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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…