| 25-764 |
Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims |
Whether placing the "tort" label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract. |
| 25-661 |
Erik Blecher, et al. v. The Holy See, aka The Apostolic See |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
|
discretionary-function foreign-sovereign-immunities-act mandatory-policy sexual-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims |
Whether the FSIA's discretionary-function exclusion, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(5)(A), denies federal subject matter jurisdiction for a tort claim that alleg… |
| 24-1222 |
Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-adjudication copyright-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion product-liability tort-claims |
Whether federal courts may decline to adjudicate federal tort and product liability claims, and whether a federal court may dismiss copyright claims w… |
| 24-924 |
Winston Tyler Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Granted |
Amici (17)Relisted (2) |
boyle-doctrine federal-preemption government-contractor military-activities state-law-negligence tort-claims |
Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a go… |
| 24-683 |
Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
admiralty-law federal-jurisdiction military-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
Should Feres be extended to bar claims under statutes other than the Federal Tort Claims Act? |
| 24A292 |
Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. |
California |
2024-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
california-law institutional-liability negligence private-university student-safety tort-claims |
Whether a private university can be held liable for negligence in a case involving multiple defendants and potential institutional responsibility for … |
| 24-24 |
Marcelo Hernandez v. Hassan Alameddine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
|
1983-claims 9th-circuit-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction religious-freedom rluipa rluipa-violation tort-claims |
Does the 9th circuit have power to ignore U.S. Supreme Court ruling in, Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131 (1988) |
| 23-1281 |
Ryan G. Carter, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine judicial-precedent medical-malpractice military-medical-malpractice military-service-members service-member-rights sovereign-immunity tort-claims |
Should the Feres doctrine be limited and not bar tort claims brought by service members alleging medical malpractice where the service member was unde… |
| 23-938 |
Cynthia Wheeler, et al. v. Orange County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
|
attorney-appearance civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine emotional-distress intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress preemption statutory-rights tort tort-claims |
Whether the 'pure' form of 'Continuing Violation Doctrine' should apply to Civil Rights and Tort Claims of Intentional and Negligent Infliction of Emo… |
| 22-7856 |
Annice Hale v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
Whether assertion of violations against the government are waivers of sovereign immunity |
| 21-1544 |
Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. |
California |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability |
Whether the Court should clarify tribal sovereign immunity law to allow tort victims to sue a tribe based on vicarious liability when a tribe ratifies… |
| 21-7649 |
In Re Jamaal A. McNeil |
|
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-court giglio-law letter-of-rogatory standing tort-claims |
Can the petitioner/defendant ask and request to the Court that the petition/defendant be entitled to, as grounds exist, to have the ECCLESIASTICAL COU… |
| 21-867 |
Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. v. Jessica T. Badilla, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights combatant-activities due-process federal-preemption federal-tort-claims-act military military-operations preemption statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
Whether state-law tort claims that arise out of the uniquely federal sphere of the military's combat operations are preempted by the interests embodie… |
| 21-801 |
Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
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civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code |
Do animal 'adoption' laws conflict with the Constitution's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting? |
| 21-311 |
Carrie S. Willis, Individually and as Trustee of the Trust of James C. and Norma D. Willis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
|
discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-agent government-liability mandatory-duty sovereign-immunity state-law-tort-claims tort-claims |
Whether the discretionary function exception shields the Government from suit whenever a government agent fails to fulfill a mandatory duty that appli… |
| 20-1483 |
Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC |
New York |
2021-04-22 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims |
Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims |
| 20-7760 |
John Worthington v. Office of National Drug Control Policy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure docket-management final-agency-action level-playing-field local-rule-7b official-capacity summons-and-complaint tort-claim tort-claims trial-court-arguments |
Whether the trial court erred by failing to apply local rule 7(b) |
| 20-1174 |
Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims |
Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c… |
| 20-1089 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-procedure civil-rights climate-change due-process federal-common-law federal-removal interstate-pollution jurisdictional-challenge standing state-law takings tort-claims |
Whether putative state-law tort claims alleging harm from global climate change are removable because they arise under federal law |
| 20-960 |
Khue Nguyen v. Hai Phu Nguyen, as Administrator of the Estate of Thin Thi Ta, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
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appellate-jurisdiction breach-of-contract civil-procedure immunity mediation mediation-immunity non-final-judgment summary-judgment tort-claims |
Whether an appellate court can take the act of refusal to settlement at mediation out of the mediation context to strip off the immunity from liabilit… |
| 20-6651 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-12-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights contempt-of-writ court-securities CUSIP cusip-number due-process human-trafficking money-laundering standing subpoena-compliance tort-claims |
Whether courts have become vehicles for pedophiles, MS13, sex and human traffickers, and drug cartels to launder money using various ruses, including … |
| 19-1444 |
GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 and Participating Employers Health and Welfare Fund, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
avandia brand-name-drug brand-name-drugs conflict-preemption drug-labeling drug-manufacturer fda-preemption fda-regulations label-change material-information regulatory-compliance tort-claims |
Whether federal law preempts state-law tort claims where a brand-name drug's manufacturer provides the FDA with all material information in its posses… |
| 19-7415 |
Dennis C. Davis v. Fayette County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 adjudicate-merits erroneous-limitation-law federal-jurisdiction state-court-remedies state-law-remedies statutory-claims statutory-interpretation tax-case-litigation tax-cases tax-cases-1983-relief taxation-violation-claim tort-claims |
Whether state courts must provide relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in tax cases when adequate state law remedies exist |
| 19-913 |
Ghazala Siddiqui, et vir, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Raheel Siddiqui, Deceased v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civilian-claims civilian-rights federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-discrimination military-nexus military-recruit pre-enlistment-negligence tort-claims |
Does the Feres doctrine bar civilians and the estates of military recruits from bringing tort claims under the Federal Torts Claims Act for wrongful a… |
| 19-131 |
Duanna Knighton v. Cedarville Rancheria of Northern Paiute Indians, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
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civil-jurisdiction civil-tort dollar-general-corporation-v-mississippi-band-of-c due-process montana-exceptions montana-v-united-states nonmember-rights nonmembers plains-commerce-bank-v-long-family-land-cattle-co sovereign-powers standing tort-claims tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether Indian tribal courts have jurisdiction to adjudicate civil-tort-claims against nonmembers |
| 18-1427 |
Marie Laventure, et al. v. United Nations, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure common-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure immunity jurisdiction legislative-enactment liability tort tort-action tort-claims un-general-assembly un-immunity un-liability un-secretary-general |
Whether the term 'liability' can be used in an unenforceable, non-obligatory context |
| 18-8840 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims |
Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledge the particularism of any trial court judge's non-judicial palpable ac… |
| 18-1180 |
New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order |
| 18-894 |
Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation… |
| 18-151 |
Alfred J. Petit-Clair, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,tort,dismissa civil-procedure,standing,tort-claims,individual-de civil-rights district-court due-process municipal-defendant settlement settlement-enforcement standing third-circuit tort tort-claims |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of tort claims against an individual defenda… |
| 24A441 |
Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-preemption financial-responsibility insurance-coverage interstate-commerce motor-carrier tort-claims |
Whether federal regulations governing motor carrier financial responsibility limits preempt state law tort claims and determine the scope of insurance… |