| 25-830 |
Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness |
Whether a court of appeals may issue binding merits precedent on constitutional claims after those claims have become moot during appeal, and whether … |
| 25-481 |
Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
due-process federal-funding informed-consent liberty-interest medical-treatment state-action |
Whether a State's obligation under federally funded programs to obtain legally effective informed consent for unapproved medical treatments creates an… |
| 25-432 |
Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
auto-pen-signature constitutional-procedure informed-consent judicial-nomination presidential-delegation quorum-validity |
Whether the use of an auto-pen signature by President Biden on judicial nominations and commissions without clear informed consent renders them null a… |
| 25-431 |
Ealaila Conard v. Chanel, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-discrimination employment-law informed-consent job-related-standards medical-privacy medical-treatment |
Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal tradition … |
| 25A310 |
Ryan Thomas Thornton v. Ascension All Saints Hospital, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
hospital-negligence informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-rights sepsis standard-of-care |
Whether a hospital's alleged failure to timely diagnose and treat a patient's sepsis constitutes medical malpractice under state law and violates the … |
| 25-204 |
Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action |
Whether the right to refuse an unapproved medical treatment constitutes a fundamental due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment and whether a p… |
| 25-9 |
Keith M. Wilkins v. Steve Herron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
emergency-use-authorization experimental-drugs food-drug-cosmetic-act informed-consent private-right-of-action section-1983 |
Whether an individual can bring a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of informed consent rights related to Emergency Use Aut… |
| 24A234 |
Sandra A. Zikry v. Exodus Women's Center, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause protect a patient from medical procedure consent viol… |
| 24A233 |
Sandra A. Zikry v. Hernie David Vann, Jr., et al. |
Florida |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause protect a patient from medical procedure consent viol… |
| 24-173 |
Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity |
What is the proper standard of review for a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process challenge to a State official's order mandating experimental vaccine inje… |
| 24-94 |
SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-1127 11-usc-1144 attorney-malpractice bankruptcy-plan bankruptcy-reorganization-plan chapter-11 informed-consent malpractice-claims procedural-rules third-party-release |
Whether a non-consensual third-party release of debtors' attorneys for malpractice claims is enforceable when included in a confirmed Chapter 11 plan … |
| 23-144 |
Anthony Marciano v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization informed-consent municipal-vaccine-mandate quarantine quarantine-law state-law state-preemption vaccination |
Whether the Mayor of the City of New York, through his appointed police and health commissioners, acts without legislative authority by mandating muni… |
| 22-7480 |
Elbert Silas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process index-of informed-consent procedural-rights reason-for-granting-the-writ sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Silas's due process rights were violated |
| 22-7426 |
George Donald Hatt, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent informed-decision mandatory-minimums offender-score plea-bargain plea-negotiations trial-strategy |
Does effective assistance of counsel in a plea bargain context requires that counsel actually and substantially assist a client in deciding whether to… |
| 22-7250 |
Willie T. Washington v. University of Texas Medical Branch, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
causation exhaustion informed-consent medical-malpractice relief-claim statute-of-limitations surgical-procedure unnecessary-surgery |
Question not identified |
| 22-6899 |
Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject |
Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures |
| 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? |
| 22-6090 |
Shirley Marie Trent v. Virginia Commonwealth University |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-autonomy civil-rights due-process government-overreach informed-consent medical-privacy |
Whether the government's policy of denying healthcare access to individuals who refuse to use government-approved medical devices violates their const… |
| 22-5266 |
Elizabeth Downing, as Administrator of the Estate of Linda Berry v. Paul Grossman, et al. |
Iowa |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment informed-consent kidney-tumor medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose |
Whether the care received by the plaintiff constitutes fraudulent concealment |
| 21-8086 |
Jeremiah F. Wooden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-record guilty-plea ineffective-assistance informed-consent meritorious-defenses plea-bargaining plea-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether plea counsel has a duty to advise of the impact of a conviction on his client's criminal record before a guilty plea |
| 21-8065 |
Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing |
Did the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion? |
| 21-7111 |
David Roy Worthy v. Corizon Medical Group, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights delayed-diagnosis due-process government-liability informed-consent medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-harm patient-rights professional-liability standard-of-care |
Whether a delayed diagnosis of a medical problem that results in a patient's health condition worsening constitutes a cognizable injury under the Four… |
| 21-6685 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Dominguez's decision to plead guilty was knowingly and intelligently made when he was grossly misinformed about the risks attendant to goi… |
| 21-295 |
In Re America's Frontline Doctors, et al. |
|
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization genetic-vaccine informed-consent medical-rights natural-immunity scientific-consensus vaccine-mandate |
Whether the district court committed an abuse of discretion by neglecting to enforce federal law regarding emergency use authorization (EUA) products … |
| 20-1504 |
J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. |
Washington |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability |
Did the courts violate the ADA by refusing to allow an attorney to represent a mentally disabled person? |
| 20-7633 |
Sam Sterling Alford v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability consolidation consolidation-risks counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent right-to-counsel |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28-U.S.C-2253(c) on his claim that his counsel rend… |
| 20-798 |
In Re Leonard Patti |
|
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-review medical-malpractice medical-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? |
| 20-797 |
Leonard Patti v. George C. Peck, Jr. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent jury-trial medical-malpractice standing |
Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? |
| 19-1138 |
DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether a claim for violation of a prisoner-patient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and… |
| 19-7321 |
Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-misconduct governmental-misconduct informed-consent mandamus mandamus-action medical-experimentation medical-information-withholding standing |
Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the evidence in this case and recognize and acknowledge that the respondent, the United States of … |
| 19-6498 |
Andrea Rene'e Tootle v. Beaux Art Institute of Plastic Surgery, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abscess cellulitis civil-rights duty-of-care informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-harm plastic-surgery radiation-treatment standard-of-care surgical-consent tissue-expander |
Is defendant liable for harm, maime, disfigurement, misuse patient trust, use extreme care, practice outside the realm of plastic surgery, fail to per… |
| 19-6443 |
Amro A. Elansari v. University of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-funding informed-consent research-ethics research-experiments standing |
Was summary dismissal appropriate? |
| 19-6339 |
Jackson Miles v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process healthcare-law informed-consent national-childhood-vaccine-injury-act-of-1986 regulatory-oversight regulatory-policy vaccine-injury-compensation vaccine-injury-compensation-program |
Where the special master of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) violates the 2017 Secretary of Health and Human Services' posted Rule that … |
| 19-417 |
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law |
Whether compulsory display-and-describe ultrasound laws abridge physicians' freedom of speech in violation of the First Amendment |
| 18-9012 |
Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo |
Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations |
| 18-1019 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
GVR |
Amici (9)Relisted (7) |
abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement |
Requiring an ultrasound as part of informed consent for abortion at least 18 hours before the procedure |
| 18-7403 |
Keith Lamar Blackwell v. Charlie A. Dooley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent medical-care medical-ethics medical-licensing medical-practice patient-consent pharmacist-duties physician-duties physician-licensing professional-licensing state-regulations |
In the State of Missouri, can a licensed pharmacist redundantly practice medicine as to a physician's duties of professional judgment and perform phys… |
| 18-6401 |
James Gabriel Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure |
Whether the district court followed the procedure mandated by FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 in accepting a guilty plea |
| 18-529 |
Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-process case-merger civil-procedure consolidation consolidation-of-cases due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins hall-v-hall informed-consent judicial-consolidation judicial-practice standing third-circuit |
Whether the decision of the Third Circuit conflicts with the Supreme Court decision by holding that the District Court effectively consolidated two co… |
| 18-97 |
Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC |
California |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
|
clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics |
Whether a drug company has a duty to stop a clinical study and refer a participant to medical care when it is aware the participant is suffering from … |