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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A827 John A. Amster, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-22 Application administrative-interpretation dodd-frank enforcement-action objective-standard sec-regulations whistleblower-award Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can retroactively reinterpret its own whistleblower regulations to deviate from the originally establis…
23-7123 Ivan Isho v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions mental-state objective-standard recklessness stalking true-threats Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violated the Counterman standard for true threats prosecutions
23-728 Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities Is providing discriminatory working conditions or facilities based on race or sex an unlawful employment practice?
23-210 Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee Whether the courts should employ the historically accepted two-prong deliberate indifference framework or the 'objective unreasonableness' analysis fo…
22-707 Barry J. Cadden v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point 'vulnerable victim' enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, absent …
22-598 Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an…
22-449 Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. Washington 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims
22-374 Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 GVR Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have 'knowingly' violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f…
22-138 Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado Colorado 2022-08-11 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats Whether the government must show subjective intent or objective 'reasonable person' standard to establish 'true threat' unprotected by First Amendment
22-5217 Ramell Markus v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective Is a determination of 'serious bodily injury' based on 'extreme physical pain' a subjective test based on the victim's level of pain tolerance or an o…
22-5036 Raleigh Figueras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2106 circuit-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review objective-standard prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When a circuit court unambiguously and erroneously applies a subjective standard in assessing whether a habeas petitioner has established the prejudic…
21-1210 Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad…
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal Whether a judge must be disqualified under 28 U.S.C. § 455 if the judge makes rulings more restrictive against one party than the other in comparable …
20-7612 Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous?
20-5149 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing Question not identified
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-935 Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction Whether courts should distinguish between 'terminations' and 'layoffs' under the WARN Act by applying an objective standard that examines the employee…
19-7368 Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud Whether materiality in mail and wire fraud cases is based on the subjective standard in Gaudin and Escobar or the objective standard in Lindsey
19-7098 Antonio Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Whether defense counsel's performance fell below the reasonable standard of representation
19-6983 Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review Whether the trial court was required to hold a hearing on McKinney's motion to recuse
19-293 TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Whether a debtor's conduct qualifies as causing a 'willful and malicious' injury under Section 523(a)(6)
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…