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25-404 Mark Hunt v. Zuffa, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-law mma-sports performance-enhancing-drugs public-policy summary-judgment Firstly, did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming summary judgment on the Petitioner's battery and aiding-and-abetting battery claims by holding that co…
24A1281 David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete adversary-proceeding bankruptcy certiorari public-policy statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari Whether a bankruptcy court properly dismissed a complaint with prejudice when the claims were potentially viable and not barred by public policy or st…
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
24-712 Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy Whether the Supreme Court can relinquish Article III duties by deferring to arbitrators when enforcing arbitration awards
24-418 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Mary N. Insall, as Executrix of the Estate of John N. Insall Seventh Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-enforcement patent-rights patent-royalties patent-term public-policy Whether an agreement for a royalty exchanged for patent rights that extends to sales of products as marketed or branded is enforceable under Brulotte …
24-5061 Joshua Isaac Martinez v. Florida Florida 2024-07-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law evidence public-policy religion statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-7779 Nalerton Charles v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights congressional-intent constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion public-policy Whether the time has come for this Court to exercise supervision over the ever-expanding prosecutorial practice of requiring defendants to give up the…
23-6675 Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Timothy Ryan, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure contract-law discretion equity-principles judicial-discretion litigation public-policy rescission settlement-agreement settlement-agreements Does public policy strongly favor settlement of disputes without litigation or do courts have discretion to not enforce settlement agreements?
23-6350 Brady Franklin v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause craig-precedent crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington intellectual-disability maryland-v-craig public-policy sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the balancing test created by Maryland v. Craig is still good law after Crawford v. Washington, and if so, whether extending its exemption for…
23-6291 Pietro P. A. Sgromo, aka Peter Anthony Sgromo v. Leonard Gregory Scott, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-clause contract criminal-reference federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce lease-agreement public-policy waiver Does the residential lease agreement involve interstate commerce such that it falls within the Federal Arbitration Act?
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in approving the settlement of Trustee's and petitioner ex-wife's dispute
22-1202 Spirit of the East, LLC v. Yale Products Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-award contract-enforcement criminal-statutes eleventh-circuit federal-arbitration-act hall-street-associates-v-mattel judicial-review public-policy Whether a court is prohibited from even considering public policy as a ground to vacate an arbitration award under the FAA when the award commands act…
22-608 CVG Ferrominera Orinoco, C.A. v. Commodities & Minerals Enterprise Ltd. Second Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sovereign-immunities-act new-york-convention public-policy service-of-process service-of-summons Did the Second Circuit err in holding service of a Summons pursuant to Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, upon a party…
22-500 Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC Third Circuit 2022-11-30 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) admiralty-law choice-of-law civil-procedure contract-enforcement federal-law maritime-contract public-policy What is the standard for enforcing a choice of law clause in a maritime contract?
21-7454 Mounir Lebbad v. Raji Donat, et al. California 2022-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elderly-tenants eviction homelessness judicial-review property-rights public-policy Did the (2DCA) render its Opinion Without Considering the Constitutional Protection to those Evicted Elderly
21-6311 Curtis R. Gaylord v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law congressional-intent constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process fifth-amendment property-rights public-policy va-proceedings va-regulations veterans-benefits Are Veterans benefits a property right/interest protected under the United States Constitution, Fifth Amendment?
21-5344 Edith Woodberry v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court constitutional-obligation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation public-policy takings Whether the bankruptcy court can discharge the City of Detroit's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation after taking private property via …
20-1508 Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim Did the resolution of the tort claim against Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or claim that plaintiff raises in the present suit agai…
20-7802 Michael Green v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation Whether there exists a factual basis to support petitioner's conviction
20-7061 Frank Durand Tomlin v. Todd E. Ishee Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment basic-human-needs civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection prison-conditions public-policy standing Does prison officials' issuance of hygiene and cosmetics that do not work to prisoners constitute deprivation of a basic human need objectively suffic…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review Whether United States courts should review de novo an arbitrator's conclusions on issues of law or mixed questions of law and fact bearing on the ulti…
20-895 Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. Nebraska 2021-01-07 Denied actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy
20-673 Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement eastern-associated-coal-vs-umwa federal-arbitration-act federal-policy labor-arbitration public-policy public-policy-exception supreme-court-precedent united-paperworkers-vs-misco w-r-grace-vs-local-union Whether the Illinois Supreme Court erred as a matter of law by expanding the scope of the public policy exception to enforcement of labor arbitration …
20-590 Ryan Pankoe v. Laura Pankoe Pennsylvania 2020-11-03 Denied divorce divorce-law establishment-clause no-fault-divorce pennsylvania-constitution public-policy subject-matter-jurisdiction viewpoint-based whether-section-3301(d)-of-the-pennsylvania-divorce-code-is-unconstitutional
20-6160 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing Did the court of Appeals decision create a conflict between its decision and the decision of other appellate courts on the same issues?
20-293 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General New Mexico 2020-09-08 Denied civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court Whether a state government is bound by a final federal judgment in a qui tam action when it declines to intervene
20-39 AVIC International Holding Corporation, et al. v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied arbitrability arbitral-panel-composition arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction due-process equality-of-treatment federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention non-signatory-challenge public-policy Whether the district court must independently review a non-signatory's challenge to an arbitral panel's jurisdiction before the arbitration, and at a …
19-1248 Eli Dunn v. Bryce Hatch, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied admiralty admiralty-jurisdiction civil-rights commercial-fishermen commercial-fishing maritime maritime-law public-policy punitive-damages seamen-rights statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour wage-disputes wages Should punitive damages be available to commercial fishermen cheated on their wages?
19-961 Khashon Haselrig v. Stephanie Inslee Washington 2020-01-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment armstrong-v-manzo beneficiary-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-terrorem-clause personal-representative public-policy Did the Washington Court err in finding that an infirmity in due process is cured by denial of a motion seeking to correct it and violate the 14th Ame…
19-951 Bellur G. Shiva Prasad v. General Electric Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination civil-rights corporate-liability due-process employment-arbitration forced-agreement forced-arbitration public-policy public-policy-violation standing takings Can an employer compel arbitration based on a forced agreement taken at the hiring stage?
19-6421 Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers Whether the district court violated due process and public policy by imposing the statutory maximum sentence despite the government's plea agreement t…
19-480 John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law?
19-6222 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. K. Harrington, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-errors due-process extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-oversight mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner public-policy standing Whether pro-se prisoner can be denied First Amendment right based on court errors?
19-314 Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin California 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law?
19-301 Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity Whether a district court may confirm a foreign arbitral award that violates the long-established public policy of the United States, merely because th…
18-9581 Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-1484 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied atlantic-marine convenience-of-parties district-court-discretion federal-courts federal-policy forum-selection forum-selection-clause judicial-precedent mandamus mandamus-relief public-policy state-policy transfer-of-venue Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief
18-1492 Katherine Miller v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) associational-freedom childcare-providers civil-rights compulsory-representation due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-relations mandatory-representation public-policy state-mandated-representation state-policy union-representation Whether Washington's compelling nonmember providers to accept a private organization as their exclusive representative for dealing with the State over…
18-9303 Larry Ray Lincks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpretatio…
18-1341 Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla…
18-8831 Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-8752 Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal …
18-1150 Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Judgment Issued Amici (34)Relisted (2) annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of…
18-1059 Bridget Anne Kelly v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-13 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) decision-making due-process fraud government government-fraud government-property legal-interpretation official-decision policy-reason property public-official public-policy subjective-intent Whether a public official 'defrauds' the government by advancing a 'public policy reason' for an official decision that is not her subjective 'real re…
18-1004 James Seaman v. Westfield Medical Center, L.P., et al. Pennsylvania 2019-02-01 Denied civil-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure notice notice-requirement pro-se pro-se-litigant public-policy rules-of-procedure service-of-pleading WHETHER THE FAILURE TO SERVE A PLEADING UPON PRO-SE LITIGANTS WARRANTED A FAVORABLE RULING UNDER FED.R.CIV.P 60 AND REMOVAL OF A DISMISSAL OF AN ACTIO…
18-993 Young Adult Institute, Inc., dba YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities, et al. v. Joel M. Levy, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived contract-enforcement erisa erisa-regulation executive-compensation federal-common-law non-profit non-profit-corporations non-profit-governance public-policy retirement-benefits Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because it refused to decide YAI's public-policy argument that arises under federal common law
18-7611 Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware Delaware 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and …
18-7463 Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law Whether a federal judge or justice condones fraudulent misrepresentation, perjury, disregard of the rule of law, denial of newly discovered evidence, …
18-7289 Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation Should the people in the state of California be constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment in the presence of increasingly severe crimi…
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Whether the lower courts disregarded this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeated th…
18-381 Donald C. Marro v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System Sixth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-settlement class-action class-representation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees fees-and-expenses frcp-23 notice property-rights public-policy settlement-fairness Whether a pro se party can be characterized as vexatious and deprived of equal access to courts, equal protection, and property rights under the Fifth…
18-6030 Jason M. Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing Whether a plea agreement in which a defendant agrees to waive his right to appeal and collaterally attack any legal sentence imposed violates due proc…
18-334 Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading Whether the failure to serve a pleading upon pro-se litigants warranted a favorable ruling under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 and removal of a dismissal of an acti…
18-330 Douglas Walter Greene v. Frost Brown Todd, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-violations constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct jury-trial perjured-witnesses perjury public-policy rule-of-law May the Federal District & Appellate Courts knowingly & purposely render a Decision based on overwhelming fraud in the record