| 24-1302 |
MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute |
Whether physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening cause in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs,… |
| 24-1141 |
Patricia Iten, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Howard Iten v. County of Los Angeles, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law contract-impairment contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium foreseeability ninth-circuit |
Whether a party is barred from stating a claim for relief for violation of the Contracts Clause merely because the party could have foreseen the enact… |
| 23-7668 |
Roylee Richardson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
arthur-andersen-llp-v-united-states criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute foreseeability official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subjective-intent witness-tampering |
Whether the federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, requires proof that the defendant subjectively contemplated a federal official procee… |
| 21-6915 |
Maxwell Gaffney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing |
Whether the enhanced penalty provision of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) requires a showing of proximate causation |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve this significant circuit split and the Ninth Circuit's failure to follow binding precedent from this Cou… |
| 20-807 |
Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations |
| 20-533 |
Jeffrey Boudreau, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wendy Boudreau v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-invitee daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony foreseeability kumho premises-liability rule-702 summary-judgment |
Whether foreseeability of harm is a factual issue for the jury in a premises liability case |
| 19-1008 |
Jim C. Hodge, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation causation causation-standard false-claims-act foreseeability fraud legal-elements proximate-cause substantial-factor |
Whether the causation element standard under the False Claims Act is proximate cause, requiring both that the harm was foreseeable and that the false … |
| 19-7305 |
William James Springer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense … |
| 19-7054 |
Philip Rogers v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure drug-use evidence foreseeability ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt trial-strategy vehicular-homicide |
Did the failure to introduce evidence that the pedestrian had cocaine in her system render counsel's assistance constitutionally ineffective? |
| 18-8885 |
Jose Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade |
WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED UNER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' AND THAT ALWAYS IS FORS… |
| 18-1123 |
Southern Trust Metals, Inc., et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-of-america-v-city-of-miami commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission dura-pharmaceuticals-v-broudo foreseeability industry-ban judicial-injunction lifetime-industry-ban loss-causation proximate-cause reliance separation-of-powers |
Whether foreseeability and reliance alone, without any proof of loss causation, satisfy § 13a-1(d)(8)(A)'s proximate cause requirement, in contraventi… |
| 18-5532 |
Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri… |