| 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 |
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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 |
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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 … |