tort-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1136 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law Whether the First Amendment's prohibition on congressional lawmaking limits judicial interpretation of religious doctrine and tort claims, and whether…
24A734 Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew Nevada 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation insurance-coverage state-supreme-court tort-law Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state law in a tort case involving insurance coverage raises a federal constitutional question warra…
24-5649 Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied IFP child-support diversity-jurisdiction emotional-distress fiduciary-duty state-court-order tort-law Whether a tort suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress based on alleged extortionate usage of a child support order and breach of fiduci…
23-1246 Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law Whether oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualifies as 'maritime commerce' triggering maritime law, when th…
23-7214 Chanel Tarrant v. Christiana Care, et al. Delaware 2024-04-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-benefits employment-law long-term-disability occupational-safety tort-law workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether a hospital is required to provide long-term disability benefits to an employee after working for them for 30 years and getting injured on the …
22-1150 Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process duty-of-loyalty employee-rights employment-law first-amendment free-speech newsgathering property-protection standing tort-law Whether the First Amendment prohibits applying state tort law against double-agent employees who gather information, including by secretly recording, …
22-5257 Daryl Stephen v. New York New York 2022-08-02 Denied IFP attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law Whether the petitioner's attorney committed legal malpractice by contravening the law
21-1449 Glacier Northwest, Inc., dba CalPortland v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174 Washington 2022-05-16 Judgment Issued Amici (17) labor-dispute labor-disputes labor-relations national-labor-relations-act preemption property-destruction property-rights state-tort-claim tort-law union-activity Does the National Labor Relations Act impliedly preempt a state tort claim against a union for intentionally destroying an employer's property in the …
21-1331 Marcus A. Murphy v. Amanda Cameron Dalton, aka Mandy Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-discretion due-process energy-company pro-se-plaintiff sanctions tort-law Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the plaintiff's claims and imposing sanctions
20-1158 The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. Will McRaney Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) employment employment-tort first-amendment ministerial-exception neutral-principles religion-clauses religious-organization secular-court tort-law Whether a secular court can adjudicate a minister's employment-related tort claims against a religious organization using neutral principles of tort l…
20-344 Jon Myers v. Sondra Myers, et al. Massachusetts 2020-09-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights corruption divorce due-process emotional-distress familial-dispute intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress judicial-review legal-corruption legal-system tort-law Whether the Massachusetts Appeals Court erred in its skeptical treatment of the petitioner's claims regarding the degree of destructiveness in his fam…
19-1271 Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier Texas 2020-05-07 Denied Response Waived absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding
19-412 Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. Maine 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law Whether the Constitution requires remand when an appellate court overturns its own precedent
19-5721 In Re Craig Melvin Schafer 2019-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-accountability judicial-performance mandamus mandamus-writ standing state-liability takings tort-law Is a state allowed to violate the 7th Amendment and deny civil hearings?
18-1366 Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search Whether joint and several liability applies under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where a plaintiff alleges unconstitutional search by multiple officers
18-419 Len Boogaard, et ux., as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Derek Boogaard, Deceased v. National Hockey League, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights federal-jurisdiction forfeiture judicial-discretion pleading-requirements remand removal state-law-claims tort-law Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in usurping a states' power to adjudicate common law tort claims