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25A882 Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund Ninth Circuit 2026-02-05 Application bankruptcy chapter-11 executory-contract financial-accommodation pension-fund settlement-agreement Question not identified. The petition text provided is an "Application to Extend Time for Filing Petition for Writ of Certiorari," not a petition for…
25-141 Arnold G. Phillips v. Cecilia Abundis, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing atomic-energy-act due-process medical-license nuclear-medicine settlement-agreement a. Why did the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, twice unilaterally impose the punishments of "Sus…
25-38 Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts 1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part…
25A26 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete administrative-record agency-misconduct judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board settlement-agreement whistleblower Whether an administrative agency's intentional spoliation of the underlying record can invalidate an appellate judgment and require judicial review of…
24-705 Bud Conyers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived false-claims-act government-intervention relator-share settlement-agreement statutory-interpretation whistleblower-rights Whether the Government can unilaterally reduce a whistleblower's statutory share in a False Claims Act case through strategic settlement agreement lan…
24A432 Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. Iowa 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights contract-interpretation employment-dispute release-provision settlement-agreement summary-judgment Whether a settlement agreement's broad release provision can preclude a party from pursuing subsequent litigation related to the settled claims despit…
24-5772 Stephen Sewalk v. Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-stay due-process erisa extortion hobbs-act settlement-agreement Whether the Eleventh Circuit sanctioned a violation of due process rights by affirming a trial court's refusal to hold a hearing on a potentially exto…
24-9 Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement Whether a private release agreement between a relator and a qui tam defendant, executed after the filing of the qui tam action, is enforceable when th…
23-1063 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied antitrust-law class-action competition-restraint injunctive-relief private-enforcement prospective-waiver settlement-agreement Whether settlement agreements may immunize ongoing restraints on competition from private enforcement under the federal antitrust laws by releasing ce…
23-6676 Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Bestway USA Inc., et al. Arizona 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-service evidentiary-hearing interlocutory-decision judicial-notice parol-evidence res-judicata service-of-process settlement-agreement settlement-agreements void-order May a Court take judicial notice of another Court's Order; that be void due to deficient service
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?
23-708 Chava Rachel Mark, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of T. B. M., R. L. M., and E. B. M., Minors, et al. v. Republic of Sudan, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-29 Denied Amici (1) consolidated-appropriations-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act judicial-review settlement-agreement state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction sudan-sponsored-terrorism Whether the SCRA stripped courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the settlement and whether the denial of a judicial forum for these…
23-626 Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action sec-enforcement settlement settlement-agreement standing unconstitutional-conditions Whether a party's acceptance of a benefit prevents that party from contending that the government violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine in…
22-7507 Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement Does an out-of-court settlement agreement set the parameters for future legitimate correctional goals?
22-898 Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. South Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case violates the just compensation clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-551 Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons…
22-5008 Anthony A. Patel v. Sonya Bhatia California 2022-06-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion martial-law settlement settlement-agreement sua-sponte-sanctions vexatious-litigant Whether courts can impose sua sponte punishments against litigants in cases already settled
21-1536 Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of INA requirement…
21-1490 Arvind Gupta v. Marty Walsh, Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response Waived employment-standards h-1b-visa immigration-compliance immigration-nationality-act labor-department labor-law nonimmigrant-worker prevailing-wage settlement-agreement wage-requirements working-conditions Whether employers can have legally enforceable private settlement agreement with the nonimmigrant worker to pay less than the wages required under the…
21-1462 Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions requires fees to be determined under Blum v. Stenson's prevailing market r…
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S…
21-1154 Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey New Jersey 2022-02-22 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy?
21-1033 Edward Mandel v. White Nile Software, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied appellate-procedure bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-procedure discharge due-process judicial-review non-dischargeable-claims settlement-agreement Whether the court of appeals erred in declining to allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement
21-6499 Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred by precluding the use of a civil settlement agreement between the parties, which was admissible to show the defendant's …
21-6408 James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action Whether a state violates the express terms of a settlement agreement by refusing to affirm the decision maker of their authority to grant approvals th…
21-638 David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims Whether it violates due-process for a district-court to adopt verbatim a final-opinion on discretionary-matters ghostwritten by a prevailing-party's l…
21-592 Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation decade-and-a-half Gibson-Dunn inconsistent-positions judicial-estoppel legal-ethics medical-license oath settlement-agreement USC whistleblower-claims Under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, should the lower courts have upheld the sanctity of the oath and estopped USC and Gibson Dunn from arguing in…
21-99 Hensley K. McCalla v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied civil-procedure contract district-court enforcement federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-enforcement settlement-agreement Did the District Court maintain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement that defendant placed before it?
20-1682 Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action
20-7602 Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in summarily affirming the district court's order, dismissing plaintiff Rodriguez's a…
20-5885 Mario Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-representation settlement-agreement Question not identified
20-296 Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii Whether an employee is entitled to file suit for breach of settlement agreement as discrimination or retaliation under Title VII
19-8742 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-06-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine Does the judicial override of a life sentence settlement agreement result in an arbitrary and capricious death sentence in violation of the Eighth and…
19-1043 Paul G., a Conserved Adult, By and Through His Conservator Steve G. v. Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedures due-process-complaint exhaustion-requirement free-appropriate-public-education futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act local-educational-agency non-IDEA-claims relief-not-available-under-IDEA settlement-agreement Whether exhaustion of the administrative procedures provided by the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act is required when Plaintiffs seek re…
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-823 Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS Ohio 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parties …
19-6568 Kenisha S. Boyd v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP acceptance attorney-authority bona-fide-settlement conflict-of-interest contingent-contract contract-formation contract-rejection judicial-discretion mediation mediation-procedure rejection settlement-agreement Whether a bona fide settlement between the parties exists when the agreement is contingent in nature, and one party has the right to reject the offer …
19-355 Kohlberg Ventures, LLC v. Peter Wojciechowski Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-splitting court-authorization dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-authorization litigation-scope non-parties res-judicata settlement-agreement single-employer single-enterprise Under federal rules of res judicata, when a lawsuit is dismissed with prejudice by agreement, should a term of the agreement that purports to allow th…
18-9840 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement creates a liberty or property interest
18-9286 Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs should proceed without summary judgment
18-1356 Dayo Adetu, et al. v. Sidwell Friends School District of Columbia 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived academic-deference civil-rights damages discrimination human-rights-act material-adverse-action material-adversity non-pecuniary-damages retaliation retaliation-claims settlement-agreement summary-judgment Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on the grounds that non-pecuniary damages were not pe…
18-1225 Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o…
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Whether plaintiffs who settle their individual claims may appeal an earlier denial of class certification under Microsoft v. Baker
18-1032 Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation Determining whether an air carrier employee's AIR21 discrimination complaint can be subject to a pre-dispute arbitration provision
18-631 Kevin McCabe v. Gerardo Aranda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement-agreement class-members cy-pres district-court due-process guidance judicial-discretion potential-recipients procedural-fairness recipient-selection settlement-agreement standing Whether a cy pres provision of a class-action settlement agreement may authorize class members to make recommendations for the selection of a cy pres …
18-259 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense
18-131 Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen…