| 25-6646 |
Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while
dismissing unrebutted record evidence as "unpersuasive, " without pro… |
| 25-609 |
Clinton Siples v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Pending |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision clear-unmistakable-error judicial-review legal-interpretation veterans-benefits |
In the uniquely pro-claimant veterans-benefits system, Congress has provided that an otherwise final agency decision is subject to revision if that de… |
| 25-149 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision arbitrary-capricious patent-challenge patent-trial-appeal-board |
"It is a fundamental principle of administrative law that agencies must treat like cases alike." Grayscale Invs., LLC v. SEC, 82 F.4th 1239, 1242 (D.C… |
| 24-6804 |
Lawrence White v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision judicial-review mail-notification procedural-compliance proof-of-service |
Does the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Violate Work-product Doctrine by Failing to Disclose that they could be using a different legal stan… |
| 24-548 |
Arbor Global Strategies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-decision inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board prosecutorial-function separation-of-functions |
Whether Section 554(d) prohibits the same Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel from instituting and deciding inter partes review, because institution i… |
| 23-7664 |
Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand |
1. USCA4 Appeal: 23-1713 Doc: 10 Filed: 08/28/2023 Pg: 2 of 2
Mandamus may not be used as a substitute for appeal or, in this case, a
rehearing petit… |
| 23-1038 |
Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-decision agency-deference arbitrary-and-capricious e-cigarettes fda-regulation interstate-commerce public-health tobacco-control tobacco-regulation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in setting aside FDA's denial orders as arbitrary and capricious. |
| 22-7323 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process freedom-of-information-act jurisdictional-challenge merit-systems-protection-board pro-se-filing standing suitability-determination unusual-circumstances |
1. Whether this appeal is frivolous, based on OPM's new, material, and final December 27, 2004, "Request for Suitability Determination"?
2. Whether t… |
| 22-6918 |
Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND SENTENCE REVIEW OF PRO-SE PLEADINGS WERE SELECTIVE RATHER THAN THE REQUIR… |
| 22-6263 |
Terrence Terrell Moore v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-standards standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-452 |
Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. |
New York |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii |
1. The word "substantial" is not found in the
governing statute, CPLR 5601(a), or the New
York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals … |
| 21-1348 |
Claudia A. Barber v. District of Columbia Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges |
District of Columbia |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process government-employment judicial-review presumption-of-review statutory-interpretation tenure |
Whether only an expressed prohibition against judicial review can clearly and conclusively overcome the presumption in favor of judicial review of an … |
| 21-848 |
Spire Missouri Inc., et al. v. Environmental Defense Fund, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-decision energy federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas public-interest remand remand-without-vacatur vacatur |
The Spire STL Pipeline is a critical source of natural gas for the St. Louis region. The pipeline—which became operational in 2019—was constructed to … |
| 21-35 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or "lacks jurisdiction " to determine its original and lower court 's jurisdiction in OPM Investigatio… |
| 20-1484 |
SFPP, L.P. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-22 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-decision cost-of-service interstate-commerce-act pipeline-rates record-development substantial-evidence |
Whether a federal agency, upon remand based upon an appellate finding that the agency's outcome is insufficiently supported, complies with the Adminis… |
| 20-1139 |
Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, the law speaks of two options. One is for the agency to act anew. … |
| 20-6630 |
Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing |
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| 20-141 |
Howard Bloomgarden v. National Archives and Records Administration |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision exemption-6 freedom-of-information-act government-criticism government-employment personal-privacy public-disclosure |
Where an Assistant United States Attorney was terminated for misconduct and has continued to cite his former government service in public letters crit… |
| 20-5100 |
Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether the PLAINTIFF appeal is frivolous when it involves a trespass of constitutional dimension on the Freedom of Information Act, BY THE UNITED … |
| 20-5022 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing |
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| 18-1556 |
Peggy Edwards, et al. v. Louisiana Workforce Commission, et al. |
Louisiana |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-adjudication agency-decision burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard medical-claims medical-treatment standing workers-compensation |
Under the Louisiana workers' compensation statute, workers injured on the job are entitled to appropriate employer-funded medical care, which is usual… |
| 18-966 |
Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (52)Relisted (3) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-decision agency-decision-making census discovery executive-branch standing |
1. Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census … |
| 18-776 |
Pedro Pablo Guerrero-Lasprilla v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
agency-decision criminal-alien-bar diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling immigration-law judicial-review removability statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the application of a legal standard to an undisputed set of facts is a question of law, or a pure question of fact that may be barred from … |
| 18-597 |
John Ching En Lee v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
|
agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation |
1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total… |
| 18-5777 |
Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation |
Alaska |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Question not identified. |