| 25-435 |
Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests |
Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding, including a trade mark opposition proceeding at the United States Pate… |
| 25A157 |
Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-proceeding lanham-act proximate-causation statutory-standing trademark-opposition zone-of-interests |
Whether the Lanham Act's trademark opposition provision requires a plaintiff to demonstrate proximate causation and zone of interests standing under t… |
| 24-6248 |
Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a jury instruction on proximate causation in a criminal homicide case and whether conflic… |
| 23A832 |
Alexander Bayonne Stross v. Zillow, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
copyright-infringement direct-infringement legal-standard ninth-circuit proximate-causation volitional-conduct |
Whether a defendant's passive or omissive conduct can satisfy the 'volitional conduct' requirement for direct copyright infringement liability |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death results' element in 21 U.S.C. 841(b) requires proof of mens rea |
| 23-9 |
AstraZeneca UK Limited, et al. v. Joshua Atchley, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-05 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) |
aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act direct-liability foreign-government-agency foreign-terrorist-organization proximate-causation specific-attack terrorist-organization transacting-with-government-agency |
Whether ATA aiding-and-abetting liability requires conscious-voluntary-culpable-participation |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-817 |
Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard |
Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below conflicts with Staub v. Proctor Hospital |
| 21-1608 |
McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities |
Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 20-6153 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death enhancement' of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation |
| 18-1540 |
VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct |
Whether a defendant's volitional conduct is required to establish direct copyright infringement |
| 18-890 |
David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim |
| 18-746 |
County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search |
Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa… |