procedural-interpretation
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-285 | Elizabeth White, et vir v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | North Carolina | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response Waived | adoption-assistance child-welfare-act federal-adoption procedural-interpretation special-needs-children state-agency-disclosure | Whether North Carolina misinterpreted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 by reversing an Order granting Petitioners adoption assist… |
| 25-5111 | Omar Agor, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether there is an exception to the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial for courtroom closure that district and circuit courts characterize as … |
| 24-6916 | David C. Lettieri v. Suffolk County Police | Second Circuit | 2025-04-02 | Dismissed | IFP | judicial-review legal-standard procedural-interpretation statutory-analysis strikes vacated-judgments | Does vacated judgments count as 'strikes' under the legal standard? |
| 24-6481 | Frederick Stampone v. Michigan Supreme Court, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-standard liberal-construction pro-se-pleadings procedural-interpretation | Does this court construe the pleadings liberally and hold them to a less stringent standard than those filed by attorneys? |
| 24-644 | Darrell E. Williams v. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-remedies appeals-council exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review Medicare-Act procedural-interpretation | Whether the Supreme Court should directly consider the issue of 'exhaustion of administrative remedies' under the Medicare Act when the Medicare Appea… |
| 20-334 | City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review | Whether district courts lack discretion to deny or reduce appellate costs deemed taxable under Fed. R. App. P. 39(e) |
| 19-7306 | Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | IFP | 4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment | Whether the district court properly construed the legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, and whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals i… |
| 18-1167 | Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity | Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976 |