| 25-492 |
Everglades College, Inc. v. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
article-iii-injury class-action-settlement government-litigation intervention legal-prejudice prudential-standing |
Rebuffed by Congress and this Court in its attempts to cancel student-loan debt en masse, the Biden Administration transmogrified a narrow procedural … |
| 23A867 |
Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees eaja equal-access-to-justice-act erisa government-litigation substantial-justification |
Whether the Equal Access to Justice Act requires a federal agency's litigation position to be objectively reasonable based on the actual record eviden… |
| 21-84 |
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix |
Whether a movant who seeks to intervene as of right on the same side as a governmental litigant must overcome a presumption of adequate representation |
| 19-6900 |
Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change |
Does Buckhannon apply in fee determinations under the Equal Access to Justice Act? |
| 18-1309 |
Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration |
Does the presumption under the American Rule that 'each litigant pays his own attorneys' fees, win or lose, unless a statute or contract provides othe… |