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25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe…
25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-600 John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing this case on standing and pleading standards? Whether meritorious cases filed in U.S. Courts are habituall…
25-6118 Jane Doe v. University of Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure fact-construction judicial-review medical-records pleading-standards pro-se 1. Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) and 8(e), does a court's failure to consider at all a pro se plaintiff's well-pled facts, including Complaint Exhibit…
25A389 InfoDeli, LLC, a Missouri LLC, et al. v. Western Robidoux, Inc., a Missouri Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof copyright-law expert-testimony pleading-standards saas-services software-copyright Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of copyright law for software and SaaS services improperly shifts the burden of proof and pleading standar…
25-346 Geoffrey M. Young v. Morgan McGarvey Kentucky 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards state-court-review Whether Kentucky state and federal courts can dismiss civil complaints before discovery without applying the Twombly standard of review
25-335 Lee Michael Tomko v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived contract-claims federal-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards pro-se tucker-act Whether the lower courts correctly applied motion to dismiss standards when evaluating the plausibility of a pro se plaintiff's contract claims agains…
25-251 Hung Dang v. Kimberly Moore, M.D., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenges pleading-standards section-1981 section-1983 summary-judgment Does Federal Civil Procedure Rule 8(a) require only ordinary pleading standards for §1981 and §1983 claims post-Twombly/Iqbal, and must the Ninth Circ…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
24A1295 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the proper application of pleading standards under Rule 8 and the McDonnell Douglas framework in employment d…
24A1207 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a heightened pleading standard to employment discrimination claims in contravention of Bell Atlantic Co…
24-979 Legacy Recovery Services, LLC, dba Legacy House, et al. v. City of Monroe, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response Waived amendment-rights appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure finality-doctrine pleading-standards rule-12 Do federal courts have authority to create pleading requirements beyond the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and when does a Rule 12 dismissal order b…
24-6463 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, et al. Florida 2025-02-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof failure-to-state-claim pleading-standards res-judicata statute-of-limitations trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the case for failure to state a claim, statute of limitations, and res judicata, and whether the court abu…
24-618 Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from accepted judicial proceedings and pleading standards in civil rights cases…
24-346 Robert Beadles v. Jamie Rodriguez, et al. Nevada 2024-09-27 Denied election-grievances first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause pleading-standards rule-12b5-dismissal Whether the failure of state and local officials to address election grievances violates a citizen's First Amendment right to petition the government …
24-30 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process employment-law federal-rules motion-to-dismiss plausibility plausibility-requirement pleading-standards pleadings When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under Iqbal/Twombly standards?
23-1205 Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened…
23-7375 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-denial civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pleading-standards post-conviction-relief Whether the liberal Ninth Circuit's post-conviction pleading standards allow courts to arbitrarily deny prisoners post-conviction relief
23-7255 Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine Whether Horace forfeited his argument in the District Court's error in granting MD Now's motion to dismiss without considering medical records and exp…
23-7111 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. Alabama 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal whether-trial-court-erred-dismissing-case
23-1031 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work-environment case and eliminate from consideration…
23A578 NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete class-action expert-testimony pleading-standards pslra scienter securities-fraud Whether plaintiffs can satisfy the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's heightened pleading standards by relying on a hired expert report withou…
23-412 Seneca Lovett Engel v. Derek Engel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute conspiracy-claim due-process federal-rules-procedure iqbal judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards twombly Whether claims for conspiracy under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(8) and § 1983 are sufficiently stated under Fed. Rule Civ. P. 8(2)
23-409 Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the 'shotgun pleading' standard conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Supreme Court pr…
23-5269 Noble Christo El, aka Christopher Nathan Jones v. William Todd Miller, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federalism jurisdiction legal-standing pleading-standards standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the sovereignty vested in the people under the U.S. Constitution has been usurped by the states
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 Whether an alternative explanation of nonliability requires additional facts beyond a plausible claim that tend to exclude the alternative explanation…
23-5028 Eric St. George v. E. E. Colorado 2023-07-05 Denied IFP 12b6-dismissal amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing Is it permissible for a State District Court to deny a pro-se plaintiff every motion to amend,to never allow an amendment to a meritorious case,to dis…
22-1224 Randy Ralston, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coastal-development due-process government-action land-use-regulation pleading-standards property-rights ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Is a takings claim ripe when the government establishes a mandatory process requiring property owners to ask whether any development on their land is …
22-1045 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal due-process pleading-standards pleadings prisoner-rights rule-12 section-1983 standing Does Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 12 permit a defendant to file successive, pre-answer Rule 12(b)(6) motion(s) to dismiss—each towards a sepa…
22-573 BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con…
22-6015 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process florida-jurisprudence florida-supreme-court giglio-precedent giglio-v-united-states pleading-requirements pleading-standards procedural-specificity supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court contravened Giglio v. United States and procedural due process by requiring heightened specificity in pleading?
22-5965 Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause Was the petitioner's federal rights violated when Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. 534 U.S. 506, 122 S. Ct. 992 (2002) held that a plaintiff does not need …
22-5578 Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether a civil access-to-justice crisis exists
22-224 Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 Questions Presented
22-137 BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. District of Columbia 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog…
22-89 Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c…
21-1597 Seyed Mohsen Sharifi Takieh v. Banner Health, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied 12(b)(6)-motion civil-rights discrimination due-process medical-board-investigation pleading-standards race-discrimination race-neutral-explanation standing summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the District Court properly incorporated the Ruling in the State Court Injunction Action on a 12(b)(6) M…
21-1560 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions Whether a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
21-1517 Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.…
21-1435 Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising Whether Michigan citizens are required to make a payment to be protected under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act
21-7532 Palani Karupaiyan v. International SOS, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conley-v-gibson copyright-ownership federal-courts federal-procedure federal-statute joint-employment pleading-standards remedies software-engineering sullivan-v-little-hunting-park whether-the-plaintiff's-allegation-of-joint-employers-not-paying-is-enough-for-fcp-rule-8(a)'s-short-and-plain-statement-requirement
21-1209 Jennifer B. Miller v. The Bank of New York Mellon, Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure free-speech judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing certain counts under Rule 12(b)(6)
21-842 Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards Whether class allegations can be struck under FRCP 12(f)
21-654 Judith Frei, et al. v. Taro Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. Second Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion pleading pleading-standards standing Whether a court has discretion to dismiss a plaintiff's complaint without leave to replead
21-6047 Fortuno Jeanfort v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, aka Florida Atlantic University Florida 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process pleading-standards public-official standing tort-liability Whether a university defendant can claim they are a public official to avoid liability for bank fraud, gross negligence, or tort liability
21-5417 Alfred E. Caraffa v. Tempe Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process official-capacity pleading-standards qualified-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's civil rights claims against the defendants
21-121 Christiana Tah, et al. v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (1) actual-malice civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech inference-of-intent pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure public-plaintiff Whether a complaint by a public plaintiff alleging defamation sufficiently pleads actual-malice, in-the-absence-of-direct-evidence, by-presenting-deta…
21-49 James Tolle v. Rockwell Collins Control Technologies, Inc., dba Rockwell Collins, Inc., dba United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process factual-allegations free-speech judicial-review pleading-standards presumption-of-truth rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-dismissal Did the District Court err in its Rule 12(b)(6) analysis and dismissal of the complaint?
20-1526 Warnock Engineering, L.L.C., et al. v. Canton Municipal Utilities Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-pleading-standards first-amendment johnson-v-shelby pleading-standards quantum-meruit retaliation-claim standing summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' quantum meruit claim due to alleged inadequate pleading should be revie…
20-1350 Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of 'plus factors' in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct to plead an antitrust conspiracy under Sect…
20-1108 Pontiler S.A. v. OPI Products Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure contract due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-policy judicial-discretion pleading-standards rule-15 rule-8 Whether the court of appeals' dismissal of the petitioner's complaint for omitting one nonessential word in describing the respondents' breach of cont…
20-7001 Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffrey Brennen, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-29 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-rules free-speech judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standards standing How does this Amended Complaint not comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
20-6852 Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit Whether Michigan's Article | § 17 affords Michigan citizens the protections of fair-and-just-treatment during legislative-investigations-and-hearings
20-6838 Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing Whether a lower federal court loses jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition upon release of the civil detention petitioner
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether Escobar overruled or modified the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard for Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in False Claims Act cases
20-759 Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se complaint…
20-705 Chris Jaye v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity petition-rights pleading-standards standing Has the US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson vu. Pardus, Johns…
20-624 Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing Is it a question of law for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process or viola…
20-625 Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's…
20-581 United States, ex rel. Integra Med Analytics, L.L.C. v. Baylor Scott & White Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response Waived 3rd-circuit 5th-circuit alternative-explanation alternative-explanations false-claims-act federal-procedure pleading-standards relator statistical-analysis Whether a relator may use statistical analyses to plausibly allege the submission of false claims under the False Claims Act
20-571 Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied commerce-clause congressional-authority dormant-commerce-clause legal-tender pleading-standards price-fixing state-regulation When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters of …
20-6077 Johnathan Pinney v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts frivolous-claims judicial-discretion pleading-standards pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes-rule Issues being raised
20-5504 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the Petitioner's due process and equal protection claims were correctly dismissed by the distric…
20-5420 Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Republic of Peru District of Columbia 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel due-process pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-8a short-and-plain-statement standing venue venue-transfer Whether the court erroneously denied the motion for court-appointed counsel and erroneously held that the complaint failed to set forth a short and pl…
19-1249 Phyllis Davis v. Echo Valley Condominium Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure fair-housing-act federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice-pleading pleading-standards state-law summary-judgment twombly Whether the liberal notice pleading standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) ceases…
19-8320 Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the party seeking to raise the possessory evidence privilege has an absolute evidentiary privilege
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud Whether the relaxed pleading standard for claims where evidence lies within the defendant's exclusive possession applies to claims under Section 10(b)…
19-8121 Nikkolas Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP admiralty-rules burden-of-proof civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-challenge currency-seizure due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the 2000 amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture act are constitutional where it requires a Claimant to prove the source of the funds in ques…
19-802 David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing Is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on 'information and belief' sufficient to plead diversity of citizenship?
19-6879 Salim Abdul-Malik v. City Government Office of Court Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-accessibility due-process immigration-procedures judicial-reform pleading-standards prisoner-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation state-action What is the proper treatment of pro se litigants in the federal court system to ensure their constitutional and judicially-recognized rights to a fair…
19-679 Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense or a pleading requirement
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
19-425 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation What is the meaning of 28-U.S.C.-Section-1915-(e)-(2)-(b)-(ii)
19-5945 Timothy Eugene Sampson v. Cathy M. Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review pleading-standards procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim under the heightened Twombly/Iqbal pleading sta…
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8?
18-1574 William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi…
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether allegations are sufficient to support claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985(2)-(3)
18-9373 David Shu v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claim due-process jury-trial-right pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal standing title-vii Whether a Title VII discrimination case drafted by a pro se US citizen has been improperly dismissed for length despite the viability of the claims?
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law and different from other circuits by implementing a heightened pleading standard?
18-8685 Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of appeal…
18-1271 Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal Sufficiency of pleading breach of ERISA fiduciary duties
18-7493 Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. …
18-934 Cynthia Prosterman, et al. v. American Airlines Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust-enforcement antitrust-pleading civil-procedure combination-conspiracy due-process pleading-standards rule-12b6 sherman-act twombly twombly-standard Should this Court clarify its decision in Twombly to settle § 1 'combination or conspiracy' pleading standards?
18-911 Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-14 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived appointments-clause civil-procedure civil-procedure-9(b) false-claims-act fraud particularity-requirement pleading-standards qui-tam rule-9b standing Whether a court may create an exception to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s particularity requirement when the plaintiff claims that only the de…
18-7319 Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards Whether the court of appeals' decision is in conflict with the Twigbal holdings
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when PECO issued shut-off notices to the petitioner for failing to provide access to…
18-690 Bruce C. Rosetto, et al. v. Charles Murphy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response Waived barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-receiver due-process federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-12(b)(1) jurisdictional-dismissal pleading-standards rule-12(b)(1) standing ultra-vires Where a plaintiff alleges that an agent of a court-appointed receiver is liable for misconduct committed outside the scope of designated authority, bu…
18-541 Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on pleading standards, circuit court rulings on discovery law, and the scope…
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law
18-5883 Burdette Lowe v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-retaliation civil-rights disability due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination judicial-procedure pleading-standard pleading-standards retaliation Whether lower courts can dismiss disability-related occupational injury civil complaints by omitting essential facts and misconstruing allegations, cr…
18-5741 George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying …
18-4 Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing Whether manifest injustice results from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appella…