discovery-rule
22 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-321 | Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank | Nebraska | 2025-09-18 | Denied | active-concealment discovery-rule due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-claims probate-rule | 1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's kno… | |
| 24-7251 | Michael Deuschel v. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 12b6-dismissal civil-procedure discovery-rule due-process erie-doctrine ninth-circuit | Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from the Erie Doctrine, and violated Appellant's due process rights, when it ratified the district court's 12(b)(6)… |
| 24-768 | RADesign, Inc., et al. v. Michael Grecco Productions, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-action copyright-act discovery-rule infringement injury-rule statute-of-limitations | Whether a claim "accrue [s]" under the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U.S.C. 507(b), when the infringement occurs (the "… |
| 23-7435 | Mariette Harris v. Miles W. Ellis, et al. | Alabama | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alabama-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery-rule statute-of-limitations summary-judgment | 1. The first question presented is whether petitioner Mis. Harris filed on time for the Alabama Discovery rule section 6-5-482(a) Ala code 1975 the si… |
| 23-6568 | Bouazza Ouaziz v. City of Jersey City, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy discovery-rule due-process rico-act sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the court of appeal third circuit erred in affirming the district court dismissing plaintiff sexual assault under color of law on December … |
| 23-6309 | Elvin Farris v. Vector Construction, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment civil-rights discovery-rule EEOC eeoc-charge employment-discrimination legal-amendment statute-of-limitations termination-notice | 1. Should the petitioner been allowed to amend the EEOC charge 2. Did the discovery of petitioner termination start a new limitations clock 3. Shoul… |
| 23-474 | Hearst Newspapers, L.L.C., et al. v. Antonio Martinelli | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 17-usc-507(b) civil-claims civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-law discovery-rule judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations | Whether the "discovery rule" applies to the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil claims. 17 U.S.C. 507(b). |
| 22-896 | The Ohio State University v. Steve Snyder-Hill, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights discovery-rule educational-programs federal-financial-assistance private-right-of-action sex-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations title-ix | Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activiti… |
| 21-7893 | Paul Mueller v. Bert Parnall | New Mexico | 2022-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights discovery-rule due-process legal-malpractice section-1981 statute-of-limitations | (1) Whether my right to sue was violated in New Mexico under the 14th amend., and § 1981, after a state court denied my right to sue, when it decided … |
| 21-1054 | Shaoming Song v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-U.S.C.-1001 29-U.S.C.-633(a) age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-procedure discovery-rule federal-government fraud plausibility-pleading stare-decisis statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether, or under what circumstance, a six-year concealed fraud in a federal agency's official personnel action allegedly violated the Age Discrimi… |
| 21-163 | George Cantu v. Providence Hospital, et al. | Washington | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process equal-protection healthcare-providers medical-malpractice right-to-jury-trial special-privileges-and-immunities statute-of-limitations | I. Does Washington State's RCW 4.16.350(3), granting one year statute of limitations after discovering medical malpractice and eight year repose compa… |
| 20-1012 | Charles Guenther v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-27 | Denied | breach-of-duty concealment discovery-rule erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-exception statute-of-limitations uniformity-of-decision | Is the fraud and concealment exception in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applicable when the underlying breach of fiduciary duty consists of fraud or concealment, o… | |
| 20-6611 | John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas | Minnesota | 2020-12-11 | Denied | IFP | academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment | Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)(i&ii) in a puniti… |
| 20-367 | Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations | Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar… | |
| 19-1353 | AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations | There is no uniformity among the Circuit Courts as to the meaning or application of the ERISA statute of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty, 29 … | |
| 19-7372 | Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure court-of-appeals discovery-rule due-process due-process,civil-procedure,statute-of-limitations judicial-review motion-to-dismiss notice statute-of-limitations | Is the judgment of October 29, 2019, of the District of District Court of Appeals (DCCA) according to the law? Did the judgment of October 29, 2019, … |
| 19-397 | Susan Levy v. BASF Metals Limited, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response Waived | american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action commodity-exchange-act discovery-accrual-rule discovery-rule due-process equitable-tolling opt-out rico statute-of-limitations | The issues-presented are important because they concern individual rights, a principal that our founders used to establish our Democracy that allowe… |
| 18-1567 | Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations | I. Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 169… | |
| 18-9251 | Willie James Atkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | IFP | aedpa aedpa-legislation civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery-rule equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment materially-indistinguishable standing | 1. QUESTION: Does the Doctrine of 'Equitable Tolling' due to claims of 'FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT' of obviously important facts, extend to AEDPA legislat… |
| 18-7812 | Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane | The question in the case is whether, the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B that clarified discovery rule 3:13-3, holding that the pr… |
| 18-1008 | In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not Jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fa… | |
| 18-328 | Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, … |