| 24-1068 |
Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell |
Missouri |
Granted |
epa-approval failure-to-warn fifra-preemption pesticide-regulation product-labeling state-law-claim |
Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-1062 |
The Hertz Corporation, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
absolute-priority-rule bankruptcy-code make-whole-premiums solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation unmatured-interest |
The Bankruptcy Code disallows claims for "unmatured interest," i.e., claims for interest that has not yet accrued when the bankruptcy petition is file… |
| 24-983 |
Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Granted |
cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking |
The LIBERTAD Act is an essential pillar of United States foreign policy toward Cuba's hostile and anti-American regime. Title III of that Act creates … |
| 24-917 |
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al. v. NTE Carolinas II, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
antitrust-law legal-aggregation market-conduct monopolization section-2 sherman-act |
Whether a plaintiff can prevail on a monopolization claim under Section 2 of the Sherman Act by aggregating multiple distinct, independently lawful ac… |
| 24-909 |
Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Russian Federation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
commercial-activity federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-immunity property-expropriation u.s.-nexus-test |
Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA"), a "foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States" for su… |
| 24-889 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Granted |
carve-out generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement skinny-label |
1. When a generic drug label fully carves out a patented use, are allegations that the generic drugmaker calls its product a "generic version" and cit… |
| 24-856 |
Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Granted |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act |
1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting.
2. Whether,… |
| 24-759 |
Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements |
This case concerns the correct interpretation of two clauses of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) that have resulted in two circuit splits. … |
| 24-699 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. |
District of Columbia |
Granted |
cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception |
Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A… |
| 24-620 |
Jaime H. Pizarro, et al. v. The Home Depot, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
burden-shifting causation erisa fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation trust-law |
This case raises a long-unresolved question at the heart of ERISA's fiduciary enforcement provisions. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1… |
| 24-350 |
Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law |
Whether Section 505 of the CWA authorizes citizens to invoke the federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge permits adop… |
| 24-345 |
FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Granted |
circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action. |
| 24-277 |
Shari Mayer Borochov, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
foreign-sovereign-immunities-act grievous-injuries material-support subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorism-exception terrorist-attack |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's terrorism exception extends jurisdiction to claims arising from a foreign state's material support for … |
| 24-181 |
Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
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… |
| 24-171 |
Cox Communications, Inc., et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Granted |
copyright-infringement digital-copyright material-contribution secondary-liability service-provider willful-violation |
1. This Court has held that a business commits contributory copyright infringement when it "distributes a device with the object of promoting its use … |
| 23-1360 |
Vernon Fiehler v. Catherine Mecklenburg, et al. |
Alaska |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-provision evidence evidence-interpretation federal-survey geographic-determination judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-law water-boundary |
Whether a court has the power to disregard evidence of the location of a water boundary from a federal survey based on subsequent evidence of the body… |
| 22O158 |
Alabama, et al., Plaintiffs v. California, et al. |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 23-1213 |
Glen Mulready, in His Official Capacity as Insurance Commissioner of Oklahoma, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process erisa-preemption medicare-part-d network-participation pharmacy-benefit-managers pharmacy-choice preemption rural-patient-access rutledge-v-pcma state-regulation |
1. Whether ERISA preempts state laws that regulate PBMs by preventing them from cutting off rural patients' access, steering patients to PBM-favored p… |
| 23-1209 |
M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund |
District of Columbia |
Granted |
actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability |
Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the… |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Granted |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 23-969 |
Charles Walen, et al., Appellants v. Doug Burgum, Governor of North Dakota, et al. |
North Dakota |
Denied |
None |
|
| 23-947 |
Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
Denied |
civil-procedure climate-change environmental-law federal-preemption greenhouse-gas greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions standing state-law state-law-claims |
Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse… |
| 23-952 |
Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
Denied |
clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law |
1. Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law a… |
| 23-914 |
Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden |
Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou… |
| 23-217 |
E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
burden-of-proof circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence employment-law fair-labor-standards-act flsa-exemptions overtime-pay preponderance-of-evidence wage-exemption |
Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of an FLSA exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence—… |
| 23-120 |
United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint |
Whether allegations that members of an
association agreed to adhere to the association's rules,
without more, are sufficient to plead the element of
c… |
| 23-9 |
AstraZeneca UK Limited, et al. v. Joshua Atchley, et al. |
District of Columbia |
GVR |
aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act direct-liability foreign-government-agency foreign-terrorist-organization proximate-causation specific-attack terrorist-organization transacting-with-government-agency |
1. Whether, in light of Taamneh, the Court should grant, vacate, and remand for further proceedings.
2. Whether plaintiffs plead proximate causation … |
| 22-957 |
Laurie A. Dermody v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
42-usc-1396p annuity annuity-rules asset-transfer medicaid-eligibility medical-assistance remainder-beneficiary spousal-impoverishment statutory-interpretation transfer-penalty |
Whether an annuity that satisfies the condition in Section 1396p(c)(2)(B)(i) must name the State as the first remainder beneficiary in order to avoid … |
| 22-886 |
Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover |
Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a
military purpose, through a contract with a U.S.
company, commercial activity within the meaning … |
| 22-669 |
NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-reorganization bankruptcy-trustees business-liabilities common-law-immunity gross-negligence post-bankruptcy-liabilities reorganization-plan third-party-exculpation third-party-liability |
Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or th… |
| 22-631 |
Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases |
Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code states that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the … |
| 22-601 |
Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
commerce-clause federal-energy-regulatory-commission incumbent-utilities police-power public-utilities state-regulation transmission-lines utility-regulation |
Whether, consistent with the Commerce Clause, States may exercise their core police power to regulate public utilities by recognizing a preference for… |
| 22-555 |
NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
content-moderation editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech free-speech-rights social-media social-media-regulation viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about… |
| 22-529 |
Alex Cantero, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
banking-regulation consumer-protection escrow-accounts interest-rates mortgage-lending national-bank-act preemption state-law state-law-preemption |
Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks? |
| 22-465 |
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
cercla cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution contribution-action damages declaratory-judgment environmental-liability judicial-interpretation response-costs statute-of-limitations |
CERCLA's three-year statute of limitations for an "action for contribution for any response costs or damages" under § 113(f) begins running on "the da… |
| 22-459 |
Ohio v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Ohio |
Denied |
federal-railroad-safety-act grade-crossing grade-crossing-statute interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption railroad-preemption railroad-safety state-regulation transportation transportation-law |
Ohio's "Blocked Crossing Statute," Ohio Rev. Code
§5589.21, prohibits stopped trains from blocking public roads for longer than five minutes, with cer… |
| 22-393 |
NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
compelled-speech content-based content-based-restrictions editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech tech-regulation viewpoint-discrimination zauderer |
Whether S.B. 7072 in its entirety, and its compelled disclosure provisions in particular, comply with the First Amendment. |
| 22-349 |
Flagstar Bank, N.A. v. William Kivett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
banking-powers federal-banking-law federal-powers federally-chartered-banks mortgage-escrow mortgage-escrow-accounts national-bank-act preemption state-laws state-regulation |
Whether the National Bank Act preempts state laws that, like California Civil Code § 2954.8(a), attempt to set the terms on which federally chartered … |
| 22-277 |
Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner |
1. Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the t… |
| 22-238 |
Charter Day School, Inc., et al. v. Bonnie Peltier, as Guardian of A. P., a Minor Child, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
charter-school charter-schools civil-rights educational-policy government-contract government-contracts nonprofit-corporation policy-formulation private-entities public-education state-action |
Whether a private entity that contracts with the State to operate a charter school engages in state action when it formulates a policy without coercio… |
| 22-231 |
Artur Davis v. Legal Services Alabama, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
civil-rights civil-rights-act employer-actions employment-discrimination employment-terms pay race-discrimination section-1981 suspension title-vii |
Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms," "conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "signific… |
| 22-203 |
Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended
IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) to all grounds
that reasonably could have been raised in the… |
| 22-193 |
Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer … |
| 22-121 |
ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law |
Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use… |
| 22-115 |
Micheal W. Buckner, as Trustee of the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. United States Pipe & Foundry Co., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
11-usc-101 bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge claims-definition coal-act equitable-relief individual-employer-plan individual-employer-plans statutory-obligations |
1. Whether the equitable right to compel a covered company to maintain an IEP is a dischargeable "claim" under 11 U.S.C. § 101(5)(B).
2. Whether the … |
| 22-37 |
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
active-inducement fda-approval generic-drug generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act inducement-doctrine patent-infringement skinny-label |
If a generic drug's FDA-approved label carves out all of the language that the brand manufacturer has identified as covering its patented uses, can th… |
| 22-22 |
David A. Tropp v. Travel Sentry, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
35-usc-101 alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-processing luggage-screening patent-claims patent-eligibility physical-steps |
Whether the claims at issue in Tropp's patents reciting physical rather than computer-processing steps are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as i… |
| 22-18 |
Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law |
Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum State's choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rule… |
| 21-1550 |
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions standing |
1. Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate gre… |
| 21-1448 |
Dustin Jade Wells v. Kathleen A. McCallister |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
asset-liquidation bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-filing bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-proceedings debtor-rights homestead-exemption property-interests property-rights |
This Court has long held that "the date when [a
bankruptcy] petition is filed" is the "point of time" at
which "the status and rights of the bankrupt … |
| 21-1338 |
NSO Group Technologies Limited, et al. v. WhatsApp Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
agent-entities agents-for-foreign-governments common-law-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act government-contractors judicial-immunity legal-precedent private-entities samantar solicitor-general |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely displaces common-law immunity for entities, such that private entities that act as agents for fo… |
| 21-1326 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-1281 |
Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework |
The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronic hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-re… |
| 21-1043 |
Abitron Austria GmbH, et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
civil-procedure extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality foreign-sales lanham-act territorial-rights trademark trademark-infringement u.s.-commerce us-commerce |
Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to petitioners' foreign sales, including purely foreign sales that ne… |
| 21-1019 |
The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-split employee-benefits ERISA-preemption healthcare-expenditures ninth-circuit play-or-pay play-or-pay-laws state-and-local-laws state-local-regulation |
Whether state and local play-or-pay laws that require employers to make minimum monthly healthcare expenditures for their covered employees relate to … |
| 21-1013 |
Republic of Turkey v. Lusik Usoyan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
burden-of-proof discretionary-function-rule foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act policy-analysis policy-prong presidential-protection presidential-security-detail state-visit-security use-of-force |
1. Whether the Discretionary Function Rule within
the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C.
§ 1605(a)(5)(A)—which preserves foreign sovereign
im… |
| 21-998 |
Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee… |
| 21-968 |
Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix |
1. Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassm… |
| 21-936 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Cathy Owsley v. Fazzi Associates, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraudulent-scheme pleading pleading-particularity rule-9(b) rule-9b standing |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also pl… |
| 21-887 |
Miguel Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-proceedings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights exhaustion-requirement futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act money-damages statutory-interpretation |
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) preserves the rights of children with disabilities to bring claims under the Constitution and o… |
| 21-867 |
Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. v. Jessica T. Badilla, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
civil-rights combatant-activities due-process federal-preemption federal-tort-claims-act military military-operations preemption statutory-interpretation tort-claims |
Whether state-law tort claims that arise out of the
uniquely federal sphere of the military's combat operations are preempted by the interests embodie… |
| 21-757 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-scope enablement enablement-requirement invention-disclosure judicial-review patent patent-law statutory-interpretation undue-experimentation written-description |
1. Whether enablement is "a question of fact to be determined by the jury," Wood v. Underhill, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 1, 4 (1846), as this Court has held, o… |
| 21-746 |
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inter-partes-review license-agreement patent patent-challenge patent-validity standing takings |
Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents. |
| 21-676 |
Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation |
Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for… |
| 21-599 |
Margaret L. Kinney v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court chapter-13 completion-discharge debtor-rights discharge modification motion-to-dismiss payment plan plan-modification |
Should certiorari be granted to resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals as to whether a bank-ruptcy court may deny a motion to dismiss and/or… |
| 21-471 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Express Scripts, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
benefit-pricing circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duties pegram-v-herdrich plan-management price-control pricing third-party-administrator |
1. Does an administrator hired by an ERISA plan act as a fiduciary when it controls prices paid by the plan or its participants (as the Fourth, Fifth,… |
| 21-462 |
Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal… |
| 21-438 |
Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte |
Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction of a term the district… |
| 21-382 |
Moses Strauss, et al. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
aiding-and-abetting civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act standing substantial-funds terrorism terrorist-organization |
Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated foreign terrorist organization aids and abets that organization's terrorist… |
| 21-381 |
Tzvi Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank, PLC |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) aiding-abetting civil-liability civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations free-speech material-support standing substantial-assistance terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated FTO aids and abets that organization's terrorist acts for purposes of civil… |
| 21-260 |
Virgin America, Inc., et al. v. Julia Bernstein, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
airline-deregulation-act carrier-regulations federal-aviation-administration flight-attendants ninth-circuit preemption significant-impact state-law state-laws |
The Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) expressly preempts state laws that are "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713… |
| 21-241 |
Monsanto Company v. Edwin Hardeman |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
daubert-standard epa-approval expert-testimony failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption herbicide-regulation preemption state-law-claims |
1. Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where the warning cannot be added to a product without EPA approval and EPA has repeatedly… |
| 21-194 |
California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law |
The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act ("FA") expressly preempts state laws "related to a price, route, or service, of any motor carrie… |
| 20-1425 |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. v. Allen Miller |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
civil-rights common-law-negligence due-process federal-preemption motor-carrier safety-regulation statutory-interpretation transportation transportation-law |
The question presented is whether a common-law negligence claim against a freight broker is preempted because it does not constitute an exercise of th… |
| 20-1426 |
Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets |
Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s… |
| 20-1394 |
PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre… |
| 20-1229 |
James W. Robertson, Sr. v. Intratek Computer, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
administrative-scheme arbitration-enforcement employment-rights federal-contract government-subcontractor mandatory-arbitration non-waiver-provision statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Under 41 U.S.C. § 4712, employees of government
subcontractors may not be retaliated against for reporting
violations of laws, rules, or regulations… |
| 20-1199 |
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College |
First Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
affirmative-action asian-american-discrimination civil-rights equal-protection higher-education race-based-admissions strict-scrutiny title-vi |
1. Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger,
539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of
higher education cannot use race as a factor in… |
| 20-1046 |
Marin Housing Authority v. Kerrie Reilly |
California |
Denied |
administrative-law annual-income developmental-disability housing-assistance income-calculation medicaid-funding medicaid-payments personal-caregiving public-housing |
Whether a public housing authority, in calculating a family's annual income, is required by this regulation to exclude Medicaid-funded payments made t… |
| 20-1034 |
Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law |
Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora… |
| 20-994 |
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation |
Title II of the Clean Air Act ("CAA") grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") broad and exclusive authority to enforce auto manufactur… |
| 20-891 |
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework |
American Axle invented a new process for making a new, useful, and tangible thing – a quieter automobile driveshaft. It is the type of invention that … |
| 20-905 |
Independent School District No. 283 v. E. M. D. H. ex rel. L. H. and S. D. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
administrative-complaint administrative-procedure continuing-violation-doctrine education-law federal-circuit-split individuals-with-disabilities-education-act negative-consequences statutory-time-limit |
Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the two-year statutory time limit to file an administrative complaint under the Individuals with … |
| 20-807 |
Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Two questions are presented:
1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train … |
| 20-772 |
Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
congressional-approval ex-parte-young interstate-compact interstate-compacts preemption sovereign-immunity state-officials |
Whether, under the doctrine of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), an interstate compact agency may sue a state official to prevent that official fro… |
| 20-603 |
Le Roy Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety |
Texas |
Judgment Issued |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process military-employment sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig userra war-powers |
In the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Congress gave the over 19 million military servicemembers—including… |
| 20-609 |
Gannett Company, Inc., et al. v. Jeffrey Quatrone |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options menu-of-investment-options prudence single-stock-fund |
Whether a plaintiff adequately pleads breach of the duties of prudence and diversification solely by alleging that fiduciaries permitted participants … |
| 22O154 |
New Hampshire, Plaintiff v. Massachusetts |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 20-493 |
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, et al. v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
cabazon-band federal-restoration-act gaming gaming-regulation indian-tribes legislative-interpretation native-american-rights regulatory-jurisdiction restoration-act state-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty ysleta-del-sur-pueblo |
Whether the Restoration Act provides the Pueblo with sovereign authority to regulate non-prohibited gaming activities on its lands (including bingo), … |
| 20-402 |
Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period |
The question presented is: What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys' fees actions under 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(8)(B)(… |
| 20-319 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko |
(1) whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid b… |
| 20-219 |
Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-law civil-rights civil-rights-act compensatory-damages emotional-distress federal-funding rehabilitation-act title-vi |
Whether the compensatory damages available
under Title VI and the statutes that incorporate its
remedies include compensation for emotional distress. |
| 20-28 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction |
Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of … |
| 20-8 |
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, et al. v. Robert R. McCormick Foundation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
bankruptcy-law creditor-rights financial-institution fraudulent-transfers merit-management-group merit-management-precedent preemption |
1. Whether the court of appeals correctly held, in conflict with the decisions of four other circuits and of this Court, that the presumption against … |
| 19-1401 |
April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan |
Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative… |
| 19-1143 |
FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met, or whether, … |
| 19-1039 |
PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
certificate-of-public-convenience constitutional-law eminent-domain federal-power ferc interstate-pipeline natural-gas-act state-property |
Whether the NGA delegates to FERC certificate holders the authority to exercise the federal government's eminent domain power to condemn land in which… |
| 22O153 |
Texas, Plaintiff v. California |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O152 |
Montana and Wyoming, Plaintiffs v. Washington |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 19-648 |
CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that… |
| 19-638 |
N. B. D. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services |
Kentucky |
Denied |
best-interests deportation federal-law homeland-security immigration immigration-law juvenile-protection predicate-findings special-immigrant-juvenile special-immigrant-juvenile-status state-court-jurisdiction state-courts |
Whether federal law requires state courts of competent jurisdiction to make predicate findings for special immigrant juvenile status determinations up… |
| 19-520 |
Alan Philipp, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-state international-law property-rights commercial-activity expropriation expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality international-law jurisdiction property-claims property-rights |
Is the Federal Republic of Germany ("Germany"),
a foreign state, subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Im… |
| 19-453 |
Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law |
1. Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced by allegations that a U.S. company generally co… |
| 19-416 |
Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction |
1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extrat… |
| 19-351 |
Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings |
1. Whether the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3),
which abrogates foreign sovereign immunity w… |
| 19-277 |
HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-550 extraterritoriality foreign-transaction foreign-transactions initial-transferee initial-transferees international-comity subsequent-transferee subsequent-transferees trustee-recovery |
11 U.ௗS.ௗC. §ௗ550(a) authorizes a bankruptcy trustee to recover the proceeds of voided prepetition debtor transactions from two distinct classes of tr… |
| 19-251 |
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights donor-privacy due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech law-enforcement-interest naacp-v-alabama narrow-tailoring nonprofit nonprofit-association nonprofit-organizations standing |
Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long
required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech
and association outside the election context—as… |
| 19-255 |
Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights.
2. Wheth… |
| 19-185 |
Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
civil-procedure common-law-immunity conduct-based-immunity diplomatic-immunity executive-branch executive-branch-position executive-branch-views foreign-official-immunity foreign-officials personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit personal-capacity-suits samantar-v-yousuf torture-victim-protection-act |
Respondent Darryl Lewis, an American citizen and security contractor, was arrested and detained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on groun… |
| 18-1447 |
Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
choice-of-forum comity-interest exhaustion-of-local-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens international-comity naturalized-citizens world-war-ii-property-claims |
1. May the district court abstain from exercising jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for reasons of international comity, where f… |
| 18-1401 |
David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Granted |
adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 18-1140 |
Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law |
Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims. |
| 22O150 |
Arizona, Plaintiff v. California |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 18-956 |
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
17-usc-102 17-usc-107 computer-code computer-program copyright-law copyright-protection fair-use federal-circuit intellectual-property software-development software-interface |
1. Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface.
2. Whether, as the jury found, petitioner's use of a software interface in the conte… |
| 18-921 |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v. Yali Acevedo Feliciano, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
GVR |
church-autonomy church-hierarchy church-structure civil-courts civil-rights ecclesiastical-rights ecclesiastical-structure establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech religious-organization |
Whether the First Amendment empowers courts to override the chosen legal structure of a religious organization and declare all of its constituent part… |
| 18-926 |
Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation |
A fiduciary of an ERISA plan is personally liable for "losses to the plan resulting from" a breach of fiduciary duty. 29 U.S.C. § 1109(a).
Fiduciarie… |
| 18-817 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 |
Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural … |
| 18-612 |
CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence |
Whether, as the Eleventh Circuit held, Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on the fuel used by interstate motor carriers sufficiently justifies … |
| 18-600 |
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a person directly infringes a patent whenever she "offers to sell" a patented invention "within the United States." The ques… |
| 18-581 |
Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether the "commercial activity" exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to … |
| 18-575 |
YPF S.A. v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge legal-exception sovereign-immunity |
Whether the "commercial activity" exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to su… |
| 18-540 |
Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association |
Eighth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split drug-reimbursement eighth-circuit erisa-preemption health-care-law pbm-regulation pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation state-regulation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that Arkansas's statute regulating PBMs' drug-reimbursement rates, which is similar to laws enacted by a s… |
| 18-486 |
Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation |
In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247 (2010), this Court held that Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act does not apply ex… |
| 18-447 |
Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers |
Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a
State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use
tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to
transport goods interst… |
| 18-415 |
HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing |
The question presented is whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the… |
| 18-349 |
Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship |
Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee for engaging in a religious practice—here, abstaining from work on his Sabbath—"unless [the] e… |
| 18-309 |
Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
1. Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 … |
| 18-268 |
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., et al. v. Upstate Forever, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
GVR |
citizen-suit clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutants groundwater navigable-waters ongoing-violation point-source soil |
The Clean Water Act requires a permit for the "discharge of pollutants" into navigable waters, defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable … |
| 18-260 |
County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
clean-water-act fair-notice groundwater groundwater-contamination groundwater-regulation navigable-waters nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-pollution permit-requirements point-source point-source-pollution underground-injection |
1. Whether the CWA requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as … |
| 18-164 |
First Solar, Inc., et al. v. Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
disclosure fraud fraud-claim loss-causation market-price private-plaintiff securities-fraud standing |
Whether a private securities-fraud plaintiff may establish the critical element of loss causation based on a decline in the market price of a security… |
| 18-109 |
Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
35-usc-102 35-usc-119 disclosure federal-circuit filing-date patent patent-application patent-law patent-prior-art prior-art priority subject-matter |
Do unclaimed disclosures in a published patent application and an earlier application it relies on for priority enter the public domain and thus becom… |
| 22O149 |
State of Indiana, et al., Plaintiffs v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O148 |
State of Missouri, et al., Plaintiffs v. State of California |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O147 |
New Mexico, Plaintiff v. Colorado |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O144 |
Nebraska and Oklahoma, Plaintiffs v. Colorado |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O143 |
Mississippi, Plaintiff v. Tennessee, City of Memphis, Tennessee, and Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division |
|
Dismissed |
None |
|
| 22O142 |
Florida, Plaintiff v. Georgia |
|
Dismissed |
None |
|
| 22O141 |
Texas, Plaintiff v. New Mexico and Colorado |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O137 |
Montana, Plaintiff v. Wyoming and North Dakota |
|
Denied |
None |
|
| 22O65 |
Texas, Plaintiff v. New Mexico |
|
Denied |
None |
|