| 25A250 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act |
Whether a former president can be held liable for defamatory statements made about a public accusation while serving in office, and the proper standar… |
| 23-1262 |
Ikemefuna Stephen Nwoye v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et ux. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
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civil-claim civil-liability continuing-wrong factfinding insufficient-pleading jurisdictional-conflict presidential-immunity pro-se-litigation scope-of-employment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations |
Whether the 2>4 Circuit erred in law |
| 22-1154 |
Winglet Technology, LLC, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict defamation discovery-standard government-certification government-liability limited-discovery personal-spite scope-of-employment westfall-act |
Where the FAA disowned as verifiably false its employee's defamatory statements about petitioners and questioned his decision to publish them in the f… |
| 22-7383 |
Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution |
Can the courts substitute the United States as a defendant in a diversity action brought under Section 1346 of the Federal Tort Claims Act without mak… |
| 21-1290 |
Joseph Ferrari v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine immunity intentional-misconduct scope-of-employment |
Is lying by a US employee to undermine the boss outside the scope of employment and therefore prevents US substitution into a suit for the liar and th… |
| 20-777 |
In Re Darren Heyman |
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2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment |
Whether a presiding judge must recuse/disqualify themselves when the judge has active teaching ties with a named-party university |
| 19-625 |
Rita Guerrero, Individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero v. BNSF Railway Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-employers-liability-act interstate-commerce interstate-rail-service jury-trial negligence scope-of-employment seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the decision by the Seventh Circuit panel conflicts with provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the uniform precedents of thi… |
| 19-6285 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Stan the Hot Water Man |
Oregon |
2019-10-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure employer-liability intentional-torts material-fact material-facts property-damage respondeat-superior scope-of-employment summary-judgment tortious-conduct |
Did the trial court err in granting summary judgment when there were disputed issues of material fact? |
| 18-955 |
Alberto Fernandez v. School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-standard garcetti-v-ceballos public-employee restatement-of-agency scope-of-employment |
Whether scope of employment is a threshold question for public employee free speech under the First Amendment |