vicarious-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A781 Joquetta Riley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-06 Application conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil…
25A688 Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-11 Application americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability Question not identified.
25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-07-01 Denied Amici (2) financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
25-2 Deon Reese v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-conspiracy due-process judicial-precedent pinkerton-doctrine statutory-interpretation vicarious-liability Whether this Court should overrule Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946).
24-6948 Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-rules-procedure section-1981 section-2000e state-action vicarious-liability Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by failing to apply vicarious liability principles and by dismissing various civil rights claims unde…
24-1058 CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived direct-use federal-circuit method-claims patent-infringement system-claims vicarious-liability Whether the same vicarious liability analysis for direct use infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) must be applied to both method and system claims
24-181 Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split commercial-gain copyright-infringement direct-infringement secondary-liability vicarious-liability Whether the profit requirement of vicarious copyright infringement permits liability where the defendant expects commercial gain from the enterprise i…
23-7628 Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority to direct and overs…
23-7415 Carlos Gomez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability Whether a jury instruction on 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charge based on invalid or valid predicate prejudiced the Petitioner
22-7865 Tiffany Recinos v. Mike Kreidler, et al. Washington 2023-06-26 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process government-accountability government-liability government-transparency official-immunity public-records public-records-exemption vicarious-liability Whether laws exist without documents when public disclosure is exempted
22-1053 ABKCO Music, Inc., et al. v. William Sagan, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Amici (2) bootleg-recordings commercial-exploitation contributory-infringement copyright-infringement digital-distribution direct-liability music-licensing secondary-liability vicarious-liability Whether direct liability for copyright infringement is limited to the person who actually 'presses the button' to make the infringing copies
22-5915 Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test
21-1544 Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. California 2022-06-09 Denied civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability Whether the Court should clarify tribal sovereign immunity law to allow tort victims to sue a tribe based on vicarious liability when a tribe ratifies…
21-1426 Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
21-1292 S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination public-entity rehabilitation-act respondeat-superior standing vicarious-liability Whether public entities can be vicariously liable for ADA-Title-II-violations
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability Whether the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals committed plain error and the Ohio Supreme Court abused its discretion in denying review of this cas…
20-743 DISH Network L.L.C. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-30 Dismissed circuit-split common-law-agency contract-interpretation contractual-performance-standards federal-communications-commission performance-standards telemarketing telemarketing-law vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability must be assessed in light of the four bedrock theories of common law agency, or whether a contractual term imposing perfor…
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 Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement of the personal-jurisdiction test is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the pl…
20-194 Franklin Cox v. Texas Workforce Commission, et al. Texas 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) duty-to-defend employment-law substantial-evidence-rule tax-audit unemployment-insurance vicarious-liability Whether the employee has a duty to defend the employer in a tax audit for unemployment, joined as an employer in the above referenced cause
19-5385 Darlene Rodgers v. Taura McDaniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP calumnious-decision civil-monetary-penalties civil-rights civil-rights,qualified-immunity,civil-procedure,du compensatory-settlement court-errors due-process judicial-misconduct legal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice qualified-immunity vicarious-liability Whether 8th Circuit Court is vicariously liable
18-1183 Dorothy A. Smulley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived agency-liability agency-relationship circuit-procedures conservatorship due-process fannie-mae federal-instrumentality fhfa internal-operating-procedures mortgage-servicers mortgage-servicing regulatory-oversight rico vicarious-liability Whether Fannie Mae is a federal instrumentality subject to due process requirements, whether FHFA as conservator of Fannie Mae is vicariously liable f…