| 25-724 |
Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-common-law insurance-law reinsurance state-law |
Whether a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction exceeds its authority under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) by creating a new st… |
| 24-789 |
ECB USA, Inc., a Florida Corporation, et al. v. Chubb Insurance Company of New Jersey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contract-interpretation erie-doctrine federal-common-law judicial-precedent state-law |
Whether under Erie v. Tompkins a federal court can apply federal common law rules of contract construction instead of New Jersey state law principles |
| 24-149 |
Kai Hansjurgens v. Donald Bailey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit bankruptcy-procedure due-process erie-doctrine federal-common-law state-law |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals improperly interpreted state law, federal bankruptcy rules, and Erie doctrine principles in its decision |
| 23-1236 |
Law Office of Rogelio Solis PLLC, et al. v. Catherine Stone Curtis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law debtor-interest erie-doctrine federal-common-law legal-determination property-ownership property-rights state-law |
Whether a transfer of property, in which a debtor has no interest recognized under applicable state law, may be avoided pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 547 |
| 23A651 |
Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
2024-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clean-air-act climate-change federal-common-law interstate-emissions personal-jurisdiction state-law-claims |
Whether federal common law or state law governs climate-change tort claims seeking redress for interstate greenhouse gas emissions after the Clean Air… |
| 23A560 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint |
Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead… |
| 23-168 |
American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights climate-change climate-change-litigation due-process federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction interstate-emissions removal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims |
Whether a federal district court has removal jurisdiction over putative state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect o… |
| 22-7163 |
In Re Marcus Marko Bachmayer |
|
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process familial-rights family-law federal-common-law habeas-corpus standing state-applicability |
whether-a-child's-familial-relationships-are-protected |
| 22-6757 |
In Re Louis Matthew Clements |
|
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion diversity-jurisdiction federal-common-law full-and-fair-opportunity manifest-injustice res-judicata writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to comply with this Court's previous ruling in Semtek |
| 22-524 |
Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption public-nuisance removal state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction transboundary-harm |
Whether federal district court has jurisdiction over state-law claims for injuries caused by transboundary greenhouse gas emissions |
| 22-470 |
Oceltip Aviation 1 Pty Ltd. v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-provision choice-of-law contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act federal-common-law state-law state-standards |
Whether courts may displace state contract interpretation principles with a federal common law rule requiring 'clear intent' to opt out of the Federal… |
| 22-361 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate greenh… |
| 21-1550 |
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions standing |
Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate greenh… |
| 21-942 |
Clark County Bancorporation v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Bank of Clark County |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
|
administrative-claims declaratory-judgment federal-common-law firrea jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule tax-refund |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicts with the Supreme Court decision in Rodriguez |
| 21-680 |
Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing |
Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires landlords to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the re… |
| 21-307 |
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. v. John J. Shufeldt |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split federal-common-law inconsistent-position judicial-estoppel preliminary-motion standard-of-review |
Whether a prior court's denial of a preliminary motion based on a litigant's prior inconsistent position constitutes judicial acceptance of that posit… |
| 21-94 |
Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation |
Definition of 'child' in Immigration and Nationality Act |
| 20-1659 |
50509 Marine LLC, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chicago-title corporate-dissolution erisa erisa-interpretation federal-common-law stare-decisis state-corporate-law tenth-amendment |
Whether under Chicago Title & Tr. Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp. and the Tenth Amendment, state-law or federal-common-law controls the… |
| 20-1566 |
David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law |
Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive… |
| 20-1316 |
Daniel Fling v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion constitutional-claim district-court due-process federal-common-law standing statute-of-limitations |
Does the federal common law of claim preclusion bar a party's due-process claim against the United States Government in a United States district court… |
| 20-7304 |
Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication |
Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney-… |
| 20-1089 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-procedure civil-rights climate-change due-process federal-common-law federal-removal interstate-pollution jurisdictional-challenge standing state-law takings tort-claims |
Whether putative state-law tort claims alleging harm from global climate change are removable because they arise under federal law |
| 20-553 |
Pennsylvania Voters Alliance, et al. v. Centre County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
elections-clause federal-common-law federal-elections political-subdivisions private-financing private-grants social-contract standing tortious-interference |
Whether the social contract of the Federal Elections Clause requires federal elections, thus prohibiting such private federal election grants |
| 20-246 |
Stephen B. Pence, et al. v. VNB New York, LLC, as Successor by Merger to VNB New York Corporation, as Successor in Interest to the Park Avenue Bank |
Kentucky |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
|
banking banking-regulation d'oench-doctrine defenses federal-common-law financial-institutions-reform firrea fraud holder-in-due-course statutory-interpretation |
Does the D'Oench doctrine or federal common law 'holder in due course' doctrine survive FIRREA? |
| 20-68 |
Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests |
Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a … |
| 19-754 |
Estate of Norman Robert Knight, Jr., Deceased, et al. v. Beatrice E. Whitten, as a Special Administrator, et al. |
South Carolina |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-common-law judicial-qualification one-person-one-vote probate probate-court service-of-process standing voting-rights |
Whether lower courts erred by acting on a petition filed and served without summons as required |
| 19-6621 |
Jaquan Walters v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter |
Does 'imperfect self-defense' exist as a partial defense to murder at federal common law? |
| 19-341 |
Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting |
Whether the Eighth Circuit conflicts with this Court's holding that retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by 'explicit terms', 'implied terms', … |
| 19-36 |
Lourdes Fontanillas Lopez v. Morell Bauza Cartagena & Dapena, LLC, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process equal-protection federal-common-law res-judicata supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals erred in holding that federal claim preclusion principles bar subsequent state court claims previously dismis… |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-1269 |
Simon E. Rodriguez, as Chapter 7 Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of United Western Bancorp, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for United Western Bank |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
affiliated-group affiliated-groups bob-richards-rule circuit-split corporate-taxation federal-common-law state-law tax-refund |
Whether courts should determine ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group based on the federal common law 'Bob Richards rule,' as three Ci… |
| 18-1265 |
September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings |
What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations? |
| 18-993 |
Young Adult Institute, Inc., dba YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities, et al. v. Joel M. Levy, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-enforcement erisa erisa-regulation executive-compensation federal-common-law non-profit non-profit-corporations non-profit-governance public-policy retirement-benefits |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because it refused to decide YAI's public-policy argument that arises under federal common law |
| 18-928 |
Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii |
Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims |
| 18-467 |
Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent |
Whether collectively-bargained retiree healthcare benefits may be implied and do not require unequivocal contract language |
| 18-108 |
David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme… |