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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1020 | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | common-law employee-benefit-plans ERISA estoppel plan-interpretation written-instrument | Whether general estoppel can override an ERISA plan's unambiguous text. | |
| 25-561 | Dominic L. Ruiz v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-07 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law evidence-rule federal-appeals-courts intoxication temporal-requirement witness-credibility | In 2014, this Court expanded Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 801(d)(1)(B) to allow the admission of prior consistent statements when a witness's credib… |
| 25-5460 | Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony | In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on… |
| 24-1238 | Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Granted | Amici (19)Relisted (2) | common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law | Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver? |
| 24-1180 | Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment | Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| 24-7032 | Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation | Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24-407 | Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court | Virginia | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety | Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of… |
| 24-100 | Doug Dyson v. Tiffany Deakins, Whitley County Auditor, et al. | Indiana | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process enabling-act fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding property-ownership property-rights takings tax-identification | 1. Whether the trial court violated the organic law and constitutional provisions to supplant its orders superseding my rights to a judicial proceedin… |
| 23-7589 | Yuri I. Lee, aka Yuri Imuta v. U.S. Bank National Association, Successor Trustee to Bank of America, National Association, Successor in Interest to Lasalle Bank National Association | California | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 7th-amendment civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process equity-value jury-trial scheiding-v-dinwiddie summary-judgment trial-by-jury | A serious conflict exists between decisions rendered from this Court and lower state courts, along with constitutional provisions and statutes, in dec… |
| 23-7095 | Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio… |
| 23-6991 | Spencer P. Peace v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sixth-amendment speedy-trial | For 800 years the English Common Law prohibited jailing a defendant for more than one year prior to their trial. Fifty years ago, this Court changed c… |
| 23-798 | EEE Minerals, LLC, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit just-compensation property-taking sovereign-immunity takings | Whether sovereign immunity bars a claim asserting the constitutional right to just compensation for a taking of property by a state? | |
| 23-283 | Tri-City ValleyCats, Inc., et al. v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball | Second Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Dismissed | Amici (8) | antitrust antitrust-immunity baseball baseball-exemption common-law flood-v-kuhn market-competition professional-sports sherman-act stare-decisis | Whether this Court should overrule Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), and its predecessors and revoke the century-old, common-law antitrust immunity … |
| 23-5447 | Antonio Chimney v. Texas | Texas | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence common-law constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence great-writ habeas-corpus laches writ-of-right | 1. May Laches be used to deny an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus that is based on Actual and Factual Innocence? 2. May the Common Law Doctrine … |
| 23-65 | Alfredo J. Molina, et al. v. BMO Harris Bank, et al. | Arizona | 2023-07-24 | Denied | arizona-judicial-system common-law common-law-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract property-rights ratification-doctrine | Were Petitioners deprived of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Arizona judicial system deni… | |
| 22-7902 | Saul Navarrete De La Cerda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 22-1039 | In Re Gary Pfeffer, Jr. | Maryland | 2023-04-25 | Denied | common-law constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-state-a-claim injunctive-relief judicial-review notice-and-opportunity pro-se-litigation redress-of-grievances | Was the trial court's dismissal of the Appellant's Petition for Emergency Injunctive Relief filed as a Common Law case based on "failure to state a cl… | |
| 22-7208 | Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-04-04 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders | 1. Whether Petitioner (Member Of Public) Lacks Standing To Bring First Amendment Challenge To 1978 Judicial Order Sealing Police Reports Because She W… |
| 22-912 | James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-20 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (4) | circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-… |
| 22-7012 | Lionel Jericho McCoy v. California | California | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document common-law common-law-pleading criminal-charging due-process first-degree-murder notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the 1883 rule set forth in People v. Soto, 63 Cal. 165 (1883) — that facts which expose a defendant to increased punishment need not be charged i… |
| 22-771 | Renè Joseph Foley Bey, et ux. v. Steve Prator, Sheriff, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitution damages due-process jury-trial legal-rights | 1. Does the Constitution for the United States of America Republic (North America) guarantee that everyone has the Right to a trial by jury in suits… | |
| 22-632 | Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming… |
| 22-5532 | Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation | Whether "generic robbery" is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition? |
| 22-113 | Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas | Texas | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application | Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law when it retroactively applied a newly announced and judicially cr… |
| 21-1314 | United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation | Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A) when neither the common law nor the text of the statute support such a… |
| 21-1256 | Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1) | american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation | Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t… |
| 21-7237 | John Dalen v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | common-law constitutional-rights driver-license driver's-license due-process first-amendment right-to-travel social-security | 1. Was Petitioner, John Dalen denied his Constitutionally-protected Common Law right to travel where the State has converted the right to travel into … |
| 21-6586 | Mark James Martinez v. California | California | 2021-12-13 | Denied | IFP | california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense | Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the constitutiona… |
| 21-805 | Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. | Nevada | 2021-12-01 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions | 1. Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of star… | |
| 21-802 | Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) | actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan | In New York Times v. Sullivan, this Court upended common law defamation jurisprudence creating a more-often-than-not insurmountable bar for a public f… |
| 20-1337 | APC Investment Co., et al. v. Howmet Aerospace Inc., fka Arconic, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | cercla civil-procedure common-law contribution contribution-claim environmental-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation superfund | Is the statutory claim for contribution in section 113 of CERCLA, including the statute of limitations found in section 113(g)(3), governed exclusivel… |
| 20-7304 | Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication | Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney … |
| 20-7090 | Michael David Omondi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authorized-entry civil-rights common-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute jurisdictional-boundary military-installation section-1382 trespass | In United States v. Apel, 571 U.S. 359, 373 (2014), this Court held that the term "military installation" in 18 U.S.C. § 1382 includes all areas under… |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-876 | Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. For 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, this Court has created a qualified-immunity doctrine. It lacks support in the common law, in this Court's pre-1974 case… |
| 20-5798 | Jose Velasquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019) this Court determined that the definition of robbery contained in the Armed Career Criminal Act (A… |
| 20-352 | The Paine College v. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | accreditation administrative-procedure common-law common-law-due-process conflict-of-interest decision-making-body due-process federal-law higher-education procedural-rights quorum | Whether under federal law a college's right of common law due process is violated in its accreditation removal proceeding when one-half of the members… | |
| 20-265 | Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. | Texas | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause | In Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 560 U.S. 702 (2010), the Court was unable to resolve whether … |
| 20-5535 | Randy Platt v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2029), this Court reviewed whether Florida's robbery statute required a level of force necessary to qual… |
| 19-8876 | Solomon Jalloh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing | Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with… |
| 19-1412 | Mark Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Amici (2) | common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud | Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a "false or fraudulent…promise[… |
| 19-1364 | Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the decision of the District Court that Petitioners' claim is ba… |
| 19-1321 | In Re Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process false-claims incarcerated-prisoner incarceration ninth-amendment standing tucker-act | 1. Respondent created Court Technicality reiterated false claim, incarcerated prisoner, common law originated U.S. Court Federal Claims case 04CV226! … | |
| 19-8522 | Richard Felton v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-05-22 | Denied | IFP | common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error | Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it retroactively applied two de… |
| 19-7744 | Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity | 1) Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and disregarded this Court's precedents when it denied Petitioner's request to amend significantly incorrect recor… |
| 19-7728 | Wayne English v. Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | chose-in-action civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights claims-transfer common-law contract corporate-securities damages mitigation mitigation-doctrine party-standing securities standing | Are creditors and debtors, plaintiffs and defendants, and parties in interest allowed, required, or exempt from instituting the mitigation doctrine? … |
| 19-7200 | Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights common-law de-facto-government due-process judicial-review martial-rule peonage pro-se procedural-fairness service-of-process standing | 1. Did either the District Court and the Court of Appeals directly address in good faith the common law claims that were presented by Petitioner in th… |
| 19-7062 | Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-771 | Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings | 1. Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement … |
| 19-699 | Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice | Wisconsin | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny | 1.) Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discreti… |
| 19-620 | Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act | Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa… |
| 19-402 | Howard L. Baldwin, et ux. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (4) | administrative-law agency-deference brand-x-doctrine common-law common-law-mailbox-rule stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund | (1) Should Brand X be overruled? (2) What, if any, deference should a federal agency's statutory construction receive when it contradicts a court's p… |
| 19-62 | Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement | Michelle Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter in connection with Conrad Roy III's suicide is unprecedented. Massachusetts is the only stat… |
| 18-1427 | Marie Laventure, et al. v. United Nations, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | civil-procedure common-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure immunity jurisdiction legislative-enactment liability tort tort-action tort-claims un-general-assembly un-immunity un-liability un-secretary-general | An agreement to be liable binds a party to an enforceable obligation in law and justice. This is true under the laws of the United States and it has b… |
| 18-1367 | Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability | Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation. |
| 18-1299 | Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection | I. Does the Precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict United States Supreme Court precedent of Schindler Elevator Co… |
| 18-1260 | Jessica Cooke v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the common-law "mailbox rule" applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a). | |
| 18-928 | Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-17 | Denied | civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii | 1. Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims. 2. Whether state law (as opposed to federal common law) det… | |
| 18-913 | Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (9) | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance | Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-737 | Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law | 1. Whether a federal court of appeals in a case based on diversity jurisdiction should certify an issue of state law to the highest court of that stat… |
| 18-685 | Lynn Robinson, et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response Waived | adhesion-contract adhesion-contracts airline-deregulation-act common-law common-law-contract consumer-rights contract-interpretation contract-law forfeiture statutory-interpretation unconscionability | Since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, there has been confusion and uncertainty among the courts as to what the answer is to the… |
| 18-6414 | Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation | 1. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THE ISSUE " A HABEAS CORPUS IS AN APPROPRIATE VEHICAL FORSECOND OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THIS ISSU… |
| 18-6257 | Edward Dean McCranie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence | Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-5741 | George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly | Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying.… |
| 18-5579 | In Re Brent Cole | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law common-law-right constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment justice petition-clause right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing | 1. Is a court's refusal to allow an accused person any opportunity to be heard by themself and counsel a substantive violation of due process, common … | |
| 18-91 | Antoinette Pizzino v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-notice common-law constructive-notice cruise-line cruise-lines dangerous-condition maritime-law maritime-negligence negligence negligence-standard notice notice-requirement premises-liability | Whether, in cases where a defendant or its agent has created the dangerous condition that causes injury, a plaintiff in a maritime negligence case sho… |