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25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Supreme Court will preserve the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury in a civil case involving patent infringement and constitutional righ…
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the right…
25-6394 Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda New Jersey 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations and whether judicial sanctions require due process and a jury under th…
25A544 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme …
25A545 Harvey Birdman, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme …
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Granted Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25-445 E&I Global Energy Services, Inc., et al. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-assignment expert-testimony federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the district court violated the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 39(b) by denying petitioners' timely motion for a jury t…
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-06 Granted administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions governing FCC monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Amendment and Article III
25-341 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived damages-evaluation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-award seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Seventh Amendment by overturning the jury's damages award based on its own evaluation of the sufficiency of t…
25-343 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending circuit-precedent constitutional-rights jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment waiver Whether a claim for legal restitution triggers the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial and whether a litigant may validly waive a constitutional r…
25-220 John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any …
25A179 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit harmless-error patent-law seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit improperly supplanted the jury's fact-finding role and violated due process by granting a new trial on damages in a patent…
25-5291 Consuelo Saldana, et al. v. William Campana California 2025-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-jury-trial constitutional-rights indigent-litigants seventh-amendment waiver-inference May California arbitrarily deny a civil jury trial to indigent litigants in violation of the Seventh Amendment and state constitutional protections?
25-102 Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by dismissing Petitio…
25-98 Peter Gumm v. AK Steel Corporation Sixth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights mcdonnell-douglas seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-seven Whether a federal district court errs in granting summary judgment based on improper application of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green and misapplicatio…
25-70 William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retaliati…
25-5100 David Joseph Peterson v. Black Body Corporation, dba Antec, Incorporated, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right credibility-determination due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred in making credibility determinations in allowing Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment thereby denying Petitioner his…
25A46 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights consumer-lending equitable-remedy jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for legal restitution claims that exceed a defendant's net profits, notwithstanding the Ninth Circ…
25-37 Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor Whether Indiana courts violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring a common law cause of action against third-party tortf…
25-18 Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement Whether the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in actions seeking monetary relief in the form of the infringer's profits
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-1038 Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s…
24-989 Cedrick Frazier, et al. v. Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied Response Waived due-process electronic-stored-information fraud-upon-court inherent-authority sanctions seventh-amendment Whether a federal court can impose case-ending sanctions based on inherent authority for alleged ESI fabrication when a colorable medical malpractice …
24-6710 Robert Klein v. Brookhaven Health Care Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigant seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment guarantees a pro se litigant's right to a jury trial in civil cases under federal law despite lower court rulings
24-857 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies
24-6468 Leonard W. Houston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied IFP camp-lejeune-justice-act constitutional-rights federal-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se seventh-amendment Whether the Plaintiff has a right to a jury trial under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act and the Seventh Amendment
24-829 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2025-02-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation first-amendment public-figure seventh-amendment Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual-malice standard for public figure defamation plaintiffs and whether applying this standard in ant…
24A747 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial against the states in civil proceedings involving substant…
24-776 Paul S. Astrup v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment petition-clause seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower court appropriately entertained an untimely petition for rehearing and denied Astrup's motions within the context of SCOTUS Rule 13.…
24-6268 Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment Whether a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case loses Seventh Amendment rights to a jury trial by not objecting to a bankruptcy Plan, and whether suc…
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and improperly overturned a ju…
24-6205 Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. South Carolina 2024-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by limiting appellate review to pleadings and refusing to conside…
24A541 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete admiralty-jurisdiction death-on-high-seas-act federal-jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-law seventh-amendment Whether federal admiralty jurisdiction under the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA) is concurrent or exclusive, and whether such jurisdiction preclude…
24-589 Allco Renewable Energy Limited, et al. v. Agency of Natural Resources, et al. Vermont 2024-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-enforcement civil-penalties public-utility-commission renewable-energy seventh-amendment site-preparation Whether statutory provisions empowering the Vermont Public Utility Commission to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seekin…
24-558 Jeremy Ray Morris, et ux. v. West Hayden Estates First Addition Homeowners Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied fair-housing-act hostile-environment jury-trial religious-discrimination rule-50b seventh-amendment Whether the 9th Circuit erred in overturning a jury verdict in a Fair Housing Act case involving religious discrimination by a homeowners' association
24-5945 Jodi Rouviere v. Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, dba Stryker Orthopaedics, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-rules-of-evidence jury-consideration material-fact reasonable-diligence seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the trial court improperly removed the factual inquiry into reasonable diligence and material fact questions from jury consideration in violat…
24-5908 Tanya Spurbeck v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chevron-deference due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations was improperly tolled under Chevron deference and Loper Bright Enterprises precedent, and whether Fifth and Seventh…
24-5903 Asem Farooq v. Donna Bolt, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination military-reservist seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial applies to employment discrimination claims involving military reservists and minority employees
24-461 Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure due-process local-rule-36 patent-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit's use of Local Rule 36 to issue one-word affirmances in patent cases violates due process and the right to reasoned appell…
24-5704 Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan Florida 2024-10-04 Denied IFP absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment Does the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial extend to a state court defamation per se action, and does absolute privilege protect a lawyer who fa…
24-358 Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether federal district courts have discretion to grant summary judgment when material facts are disputed or when grounds not raised by the movant ar…
24-296 Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived academic-hearing disciplinary-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Was Bhattacharya deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court and Fourth Circuit resolved disputed material facts i…
24A207 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires patent validity challenges to be adjudicated by a jury rather than an administrative agency under the public ri…
24A208 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires patent validity challenges to be adjudicated by a jury rather than an administrative agency under the public ri…
24-5167 John Stancu v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-power texas Did the State of Texas Courts involved in this case wrongly denied Petitioner Stancu's Seventh Amendment right to the United States Constitution by ma…
23-1328 Yuval Golan v. Daily News, L.P., et al. New York 2024-06-20 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp constitutional-rights defamation first-amendment jury-trial public-figure public-figures seventh-amendment Is the New York anti-SLAPP statute unconstitutional?
23-7178 Shawn Titus v. Donald L. Schense Nebraska 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment appellate-process due-process equal-access expert-affidavit legal-malpractice seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Could the trial court deprive petitioner of his 7th Amendment right to a trial by granting summary judgment based solely upon the defendant-expert's c…
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas…
23-7027 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
23-6805 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Cambridge Health Commission Massachusetts 2024-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP active-concealment civil-procedure constitutional-rights fidelity-vs-united-states grounds-of-defense seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether the grant of summary judgment violated the Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury when the movant's 'grounds of defence' were obviously un…
23-858 Merrilee Stewart v. Sentinel Insurance Company Ltd., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-fraud due-process fraud judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Does the dismissal of a case violate the Seventh Amendment when the judge decides issues reserved for a jury, grants favoritism to a corporation, and …
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-6337 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2284 arbitration-agreement civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-composition federal-arbitration-act federal-law-challenge ninth-amendment seventh-amendment What does 28 U.S. Code § 2284 mandate regarding the composition of a district court when an action challenges the constitutionality of a federal law?
23-445 Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Petitioner has been deprived of the right of trial by jury as protected by the Seventh Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where without a jury trial incorrect legal definition of 'knowingly' relieved the state of its requi…
23-5731 Rebekah Panzlau v. Adams County Housing Authority, dba Maiker Housing Partners Colorado 2023-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-trial relocation-act seventh-amendment uniform-relocation-act Did Ms. Panzlau receive a fair and unbiased trial free from even the appearance of Impropriety in her case?
23-5687 Isaac Brunson v. DeKalb County Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Will the Supreme Court continue to allow federal district and appellate courts to pervert the original intention of the summary judgement device and t…
23-5361 Andrew Slabon v. Angelo R. Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial procedural-rules seventh-amendment standing state-action trial-by-jury Whether the Seventh Amendment's fundamental right to a trial by jury is violated when meritorious complaints are dismissed based on monetary policies …
22-1241 Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Amici (2) broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps Whether the courts below exceeded the statutory penalty caps established by Congress 'for each violation' of the securities laws, depriving Petitioner…
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii Whether the Petitioner has a claim under Title VII for termination based on sexual orientation
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st-amendment-rights and 7th-amendmen…
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right …
22-7060 Zachary James McAlexander v. D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection corporate-liability due-process false-advertising first-amendment seventh-amendment standing Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendment a…
22-859 Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-09 Judgment Issued Amici (36)Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedin…
22-6963 Zachary James McAlexander v. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-liability due-process first-amendment medical-harm seventh-amendment standing Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendment a…
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other substant…
22-719 Jessica Mackey v. American Multi-Cinema, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine premises-liability risk-utility-test seventh-amendment state-law summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Erie requirement of vertical uniformity by adopting a legal rule on premises liability that directly conflicts …
22-6244 LeeAnn Morgan v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fraud-concealment jury-trial medical-battery private-party seventh-amendment state-funded-medical-institution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Does the 7th Amendment provide for a jury trial in civil private matters between a private party and a state-funded medical institution?
22-5578 Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether a civil access-to-justice crisis exists
22-215 Heslin Gallagher v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial quasi-governmental-immunity securities-exchange-commission self-regulatory-organization seventh-amendment standing Whether clarification is needed to resolve the conflicts among the various circuits when a Self-Regulatory Organization registered with the Securities…
21-1586 Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower courts violated the standards set in Tolan v. Cotton, Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, and Eastman Kodak v. Image Technical Services when …
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-7901 Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts
21-1433 Faye Boatright v. U.S. Bancorp, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review deemed-admitted discrimination due-process retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Diebold and the Seventh Amendment prohibit a circuit court reviewing a grant of summary judgment from sanctioning a non-movant under a local '…
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with releva…
21-1385 Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment Should the McDonnell Douglas burden shifting test remain in employment discrimination cases involving 42 U.S.C. § 1981?
21-1230 Dakota Territory Tours, ACC v. Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority, Inc. Arizona 2022-03-10 Denied civil-actions civil-rights constitutional-law due-process incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment state-courts Does the Seventh Amendment apply to state governments and protect the right to a jury trial in civil actions in state courts?
21-1107 FTS USA, LLC, et al. v. Edward Monroe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived class-certification collective-action damages due-process fair-labor-standards-act representative-sample representative-testimony seventh-amendment Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Due Process Clause permit a collective action to be certified and tried to verdict based upon testimony f…
21-6866 Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court Can a State court deny access to a jury trial and court discovery through the inappropriate application on an AntiSLAPP statute?
21-662 Michael Bright-Asante v. Saks & Company, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied civil-rights due-process human-rights-law jury-trial section-1981 seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of review?
21-438 Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction
21-399 Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain?
21-158 Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 and elucidate the constitutional and statutory boundar…
21-110 GMAG, LLC, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for the Stanford International Bank Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process factual-dispute jury-trial jury-verdict legal-ruling ponzi-scheme seventh-amendment transferee-liability Whether the Seventh Amendment and due process permit a court of appeals to reverse a jury verdict based on the court's own independent examination of …
21-5189 Gary Hatter v. Gloria Williams, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process housing-authority hud jury-trial pro-se procedural-due-process seventh-amendment summary-judgment 7th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial
21-5167 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights under the Bill of Rights departed from accepted judicial standards
20-7874 Ted A. McCracken v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment causation-evidence civil-rights expert-testimony jury-trial pro-se-plaintiff pulmonologist-analysis seventh-amendment summary-judgment tobacco-litigation Was it not a denial of petitioner's 7th Amendment right to jury trial
20-1355 David M. Johnson v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity jury-trial mandamus-writ seventh-amendment standing Whether a plaintiff is guaranteed the right to a jury trial by the 7th Amendment
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-1216 Faysal Khalaf v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia jury-findings seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the standard under the Sixth Amendment, as established by the Court in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), should apply in civil cases u…
20-7289 Bobby Campbell, Jr. v. Bottling Group, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pretext seventh-amendment similarly-situated summary-judgment title-vii Does the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit courts from measuring degrees of similarity to grant summary judgment on the factual…
20-1177 National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment Whether punitive damages are to be awarded when an involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in bad faith
20-1129 Scott Phillip Flynn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea irs jury-trial klein-conspiracy restitution seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the due process clause requires discussion of the elements of an 18 U.S.C. § 371 conspiracy to defraud the IRS before accepting a guilty plea
20-6842 Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the majority opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under the co…
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing Seventh Amendment right to jury trial
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Seventh Amendment require a jury trial in a civil eviction case?
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-624 Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing Is it a question of law for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process or viola…
20-596 Leroy E. Scott v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection home-rule-powers municipal-abatement racial-discrimination seventh-amendment special-assessment-liens standing summary-judgment Is the PER CURIAM Affirm opinion a pretext for discrimination?
20-582 Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf…
20-470 Gladys Mendoza v. Inspira Health Network, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process free-speech seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Does the Decision in this case require a reaffirmation and clarification of Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
20-5669 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with trad…
20-260 Personal Audio, LLC v. CBS Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied appointments-clause collateral-estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law reexamination-clause seventh-amendment waiver Must the collateral estoppel effect of an inter partes review be raised and litigated in the appeal of the inter partes review, rather than in the cou…
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-6 William Burke v. Progressive Gulf Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial insurance insurance-claim legal-manipulation maritime-jurisdiction maritime-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is an insurance company allowed to manipulate outdated, obsolete maritime laws in order to falsely claim that a vessel is located in navigable waters …
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment ri…
19-1228 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and on alternative grounds first raised by the respondents at or…
19-8289 Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement ex…
19-8156 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied IFP 7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
19-1120 Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur or …
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7202 Terence C. Powell v. Lab Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment chain-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-trial due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-right jury-trial privileges-and-immunities seventh-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the District Court's granting the defendant's Motions to Dismiss violates the protections of the Seven…
19-7142 General P. Haymon v. Michael Johnson California 2020-01-06 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights dred-scott due-process equal-protection jury-trial race racial-discrimination seventh-amendment standing Whether a state can deprive a descendant of enslaved people the right to a jury trial
19-662 Thomas Sander v. City of Dickinson, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process evidence seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether a civil litigant's right to trial by jury is violated when a district court ignores the non-moving party's evidence and a court of appeals sum…
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…
19-589 Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act
19-6514 Alan M. Leschyshyn v. Dineshkumar Patel, et al. Arizona 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review legal-theory plausible-ground seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment trial-by-jury Does the judge(s) have to be convinced about legal theory which remains viable under the asserted version of facts that the Petitioner puts forth in d…
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated
19-5896 Mitchell Dinnerstein v. Burlington County College Third Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial Whether the application of Rule 56(d) to quickly end proceedings and deny a petitioner's right to trial violates the First and Seventh Amendments
19-315 Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws
19-5764 Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any of Pla…
19-5541 Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial?
19-178 Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories Tenth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony depriv…
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or…
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether offensive collateral estoppel may be used to enter summary judgment on an alternative theory that was never presented to the trier of fact in …
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court
19-5174 William C. Lewis, Sr., et al. v. Estate of Robert A. Lewis, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment asset-transfer civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the decision affirming the denial of a trial by jury on Petitioners' claims violated their 7th Amendment to the US Constitution
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Whether and under what circumstances prior salary may constitute 'any other factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz Whether the Federal Circuit can construe a claim limitation de novo, disregarding the jury's implicit fact findings on the plain and ordinary meaning …
18-9518 Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons…
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-1295 Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am…
18A1005 Jiying Wei v. University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure judicial-notice pro-se-pleading res-judicata seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a federal court to apply the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a manner that preserves a plaintiff's right to…
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for damage…
18-1153 Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion in dismissing Rizzo's experts, whether the courts below erroneously held a different stan…
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2019-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-7908 Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing Whether an in forma pauperis (IFP) status granted by one district court is transferable to another district court
18-7853 John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 — without a finding of factual error — six months after the issu…
18-7701 Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a 'structural error' for federal Judge John A. Mendez …
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F…
18-686 Lazina King, et al. v. Caliber Home Loans, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Relisted (2) dodd-frank-act dual-tracking foreclosure-law jury-trial private-right-of-action real-estate-settlement-procedures-act regulation-x respa-regulation seventh-amendment statutory-damages Is the RESPA Regulation X Section 6(f) which was promulgated by Dodd-Frank Act remedial in nature which provides a private right of action to an injur…
18-573 Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Amici (3) appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment Whether a regulation that causes a property temporary but substantial cash losses is immune as a matter law from regulatory takings scrutiny if these …
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appeal without reaching the merits of the case violates the Petitioner's fundamenta…
18-378 Merck & Co., Inc., et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure damages equitable-defense jury-verdict legal-relief patent separation-of-powers seventh-amendment unclean-hands Whether the equitable defense of unclean hands precludes legal relief in the form of damages
18-246 Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative o…
18-5741 George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying …
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution
18-5315 Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower courts properly applied the summary judgment standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby