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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1184 | Angela W. DeBose v. Florida Polytechnic University Board of Trustees | Florida | 2026-04-16 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-1185 | Van Pounds v. Cameron Smith, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-16 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-1186 | Kemal Kocak v. Harmony Public Schools | Fifth Circuit | 2026-04-16 | Pending | None | 1. Whether Title VII permits courts to require, as a threshold element of a prima facie case, a comparator outside the broader protected group when … | |
| 25-1187 | The Coalition for Fairness in SoHo and NoHo, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. | New York | 2026-04-16 | Pending | fifth-amendment land-use-permit nollan-dolan-test takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions-doctrine zoning-exaction | Does the protection the Takings Clause provides to land-use permit applicants encompass monetary demands beyond those imposed in lieu of a dedication … | |
| 25-1188 | Ronald Anthony Beasley, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-04-16 | Pending | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment witness-immunity | Whether Mr. Beasley was deprived of his fundamental constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Compulsory Pro… | |
| 25-1189 | Rocklin Unified School District v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. | California | 2026-04-16 | Pending | administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment gender-identity-policy labor-board-jurisdiction parental-rights | 1. Whether a state labor board's ruling invalidating a school district policy requiring parental notification when a student seeks to socially transit… | |
| 25-1190 | Patrick Tate Adamiak v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-16 | Pending | bill-of-particulars Fifth-Amendment indictment machinegun-statute Second-Amendment Sixth-Amendment | 1. Whether an indictment satisfies the Fifth and Sixth Amendments when it charges possession of a "machinegun" or "destructive device" under 26 U.S.C.… | |
| 25-1191 | Michael Joseph Gasper v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2026-04-16 | Pending | electronic-service-provider fourth-amendment good-faith-exception private-search-exception reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-search | This is a Fourth Amendment warrantless search case arising in the context of private cellphone cyberdata. Question 1. Whether a person is entitled to… | |
| 25-1179 | Brian L. Saulsberry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-04-15 | Pending | constitutional-validity-of-guilty-pleas Federal-Rule-Criminal-Procedure-11 guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-colloquy prosecutorial-misconduct Sixth-Amendment-right-to-counsel | I. Where the plea colloquy clearly indicated the defendant-petitioner 's disagreement with the factual admissions stated in a written plea agreement… | |
| 25-1180 | Wade Ryan Reeves v. Alisha May Reeves | Oklahoma | 2026-04-15 | Pending | appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit-clause judicial-jurisdiction marital-settlement-agreement | 1. Did the Supreme Court of Oklahoma violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by dismissing Mr. Reeves 's a… | |
| 25-1181 | In Re Oliver Bruckauf, et al. v. United States | 2026-04-15 | Pending | administrative-law emergency-motion individuals-with-disabilities-education-act pendency-placement stay-put-provision writ-of-mandamus | 1. Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus directing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to rule forthwith on Petitioners' eme… | ||
| 25-1182 | Anton Soloshenko v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-04-15 | Pending | court-martial due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment jury-unanimity sixth-amendment uniform-code-of-military-justice | In Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83 (2020), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a "trial . . . by an impartial jury," as incorporat… | |
| 25-1183 | Kevin Cichowski, et al. v. KES, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-04-15 | Pending | None | Should an exemption to the Florida impact rule be made, if a pharmacist is emotionally neglectful in a trusted situation, but did not make contact. | |
| 25-1169 | Shawn Matthew Kearns v. Virginia | Virginia | 2026-04-14 | Pending | child-pornography computer-data forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping sixth-amendment | The Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Court of Appeals erred by affirming the verdict of the Trial Court and the Trial Court's rulings and co… | |
| 25-1176 | Marion Alexander Lindsey v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2026-04-14 | Pending | None | 1. Whether courts evaluating claims may evaluate only each error in isolation—or whether they are obligated to consider the prejudice resulting from t… | |
| 25-1177 | reVamped LLC, a Minnesota Limited Liability Company, et al. v. City of Pipestone, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-04-14 | Pending | constitutional-law fifth-amendment just-compensation police-power property-rights takings-clause | 1. When a government's appeal process is illusory or non-existent to allow a party to challenge a government's total closure of a business resulting i… | |
| 25-1178 | In Re Joseph Rued, et al. | 2026-04-14 | Pending | article-iii-jurisdiction case-or-controversy child-custody habeas-corpus judicial-fraud writ-of-prohibition | Petitioners ' actions seeking enforcement of federal rights and law were dismissed and denied based upon demonstrable fraud by the district court r… | ||
| 25-1167 | Yubo Miao v. United Airlines, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-04-13 | Pending | 42-USC-1981 civil-rights factual-inferences motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards racial-discrimination | Whether a district court may dismiss a complaint alleging racial discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 at the pleading stage by resolving factual disp… | |
| 25-1168 | Ralph Peterson v. Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-13 | Pending | anti-SLAPP antitrust-law continuing-violation fraudulent-concealment quasi-judicial-immunity statute-of-limitations | 1. Federal Antitrust and Due Process Protections Whether a physician who suffers network exclusion, contract loss, and practice-sale interference aft… | |
| 25-1170 | Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2026-04-13 | Pending | breach-of-trust fiduciary-duty Indian-trust-lands natural-resources-protection tribal-water-rights Winters-doctrine | (1) Is the United States' promise to provide the Winnemucca Indian Colony, a federally recognized Tribe with lands held in trust established by an … | |
| 25-1171 | Bryan S. Perez, et al. v. Mary Pelentay, Individually and as Trustee of the Quach Living Trust | Washington | 2026-04-13 | Pending | deed-construction due-process-clause fee-simple-title inter-vivos-deeds quiet-title summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a State to permanently extinguish recorded fee-simple title through a trust-and estat… | |
| 25-1172 | Julie A. Weiman v. Alyn D. Wine, et al. | Colorado | 2026-04-13 | Pending | access-to-courts due-process extrinsic-fraud fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine state-action | 1. Fraud Exception / Access to Courts. Whether the Tenth Circuit 's categorical rejection of an "extrinsic fraud " exception to the Rooker Feldman … | |
| 25-1173 | John E. Hall v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-04-13 | Pending | appellate-review article-III-jurisdiction claim-preclusion due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal | Whether Article III permits a federal court to impose a sua sponte dismissal with prejudice carrying a claim preclusive, merits level finality when no… | |
| 25-1174 | Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al. | Massachusetts | 2026-04-13 | Pending | defend-trade-secrets-act due-process-clause preemption supremacy-clause trade-secrets unconstitutional-condition | 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. § 18350 d)) preempt state court orders that compel the public disclosure o… | |
| 25-1175 | Archie Williams v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-04-13 | Pending | civil-rights-section-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-identification qualified-immunity suggestiveness | For the purposes of determining "clearly established" law under the qualified immunity analysis, does a Fourteenth Amendment claim alleging deprivatio… | |
| 25-1196 | Shawn Matthew Kearns v. Virginia | Virginia | 2026-04-13 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-1162 | Christopher John Golberg v. North Dakota | North Dakota | 2026-04-10 | Pending | exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-privacy police-authority search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the police need a warrant to enter the attached garage in a single-family home, in the absence of any exception to the warrant requirement. | |
| 25-1165 | Garrett M. Ziegler, et al. v. P. Kevin Morris | California | 2026-04-10 | Pending | anti-SLAPP-statute due-process fee-sanctions first-amendment private-right-of-action procedural-due-process | Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute is unconstitutional, particularly as applied where a civil court, rather than dismissing claims predicated on … | |
| 25-1166 | Charles Miller v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-10 | Pending | civil-rights-act employment-discrimination groff-v-dejoy religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may satisfy its heightened burden, established by the Supreme Court's decision i… | |
| 25-1157 | National Coalition for Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-09 | Pending | article-iii-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment justiciability military-selective-service-act sex-discrimination | This petition presents an issue of national and constitutional significance under the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men, but not wome… | |
| 25-1161 | Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair | Massachusetts | 2026-04-09 | Pending | appellate-jurisdiction attorneys-fees civil-contempt due-process frivolous-appeal prevailing-party-doctrine | In Massachusetts, for most civil and criminal appeals, appellate jurisdiction is established only by appellate rules from which broad exercise of appe… | |
| 25-1163 | Carlos Pena v. City of Los Angeles, California | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-09 | Pending | constitutional-liability fifth-amendment law-enforcement property-destruction public-necessity takings-clause | 1. Whether the government is exempt from liability under the Takings Clause when law enforcement officers intentionally destroy an innocent person's p… | |
| 25-1164 | Robert R. D. Callioux v. Tim Lang, Secretary, Washington State Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-09 | Pending | AEDPA-deference certificate-of-appealability exculpatory-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Sixth-Amendment | 1. Whether the "independent judgment" required of federal courts under Article III, as reaffirmed in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369… | |
| 25-1155 | Lucas Randall Nelson v. Robyn Griffith | Texas | 2026-04-08 | Pending | None | The DISTRICT COURT OF BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, 149TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 80654-CR for the reasons below: 1. The … | |
| 25-1158 | Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-04-08 | Pending | eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement-liability police-power takings-clause | 1. Whether the Takings Clause has a police power exception, making no compensation due when the government damages private property under its police p… | |
| 25-1159 | Duane Morley Cox v. Teresa Wilhelmsen, et al. | Utah | 2026-04-08 | Pending | administrative-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review water-rights | A. First Constitutional Question: "Does the Order of the District Court Granting Respondents Motion To Dismiss Violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights… | |
| 25-1160 | Korean Claimants v. Dow Silicones Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-04-08 | Pending | administrative-law due-process equal-protection foreign-nationals judicial-supervision mass-tort-settlement | This petition arises from a decades-long mass tort settlement administered under federal court supervision in which over 2,600 South Korean nationals … | |
| 25-1153 | Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Department of Justice, et al. | First Circuit | 2026-04-07 | Pending | appearance-of-bias due-process fifth-amendment governmental-retaliation judicial-recusal summary-order | Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth Amendment where the lower federal courts: I. Dismissed Petitioner's sworn claims of govern… | |
| 25-1154 | Abrahim Mohamed Fofana v. Markwayne Mullin, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-04-07 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-1156 | Samsung SDI Company, Limited v. Shawn Peters | Minnesota | 2026-04-07 | Pending | due-process-clause forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction | Whether, in a product-liability action, the plaintiff's claims relate to the defendant's forum contacts when the defendant manufacturer sells the prod… | |
| 25-1152 | Jonathan Moreland v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-06 | Pending | Response Waived | administrative-law bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights due-process school-attendance vaccine-mandate | The United States District Court, District of West Virginia lacked lawful authority to require Petitioner to take a meningitis vaccine in order to att… |
| 25-1148 | Parker C. Myslow v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-04-03 | Pending | appellate-review constitutional-error courts-martial entry-of-judgment second-amendment uniform-code-of-military-justice | Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after ent… | |
| 25-1149 | Michael J. Hymel v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-04-03 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-discretion court-martial guilty-plea military-law providence-inquiry standard-of-review | Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion under 10 U.S.C. § 867 (a)(3) by failing to grant review "upon petition of the accus… |
| 25-1150 | Roger Lee Morse v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-03 | Pending | appellate-jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadlines notice-of-appeal post-trial-relief pro-se-representation procedural-default | 1. Given Morse's untimely appeal, did the circuit court have jurisdiction to solicit a ruling from the district court, instead of dismissing the appea… | |
| 25-1151 | Charles Bozzo v. Jennifer Nanasy, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-04-03 | Pending | accrual-of-claims arbitration due-process grievance-procedures procedural-due-process section-1983 | Whether a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrues at the moment of the initial deprivation, or only when the State-mandated grieva… | |
| 25-1144 | Daisey Trust, By and Through Its Trustee Eddie Haddad, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-02 | Pending | administrative-law appropriations-clause federal-housing-finance-agency nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, 601 U.S. 416 (2024) ("CFPB"), this Court u… | |
| 25-1145 | Council For Responsible Nutrition v. Letitia James, in Her Official Capacity as New York Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2026-04-02 | Pending | central-hudson-test commercial-speech content-based-restriction dietary-supplements first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny | In 2023, the New York Legislature passed N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law §391-oo (the "Law"), which bans the sale to minors of dietary supplements that are "labele… | |
| 25-1146 | Angelo Pesavento, et al. v. Eddie L. Bolden | Seventh Circuit | 2026-04-02 | Pending | civil-liability damages-calculation noneconomic-damages pain-and-suffering prejudgment-interest tort-law | Whether prejudgment interest should be unavailable as a matter of law on awards of noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering and loss of a norma… | |
| 25-1147 | Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-04-02 | Pending | administrative-exhaustion Americans-with-Disabilities-Act continuing-violation-doctrine disability-discrimination equitable-tolling pro-se-litigation | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit 's affirmance of the district court 's dismissal of ADA and TCHRA claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies… | |
| 25-1140 | Mark Andrew Bauersachs v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, et al. | First Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | Response Waived | coinage-power declaratory-relief equal-protection-clause injunctive-relief nondelegation-doctrine rational-basis-test | In 12 U.S.C. § 225a, Congress commands the Federal Reserve to achieve stable prices using a legislative rule. The legislative rule eliminates price in… |
| 25-1141 | Jason Tywann Bell v. John Gilley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | Response Waived | career-offender-guideline habeas-corpus mootness residual-clause sentencing-enhancement suspension-clause | Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i… |
| 25-1142 | Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | Response Waived | claims-administration disclosure-requirements employee-benefits ERISA fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation | Whether a contract that governs the administration of benefit claims is a "contract … under which the plan is established or operated" within the mean… |
| 25-1143 | D. A., a Minor, By and Through his Mother, B. A., et al. v. Tri County Area Schools, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | first-amendment fraser-exception free-speech political-expression student-speech tinker-standard | Students have a First Amendment right to wear political apparel to school unless it causes substantial disruption. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. S… | |
| 25-1138 | Stephen D. Herto v. John T. Murphy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2026-03-31 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review substantial-constitutional-question | A District Court failed to adjudicate a single claim from the petitioner in its final order dismissing his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petiti… |
| 25-1139 | Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-31 | Pending | Response Waived | but-for-causation civil-rights-act diversity-policy employment-discrimination race-conscious-hiring summary-judgment | 1. Should a judge or a jury decide the fact intensive question of whether intentional discrimination against white people in the workplace—done pursua… |
| 25-1133 | Palani Karupaiyan v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2026-03-30 | Pending | Response Waived | None | Petitioner prayed 18 reliefs which were as Common-law Writ of Certiorari so the questions were part of three test conditions requirement of the Writs. |
| 25-1134 | Daniel J. Griffin v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2026-03-30 | Pending | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal rule-12-motion vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3), requires a defendant to raise pretrial, or show good cause, an "as applied" constitutional Fif… |
| 25-1135 | Deryck Huelett v. Louisville Paving Company, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-03-30 | Pending | Response Waived | ADA-discrimination burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas summary-judgment | McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) set forth a judicially-created analytical framework which shifts the burdens in federal discrimi… |
| 25-1136 | Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-30 | Pending | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-approval chapter-11-bankruptcy contract-assumption debt-financing executory-contracts | This case concerns the interpretation of a bankruptcy statute. Subject to the bankruptcy court's approval, debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy may genera… | |
| 25-1137 | Nicholas Honchariw, Trustee, Honchariw Family Trust v. County of Stanislaus, California | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-30 | Pending | Response Waived | land-use property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause vested-rights vesting-tentative-map | Whether an approved vesting tentative map which conferred a statutory vested right to finalize a subdivision upon substantial compliance with the cond… |
| 25-1126 | Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck | Seventh Circuit | 2026-03-27 | Pending | false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam-relator scienter separation-of-powers treble-damages | 1. Whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions are unconstitutional. 2. Whether a legal interpretation can be deemed so "objectively unreasonab… | |
| 25-1121 | Luxottica U.S. Holdings Corp., et al. v. Janet Duke | Second Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | arbitration-agreements employee-benefits ERISA Federal-Arbitration-Act public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation | The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) protects the right to "traditional individualized arbitration." Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. 497, 509 (2018… | |
| 25-1122 | American Telecom Company, L.L.C. v. Republic of Lebanon | Sixth Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | appellate-review civil-procedure discovery judicial-recusal newly-discovered-evidence summary-dismissal | 1. Did the District Court unreasonably deny Plaintiff's arguments that newly discovered evidence should require a) reversal of prior dismissal; and b)… | |
| 25-1123 | Kevin Steele v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | administrative-law appellate-procedure implicit-denial notice-requirements statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits | Under the statutory and regulatory notice requirements governing VA decisions since 1990, is the VA permitted to retroactively deem a claim "implicitl… | |
| 25-1124 | Schmidt Baking Distribution, LLC, et al. v. Nathaniel Silva, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | arbitration-exemption business-entities commercial-agreements contracts-of-employment Federal-Arbitration-Act statutory-interpretation | Whether the FAA's § 1 exemption, which on its face applies only to "contracts of employment," is inapplicable to commercial agreements between two bus… | |
| 25-1125 | Jose Ruiz v. The Bradford Exchange, Ltd. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | Response Waived | adequate-remedy-at-law equity-jurisdiction federal-judicial-authority injunctive-relief judiciary-act-of-1789 waiver-of-jurisdiction | Can a defendant waive the lack of federal equity jurisdiction where it plainly does not exist, thereby compelling a federal court to exercise equitabl… |
| 25-1127 | United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. | Federal Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | contractor-liability government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation | Whether a downstream purchaser's liability for mishandling nuclear material that the purchaser obtained for private benefit, but that was originally p… | |
| 25-1128 | Ronnie Alexander v. Philip R. Taft Psy D and Associates P.L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | bell-v-wolfish conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble motion-to-dismiss pretrial-detainee-rights | 1. In Estelle v. Gamble , 429 U. S. 97 (1976), this Court held that the government has an obligation to provide care for the serious medical needs of … | |
| 25-1129 | Sixto Gerardo Zuniga v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | None | ||
| 25-1130 | Cherry Grove Beach Gear, LLC, et al. v. City of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | antitrust-law clear-articulation-test market-participant-exception municipal-monopoly parker-immunity state-action-immunity | 1. Whether the market participant exception to state action immunity should be adopted under the facts of this case, specifically where the municip… | |
| 25-1131 | Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, Inc. v. Joel Frederic, et ux. | Kentucky | 2026-03-26 | Pending | Amici (1) | equal-protection land-use-regulation religious-freedom RLUIPA substantial-burden zoning-law | 1. Whether a land-use regulation that prohibits a religious institution from building a religious structure on its own property constitutes a "substan… |
| 25-1132 | Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | appellate-review functional-limitations patent-eligibility patent-trial-and-appeal-board section-101 written-description | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly applied this Court's and its own precedent in disregarding key functional limitations of the claims that … | |
| 25-1116 | Jordan Zahler v. Jackson Lewis P.C., et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-03-25 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review federal-rules-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-procedure mandamus-relief noerr-pennington-doctrine | 1. Whether an entity not legally authorized to exist in a jurisdiction possesses the First Amendment right to petition tribunals in that jurisdictio… |
| 25-1117 | Essintial Enterprise Solutions, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-03-25 | Pending | administrative-law independent-contractors loan-forgiveness paycheck-protection-program payroll-costs statutory-interpretation | The Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") defines "payroll costs" to include "the sum of payments of any compensation to or income of a sole proprietor … | |
| 25-1118 | Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund v. Alaska Department of Fish & Game, et al. | Alaska | 2026-03-25 | Pending | Response Waived | commerce-clause fish-stock-management interstate-commerce magnuson-stevens-act personal-use-fishery resident-only-restrictions | 1. Does the Alaska -resident -only Personal Use ("PU") salmon fishery in C ook Inlet, Alaska, violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution? 2… |
| 25-1119 | Aila Curtis, et al. v. Jay Inslee, former Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-25 | Pending | Response Waived | federal-rule-civil-procedure-12b6 investigational-medical-treatments jacobson-v-massachusetts party-presentation police-power substantive-due-process | Question 1: Does Jacobson v. Massachusetts , 197 U.S. 11 (1905) limit a court's review of government-mandated investigational medical treatments to w… |
| 25-1120 | Michael Hild v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-03-25 | Pending | Response Waived | conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure Cuyler-v-Sullivan habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the framework from Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980) —where this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel … |
| 25-1112 | James Everett Hunt, et al. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-24 | Pending | accountant-certification due-diligence-defense material-misrepresentation registration-statement section-11-liability securities-act | 1. Whether to adequately plead a claim under Section 11(a)(4) of the Act against a certifying accountant based on material misrepresentations containe… | |
| 25-1113 | Jain-Miecell Roberson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2026-03-24 | Pending | None | The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), 5 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., provides a comprehensive framework for reviewing adverse personnel actions again… | |
| 25-1114 | EscapeX IP, LLC v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2026-03-24 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review attorney-sanctions patent-fee-awards rule-59-motion section-1927 subjective-bad-faith | 1. The Ninth Circuit has long held that sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 "must be supported by a finding of subjective bad faith," and that bad faith … |
| 25-1115 | Utah v. Morris Thomas Mullins | Utah | 2026-03-24 | Pending | cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation | Whether a sentencing court can impose a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile murderer even if the court finds that the juvenile is not perman… | |
| 25-1104 | CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | Response Waived | administrative-law appellate-procedure judicial-opinion patent-law ptab-review statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Circuit can affirm a PTAB decision without opinion in contravention of the clear statutory requirement of an "opinion" when review… |
| 25-1105 | Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson, Commissioner, Maine Department of Marine Resources | First Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | administrative-search fourth-amendment GPS-tracking reasonable-expectation-of-privacy trespass-doctrine warrantless-search | Maine requires all federally-permitted lobstermen, including Petitioner Frank Thompson, to install a GPS tracker on their fishing boats and submit to … | |
| 25-1106 | James Ethridge v. Samsung SDI Company, Limited | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction product-liability state-jurisdiction | When a company directly and regularly sells a product into a state, and that product causes injury in the state to one of the state's residents, does … | |
| 25-1107 | Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al., v. Computer Sciences Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | compensatory-damages defend-trade-secrets-act due-process punitive-damages trade-secrets unjust-enrichment | 1. Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1836, can a plaintiff obtain a monetary award for unjust enrichment even if it suffered no harm bey… |
| 25-1108 | Christopher Zook, et al. v. Scott Fuqua | Tenth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Video evidence standard at Rule 12(b)(6). Whether a district court may, or must, consider objective video evidence at the motion-to-dismiss stage w… | |
| 25-1109 | Richard Gibson, et al. v. Cendyn Group, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | Response Waived | algorithmic-pricing antitrust-law price-fixing rule-of-reason sherman-act-section-1 vertical-agreements | Whether vertical licensing agreements between a common algorithmic pricing vendor and competing firms are categorically exempt from Section 1's rule-o… |
| 25-1110 | Cathy A. Harris v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-03-23 | Pending | adjudicatory-authority administrative-law merit-systems-protection-board presidential-removal-power removal-for-cause separation-of-powers | 1. Whether Congress may provide by statute that members of the Merit Systems Protection Board—an adjudicatory body—"may be removed by the President on… | |
| 25-1111 | Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review copyright-infringement federal-rules-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law secondary-liability sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether a court of appeals may assess the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a jury verdict by reviewing the denial of a Rule 50(a) motion. 2.… |
| 25-1098 | Ryan O'Donnell, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-03-20 | Pending | Response Waived | administrative-procedure-act agency-action equal-protection-clause farm-loan-forgiveness pigford-settlement racial-discrimination | 1. Whether the United States Department of Agriculture's ("USDA") policy, codified within USDA's Discrimination Financial Assistance Program ("DFAP ")… |
| 25-1102 | James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Eighth Circuit | 2026-03-20 | Pending | Response Waived | None | |
| 25-1103 | U.S. Doge Service, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-03-20 | Pending | administrative-law executive-privilege freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandamus separation-of-powers | The district court in this case entered a wide-ranging and intrusive discovery order against the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS) —a body within the Executive… |