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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6492 Arthur Fayne v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Sixth Circuit's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions conflicts with the Court's requirement of proving knowing and intentional misrepresen…
25-5861 Julius Rucks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels when there is no evidence of misrepresentation and w…
25-75 Crocs, Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Amici (1) commercial-advertising intangible-properties lanham-act misrepresentation patent-status trademark-law Whether the Lanham Act's prohibition on misrepresentations as to 'nature, characteristics, [or] qualities' extends to misrepresentations about the pro…
24-510 Kevin Abbey, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied federal-tort-claims-act misrepresentation negligence-claims sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction toxic-exposure Whether Petitioners' negligence claims 'aris[e] out of … misrepresentation,' and thus are barred by section 2680(h) of the FTCA, even though Petitione…
24-262 Stacy Makhnevich v. Gregory S. Bougopoulos, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Dismissed consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa-violation legal-standing misrepresentation unfair-practices Whether a debt collector's misrepresentations about an entity's legal standing to sue in state courts violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act …
24-5246 Lissette Salazar Napoleoni v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, on Behalf of the Holders of the Impac Secured Assets Corp. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-1 Nevada 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure-evidence-authentication-trial-witn deed-of-trust evidence-authentication fraud-misrepresentation-errors-in-evidence integrity-of-legal-process-validity-of-legal-decis legal-scrutiny lost-note-affidavit lost-note-affidavit-reliability-credibility-incons misrepresentation ownership-rights-determination-probative-value-of- preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-evidence-authentication-discovery Question not identified
23-1321 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud Does it improperly deprive a defendant of his defense of good faith when a jury is instructed that, if the jury finds any 'false and fraudulent repres…
23-619 Puerto Rico Supplies Group, Inc., et al. v. Bautista Cayman Asset Company Puerto Rico 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction misrepresentation mistake puerto-rico-law relief-from-judgment rule-49.2 whether-puerto-rico-courts-can-foreclose-access-to-relief-from-appellate-court-judgments
23-595 Peter R. Hall v. Michael J. Geoffrey Fulton, et al. Delaware 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process foreign-corrupt-practices-act fraud fraudulent-concealment misrepresentation state-sponsored-fraud sua-sponte treaty-obligations When a Delaware court has ruled that a Delaware company committed 'a clear act of fraudulent concealment' on a foreign court and has also ruled there …
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines' misrepresentation of the terms of t…
22-7238 Yousry Amin Rizk v. Edward Sandler, et al. Florida 2023-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation post-conviction-relief standing Whether the lower court erred in reversing the legal finding of fraud and misrepresentation by the petitioners
22-7142 William Matthew Plump v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the government from using criminal fraud to punish or penalize an attorney for immaterial misstatements or om…
22-945 Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud Is proof of misrepresentations sufficient to establish wire fraud or money laundering?
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-690 Acquanitta L. Harris-Patterson v. Armco Steel, aka AK Steel Corporation, et al. Missouri 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) benefits-book benefits-package benefits-payments benefits-policy benefits-termination compensation-dispute death-benefits employee-benefits interest-accrued misrepresentation social-security wage-deduction What benefits were paid to whom, and where are the records?
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action 'alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact' when the complaint contains no such allegati…
21-7760 William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants Did the Supreme Court err in holding that the federal courts have the right and the duty to protect themselves from fraud, misrepresentation and misco…
21-1266 Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th…
21-1023 Kay Gow v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1348 contract contract-breach federal-statute grant-application grant-funding investment-agreement investor-sophistication misrepresentation subscription-agreement wire-fraud Can a breach of contract by a grant recipient be criminalized under the federal wire fraud statute?
21-6802 Tarvis Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-representation constitutional-error due-process fraud-practice fraud-upon-court fundamental-error judicial-misconduct manifest-injustice misrepresentation plea-change show-cause-order Is it fraud practice upon the Court when an Assistant State Attorney misrepresents the facts of a Petitioner's Motion in their Response to a show caus…
21-5362 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search Is the Fourth Amendment violated by a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe preceded by a warrantless seizure facilitated by officer m…
20-8319 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure criminal-counsel direct-appeal due-process florida-bar-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation plea-bargaining torture Can same criminal counsel misrepresenting defendant in the same L.T. case, and other cases in the trial court documenting instances of 'torture' to in…
20-7762 Biner Ma v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules jurisdiction misrepresentation reliance standing Whether a plaintiff has standing to sue while she did not act in reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation but another party acted in reliance on …
20-6259 Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was impermissibly violated
20-5159 Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment?
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing Is it considered 'misrepresentation' when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entity, b…
19-1395 Raleigh Rogers v. Discover Bank North Carolina 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud misconduct misrepresentation new-trial north-carolina-rules pro-se relief-from-judgment Does 'pro se' mean 'no say' or are even pro se litigants eligible for relief from judgment and a new trial pursuant NC §14-1 Rule 60(b)(3) when courts…
19-8615 Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection What level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's jurisdictional hook?
19-7581 James Ryan Taylor and Steven Vincent Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geographic-scope good-faith-exception misrepresentation search-warrant Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to evidence seized under an invalid warrant if agents knowingly misrepresented the fact t…
19-457 Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud cl…
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-77 Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims Does ERISA preempt state-law claims alleging that an insurer's misrepresentations about an ERISA plan's terms induced an employer to create the plan?
18-1395 Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-intervention civil-rights consent-decree deception due-process intervention intervention-motion misrepresentation rule-24 statutory-rights timeliness timely-filing timely-intervention unrebutted-facts Whether a motion to intervene is timely when it is filed shortly after a would-be intervenor learns that the existing parties misrepresented that the …
18-6268 Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure Whether the Georgia Supreme Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's application for certificate of probable cause because the Petitioner did not fi…
18-402 Anna Pezhman v. Chanel, et al. New York 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment court-denial due-process due-process-clause fraud fraud-motion judgment judgment-set-aside legal-pertinence misconduct misrepresentation motion-to-set-aside-judgment When dealing with a motion to set aside a judgment based on fraud, misconduct and misrepresentation, must a court proffer reasons for its denial or ca…