inherent-authority
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-860 | ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions | 1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec… | |
| 25-808 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure | Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th… |
| 25A606 | ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions | Question not identified. | |
| 25A559 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Application | bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions | Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith." | |
| 24-989 | Cedrick Frazier, et al. v. Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process electronic-stored-information fraud-upon-court inherent-authority sanctions seventh-amendment | 1. Now exists split of authority where Ninth Circuit, in Gregory v. State of Montana, 118 F.4th 1069 (9th Cir. 2024), held district court committed le… |
| 23-1032 | Gary Topolewski v. URS Holdings, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-authority ninth-circuit rule-37 sanctions | In Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197, 209 (1958) ("Societe Internationale") this… |
| 22-1084 | Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing | 1. Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned under a district court's inherent authority for asserting standing on behalf of voters for damages aga… |
| 22-5478 | Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings | Did the Ninth Circuit depart from the fourth, accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding when it ruled that clear and convincing evidence (in th… |
| 21-7930 | Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure fraud inherent-authority jurisdiction relief voluntary-dismissal | 1. This case-presents the very simple question of whether trial courts have Jurisdiction or under their inherent authority, to grant relief from a vol… |
| 21-1322 | Jan M. Sensenich v. PHH Mortgage Corporation | Second Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Amici (4) | appellate-review bad-faith bankruptcy-court-enforcement bankruptcy-rule-3002.1 bankruptcy-sanctions inherent-authority inherent-judicial-power judicial-power punitive-fines rule-enforcement | 1. Whether appellate courts may affirm a bankruptcy sanctions order on an alternate correct ground even if the order does not analyze the ground. 2. … |
| 20-1153 | Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees bad-faith civil-procedure costs-and-fees court-discretion inherent-authority judicial-power legal-costs objective-conduct procedural-standard subjective-bad-faith | Whether a court considering a motion for an award of costs and attorney's fees pursuant to the court's inherent authority must require the movant to p… |
| 19-1143 | FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met, or whether, … |
| 19-307 | Stuart A. McKeever v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | disclosure district-court-authority grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy historical-significance historically-significant inherent-authority judicial-discretion public-interest rule-6(e) rule-6e | Whether district courts have inherent authority to release grand jury materials in extraordinary circumstances, such as when the case is historically … |
| 18-1504 | Bruce Giles v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-cases civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-appointment court-discretion due-process inherent-authority judicial-power legal-representation mallard-v-us-district-court standing statutory-authority | Do federal courts have the inherent authority to make coercive appointments of counsel in civil cases? |
| 18-8383 | Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property | Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust-conspiracy, racketeering-conspiracy, trademark-property, busine… |
| 18-479 | Marc Schenkel v. Xyngular Corporation, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | case-management civil-procedure civil-rights district-court district-court-authority due-process free-speech inherent-authority judicial-discretion pre-litigation-conduct prelitigation-conduct sanctions standing | Whether a district court's inherent authority to manage the disposition of cases, including by imposing sanctions on a party, does not extend to condu… |