tort-liability
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1085 | Elephant Insurance Company, et al. v. Christopher Holmes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-03-17 | Pending | article-iii-standing common-law-harm fourth-circuit-seventh-circuit-split personal-information public-disclosure-of-private-facts tort-liability | 1. The Court has held that a plaintiff can establish Article III standing through an intangible injury-in-fact where (1) that injury bears a close rel… | |
| 25-125 | Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-defenses emotional-distress first-amendment free-exercise government-official tort-liability | (1) Whether the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause provides an affirmative defense to tort liability based solely on emotional distress damages with… |
| 24-1001 | Cotter Corporation, et al. v. Nikki Steiner Mazzocchio, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Pending | CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | atomic-energy-act federal-preemption nuclear-safety price-anderson-act standard-of-care tort-liability | Whether federal nuclear safety regulations preempt state tort standards of care in public liability actions. |
| 23-968 | Steven Dakota Knezovich, et al. v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-split circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence sovereign-immunity tort-liability wildland-fire wildland-fire-response | In Rayonier, infra, this Court held that the Federal Tort Claim Act (FTCA) "makes the United States liable (with certain exceptions which are not rele… |
| 22-1168 | Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Amici (5) | civil-rights creative-pleading due-process emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech general-application-law public-speech publication standing tort tort-liability | The circuit courts are divided over when the First Amendment protects defendants against tort claims arising out of speech or expression. In Hustler M… |
| 22-6064 | Laura Fettig v. Hilton Garden Inns Management, LLC, et al. | California | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-vehicle contract-preemption due-process federal-motor-carrier-safety-act legal-error preemption rule-60b1 tort-liability tort-negligence | 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly held that a contract claim preempts a tort cause of action for recovery from the negligence of a federally r… |
| 21-6047 | Fortuno Jeanfort v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, aka Florida Atlantic University | Florida | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process pleading-standards public-official standing tort-liability | IntraDistrict courts all across the State have confused absolute immunity to State Universities themselves, versus the personal liability of (actual) … |
| 21-398 | Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock | Texas | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability | Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se… |
| 20-914 | TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | construction-safety construction-site controlling-entity crane-operation crane-operator ground-conditions osha osha-regulation regulatory-interpretation tort-liability | Whether 29 C.F.R. §1926.1402(b), for which OSHA expressly assigned responsibility to controlling entities, also imposes a duty on crane operators. |
| 20-374 | Continental Resources, Inc. v. Zachary Buckles, Deceased, By and Through His Personal Representative, Nicole R. Buckles, et al. | Montana | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | due-process federalism forum-contacts independent-contractors personal-jurisdiction sovereign-interest specific-jurisdiction tort-liability vicarious-liability | Zachary Buckles worked at an oil-production site in North Dakota where he died, allegedly as the result of tortious acts or omissions of contractors a… |
| 20-307 | Shahrokh Mireskandari v. Barrington Mayne, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | common-law-immunity foreign-agents foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity governmental-organ jurisdictional-immunity sovereign-immunity state-department tort-liability tortious-conduct uk-government | 1. Whether the LSE and SRA are entitled to sovereign immunity as "organs" of a foreign government under the FSIA and the relevant test for such determ… |
| 19-1108 | DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | GVR | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability | Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki… |
| 19-688 | Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1) | civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability | Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a "logical bond" between the alleged statutory violation a… |
| 19-5720 | Melinda Scott v. Joshua Moon, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | IFP | 47-usc-230 civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity internet-law invasion-of-privacy legal-standing privacy section-230 standing tort-liability | Has Plaintiff Scott stated sufficient facts to support an Invasion of Privacy claim against Defendants Moon and Zaiger? Are Defendants Moon and Zaige… |
| 19-153 | Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. | Wisconsin | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners | Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of… |
| 18-1090 | Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity | Does Section 230 of the CDA immunize web site operators for their own negligent or tortious conduct from all civil lawsuits any time a third party has… |
| 18-632 | Sherilyn J. LeRoux v. NCL (Bahamas), Ltd. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | comparative-negligence federal-circuits general-maritime-law maritime-law open-and-obvious recovery recovery-standard tort-liability uniformity | Under the General Maritime Law of comparative negligence, should a finding of "open and obvious" act as a complete bar to recovery or merely serve as … |