pleading-stage
14 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-940 | Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage | Question 1 Whether the circuit court improperly determined that a subsequent pleading rather than the initial complaint, is the operative bar date … | |
| 25-825 | Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal | 1. Whether a district court may categorically stay all discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil action on a closed record where adjudicat… |
| 25-220 | John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment | Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any … | |
| 24-1116 | Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-28 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | communications-decency-act first-party-conduct immunity interactive-computer-service pleading-stage section-230 | This writ of certiorari centers around the proper scope of immunity conferred by subsection (c) of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-886 | Christopher Schurr v. Peter Lyoya, Personal Representative for the Estate of Patrick Lyoya, Deceased | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | deadly-force law-enforcement pleading-stage qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence | 1. Whether Scott v. Harris permits courts to resolve qualified immunity at the pleading stage based on objective video evidence that demonstrates the … |
| 23-867 | Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-02-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard | (1) Whether historical commingling of assets suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States un… |
| 23-73 | Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal | Petitioner Dr. Colleen Huber sued President Biden (in his official capacity) and Twitter for censoring Dr. Huber's speech on Twitter critical of the B… |
| 21-1519 | Joe Gregory Carlini v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | copyright copyright-infringement expert-opinion extrinsic-test fact-finder inverse-ratio-rule pleading-stage pleadings-stage selection-and-arrangement substantial-similarity | 1. Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the extrinsic test for substantial similarity by "filter[ing] out" elements that the… |
| 21-561 | Elijah Anthony Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-2000e-2m adverse-employment-action discrimination employment-discrimination pleading-stage pleading-standard prima-facie-case protected-category swierkiewicz-v-sorema title-vii | At the pleading stage of a Title VII discrimination claim (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.), in which there is no direct evidence of discrimination, must th… |
| 20-1612 | Monib Zirvi, et al. v. Jay T. Flatley, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | constructive-notice fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice intellectual-property misappropriation patent pleading-stage standing storm-warnings trade-secret trade-secret-misappropriation | 1. Did the Second Circuit err in holding, in contrast to the Federal Circuit, that under the "inquiry notice" standard applicable to trade secret misa… |
| 20-80 | Diane S. Blodgett, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights contract-rights due-process federal-trade-commission fifth-amendment ftc-act pleading-stage rule-60(b) standing takings takings-clause | I. Did the court of appeals err in this FTC Act Sect. 13(b) case in failing to apply Rule 60(b) at the pleading stage, by not analyzing the Motion and… |
| 19-388 | Mimi Korman v. Julio Iglesias | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | where a district court dismisses the action on th civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-estoppel pleading-stage pleadings property-rights standing takings | Is a civil plaintiff deprived of property without the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, where a district … | |
| 18-701 | Clayton Prince Tanksley v. Lee Daniels, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 7th-amendment access amendment copyright copyright-infringement jury-trial lay-observer-test pleading-stage prima-facie-claim probative-similarity similarity substantial-similarity | (1) The question presented is whether the trial court should engage in a substantive analysis and determination regarding substantialsimilarity as a m… |
| 18-453 | Olivia de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, et al. | California | 2018-10-11 | Denied | artistic-license civil-rights defamation docudrama false-statements first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage public-figure right-of-publicity | Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection … |