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25A829 Albert Whitney Coburn v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2026-01-21 Application child-protective-services constitutional-violations family-law negligence parental-rights statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25-740 Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (1) diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability When Petitioner's husband died of COVID-19 in Colorado, she brought a wrongful death action into federal court, alleging novel tort claims against the…
25-6005 Sean D. Jones v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied IFP inmate-rights medical-indifference negligence prison-healthcare standard-of-care treatment-delay (1) Did the failure by NP Tenorio ,failure to assure that the pl aintiff , Jones ,was seen by a specialist ,when the medication of which Tenorio had …
25-121 Kera Morgan, as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of Phillip Raymond Morgan v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation Iowa 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived employee-suicide federal-employers-liability-act negligence workplace-harassment wrongful-death zone-of-danger 1. Whether the "zone of danger" test articulated in Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Gottshall, 512 U.S. 532 (1994), applies to wrongful death claims premis…
24A500 Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete class-action internet-platform negligence section-230 technology-liability user-harm Question not identified.
24-5699 Susan Lloyd v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP alter-ego data-privacy negligence public-accommodation section-230 website-accessibility 1. DEFENDANTS MUST HAVE FACEBOOK ACCESSIBLE TO DISABLED INDIVIDUALS. WEBSITES ARE A PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION AND A PRIMARY PLACE OF BUSINESS FOR …
24-5656 Courtney Green v. Paramount Second Circuit 2024-09-27 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights data-exploitation electronic-surveillance negligence network-regulation privacy-violation Whether the respondent Paramount acted negligently in addressing the conduct of its staff and the integrity of its network. Did Paramount unconvention…
24A292 Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. California 2024-09-25 Presumed Complete california-law institutional-liability negligence private-university student-safety tort-claims Question not identified.
24A205 Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete casino-liability duty-of-care negligence premises-liability scooter-accident summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-204 Raynu Clark, Mother of Tyler M. Gergler, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response Waived discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence policy-judgment sovereign-immunity Whether the discretionary-function exception to the waiver of the United States' sovereign immunity in the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes from suit…
23-1305 Jade Schiewe, et al. v. Cessna Aircraft Company Oklahoma 2024-06-13 Denied aircraft-manufacturer-liability aviation-law general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act maintenance-manual manufacturer-liability negligence product-liability statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a maintenance manual prepared by a manufacturer of a general aviation aircraft is a part of an aircraft for the purposes of the General Avi…
23A869 Jason Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-28 Presumed Complete arizona-law genuine-dispute material-fact negligence products-liability summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-7098 Jeffrey Rivard v. Town of Brattleboro, Vermont Vermont 2024-03-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure consolidation joinder negligence police-misconduct standing supreme-court-review The first question is toward a Rules of Civil Procedure of Vermonts own ▼ r rt \T m W7-+ m /I h S' ittiI Iy i/iic ixcyviaixc vv xuuiiaiii uuuxi njivu …
23-968 Steven Dakota Knezovich, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-split circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence sovereign-immunity tort-liability wildland-fire wildland-fire-response In Rayonier, infra, this Court held that the Federal Tort Claim Act (FTCA) "makes the United States liable (with certain exceptions which are not rele…
23-961 John Doe, Through Next Friend Jane Roe v. Snap, Inc., dba Snapchat, L.L.C., dba Snap, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights content-provider due-process free-speech internet-service-provider negligence negligent-design section-230 sexual-assault sexual-predator tortious-misconduct Does 47 U.S.C. Section 230 immunize internet service providers from any suit based on their own tortious misconduct simply because third-party content…
23-616 Estate of William Han Manstrom-Greening, Through Carol J. Manstrom, Personal Representative v. Lane County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-relevance expert-testimony free-speech gun-violence negligence psychological-impact standing suicide The Federal Rules of Evidence establish the framework within courts must make their determina tions as to admissibility. Under Rule 402, the baseline …
23-5911 Jeffrey Rivard v. Brattleboro Reformer, et al. Vermont 2023-10-30 Denied IFP false-light first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech journalists-privilege libel negligence This matter is a US 1st Amendment Constitutional issue Freedom of Speech. The matter is overlooked and misapprehended by Vermont Superior Court Judge …
23-373 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights first-amendment free-speech naacp-precedent naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest-leader-liability protest-liability Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki…
23-5614 Ellison O. Jordan v. The Pennsylvania State University, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-of-care jury-trial negligence special-relationship standing student-athlete 1. Was the Petitioner's constitutional right to jury trial by demand denied and/or violated by the lower court when it did not conduct a jury trial as…
23-225 Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document "relates to th…
23-213 Brian O'Grady v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence subject-matter-jurisdiction wildland-fire wildland-fire-response In Rayonier, infra, this c ourt held that the Federal tort c laims Act (F tcA) "makes the u nited States liable ( with certain exceptions which are no…
23A209 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete civil-liability first-amendment NAACP-v-Claiborne-Hardware negligence protest-organizer third-party-violence Question not identified.
23-5468 Brittney Coleman v. Island Express Helicopters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aircraft-operation civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation judicial-decision-making legal-competence negligence pilot-certification pilot-competency procedural-review reasonable-care THE PILOTS UNREASONABLE JUDGMENT OF DECISION IN THE COURT OF FLYING THE PILOTS PREJUDICIAL DECISION CONCERNING COMPETENCY THE PILOTS COMPETENCY THE…
23-5342 Roger Rachon Cooley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights four-factor-balancing-test judicial-review motion-to-dismiss negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the lower courts err in analyzing the four factor balancing test outlined in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, (1972) when they denied Mr. Cooley's m…
22-7170 Reginald L. Wilson v. Jamie Bullard, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP administrative-procedure case-manager civil-rights disciplinary-infraction due-process negligence omissions record-checking retaliation standing Whether the plaints case manager, Ae dehndint, Amanda Lebvardss recommendation was based on a ron-eristrt discip nan infraction ? Whether each defend…
22-6988 Carina Conerly v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-delay due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion negligence standing 1. WHETHER, The Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in holding and delaying Petitioners ' cases? 2. WHETHER, The Eastern District Court abused its di…
22-788 Paul Edwards v. McMillen Capital, LLC Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied amendment breach-of-contract breach-of-implied-covenant court-of-appeals cutpa implied-covenant negligence nied statute-of-limitations tila Did The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rule contrary to and in conflict with prior holdings of The Supreme Court of The United States, The Co…
22-5786 Foroud Foladpour v. City of Upland, California California 2022-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability judicial-discretion negligence standing trial-court-procedure judicial discretion Rearview on a writ of certiorari is not a matter of right Is judicial discretion discretion is abused power of official to act th…
22-5744 Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. Hawaii 2022-10-03 Denied IFP animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution the same as the standard of reasonableness under neglig…
22-5648 Shannon V. Campbell v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP action-tolling administrative-remedies administrative-reversal fraud-inducement intentional-tort negligence negligence-claim new-evidence new-hearing state-officer WHETHER THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVERSAL WAS BASED OFF NEW EVIDENCE THAT WAS DETERMINED THROUGH A NEW HEARING OR A NEW HEARING BASED ON NEW EVIDENCE? WH…
22-5275 Russell M. Boles v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue jury-instructions legal-procedure negligence standard-of-review statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari 1) How might a court's attention be draun to merits without providing them escape routes? 2) Is construc tive denial oleounsel" allouable by imposing…
21-7750 Corey Duran Steward v. Tiffany Sims, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process negligence standing Failure to protect vac aoa\j fo\aiion xt)y 8+h am(1 IMwioPtMerydr cT ConShMtonal RfcjVrP 2OR pon
21-7396 Hung M. Nguyen v. Yolo County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process equal-protection immunity negligence policy-maker prosecutorial-immunity public-entity Does Yolo County District Attorney Office as Public Entity have any liabilities or qualify for prosecutory immunity due to negligence or reckless rela…
21-590 A. Michael Davallou v. United States First Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability hazard-disclosure negligence policy-decision specific-known-immediate-hazard warning-duty Whether the Government's failure to warn of a specific, known, immediate hazard, for which the acting agency is responsible, is not the kind of broade…
21-303 Vignaraj Munsami Pillay v. Public Storage Inc. Florida 2021-08-30 Denied Relisted (2) breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process evidence exculpatory-clause motion-to-dismiss negligence property-damage standing tenant-rights (i) - Can a motion to dismiss a complaint using citations out of context from distinguishable cases,polished and crafted , and completely unrelated t…
20-1406 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-04-07 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process gross-negligence land-dispute negligence official-discrimination property property-rights will-interpretation 1. Whether respondent, Charles Farris, acted with gross negligence to deprive appellant of his 8468 Orchard Road farm house and % acre of land when ap…
20-7497 Kevin Reid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage 1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at…
20-7305 Larry Daniel Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation 1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in…
20-6241 Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies (1) Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws. (2) Whether The School District of Philadelph…
20-6223 Brenda L. White v. Tavel Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP duty-of-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence patient-rights professional-accountability professional-liability remedial-damages standard-of-care 1. Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away? 2. Should a medical professional be held accountable for unreasonab…
20-5891 Mauricio Alvarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, which uses the terms "misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties" does not p…
20-5278 Melvin Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied IFP crime-of-violence federal-court federal-recidivism-enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence negligence-standard recidivism-enhancement state-offense 1) Where the definition of a crime of violence under federal recidivism enhancement provisions, such as U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1), include the limiting l…
19-8595 Brandon Williams v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process federalism judicial-review negligence standing state-statute takings Does statutes of the State of Maryland supersede and/or override the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights? Is the Constitution of…
19-1250 Victor Allan Clark v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-04-27 Denied 45-usc-55 45-usc-56 forum-selection forum-selection-clause jones-act maritime-law negligence personal-injury seaman-employment seaman-employment-contract third-party-beneficiary I. Does the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 30104, 30509 (adopting by reference 45 U.S.C. §§ 55, 56) render void a foreign forum selection clause in a Seaman'…
19-1108 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 GVR Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki…
19-1099 City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford Ninth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for …
19-7803 Brandon Williams v. Brian B. Kemp, Governor of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied IFP 42-usc-1986 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism negligence section-1986 standing 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism which seeme…
19-979 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality 1. This Court has well settled that use of "fabricated evidence" by a State "virtually" voids a criminal judgment ab initio. But what effect does th…
19-790 Juan A. Martin-de-Nicolas v. AAA Texas County Mutual Insurance Company Texas 2019-12-20 Denied Response Waived automobile-liability-insurance civil-procedure duty-to-settle insurance insurance-duty insurance-law legal-liability liability negligence negligence-standard policyholder-negligence policyholder-rights settlement settlement-obligation third-party-claims Do automobile liability insurers have a duty not-to-settle third-party claims, when it becomes reasonably clear that the peril insured against — polic…
19-795 Paul D. Voorhees v. United States Armed Forces 2019-12-20 Denied conduct-unbecoming-an-officer criminal-prosecution criminal-statute due-process mens-rea military-justice negligence negligence-standard rehaif-v-united-states scienter sixth-amendment uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Does this mens rea or scienter principle apply to criminal prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, where the underlying statute at is…
19-730 DeRay McKesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2019-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1) civil-rights demonstration-law first-amendment free-speech NAACP-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest protest-leader protest-liability standing state-law unidentified-perpetrator Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki…
19-6872 James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights IF A DOCTOR PERFORMS EMERGENCY SURGERY ON A PETITIONER IN A COMA AND MAKES AN INCISION AT AN INCORRECT LOCATION, THEN STITCHES UP THE WOUND AND MAKES …
19-625 Rita Guerrero, Individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero v. BNSF Railway Company Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived federal-employers-liability-act interstate-commerce interstate-rail-service jury-trial negligence scope-of-employment seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the decision by the Seventh Circuit panel conflicts with provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the uniform precedents of …
19-6344 Spencer Altschuler v. Florida Florida 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process negligence reckless-driving vehicular-homicide Whether – in a case involving the charge of vehicular homicide – the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution requires the prosecution to …
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs 1. Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner had Beceived Adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medicalcentar? 2. Whether Petitioner's Symptons, tests, m…
19-6198 Gonzalo R. Rubang, Jr. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction federal-money fraud labor-dispute labor-law negligence standing worker-compensation worker-endangerment worker-rights workplace-safety Just surprise me that myself and fellow injured Mechanics and other ground personnel at UNITED AIRLINES, INC in San Francisco International Airport in…
19-6131 Derrick Estell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a "crime of violenc…
19-5966 Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery, by invoking ostrich defense and claimi…
19-5957 Twila Haynes v. Riverside Presbyterian Apartments Pennsylvania 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process error-of-law in-forma-pauperis negligence rule-240 standing Under Pa. Rule 240 Where Petitioner Constitutional rights violated? Yes Did the court abuse it discretion? Yes Did the Court Commit an error of law? Y…
19-5816 Gabriel A. Maalouf v. Praetorian Insurance Company Nevada 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-impact contract contract-breach insurance-coverage insurance-guarantee-association negligence negligence-claim uninsured-motorist 1. Should financial liability have reverted back to the motorist's uninsured/underinsured motorist policy Praetorian Insurance Company, after the Tort…
19-5727 Trayvon Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest…
19-5749 Juan Manuel Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest…
19-192 Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 (1) Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1), which protects interactive computer services from liability for traditional publication torts whe…
19-94 Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corporation v. Ingram Barge Company Eighth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied allision approved-design common-law-duty design-approval legal-standard-of-care navigable-waters negligence negligence-standard rivers-and-harbors-act May an owner's preservation of the approved design of a structure in navigable waters which is in compliance with its approved design, constitute negl…
19-60 Cora Kerton v. Society Hill at Droyers Point Condominium Association, et al. New Jersey 2019-07-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure condominium-act condominium-law expert-report expert-testimony liability-coverage negligence net-opinion-rule new-jersey-appellate-court new-jersey-trial-court snow-removal standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary judgment standard
18-9500 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District of Oregon Oregon 2019-05-31 Denied IFP bus-accident carrier-liability civil-rights due-process duty-of-care evidence medical-evidence negligence public-transportation substance-impairment summary-judgment tort Issues being raised
18-1367 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner Virginia 2019-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation
18-1314 Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether Texas courts would hold a smartphone manufacturer liable for injuries and deaths caused by a driver distracted by the manufacturer's smartphon…
18-1237 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Argante R. Grippa, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied accident appellate-jurisdiction dismissal-without-explanation highway judicial-bias leaving-scene motor-vehicle motor-vehicle-accident negligence new-evidence police-report racial-discrimination state-trooper sudden-stop taxi-driver-negligence traffic traffic-law Can a driver suddenly stop on a highway without warning?
18-1220 Cleveland Franklin v. American Elevator Inspections, Inc. Texas 2019-03-20 Denied 7th-amendment affidavit-evidence burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process elevator-safety evidence negligence personal-injury standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether a plaintiff must anticipate and preemptively rebut every possible inference favoring the defendant, even if implausible, to survive summary ju…
18-1090 Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity Petitioner seeks review of whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes website operators from liability for their own negligent or…
18-981 Theresa Jones, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine government-liability legislative-intent military-negligence military-service-members negligence servicemember-rights standing tort-action Should the Feres doctrine be revisited and limited to the legislative purpose underlining the Federal Tort Claims Act, such that a negligence action f…
18-7142 Evelyn Talley v. Pride Mobility Products Corporation, et al. North Carolina 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process full-and-fair-trial negligence privileges-and-immunities product-liability trial-on-merits Are state courts required to allow a plaintiff in product liability case alleging negligence a full and fair trial on the merits under the privileges …
18-752 Edward Taupier v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-12-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re…
18-6933 Asia Johnson v. Children Youth and Families Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process negligence pro-se-litigation standing state-agency-liability summary-dismissal Was ordered to Dismiss my complaint summarily affirmed lower court decision
18-6609 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Office of Personnel Management Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-immunity due-diligence due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction negligence statutory-interpretation Whether the Office of Personnel Management can be held liable under FTCA statutes
18-570 Felisa Tunac, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Randy Tunac, Deceased v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review civil-procedure healthcare judicial-review judicial-review-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation medical-malpractice negligence negligence-claims va-healthcare veterans-affairs veterans-judicial-review-act Whether the court below erroneously held that its jurisdiction was limited by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act to negligence claims against Departmen…
18-563 Darren Commander v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations that at best are mere negligence in conflict with th…
18-6114 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham Oregon 2018-09-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal damages disability due-process guardian-ad-litem legal-standing medical-damages negligence personal-injury real-party-in-interest standing vegetative-state Did the trial court err in granting General Judgment of Dismissal in favor of defendant Kathy Hung Pham?
18-5798 C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund Florida 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adoption adoption-law civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations negligence notary-misconduct notary-public Should the Supreme Court of Florida decline to accept jurisdiction?
18-5677 Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus alleging ineffective-assistance-of-counsel where petitioner's attorney was…
18-135 New Products Corporation v. Thomas R. Tibble, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code-section-704 bankruptcy-trustee-duty estate-property estate-property-protection gross-negligence lien-valuation negligence property-abandonment property-damage secured-creditor secured-creditor-rights Does a bankruptcy trustee have a duty to protect estate property from damage or destruction while in the trustee's custody?
18-91 Antoinette Pizzino v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response Waived actual-notice common-law constructive-notice cruise-line cruise-lines dangerous-condition maritime-law maritime-negligence negligence negligence-standard notice notice-requirement premises-liability Whether a plaintiff in a maritime negligence case should be required to show defendant's actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition when…