| 25A778 |
Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Application |
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innocent-taxpayer iRS-assessment limitations-period section-6501 tax-court tax-fraud |
Whether the IRS can assess taxes beyond the usual three-year deadline when the taxpayer's preparer intended to file a false or fraudulent return, but … |
| 25-696 |
Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a "suitable" federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.… |
| 25-344 |
Robert Cromwell, et al. v. William Tacon, as Administrator of Caribbean Commercial Investment Bank Ltd. |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure dismissal forum-selection limitations-period rule-41 time-bar-defense |
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41, a plaintiff may withdraw a case voluntarily until the defendant answers or moves for summary judgment. There… |
| 25-58 |
Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii |
1. Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-term… |
| 24-5615 |
Merl Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations |
Whether the one-year limitations period in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) runs from the date of the original or amended criminal judgment when restitution obliga… |
| 23-1306 |
Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. |
Michigan |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty |
Whether the Michigan Courts committed plain legal error construing and applying §700.7604(1)(b) by declining to apply the relevant statutory definitio… |
| 23-7490 |
Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP |
civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination |
Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business' premises for work because her admission would… |
| 23-5223 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review legal-remedy limitations-period procedural-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in concluding that Mr. Rios was not entitled to equitable tolling |
| 22-974 |
Charles J. Weiss v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals certiorari collection-due-process due-process internal-revenue-code levy-actions limitations-period statutory-interpretation tax-law writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the IRC section providing for the suspension of levy actions and the running of any period of limitations applies to petitions for a writ of c… |
| 21-7695 |
Allen Wayne Hatcher v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus limitations-period prisoner-diligence prisoner-rights procedural-sufficiency |
Can extraordinary circumstances be established by the same facts that establish a prisoner's diligence? |
| 21-6410 |
Steve Herbert Speckman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review limitations-period petition-deadline statute-of-limitations supreme-court-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the federal statute when it failed to recognize the one-year limitations period begins to r… |
| 20-1704 |
RonRico Simmons, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
aedpa evidentiary-hearing government-impediment habeas-corpus limitations-period pro-se timeliness |
Whether a court can summarily dismiss a pro se habeas petition as untimely for failure to adequately allege a causal connection |
| 20-7570 |
David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment |
When a court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat… |
| 20-7123 |
Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
When was conviction final? |
| 20-806 |
Mary Swartzlander v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accrual erosion flooding flooding-event government-action government-taking land-erosion limitations-period property-rights statute-of-limitations takings |
When does a taking claim accrue against the government based on erosion caused by government action, where the erosion for many years was present only… |
| 20-402 |
Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period |
What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys'-fees-actions under 20-U.S.C.-§-1415(i)(3)(B)(i)(I)? |
| 20-5696 |
Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the ordinary forfeiture rule, as codified in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, applies to the limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a) |
| 20-5274 |
James S. Harris v. Sherie Korneman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period reasonable-jurists |
Did Mr. Harris present reasons for why the one-year limitations period should be equitably tolled in his case to which reasonable jurists could differ… |
| 19-5492 |
Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
Is it an extraordinary circumstance if counsel filed a motion three months after the AEDPA's limitations period expired? |
| 18-9240 |
Carlos Cordoba v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations |
Should the district court have conducted an evidentiary hearing in order that Mr. Cordoba could have presented proof of his reliance on his attorney's… |
| 18-9176 |
Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction |
Should Petitioner's state collateral review requests be considered as pending to toll the AEDPA 1-year limitations period? |
| 18-1169 |
John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law |
Applicability of laches to legal claims within statute of limitations period |
| 18-1116 |
Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of ERISA bars suit where all relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff more than… |
| 18-1094 |
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
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cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading |
Whether a shipper's notice asserting a rail carrier's liability for damage to specifically identified cargo and demanding a determinable amount of mon… |
| 18-6239 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff can proceed with an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when Heck v. Humphrey requirements are met but § 2254 Federal Habea… |
| 18-5727 |
Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell |
Whether Maples v. Thomas requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context |