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