joint-and-several-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A781 Joquetta Riley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-06 Application conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil…
24-726 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Dragon Intellectual Property LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived administrative-proceeding attorney-fees district-court-discretion fee-shifting joint-and-several-liability patent-law Whether the Patent Act's fee-shifting statute allows a district court discretion to impose joint and several liability for attorney fees and to award …
22-7890 Christopher Ochoa v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in the ca…
22-7733 Ahmad Salti v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apportioned-restitution apportionment-of-liability co-defendant-liability credits-for-payments criminal-procedure criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing joint-and-several-liability payment-credits Whether a defendant whose restitution obligation is apportioned is entitled to joint and several credits for payments made by a co-defendant who owes …
22-751 Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never pers…
21-8121 Leila Varetta Hector, aka Leila Varretta Hector, aka Leila Varetta Hector-Dykes, aka Rita Hector v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-853 circuit-court-decision constitutional-law criminal-forfeiture forfeiture forfeiture-award honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-interpretation Whether the imposition of joint and several liability on a forfeiture award under 21 U.S.C. § 853(a) violates the Court's holding in Honeycutt v. Unit…
21-242 Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1) limits a copyright holder to a single statutory damages award against multiple infring…
21-5064 Brandi Channon and Matthew Channon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-981 criminal-forfeiture forfeiture in-personam in-personam-order joint-and-several-liability joint-liability money-judgment rewards-fraud statutory-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit the entry of an in personam money judgment in lieu of tainted property?
20-714 Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States
20-660 Employer Solutions Staffing Group, LLC, et al. v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied contribution contribution-liability fair-labor-standards-act flsa-requirements joint-and-several-liability joint-employer notice-of-flsa-requirements overtime-wages wage-compliance willful-violation willfulness-standard Whether the FLSA's willfulness standard requires actual knowledge of non-compliance
19-16 Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5) 18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators?
18-1366 Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search Whether joint and several liability applies under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where a plaintiff alleges unconstitutional search by multiple officers
18-5391 Daniel Sexton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does this Court's reasoning in Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what a defendant…