| 25-857 |
Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment |
Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio… |
| 25-420 |
Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine |
Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights? |
| 24-664 |
Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued |
Minnesota |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
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child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion |
Do state courts have discretion to misapply judicial doctrine in supersession of clear Constitutional requirements under U.S. Const. Amend. XIV §1, re… |
| 24-529 |
Dale Scott Heineman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equitable-maxim first-amendment judicial-doctrine oath-of-office |
Whether a sitting U.S. District Court Judge and government prosecutors violated the Petitioners' due process rights and First Amendment protections th… |
| 24-5545 |
Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict constitutional-theory criminal-procedure government-agents judicial-doctrine sentencing-entrapment |
Whether government agents' conduct can constitute sentencing entrapment and whether the Court should resolve circuit conflicts on applying the entrapm… |
| 23-1231 |
Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (11) |
equitable-doctrine good-faith-procurement investment-backed-expectations judicial-doctrine obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-invalidation patent-term-adjustment statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether a patent procured in good faith can be invalidated on the ground that statutory Patent Term Adjustment, which requires lengthening a patent's … |
| 23-842 |
Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 23-570 |
Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding — in conflict with the Second and Seventh Circuits — that violations of the claims procedure regulations, 2… |
| 22-926 |
U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Does the lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require i… |
| 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… |
| 21-6178 |
Henry Baird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment |
Whether the court should resolve the circuit split on recognizing sentencing entrapment and sentencing manipulation doctrines as viable defenses at se… |
| 21-317 |
Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction |
Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified-immunity |
| 20-7246 |
Renaldo Demarquis Metcalf v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-history judicial-doctrine legal-departure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-process |
Does the use of the 'de facto career offender' doctrine distort the sentencing process and lead to unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 20-440 |
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of in… |
| 19-1416 |
Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory |
Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine |
| 19-41 |
Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
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circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions |
May the judge-made 'economic substance doctrine' be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … |
| 18-5548 |
Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt… |