| 25-6174 |
Jill Capobianco v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security |
During an application for Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) and Disability Benefits (SSDI), under 20 § C.F.R. §§ 404.1527(c), SSR-2p, and SSR 16-3… |
| 24-7366 |
Damien Deshawn Pugh v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security supplemental-security-income |
Whether social security applicants are unfairly subjected to political opinions that deviate from medical facts in disability determinations |
| 24A1073 |
Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security |
Whether law enforcement may conduct warrantless, forcible home searches of Social Security disability applicants without violating their Fourth Amendm… |
| 24A632 |
Patrick Comack v. Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-determination disability-benefits medical-impairment neurodegenerative-disorder pro-se-litigation social-security |
Whether the Social Security Administration's determination of a claimant's neurodegenerative disorder impairment requires a more comprehensive evaluat… |
| 23A1086 |
Charlie R. Murse, Jr. v. Mary Murse |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights disability-benefits garnishment pro-se social-security ssdi-protection |
Whether 42 U.S. Code § 407 protects Social Security Disability Insurance benefits from garnishment or civil rights violations in a dispute involving d… |
| 23A1021 |
Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
disability-benefits erisa judicial-review plan-administrator procedural-violations standard-of-review |
Whether procedural violations by an ERISA plan administrator warrant a de novo standard of review instead of an abuse of discretion standard when eval… |
| 23-999 |
Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko |
Virginia |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute? |
| 23-779 |
David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Whether the Federal Circuit misinterpreted 38 U.S.C. § 5103(a)(1) to allow VA to issue evidentiary notice only before receiving a veteran's claim |
| 23-339 |
J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits |
New Jersey |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment |
Whether ALJs violate the rule-of-law by depriving petitioners of their disability-pensions on credibility-grounds |
| 23-301 |
James E. Workman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud |
Whether the criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud required proof that the defendant understood his obli… |
| 22-1089 |
Ray James Foster v. Deborah Lynn Foster |
Michigan |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
|
38-usc-5301 collateral-estoppel disability-benefits disability-law federal-preemption judicial-convenience res-judicata state-court-doctrine veterans-benefits |
May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute? |
| 22-5798 |
Gregory K. Parsons v. Connie K. Copeland Parsons, et al. |
Texas |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
apportionment-claims disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption judicial-review military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction takings veterans-benefits |
Whether a state court can override a VA decision denying an apportionment of a veteran's disability benefits |
| 21-6344 |
Joseph J. Snyder v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-regulation amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis department-of-veterans-affairs disability-benefits disability-compensation presumptive-service-connection regulatory-creation service-connection statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Whether the Department of Veterans Affairs exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating 38 C.F.R. § 3.318, which provides veterans with presumptiv… |
| 21-465 |
James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the term 'relevant official service department records' in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s 'reconsideration' provision encompasses all records that … |
| 21-432 |
Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits |
Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactive di… |
| 20-1511 |
Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter |
Michigan |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
|
child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits |
Congress's-military-powers-preempt-state-law-on-veterans-benefits |
| 20-851 |
Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits |
Whether veterans' disability benefits deposited in an inmate trust fund account are protected from being used for a state-mandated medical co-payment … |
| 20-345 |
Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing |
Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder… |
| 20-267 |
Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein |
New Hampshire |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act |
Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively gran… |
| 20-105 |
John J. Davis, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge appointments-clause disability-benefits exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security |
Whether a claimant seeking disability benefits or supplemental security income under the Social Security Act must exhaust an Appointments Clause chall… |
| 20-5205 |
Jamaal A. Lewis, Sr. v. Hector Joyner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits due-process military-sexual-trauma veterans-affairs |
Whether the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has the authority to determine claims for disability benefits based on military sexual trauma |
| 19-1442 |
Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act |
Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law … |
| 19-8571 |
Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services |
Ohio |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions |
Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety? |
| 19-938 |
Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations |
Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged… |
| 19-7296 |
In Re Gilbert M. Martinez |
|
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law disability-benefits due-process evidence gerd medical-evidence property-tax-exemption rheumatoid-arthritis social-security social-security-administration-discretion social-security-disability |
Did the Social Security Administration abuse its discretion holding that plaintiff is ineligible for Social Security disability benefits after claiman… |
| 19-6764 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause |
Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5, Due Process Clause, compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statutory… |
| 19-6702 |
In Re Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez |
|
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-writ pro-se-litigation social-security standing transfer |
Whether Petitioner has a Right for direct appeal to this court? |
| 19-242 |
Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'regular occupation' refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's 'actual job du… |
| 19-221 |
Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Commissioner of Social Security can impose monetary sanctions on a disability benefits recipient for failing to report unpaid volunteer wo… |
| 19-5531 |
Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights |
Whether and to what extent does the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit possess the Authority to permit a Disability Pension Plan u… |
| 19-146 |
Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits |
Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac… |
| 18A1327 |
Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abuse-of-discretion disability-benefits erisa insurance-plan own-occupation procedural-history |
Whether a district court's interpretation of an ERISA disability plan's 'own occupation' provision constitutes an abuse of discretion when determining… |
| 18-9480 |
Gregory Stanley Roberts v. Inservco Insurance Services |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-534 administrative-determination administrative-law agency-determination benefits-denial disability-benefits due-process employment-law injury-claim light-duty workers-compensation workplace-injury youth-development-center |
Whether the Insurance Service's denial of Act 534 benefits and light duty work for the petitioner's second injury was proper under the relevant worker… |
| 18-5421 |
Sheila L. Gaines v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-appeal administrative-law arthritis civil-rights disability disability-benefits due-process employment medical-evidence medical-records social-security standing |
Whether the Social Security Administration improperly denied disability benefits to the petitioner despite medical evidence of her advanced arthritis … |
| 18-5192 |
Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services |
Ohio |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection in the denial of disability financial assistance by the Ohio Department of Job and … |
| 18-5026 |
Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's discrimination claim against respondent |