discovery-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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, …