discovery-sanctions
13 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-784 | Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Pending | amendment-of-pleadings civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment | This petition presents recurring questions concerning the procedural limits of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 56, 37, and 15, and the due-process pr… | |
| 25-5182 | Ronda Melnychuk-Beselt v. Waldorf=Astoria Management LLC, a Foreign Limited Liability Company, et al. | Hawaii | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-accommodations discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment health-information-laws medical-records | A. Novel Questions 1. Whether the Court violated foreign Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution during an attorne… |
| 24-7128 | Kenneth Carey, et al. v. Jonathan Kirk, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | contract-conspiracy corporate-liability discovery-sanctions intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress jurisdiction-long-arm music-industry | 1. Are UMG and Interscope Records able to handsomely profit from their involvement and contributions to an illegal marketing scheme comprised from ill… |
| 24A961 | Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC | California | 2025-04-08 | Presumed Complete | discovery-sanctions due-process-violation enforcement-of-judgment full-faith-and-credit-clause jurisdiction sister-state-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1183 | California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez | California | 2024-05-02 | Denied | attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights | 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings and prevent the State, like… | |
| 23-1032 | Gary Topolewski v. URS Holdings, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-authority ninth-circuit rule-37 sanctions | In Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197, 209 (1958) ("Societe Internationale") this… |
| 23A698 | Martha Carrascal v. American Airlines, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Presumed Complete | discovery-sanctions dismissal employment-discrimination judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant rule-37 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5897 | Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit | 1. Cedric Mack brings forth whether The United States District Court of Kansas and The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, questiona… |
| 22-7668 | Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal, et al. | California | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant trial-court | Whether the 1st and 14th Amendment impose a duty on the trial court to inform and provide certain warnings and opportunities to pro se litigants prior… |
| 20-1667 | City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black | Ohio | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability | Whether the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals committed plain error and the Ohio Supreme Court abused its discretion in denying review of this cas… |
| 20-1240 | Francisco Javier Palillero v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure discovery-sanctions dna-evidence expert-testimony right-to-defense right-to-present-defense rule-16 sixth-amendment | Whether precluding a criminal defendant's DNA rebuttal expert testimony as a Rule 16(d)(2) sanction for a non-willful violation is compatible with the… |
| 18-771 | Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions | Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff |
| 18-655 | Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver | Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested … |