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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A820 Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application appellate-review copyright-infringement judicial-review rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm-precedent While she is continuing to evaluate, Ms. Russell currently expects to present several reasons for granting a writ. One is that the Ninth Circuit's dec…
23-7359 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied IFP confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript Can a prison confidential informant be described as a state actor for retaliation
23-273 Southern-Owners Insurance Company v. American Builders Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure insurance-coverage legal-issue preservation-of-issues rule-50 summary-judgment Whether a party must reassert in Rule 50 motions a purely legal issue resolved adversely at summary judgment to preserve the issue for appellate revie…
22-211 Kelly Vandenberg v. University of Saint Thomas, aka University of St. Thomas (Houston) Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied burden-of-proof civil-procedure employment-discrimination pretext pretext-standard prima-facie-case reeves-v-sanderson rule-50 rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the narrow Reeves exceptions apply to Rule 56 summary judgment identically as they do under Rule 50
21-577 Fredric N. Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure damages damages-challenge defamation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm unitherm-precedent Whether a defendant who did not file a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law in the district court can nonetheless raise a sufficiency of the…
20-1625 David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response Waived california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute Whether Section 1102.5(b) requires a whistleblower to identify a specific statute, rule, or regulation
20-52 Yeitza Marie Aponte-Bermudez v. Eligio Colón, et al. First Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-courts judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-evaluation jury-trial law-of-the-case rule-50 May a federal district court consistent with the law-of-the-case doctrine grant judgment as a matter of law under Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(a) to respondents…
19-149 Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons…
18-1471 Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied anti-fraud appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 securities securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing Whether an appellate court has authority to consider challenges to issues of law raised in a pre-verdict Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion …
18-1009 United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle…