rule-56
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6613 | Dustin Matthews v. City of Tempe, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ninth-circuit rule-56 summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's Rule 56 jurisprudence by sanctioning summary judgment where the district court failed to credi… |
| 25-289 | Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment | Courts in every federal district apply Rule 56 to 2255 motions; the application, however, is uneven. In the Second Circuit, the summary-judgment rules… |
| 24-824 | Bernice M. Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee of the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust | Mississippi | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | chancery-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice rule-56 summary-judgment | This case presents one of first impression and of national importance and significance because it conflicts with well-established rules and principles… |
| 23-7621 | Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure discrimination discrimination-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test reeves rule-52 rule-56 summary-judgment | A. Whether the court of appeals departed from this Court's holdings expressed in Reeves, Harris, Celotex and Matsushita interpretation of Rule 56(c) o… |
| 23-515 | Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Utrecht-America Holdings, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-rights rule-12(b)(6) rule-56 summary-judgment | Is the Seventh Circuit correct in its view (contrary to that of other courts of appeals) that a district court may, in response to a motion made pursu… | |
| 23-223 | Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte | 1. Whether the triumvirate overstepped their authority when they decided (sua sponte) to invoke, incite, insurrect, or for the lack of a better desc… |
| 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 | 1. Do the exceptions in Reeves apply under Rule 56 identically as they do under Rule 50 when the Court prohibits judges from weighing evidence and det… | |
| 19-533 | River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment | In Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. U. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 588 (1986), this Court held that "ambiguous" circumstantial evidence—evid… |
| 18-1063 | John Cottam v. Douglas Pelton | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress fabricated-evidence false-arrest law-enforcement-fabrication malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity rule-56 summary-judgment | 1. The well documented criminal fabrication of a felony charge of eluding (car chase) against an innocent citizen has been protected at all levels of … |