| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |