personal-injury

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6779 Sasho Stantchev v. Bunker Hill Community College Massachusetts 2026-02-11 Pending IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection personal-injury procedural-deadlines state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment is violated when the enforcement of procedural deadlines takes priority over the merit of cases o…
25A796 James L. Martin v. Bruce L. Hudson, et al. Delaware 2026-01-09 Application conditional-payment health-insurance-recovery legal-malpractice medical-expert-testimony medicare-subrogation personal-injury Question not identified.
24-5901 Lamont Fitch v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure extraterritorial-claims international-jurisdiction personal-injury supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a case involving personal injury claims arising from actions outside the United States
24-5875 Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-courts legal-notice personal-injury property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether lower federal courts should apply Louisiana's one-year personal injury statute of limitations and give effect to Louisiana's special reviews i…
24A281 James L. Martin v. David H. Nixon Delaware 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete damages-exclusion expert-testimony judicial-review medical-causation personal-injury trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court may exclude expert medical testimony about causation and damages in a personal injury case without providing a substantive legal…
24-16 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether applying a state's one-year statute of limitations to Section 1983 claims is inconsistent with the federal statutory scheme and the interests …
23-1332 Jarius Brown v. Javarrea Pouncy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Amici (4) 28-usc-1658 civil-rights civil-rights-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law statute-of-limitations Is a one-year state statute of limitations period consistent with federal interests underlying Section 1983?
23-475 Ying Ye, as Representative of the Estate of Shawn Lin, Deceased v. GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Amici (1) federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act freight-broker motor-carrier motor-vehicle negligent-hiring personal-injury preemption safety-exception Whether a personal injury claim against a freight broker based on the broker's negligent hiring of an unsafe motor carrier to transport property by mo…
23A372 Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete asbestos-claims bankruptcy channeling-injunction chapter-11 personal-injury reorganization Whether a bankruptcy court's channeling injunction that channels asbestos personal injury claims to a trust can be upheld as a permissible reorganizat…
23-365 Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn Second Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to 'business or property by reason of' the defendant's acts for purposes of civil…
22-938 George Washington University v. Jabari Stafford District of Columbia 2023-03-27 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process federal-statute personal-injury personal-injury-claims state-law statute-of-limitations title-vi Whether courts should reflexively borrow the state-law general limitations period applicable to all personal-injury claims to govern any claim allegin…
21-5333 Michael E. Harris v. Anthony Akidi Ninth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-dismissal jury-demand jury-trial personal-injury prima-facie Did the United States court of appeals error and abuse its discretion, in dismissing the petitioner's prima facie personal injury, civil rights compla…
20-7424 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-error due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari Reverse and settle personal injury judgment
20-7396 Marlina Calhoun v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-procedure court-representation deposition-misconduct disability-discrimination due-process jury-selection medical-evidence mental-health personal-injury workplace-injury Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated due to the court's failure to provide an interpreter and accommodate her mental health iss…
20-7321 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-judgment due-process judicial-bias legal-procedure medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing Whether the appellant's U.S. constitutional and civil rights were violated
20-963 Stephen K. Walton, Sr. v. Virginia International Terminals, LLC Virginia 2021-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) land-based marine-terminal-operator personal-injury preemption property-handling shipping-act shipping-act-1984 state-law terminal-operator time-limitation Whether a marine terminal operator's schedule of rates under the Shipping Act of 1984 can time-bar a land-based personal-injury action that is timely …
20-6130 Desmond Howard Greer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-26 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury?
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 Does the Jones Act render void a foreign forum selection clause in a Seaman's employment contract?
19-960 Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company v. Steven R. Lilly Michigan 2020-01-31 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure employment-law federal-employers-liability-act fela jury-instruction jury-instructions personal-injury preexisting-condition railroad-employee workplace-liability Whether a jury must be instructed about an employee's preexisting physical condition in a FELA personal injury action against an employer
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a…
19-6017 Randy Matthew Cordero v. Nick A. Guzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-instruction jury-trial personal-injury standing trial-fairness issue being raised
18-9779 Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay, Personal Injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…
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…
18-832 Ann Wilma Petersen v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) alvez-precedent american-export-lines-v-alvez general-maritime-law loss-of-consortium maritime-law miles-v-apex-marine miles-v-apex-marine-corp personal-injury spousal-damages townsend-v-jantran-inc Whether spouses of personal injury plaintiffs are entitled to recover loss of consortium damages under general maritime law
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?
18-266 The Dutra Group v. Christopher Batterton Ninth Circuit 2018-08-31 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (2) civil-procedure general-maritime-duty jones-act maritime-law personal-injury punitive-damages seaman-rights seaworthiness seaworthy-vessel unseaworthiness vessel-seaworthiness Whether punitive damages may be awarded to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury suit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a se…
18-5489 Min Ho Kwon v. Hyoun Phil Won, et al. Virginia 2018-08-08 Denied IFP assault civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process employment injury insurance-claim liability personal-injury standing worker's-compensation workers-compensation Whether Hyoun, Chan, and Liberty should compensate Kwon for the assault and resulting injuries and lost income
18-22 Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment Whether the Magistrate Judge erred in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict
18-5077 Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act Did the trial court and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismiss the case brought by a physically impaired inmate seeking accommoda…