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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…
25-897 Ronald Smith v. Hunter Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending Response Waived None Under Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989), the use of force by law enforcement during the course of an arrest, seizure, detention, or search must be…
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the …
25-901 Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d…
25-887 Sauer West LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law interim-trail-use physical-taking property-rights surface-transportation-board trails-act Whether the Surface Transportation Board's issuance of a Notice of Interim Trail Use and accompanying authorization of recreational trail use triggers…
25-888 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing 1. Should this Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing? 2. If there is a municipal-taxpayer ex…
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when dete…
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25-891 Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado Colorado 2026-01-29 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived None Whether Monge should be overruled.
25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules 1. Whether a court of appeals may, by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, refuse to accept for filing or to docket a timely petition for …
25-893 Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B) that a relator have "knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclos…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe…
25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review 1. Whether a legal argument concerning the standard of review may be deemed waived, notwithstanding that other courts of appeals—including the Sixth a…
25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury 1. "Whether" our Supreme Court will allow Plaintiff House their 7th Amendment rights of trial by jury shall be preserved by our U.S. Constitution per …
25-885 United States v. Donte J. Carter District of Columbia 2026-01-28 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of …
25-886 Kenneth Genalo, Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Carol Williams Black, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-28 Pending None
25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant 1. Are States'! Vexatious-Litigant Law ("States' VL Law'), and specifically, California's VexatiousLitigant Law ("CA VL Law', Cal. Code Civ. Proc.? §§…
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch…
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading…
25-871 Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-rights burdick-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presidential-pardon 1. Whether a Presidential pardon automatically moots a pending appeal when the defendant has clearly expressed his intent to reject or refuse the pard…
25-874 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Amici (2) civil-procedure class-certification daubert-standard evidentiary-standards expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence Whether expert testimony must be admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the framework enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,…
25-875 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U…
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud …
25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction.
25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Pending constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions.
25-879 American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending Amici (10) administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to applia…
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, to perform its ministerial duty to vaca…
25-882 Andrew D. Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions Petitioners brought claims on behalf of candidates in advance of the 2022 election, challenging the procedures Arizona would use to count votes in tha…
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness 1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding…
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's …
25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe…
25-868 Brandon Hughes v. National Football League Second Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived consumer-rights data-disclosure personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act video-service-provider The Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") prohibits a "video tape service provider" from "knowingly disclos[ing], to any person, personally identifiab…
25-869 James T. Weiss v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Denied Response Waived custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant In Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692, 704–05 (1981), this Court held that pursuant to a lawfully executed search warrant, officers have a limited auth…
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Denied constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari I. WHETHER THIS COURT'S POWER TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN A STATE PRISONER IS CONFINED BY A COURT WITHOUT JURISDICTION A…
25-872 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibits possession of firearms in its public parks, which consist of almost 24,000 acres of mostly wooded land across 420 …
25-873 Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending None 1) Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a trial court denies a brief continuance to a civil litigant who has lost counsel, where the denial…
25-856 William King, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Amici (6) government-authorization monetary-rights pension-appropriation property-interest takings-clause vested-pension In 2014, Congress created a process for solvent, private pension plans to rewrite the binding agreements that govern their obligations to pay money to…
25-857 Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio…
25-858 Charlotte Chemuti v. North Carolina North Carolina 2026-01-20 Pending ancillary-proceeding criminal-defendant evidence-production law-enforcement-videos pennsylvania-v-ritchie trial-procedure 1) WHETHER THE A STATE MAY PROHIBIT A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FROM COMPELLING THE PRODUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VIDEOS TO THE DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHERE THE S…
25-859 Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard 1. Whether or how police officers' own creation of, or contribution to, a dangerous situation prior to the use of deadly force factors into the Fourth…
25-860 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions 1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec…
25-861 Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law Minnesota enacted a law prohibiting employers from requiring employees to attend meetings in which the employer discusses its views on political or re…
25-862 Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas Texas 2026-01-20 Pending brady-violation capital-murder due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review 1. Where the Petitioner, the State, and the habeas court all agree that a conviction is unconstitutional and must be reversed, does it violate due pro…
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…
25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-851 Ashley Grayson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) prohibits intentionally intercepting wire or oral communications or di…
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-853 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process Congress has authorized inventors to patent "any new and useful process," or "any new and useful improvement thereof." 35 U.S.C. § 101. This Court has…
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action 1. Whether, under the Elections Clause, U.S. Constitution Article I § 4 Clause 1, and this Court's decision in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514…
25-855 The Visionary, Books + Cafe, LLC v. Bank OZK Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitral-award contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review party-presentation-principle sua-sponte-grounds This petition concerns the proper scope of judicial review under §10(a)(4) of the Federal Arbitration Act, which permits a court to vacate an arbitral…
25-835 Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC Florida 2026-01-15 Pending appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment The circumstances following the presented questions, creates two constitutional questions under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: 1…
25-836 Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res…
25-837 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-15 Denied Response Waived conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit 1. Whether by establishing a pyramid scheme, the Government can shortcut its burden of proving the necessary elements of conspiracy to commit mail fra…
25-838 Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity 1. Whether Petitioner Heid's two grounds for challenging the arresting officers' defense of qualified immunity defense constitute a valid "Franks chal…
25-839 Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Denied Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test applied…
25-840 International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc., et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Amici (19)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing child-welfare fundamental-liberty-interest gender-transition judicial-standing parental-rights Whether parents have standing to challenge a law or policy that deliberately displaces their decision making role as to "gender transitions" of their …
25-841 Henry Troy Wade v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Denied Response Waived brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud 1. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indic…
25-842 Tamer S. Wassily, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending None
25-843 Disability Rights New York v. New York State Department of Health, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived article-iii-standing disability-rights federal-jurisdiction individual-rights protection-and-advocacy statutory-interpretation Whether DRNY, as a Protection & Advocacy System authorized by Congress to bring lawsuits in its own name on behalf of individuals with disabilities pu…
25-844 Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending alcohol-regulation commerce-clause constitutional-law interstate-commerce physical-presence twenty-first-amendment Whether a physical-presence requirement that forbids out-of-state retailers from shipping alcohol directly to in-state consumers unless they establish…
25-845 Greg Abbott, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Appellants v. League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. Texas 2026-01-15 Pending None
25-846 Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-15 Denied Response Waived amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct 1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions …
25-847 Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes Alabama 2026-01-15 Pending constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffin-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination 1. Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice. Or the Court shou…
25-848 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2026-01-15 Pending constitutional-procedure context-analysis griffin-error prejudice-standard prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination 1. Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice. Or the Court shou…
25-849 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell District of Columbia 2026-01-15 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power For over 1,000 years, Catholics have given an annual offering to the Pope called Peter's Pence. A parishoner claims he was misled during Mass by an in…
25-833 Duane Letroy Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe…
25-834 Erie Indemnity Company v. Troy Stephenson, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending claim-preclusion final-judgment issue-preclusion legal-theory ongoing-conduct res-judicata This Court has emphasized that a previous court's judgment bars any claims between the parties or their privies that "involve a common nucleus of oper…
25-823 William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii 1. Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawfu…
25-824 Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Ohio 2026-01-13 Pending antidiscrimination-law burden-shifting due-process employment-retaliation equal-protection statutory-safeguards 1. Whether the cumulative errors in applying established antiretaliation standards —specifically the misapplication of the McDonnell Douglas burden-…
25-825 Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal 1. Whether a district court may categorically stay all discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil action on a closed record where adjudicat…
25-826 Lesly Pompy v. Lieutenant Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived bivens-action constitutional-tort fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity warrantless-search 1. Bivens and the Fourth Amendment— Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry—conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without…
25-827 Joseph Leslie McClory v. Scott Hobbs California 2026-01-13 Pending appellant-rights form-deficiency judicial-council record-on-appeal rule-making state-court If a rule-making arm of a state court system, including but not limited to the JCC, approves a form for use (regardless if optional or not) to designa…
25-828 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Amici (1) federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there…
25-829 Matt Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response Waived civil-liability indian-commerce-clause internet-contract rico-act state-regulation tribal-lending 1. Whether the Indian Commerce Clause preempts state regulation of loans made on an Indian reservation, by an arm of a tribe, when the borrower contra…
25-830 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness Article III confines federal courts to live cases or controversies. When claims become moot on appeal, this Court has long required vacatur —not a mer…
25-831 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived disruption-test first-amendment free-speech school-regulation student-speech tinker-standard Is post hoc speculation about emotional harm that speech could cause to other students insufficient to meet Tinker's "substantial disruption" standard…
25-832 Bonnie Michelle Smith v. Shirley Smith Georgia 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived constitutional-law judicial-activism legislative-interpretation policy-making rule-of-law separation-of-powers 1) Does judicial activism violate the separation of powers? 2) Can the Court act as a super legislature that imposes its own policy preferences rathe…
25-818 Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (2) circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits Whether "[t]ime credits" under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release.
25-819 Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job.
25-820 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-01-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel…
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Denied Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th…
25-809 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Amici (1) allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability The first question presented is whether 29 U.S.C. § 1386(b)(1)'s instruction to "reduce[]" any "withdrawal liability" of an employer in a subsequent p…
25-810 John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-misconduct petition-for-certiorari 1. Does this Court need to intercede because the lower courts have deviated substantially from the norm in judicial proceedings? 2. Did the judges in…
25-811 Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence?
25-812 James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action 1) When a woman signs a Prenuptial Agreement for a set amount, she cannot argue in divorce court that the Law says "she has the right" to half. Theref…
25-813 Kim Bogardus v. City of Yakima, Washington Washington 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act credibility-determination disability-claims judicial-estoppel social-security-disability summary-judgment In Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp., 526 U.S. 795 (1999), this Court held that a claim of total disability for Social Security Disability …
25-814 Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions?
25-815 Siddharth Kode v. Joseph Pargin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending contract-discrimination post-formation precedent-interpretation retaliation-claims statute-of-limitations time-barred |1.| Whether a court's ruling that §1981 postformation discrimination/retaliation claims are time-barred because of its application of 2Y-SoL rather t…
25-816 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny, prosecutors have an obligation to disclose evidence favorable to the accused, either bec…
25-817 Charles W. Christopher v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity?
25-805 Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. New Mexico 2026-01-08 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of…
25-806 Tarlochan Singh v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Response Waived None
25-807 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived church-autonomy civil-law-claims internal-affairs ministerial-exception religious-institution self-governance Does the church autonomy doctrine apply to, and foreclose, civil law claims which are not disputes about the internal affairs or self-governance of a …
25-791 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Allstate Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-evidence insurance-law statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the district court erred in not understanding Tenn. Code Ann. §.28-3-104 statute of limitation mandated the Plaintiff to file civil action …
25-792 Neil Binder v. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC Third Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review procedural-due-process rule-1006 rule-60 summary-evidence Whether a court may exclude a Federal Rule of Evidence 1006, summary—derived entirely from records already admitted into evidence—without reviewing it…
25-793 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing Whether this panel of the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) erred by: (1) denying our petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc with its ord…
25-794 Jordan Spatz v. Regents of the University of California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights intentional-discrimination medical-residency private-right-of-action 1. Does the 1975 Age Discrimination Act apply to applications for matriculation in the medical residency match process, to prohibit discrimination bas…
25-795 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Chauncey J. Watches, Judge, Steuben County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity petition-clause second-amendment WHETHER federal in forma pauperis litigants may be significantly denied immediate access to Court while filing-fee paying litigants suffer no such con…
25-796 Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w…
25-797 Steven J. Hecke v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant 1. Whether, and how, Franks applies to material information that is omitted from a search warrant affidavit. 2. Whether omissions from a search warra…
25-798 Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar California 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (3)Response Waived administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules 1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional …
25-799 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (1) due-process economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment medicare-negotiation property-rights 1. Is the Program immune from scrutiny under the First and Fifth Amendments because it relies on economic coercion to secure participation? 2. Does t…
25-800 Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when, during the execution of a residential search warrant, law enforcement subverts the geographical restriction…
25-801 Thomas Schramm v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, aka United Steel Workers, aka USW Sixth Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived contract-negotiations duty-of-fair-representation individual-discharge labor-law objective-evidence union-grievance 1. Whether the same standards for determining a breach of the duty of fair representation in contract negotiations should be imposed upon unions fo…
25-802 Foothills Christian Ministries, et al. v. Kim Johnson, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived child-care-act compelled-speech first-amendment free-exercise religious-services zauderer-review Three churches in San Diego County, California, seek to open preschools on their campuses as extensions of their ministries. Under the Child Day Care …
25-803 In Re Andy Desty 2026-01-07 Pending constitutional-rights corporate-disclosure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-power mandamus-petition 1. Has the authority or ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Waters, 294 U.S. 405 (1935), been …
25-804 George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ftca-claim government-liability service-of-process 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's requirement that Petitioner serve individual government employees in a Federal Tort …
25-786 Julia Minkowski v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2026-01-06 Pending ada-compliance constitutional-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process supremacy-clause 1. Does a systemic structural defect in due process in California courts eliminate court access, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and full parti…
25-787 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers A jet engine mechanic brought a civil rights lawsuit after a Massachusetts County denied him a permit to perform plumbing on the home he was building.…
25-788 Reed Day, et al. v. Ben Henry, in His Official Capacity as Director, Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (3) alcohol-distribution constitutional-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation three-tier-system twenty-first-amendment Whether a physical-presence requirement that discriminates between in-state and out-of-state alcohol retailers can be deemed constitutional under the …
25-789 Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. Tennessee 2026-01-06 Pending civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation.
25-790 New York Football Giants, Inc., et al. v. Brian Flores Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (1) arbitration-agreement commissioner-arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act procedural-fairness sports-league Whether an arbitration agreement governing disputes in a professional sports league is categorically unenforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act b…
25-778 Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh…
25-779 Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-05 Denied Response Waived claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-claim-scope patent-disclaimer patent-prosecution trademark-office-proceedings When a patentee disclaims subject matter from the scope of its claims by written statements made at any time during U.S. Patent and Trademark Office p…
25-780 Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Denied Response Waived commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination The State of Washington makes it unlawful to sell a lawful product "with which evidence of sexual assault is collected" if, and only if, the seller "m…
25-781 Donald Wenger v. James T. Warren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Denied Relisted (2) article-i-section-8 federal-preemption individual-liability subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformed-services-act veterans-judicial-review-act 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) Pub. Law 97-252 (1982) pursuant to Article I §…
25-782 Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2026-01-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin…
25-783 Sonia Hernandez Caruso v. Texas Medical Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending administrative-law due-process medical-licensing notice-requirements professional-discipline sovereign-immunity Congress through federal legislation created the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) which is overseen by the Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS-…
25-784 Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending amendment-of-pleadings civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment This petition presents recurring questions concerning the procedural limits of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 56, 37, and 15, and the due-process pr…
25-785 In Re Van Irion, et al. 2026-01-05 Pending None (1) Is the 6th Circuit Clerk Authorized to Draft and Enter Substantive Orders? (2) Are Clerk-Entered Substantive Orders Valid When No Judge is Identi…
25-774 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Amici (7) drug-detection fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search "[W]hen it comes to the Fourth Amendment, the home is first among equals." Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1, 6 (2013). As this Court has repeatedly str…
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25-776 Youth 71Five Ministries v. Charlene Williams, Individually and as Director of Oregon Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment government-action grant-funding religious-autonomy For years, Petitioner Youth 71Five Ministries received grant funds from Oregon's Youth Community Investment Grants program. One year, 71Five even had …
25-777 Christopher L. Thompson v. Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response Waived None 1. Whether a court conducts an adequate inquiry into juror racial bias where it discounts evidence of racial bias as "off-hand" remarks, relies upon t…
25-767 Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Amici (2) csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle. 2. Whether the decision below should be su…
25-768 Charity Mainville v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending circuit-court extraordinary-writ judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus procedural-standard 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit may impose "undue delay" as a standalone prerequisite to mandamus relief when this Court's three-part test includes no s…
25-769 Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Marita R. Sciarrotta, Director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived commerce-clause corporate-taxation due-process interstate-commerce royalty-payments tax-deductibility (1) Whether New Jersey's scheme for taxing royalty payments, that conditions the deductibility of related-party royalty payments on the extent of t…
25-770 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al…
25-771 Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending appellate-review eleventh-circuit judicial-precedent jury-tampering presumption-of-prejudice trial-integrity Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the presumption of prejudice standard when evaluating unrefuted evidence of jury …
25-772 Lev Aslan Dermen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-31 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived None 1. Whether a federal court of appeals is categorically barred from finding plain error if circuits are split on the issue under review. 2. Whether 18…
25-773 Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-31 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause…
25-763 PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment 1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand this case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did …
25-764 Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims Whether placing the "tort" label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract.
25-765 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-scrutiny fundamental-rights government-mandate judicial-review medical-treatment rational-basis-review 1. Does this Court's opinion in Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), limit a court's review of government mandated medical t…
25-766 Justyna Jensen v. Maryland Cannabis Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Denied Response Waived business-licensing dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection nonresident-discrimination pell-grant-eligibility state-university Whether a state statute discriminates against nonresidents in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause if it confers eligibility for a business licens…
25-752 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers 1. Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant? 2. Does…
25-753 Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act legal-standing source-identification trademark-ownership 1. Whether, under the Lanham Act, a court or jury may find joint ownership of a trademark between competing entities—neither of which pleaded or prove…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright 1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations …
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Denied Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab…
25-756 Larry Householder v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h…
25-757 Matthew Borges v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo The First Amendment protects soliciting for, and contributing to, political campaigns based on policies that a candidate agrees to take while in offic…
25-758 Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived cercla cost-recovery environmental-law national-contingency-plan private-party-cleanup substantial-compliance Under CERCLA, private parties who clean up contaminated land may recover their costs from polluters only if their cleanup substantially complies with …
25-759 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child's room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worke…
25-760 Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2)Response Waived bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine 1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983. 2. If no…
25-761 Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-constraints medicare price-controls separation-of-powers The Inflation Reduction Act grants the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") unprecedented and unfettered authority to impose price contr…
25-762 Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC…
25-745 Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. Tennessee 2025-12-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and …
25-746 Carvin L. Thomas, et al. v. Roberta Kustoff, Chairman, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights liberty-rights parole-interest procedural-due-process tennessee-law 1. Does a parole applicant in Tennessee have a liberty interest based on the expectation of parole?
25-747 Matthew Cline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely…
25-748 Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending aedpa jury-deliberations jury-instruction pretrial-suppression seibert-rule state-court-findings The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from invalidating a state conviction unless there is both a legal e…
25-749 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending drug-pricing economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation 1. Does the Program violate the First Amendment by compelling Janssen to express the Government's disputed messages regarding drug pricing? 2. Does t…
25-750 Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC Louisiana 2025-12-23 Pending causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer's negligence play "any part, even the s…
25-751 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Amici (1) constitutional-rights drug-pricing first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation takings-clause As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Congress created the "Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program." Under the Program, manufacturers of th…
25-733 Joseph Soaris v. Tony Aikhionbare California 2025-12-22 Denied civil-rights equal-protection legal-equality state-law The question presented is whether the state is applying its laws equally amongst its citizens?
25-734 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official New York 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine WHETHER, in this U.S. Constitution, Article II, §1, Clause 5 "natural born Citizen " challenge to the 2024 Democratic candidate for President of the U…
25-735 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (2) congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of the jurisdiction, recognized by this Court in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 (1974), …
25-736 World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement The Lanham Act prohibits use of a trademark when such use is "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive." 15 U.S.C, §1114(1)(a); s…
25-737 John S. Morter v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived agency-discretion essential-job-function medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act security-screening 1. Whether a federal agency may, consistent with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and EEOC regulations, redefine a security screening requirement —suc…
25-738 Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King Sixth Circuit 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f…
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud 1. Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the ri…
25-740 Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Denied Amici (1) diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability When Petitioner's husband died of COVID-19 in Colorado, she brought a wrongful death action into federal court, alleging novel tort claims against the…
25-741 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review To protect the right of access to the courts under the First Amendment's Petition Clause, during the petition stage of this Court seeking review of fe…
25-742 Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-22 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived courts-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice post-trial-process second-amendment statutory-authority 1. In 2021, Congress added a new subsection to Article 67(c), Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. § 867(c). The new language incorporat…
25-743 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics 1. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue orders disbarring an attorney without first addressing cited, un…
25-744 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity This proceeding was brought by the United States on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines, seeking recognition and enforcement of a Philippine for…
25-722 Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-disclosure foia-exemptions government-transparency national-security records-search In response to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding potential domestic surveillance abuse, the respondent agenci…
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction 1. Should the district court have held an evidentiary hearing to address Petitioners' allegations that pieces of paper purporting to be summonses lack…
25-724 Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-common-law insurance-law reinsurance state-law Whether a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction exceeds its authority under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) by creating a new st…
25-725 Edward Weinhaus v. Regina A. Scannicchio, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Denied Response Waived district-court-jurisdiction federal-lawsuit jurisdictional-challenge merits-dismissal rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-decision 1. Whether the District Court is precluded from exercising jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine when Petitioner's injury occurred prior to t…
25-726 Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for "circumstances" that render state proceedings "ineffective" can ap…
25-727 Douglas M. Folts v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California.
25-728 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme…
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-730 Jennesis V. Dominguez-Garcia v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-authority firearms-prohibition military-courts-martial post-trial-processing second-amendment ucmj Whether the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals has authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after …
25-731 Yellow Turtle Design, LLC, et al. v. Sonya Salkin Slott, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Denied bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-distribution chapter-7-liquidation creditor-priority settlement-approval statutory-interpretation In Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 580 U.S. 451, 457, 137 S.Ct. 973, 979, 197 L.Ed.2d 398 (2017), this Court held, "The [Bankruptcy] Code makes clea…
25-732 Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (4) capital-sentencing constitutional-rights expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether trial counsel provides constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase of a capital trial by presenting evidence th…
25-705 Carter Page v. James B. Comey, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-18 Pending Amici (2) accrual-of-claims fbi-misconduct fourth-amendment government-liability inspector-general-report surveillance-warrant The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained four warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Petitioner Dr. Carter Page. But…
25-706 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-12-18 Denied arbitration-rights civil-procedure contract-law equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act preclusion-doctrine Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides equitable estoppel in enforcing arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
25-707 Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona…
25-708 Rupert Baptiste v. Fatou Jallow Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner judicial-act pro-se-rights self-representation The United States Constitution grants certain inalienable rights to its citizens. The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment is to protect people from be…
25-709 West Virginia v. Michael Keith Allman West Virginia 2025-12-18 Denied custodial-arrest evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the State must show that an arrestee could access a weapon or destructible evidence from a bag the arrestee was carrying immediately before ar…
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania 2025-12-18 Denied appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal? 2. Whether the Pennsylvania appellat…
25-711 Deborah Cooney v. San Diego Gas & Electric, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech privacy smart-grid We live in a fast-paced society where technological innovations make possible the most unthinkable forms of trespass. Never before have policy-makers …
25-712 Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation In light of our current toxic and vindictive politics and a circuit split, under a-person-of-ordinary-firmness test, does a referral by one government…
25-713 George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Abigail Spanberger, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr…
25-714 Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination 1. Federal anti-retaliation protections prohibit adverse treatment in response to protected activity, particularly where comparable conduct by others …
25-715 Masahide Kanayama v. Scott Kowal, Chief Pretrial Services Officer, Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure damage-calculation district-court dual-criminality extradition japanese-law Whether in certifying Dr. Masahide Kanayama's extradition to Japan, the District Court for the Southern District of New York improperly relied on a hy…
25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the…
25-717 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order.
25-718 Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District Missouri 2025-12-18 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest When a state appellate court ignores the undisputed facts of an appeal and expressly decides an appeal on different, even opposite facts, does the res…
25-719 Stanley Battat, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending administrative-procedure initial-determination irc-section-6751 managerial-approval tax-assessment tax-penalty Internal Revenue Code Section 6751(b)(1) provides that "[n]o penalty under this title shall be assessed unless the initial determination of such asses…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's continued refusal to apply Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 (2022), directly conflicts with this Court's holding tha…
25-721 Jennie Landsman, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of J. L. v. Melissa Aviles-Ramos, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure burlington-carter-test due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act reimbursement special-education 1. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, in order to determinewhether the parent of a disabled child is entitled to reimbursement fro…
25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram…
25-699 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (1) arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive …
25-700 Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority Petitioners owned a lot with a slowly failing 1937 bulkhead onshore of the shoreline along Hood Canal, Washington state. Hundreds of properties along …
25-701 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund Second Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived critical-declining-status mass-withdrawal multiemployer-pension pension-plan-termination special-financial-assistance statutory-interpretation Whether a multiemployer pension plan that terminated through mass withdrawal before the 2020 plan year is eligible for Special Financial Assistance un…
25-702 CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis…
25-703 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (7) church-autonomy covid-restrictions excessive-fines free-exercise-clause religious-liberty strict-scrutiny At issue in this case is the ability of government to referee religious services in a house of worship. Government officials in California imposed COV…
25-704 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending breach-of-contract constitutional-authority elections-clause procedural-error standing voting-machines Article I, § 4, cl. 1 , the " Elections Clause " of the United States Constitution , delegates to the states, the Time, Manner, and Place of conduct…
25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a "suitable" federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.…
25-697 Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en…
25-694 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived judicial-immunity just-compensation permitting-monopoly property-rights res-judicata takings-clause 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion citing res judicata allows the government to overextend and leverage its permitting monopoly to take private…
25-695 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Maxwell A. Matthew's Convening Authority ordered his court-martial conviction expunged. He then ordered SSgt Matthew to again fa…
25-686 Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation District of Columbia 2025-12-12 Denied Response Waived confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency I. Whether, after the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, an agency invoking Exemption 7(D) must, in addition to establishing that the exemption applies, se…
25-687 Richard Eugene Bryant, aka Ritshard Anu Bey v. Mark S. Braunlich, Judge, 38th Circuit Court of Michigan, Monroe County, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause 1. What is the nature and the cause of action for Mark Braunlich to issue a warrant on June 11, 2019, and to issue a license suspension on February 13…
25-688 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz Fourth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation 1. Does a police officer observing an undisputed legal act(s) or something that is not illegal, without more, provide probable cause or a reasonable i…
25-689 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-12-12 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on a homicide victim was unavailable for trial. In her place, the State of Georgia offered testimony b…
25-690 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived burden-shifting constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review Did the Ninth Circuit fail to apply the correct deferential standard of review, as set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), and also misapply this Court's prec…
25-691 Lonnie Joseph Parker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response Waived controlled-substances criminal-conviction federal-regulation medical-prescription prescribing-authority standard-of-care Whether a doctor can be convicted of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) based on a de…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2025-12-12 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline In separate proceedings consolidated on review, the state high court affirmed 30-day suspensions of two attorneys, Reverend Girley and Professor Girle…
25-693 Juan Jose Garcia Morin v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending None
25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages 1. Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information, specificall…
25-680 Bernard T. Swift, Jr., et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) administrative-procedure internal-revenue-code penalty-assessment statutory-construction supervisory-approval tax-law When must an IRS employee secure written supervisory approval for a penalty assessment to be valid?
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa…
25-682 Nikolas S. Casillas v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-notice military-justice sexual-assault statutory-liability yates-error A "Yates" error occurs when a general verdict is supportable on one theory of liability but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which theory …
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S…
25-684 Malcolm Curtis, et ux. v. Department of the Treasury, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection income-reporting judicial-presumption tax-law Whether granting the IRS a judicial presumption of correctness violates due process and equal protection in a case where a taxpayer is accused of not …
25-685 Robert D. Schneider v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-appeals entry-of-judgment firearms-ban military-courts second-amendment ucmj Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. §§ 860c and 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated…
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private …
25-673 Bradley Andrew Herbst v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute statute-of-limitations 1. While this matter does require review, the main question of "should a statute of limitations be allowed" when addressing an individual's constituti…
25-674 George Sachs v. Ricardo Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived client-representation conflict-of-interest defense-strategy legal-dismissal multi-defendant-case statute-of-limitations 1. When can or cannot a statute of limitations be raised in order to immediately dismiss and prevent a case from moving forward, even one having po…
25-675 Lawrence Rudolph v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c…
25-676 In Re John A. Shepardson 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s…
25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25-678 Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. Virginia 2025-12-10 Denied bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion Whether this Court's decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) militates in favor of abrogating the prosecutorial discre…
25-668 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-09 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived clean-water-act environmental-enforcement epa-authority sackett-decision surface-water-connection wetlands-regulation Petitioner Jeffrey Andrews resides on his family farm in Connecticut. His farm contains a short reach of an unnamed tributary to the Farm River, but n…
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal 1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion? 2. Whether a certified public-sch…
25-670 James Console, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived due-process federal-tort-claims ftca-exception mandatory-duty restitution-statute victim-rights 1. Whether the discretionary-function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 2680(a)) bars liability when federal employees violate m…
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy 2025-12-09 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25-658 Matthew Jones, et al. v. Amber M. King, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending administrative-acts civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity jury-selection political-retaliation 1. A Texas justice of the peace ordered the wrongful arrests of her political rivals while conducting the "plainly administrative" act of qualifying a…
25-659 Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence A. Whether the clandestine replacement of Jewish Michael Levinson 's initial Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ ") Hearing Officer with a Muslim ALF was…
25-660 Nicole Klum, Estate of Bobby Jo Klum, et al. v. City of Davenport, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment police-action second-amendment use-of-force The decision below contravenes the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms," and the Fourth Amendment prohibition "against unreasonable searches…
25-661 Erik Blecher, et al. v. The Holy See, aka The Apostolic See Second Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending discretionary-function foreign-sovereign-immunities-act mandatory-policy sexual-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether the FSIA's discretionary-function exclusion, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(5)(A), denies federal subject matter jurisdiction for a tort claim that alleg…
25-662 Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 This section 1983 civil rights case arises from the devastating consequences of medical and investigative errors in a child protection proceeding. Aft…
25-663 Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance IL CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of equality, should consider gender-based servitude ripe for correction. II. UNCONS…
25-664 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden…
25-665 Colin R. Covitz v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice Did the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals err when it held there was "no basis for relief" under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) merely because there was not …
25-666 Samantha Estefenia Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived child-abduction clear-error de-novo-review habitual-residence hague-convention well-settled-defense Is a trial court's determination that a child is "well settled" subject to de novo review, or is it reviewed for clear error?
25-667 CoStar Group, Inc., et al. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust exclusive-dealing ninth-circuit plausible-relief refusal-to-deal sherman-act In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, this Court recognized the risk of allowing antitrust claims to proceed past the pleading stage in the absence of a …