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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
24-6172 Tyrone T. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2024-12-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-capricious capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals - - while dismantling other safeguards, and in…
23-1315 Maxwell Jones v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious conflict-of-interest dfas-denial forged-documents judicial-immunity military-pay military-records records-correction wrongful-discharge I. Whether, in a military pay and records correction case, when the Secretary of the Army publishes a final decision by directive following their inve…
23A779 Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Third Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-rulemaking arbitrary-capricious electronic-nicotine fda-regulation marketing-application Question not identified.
22-5978 Richard R. Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention-versus-arrest due-process evidentiary-hearing sworn-testimony WHETHER A DETERMINATION BY THE LOWER COURTS THAT THE OFFICERS ONLY DETAINED THE PETITIONER, AND NOT ARRESTED HIM, WHICH FINDING WAS IN DIRECT CONFLICT…
22-351 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing 1. Whether the Lower Courts ' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States…
21-7809 Urshawn Eric Miller v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-05-09 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious capital-punishment comparative-proportionality-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review sentencing-review Whether Tennessee's comparative proportionality review, the state's chosen safeguard against arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty,…
21-7534 Alan L. Gallagher v. Capella Education Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-capricious civil-procedure contract contract-disclaimer contract-elements educational-malpractice failure-to-state-cause-of-action motion-to-dismiss reciprocity standing university-immunity Are elements of contract properly pied (to survive motion to dismiss for failure to state cause of action)? Should universities have immunity under d…
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review This petition presents one legal issue in two parts that have divided the courts of appeals regarding ERISA statute and regulations. Congress intended…