| 25-436 |
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. Blanca Hernandez, et al. |
California |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
|
due-process foreign-manufacturer independent-distributor personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer … |
| 25-349 |
Audi AG v. L. W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. |
California |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
due-process foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce |
Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer … |
| 24-1222 |
Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-adjudication copyright-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion product-liability tort-claims |
Whether federal courts may decline to adjudicate federal tort and product liability claims, and whether a federal court may dismiss copyright claims w… |
| 24-1098 |
Monsanto Company v. Larry Johnson, et al. |
Oregon |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
epa-regulation failure-to-warn fifra-preemption product-liability state-law warning-requirements |
Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-1097 |
Monsanto Company, a Foreign Corporation v. Nancy C. Salas |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
epa-regulation failure-to-warn fifra-preemption product-liability state-law warning-requirements |
Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-838 |
Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus … |
| 24A720 |
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation v. Doris Albrecht, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
drug-labeling failure-to-warn federal-regulations pharmaceutical-liability preemption product-liability |
Whether federal preemption principles under the Wyeth v. Levine framework preclude state law failure-to-warn claims against pharmaceutical manufacture… |
| 24-6255 |
Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination |
Whether Apple has committed systematic fraud, racial targeting, and constitutional violations through defective product design and judicial misconduct |
| 23-1320 |
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County |
California |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability |
When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug |
| 23-1305 |
Jade Schiewe, et al. v. Cessna Aircraft Company |
Oklahoma |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
aircraft-manufacturer-liability aviation-law general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act maintenance-manual manufacturer-liability negligence product-liability statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether a maintenance manual is part of an aircraft under GARA |
| 23-5963 |
John Roberts v. Jason Hollar, Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Health, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-integrity chips civil-rights consumer-protection due-process illegal-search illegal-seizure legal-claim manufacturing-defect privacy product-liability |
Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the alleged involuntary implantation of RFID chips |
| 23-445 |
Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether Petitioner has been deprived of the right of trial by jury as protected by the Seventh Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-641 |
Daimler Trucks North America LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process forum-activities forum-contacts non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction product-liability residency specific-jurisdiction territorial-limits |
Whether specific personal jurisdiction is limited to circumstances where a nonresident serves a market for a product in the forum and the product caus… |
| 21-7049 |
Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process product-liability standing takings |
Whether the FEA's decision to recall a model of car violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 21-801 |
Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code |
Do animal 'adoption' laws conflict with the Constitution's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting? |
| 20-1572 |
Ramon D. Johnson, II v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brand-name-liability brand-name-manufacturer FDA-approval generic-drug generic-drug-liability label-defect leave-to-amend preemption product-liability state-law-claims texas-presumption-of-no-liability unapproved-indication |
Whether a brand name drug manufacturer can be held liable for the defective label of a generic drug product |
| 20-955 |
Delva Newhouse, Administratrix of the Estate of William Perry Newhouse, III v. Ethicon, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process federal-law fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-discretion medical-device product-liability rule-60 summary-judgment |
Did the U.S. District Court and U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals justices abuse their discretion, create manifest injustice, substantially err, pr… |
| 20-6178 |
William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization |
Whether the right to marry, have children, and raise a family free from unwarranted invasion of familial privacy and confidentiality is protected unde… |
| 19-8689 |
Rebeca Lawrence v. Medtronic |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-events failure-to-warn fda-reporting fda-requirements fraud fraud-allegations medical-device pre-market-approval preemption product-liability reliance |
Whether Respondent committed fraud by hiding adverse events related to implantable opioids-infusion pumps |
| 19-1069 |
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing |
Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs … |
| 19-869 |
Nicole Weber v. Allergan, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
|
class-iii-device class-iii-medical-device current-good-manufacturing-practices fda-preemption fda-premarket-approval manufacturing-defect medical-device product-liability res-ipsa-loquitur |
Can a plaintiff use the res ipsa loquitur doctrine as evidence that a Class III product had a manufacturing defect? |
| 19-192 |
Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 |
Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1) prevent well pleaded causes of action for non-publication torts? |
| 18-1335 |
Continental Motors, Inc. v. Elizabeth Snider, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aviation-accident aviation-safety component-part component-part-defect component-part-liability general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act manufacturer-immunity manufacturer-liability manufacturing-defect preemption product-liability statute-of-repose |
Whether the preemptive statute of repose created by the General Aviation Revitalization Act insulates the designer and manufacturer of a 37-year-old g… |
| 18-1314 |
Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
Whether Texas courts would hold a smartphone manufacturer liable for injuries and deaths caused by a driver distracted by the manufacturer's smartphon… |
| 18-1140 |
Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law |
Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims |
| 18-998 |
Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test |
Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and, i… |
| 18-7142 |
Evelyn Talley v. Pride Mobility Products Corporation, et al. |
North Carolina |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process full-and-fair-trial negligence privileges-and-immunities product-liability trial-on-merits |
Are state courts required to allow a plaintiff in product liability case alleging negligence a full and fair trial on the merits under the privileges … |