federal-circuit-split

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5811 Ricky Joe Bland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-testing federal-circuit-split probation-officer sentencing-procedure supervised-release Did the district court below err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release a requirement that "[t]he defendant… participate in a progra…
25A12 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-02 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state federal-circuit-split municipal-standing political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-law-analysis Whether a political subdivision can be categorically barred from suing a state based on a per se rule, or whether courts must conduct a functional ana…
24-5782 Harvey Miguel Robinson v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-circuit-split habeas-corpus jury-instructions legislative-interpretation sentencing-law state-court-review Whether a court may instruct a jury about potential legislative changes to sentencing law, and whether a federal habeas court can substitute its own r…
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the state-created danger doctrine by recognizing the…
22-913 Richard Devillier, et al. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation legislative-authorization property-rights self-executing self-executing-clause state-court-rulings statutory-authorization takings-clause May a person whose property is taken without compensation seek redress under the self-executing Takings Clause even if the legislature has not affirma…
22-397 Maria Solange Ferrarini v. Ipek Irgit, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied 17-usc-507b civil-procedure claim-accrual copyright-infringement federal-circuit-split judicial-interpretation laches laches-doctrine petrella-v-mgm statute-of-limitations Whether the judge-made laches-like ownership claim accrual test applies to bar a copyright infringement suit brought within the three-year look-back p…
20-905 Independent School District No. 283 v. E. M. D. H. ex rel. L. H. and S. D. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-complaint administrative-procedure continuing-violation-doctrine education-law federal-circuit-split individuals-with-disabilities-education-act negative-consequences statutory-time-limit Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the two-year statutory time limit to file an administrative complaint under the Individuals with …
20-863 Akeva L.L.C. v. Nike, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation federal-circuit-split innovation-goals judicial-precedent patent-claim-construction patent-law patent-property-rights predictability property-rights public-notice Whether the Federal Circuit's 'heavy presumption' line of cases or its 'holistic' line should govern claim construction
20-203 LaDonna Degan, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Fifth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights dallas-pension-statute federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment legislative-amendment property-interest retirement-funds takings-clause Whether a retiree's ownership interest in earned and accrued retirement funds is a cognizable property interest for purposes of a Fifth Amendment Taki…
19-120 IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response Waived america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai…
18-7156 Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether pedestrian Terry stops based on probable cause do or do not equate to arrest
18-6189 Eduardo Salgado v. California California 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment carry-outside-home civil-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry concealed-carry-license due-process federal-circuit-split firearm-rights good-cause-requirement level-of-scrutiny scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense, and what level of scrutiny applies to laws that …