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25-1167 Yubo Miao v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending 42-USC-1981 civil-rights factual-inferences motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards racial-discrimination Whether a district court may dismiss a complaint alleging racial discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 at the pleading stage by resolving factual disp…
25-1168 Ralph Peterson v. Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending anti-SLAPP antitrust-law continuing-violation fraudulent-concealment quasi-judicial-immunity statute-of-limitations 1. Federal Antitrust and Due Process Protections Whether a physician who suffers network exclusion, contract loss, and practice-sale interference aft…
25-1170 Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending breach-of-trust fiduciary-duty Indian-trust-lands natural-resources-protection tribal-water-rights Winters-doctrine (1) Is the United States' promise to provide the Winnemucca Indian Colony, a federally recognized Tribe with lands held in trust established by an …
25-1171 Bryan S. Perez, et al. v. Mary Pelentay, Individually and as Trustee of the Quach Living Trust Washington 2026-04-13 Pending deed-construction due-process-clause fee-simple-title inter-vivos-deeds quiet-title summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a State to permanently extinguish recorded fee-simple title through a trust-and estat…
25-1172 Julie A. Weiman v. Alyn D. Wine, et al. Colorado 2026-04-13 Pending None
25-1173 John E. Hall v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending appellate-review article-III-jurisdiction claim-preclusion due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal Whether Article III permits a federal court to impose a sua sponte dismissal with prejudice carrying a claim preclusive, merits level finality when no…
25-1174 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al. Massachusetts 2026-04-13 Pending None
25-1175 Archie Williams v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-13 Pending civil-rights-section-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-identification qualified-immunity suggestiveness For the purposes of determining "clearly established" law under the qualified immunity analysis, does a Fourteenth Amendment claim alleging deprivatio…
25-1162 Christopher John Golberg v. North Dakota North Dakota 2026-04-10 Pending exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-privacy police-authority search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the police need a warrant to enter the attached garage in a single-family home, in the absence of any exception to the warrant requirement.
25-1165 Garrett M. Ziegler, et al. v. P. Kevin Morris California 2026-04-10 Pending anti-SLAPP-statute due-process fee-sanctions first-amendment private-right-of-action procedural-due-process Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute is unconstitutional, particularly as applied where a civil court, rather than dismissing claims predicated on …
25-1166 Charles Miller v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2026-04-10 Pending civil-rights-act employment-discrimination groff-v-dejoy religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Whether, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may satisfy its heightened burden, established by the Supreme Court's decision i…
25-1157 National Coalition for Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-09 Pending article-iii-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment justiciability military-selective-service-act sex-discrimination This petition presents an issue of national and constitutional significance under the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men, but not wome…
25-1161 Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair Massachusetts 2026-04-09 Pending appellate-jurisdiction attorneys-fees civil-contempt due-process frivolous-appeal prevailing-party-doctrine In Massachusetts, for most civil and criminal appeals, appellate jurisdiction is established only by appellate rules from which broad exercise of appe…
25-1163 Carlos Pena v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2026-04-09 Pending constitutional-liability fifth-amendment law-enforcement property-destruction public-necessity takings-clause 1. Whether the government is exempt from liability under the Takings Clause when law enforcement officers intentionally destroy an innocent person's p…
25-1164 Robert R.D. Callioux v. Tim Lang, Secretary, Washington State Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-09 Pending AEDPA-deference certificate-of-appealability exculpatory-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Sixth-Amendment 1. Whether the "independent judgment" required of federal courts under Article III, as reaffirmed in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369…
25-1155 Lucas Randall Nelson v. Robyn Griffith Texas 2026-04-08 Pending None
25-1158 Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-04-08 Pending eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement-liability police-power takings-clause 1. Whether the Takings Clause has a police power exception, making no compensation due when the government damages private property under its police p…
25-1159 Duane Morley Cox v. Teresa Wilhelmsen, et al. Utah 2026-04-08 Pending administrative-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review water-rights A. First Constitutional Question: "Does the Order of the District Court Granting Respondents Motion To Dismiss Violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights…
25-1160 Korean Claimants v. Dow Silicones Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-08 Pending administrative-law due-process equal-protection foreign-nationals judicial-supervision mass-tort-settlement This petition arises from a decades-long mass tort settlement administered under federal court supervision in which over 2,600 South Korean nationals …
25-1153 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2026-04-07 Pending appearance-of-bias due-process fifth-amendment governmental-retaliation judicial-recusal summary-order Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth Amendment where the lower federal courts: I. Dismissed Petitioner's sworn claims of govern…
25-1154 Abrahim Mohamed Fofana v. Markwayne Mullin, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-04-07 Pending None
25-1156 Samsung SDI Company, Limited v. Shawn Peters Minnesota 2026-04-07 Pending due-process-clause forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction Whether, in a product-liability action, the plaintiff's claims relate to the defendant's forum contacts when the defendant manufacturer sells the prod…
25-1152 Jonathan Moreland v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-04-06 Pending administrative-law bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights due-process school-attendance vaccine-mandate The United States District Court, District of West Virginia lacked lawful authority to require Petitioner to take a meningitis vaccine in order to att…
25-1148 Parker C. Myslow v. United States Armed Forces 2026-04-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-error courts-martial entry-of-judgment second-amendment uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after ent…
25-1149 Michael J. Hymel v. United States Armed Forces 2026-04-03 Pending Response Waived appellate-discretion court-martial guilty-plea military-law providence-inquiry standard-of-review Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion under 10 U.S.C. § 867 (a)(3) by failing to grant review "upon petition of the accus…
25-1150 Roger Lee Morse v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2026-04-03 Pending appellate-jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadlines notice-of-appeal post-trial-relief pro-se-representation procedural-default 1. Given Morse's untimely appeal, did the circuit court have jurisdiction to solicit a ruling from the district court, instead of dismissing the appea…
25-1151 Charles Bozzo v. Jennifer Nanasy, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-03 Pending accrual-of-claims arbitration due-process grievance-procedures procedural-due-process section-1983 Whether a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues at the moment of the initial deprivation, or only when the State-mandated grieva…
25-1144 Daisey Trust, By and Through Its Trustee Eddie Haddad, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending administrative-law appropriations-clause federal-housing-finance-agency nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, 601 U.S. 416 (2024) ("CFPB"), this Court u…
25-1145 Council For Responsible Nutrition v. Letitia James, in Her Official Capacity as New York Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending central-hudson-test commercial-speech content-based-restriction dietary-supplements first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny In 2023, the New York Legislature passed N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law §391-oo (the "Law"), which bans the sale to minors of dietary supplements that are "labele…
25-1146 Angelo Pesavento, et al. v. Eddie L. Bolden Seventh Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending civil-liability damages-calculation noneconomic-damages pain-and-suffering prejudgment-interest tort-law Whether prejudgment interest should be unavailable as a matter of law on awards of noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering and loss of a norma…
25-1147 Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending administrative-exhaustion Americans-with-Disabilities-Act continuing-violation-doctrine disability-discrimination equitable-tolling pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit 's affirmance of the district court 's dismissal of ADA and TCHRA claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies…
25-1140 Mark Andrew Bauersachs v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, et al. First Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending Response Waived coinage-power declaratory-relief equal-protection-clause injunctive-relief nondelegation-doctrine rational-basis-test In 12 U.S.C. § 225a, Congress commands the Federal Reserve to achieve stable prices using a legislative rule. The legislative rule eliminates price in…
25-1141 Jason Tywann Bell v. John Gilley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending Response Waived career-offender-guideline habeas-corpus mootness residual-clause sentencing-enhancement suspension-clause Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
25-1142 Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending Response Waived claims-administration disclosure-requirements employee-benefits ERISA fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation Whether a contract that governs the administration of benefit claims is a "contract … under which the plan is established or operated" within the mean…
25-1143 D. A., a Minor, By and Through his Mother, B. A., et al. v. Tri County Area Schools, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending first-amendment fraser-exception free-speech political-expression student-speech tinker-standard Students have a First Amendment right to wear political apparel to school unless it causes substantial disruption. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. S…
25-1138 Stephen D. Herto v. John T. Murphy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2026-03-31 Pending Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review substantial-constitutional-question A District Court failed to adjudicate a single claim from the petitioner in its final order dismissing his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petiti…
25-1139 Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-31 Pending Response Waived but-for-causation civil-rights-act diversity-policy employment-discrimination race-conscious-hiring summary-judgment 1. Should a judge or a jury decide the fact intensive question of whether intentional discrimination against white people in the workplace—done pursua…
25-1133 Palani Karupaiyan v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Third Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending Response Waived None Petitioner prayed 18 reliefs which were as Common-law Writ of Certiorari so the questions were part of three test conditions requirement of the Writs.
25-1134 Daniel J. Griffin v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal rule-12-motion vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3), requires a defendant to raise pretrial, or show good cause, an "as applied" constitutional Fif…
25-1135 Deryck Huelett v. Louisville Paving Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending ADA-discrimination burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas summary-judgment McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) set forth a judicially-created analytical framework which shifts the burdens in federal discrimi…
25-1136 Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund Ninth Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-approval chapter-11-bankruptcy contract-assumption debt-financing executory-contracts This case concerns the interpretation of a bankruptcy statute. Subject to the bankruptcy court's approval, debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy may genera…
25-1137 Nicholas Honchariw, Trustee, Honchariw Family Trust v. County of Stanislaus, California Ninth Circuit 2026-03-30 Pending Response Waived land-use property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause vested-rights vesting-tentative-map Whether an approved vesting tentative map which conferred a statutory vested right to finalize a subdivision upon substantial compliance with the cond…
25-1126 Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck Seventh Circuit 2026-03-27 Pending false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam-relator scienter separation-of-powers treble-damages 1. Whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions are unconstitutional. 2. Whether a legal interpretation can be deemed so "objectively unreasonab…
25-1121 Luxottica U.S. Holdings Corp., et al. v. Janet Duke Second Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending arbitration-agreements employee-benefits ERISA Federal-Arbitration-Act public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) protects the right to "traditional individualized arbitration." Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. 497, 509 (2018…
25-1122 American Telecom Company, L.L.C. v. Republic of Lebanon Sixth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure discovery judicial-recusal newly-discovered-evidence summary-dismissal 1. Did the District Court unreasonably deny Plaintiff's arguments that newly discovered evidence should require a) reversal of prior dismissal; and b)…
25-1123 Kevin Steele v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending administrative-law appellate-procedure implicit-denial notice-requirements statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Under the statutory and regulatory notice requirements governing VA decisions since 1990, is the VA permitted to retroactively deem a claim "implicitl…
25-1124 Schmidt Baking Distribution, LLC, et al. v. Nathaniel Silva, et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending arbitration-exemption business-entities commercial-agreements contracts-of-employment Federal-Arbitration-Act statutory-interpretation Whether the FAA's § 1 exemption, which on its face applies only to "contracts of employment," is inapplicable to commercial agreements between two bus…
25-1125 Jose Ruiz v. The Bradford Exchange, Ltd. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending Response Waived adequate-remedy-at-law equity-jurisdiction federal-judicial-authority injunctive-relief judiciary-act-of-1789 waiver-of-jurisdiction Can a defendant waive the lack of federal equity jurisdiction where it plainly does not exist, thereby compelling a federal court to exercise equitabl…
25-1127 United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. Federal Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending contractor-liability government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation Whether a downstream purchaser's liability for mishandling nuclear material that the purchaser obtained for private benefit, but that was originally p…
25-1128 Ronnie Alexander v. Philip R. Taft Psy D and Associates P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending bell-v-wolfish conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble motion-to-dismiss pretrial-detainee-rights 1. In Estelle v. Gamble , 429 U. S. 97 (1976), this Court held that the government has an obligation to provide care for the serious medical needs of …
25-1129 Sixto Gerardo Zuniga v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending None
25-1130 Cherry Grove Beach Gear, LLC, et al. v. City of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending antitrust-law clear-articulation-test market-participant-exception municipal-monopoly parker-immunity state-action-immunity 1. Whether the market participant exception to state action immunity should be adopted under the facts of this case, specifically where the municip…
25-1131 Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, Inc. v. Joel Frederic, et ux. Kentucky 2026-03-26 Pending Amici (1) equal-protection land-use-regulation religious-freedom RLUIPA substantial-burden zoning-law 1. Whether a land-use regulation that prohibits a religious institution from building a religious structure on its own property constitutes a "substan…
25-1132 Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-03-26 Pending appellate-review functional-limitations patent-eligibility patent-trial-and-appeal-board section-101 written-description 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly applied this Court's and its own precedent in disregarding key functional limitations of the claims that …
25-1116 Jordan Zahler v. Jackson Lewis P.C., et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived appellate-review federal-rules-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-procedure mandamus-relief noerr-pennington-doctrine 1. Whether an entity not legally authorized to exist in a jurisdiction possesses the First Amendment right to petition tribunals in that jurisdictio…
25-1117 Essintial Enterprise Solutions, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending administrative-law independent-contractors loan-forgiveness paycheck-protection-program payroll-costs statutory-interpretation The Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") defines "payroll costs" to include "the sum of payments of any compensation to or income of a sole proprietor …
25-1118 Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund v. Alaska Department of Fish & Game, et al. Alaska 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived commerce-clause fish-stock-management interstate-commerce magnuson-stevens-act personal-use-fishery resident-only-restrictions 1. Does the Alaska -resident -only Personal Use ("PU") salmon fishery in C ook Inlet, Alaska, violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution? 2…
25-1119 Aila Curtis, et al. v. Jay Inslee, former Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived federal-rule-civil-procedure-12b6 investigational-medical-treatments jacobson-v-massachusetts party-presentation police-power substantive-due-process Question 1: Does Jacobson v. Massachusetts , 197 U.S. 11 (1905) limit a court's review of government-mandated investigational medical treatments to w…
25-1120 Michael Hild v. United States Second Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure Cuyler-v-Sullivan habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the framework from Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980) —where this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel …
25-1112 James Everett Hunt, et al. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Ninth Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending accountant-certification due-diligence-defense material-misrepresentation registration-statement section-11-liability securities-act 1. Whether to adequately plead a claim under Section 11(a)(4) of the Act against a certifying accountant based on material misrepresentations containe…
25-1113 Jain-Miecell Roberson v. United States Third Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending None The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), 5 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., provides a comprehensive framework for reviewing adverse personnel actions again…
25-1114 EscapeX IP, LLC v. Google LLC Federal Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending Response Waived appellate-review attorney-sanctions patent-fee-awards rule-59-motion section-1927 subjective-bad-faith 1. The Ninth Circuit has long held that sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 "must be supported by a finding of subjective bad faith," and that bad faith …
25-1115 Utah v. Morris T. Mullins Utah 2026-03-24 Pending cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation Whether a sentencing court can impose a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile murderer even if the court finds that the juvenile is not perman…
25-1104 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure judicial-opinion patent-law ptab-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit can affirm a PTAB decision without opinion in contravention of the clear statutory requirement of an "opinion" when review…
25-1105 Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson, Commissioner, Maine's Department of Marine Resources First Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending administrative-search fourth-amendment GPS-tracking reasonable-expectation-of-privacy trespass-doctrine warrantless-search Maine requires all federally-permitted lobstermen, including Petitioner Frank Thompson, to install a GPS tracker on their fishing boats and submit to …
25-1106 James Ethridge v. Samsung SDI Company, Limited Fifth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction product-liability state-jurisdiction When a company directly and regularly sells a product into a state, and that product causes injury in the state to one of the state's residents, does …
25-1107 Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al., v. Computer Sciences Corporation Fifth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived compensatory-damages defend-trade-secrets-act due-process punitive-damages trade-secrets unjust-enrichment 1. Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1836, can a plaintiff obtain a monetary award for unjust enrichment even if it suffered no harm bey…
25-1108 Christopher Zook, et al. v. Scott Fuqua Tenth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Video evidence standard at Rule 12(b)(6). Whether a district court may, or must, consider objective video evidence at the motion-to-dismiss stage w…
25-1109 Richard Gibson, et al. v. Cendyn Group, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response Waived algorithmic-pricing antitrust-law price-fixing rule-of-reason sherman-act-section-1 vertical-agreements Whether vertical licensing agreements between a common algorithmic pricing vendor and competing firms are categorically exempt from Section 1's rule-o…
25-1110 Cathy A. Harris v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-23 Pending adjudicatory-authority administrative-law merit-systems-protection-board presidential-removal-power removal-for-cause separation-of-powers 1. Whether Congress may provide by statute that members of the Merit Systems Protection Board—an adjudicatory body—"may be removed by the President on…
25-1111 Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-23 Pending Response Waived appellate-review copyright-infringement federal-rules-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law secondary-liability sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether a court of appeals may assess the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a jury verdict by reviewing the denial of a Rule 50(a) motion. 2.…
25-1098 Ryan O'Donnell, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-03-20 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action equal-protection-clause farm-loan-forgiveness pigford-settlement racial-discrimination 1. Whether the United States Department of Agriculture's ("USDA") policy, codified within USDA's Discrimination Financial Assistance Program ("DFAP ")…
25-1102 James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2026-03-20 Pending Response Waived None
25-1103 U.S. Doge Service, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-20 Pending administrative-law executive-privilege freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandamus separation-of-powers The district court in this case entered a wide-ranging and intrusive discovery order against the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS) —a body within the Executive…
25-1097 Samuel Ghee v. Flix North America, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-19 Pending due-process-violation fourth-amendment-seizure motor-carrier-law qualified-immunity section-1983-conspiracy unreasonable-seizure 1. Why did both lower court judges say a fourth amendment seizure requires an arrest and refuse to challenge your stare decisis ruling, Hodari D., 499…
25-1099 Quashaun Melsun Reel v. North Carolina North Carolina 2026-03-19 Pending curtilage fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement-purpose search-doctrine When police enter the curtilage of the home to conduct a "knock-and-talk" investigation with the purpose of gathering incriminating evidence against t…
25-1100 Thomas Joseph Powell, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2026-03-19 Pending administrative-law first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint securities-regulation viewpoint-discrimination The question presented is whether the SEC's Gag Rule violates the First Amendment.
25-1101 Pauline Newman, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit v. Kimberly A. Moore, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-19 Pending Amici (2) constitutional-claims disability-act injunctive-relief judicial-council judicial-review ultra-vires 1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 357(c)'s bar on judicial review of previously issued "orders" and "determinations" apply to ultra vires acts that exceed the scope…
25-1086 Keith Pharms v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-03-18 Pending acquitted-conduct due-process-clause fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a sentencing court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence based on conduct of which a jury ac…
25-1094 Charles Barrett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-03-18 Pending Response Waived appellate-review evidentiary-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit prior-uncharged-conduct sexual-assault Whether, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing the government to admit evidence of prior uncharged allegations of sexual a…
25-1095 David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Transource Pennsylvania, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2026-03-18 Pending appellate-review federal-preemption intervention-standing land-use-regulation public-utility-commission state-sovereignty For years, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, while represented by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, defended a state statute agai…
25-1096 Amika T. Clark v. Tyrus J. Clark South Carolina 2026-03-18 Pending family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights prior-restraint strict-scrutiny Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a family court to impose an indefinite, content-based prior restraint on a parent's speech, based s…
25-1085 Elephant Insurance Company, et al. v. Christopher Holmes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending article-iii-standing common-law-harm fourth-circuit-seventh-circuit-split personal-information public-disclosure-of-private-facts tort-liability 1. The Court has held that a plaintiff can establish Article III standing through an intangible injury-in-fact where (1) that injury bears a close rel…
25-1087 William M. Hilton v. United States Armed Forces 2026-03-17 Pending Response Waived abuse-of-discretion certiorari court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces discretionary-review good-cause-standard military-appellate-procedure Petitioner made an unrebutted showing of good cause to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review his case. Nevertheless, the court denied re…
25-1088 Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending appellate-jurisdiction excessive-force Johnson-v-Jones party-presentation-principle qualified-immunity tasing Whether the Court of Appeals violated the party presentation principle by reversing the district court on grounds never raised, and in fact affirmativ…
25-1089 Fairfield Sentry Ltd., et al. v. Citibank NA London, et al. Second Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending bankruptcy-code chapter-15 extraterritorial-application foreign-liquidators ponzi-scheme securities-safe-harbor Whether the Bankruptcy Code's safe harbor for securities settlement payments, 11 U.S.C. §546(e), applies extraterritorially to prevent foreign liquida…
25-1090 Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Georgia 2026-03-17 Pending municipal-ordinances nexus-requirement nollan-dolan-framework rough-proportionality stormwater-fees takings-clause Does the Takings Clause apply to municipal ordinances imposing fees on classes of property outside the permitting context? If the answer to Question …
25-1091 Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Juiliana Swink, Administratrix of the Estate of David Ray Gunter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending Response Waived constitutional-torts governmental-entity healthcare-provider monell-liability respondeat-superior section-1983 1) Given the Supreme Court's decision in Monell , can a governmental entity be held liable, either under the doctrine of respondeat superior or the…
25-1092 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending Response Waived excessive-force failure-to-train fourth-amendment municipal-liability section-1983 seventh-amendment In City of Los Angeles v. Heller, this Court held that "neither Monell, nor any other of our cases authorizes the award of damages against a municipal…
25-1093 Russian Federation v. Stabil LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-17 Pending arbitration-agreement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity FSIA international-arbitration sovereign-immunity Whether Section 1605(a)(6) requires a court to determine, as a threshold jurisdictional matter, that the foreign state offered (consented) to arbitrat…