issue-preclusion

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25-834 Erie Indemnity Company v. Troy Stephenson, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending claim-preclusion final-judgment issue-preclusion legal-theory ongoing-conduct res-judicata This Court has emphasized that a previous court's judgment bars any claims between the parties or their privies that "involve a common nucleus of oper…
25A250 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll Second Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act Whether a former president can be held liable for defamatory statements made about a public accusation while serving in office, and the proper standar…
24-7452 Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart California 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participate …
24A1230 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-enforcement collateral-estoppel contract-severability federal-arbitration-act issue-preclusion supremacy-clause Whether the doctrine of issue preclusion impermissibly bars enforcement of an arbitration agreement under the Federal Arbitration Act when a prior jud…
24-7227 Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California California 2025-05-16 Denied IFP civil-asset-forfeiture claim-preclusion due-process federal-judgment issue-preclusion state-criminal-prosecution Does the Due Process Clause require a state to apply issue and/or claim preclusion to a federal judgment in a state criminal prosecution, and under wh…
24-1109 Karl Hansen v. Tesla, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award issue-preclusion predispute-arbitration sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-claim Whether a confirmed arbitration award on related or overlapping claims may be given issue-preclusive effect so as to bar a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblowe…
24A701 Karl Hansen v. Elon Musk, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete arbitration dean-witter-reynolds issue-preclusion protected-activity sarbanes-oxley securities-law Whether a claim statutorily precluded from arbitration can be dismissed based on findings from a related arbitration proceeding involving different cl…
24A475 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete ashe-standard double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion jury-verdict preponderance-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes retrial of a defendant on a bribery charge after a jury's initial rejection of tha…
23-811 Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior District of Columbia 2024-01-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/issue-preclusion applies when Merit-Systems-Protection-Board-has-resolved-an-issue
23-591 Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin…
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno's case is conflicting with Pirset Circuit precedents
23-6067 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata If legal claims preserved by a state court during direct review share the same constitutional protections as the right to an appeal from a final judgm…
22-7860 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents
22-5410 Claud R. Koerber v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial government-misconduct issue-preclusion sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations speedy-trial
22-5371 Darrell Harris v. Robert Hudgins, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel federal-court federal-offense federal-prosecution issue-preclusion res-judicata sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether principles of res judicata triggered application of issue preclusion and collateral estoppel
22-118 Marquis Shaw v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Relisted (12) acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the use of acquitted conduct at sentencing violates the Jury Clauses or Due Process Clause
22-5133 Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court issue-preclusion obstruction procedural-fairness standing witness-protection Whether plaintiffs and witnesses have a right to receive protection from obstructive crimes while a case is proceeding in federal courts of justice?
21-8209 Alan M. Leschyshyn v. AbbVie Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law case-filing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel contemporaneous-filing issue-preclusion judicial-discretion prior-decision summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred or abused its discretion in granting summary judgment based on collateral estoppel where the record showed the Arizona c…
21-1560 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions Whether a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
21-1483 Leander Bacon, et ux. v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ejectment-action foreclosure-dispute issue-preclusion rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings title-restoration veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether the Bacons' complaint constitutes an 'ejectment' action
21-1248 Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived congressional-action constitution executive-branch federal-courts indian-treaty-rights issue-preclusion Whether the federal courts have the constitutional authority to unilaterally abrogate all rights guaranteed to an Indian tribe under a treaty with the…
21-7308 Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University District of Columbia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet…
21-1127 Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
21-1034 Peter Kagel v. Jay Laurence Raftery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud issue-preclusion rooker-feldman vagueness Should the 'Inextricably Intertwined' doctrine be abolished?
21-1015 Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection issue-preclusion judicial-power separation-of-powers sua-sponte ultra-vires Whether the lower courts acted ultra vires and the judgments below are void
21-6691 Aaron Hicks v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct conflict-of-interest counsel-representation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion joint-trials right-to-counsel severance When a co-defendant is represented by counsel who previously represented the defendant, thereby creating an actual conflict of interest, may a court c…
21-870 Michigan v. Treshaun Lee Terrance Michigan 2021-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ashe-v-swenson constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion jury-acquittal michigan-courts perpetrator-identity yeager-v-us Should issue preclusion apply in criminal cases?
21-6543 Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing Can the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial d…
21-407 James P. Mhina v. Beth Van Doren, Assistant District Attorney of Onondaga County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-action collateral-estoppel criminal-action due-process issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel bars a criminal defendant from relitigating issues that were previously decided against him in a civil act…
21-47 Khai Quang Bui v. Abdul Alshaer Virginia 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived causes-of-action civil-procedure claim-preclusion issue-preclusion judicial-review legal-procedure question-not-identified res-judicata standing supreme-court Whether separate and distinct causes of action overrule res-judicata
20-1508 Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim Did the resolution of the tort claim against Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or claim that plaintiff raises in the present suit agai…
20-1394 PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine
20-1339 Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board Federal Circuit 2021-03-24 Dismissed civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv…
20-942 Christopher L. Buie v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-findings discrimination-claims employee-protection issue-preclusion substantial-evidence surface-transportation-assistance-act unsafe-acts vehicle-operation Does the 'refuses to operate' clause under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act afford protection to employees who refuse to commit unsafe acts w…
20-563 Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC Texas 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su…
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate preclusion order disputes
19-8160 Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida Florida 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation Did the Florida trial court violate the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against double jeopardy?
19-1057 Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called 'community caretaking' where the alleged danger to the commu…
19-769 Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res-judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid…
19-489 Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States Armed Forces 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a…
19-319 Bonnie Cruickshank-Wallace, et vir v. CNA Financial Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied alter-ego-doctrine civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process holding-company issue-preclusion jurisdiction malpractice precedent standing subsidiary-liability technicality Should this Court affirm the standard that 'claim preclusion' requires the new claim to arise from the same set of facts as a claim adjudicated on the…
18-1403 Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent Whether petitioner was denied due process when respondents revoked his license without adequate procedural protections
18-8878 Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give rise to a new claim?
18-1086 Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated and resolved in any prior case betwee…
18-7924 Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion?
18-7398 Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt New Mexico 2019-01-14 Denied IFP amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summary judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues?
18-898 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-7082 Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal May collateral estoppel be applied offensively against a criminal defendant?
18-654 Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. v. Richard Boatright, et ux. Florida 2018-11-20 Denied civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action due-process engle-progeny issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion procedural-due-process Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w…
18-649 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Cheryl Searcy, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol LaSard Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied actually-decided civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w…
18-621 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy Florida 2018-11-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh…
18-551 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Jordan Florida 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure class-action constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings issue-preclusion jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding tobacco Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings …
18-549 Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC Federal Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten…
18-498 Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act Whether Arizona sheriffs are policymakers for counties in law enforcement, whether policymaker liability can be applied to Title VI and § 12601, wheth…
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k…
18-5783 Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet?