| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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… |