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25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages 1. Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information, specificall…
25-639 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe…
25-620 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-12-01 Denied class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment…
25-585 SunTrust Bank v. Charles Daniel Bickerstaff, as Administrator of the Estate of Jeff Bickerstaff, Jr., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated Georgia 2025-11-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreement class-action federal-arbitration-act opt-out preemption state-court-rule Whether the FAA preempts a state court rule permitting a proposed class representative to effectively opt out of arbitration on behalf of all unnamed …
25-351 Shanda Games Limited, et al. v. David Monk Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived class-action fraud-on-the-market investor-reliance market-efficiency presumption-of-reliance securities-fraud In Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224 (1988), this Court recognized a rebuttable fraud-on-the-market presumption for establishing reliance in a secu…
25-5464 Jaime A. Diaz ONeill v. Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP attorneys-fees class-action fairness-hearing notice-requirements rule-23 settlement-approval Question not identified.
25A194 EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. Missouri 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
24-1289 Nissan North America, Inc. v. Sherida Johnson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action federal-court injury-in-fact rule-23 1. Whether a federal court may certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class when almost no one in the class has suffered—or will suffer—an Article III injury. 2. Wh…
24-1218 Phillip Alig, et al. v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived article-iii certification class-action federal-rule-civil-procedure injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack a…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing circuit courts, but contrary to the D.C. Circuit below, this Court's decision in U.S. Parole Commission v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 (1980), remains good…
24A728 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete antitrust class-action consumer-protection due-process settlement ticket-sales Question not identified.
24-750 Martha Adams, et al. v. Angelo Rescigno, Sr., as Executor of the Estate of Cheryl B. Canfield, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action evidentiary-analysis settlement-certification transunion-ramirez 1. Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 as amended in 2018 permit courts to apply a policy favoring settlement in place of a rigorous evidentiary a…
24A671 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law Question not identified.
24-643 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-630 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-610 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine In American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah , 414 U.S. 538, 554 (1974), this Court held that "the commencement of a class action suspends the applicab…
24-583 Xunhui Cheng, et al. v. Dan Liu, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived certification civil-procedure class-action equity-jurisdiction property-rights stolen-property Did the Court of Appeals err in denying plaintiffs' application to certify a conventional class action, historically existing in equity well before en…
24A500 Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete class-action internet-platform negligence section-230 technology-liability user-harm Question not identified.
24-464 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. Quintin Scott Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Amici (1) article-iii-standing circuit-conflict class-action incentive-award judicial-standing redressability Does a putative class representative have Article III standing solely to seek an "incentive award" nowhere authorized by statute, rule, or historic pr…
24A389 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete american-pipe-tolling burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations 1. This case presents an important and recurring question regarding how courts should resolve ambiguity as to the scope of a putative or certified cla…
24-5805 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP administrative-law class-action public-safety standing statutory-warning texas-dps (1) Whether Petitioner & similarly situated challenge the Statutory Warning DIC-24 Department of Public Safety ("T (2) Whether class members lack sta…
24-426 Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine The determination of whether a named plaintiff in a class action has Article III standing to bring claims on behalf of others has been addressed by …
24A340 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Nicholas DeFries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action class-certification employment-discrimination statute-of-limitations 1. These cases present an important and recurring question regarding how courts should resolve ambiguity as to the scope of a putative or certified cl…
24-304 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii certification class-action federal-court injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury.
24-259 Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds "Since the decisions in Trustees v. Greenough, 105 U.S. 527 (1882), and Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Pettus, 113 U.S. 116 (1885), this Court has …
24-197 Rose Izzo v. AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., et al. Delaware 2024-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 14th-amendment Can the Third Circuit disobey the Supreme Court's class-action disability-rights due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act opt-out 24-196" opt-out-rights settlement stay-put-provision stockholder-rights supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-ruling Does the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution require courts to give objecting stockholders the right to opt-out in a monetary…
24-165 Trina Wilkins, et al. v. Genzyme Corporation First Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived class-action equitable-tolling fairness-act federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity relation-back-doctrine I. Whether the Class Action Fairness Act creates a combination of both Federal Question jurisdiction and Diversity jurisdiction, termed minimal divers…
24-96 Xanadu Corp., et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied attorney-fees claims-administration class-action due-process judicial-review settlement-distribution unclaimed-property 1. Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class act…
23-1183 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez California 2024-05-02 Denied attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings and prevent the State, like…
23-1163 David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights class-action common-benefit-fund due-process legal-method lodestar-method reasonable-attorney-fee reasonable-compensation settlement 1. When determining a reasonable attorney's fee in a class action settlement with a common benefit fund, are district courts required to apply the per…
23-1063 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied antitrust-law class-action competition-restraint injunctive-relief private-enforcement prospective-waiver settlement-agreement Whether settlement agreements may immunize ongoing restraints on competition from private enforcement under the federal antitrust laws by releasing ce…
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target 1. Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a "primary defendant" under CAFA'…
23-6959 Lionel Scott Ellison v. Peter Bludworth, Warden, et al. Montana 2024-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Does the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Protect the Rights of each Justice of the United States Supreme Court, to receive any Petition to th…
23-970 NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (2) class-action expert-opinion falsity falsity-allegations internal-documents pleading-requirements pslra scienter securities-fraud 1. Whether plaintiffs seeking to allege scienter under the PSLRA based on allegations about internal company documents must plead with particularity t…
23-6785 Raleigh G. Rogers v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. North Carolina 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure class-action class-actions contact-information due-diligence due-process notice opt-out rule-23 service-by-publication service-of-process Is it Substantial Harm to the Public to allow the Defendant in a Rule 23(b)(3) "opt-out " class actions to withhold contact information it maintains i…
23-6720 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing 1. Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment Right to Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (DIR) when he was part of t…
23-814 Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-29 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-impact civil-procedure class-action class-certification classwide-impact federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-dispute merits merits-determination Whether a district court validly certifies a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) where it deems the proposed method through which pla…
23A642 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Presumed Complete cafa class-action home-state-controversy insurance-litigation internal-affairs jurisdictional-exceptions Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly applied the "internal affairs" exception to the Class Action Fairness Act in holding that a class action challen…
23A578 NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete class-action expert-testimony pleading-standards pslra scienter securities-fraud Question not identified.
23-648 Brinker International, Inc. v. Eric Steinmetz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure class-action class-certification consumer-credit damages damages-uniformity federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-injury predominance-requirement rule-23 rules-enabling-act This case is a putative class action arising out of a consumer credit card security incident in which the class members' purported injuri es, if they …
23-470 Kimberly Bruce, aka Kimberly A. Bruce, aka Kimberly Antrell Bruce v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification due-process national-class rule-7023 statutory-injunction 1. Whether a bankruptcy court has jurisdiction under Bankruptcy Rule 7023 to certify a national class of individuals, all of whom were subjected to th…
23-465 Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals If a n RCA under Rule 23 of the F ederal Rules of Civil Procedure is dismissed based on an erroneous interpretation of law , but not on the merits, do…
23-434 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, By Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, Trustees ad Litem Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) CAFA cafa-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdictional-rules procedural-gamesmanship removal standing voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA jurisdiction through pleading artifices, while pursuing a representative action for the purported benefit…
23-225 Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document "relates to th…
23-5494 Dominic Asquith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Question not identified.
23-35 City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. v. Ivana Kirola, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied civil-procedure class-action injunctive-relief legal-injury standing trial-record unnamed-class-members unnamed-plaintiffs Whether a court may order injunctive relief in a case where the sole named plaintiff failed to prove she suffered any legal injury at trial but the tr…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel…
22-1237 Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. Massachusetts 2023-06-23 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. ("FAA"), pursuant to Article VI of the United States Constitution ("Supremacy Clause"), …
22-1181 Evenflo Company, Inc. v. Mike Xavier, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights class-action concrete-harm consumer-protection due-process economic-injury judicial-inference pleading-standard standing Whether a plaintiff alleging economic injury must plead facts to support his theory of harm, as several circuits require, or whether a court may suppl…
22-920 ViSalus, Inc. v. Lori Wakefield, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process marketing-communications standing statutory-damages tcpa-violation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether, in light of TransUnion , receipt of a phone call after opting in to receive marketing communications is a "concrete injury in fact" sufficien…
22-904 Jane Doe 8, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action federal-claims non-federal-claims rule-23 statute-of-limitations tolling-rule In American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah, this Court held that "a class action suspends the applicable statute [of limitations] as to all asserted …
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-6773 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity standing (1) Whether Petitioner's in forma pauperis status from state court applies post removal to Federal Court. (2) Whether Petitioner's appeal was in good…
22-651 Kenneth Kellogg, et al. v. Watts Guerra LLP, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-deceit class-action due-process fee-contract judicial-recusal mass-tort multidistrict-litigation The Kellogg, et al. lawsuit and this petition address whether lawyers can mislead 60,000 corn growers across the United States into signing 40 percent…
22-634 Richard Estle Carson, III v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response Waived class-action class-actions common-fund incentive-award incentive-awards representative-plaintiff representative-plaintiffs rule-23 service-award supreme-court-precedent Does Rule 23 abrogate this Court's holdings that payments in common-fund class actions to compensate representative plaintiffs for their personal serv…
22-6464 Leonard Chase, Jr. v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Question not identified.
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa 1. Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action "alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact" when the complaint contains no such alleg…
22-566 William Yeatman v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (2) class-action class-certification class-counsel cy-pres due-process first-amendment rule-23 settlement-approval student-loan third-party-beneficiary The Second Circuit affirmed Rule 23(e)(2) approval of a cy-pres class-action settlement that paid no money to the class of student-loan borrowers, but…
22-554 Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as "fair, reasonable, and adequate" under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial…
22-389 Charles T. Johnson v. Jenna Dickenson Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (4) class-action eleventh-circuit fiduciary-duty greenough greenough-precedent incentive-payments judicial-oversight rule-23 Applying general federal common law, this Court held in Trustees v. Greenough, 105 U.S. 527 (1881) that a creditor could recover attorney fees, but no…
22-240 Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia, et al. v. Jonathan R., Minor, By Next Friend Sarah Dixon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights class-action due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism standing state-court-proceedings state-courts younger-abstention 1. Must federal courts abstain from interfering with state-court child welfare proceedings under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971)? 2. May federa…
22-131 StarKist Co., et al. v. Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc., On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure class-action class-certification injury-proof representative-evidence rule-23 standing uninjured-class-members 1. Whether, and in what circumstances, the presence of uninjured class members precludes the certification of a class under Federal Rule of Civil Proc…
21-1535 David Lowery v. Benjamin Joffe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1) class-action copyright cy-pres first-amendment google-litigation privacy-rights rule-23 settlement-fairness standing 1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirem…
21-7949 John D. Horton v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation 1. Did the courts below improperly construe the "notice " to the debtor requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.1 1(e)(1) when th…
21-7688 Raleigh Rogers v. Wells Fargo Fourth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure class-action due-process individual-notice notice opt-out rule-23 wells-fargo Can the court disregard: one, that Wells Fargo promised to provide the "next steps to be taken regarding [Plaintiff-Appellant's] unauthorized account …
21-1316 In Re Darru Hsu 2022-04-01 Denied agency-authority chevron-deference class-action constitutional-rights federal-arbitration-act finra finra-arbitration fraud investment-advisers-act judicial-review Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) contradicts Investment Advisers Act (IAA) when fraud is inside an investment contract. All investors therefor are entitl…
21-1307 Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon California 2022-03-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1303 Abigail Walsh, et al. v. Amy Cohen, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process notice procedural-fairness rule-23 settlement settlement-revocation 1. Does the Constitutional Due Process driven analysis set forth in Rule 23 have exceptions? 2. If so, what exceptions and what circumstances trigger…
21-1218 Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction On remand from an appeal successfully challenging a proposed nationwide settlement, class counsel and his clients stopped representing the class membe…
21-1121 Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote California 2022-02-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1031 Estate of Cheryl Beaudry v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing check-reporting class-action consumer-protection consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act injury-in-fact positive-checkwriting-information putative-class-action risk-of-check-declines In this putative class action involving over 1.4 million consumers, when presenting checks to merchants for payment, did named plaintiff Cheryl Beaudr…
21-6907 Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities 1. Constitution of the United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992). All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction…
21-948 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates v. Monique Russell, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) certification civil-procedure class-action common-issues individual-issues predominance rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) rule-23(c)(4) Whether, when an action involves both common and individual questions, a court may certify common questions for class treatment under Rule 23(b)(3) wi…
21-6741 Jamor J. Demby v. County of Camden, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-tolling due-process incarceration legal-procedure standing statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations tolling Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to the tolling of theStatute of limitation due to being a class member in a Previous class action ?. Is t…
21-6613 DeAndre Russell, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-act pro-se standing stare-decisis Whether Rule 5.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures which wato in part; *A jnfiy Ik afewsd to "fife m Cpwptett, ffer Sa^ssstssme fs^Ssif ifaw^ i…
21-842 Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards 1. May allegations made in support of the claim that a case should proceed as a class action be struck from a pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Civ…
21-6488 Bertram S. Mann v. Florida Florida 2021-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing IN REGARDS TO ThE " BElATEO MOTION AND fOR MODIFiCATiON OF SENTENCE REQUBST FOR HEARiNG 3.8OO(C)" FilED 0N12-21-20,(AND) FACTS ThEREiNe DiD ThE SHERiF…
21-724 New York University v. Dr. Alan Sacerdote, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) class-action class-shares employee-retirement-plans erisa fiduciary-duty mutual-funds prudence retirement-plans Whether the bare allegation that New York University ("NYU") offered retail-class shares of certain mutual funds rather than lower-cost institutional-…
21-640 Five Star Automatic Fire Protection, L.L.C. v. Department of Labor Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied burden-shifting civil-rights class-action due-process evidentiary-rule fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay representative-testimony wal-mart-v-dukes 1. In Wal-Mart v. Dukes, this Court rejected "Trial by Formula" in disapproving the use of representative testimony for certification of Rule 23 class…
21-638 David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims After a data breach at Equifax disclosed nearly 150 million Americans' sensitive personal information, 300 class actions against Equifax were consolid…
21-571 Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine Texas 2021-10-20 Denied class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions New York Times v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 (1964) establishes that speech must be "of and concerning" a specific individual for that individual to stat…
21-464 Ohio, ex rel. Robert Merrill, Trustee, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Ohio 2021-09-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action constitutional-rights due-process notice property-rights settlement takings Whether the failure of a state court to provide individual notice to readily identifiable class members in a class action settlement of a case asserti…
21-428 Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-21 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine 1. Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized, is inconsistent with …
21-385 Drasc, Inc., et al. v. Navistar International Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure class-action due-process excusable-neglect opt-out reasonable-indication settlement Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(c)(2)(B) mandates that unnamed class members be given the right to "opt out" of a class settlement after a court'…
21-336 Shiyang Huang v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action class-certification future-harm monetary-damages money-damages risk-of-harm supreme-court-precedent transunion-v-ramirez Whether class-action plaintiffs can still rely on mere "risk of future harm" allegations alone to establish Article III standing, achieve class certif…
20-1757 Lecia L. Shorter v. Mary Amador, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-certification due-process monelle-liability rule-23-certification standing strip-search unnamed-class-member 1) What are the collateral attack options of an unnamed class member to challenge the classifications and due process violations in a $53 million civi…
20-1717 Harris County Hospital District v. Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights class-action collateral-review cy-pres due-process judicial-procedure settlement-class standing Whether, or in what circumstances, the scope of the collateral review of an alleged absent class member's collateral attack on a class action judgment…
20-1573 Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Angie Moriana California 2021-05-13 Judgment Issued Amici (27)Response RequestedRelisted (2) bilateral-arbitration class-action concepcion employee-rights epic-systems federal-arbitration-act iskanian paga private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative c…
20-1570 HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief This Court has repeatedly held that the Federal Arbitration Act "protect[s]" agreements "to use individualized rather than class or collective action …
20-1349 Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h Whether, and to what degree, a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding "reasonable attorney's fees" under Rule 23(h).
20-1290 In Re Adesijuola Ogunjobi 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights class-action covid-19 covid-19-challenge doj-officials due-process intervention-motion loan-blocking standing statutory-relief The global community is facing the most egregious crime ever committed against humanity as in the invention or fabrication of Coronavirus aka COVID-19…
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, …
20-6499 Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions iMAS £_QLiMTV ^.a\/ERaEMT DE-LlfiH^T^LV Xt\(hUPPH b^r/UMBS dLfl£s.iMHEM cy) b&rmiAlB&s SLEPT iM % yC ID. (LEiLL- hEZSJ£>Kldb FOR- CX)jIaI3LTI4 3RD b…
20-6349 Larry D. Odum v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Question not identified.
20-510 IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members…
20-492 Charles D. Gonzalez, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived adequate-representation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadequate-representation intra-class-conflict release rule-23 settlement settlement-approval A Magistrate of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado approved a class action settlement over the objection of the Petitioners…
20-393 Alex Rahmi v. Pill & Pill, PLLC West Virginia 2020-09-25 Denied asset-liquidation bankruptcy-fraud class-action due-process federal-rules foreclosure-fraud foreclosure-scheme retaliation whistleblower-protection Statement of Appellate Turisdiction Appellate Jurisdiction is referred to power of Higher Court to revise lower's court decision, based on discovery …
20-297 TransUnion LLC v. Sergio L. Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Judgment Issued Amici (28) article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action damages due-process fair-credit-reporting-act punitive-damages standing statutory-damages 1. Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an i…
20-201 Debe Olson v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure class-action due-process equitable-tolling motion-to-dismiss notice rule-23 rule-23(e)-frcp One: Whether the trial court improperly granted a Motion to Dismiss the putative class because there was no notice to the putative class and therefore…
20-181 Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision, rendered on February 28, 2020, affirming the judgment of the District Court conflicts with the …
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-5364 John S. Kaminski v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions standing 1. Are the defendants-SEMPLE as former Commissioner of D.O.C. (now COOK) immune from injunctive and/or declaratory
20-152 Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction class-action fake-products federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-procedure marketing state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Petitioners' class action complaint brought in state court seeking relief under Missouri law for respondents' marketing of fake prescription pet food …
19-8805 Shane Bruce v. Great Britain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-animus district-conspiracy due-process equal-protection foreign-litigation industrial-poisoning medical-malpractice pro-per-amendment standing toxic-torts Are victims of industrial poisoning persecuted as a group with grounds for claims a subclass facing Unconstitutional animus? Is litigation against fo…
19-1366 Shiyang Huang v. Valeska Schultz, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action due-process in-personam-claims monetary-relief rule-23 rules-enabling-act settlement standing I. Whether unnamed class members under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 must have Article III standing for class certification (as four circuits hav…
19-1339 Kansas City Royals Baseball Corp., et al. v. Aaron Senne, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) class-action class-certification commonality predominance rule-23 statistical-surveys tyson-foods tyson-foods-v-bouaphakeo wage-and-hour 1. Whether Tyson sanctions the use of statistical surveys to establish commonality and predominance for a wage-and-hour class that encompasses differe…
19-1180 Robert Radcliffe, et al. v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-actions class-counsel conflicts-of-interest due-process fair-settlement legal-representation material-conflict rule-23 settlement-fairness Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 permits class counsel whose interests are in material conflict with those of the class to represent the class so long as th…
19-1157 Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling The plaintiffs in these lawsuits are individuals who were swindled out of large sums of money in one of the largest "Ponzi" schemes in American histor…
19-7829 Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws (CCP § 391(b)) violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments of the US Constitution, particularly when a gover…
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing This petition involves a putative nationwide class action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), in which respondents …
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others? ii. Whether the United States C…
19-1013 Darru K. Hsu v. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied class-action controlling-question-of-law exculpatory-clause interlocutory-review appellate-jurisdiction arbitration civil-rights class-action due-process federal-arbitration-act investment-contract jurisdictional-challenge sec-regulation securities standing statutory-violation Question-1: Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investme…
19-887 Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation The United States Constitution requires that parties have at least minimally diverse citizenship for a federal court to exercise diversity jurisdictio…
19-765 Michael Faust, Director, Arizona Department of Child Safety v. B. K., By Her Next Friend Margaret Tinsley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Amici (3) accountability civil-rights class-action commonality due-process federalism injunctive-relief rule-23 standing systemwide-failures In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338 (2011), this Court held that a class action may not be certified unless a question central to each cla…
19-739 Julius Barbour, et al. v. Halliburton Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement-notice class-action-settlement-notice,due-process,hisen-v class-member-compensation compensation due-process hisen-v-carlisle-jacquelin judicial-discretion notice notice-requirement post-settlement-requirements procedural-fairness procedural-order settlement settlement-procedure 1. Whether class members are given constitutionally adequate notice under Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin , which requires direct individual notice when…
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Involues: "Caprtal Offence" cases; Class Action HabeasCorpus; lack ofjuvisdiction claim Injudiclously predicated by the lower courts' striking refusal…
19-504 Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough This Court's longstanding precedent holds that representative plaintiffs whose litigation creates a "common fund" benefiting a larger class may recove…
19-503 Apache Corporation v. Bigie Lee Rhea Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied administrative-feasibility ascertainability class-action class-actions class-certification class-membership class-notice due-process rule-23 Three circuits have held that Rule 23(b)(3) requires proponents of class certification to show an administratively feasible method for identifying cla…
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act In Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, this Court held that a plaintiff does not automatically satisfy Article III's "injury-in-fact requirement whenever a statut…
19-427 Durant Brockett, et al. v. Matthew E. Orso, as Receiver for REX Venture Group, LLC, dba ZeekRewards.com Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived absent-defendants adequate-representation circuit-court civil-procedure class-action defendant-class due-process error-correction fifth-amendment hansberry-v-lee Is the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment violated by the entry of a final judgment against a class of absent defendants, if the absent defenda…
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary…
19-397 Susan Levy v. BASF Metals Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action commodity-exchange-act discovery-accrual-rule discovery-rule due-process equitable-tolling opt-out rico statute-of-limitations The issues-presented are important because they concern individual rights, a principal that our founders used to establish our Democracy that allowe…
19-244 Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law 1. Do this Court's decisions defining "a reasonable attorney's fee" in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding "re…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information Whether the seventh circuit applic…
19-5361 Luis D. Cabrera Mejia v. Walmart Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights class-action court-procedure due-process employment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-parties lower-court-error standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the lower court 's erred, in violation of justice for all to 4 U.S.C. § 4.
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes This Court has never addressed two important questions in class action litigation. First, whether nonclass counsel is entitled to an award of counsel …
18-9286 Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
18-1362 James Hall v. John H. Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Amici (1) ballot-access capable-of-repetition class-action courts-of-appeals election election-law elections-mootness evading-review judicial-review mootness-doctrine standing Under what circumstances can a candidate continue to challenge a ballot-access rule after the election over which he originally sued has passed?
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is "any defendant" entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional…
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations 1. Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974), should continue until a distric…
18-8789 Roy Easterwood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-11 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions res-judicata Will this CouRt Reguire OKIAhOMA COURts to tREAt SiMilARly iNMAtes the situnted PRISON SAme? CAN 6 StAte CouRt dismiss PRISONERS RElIgIOUS FReedom Cl…
18-1256 BP West Coast Products, LLC v. Steven Scharfstein, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Oregon 2019-04-01 Dismissed civil-procedure class-action class-certification cy-pres due-process oregon oregon-law punitive-damages signage-laws statutory-damages In this class action, the Oregon courts upheld an aggregated statutory-damages award of $409 million based on petitioner's failure to disclose a $0.35…
18-8598 Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing Should the courts be required to uphold laws that are created, by Congress, to specifically protect the rights of underprivileged, federally protected…
18-1125 ZocDoc, Inc. v. Radha Geismann, M.D., P.C. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-standing deposit federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individual-relief judgment-entry mootness mootness-doctrine rule-67 rule-68 rule-68-offer standing In Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 577 U.S. ___, 186 S. Ct. 663, 672 (2016), this Court held that an unaccepted offer of judgment under Federal Rule of C…
18-1120 Theresa Riffey, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights damages due-process first-amendment free-speech harris-precedent janus-precedent janus-v-afscme standing subjective-opposition union-fees Under Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 (2018), and Harris v. Quinn, 134 S. Ct. 2618 (2014), do individuals from whom union fees were…
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Does Microsoft v. Baker, 137 S.Ct. 1702, 198 L.Ed. 2d 132 (2017) mandate that only plaintiffs who litigate their individual claims to a final judgment…
18-1074 Brian Perryman v. Josue Romero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-counsel cy-pres cy-pres-award due-process fair-reasonable-adequate fairness-standard fees rule-23 settlement settlement-scrutiny Whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirement…
18-969 Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-25 Dismissed circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal 1. Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption that all class members were injured by …
18-876 Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 1. Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to o…
18-768 In Re Kenneth P. Kellogg, et al. 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct civil-procedure class-action common-questions-of-fact contingent-fee-contracts fee-contract judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation mdl-transfer minnesota-law multidistrict-litigation pretrial-proceedings Whether the MDL Panel transfer of Kellogg from Minnesota to the Syngenta MDL for "pretrial proceedings" is a "judicial usurpation of power [and] a cle…
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…
18-631 Kevin McCabe v. Gerardo Aranda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement-agreement class-members cy-pres district-court due-process guidance judicial-discretion potential-recipients procedural-fairness recipient-selection settlement-agreement standing 1. Whether a cy pres provision of a class-action settlement agreement may, in authorizing the class members to make recommendations for the selection,…
18-618 Dolores Gutierrez, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied arbitration civil-procedure class-action dispute-resolution due-process efficient-dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act litigation-tactics procedural-strategy standing Is the Federal Arbitration Act's goal of "providing efficient streamlined procedures tailored to the type of dispute," AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcio…
18-551 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Jordan Florida 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure class-action constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings issue-preclusion jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding tobacco Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings …
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a state court may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant unless the conduct giving …
18-449 Pharmavite LLC v. Noah Bradach Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived class-action class-certification class-members federal-preemption federal-statute individual-inquiry preemption state-law-claims supremacy-clause 1. Is it a violation of the Supremacy Clause, U.S. ConsT. art. VI, cl. 2, for a federal court to certify a class that includes class members asserting…
18-398 FCA US LLC, et al. v. Brian Flynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (4) article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-procedure-23(f) class-action class-certification interlocutory-review manifest-error predominance standing superiority Plaintiffs brought a purported class action claiming that they bought or leased FCA-manufactured vehicles that were "excessively vulnerable" to being …
18-381 Donald C. Marro v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System Sixth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-settlement class-action class-representation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees fees-and-expenses frcp-23 notice property-rights public-policy settlement-fairness Amendments V and XIV provide equal access to courts, equal protection of law and sanctity of property, including bankruptcy distributions, for all lit…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law.
18-169 Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald Whether this Court's decision in United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald, 432 U.S. 385 (1977), which allowed unnamed putative class members to intervene for…
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-59 Eduardo Pineiro Perez, et al. v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived class-action class-action-rule-23 district-court-dismissal docket-management federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure multi-district-litigation multi-plaintiff multi-plaintiff-lawsuits procedural-rights rule-23 shady-grove shady-grove-v-allstate supreme-court Based on a case management and administrative order, PTO 60, which permitted only single plaintiff lawsuits, the district court dismissed with prejudi…
18-42 GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana Third Circuit 2018-07-09 Dismissed Amici (4) 11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on …
18-4 Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing Does manifest injustice result from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appellate c…
23A1020 David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete appellate-review attorneys-fees class-action petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit Question not identified.
23A1019 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete attorneys-fees class-action eleventh-circuit petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit Question not identified.