government-obligation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-788 Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived defendant-request federal-rule-criminal-procedure government-obligation legal-interpretation plea-bargain sentencing 1. Does the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B) require that the government either to join in the defendant's sentencing …
24-599 United States, ex rel. Gregor Lesnik, et al. v. ISM VUZEM, d.o.o., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied administrative-procedure false-claims-act government-obligation immigration-law statutory-interpretation visa-fraud Whether knowingly applying impermissibly for the less expensive B1 visas, rather than alternative petition-based visas, was knowingly and improperly "…
24-352 United States, et al., ex rel. Michael Angelo and MSP WB, LLC v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response Waived false-claims-act government-obligation pleading-standard qui-tam reverse-false-claim third-party-contractor A relator may bring a False Claims Act ("FCA") action under 31 U.S.C. § 3729( a)(1)(G) when a qui tam defendant "knowingly makes, uses, or causes to b…
20-1200 Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (1) affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation May the United States invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Aff…
20-1162 Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (3) affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua…
18-1028 Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations appropriations-riders bait-and-switch federal-circuit government-contracts government-obligation health-care health-exchanges health-insurance insurance statutory-commitment statutory-interpretation statutory-promise takings Whether Congress can evade its unambiguous statutory promise to pay health insurers for losses already incurred simply by enacting appropriations ride…
18-7104 Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not …
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution. Article I Section 8. Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders for disclosure of …