiction over a claim that exceeded the statute of limitations
18-685 Lynn Robinson, et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived adhesion-contract adhesion-contracts airline-deregulation-act common-law common-law-contract consumer-rights contract-interpretation contract-law forfeiture statutory-interpretation unconscionability Whether a court may use and apply a State's common-law contract laws, rules and principles to interpret and construe an airline's adhesion contract wi…
18-638 Greg Anderson v. Gary Herbert, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy contract-law contractual-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge property-rights standing state-court-procedure void-judgment Is a judgment void on its face when a State Court steals a paid-for home at the motion to dismiss stage of the proceedings, under the guise that the o…
18-610 TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether a party who has not agreed to be a consignee can nevertheless be liable for demurrage charges as a matter of law
18-6338 Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations Is a Plea Bargain Agreement a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the State, and can the defendant be relieved from the res…
18-5335 Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance Virginia 2018-07-25 Denied IFP bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents Which policy did Kwon contract original policy?
18-19 Republic of Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, et al. v. BAE Systems Solution & Services, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied arms-export-control-act civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-15 contract-law foreign-military-sales foreign-sovereign-immunities-act national-security sovereign-immunity united-states-contractors Whether the court of appeals' blanket invalidation of contracts between United States contractors and foreign governments that relate to contemplated …