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25-504 Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard…
24A1093 Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. Florida 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete arbitration-award arbitration-procedure federal-arbitration-act procedural-due-process state-court-review vacatur Whether a state appellate court violates the Federal Arbitration Act by vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitration procedure fai…
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, a court of appeals' decision should be vacated when an appeal becomes moot by happenstance while a petiti…
24-6663 Darrell Turner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur Does a defendant meet the 'substantial denial of a constitutional right' standard under 28 USCS § 2253(c) when challenging a sentence based on a vacat…
24-844 Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial …
23-660 Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A., et al. v. Autoridad del Canal de Panama Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied arbitration arbitrator-impartiality disclosure disclosure-requirements evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act reasonable-impression-of-partiality vacatur What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral awa…
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno's case is conflicting with Pirset Circuit precedents
23-303 Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-opportunity fraud-on-court judge-misconduct judicial-misconduct procedural-rules res-judicata vacatur wage-discrimination Res-Judicata-Application
23-5638 Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur whether-the-sixth-circuit-abused-its-discretion
23-154 Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. v. Hunter Doster, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-17 GVR Relisted (3) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process military military-vaccination mootness mootness-doctrine munsingwear-doctrine preliminary-injunction religious-exemption standing vacatur Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
22-7768 Nidal Ayyad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7701 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction, the district court must resentence the defendant de novo on the remaining counts
22-1138 John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine Whether complying with a court order disqualifies a petitioner from the equitable remedy of vacatur
22-7121 Christopher Barret v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur Whether district courts must conduct full de novo resentencing following vacatur of one or more counts
22-6557 Diana Louise Houck v. Lifestore Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure cumulative-finality dismissal finality interlocutory-appeal right-to-appeal rule-58 vacatur Cumulative Finality
22-605 Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied administrative-law agency-deference mootness Munsingwear SEC-v-Chenery vacatur Whether under the United States v. Munsingwear 340 U.S. 36 (1950) the Court should grant certiorari and vacate the decisions below in this case that b…
22-6129 Artak Ovsepian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United…
22-5435 Rahsaan Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 GVR IFP concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court-denial district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-review mitigating-information post-sentencing-conduct sentencing-mitigation vacatur Whether the district court's denial of Mr. Johnson's First Step Act motion must be vacated in light of Concepcion v. United States
22-31 Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur Whether the motion to intervene was timely
21-8199 Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t…
21-1329 Estate of Geraldine F. Jennings, et al. v. Gulfshore Private Home Care, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process final-judgment notice notice-requirement sua-sponte sua-sponte-vacatur vacatur Whether a district court has the power to sua sponte vacate a final judgment without notice to the parties
21-7172 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur Whether a final order of dismissal automatically moots an interlocutory appeal of an order denying preliminary injunctive relief
21-848 Spire Missouri Inc., et al. v. Environmental Defense Fund, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-07 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-decision energy federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas public-interest remand remand-without-vacatur vacatur Whether remand without vacatur is the appropriate remedy where the record indicates that an agency's inadequately reasoned decision could be corrected…
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
20-1804 In Re Peter R. Culpepper 2021-06-25 Denied arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur Whether the FAA preempts the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act
20-1553 Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated where the FDC, after pre…
20-1343 Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in cas…
20-1047 Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated
20-895 Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. Nebraska 2021-01-07 Denied actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy
20-5499 Savannah Rolle v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states vacatur Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2020), in which the defendant was not advised of the essent…
19-1173 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders
19-777 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st…
19-712 Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. Louisiana 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur Is 'manifest disregard of the law' still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
19-6710 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere…
19-5857 Jonathan P. Flom v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittance civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation deliberation due-process fundamental-error government-misconduct material-disclosure sentence-enhancement vacatur Whether the Sense of Remized Plea Bargaining Acceptance provides exclusive Sixth Amendment right, requiring VACATUR
19-5852 Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-06 GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-5383 Christopher Stacy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under the …
18-8848 Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-16 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias, d…
18-502 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud?
18-5542 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur Whether the finding of fact prior to vacating the forfeiture order becomes 'Law-of-the-Case' upon remand
18-5119 Ambrose King v. Mary King Maryland 2018-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur Did the lower court violate substantive and procedural due process in not vacating the dismissal of the appeal?