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25-901 Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d…
25-830 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness Article III confines federal courts to live cases or controversies. When claims become moot on appeal, this Court has long required vacatur —not a mer…
25A794 Segundo Inga-Inga v. Robert A. McDonald, etc., et al. New York 2026-01-08 Application administrative-review appellate-procedure case-controversy judicial-standing legal-dismissal mootness Question not identified.
25-6451 Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty…
25-734 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official New York 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine WHETHER, in this U.S. Constitution, Article II, §1, Clause 5 "natural born Citizen " challenge to the 2024 Democratic candidate for President of the U…
25-648 Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, fka Greenback Business Services LLC, dba Cleer Tax Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review contempt-sanctions due-process legal-consequences mootness temporary-restraining-order Whether due process permits contempt sanctions to be imposed under a Temporary Restraining Order that was never reviewed on appeal, where the court of…
25A578 Edgal Iribhogbe v. C. Lepe, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application case-or-controversy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-dismissal mootness pretrial-detention section-2241 Whether a federal prisoner's appeal of a § 2241 petition challenging pretrial detention becomes moot upon conviction and sentencing
25A564 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether a federal court retains jurisdiction to review a case when an agency unilaterally ceases allegedly unlawful conduct to evade judicial review
25-5639 Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa Whether RLUIPA authorizes monetary damages against state officials in their individual capacities and whether claims for injunctive relief become moot…
25-5589 Shane Stevens v. Colorado Colorado 2025-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio violates the Due Process …
25-5456 Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America Maryland 2025-08-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appointed-counsel equal-protection mootness procedural-due-process service-of-process Whether a state court of last resort erred in affirming lower court decisions that deprived petitioners of 14th Amendment equal protection and procedu…
25-116 Nicholas Roddy Ramlow v. Amanda Marie Mitchell Idaho 2025-07-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment mootness pandemic-law public-health Whether mask-wearing constitutes symbolic or expressive speech, and whether an appeal regarding pandemic-related mask mandates is moot given potential…
25A94 Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra Question not identified.
25A96 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra Question not identified.
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
24-1221 Susan Neese, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied administrative-law article-iii-standing federal-funding healthcare-discrimination mootness summary-vacatur Should the Court summarily vacate the court of appeals' judgment under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., and remand with instructions to dismiss the…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing Whether named plaintiffs in a class action retain standing to appeal a district court's denial of class certification when the named plaintiffs' claim…
24-1126 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Relisted (2) district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims…
24-6997 Eric Ellis v. Cargill Meat Solutions, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP article-III mootness rule-68 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tender Whether a random mailing of a check (unconditional tender) that is not linked to a Rule 68 offer can rob a plaintiff of Article III standing effective…
24-6861 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri…
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, a court of appeals' decision should be vacated when an appeal becomes moot by happenstance while a petiti…
24-6685 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied IFP covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint Whether COVID-19 exposure in prison constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation and whether transfer between state institutions moots injunctive relief
24-844 Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial …
24-6203 Jesus Perez-Garcia and John Thomas Fencl v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-three-jurisdiction certiorari judicial-review mootness remand second-amendment Whether courts have Article III jurisdiction to issue a reasoned judicial opinion after a case becomes moot
24-684 Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure constitutional-law doctrine-of-capable-of-repetition election-law judicial-review mootness Whether the 'capable of repetition, yet evading review' doctrine requires plaintiffs in election law cases to predict and articulate specific plans fo…
24A493 Anthony Michael Branch v. Fannie Mae, et al. Massachusetts 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete due-process foreclosure intervention judicial-review mootness property-rights Whether a state appellate court's dismissal of a foreclosure challenge as moot violates a property owner's due process rights when the underlying fore…
24A375 Atif B. Malik v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto Third Circuit 2024-10-21 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons earned-time-credits first-step-act mootness pro-se-petition Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition as moot when the Bureau of Prisons failed to apply Earned Time Credits under …
24A356 Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete capable-of-repetition certiorari circuit-split election-law judicial-review mootness Whether the 'capable of repetition, yet evading review' standard should be uniformly interpreted in election law cases to allow more flexible mootness…
24-306 Michael Bush, et al. v. Linda Fantasia, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived injunctive-relief mootness pro-se-plaintiffs rule-12-procedure standing sua-sponte-dismissal When pro se plaintiffs face sua sponte dismissal, what procedural safeguards must courts observe under Rule 12(b)(1) or 12(b)(6) regarding hearings an…
24A256 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jennifer Zuch Third Circuit 2024-09-11 Presumed Complete iRS-proceedings levy-review mootness tax-court-jurisdiction tax-credits underlying-tax-liability Whether the Tax Court retains jurisdiction to review a taxpayer's underlying tax liability in levy-review proceedings after the tax liability has been…
24-226 Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-rights declaratory-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-analysis mootness Whether plaintiffs seeking only declaratory relief lack Article III standing when alleging past constitutional injuries without ongoing or imminent de…
24-230 Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity Whether mandated weekly Covid-19 medical testing for government employees violates Fourth Amendment rights and whether such testing is a clearly estab…
24-5301 Derek J. DeGroot v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP equitable-exception federal-court jurisdictional-limitation mootness rluipa sua-sponte Whether the doctrine of mootness remains a jurisdictional limitation given equitable exceptions and the 'capable of repetition yet evading review' sta…
24-129 Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, et al. v. Smithsonian Institution District of Columbia 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing benin-bronzes enslaved-africans ethical-return-policy long-term-loan mootness public-hearing-process repatriation smithsonian-institution subject-matter-jurisdiction title-transfer Whether descendants of enslaved Africans in the Un Whether the courts below improperly held the matte Whether subject matter jurisdiction exists over the Smithsonian Institution's repatriation of artworks to a foreign state under an Ethical Return poli…
24-113 John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived affordable-care-act civil-rights-standing-mootness-due-process-janus-v constitutional-rights mootness religious-exemption standing state-actor Is it proper for an appeals court to raise the bar for standing and mootness to an unattainable level despite evidence of continuing violations and ad…
24-5204 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-Motion-for-Pretrial-Release
24-45 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-harm effectual-relief mootness prospective-relief standing Whether legislation enacted during a lawsuit renders asserted claims for prospective relief moot if the legislation does not cure all of the constitut…
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-motion-for-pretrial-release
24-5017 Aaron Abadi v. Indiana Civil Rights Commission, et al. Indiana 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-standing civil-rights civil-rights-law congress covid-19-mandate damages damages-claim due-process judicial-resolution mootness mootness-doctrine standing Does denial-of-standing-and-mootness-claim-remain-appropriate-in-ADA-and-Indiana-Civil-Rights-Law-violations-case-seeking-damages
23-7467 Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Question not identified
23-1203 Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation pro-se-rights,parental-rights,minors,mootness,civil-rights,due-process
23A986 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention Whether legislation enacted during ongoing litigation can moot the underlying claims when the legislation does not provide the complete relief origina…
23-7237 William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-04-17 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with the constitutional framework?
23-1009 Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation Whether a federal agency can defeat a plaintiff's standing by adding non-statutory factors to benefit distributions that are purportedly race neutral
23-833 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (7) article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule Does amending or supplementing a complaint to include new factual developments absolve the government of its burden to prove mootness?
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
23-729 Roee Kiviti, et ux. v. Naveen Prasad Bhatt Fourth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three-courts bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction case-or-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether bankruptcy courts are bound by the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III of the Constitution
23-627 Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania 'mask mandate' moot?
23A513 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing Whether a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenger lacks standing to challenge a vague anti-harassment rule based on a nonbinding, reversible enforc…
23A499 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner mootness section-2255 supervised-release Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability and hold an appeal in abeyance after fully serving his sentence for a supervised …
23A439 Nancy Roe, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of A.R., et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion fape idea mootness preliminary-injunction standing Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the standards for standing and mootness in educational disability rights cases involving administrative exhau…
23-465 Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals Whether a named plaintiff whose individual claim becomes moot after the denial of a request for class certification and class action can still appeal …
23-448 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact vac…
23A207 Rita C. Simpson-Vlach, et al. v. Michigan Department of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete free-appropriate-public-education IDEA mootness special-education standing-doctrine systemic-violations Whether parents of students with disabilities have Article III standing to bring a putative class action alleging systemic violations of the Individua…
23-5472 Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing Whether administrative prisoners can be placed in solitary confinement units without due process
23-154 Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. v. Hunter Doster, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-17 GVR Relisted (3) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process military military-vaccination mootness mootness-doctrine munsingwear-doctrine preliminary-injunction religious-exemption standing vacatur Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
23-5344 Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious?
23-97 Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harvis and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional challenges
23-89 Jennifer Reinoehl v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights covid-19 covid-emergency-powers due-process emergency-powers federal-civil-procedure individual-capacity-suit mootness mootness-doctrine standing state-official-immunity Whether a case involving COVID-19 emergency powers is moot
23-60 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Feds for Medical Freedom, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 GVR Relisted (9) administrative-law civil-service-reform-act covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order federal-employee federal-employment mootness preliminary-injunction Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot
23-5123 Aaron Abadi v. Target Corporation Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-USC-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process injunction intra-corporate-conspiracy mootness pandemic pandemic-mandate standing Whether a pandemic-related mandate case becomes moot when the mandate is lifted, or remains justiciable due to the ongoing pandemic and plaintiffs' la…
22-1225 Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-21 GVR Relisted (8) administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
22-1178 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre Ninth Circuit 2023-06-06 Judgment Issued Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing Whether respondent's claims challenging placement on the No-Fly-List are moot
22-1138 John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine Whether complying with a court order disqualifies a petitioner from the equitable remedy of vacatur
22-877 John Lugo v. Avena L. Sturm Illinois 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived case-exception civil-procedure collateral-consequences judicial-review legal-precedent mootness sibron-v-new-york standing state-court Whether a State Court is bound by Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40, 53 (1968) in determining whether a case is moot when a 'secondary or collateral inj…
22-837 Charles Clark, III, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition constitutional-claims evading-review government-defendant government-defendants inter-circuit-conflict judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary-cessation exception to mootness
22-778 Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied covid-19-education declaratory-relief disability-rights free-appropriate-public-education idea-compliance individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine school-closures state-educational-agencies Whether Petitioners' claims that the CDE Defendants violated federal law
22-6663 Steven Janakievski v. Phillip Griffin, Executive Director, Rochester Psychiatric Center Second Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences constitutional-rights custody-discharge due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition insanity-acquittee mental-health mootness standing unconditional-discharge Is Petitioner Steven's Federal Habeas Petition moot?
22-605 Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied administrative-law agency-deference mootness Munsingwear SEC-v-Chenery vacatur Whether under the United States v. Munsingwear 340 U.S. 36 (1950) the Court should grant certiorari and vacate the decisions below in this case that b…
22-586 Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio…
22-5883 Walter Drummond v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process lawless-conduct mootness pending-motion Whether a pending motion can be rendered moot when the respondent is acting in a lawless manner
22-5808 Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether an inmate has a right to sue for denial of exercise and recreation opportunities during COVID-19 restrictions
22-321 Wilbur Slockish, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-05 Dismissed Amici (2) equitable-relief federal-courts federal-land mootness mootness-doctrine native-american-rights nonparties religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site sacred-site-preservation Whether the Ninth Circuit's mootness ruling warrants summary reversal
22-250 Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu…
22-181 Resurrection School, et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review circuit-conflict constitutional-claims government-defendants judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine presumption-of-good-faith voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness
22-48 AC Interests, L.P. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-07-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights clean-air-act due-process emission-reduction-credits equitable-tolling mootness takings takings-clause Should the 60-month deadline for using emission reduction credits be equitably tolled?
22-31 Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur Whether the motion to intervene was timely
22-33 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-12 Denied administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation Is a pandemic-related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
22-30 David Ritter v. Linda Migliori, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-11 GVR Amici (9) civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process election election-law mail-in-voting materiality-provision mootness mootness-doctrine standing statutory-interpretation third-circuit-decision Should this Court vacate the Third Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)?
21-8220 Mary Alice Nelson-Rogers v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-limitations damages federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction internal-revenue-code moot-controversies mootness standing Question not identified
21-1489 Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution
21-7862 Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment Does the aggravated assault with deadly weapon conviction moot the petitioner's § 2254 motion seeking relief?
21-1351 Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate review …
21-1328 Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri…
21-1218 Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court possess subject-matter-jurisdiction to allow class-members to intervene-of-right in an MDL-proceeding?
21-1155 Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the law…
21-7172 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur Whether a final order of dismissal automatically moots an interlocutory appeal of an order denying preliminary injunctive relief
21-1120 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing Whether ever-changing and ongoing government-issued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions
21-1122 Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath Kentucky 2022-02-14 Denied Response Waived ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal May a trial court dismiss a ballot challenge without construing it favorably to the movant?
21-977 Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. Washington 2022-01-07 Denied case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion Whether the state courts failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial, which conflicts with three decisions of the Supreme Court r…
21-6358 Michael A. Young v. Ned Lamont, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP case-or-controversy civil-rights emergency-relief jurisdiction mootness standing Whether the Second Circuit Court erred in finding that the petitioner lacked standing despite a lack of mootness
21-566 Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
21-5966 Cecile Andrea Brown v. John C. Coughenour, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process fundamental-rights government-accountability judicial-review mootness nominal-damages standing Whether nominal damages account for harms associated with past constitutional violations
21-5676 Patsy Naomi Sakuma v. Association of Condominium Homeowners of Tropics at Waikele, et al. Hawaii 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mootness Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals improperly applied mootness and the collateral order doctrine
21-5522 Meghan Kelly v. Donald J. Trump Delaware 2021-08-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure establishment-clause executive-order free-exercise-of-religion government-religion mootness religious-freedom-restoration-act ripeness service-of-process standing substitution-of-parties Whether failure to serve the brief was fatal error
21-272 Ralph Abekassis v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulations judicial-review mootness second-amendment standing Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing this case as moot where New York City's actions were designed to evade appellate review
21-108 Clint A. Krislov, et al. v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied ballot-access civil-rights due-process first-amendment mootness mootness-exception public-interest public-interest-exception signature-requirements Whether federal courts recognize a public interest exception to mootness
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued
20-1775 Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-law apa civil-rights immigration mootness standing Whether States with interests should be permitted to intervene to defend a rule when the United States ceases to defend
20-1738 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives District of Columbia 2021-06-15 GVR article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou…
20-8313 Jason Hunter Bell v. Macy's Corporation Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP ada arbitration-opt-out civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment-dispute justiciability mootness motion-of-default standing Whether the plaintiff timely opted out of arbitration
20-1619 Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White Ninth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing Whether Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine whether the Ninth Circuit's…
20-1606 Brett Hendrickson v. AFSCME Council 18, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-consent civil-rights janus-v-afscme mootness public-worker union-dues Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the 'affirmative consent' required by Janus v. AFSCME
20-1556 Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release Whether a habeas case is moot when the defendant has completed their term of imprisonment and commenced supervised release, even though the sentencing…
20-1553 Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated where the FDC, after pre…
20-7620 Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ Does a criminal conviction halt or moot a pending pretrial habeas corpus action?
20-7294 James Peter Sabatino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal as moot
20-1096 Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness Whether the appellate courts erred in denying a constitutional appeal on the false premise of lack of jurisdiction
20-1047 Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated
20-1001 Columbia MHC East, LLC, et al. v. Melody Stewart, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment just-compensation mootness state-action takings Can the official actions of state judges violate the Takings and Just Compensation Clauses of the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution?
20-944 Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark Tennessee 2021-01-13 Denied appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appel…
20-6838 Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing Whether a lower federal court loses jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition upon release of the civil detention petitioner
20-538 Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants are subject to the same voluntary-cessation standard as private defendants
20-482 Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the Sixth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot under Munsingwear
20-305 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgments granting writs o…
19-8724 Michael Garry v. Trane Company Wisconsin 2020-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error whether-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-contravened-appellate-procedure
19-1323 B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland Whether the dismissal of a case for mootness can satisfy the 'prevailing party' standard
19-1173 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders
19-7798 Pablo Cantu Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances mootness patent-law standing takings Whether petitioner's claims became moot under extraordinary and unusual circumstances that were beyond the petitioner's control under the CARES Act of…
19-7726 Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question
19-7586 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation Is the underlying case moot?
19-968 Chike Uzuegbunam, et al. v. Stanley C. Preczewski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Relisted (2) censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy mootness nominal-damages standing Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed v…
19-864 Bradley Beers v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-10 GVR civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-restriction involuntary-commitment mental-health mootness second-amendment Whether the government may permanently deny a mentally healthy, responsible, and law-abiding citizen the opportunity to recover their Second Amendment…
19-777 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st…
19-6900 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change Does Buckhannon apply in fee determinations under the Equal Access to Justice Act?
19-6710 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere…
19-6451 Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals Rhode Island 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing Petitioner's appeal on the grounds of mootness
19-519 Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo…
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights What effect does a concession on ineffective assistance of counsel have on the court's ability to adjudicate the merits?
19-6118 Aaron Brent v. Ashley Workman Michigan 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-database mootness personal-protection-order takings Whether Michigan's personal protection order statute unconstitutionally deprives the accused of meaningful due process
19-5253 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a Stay …
18-1593 Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for assault under a state statute that does not require physical force is categorically a crime of violence under 8 U.S.C. § 16(a…
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that Jessica Roe has standing to seek an injunction against a school program to which she has no ongoing e…
18-9098 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mootness prison-discipline retaliation standing Should a COA have been issued?
18-8486 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Minnesota 2019-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ. of Habeas corpus moot?
18-8250 Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing Did the 8th Circuit incorrectly apply the mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits?
18-1125 ZocDoc, Inc. v. Radha Geismann, M.D., P.C. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-standing deposit federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individual-relief judgment-entry mootness mootness-doctrine rule-67 rule-68 rule-68-offer standing Whether the deposit of full amount of plaintiff's individual claim with the court moots the plaintiff's claim
18-1129 Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction once the sole plaintiff h…
18-1108 Stephanie C. Stucky v. Dwight Takeno, et al. Hawaii 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure collective-bargaining due-process labor-relations mootness prohibited-practice prohibited-practices voluntary-cessation Petitioner did not receive due process when the Prohibited Practice Complaint was dismissed as moot, despite the respondents voluntarily ceasing viola…
18-1101 Classic Cab, Inc. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights dormant-commerce-clause emergency-rulemaking mootness preexisting-contracts regulatory-taking res-judicata statutory-requirement Is the use of illegal emergency rulemakings in the absence of any objectively cognizable emergency resulting in the complete elimination of an industr…
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing Whether a non-disabled plaintiff must establish a separate injury causally related to, but separate and distinct from, a disabled person's injury
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Whether plaintiffs who settle their individual claims may appeal an earlier denial of class certification under Microsoft v. Baker
18-923 Carol Coghlan Carter, Next Friend of A. D., C. C., L. G., and C. R., et al. v. Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act damages declaratory-relief due-process mootness prospective-relief retrospective-relief standing title-vi Whether claims for declaratory and damages relief to redress past injuries under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are moot when no prospective…
18-7049 Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case?
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege con…
18-329 Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest Whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dismiss
18-5800 Brent F. Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-jurisdiction article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure heckler-v-chaney mootness mootness-doctrine standing standing-article-iii-constitution Whether the District Court lacks jurisdiction under Article III of the Constitution, Case or Controversy clause, in light of Heckler v. Chaney
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-140 In Re Cliven Bundy 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no…
18-23 Edward R. Stolz, dba Royce International Broadcasting Company v. Federal Communications Commission District of Columbia 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process fcc fcc-ruling fifth-amendment interlocutory-judgment judicial-review mootness reversionary-interest telecommunications-act Whether the FCC violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process