substantial-evidence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-659 | Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence | A. Whether the clandestine replacement of Jewish Michael Levinson 's initial Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ ") Hearing Officer with a Muslim ALF was… |
| 25-589 | Robert B. Mitchell v. General Motors LLC | Michigan | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-requirements due-process hearing-procedure substantial-evidence willful-blindness | DID "THE COURT ' ERR IN NOT RULING THE ALJ 'S DECISION WAS CONTRARY TO LAW AND THAT IT WAS NOT SUPPORTED BY COMPETENT, MATERIAL, AND SUBSTANTIAL EV… |
| 25-506 | Stroma Medical Corporation, et al. v. Samuel Blumberg | California | 2025-10-23 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review due-process economic-harm punitive-damages statutory-malice substantial-evidence | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires California appellate courts to review punitive damages awards de novo, as this Court held in Cooper Industr… |
| 25-5429 | Anthony Brian Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-procedure jury-instructions self-defense sua-sponte substantial-evidence | 1. In a criminal prosecution, when an affirmative defense—such as imperfect self-defense—is supported by substantial evidence, does the trial court ha… |
| 25-118 | Hood River Distillers, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | District of Columbia | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | bargaining-impasse judicial-review labor-law national-labor-relations-board substantial-evidence unilateral-changes | 1. Does review for "substantial evidence" require courts to ensure that the Board's decision is reasonably supported by the evidence as a whole, inclu… |
| 25-5215 | Otoniel Cornejo v. California | California | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-inference evidentiary-standard firearm-ability force-application legal-sufficiency substantial-evidence | Does the record lack substantial evidence to support an inference that petitioner had the present ability to apply force with a firearm when that fire… |
| 25-5169 | Richard Patrick Evensen v. California | California | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | force rape sexual-assault state-appellate-court substantial-evidence unconscious-state | QUESTION ONE Does the record support the state appellate court's holding that substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner used force to o… |
| 24-227 | John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. | California | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence | Does the Supreme Court of California's narrow test for an 'acquittal' under the Fifth Amendment conflict with this Court's precedent? |
| 23-1279 | NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law circuit-split labor-law labor-relations nlra nlrb-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence taft-hartley-act | Whether the application of the 'substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole' standard of review for Board determinations, 29 U.S.C. §160(… |
| 23-586 | United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D. K., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | administrative-record benefits-denial erisa health-benefits judicial-review substantial-evidence treating-provider | Is an ERISA-governed plan that denies health benefits required to discuss contrary opinions from the member's treating providers in the decision lette… |
| 23A365 | United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D.K., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | administrative-record benefits-denial erisa medical-providers substantial-evidence tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly imposed a heightened explanation requirement on ERISA plan administrators when denying health benefits claims, co… | |
| 23-298 | Riverdale Mills Corporation v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor | District of Columbia | 2023-09-25 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law auer-deference due-process federal-rules-of-evidence occupational-safety-and-health-administration osha-citation substantial-evidence | Whether the United States Court of Appeals correctly applied the substantial-evidence-standard |
| 22-7879 | Olyric Robinson v. California | California | 2023-06-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review california-procedure constitutional-rights due-process hit-and-run mandated-procedures parole-decision-making-instrument parole-revocation state-court-decisions substantial-evidence | Whether the state courts of California rendered decisions in violation of precedents established by other state courts of last resort or United States… |
| 22-6016 | Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony | Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s… |
| 21-1041 | Michael J. P. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitrary-and-capricious benefit-eligibility erisa firestone-v-bruch judicial-review metro-life-v-glenn plan-administrator plan-administrator-discretion standard-of-review substantial-evidence | Whether the Supreme Court's dicta in Firestone Tire and Rubber Co v. Bruch and the Supreme Court's ruling in Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn render it i… |
| 21-656 | John Oirya v. Brigham Young University | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | 10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix | Should federal courts review school disciplinary decisions for substantial evidence of guilt? | |
| 21-554 | Amber Boyer v. Schneider Electric Holdings, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | accidental-death benefits-due crime-exclusion erisa insurance-policy plan-administrator substantial-evidence | Whether the ERISA Plan Administrator's interpretation of 'crime' to include speeding and improper passing was unreasonable when denying coverage under… |
| 21-5 | Solomon Adu-Beniako v. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs | Michigan | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law cdc-guidelines civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process expert-testimony government-liability judicial-review standing substantial-evidence | Does the Respondent's unfairly tasking, and blaming the Petitioner for the DOJ/DEA responsibility violate the Petitioner's Constitutional rights? |
| 20-1484 | SFPP, L.P. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-04-22 | Dismissed | administrative-procedure-act agency-decision cost-of-service interstate-commerce-act pipeline-rates record-development substantial-evidence | Whether a federal agency complies with the Administrative Procedure Act upon remand | |
| 20-942 | Christopher L. Buie v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-findings discrimination-claims employee-protection issue-preclusion substantial-evidence surface-transportation-assistance-act unsafe-acts vehicle-operation | Does the 'refuses to operate' clause under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act afford protection to employees who refuse to commit unsafe acts w… |
| 20-167 | Lilibeth Michelson v. Department of the Army | Federal Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law awol civil-rights de-novo-standard disciplinary-action due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-system-protection-board merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence | Whether the Federal Circuit erred by reviewing a Merit System Protection Board Administrative Judge's decision that a medical note provided after the … |
| 19-8261 | Sean Ath v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti… |
| 19-7016 | Matthew Terrell v. C. Armant, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment assault certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process jackson-v-virginia oral-copulation substantial-evidence | Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process… |
| 18-8062 | Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services | District of Columbia | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence | Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion |
| 18-7193 | Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician | What is the standard for assessing harmless error when a treating doctor has provided a form medical opinion statement that an applicant for social se… |
| 18-6663 | Esau Escobar v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence | Whether the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the Petitioner's claim of provocation instruction due to the Petitioner's testimony that he acted out o… |
| 18-388 | Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence | Whether the substantial' evidence required to support agency action under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(E) must be evidence of record? |
| 18-143 | Sandra Lee Bart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence | Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr… |