Cert Grants

100 cases with cert granted, awaiting decision

Case Title Lower Court Granted Flags Tags Question Presented
25A1097 Ian S. R. Buenaventura v. Leslie G. C. Buot Maine 2026-04-08 None Question not identified.
25-735 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2026-04-06 Amici (2)Relisted (2) congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of the jurisdiction, recognized by this Court in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 (1974), …
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-03-30 Amici (13)Relisted (8) batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination 1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia…
25-352 Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-30 Relisted (3) affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-discretion pleading-rules summary-judgment Where a defendant has filed an answer without pleading an affirmative defense, may the defendant nonetheless assert that affirmative defense as the ba…
25-459 Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports Sixth Circuit 2026-03-23 Amici (1)Relisted (2) audiovisual-services consumer-definition disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act The question here is whether the phrase "goods or services from a video tape service provider," as used in the VPPA's definition of "consumer," refers…
25A1035 Anthony Wayne March v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-03-23 None Question not identified.
25-579 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit 2026-03-09 Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act agency-action cooperative-federalism environmental-review hazardous-waste resource-conservation-recovery-act 1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t…
25-170 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Colorado 2026-02-23 Amici (14)Relisted (6) climate-change federal-law greenhouse-gas-emissions international-emissions interstate-emissions state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-…
25-466 Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2026-02-23 Amici (14) circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm.
25-112 Okello T. Chatrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-16 Amici (33)Relisted (2) cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause 1. Whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. 2. Whether the exclusionary rule should apply to the evidence derived…
24-1068 Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell Missouri 2026-01-16 CVSGAmici (45)Relisted (3) 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…
25-498 Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Relisted (2) breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a plan fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t…
24-889 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-16 CVSGAmici (29)Relisted (3) 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…
25-365 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-12 Amici (68)Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-83 Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-12 Amici (1)Relisted (3) arbitration-award diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act federal-question jurisdiction post-arbitration-application Under Sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act, a party may apply to confirm or vacate an arbitration award. But federal courts have limited j…
25-429 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau Second Circuit 2026-01-09 Amici (5) immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu…
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Amici (1) administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions that govern the FCC's assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Ame…
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-09 Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
24-856 Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 CVSGAmici (31)Relisted (3) 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,…
24-699 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-15 CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) 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…
24-1234 United States v. Ali Danial Hemani Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Amici (23)Relisted (3) constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any …
25-5146 Ahmad Abouammo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-05 Amici (6)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure federal-rules indictment prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations venue-statute 1. Whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute's intent element "contemplates" effects that coul…
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-05 Amici (5)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court.
25A657 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-05 aedpa constitutional-claims due-process habeas-review ineffective-assistance word-limitation Question not identified.
25A579 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-18 certiorari judicial-procedure page-limits pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-5 Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, a California Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Amici (16)Relisted (3) asylum-application border-entry immigration-law immigration-officer statutory-interpretation u.s.-mexico-border The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be…
25A543 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access judicial-procedure pleading-requirements procedural-rules Question not identified.
25-6 Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2025-10-20 Amici (6)Relisted (2) bad-faith bankruptcy-law civil-claims judicial-estoppel judicial-integrity procedural-doctrine Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing th…
24-820 Daniel Rutherford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-14 Amici (7)Relisted (2) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr…
24-1063 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-10 Amici (7)Relisted (3) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds…
25M11 Sealed Appellant v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2025-10-06 Relisted (2) None
25-95 Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-10-03 Amici (26) excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of …
24-983 Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-03 CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (3) 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 …
24-1238 Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-03 Amici (19)Relisted (2) common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver?
24-1046 Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2025-10-03 Amici (35) bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 33 (2022), holds that "the Second Amendment guarantees a general right to public…
24-345 FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-30 CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (3) 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.
25-332 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter District of Columbia 2025-09-22 Amici (58) None
25A311 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-18 None Question not identified.
25A277 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-10 certiorari-petition court-rules fraud-on-court motion-for-leave page-limit pleading-requirements Question not identified.
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-05 Amici (26)Relisted (3) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
24-924 Winston Tyler Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-05 Amici (17)Relisted (2) boyle-doctrine federal-preemption government-contractor military-activities state-law-negligence tort-claims Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a go…
23-1209 M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund District of Columbia 2025-07-03 CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) 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…
24-43 West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson Fourth Circuit 2025-07-03 Amici (46)Relisted (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix 1. Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth. 2. Whet…
24-783 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-30 Amici (13)Relisted (6) district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(1).
24-621 National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-30 Amici (40)Relisted (2) campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure A political party exists to get its candidates elected. Yet Congress has severely restricted how much parties can spend on their own campaign advertis…
23-1197 Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-23 CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) 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.
24-781 First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Jennifer Davenport, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-06-16 Amici (52)Relisted (10) constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a …
24-872 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Amici (11)Relisted (3) atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence 1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence. 2.…
24-860 Johnnie Markel Carter v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Amici (6)Relisted (2) district-courts extraordinary-and-compelling federal-prisoners nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circum…
24-556 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-05-27 Amici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis…
24A1074 John Fitzgerald Gayles v. Arizona Arizona 2025-05-06 None
24A606 Lisa Washington v. Joseph Lee Washington California 2024-12-19 administrator-fees due-process estate-administration judicial-review probate-jurisdiction racketeer-influenced Question not identified.
24A587 TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General. District of Columbia 2024-12-18 Amici (5) bill-of-attainder content-restriction first-amendment free-speech national-security social-media Question not identified.
24A588 Brian Firebaugh, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General District of Columbia 2024-12-18 Amici (2) content-restriction first-amendment foreign-ownership free-speech social-media tiktok Question not identified.
24A287 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-28 Amici (2) administrative-law congressional-delegation federal-regulation horseracing-integrity regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A339 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-09 appellate-review constitutional-review due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24A268 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause summary-judgment warrantless-search Question not identified.
24A130 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-08-07 constitutional-validity criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plea-of-guilt pro-se suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
23A904 Wayne Phillip Vance v. Glen Engstrom, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-10 civil-rights due-process equal-protection page-limit pro-se writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A845 C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-20 constitutional-argument exceptional-importance page-limits procedural-justice substantial-rights supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-624 United States v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2023-12-11 Amici (2) constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution due-process executive-immunity executive-privilege impeachment impeachment-clause presidential-immunity presidential-powers Whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from fe…
23A243 Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-20 Amici (5) content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-speech injunction social-media Question not identified.
22A850 Paul A. Bernard v. Michigan Minnesota 2023-03-30 None
22A836 Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 None
22A835 Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 None
22A716 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-02-07 None
22A544 Arizona, et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security District of Columbia 2022-12-27 Amici (1) None
22A511 Daniel Patrick Degoto v. William S. Bohrer, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-12-09 None
22A269 Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden Georgia 2022-09-29 None
22A255 Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 None
22A110 Daniel Beckwitt v. Maryland Maryland 2022-08-10 None
21A843 Eric Watkins v. Officer Shields, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 None
21A810 Leo Contrera v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-09 None
21A381 Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-02 None
21A182 Jason Whren v. United States District of Columbia 2021-12-10 None
21M48 In re Special Investigation Misc. 1064 Maryland 2021-12-06 None
21A63 Bobby Joe Barton v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-10-12 None
21A34 Tim Shoop, Warden v. August Cassano Sixth Circuit 2021-09-20 None
21A33 John H. Ramirez v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Amici (1) None
20A175 Cyrus Casby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 None
20A149 Todd Oliver Ameen v. Casey Hamilton, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-22 None
20M43 Debera P. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services Maine 2020-12-07 None
20A76 Delmart E.J.M. Vreeland v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-19 None
20A50 Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 None
20A14 Steven B. Anderson v. Thomas Winn Sixth Circuit 2020-07-16 None
19A1060 Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 None
19A751 Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-07 None
19A640 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Deutsche Bank AG, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-13 None
19A459 William Conrad Yeager, II v. NPR, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-28 None
19A129 Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-01 None
18A1305 Carolyn Barnes v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-16 constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine government-sovereignty judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers Question not identified.
18A1152 Michael Balice v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 None
18A1100 Jupiter Dennell Wilson, Sr. v. City of Chesapeake, Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 None
18M98 A. R. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2019-02-19 None
18A564 Stan J. Caterbone v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-30 None
18M8 Jason K. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maine 2018-10-01 None
18M1 Father v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maine 2018-10-01 None
18A255 Donald Lee Reeves, III v. California California 2018-09-12 None
18A199 DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 None
24A667 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit incarceration page-limit pro-se procedural-obstacles supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.