| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
A century ago, many courts declined to enforce arbitration agreements, concerned that arbitration as a non-judicial process could bypass essential jud… |
| 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 |
A patent holder cannot "charge royalties for the use of his invention after its patent term has expired." Kimble v. Marvel Enterprise, LLC, 576 U.S. 4… |
| 24-5061 |
Joshua Isaac Martinez v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law evidence public-policy religion statutory-interpretation |
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| 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 everexpanding prosecutorial practice of requiring defendants to give up thei… |
| 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 |
1. Does public policy strongly favor settlement of disputes without litigation; or do Courts have discretion to not enforce settlement agreements?
2.… |
| 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 |
After Crawford, is the balancing test created by Craig still good law, and if so, does extending its exemption for children from physical, face-to-fac… |
| 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 |
1. Does the residential lease agreement a contract involving interstate commerce such that it falls within the purview of 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 affirming the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel approving the settlement … |
| 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 |
1. 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 pa… |
| 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 |
1. Under federal admiralty law, what is the standard for judging the enforcement of a choice of law clause in a maritime contract?
2. Under federal a… |
| 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 |
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments state that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. The First Amendment o… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. It is against public policy and the United States Constitution to permit the bankruptcy court to discharge in bankruptcy the City of Detroit's mand… |
| 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 |
Issue 1. Did the resolution of the tort claim against
Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or
claim that plaintiff raises in the presen… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
THE ISSUE OF PLAIN ISSUES UPON OF HYGIENE AND CASH ISSUES THAT DON'T WORK AT TRANSSHIPMENTS CONSTITUTE DEPRIVATION OF A PUBLIC GRIEVOUSLY EXPLICITLY H… |
| 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 |
The Panama Convention and the New York Convention authorize the courts of Contracti ng States to refuse enforcement of an arbitral award where enforce… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy.
2. W… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Section 3301(d) of the Pennsylvania Divorce Code, commonly known as unilateral no-fault divorce, is a viewpoint-based statute in violation … |
| 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 |
1) Are there other issues?
2) Does the exhaustion requirement apply |
| 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 |
1. Whether the federal government or a state
government, as the real party in interest in a qui tam
action brought in its name and litigated to judgme… |
| 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 |
1. Petitioners are foreign corporations that did not sign the arbitration agreement signed by an affiliated entity, did not consent to arbitration, an… |
| 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 |
1. Should punitive damages be available to commercial fishermen cheated on their wages?
2. Is there a conflict among federal courts of appeal, and wi… |
| 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 |
1) Can an employer compel arbitration based on
virtually a forced agreement taken from a desperate
employment-applicant at the hiring stage, who has… |
| 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 in affirming the imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of 360 months on Ralph Fox, where (1) Petitioner Fox entered a guilty plea and (… |
| 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 |
1) WIFETHER PRO-SE PRISONER CAN BE DENTED FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT BASED ON COURT ERRORS
2) WHETHER DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS AND OVERSIGHT CREATED EXTRAO… |
| 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 |
Exercising a right guaranteed to it by the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, th e Republic of Kazakhs… |
| 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 |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief.
2. Whether federal courts may refuse to enforce… |
| 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 |
The Court recently held that a state "requir[ing] that a union serve as exclusive bargaining agent for its employees [is] itself a significant impinge… |
| 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 |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 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 |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 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 |
(1) 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 ver… |
| 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 |
Does a public official "defraud" the government of
its property by advancing a "public policy reason" for
an official decision that is not her subject… |
| 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 |
I, James Seaman, Pro Se Petitioner/Appellant, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari to be Granted given the salient issues, the constitutional … |
| 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 Supreme Court of Delaware erred and abused their discretion in regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and F… |
| 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 |
In the present case before the Court, the question is asked if a federal judge or justice condones the following items: I) a fraudulent misrepresentat… |
| 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 |
1. SHOULD THE PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF INCREASINGLY SEVERE CR… |
| 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 |
Did the lower courts disregard this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeat the public… |
| 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 |
Amendments V and XIV provide equal access to courts, equal protection of law and sanctity of property, including bankruptcy distributions, for all lit… |
| 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 |
In the decision under review, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an appellate waiver provision in petitioner's plea a… |
| 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 |
Amor Medina Del Rosario and Elvie Canlas Del Rosario, the Petitioners, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issue… |
| 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 |
A National precedent setting question is asked, may the Federal District & Appellate Courts knowingly & purposely render a Decision based on overwhelm… |