estoppel
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-270 | Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment of non-infringement based on estoppel and constitutional standing in patent infringeme… |
| 23-1192 | Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments |
| 23-1144 | John Anthony Castro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defense burden-of-proof estoppel good-faith good-faith-erroneous-interpretation judicial-admission standard-of-review | If the government raises an affirmative defense, does it bear the burden of proof? |
| 23-707 | Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. | California | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings | Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g… |
| 22-873 | Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP | Federal Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | america-invents-act estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-law statutory-interpretation | Whether 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)'s IPR estoppel provision applies only to claims addressed in the final written decision, even if other claims were or could… |
| 22-6478 | Hanan Shiheiber v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | California | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chase chase-bank covid-19 estoppel fdic fdic-dissolution federal-law mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure-crisis washington-mutual | Whether the ownership of a former Washington Mutual mortgage is a question of fact |
| 22-194 | Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in de-novo review of summary judgment on disputed issues of fact | |
| 21-1266 | Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-18 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment | Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th… | |
| 21-6447 | Logan Bailey Lawrence v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process estoppel government-discretion waiver-of-appeal | Whether the Government should be estopped from precluding appellate review of the District Court's refusal to impose a below-Guidelines sentence by in… |
| 19-8517 | Edward F. Novotny, III v. Plexus Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy civil-procedure claim-litigation debtor-disclosure disclosure estoppel intent intent-standard judicial-estoppel judicial-presumption third-party | Whether a debtor who has inadvertently failed to disclose the existence of a potential claim in a bankruptcy petition should be estopped from litigati… |
| 19-945 | Fred S. Pardes v. Susan Doan | California | 2020-01-28 | Denied | asset-concealment automatic-stay bankruptcy-fraud debtor-disclosure estoppel intentionally-omitted-assets post-discharge-injunction unclean-hands | Whether a dishonest bankruptcy debtor has unclean hands or is estopped from seeking relief | |
| 19-6565 | Steven Talbert Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-rights due-process estoppel exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review sanctions work-product work-product-protection | Whether the judicial officials and clerical employees of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in intentionally laching upon… |
| 19-455 | ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | 35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar | Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a PTAB decision denying inter partes review |
| 18-980 | Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman | Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-750 | JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. | Federal Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights | Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of… |
| 18-468 | SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation | Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on the multiple-proceedings rule under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d) |
| 18-6228 | John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement | Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou… |
| 18-6164 | John B. Laschkewitsch v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights claim-limitation contestable-period due-process estoppel federal-rules-of-civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract precedent precedent-review rule-60a statutes-of-limitation | Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Court; unanimous U… |
| 18-5710 | Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment | Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution |