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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1028 | Porter Smith v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Pending | americans-with-disabilities-act anti-discrimination circuit-split private-right-of-action rehabilitation-act retaliation-claims | Whether Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. 794, authorizes a private right of action for retaliation. | |
| 25-1029 | United States v. Edward Cockerham | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Pending | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… | |
| 25-1025 | Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-26 | Pending | appellate-review brady-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct rule-33-motion witness-recantation | 1. Whether due process and this Court's precedents (Napue v. Illinois , Giglio v. United States , Kyles v. Whitley ) require a federal trial court to … | |
| 25-1026 | National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2026-02-26 | Pending | circuit-split firearms-liability predicate-exception Protection-of-Lawful-Commerce-in-Arms-Act statutory-interpretation tort-immunity | Whether the PLCAA's predicate exception allows parties to bring the same common-law-style suits against firearms industry members that Congress enacte… | |
| 25-1027 | San Diego Family Housing, LLC, a California Limited Liability Corporation, et al. v. Lena Childs, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-26 | Pending | causal-nexus federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal government-contractor military-housing-privatization-initiative state-court-removal | 1. Whether a causal nexus test of any variety, including that used by the Ninth Circuit, survives the 2011 amendment to the federal officer removal st… | |
| 25-1020 | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | common-law employee-benefit-plans ERISA estoppel plan-interpretation written-instrument | Whether general estoppel can override an ERISA plan's unambiguous text. | |
| 25-1021 | Richard Cornelius Jackson v. Department of Homeland Security | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | due-process equitable-tolling federal-circuit freedom-of-information-act merit-systems-protection-board veterans-employment-opportunities-act | Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Federal Circuit erred in denying equitable tolling under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Ac… | |
| 25-1022 | Arizona, et al. v. Promise Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | clear-error-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection organizational-standing standing voting-rights | 1) Does Article III allow an organization to sue when an unknown number of its unidentified members "may be" injured, as the Ninth Circuit held below … | |
| 25-1023 | James Marshall Shoemaker, III v. Leslie R. Moore, Esq., as Personal Representative and Trustee of the Estate of James Marshall Shoemaker, Jr., et al. | South Carolina | 2026-02-25 | Pending | appellate-jurisdiction attorney-malpractice due-process judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-recusal vacatur | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process is violated when a judge knowingly rules on the merits of a case while maintaining an u… | |
| 25-1024 | Frank Faillace v. Zoe Hollis | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | employee-status fair-labor-standards-act misclassification private-right-of-action retaliation statutory-interpretation | The Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") prohibits retaliation by an employer or "any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer… | |
| 25-1002 | Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association | New Jersey | 2026-02-24 | Pending | antidiscrimination-law constitutional-rights diversity-programs equal-protection first-amendment free-speech-clause | A bar association reserves leadership positions for members of specific minority groups. These set-asides violate the State's antidiscrimination law. … | |
| 25-1005 | Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtain Barnes, Deceased v. Felix Roberto, Jr. et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | deadly-force fleeing-felon-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause totality-of-circumstances unreasonable-force | Whether the mere "risk of flight" renders a suspect so dangerous to the public at large that police are justified under the Fourth Amendment in using … | |
| 25-1006 | Shop Rite, Incorporated v. Small Business Administration | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-enforcement arbitrary-and-capricious judicial-review regulatory-standards | Whether administrative agency enforcement action that reflects internally contradictory reasoning or inconsistent interpretation of applicable regulat… | |
| 25-1007 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-24 | Pending | civil-rights-violations due-process excessive-force federal-tort-liability governmental-immunity habeas-corpus | Can the Federal Government's get away with at tempted murder, modern-day lynching in a hospital and Human Rights violations again on an American Citiz… | |
| 25-1008 | Aviagames, Inc. v. Andrew Pandolfi, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | Response Waived | arbitration-agreements contract-enforcement equal-treatment-rule Federal-Arbitration-Act procedural-unconscionability severability-doctrine | The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") requires courts to "place arbitration agreements on an equal footing with other contracts" and to "enforce them ac… |
| 25-1009 | National Association of Immigration Judges v. Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | administrative-jurisdiction civil-service-reform-act federal-employee-speech first-amendment judicial-review prior-restraint | One year after this Court's decision in Thunder Basin Coal Co. v. Reich, 510 U.S. 200 (1994), the Court exercised jurisdiction over a pre-enforcement … | |
| 25-1010 | Lee Michael Tomko v. Bruno Martin | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | bivens-action federal-employee-liability fourth-amendment motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards rule-12b6 | Is my complaint frivolous or otherwise insubstantial, when applying the motion to dismiss standard of accepting all allegations in the complaint as tr… | |
| 25-1011 | Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | America-Invents-Act inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-estoppel patent-litigation real-parties-in-interest | To discourage unnecessary litigation and protect patent owners' rights, the America Invents Act requires a petition for inter partes review to identif… | |
| 25-1012 | HMTX Industries, LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | administrative-law major-questions-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority trade-act | Whether USTR's streamlined authority under Section 307 to "modify" an existing tariff action confers on the agency essentially unlimited power to expa… | |
| 25-1013 | Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Bestwall LLC v. Bestwall LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | asbestos-liability bankruptcy-clause chapter-11-bankruptcy corporate-restructuring good-faith-petition subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a debtor with a conceded ability to pay all liabilities now and in the foreseeable future properly can invoke bankruptcy protection. | |
| 25-1014 | Laith Saud v. DePaul University | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | adverse-employment-action but-for-causation pretext race-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix-investigation | 1. Whether a discriminatory Title IX investigation— whose findings are relied upon by a decisionmaker to impose concrete employment consequences—can … | |
| 25-1015 | Nicholas Robles, West Covina Police Officer, et al. v. Ronnie Parham | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | clearly-established-law evading-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity traffic-stop | 1. Does probable cause exist to stop, search, arrest, and prosecute a criminal suspect for evading arrest where unrefuted video evidence and the suspe… | |
| 25-1016 | Dmitry Kruglov v. Federal National Mortgage Association | Pennsylvania | 2026-02-24 | Pending | discovery-violations due-process equal-protection judicial-bias summary-judgment unconscionability | I. Due Process and Equal Protection Questions (Fourteenth Amendment) 1. Whether the trial court violated procedural due process and equal protection… | |
| 25-1017 | Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | citizenship-requirements consent-decree election-law federal-preemption national-voter-registration-act voter-registration | (1) Does the National Voter Registration Act or a fed-eral consent decree prohibit Arizona from requir-ing voter-registration applicants to produce "s… | |
| 25-1018 | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Sean O'Day, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | compelled-disclosure first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny regulatory-takings takings-clause trade-secrets | 1. Whether a government reporting requirement is subject to intermediate First Amendment scrutiny, and satisfies such scrutiny, so long as it aims to … | |
| 25-1019 | Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | discriminatory-intent mail-in-voting National-Voter-Registration-Act preemption proof-of-citizenship voter-registration | 1. Whether the NVRA or a prior consent decree precludes Arizona from requiring documentary proof of citizenship and residence when applicants use its … | |
| 25-1000 | Adrienne L. Clark v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-23 | Pending | None | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when evidence seized outside the scope of a search warrant is admitted in a military trial? 2. Whether th… | |
| 25-1001 | United States v. Briani L. Doucet | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Pending | constitutional-challenge drug-offense felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… | |
| 25-1003 | Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division v. Dexter Johnson | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Pending | AEDPA collateral-review habeas-corpus new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity successive-habeas-petitions | The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) prohibits successive habeas applications by state prisoners with only narrow except… | |
| 25-1004 | Citizens Bank, N.A. v. John Conti | First Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Pending | comparative-analysis dodd-frank-act federal-regulation mortgage-escrow-accounts national-bank-act preemption | The National Bank Act grants federally chartered national banks enumerated and incidental powers, subject to federal regulators' detailed proscription… | |
| 25-999 | Brandon Z. Miller v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-23 | Pending | court-martial military-rule-of-evidence-412 public-trial-clause sexual-assault sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia | Whether the Public Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires case-specific determinations of necessity and narrow tailoring before an M.R.E. 412 he… | |
| 25-995 | Venisha Arnold v. 1600 West Loop South, L.L.C., dba The Post Oak at Uptown Houston, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-20 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-996 | Robert James McDonald v. Washington | Washington | 2026-02-20 | Pending | citizenship-status constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment military-jurisdiction war-powers | Does Petitioner hold the citizenship status of being a Pre-March 9, 1933, private citizen of the United States secured by Section 1 of the Fourteenth … | |
| 25-997 | Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2026-02-20 | Pending | Response Waived | firearm-regulation open-carry public-carry right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense | District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570, 612-613 (2008) explained that the Second Amendment protects the "right to carry arms openly." New York St… |
| 25-998 | Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-20 | Pending | cat's-paw-liability decisionmaking-authority employment-discrimination employment-law independent-review proximate-cause | In Staub v. Proctor Hospital , 562 U.S. 411 (2011), this Court held that an employer is liable under a "cat's paw" theory when a supervisor acts wit… | |
| 25-973 | Ray Leonerdirt Díaz-Santiago v. José Sánchez-Acosta, et al. | First Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | due-process-clause fifth-amendment government-contracts promesa property-rights ultra-vires | 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in holding that Petitioner's contractual and constitutional rights were discharged under PROMESA's Title III Plan o… | |
| 25-981 | Kyler Newby v. Gabriel J. Bassford | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | false-arrest first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliatory-arrest | The question presented is whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from a retaliatory arrest claim when the officer could have reaso… |
| 25-982 | Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | access-to-courts Americans-with-Disabilities-Act attorney-liability disability-accommodations due-process retaliation | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits categorically exempting private attorneys from liability under Titles II and III when they interfe… | |
| 25-983 | Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | asset-acquisition due-process-clause forum-contacts general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | Whether the Due Process Clause allows courts to exercise personal jurisdiction by imputing an unaffiliated nonparty's forum contacts to a defendant wi… | |
| 25-984 | Dan McCaleb v. Michelle Long, Director, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | Response Waived | administrative-transparency court-closure first-amendment freedom-of-information judicial-proceedings public-access | 1. In determining whether the public has a right to access meetings of the Tennessee Judicial Advisory Commission, must a court apply the "experience … |
| 25-985 | Evan Norman v. Deputy Lee Ingle, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | appellate-jurisdiction genuine-issue-of-fact interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence | In an interlocutory qualified immunity appeal involving video evidence, under what circumstances, if any, may an appellate court review a district cou… | |
| 25-986 | MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | bankruptcy ERISA multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation unfunded-vested-benefits withdrawal-liability | 1. Whether the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can—through the auspices of imposing "reasonable conditions" on multiemployer pension plans… | |
| 25-987 | Flying T Ranch, Inc., a Washington Corporation v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, a federally recognized Indian Tribe | Washington | 2026-02-19 | Pending | immovable-property-rule indian-tribes quiet-title state-court-jurisdiction tribal-sovereign-immunity trust-land | Under the immovable-property rule, may a party sue an Indian tribe, without the latter's consent, in a State court to quiet title to real property loc… | |
| 25-988 | Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Third Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | circuit-split innocent-taxpayer-liability internal-revenue-code statute-of-limitations tax-assessment-limitations tax-fraud | Whether, under 26 U.S.C. § 6501(c)(1), the IRS may assess tax beyond the Code's three-year limitations period based solely on the fraudulent intent of… | |
| 25-989 | California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, et al. v. Adam Nickels, Acting Regional Director, United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | agricultural-exemption clean-water-act irrigation-return-flows navigable-waters NPDES-permitting point-source-discharge | 1. Whether the Clean Water Act exempts from its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") permitting program "discharges composed e… | |
| 25-990 | Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | administrative-law causation Collins-v-Yellen due-process presidential-removal stigma-plus-doctrine | 1. Whether a party seeking retrospective relief under Collins v. Yellen may prove causation through circumstantial evidence —or must produce direct ev… | |
| 25-991 | Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | civil-rights-action clearly-established-law constitutional-violation excessive-force qualified-immunity section-1983 | I. To avoid dismissal of a § 1983 excessive-force suit, must a plaintiff plead, as an element of her claim, that the officer had a "superior alternati… | |
| 25-992 | Reginald Johnson v. City of Satsuma, Alabama, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-act equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment racial-discrimination state-action | Whether the City of Satsuma, acting in concert with Maurice Kirk Harless, individually and collectively, under color of law, deprived the plaintiff of… | |
| 25-993 | Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur | Second Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | choice-of-law diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts partnership-formation state-law summary-judgment | Whether a federal court sitting in diversity may treat a single factor as dispositive in assessing partnership formation, contrary to this Court's pre… | |
| 25-994 | Beverly Hennager v. Mary E. Deardon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of M.K. Jennings | South Carolina | 2026-02-19 | Pending | access-to-courts appellate-review due-process-clause equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires enforceable constitutional safeguards in state judicial systems where (1) judges bot… | |
| 25-969 | Anthony Zottola, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | anonymous-jury declaration-against-penal-interest fair-trial-rights hearsay-exception presumption-of-innocence right-to-present-defense | 1. Whether a defendant's right to present a defense is violated when he is precluded from offering a declarant's out-of-court, self-inculpatory narrat… | |
| 25-970 | Rami Ghanem v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | acquitted-conduct beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit federal courts from increasing a criminal defendant's authorized punishment based on conduct—including… | |
| 25-971 | Robert Wayne Hutton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | child-sexual-abuse-material circuit-conflict criminal-law fourth-amendment privacy-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether, as a matter of law, secretly recording a minor's ordinary and routine nonsexual activity falls outside the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)? | |
| 25-972 | United States v. Leopoldo Rivera-Valdes | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | constitutional-adequacy deportation due-process immigration-and-nationality-act in-absentia-proceedings notice-requirements | Whether service of a notice of the time and place for deportation proceedings, sent by certified mail to an alien's self-reported address, consistent … | |
| 25-974 | Kevin D. Wickstrom, et al. v. Air Line Pilots Association, International | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | bad-faith duty-of-fair-representation pleading-stage-dismissal railway-labor-act status-quo-requirements union-discretion | 1. Whether a union's duty of fair representation under the Railway Labor Act includes an obligation to enforce the Act's status quo requirements under… | |
| 25-975 | CalPortland Company v. Robert Thomas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | administrative-law-judge administrative-procedure agency-deference factual-findings judicial-review substantial-evidence | When the Commission rejects factual findings of an administrative law judge and makes its own contrary findings, must courts defer to the "findings of… | |
| 25-976 | Robert Carlisle v. Board of Trustees of the American Federation of the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | asset-allocation defined-benefit-pension-plan ERISA-fiduciary-duty investment-performance pleading-standards prudent-man-standard | Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a Fund fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t… | |
| 25-977 | Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | Basic-Inc-v-Levinson class-certification corrective-disclosure efficient-market-hypothesis inflation-maintenance-theory securities-fraud | Securities-fraud class actions overwhelmingly rely on the "inflation-maintenance" theory, which posits that misrepresentations maintain an inflated st… | |
| 25-978 | Adrianna Kondilis, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | Response Waived | discovery due-process first-amendment pretext religious-discrimination title-vii | 1. Whether the First, Second, Third, and Tenth Circuits are correct that courts must permit discovery when public employees allege the government's st… |
| 25-979 | Richard L. Livingston v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | None | This Court ruled in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83, 89-90 (2020) that non-unanimous criminal verdicts are unconstitutional. The question presented is… | |
| 25-980 | Mark DuHall v. Michael Samuels, et al. | Colorado | 2026-02-18 | Pending | appellate-procedure electronic-filing jurisdiction mandate-recall notice-of-appeal procedural-rules | The question presented for review is whether the Colorado Courts of Appeals may dismiss an appeal pursuant to a court-made rule, C.A.R. 4(a), because … | |
| 25-963 | Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems | Second Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship vaccine-mandate | 1. Whether an employer faces a per se Title VII undue hardship if granting an otherwise federally required religious accommodation would conflict with… | |
| 25-964 | TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce | Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the … | |
| 25-965 | Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | Response Waived | chilling-effect constitutional-injury first-amendment land-use-finality religious-exercise williamson-county-doctrine | Whether the First Amendment's established chilling-effect doctrine—under which a credible government threat that deters the exercise of fundamental ri… |
| 25-966 | Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC | Third Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | administrative-law article-iii h-2a-visa-program immigration-law public-rights-doctrine separation-of-powers | Whether Article III of the Constitution precludes Congress from assigning to the Secretary of Labor the initial adjudication of proceedings to collect… | |
| 25-967 | Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | anderson-burdick-test election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-ballots voting-rights | Does Pennsylvania's requirement that mail-in voters provide a handwritten date when signing a preprinted declaration on a ballot return envelope viola… | |
| 25-968 | Kishore Kumar Kavuru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim equal-protection immigration-fraud mandate-rule | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability (COA) by holding that no jurist of reason would find the petitioner 's… |
| 25-960 | Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg… | |
| 25-961 | Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale | QUESTIONS PRESENTED On October 3, 2025 this Court granted the petition for certiorari in Pung v. Isabella Cty., Mich. Case No. 25-95 ("Pung ") where … | |
| 25-962 | Republican National Committee, et al. v. Bette Eakin, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | anderson-burdick constitutional-law election-integrity mail-voting rational-basis voter-fraud | 1. Whether a non-discriminatory rule imposing the usual burdens of voting is constitutional; 2. Whether a mail-voting rule is subject only to rationa… | |
| 25-952 | Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention | In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti… | |
| 25-953 | Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Response Waived | credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law | Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve, as every regional circuit … |
| 25-954 | Seville Industries, L.L.C. v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | independent-contractor loan-forgiveness payroll-costs ppp-loan sba-interpretation small-business | Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program to fund "payroll costs," defined to include "the sum of payments of any compensation with respect to … | |
| 25-955 | Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Colorado | 2026-02-11 | Pending | constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar | Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise all meritorious claims on di… | |
| 25-956 | Veltor Underground, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | covid-19-relief independent-contractors payroll-costs ppp-loan small-business statutory-interpretation | Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") to fund "payroll costs" in order that small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandem… | |
| 25-957 | Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | None | 1. Whether a claim alleging unreasonable agency delay under 5 U.S.C. § 706(1) becomes nonjusticiable when the Government takes the delayed action whil… | |
| 25-958 | George Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California | California | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Response Waived | development-exaction impact-fee legislative-process permit-conditions rough-proportionality takings-clause | El Dorado County conditioned issuance of George Sheetz's residential building permit on a requirement that he pay a $23,420 traffic impact mitigation … |
| 25-959 | CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act | Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that… |
| 25-947 | Robert William Moss v. Shawn M. Latourette, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection | New Jersey | 2026-02-10 | Pending | 14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law | When a state court dismisses a complaint as in conflict with the entire controversy doctrine, on the ground that it raises a question of state law of … | |
| 25-948 | Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law | Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a… | |
| 25-949 | John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | The Communications Decency Act encourages "Good Samaritan" acts to keep objectionable content off the internet. 47 U.S.C. §230(c). The Act states inte… | |
| 25-950 | Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment | I Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district court's grant of the writ based on ineffective assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio… | |
| 25-951 | Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-10 | Pending | Response Waived | anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court | 1. May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congress's command (co… |
| 25-942 | In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. | 2026-02-09 | Pending | Response Waived | congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed "challengin… | |
| 25-943 | Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity | When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court… | |
| 25-944 | Robinhood Markets, Inc., et al. v. Vinod Sodha, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | interim-financial-data item-303 misleading-omissions regulation-s-k section-11 securities-act | 1. Whether an issuer violates Section 11(a)'s misleading-omissions prong by failing to disclose interim financial data that investors may consider mat… | |
| 25-945 | Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment | 1. Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required … | |
| 25-946 | In Re Haden Christian Yonce | 2026-02-09 | Pending | ai-system-confession cognitive-architecture digital-cloning judicial-abandonment national-security-emergency writ-of-mandamus | 1. Whether a district court's complete failure to rule on any motion for 102 days (first filing) and 73 days (dispositive motion), combined with defen… | ||
| 25-925 | Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. | New York | 2026-02-06 | Pending | arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process | 1. The first question presented involves the proper scope of review of an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act. The Courts of Appeals … | |
| 25-929 | Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response Waived | 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights | Issue I: Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond for the express ed purpose of inhibiting appellants ' pursuit of their statutory righ… |
| 25-930 | Pimlico, LLC v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | None | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to review the evidentiary error that infected the Tax Court's o… | |
| 25-931 | BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas | Arkansas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause | Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property? | |
| 25-932 | Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment | This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir… | |
| 25-933 | Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors | 1. How could the Second Circuit have reasonably concluded that the State Respondents Governor Cuomo and Ms. DeRosa, his Chief of Staff, could not have… | |
| 25-934 | Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. | First Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in… | |
| 25-935 | United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… | |
| 25-936 | Nadarius Barnes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response Waived | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea | Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t… |
| 25-937 | Linda Cabello Garcia v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-938 | James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination | Whether the State's considering race as a basis for striking prospective jurors, shown by its listing prospective jurors by race on a spreadsheet used… | |
| 25-939 | James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the… | |
| 25-940 | Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage | Question 1 Whether the circuit court improperly determined that a subsequent pleading rather than the initial complaint, is the operative bar date … | |
| 25-941 | Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard | Dr. Sorokina appeals to this Court the order of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit solely with respect to her pregnancy discrimination claim… | |
| 25-920 | Louis Vargas, fka Louis Galynsky v. Vincent Rodriguez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | civil-rights due-process peonage-claim pro-se-litigation supplemental-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim under 18 U.S.C. § 1581, by failing to recognize that economic coer… | |
| 25-922 | Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for … | |
| 25-923 | Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation | Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political. | |
| 25-924 | Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that a special masters' findings in Plaintiffs' claims filed in the Department of Health and Hu… | |
| 25-926 | Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners | Pennsylvania | 2026-02-05 | Pending | Response Waived | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination | Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe… |
| 25-927 | Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation | University of Texas officials threatened Professor Richard Lowery with reduced pay, loss of a research post, and other consequences, if he did not sto… | |
| 25-928 | Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro | Pennsylvania | 2026-02-05 | Pending | divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support | 1. Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marria… | |
| 25-898 | William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias | Colorado | 2026-02-04 | Pending | district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act | Respondents challenged Washington state legislative district 15 ("LD-15"), alleging it diluted Hispanic votes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act… | |
| 25-914 | Chris Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response Waived | court-procedure generative-ai judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-deference supreme-court-review | 1. Whether it is appropriate for a standard of deference to be applied when the reviewing opinion demonstrates a clear lack of familiarity with the ca… |
| 25-915 | Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline | Whether petitioner sustained his burden prohib iting United States Court of Appeals for Third Circuit exercising original jurisdiction from imposing… | |
| 25-916 | OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response Waived | disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights | Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re… |
| 25-917 | Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response Waived | air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Air Carrier Access Act, 49 U.S.C. § 41705 — which provides that "an air carrier may not discriminate " against qualified individuals wi… |
| 25-918 | Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act | 1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha… | |
| 25-919 | Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Amici (1) | admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split | Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence … |
| 25-921 | Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | due-process inmate-rights prison-disciplinary-board procedural-fairness restitution-sanction trust-account | Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide "some evidence" of the amount of actual or estimated loss caused by an inmate's ac… | |
| 25-900 | Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft | 1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso… |
| 25-909 | Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction | The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless … |
| 25-910 | MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. | Nevada | 2026-02-03 | Pending | civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution | 1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author… | |
| 25-911 | Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud | Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25-912 | InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2026-02-03 | Pending | civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction | Whether a plaintiff's claim "relates to" a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum,… | |
| 25-913 | Keegan L. Lovell v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction | The relevant federal criminal statute requires that "[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano… |
| 25-902 | Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment | The Drug Price Negotiation Program (Program) threatens enterprise-destroying fines unless a drug manufacturer both provides its products at government… | |
| 25-903 | Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. | New Hampshire | 2026-02-02 | Pending | administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative … | |
| 25-904 | La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Response Waived | disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights | Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh… |
| 25-905 | Andrew J. Johnston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors | 1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot… |
| 25-906 | E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Amici (1) | first-amendment free-expression hazelwood-standard school-censorship student-clubs student-speech | Noblesville High School freshman E.D. worked hard to bring Noblesville Students for Life (NSFL) and its life-affirming message to her school. She took… |
| 25-907 | Gerard Patrick Matthews v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-908 | The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | Response Waived | administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver | Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of "any challenge" to the jurisdictional status of a wetland "in any Federal court" limited to government suit… |