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25-6697 Adedayo Abioye v. Mojisola Braimoh California 2026-02-03 Pending IFP criminal-conduct false-statement federal-statute fiduciary-duty mortgage-loan victim-damages Whether entities can be held accountable for false and misleading statements causing damages to victims under 18 U.S.C. § 1014
25-6706 Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP bankruptcy-appeal equitable-review excusable-neglect fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-deadline pioneer-standard Whether bankruptcy-appeal deadlines under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8002(d) are jurisdictional or subject to equitable excusable-neglect review consistent wit…
25-5985 Anne M. Lynch v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instruction prosecutorial-discretion statutory-vagueness Whether petitioner's payment violated the honest-services fraud statute; whether the district court's erroneous fiduciary duty jury instruction requir…
25-514 Microchip Technology Incorporated, et al. v. Peter Schuman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) breach-of-duty employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty release-of-claims voluntary-release Whether a plan sponsor's alleged breach of fiduciary duty may prevent the enforcement of an otherwise knowing and voluntary release under ERISA, where…
25-515 Michael Kail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation Whether honest-services fraud jury instructions must distinguish criminal kickbacks from lawful self-dealing or may permit conviction for receiving 'a…
25-498 Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-22 Granted Relisted (2) breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard Whether, for claims predicated on fund underperformance, pleading that an ERISA fiduciary failed to use the requisite 'care, skill, prudence, or dilig…
25-461 Edward Mangano v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged 'official action' was using his 'tremendous poli…
25-5822 Adedayo Abioye v. Raymond Octavus Lee California 2025-10-07 Denied IFP conditional-gift false-statement fiduciary-duty loan-agreement mortgage-fraud statute-of-frauds Whether a fiduciary can retroactively claim a gift as conditional and circumvent the statute of frauds to enforce a sham loan agreement
25-390 Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-02 GVR circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 allows conviction for honest services fraud based on breach of private code of conduct without proving fiduciary duty has for…
25A146 Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-performance pleading-standard prudence-claim Whether a plaintiff must plead a 'meaningful benchmark' with similar objectives to state a claim for breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA's prudence s…
25A42 Edward Mangano v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-10 Presumed Complete agency-relationship criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud official-act public-official Whether a public official can be criminally liable for honest services fraud when lacking a formal agency or fiduciary relationship with the governmen…
24-1258 Peter Judson v. Robert I. Friedman Massachusetts 2025-06-09 Denied 14th-amendment estate-planning fiduciary-duty irrevocable-trust property-rights uniform-principal-and-income-act Whether a Settlor of an irrevocable trust has a 14th Amendment right to set estate terms without fiduciary intervention and whether a national standar…
24-1080 Suzanne Gifford, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Michael Gifford v. Operating Engineers 139 Health Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure discovery-limitations erisa fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion Whether courts may effectively preclude ERISA plaintiffs from engaging in any discovery and whether plan administrators' fiduciary obligations require…
24-1030 Parker-Hannifin Corporation, et al. v. Michael D. Johnson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-28 Pending CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-prudence judicial-standard retirement-plan Whether pleading an ERISA claim requires allegations showing that a performance benchmark is a sound basis for comparison for an investment
24-1007 Thomas J. Ayers v. Joseph Markiewicz, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement breach-of-contract constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty tortious-interference Whether the denial of dispute resolution and arbitration by Defendants constitutes a breach of contract, violation of due process, and infringement of…
24-620 Jaime H. Pizarro, et al. v. The Home Depot, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-06 Dismissed CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-shifting causation erisa fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation trust-law Whether burden-shifting applies to the element of causation under ERISA's fiduciary enforcement provisions
24-408 Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent Did the Second Circuit correctly apply standing requirements under Article III and recent Supreme Court precedents for a Section 16(b) Securities Exch…
24-5649 Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied IFP child-support diversity-jurisdiction emotional-distress fiduciary-duty state-court-order tort-law Whether a tort suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress based on alleged extortionate usage of a child support order and breach of fiduci…
24-5539 Muna Malvin Whitfield v. Fredericka F. Whitfield, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-12 Denied IFP due-process estate-litigation fiduciary-duty personal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court violated due process by dismissing the complaint and overlooking critical factual allegations related to the decedent's es…
24-5201 Rebecca Wu v. California State Teacher's Retirement System California 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review due-process employee-classification equal-protection erisa fiduciary-duty public-retirement-systems retirement-system Is the California State Teachers Retirement System required to review and correct contributions and credits based on employee misclassification?
24-5135 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment ada ada-violation cares-act constitutional-violation due-process federal-cares-act federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict Jurisdiction-and-removal
23-1094 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm's-length-agreement circuit-conflict employee-benefit-plan employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty precedent prohibited-transaction Whether a fiduciary to an employee benefit plan causes the plan to engage in a prohibited transaction under Section 406(a)(1)(C) of the Employee Retir…
23-1007 Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-13 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci…
23-6813 Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal California 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-concealment child-support child-support-modification creditor-rights creditors-rights estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraudulent-conveyance uniform-voidable-transactions-act voidable-transactions Whether the creation of a will and trust during child support modification proceedings, with the intent to hide income and assets and fraudulently con…
23A690 Debra A. Charles v. Anna-Jonesboro National Bank, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete bank-fraud contract-breach federal-jurisdiction fiduciary-duty pro-se-litigation venue-transfer Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a civil case involving alleged contract breach, fiduciary duty violations, and fraud against a federally…
23-6538 Ye-Ying Cen v. Oliver Wilfred Cass Minnesota 2024-01-23 Denied IFP alimony-tax-law cognitive-impairments due-process fairness fiduciary-duty guardian-ad-litem legal-ethics procedural-fairness spousal-support Informed-consent-breach-of-fiduciary-duty
23A637 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete 401k-plan erisa fiduciary-duty prohibited-transactions service-providers third-party-services Whether Section 406(a) of ERISA prohibits employee benefit plans from entering into arms-length service contracts with third-party providers that are …
23-734 Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(8) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea…
23-5974 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation cares-act cares-act-violation civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict removal Question not identified
23A416 Robinhood Financial LLC v. William F. Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete broker-dealer fiduciary-duty investor-protection preemption regulatory-conflict sec-regulation Whether federal Regulation Best Interest preempts a state law imposing a fiduciary duty standard on broker-dealers that directly conflicts with the SE…
23-39 Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights due-process establishment-clause fiduciary-duty first-amendment free-speech ideological-viewpoint standing Does a beneficiary have standing for a First Amendment challenge to a state statute requiring divestment from companies boycotting Israel?
22-1060 Haywood Jackson Mizell v. Citizens Bank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-trustee conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty procedural-violation promissory-note property-sale security-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is it a conflict of interest for the Respondent's attorney to be appointed a Bankruptcy Chapter 7 Trustee that, after appointment, uses a 'perfected s…
22-6520 Tiffany Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller Whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault teller whose job duties do not rise to t…
22-626 Hazem M. Hamdan, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty informed-consent medicaid-regulations medical-ethics medicare-medicaid patient-rights Are complainants to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry entitled to statutory due-process?
22-502 Spring Valley Produce, Inc., et al. v. Nathan Aaron Forrest, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split civil-procedure debtor-liability discharge fiduciary-capacity fiduciary-duty paca perishable-agricultural-commodities-act statutory-trust Whether a debtor in bankruptcy may discharge liability for unlawfully violating a nonsegregated statutory trust
22-389 Charles T. Johnson v. Jenna Dickenson Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (4) class-action eleventh-circuit fiduciary-duty greenough greenough-precedent incentive-payments judicial-oversight rule-23 Are incentive payments in Rule 23 class-action settlements per se unlawful under the rule from Greenough, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or sometimes p…
22-330 Eric Weller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived conspiracy fiduciary-duty insider-trading knowledge material-nonpublic-information personal-benefit remote-tippee tippee tippee-liability Whether a remote tippee's mere knowledge that a friendship exists between the insider and first tippee is sufficient to establish the remote tippee's …
22-226 Cintas Corporation, et al. v. Raymond Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration civil-procedure contract-enforcement defined-contribution employee-rights erisa fiduciary-duty retirement-plan standing Whether an agreement to arbitrate claims against an ERISA plan's fiduciaries under Section 502(a)(2) of ERISA is enforceable without regard to whether…
22-151 Lasean Dejong Houston v. Estate of Lasean Dejong Houston, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied barbary-treaties civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equitable-claims fiduciary-duty fiduciary-relations indigenous-status standing treaty treaty-rights trust Whether petitioners' equitable primary rights are destroyed by denying their status as Moors, Americas' aboriginal Illinoisan nationals and subjects o…
22-51 Department of the Interior, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) federal-fiduciary-duty federal-government-duty fiduciary-duty judicial-enforcement native-american-law native-american-rights navajo-nation sovereign-obligations treaty-interpretation treaty-rights water-rights Whether the federal government owes the Navajo Nation an affirmative, judicially enforceable fiduciary duty to assess and address the Navajo Nation's …
21-1286 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty health-plan mandamus pre-emption preemption Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD
21-1287 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty georgia-law health-benefits healthcare-provider mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD (\'Dr. Griffin\'), a Georgia provider; who obtained a writ…
21-1253 Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied 28-usc-455a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-settlement bar-order chapter-7-trustee due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-recusal stern-v-marshall Did the Chapter 7 Trustee fail to provide transparency and observe its fiduciary duties to Debtor, all as allowed by the Bankruptcy Court?
21-1250 Jamal Darius Parker v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions equitable-remedy equity equity-doctrine fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion procedural-rights treaties treaty-law Whether the lower court's and agent's who are people bound by oath to be Persons worthy of trust, decision to dismiss petitioner claim is not contrary…
21-1236 In Re Kyko Global Inc., et al. 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty california-law choice-of-law conflict-of-laws corporate-director corporate-law fiduciary-duty internal-affairs-doctrine panel-discretion pennsylvania-law whether the Panel abused its discretion and improperly created a new legal rule to evaluate Petitioners' breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims
21-1158 Joseph Percoco v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) civil-rights criminal-law due-process fiduciary-duty government-decisionmaking honest-services-fraud political-influence public-corruption Does a private citizen who holds no elected office or government employment, but has informal political or other influence over governmental decisionm…
21-6906 Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure de-novo-review employer-capacity erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty motion-to-dismiss plan-amendment plan-sponsor settlors-function two-hats-doctrine Question not identified
21-1006 Marc S. Kirschner v. Dennis J. FitzSimons, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee corporate-governance corporate-intent fiduciary-duty fraudulent-transfer imputation leveraged-buyout mens-rea section-548 Whether a corporate agent's fraudulent intent can be imputed to the corporation under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(A) even if the agent was not 'in a positio…
21-861 First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation Whether a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity from a co-fiduciary under ERISA
21-761 OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC v. Sandra M. Peters Fourth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty party-in-interest prohibited-transaction service-provider tenth-circuit-rule Whether a service provider must have a preexisting relationship with a plan to qualify as a 'party in interest' under ERISA § 406(a)
21-729 Shirene Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether after Skilling, the 'right of honest services' described in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 must be defined in relation to a specific fiduciary duty against …
21-724 New York University v. Dr. Alan Sacerdote, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) class-action class-shares employee-retirement-plans erisa fiduciary-duty mutual-funds prudence retirement-plans Whether the bare allegation that New York University offered retail-class shares of certain mutual funds rather than lower-cost institutional-class sh…
21-713 Victor P. Kearney v. Unsecured Creditors Committee, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-trustee district-court-jurisdiction due-process fiduciary-duty jurisdiction trust-law trustee-appointment When does a lower district court have the sole discretion to influence, lead, dictate, supersede, deny, or nullify the jurisdiction of the higher fede…
21-699 Collette Campbell v. We Transport, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied beneficiary-designation cat-paw-doctrine death-benefits employer-duties erisa erisa-claims-procedures fiduciary-duty fraud insurance-carrier-duties insurance-claim Whether the 'Cat's Paw Doctrine' is applicable in this case
21-558 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, et al. v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights congressional-review-act due-process employee-retirement erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty payroll-deduction pension retirement state-mandated-savings state-regulation Whether California's CalSavers program requiring private employers to automatically debit employee paychecks and surrender those earnings to the State…
21-2 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2021-07-02 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chevron-deference erisa fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-benefits plan-termination statutory-interpretation Has the D.C. Circuit improperly extended Chevron deference to PBGC's construction of ambiguous statutory provisions in informal, non-binding adjudicat…
20-1813 Terry Foster, et al. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1516, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied 501b due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty good-cause labor-law lmrda subject-matter-jurisdiction union-member union-membership Did expulsion of a union member without his presence constitute a lack of due process, good cause as defined by 157.01 LMRDA, Section 501(b)?
20-8176 Leslie Willis v. Lawrence J. O'Toole, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud judicial-immunity jurisdiction petition-clause standing summary-judgment Whether a Court may grant summary judgment without jurisdiction
20-1655 W. A. Griffin v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the Delta Air Lines Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD (Dr. Griffin)"
20-1634 Nicole Johnson-Gellineau v. Stiene & Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied 15-usc-1692a(4) 15-usc-1692c(b) creditor creditor-definition debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act fiduciary fiduciary-duty litigation-communication statutory-interpretation Whether a fiduciary that obtains a defaulted debt, and is owed the debt, may qualify as a person facilitating collection 'for another' within the excl…
20-8114 Jimmy Christopher Jackson v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP bankruptcy breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraudulent-conveyance legal-standing property-rights standing trust-estate Whether the trustees/creditors of the Jackson estate have the legal authority to manage, control, and dispose of the assets of the Jackson estate with…
20-1495 Karen V. McIntyre v. Kevin L. McIntyre, et al. Maryland 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived contempt-of-court fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion state-law trust-accounting trustee-obligations Question not identified
20-1447 Kenneth R. Kunzer v. Lisa A. Hiniker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived breach-of-trust civil-procedure embezzlement estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraud probate probate-law resulting-trust testamentary-intent trust-administration Issue being raised
20-1444 W. A. Griffin v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator provider-services waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the CocaCola Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD (Dr. Griffin)"
20-7477 Hakimah Jabbar v. James L. Graham, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-law circuit-conflict conflict-of-laws due-process fiduciary-duty forfeited-property property-law statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary trust-law Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Cir. erred in affirming the District Court decision, which directly conflicts with the Appeals Court's own prior…
20-1255 Jeffrey Schweitzer, et al. v. Investment Committee of the Phillips 66 Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duty imprudent-investment investment-diversification participant-claims participant-rights pleadings single-stock-fund Is an ERISA fiduciary entitled to dismissal on the pleadings of a plan participant's claim that the fiduciary imprudently maintained an undiversified,…
20-1161 Edward J. Kosinski v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential can establish criminal insider-trading-fraud
20-1012 Charles Guenther v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied breach-of-duty concealment discovery-rule erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-exception statute-of-limitations uniformity-of-decision Whether the fraud and concealment exception in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applies when the underlying breach of fiduciary duty consists of fraud or concealment,…
20-866 Francesca Allen, et al. v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Relisted (4) duty-of-loyalty duty-of-prudence employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-trading prudence-standard securities-law securities-laws stock-ownership Whether ESOP fiduciaries are effectively immune from duty-of-prudence liability for failure to publicly disclose inside information
20-6636 Lan Tu Trinh v. Citizen Business Banking, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied IFP banking banking-negligence civil-rights client-protection customer-protection due-process fiduciary-duty institutional-integrity institutional-sabotage procedural-safeguards unauthorized-transfer Should Citizens Business Banking consider the protection of its customers' money and line of credit as one of its essential responsibilities?
20-6429 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud chapter-7-proceeding embezzlement estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraud injunction sanctions secured-creditor trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors?
20-6430 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud breach-of-fiduciary-duty chapter-7-bankruptcy embezzlement estate-administration falsification-of-evidence fiduciary-duty fraud-upon-the-court secured-creditor trustee-duties trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors
20-6295 Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan New Jersey 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary-duty,attorney-misconduct,client-trust,legal-ethics,civil-procedure,standing
20-609 Gannett Company, Inc., et al. v. Jeffrey Quatrone Fourth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options menu-of-investment-options prudence single-stock-fund Whether a plaintiff adequately pleads breach of the duties of prudence and diversification solely by alleging that fiduciaries permitted participants …
20-289 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied corporate-disclosure disclosure employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-disclosure insider-information securities-law Whether Dudenhoeffer's 'more harm than good' standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations
19-1462 Principal Life Insurance Company v. Frederick Rozo Eighth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived asset-management defined-contribution-plans employee-benefit-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary fiduciary-duty investment participant-control rate-of-return retirement-savings withdrawal withdrawal-rights Whether a service provider is a fiduciary under 29 U.S.C. § 1002(21)(A)(i) when it changes the rate of return on a product offered in an employee bene…
19-8834 Monosij Dutta-Roy v. Jysk Bed'n Linen, dba By Design Furniture, as Successor to Quick Ship Holding, Inc., dba By Design Furniture Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cybersquatting-protection domain domain-name-dispute equitable-accounting fiduciary-duty joint-venture joint-venture-rights profit-sharing retroactive-application trademark-ownership Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly reviewed de novo the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Jysk, ignoring issues of fraud, iden…
19-1401 April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-23 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative…
19-1353 AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations What gives rise to abandonment of an issue on appeal?
19-1185 Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied amendment civil-procedure civil-rights democratic-party due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duty fraud impartiality rule-12 rule-15 standing Does the DNC have a fiduciary duty to maintain impartiality in the Democratic Party presidential nominating process?
19-1144 Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims Does ERISA preempt state law claims against a law firm for providing improper legal advice to a labor union official?
19-7318 John Henry Yablonsky v. California California 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-manipulation evidence-tampering fiduciary-duty fourteenth-amendment historical-accuracy prosecutorial-misconduct trial-integrity How can the Supreme Court of the United States uphold constitutional laws if the court allows state territories to plunder the cornerstones of those l…
19-884 Rick V. Caldwell, et ux. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Tenth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied beneficiary-rights contra-proferentem discretionary-provision erisa fiduciary-duty insurance-policy judicial-deference trust-law Does construing ambiguous insurance policy terms against ERISA beneficiaries undermine the purpose of ERISA?
19-784 University of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jennifer Sweda, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) breach-of-duty civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options iqbal pleading-standard twombly twombly-standard Whether Twombly's pleading standard governs breach of fiduciary duty claims under ERISA
19-6724 Lorie Anne Gunderson Zarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore Lee Gunderson v. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, et al. California 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty harmless-error Question not identified. statute-of-limitations constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-rules fiduciary-duty judicial-review state-judiciary statute-of-limitations united-states-v-throckmorton Where through breach of the fiduciary; no cause has ever been tried on the merits, no adversary trial has ever been provided, no decision has ever bee…
19-595 Eric O'Day, et al., Individually and on Behalf of the SunEdison, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan v. Ahmad Chatila, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2) asset-management context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-standard inside-information pleading-requirements prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded publicly-traded-assets securities-law Whether Dudenhoeffer's 'context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations' can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p…
19-555 R. Ray Fulmer, II v. Fifth Third Equipment Finance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response Waived asset-valuation bankruptcy-auction bankruptcy-code-section-363 bankruptcy-sale chapter-7 collateral-attack creditor-rights fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-error non-jurisdictional-error priority-distribution priority-violation priority-violations Whether a final 11 U.S.C. §363 sale order that distributes assets in violation of priority is unenforceable due to jurisdictional error
19-460 Alexander Y. Usenko, Derivatively on Behalf of the SunEdison Semiconductor Ltd. Retirement Savings Plan v. MEMC LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied asset-valuation context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-requirement pleading-requirements pleading-standard prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded-assets retirement-plan Whether Dudenhoeffer's 'context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations' can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p…
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act Does a trust beneficiary's allegations that a trustee used trust assets to buy and sell the trustee's own proprietary securities for the trustee's own…
19-6112 In Re Larry Pouncy 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's state law claims against the defendants for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary dut…
19-6024 Kenneth Allen Rogers v. California California 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fiduciary-duty legal-representation pre-trial-motion property-rights retainer-fee sixth-amendment Whether the State of California's denial of legal representation at a pre-trial motion deprived the petitioner of a fundamental right
19-382 John Teets v. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied civil-rights disgorgement due-process erisa fiduciary-duty harris-trust party-in-interest plan-assets tenth-circuit May an ERISA plan participant or beneficiary seek disgorgement of unreasonable profits derived from a plan contract from a nonfiduciary party in inter…
19-6007 Natasha DeLima v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fiduciary-duty judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing Why did so many partake in Obstruction-of-Justice on the Petitioner?
19-340 Carey D. Ebert v. John Paul DeJoria, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting article-iii article-iii-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee breach-of-fiduciary-duty corporate-debt debtor-corporation fiduciary-duty judicial-proceedings standing trustee unpaid-debt Whether a bankruptcy trustee who proved at trial, without objection, that defendants' tortious conduct (breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetti…
18-9171 John Priestley, Jr. v. Two Houses, in Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-1962 beneficiary campaign-misconduct electronic-communication estate estate-property fiduciary fiduciary-duty judicial-immunity racketeering-statute rent rent-collection rental-contract violation Is a fiduciary's collection of rent from a beneficiary at approximately one hundred times the rental value of an estate's property a violation of 18 U…
18-1341 Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla…
18-8813 Jean Bultman v. Cigna Group Insurance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-duty civil-procedure employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty plan-administration prudent-investor-rule retirement-plans standing statute-of-limitations Did the ERISA Plan Fiduciaries Breach their Duty to Provide
18-1279 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2019-04-08 Denied 29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under §1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches …
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review Does a fiduciary's decision take priority over compliance with ERISA statute and regulations?
18-1165 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation Alleged-fraud-disclosure-harm
18-8318 Helen Thomasina Gardner v. Verizon Communications Inc. Second Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach civil-procedure defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-section-502 fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty health-insurance life-insurance participant plan-participant relief standing statutory-interpretation Do sections 502(a)(2) and 502(a)(3) of ERISA authorize a participant to sue for relief caused by breaches of fiduciary duties?
18-1116 Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of ERISA bars suit where all relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff more than…
18-1033 W. A. Griffin v. United Healthcare of Georgia, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied administrative-appeals anti-assignment co-fiduciary-liability document-request erisa erisa-co-fiduciary-liability erisa-document-production-requests ERISA-governed-plan erisa-welfare-plan-administration fiduciary-duty georgia-mandatory-assignment-of-benefits-statute plan-administrator provider-anti-assignment provider-anti-assignment-clauses retroactive-assignment statute-of-limitations-for-erisa-penalties statutory-penalties Whether plan administrator waived anti-assignment provisions, ERISA-co-fiduciary-liability, retroactive-assignment-validity, statutory-penalties-limit…
18-972 Mathew Martoma v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (2) corporate-disclosure dirks-v-sec fiduciary-duty insider-trading personal-benefit securities-law securities-regulation tippee tippee-liability tipper Whether the government must demonstrate that the tipper received a personal benefit in exchange for providing insider information, as required by Dirk…
18-926 Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation Whether an ERISA plaintiff bears the burden of proving loss causation
18-703 University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust Whether an agreement to arbitrate 'all claims' that an ERISA plan participant 'may have' against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du…
18-6543 John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 29-usc-1132 appropriate-relief benefit-plans defined-benefit defined-benefit-plan erisa erisa-29-usc-1132 erisa-standing fiduciary-duty monetary-relief plan-surplus secretary-of-labor standing statutory-interpretation surplus-assets trust Does the Secretary of Labor have standing to sue for 'losses' to the surplus of an ERISA defined benefit welfare plan without showing concrete harm to…
18-6423 Marlan McRae v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-conflict fiduciary-conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics manifest-necessity sixth-amendment vague-precedent Can the unconscionable and illegal actions of an attorney, in addition to a fiduciary conflict of interest between an attorney and his client, amount …
18-5622 Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C.§ 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Inmate-trust-fund-management