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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-459 | Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports | Sixth Circuit | 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… |
| 25-498 | Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 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… |
| 25-51 | Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin | Fourth Circuit | aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review | Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of "nuance" and "exhausti… |
| 24-699 | Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. | District of Columbia | 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… |
| 25-95 | Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 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 … |
| 25-197 | T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 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. |
| 25-162 | Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Sixth Circuit | administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause | 1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a… |
| 24-1068 | Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell | Missouri | 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… |
| 24-889 | Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 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… |
| 25-112 | Okello T. Chatrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 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… |
| 24-983 | Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 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 … |
| 25-83 | Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. | Second Circuit | 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… |
| 24-935 | Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock | Tenth Circuit | contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 25-567 | Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. | Second Circuit | 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… |
| 24-1046 | Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | 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… |
| 25-6 | Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 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… |
| 25-406 | Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 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… |
| 25-466 | Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 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. |
| 25-429 | Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau | Second Circuit | 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… |
| 24-856 | Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 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,… |