tucker-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6776 | Carol Engen v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | claim-preclusion due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure-proceeding tax-lien tucker-act | Whether a summary judgment entered in a 26 U.S.C. § 7403 lien-foreclosure proceeding — whose purpose is limited to enforcing a tax lien and where taxp… |
| 25A790 | United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Application | government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act radioactive-materials third-party-beneficiary tucker-act | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6299 | Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bonded-bill-of-exchange commercial-surety federal-claims state-treasurer takings-clause tucker-act | 1. Whether the United States is liable under the Tucker Act and the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when a State Treasurer, acting under federally de… |
| 25-6298 | Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-injury federal-claims-court fifth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tucker-act | 1. Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in dismissing Polinski v. United States, Case No. 24-1810, for lack of subject matter juris… |
| 25-6297 | Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se rule-41b tucker-act | 1. Whether the Court of Federal Claims may dismiss a pro se complaint for failure to prosecute based solely on an assertedly incomplete in forma paupe… |
| 25-335 | Lee Michael Tomko v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-claims federal-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards pro-se tucker-act | Are my claims in the amended complaint, sufficient enough to survive a motion to dismiss, when applying motion to dismiss standards such as accepting … |
| 24-6179 | Steven D'Agostino v. Gary A. Ashworth, Acting Secretary of the Air Force | Third Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals fair-labor-standards-act federal-employee-wages jurisdictional-transfer minimum-wage-calculation tucker-act | 1) Did the Third Circuit err by failing to transfer the appeal to the Federal Circuit, even though the Tucker Act was irrefutably involved in the Dist… |
| 23A1004 | Lemon Bay Cove, LLC v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-claims fifth-amendment government-interference property-rights regulatory-taking tucker-act | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7384 | Javier Mandry, aka Javier E. Mandry-Mercado v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment implied-contract plebiscite pro-se-litigants puerto-rico-statehood statehood tucker-act | 1. Whether participation in the Congress-authorized 2017 and 2020 plebiscite for Puerto Ricans, on statehood elections, constitutes an implied in fact… |
| 23-113 | Michael G. Pohl v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act | Is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record 10 U.S.C. § 1552 as stated in both the statute and Respondents DD Form 149… |
| 22-7473 | In Re Raj K. Patel | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cares-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims-court federal-courts mandamus ordered-liberty standing tucker-act | I. Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims abused its discretion in interpreting its own filing bar and denying the complaint. II. Whether … | |
| 22-722 | Frank Calapristi v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2023-02-02 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-law federal-circuit government-contractor government-contracts government-control government-involvement implied-contract implied-contracts tucker-act | In Lynch v. United States , 292 U.S. 571, 579 (1934) the Court held that when the United States enters into contractual relations, its rights and duti… |
| 22-259 | Lewis B. Jones v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | armed-forces claim-accrual disability-rating medical-technology military-service retirement-pay statute-of-limitations tucker-act veterans-benefits | 1. Whether a cause of action for retirement pay can accrue and for the statute of limitations to run before a service member receives a disability rat… | |
| 22-5479 | Derek N. Jarvis v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1866-treaties cherokee-freedmen civil-rights federal-jurisdiction indian-treaties native-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-provisions tucker-act | 1-Can a trial court dismiss 1866 complaint based upon the number of provisions that Petitioner has provided under 1866 treaties, when it was establish… |
| 21-6713 | Andrew U. D. Straw v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment judicial-takings law-license property-rights regulatory-takings takings tucker-act | Whether the rule that the Court of Federal Claims cannot review other courts' final orders is wrongly applied when the only matter is a takings and th… |
| 20-1535 | Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson | First Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act | 1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
| 20-1099 | Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act | I. Whether this Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation "takings" law to resolve the obvious consti… | |
| 19-1321 | In Re Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process false-claims incarcerated-prisoner incarceration ninth-amendment standing tucker-act | 1. Respondent created Court Technicality reiterated false claim, incarcerated prisoner, common law originated U.S. Court Federal Claims case 04CV226! … | |
| 19-1252 | Callan Campbell, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | final-decision government-action property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings statute-of-limitations takings tucker-act | Does the Tucker Act's statute of limitations for a regulatory takings claim accrue when the Government makes a final decision, or when the plaintiff's… |
| 19-329 | Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Amici (6)Response Waived | ability-one agency-acquisition bid-protest bid-protest-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims government-contracts mandatory-source-directive statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-preference | Congress enacted the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act ("JWOD"), 41 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq., to increase employment for individuals who are blind and severely dis… |
| 19-268 | Park Properties Associates, L.P., et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | breach-of-contract contract-administration contract-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit federal-claims-court government-contracts privity privity-doctrine third-party-administrator tucker-act | The question presented is whether the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a breach-of-contract claim against the government, where the gover… | |
| 18-9833 | Sade Mone v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation constitutional-violations contract-dispute court-of-federal-claims executive-department federal-claims-court federal-jurisdiction federal-regulations implied-contract little-tucker-act monetary-claim tucker-act | The United States Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a wide range of claims against the government including but not limited to, contract d… |
| 18-1394 | Waterfront Marine Construction, Inc., et al. v. Heard Construction, Inc. | Virginia | 2019-05-06 | Denied | bid-protest contract-law federal-contract federal-procurement federal-regulations state-tort-action subject-matter-jurisdiction tucker-act | 1. Where a disappointed bidder to a federal contract fails to file a bid protest pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (2016), does a state tri… | |
| 18-6420 | Gregory P. Nesselrode v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amount-in-controversy due-process federal-tort-claims-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity student-loans tucker-act | WHETHER THE "TUCKER ACT" AND UNDER 20 § 1082(a)(2) OVERRULES THE "FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT GRANTS JURISDICTION FOR PETITIONER TO SUE RESPONDENT WITHOUT… |
| 18-346 | Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits | 1. In the face of Scheuer v. Rhodes, whether the trial court could have properly determined that the Estate's complaint must fail? 2. Whether 38 U.S.… |