settlement-negotiations
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A262 | Vincent Cannady v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge | Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n… | |
| 25-56 | Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements | 1. Federal Rule of Evidence (F.R.E.) 408, regarding compromise offers and negotiations, aims to encourage settlements by making evidence of settlement… |
| 23-6753 | Michael Avenatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 civil-litigation criminal-extortion federal-criminal-law honest-services-fraud legal-ethics settlement-negotiations statutory-vagueness void-for-vagueness | Is § 1346 void for vagueness? |
| 19-1127 | Wheeler K. Neff v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud | Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations constitute mail/wire fraud? |
| 18A1367 | McLeod Health, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Presumed Complete | administrative-procedure consent-decree eeoc-enforcement employment-discrimination judicial-review settlement-negotiations | Whether an employer can be compelled to engage in settlement negotiations with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission despite ongoing litigation | |
| 18-5529 | Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations | Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme… |