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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7757 Pacita D. Whatley, et al. v. Oakbrook Health and Rehabilitation Center Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction health-care healthcare-protections protective-measures Does the Constitution provide protected elder citizen rights for health care?
23-1076 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption health-care healthcare-law labor-act medical-emergency patient-stabilization preemption reproductive-rights state-law Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts state law in the narrow circumstance where terminating a pregnancy is required to stabi…
23-6235 John S. Romero, aka John Silva Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bargained-for-product district-court embezzlement federal-question health-care health-care-embezzlement insurance-coverage restitution victim-compensation victims Whether a district court may award restitution in a health care embezzlement case where all of the alleged victims received the product they bargained…
22-5075 Courtney Newman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-12 GVR IFP controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether an authorized physician or health care professional can be convicted under 21-U.S.C-§856(a)(1) if the sole allegation of unlawful activity is …
22-5076 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-12 GVR IFP constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness Should Petition Womack's conviction be vacated?
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights Whether a veteran's statutory rights under Title 38 are upheld by a state corrections department under the Supremacy Clause
21-6309 Patrick Andrew Smith, Jr. v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process health-care healthcare-regulations medical-records prescription-guidelines search-and-seizure strict-scrutiny unsettled-area-of-law Where the plaintiff's fundamental right to medical treatment is violated
20-5017 Jerry Glendon Modisette v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act health-care pleading-requirements Question not identified
19-8166 Anthony Williams v. Muhammad Naji, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process health-care hepatitis-c imminent-danger medical-neglect prison prison-healthcare standing Did the court of appeals decision conflict with decisions made by the U.S. district court regarding imminent danger and does hepatitis-C create immine…
18-8780 John T. Higgins v. Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance First Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP affordable-care-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care individual-mandate standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioners lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's indivi…
18-1192 The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing Whether RFRA requires the government to exempt religious objectors from providing health plans that include contraceptive coverage
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…