claim-preclusion
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6776 | Carol Engen v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | IFP | claim-preclusion due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure-proceeding tax-lien tucker-act | Whether a summary judgment entered in a 26 U.S.C. § 7403 lien-foreclosure proceeding — whose purpose is limited to enforcing a tax lien and where taxp… |
| 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 … | |
| 25-834 | 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… | |
| 25-716 | ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. | New York | 2025-12-18 | Pending | Response Waived | arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion | 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the… |
| 25-5799 | Eric Burgie v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process non-existent-offense res-judicata separation-of-powers | 1. Under Arkansas law, Mr. Burgie had a right to have his illegal sentences corrected but the Arkansas state courts denied his petition and post-convi… |
| 25-5558 | Matthew Andrew Garces v. Cindy Hernandez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | claim-preclusion default-judgment due-process fifth-circuit jurisdictional-limit pro-se-litigant | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a default judgment, entered against a pro se litigant who was incapacitated and hospitalized during… |
| 25A226 | Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder claim-preclusion criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge res-judicata underlying-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5308 | Michael J. Gaddy v. C. Pfeiffer, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Denied | IFP | claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ninth-circuit parole-hearing | 1. WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN APPLYING CLAIM PRECLUSION TO BAR PETITIONER'S FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CLAIM WHEN THE ALLEGED CONS… |
| 24-7406 | Doug Kisaka v. University of Southern California | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-court-interpretation judicial-discretion res-judicata | (a) . "In a case originating in federal court, can a district court judge in the final and 5th Action, rely on a state court 's intermediate interpret… |
| 24-7392 | Jonathan Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 | 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the … |
| 24-7227 | Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California | California | 2025-05-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-asset-forfeiture claim-preclusion due-process federal-judgment issue-preclusion state-criminal-prosecution | Does the Due Process Clause, independent of the Double Jeopardy Clause, require a state to apply issue and/or claim preclusion to a federal judgment i… |
| 24A833 | Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Presumed Complete | claim-preclusion district-court-jurisdiction exhaustion-doctrine federal-question-jurisdiction personal-injury product-liability | Question not identified. | |
| 24-869 | Randall P. Ewing, Jr., et ux. v. Erik Carrier, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion district-court judicial-discretion motion-to-amend | Should a court dismiss a plaintiffs claim, using its inherent authority or otherwise, because they first filed a motion for leave to amend to join the… | |
| 24-852 | Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination | The Panel required petitioner to include within his § 1983 complaint for racial discrimination against School Board members individually his separate … | |
| 24A586 | Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-16 | Presumed Complete | cause-of-action civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata school-board title-vii | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5140 | Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure claim-preclusion commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-sunnen constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-retaliation fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford-empire judicial-misconduct kremer-v-chemical-construction naacp-v-button res-judicata | 1. Claim Preclusion and Due Process: Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of petitioner's claims on the grounds of claim preclus… |
| 23-1119 | Loredana Ranza v. Nike, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | adea administrative-agency civil-rights claim-preclusion discrimination extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens title-vii | 1. Does claim preclusion bar an expatriate U.S. citizen from bringing discrimination claims under the extraterritorial provisions of Title VII of the … | |
| 23-635 | Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure | 1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never … | |
| 23-78 | Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed | Petitioner's prayed 9 reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly … |
| 22-7892 | Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation | dd 0\ier IMd CQSS5 of >gtn radon oojans J prooP oP a conspiracy Subj ecV fc\acX lasers "Vo discipline and cl S^ecxf .ccxmpaiQn do d^screib *n FKrrl … |
| 22-7860 | Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice | Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents regarding fundamental miscarriage of justi… |
| 22-1212 | Barbara Lindsey v. Max. F. Adler, M.D., P.A., fka Park Cities Dermatology Center, aka Coppell Dermatology Center, et al. | Texas | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-preclusion claim-splitting due-process foreign-object full-and-fair-opportunity res-judicata texas-law unknown-injuries | This appeal presents an important and novel question concerning the claim splitting branch of res judicata or claim preclusion. In-this case, Petition… |
| 22-7181 | Kerrin Ann Barrett v. PAE, Incorporated | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-timeline civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-statutes judicial-expediency res-judicata whistleblower whistleblower-statutes | Whether applying res judicata doctrine to deny separate and distinct claims under Federal whistleblower statutes, including those that have specific a… |
| 22-6859 | Eddie Turner v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. | California | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense civil-procedure claim-preclusion deed-of-trust demurrer final-judgment judicial-ruling operation-of-law privity void-deed void-deed-of-trust | A void deed of trust is without legal effect. It binds no one and is a mere nullity. Such a contract has no existence whatsoever. It has no legal enti… |
| 22-6757 | In Re Louis Matthew Clements | 2023-02-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure claim-preclusion diversity-jurisdiction federal-common-law full-and-fair-opportunity manifest-injustice res-judicata writ-of-mandamus | 1) Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to comply with this Courts previous ruling in Semtek International Inc. v. L… | |
| 22-440 | Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction | This case presents the following question: whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts … |
| 21-6543 | Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing | Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial … |
| 21-831 | Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation | 1. Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case? 2. Must a District Court find f… |
| 21-586 | Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment | 1. Is the Seventh Circuit decision, requiring that claims between the parties that occur after the filing of a lawsuit must be filed in a pending laws… |
| 21-47 | Khai Quang Bui v. Abdul Alshaer | Virginia | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response Waived | causes-of-action civil-procedure claim-preclusion issue-preclusion judicial-review legal-procedure question-not-identified res-judicata standing supreme-court | The question asks this Court should separate and distinct causes of action overrule res judicata defense. |
| 20-1394 | PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre… |
| 20-1339 | Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Dismissed | civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv… | |
| 20-1316 | Daniel Fling v. United States Postal Service, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-03-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion constitutional-claim district-court due-process federal-common-law standing statute-of-limitations | Does the federal common law of claim preclusion bar a party's due-process claim against the United States Government in a United States district court… |
| 20-1170 | James Ben Feinman v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-injunction-act claim-preclusion class-action due-process in-personam injunction judgment party service-of-process | 1. Is one bound by a judgment in personam in a class action litigation in which he or she is not designated as a party, is not a member of the class, … |
| 20-615 | Petra Martinez, et al. v. America's Wholesale Lender | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | capacity civil-procedure claim-preclusion conflict-of-laws corporate-capacity corporate-dissolution dissolution federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit-conflict notice-of-removal removal standing | 1. Is the Opinion below in conflict with the opinions of the Courts of the State of New York in that Respondent America 's Wholesale Lender is a disso… |
| 20-532 | Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Relisted (2) | claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions | U.S. court of appeals for the Federal Circuit has entered a decision in this case in conflict with the decision of U.S. Court of appeals for the Feder… |
| 20-467 | Arthur Talbot, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-preclusion covid-19-pandemic foreclosure-fraud homeowner-rights judicial-procedure mortgage-electronic-registration-system mortgage-relief res-judicata standing | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit has negated the relief it otherwise affords in Conlin to homeowners whose homes have been foreclosed through fraudulent m… |
| 20-388 | Lingfei Sun v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel continuing-violation-doctrine district-court due-process res-judicata standing | Did Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit must determine the Petitioner's current U.S. district court suit whether applicable continuing violation d… |
| 19-1281 | Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) | Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion as practiced in the Ninth Circuit preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent… |
| 19-8171 | Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute | In litigation between two parties, time-tested principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion govern when parties may —and may not—litigate issue… |
| 19-1128 | Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata | 1. Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances in 42 U.S.C. § 1983, U.S. Const. Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the… | |
| 19-950 | Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter | 1. Must a plaintiff who has filed a civil action which asserts various claims (but whose claims do not include claims for later acts of employment dis… | |
| 19-769 | Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata | Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid… |
| 19-319 | Bonnie Cruickshank-Wallace, et vir v. CNA Financial Corporation, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | alter-ego-doctrine civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process holding-company issue-preclusion jurisdiction malpractice precedent standing subsidiary-liability technicality | 1. This case provides an issue of first impression before this Court: should this Court affirm the standard that '"cZaim preclusion ' requires...the [… | |
| 19-125 | Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event | QUESTION 1: In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Indus. Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court held that federal courts have jurisdiction to consider… |
| 19-36 | Lourdes Fontanillas Lopez v. Morell Bauza Cartagena & Dapena, LLC, et al. | Puerto Rico | 2019-07-03 | Denied | civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process equal-protection federal-common-law res-judicata supplemental-jurisdiction | In Semtek Int 'l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497 (2001), this Court reaffirmed that the claim-preclusive effect of a federal court judgmen… | |
| 18-8878 | Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | IFP | administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii | What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give to rise to a new claim? Storey, 347 F.3d 383. See eBay INC .v MercExchange. … |
| 18-1155 | James Michael Murphy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata | Is a second defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of the first lawsuit, where key information about additional, later, widespre… |
| 18-1115 | Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura | I. Are Petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. §1983 barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion and res judicata, despite… |
| 18-1086 | Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata | Whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated… |
| 18-871 | Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order | Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde… |
| 18-654 | Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. v. Richard Boatright, et ux. | Florida | 2018-11-20 | Denied | civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action due-process engle-progeny issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion procedural-due-process | The Florida Supreme Court has devised a new, class-action-specific doctrine of claim preclusion in order to facilitate the classwide adjudication of i… | |
| 18-649 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Cheryl Searcy, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol LaSard | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | actually-decided civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion | The Florida Supreme Court has devised a new, class-action-specific doctrine of claim preclusion in order to facilitate the classwide adjudication of i… | |
| 18-264 | New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal | Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… |
| 18-5401 | Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction | First Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations | To clarify the validity of the right-to-sue letter issued to the petitioner from the EEOC. To clarify if the US District Court Worcester, Massachuset… |