Recent Paid Petitions
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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… |