consideration
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6731 | Keith Lashon Bell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | IFP | appellate-waiver consideration contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plea-agreement | Whether general contract principles, such as the requirement of consideration, and negotiated exclusive remedies, apply to the enforcement of appellat… |
| 25-812 | James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action | 1) When a woman signs a Prenuptial Agreement for a set amount, she cannot argue in divorce court that the Law says "she has the right" to half. Theref… |
| 25A218 | Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-provision circuit-split consideration equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act prima-paint | Question not identified. | |
| 25-34 | Continental Finance Company, LLC, et al. v. Tiffany Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Pending | Response Waived | arbitration-provision consideration contract-law federal-arbitration-act fourth-circuit maryland-law | Does the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit courts to apply a heightened consideration standard solely to contractual arbitration provision… |
| 24-7166 | David Eugene Rush, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver consideration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement | Plea agreements are governed by traditional contract principles — but unlike ordinary contracts, they involve the waiver of fundamental constitutiona… |
| 23-699 | Anthony Emposimato v. Stephen N. North | New Jersey | 2023-12-29 | Denied | civil-procedure consideration consideration-in-contract-law constitutional-rights contract-law de-novo-review due-process Friedman-v-Tappan-Dev-Corp legal-precedent mutual-assent uniform-application-of-contract-law-across-jurisdi | Did the Superior Court and the Appellate Division of New Jersey violate the Defendant's constitutional rights by disregarding established precedent (c… | |
| 23-314 | Debra Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association | Massachusetts | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | consideration default due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud government-instrumentality mortgage property-ownership standing takings | Question not identified. |
| 21-781 | NVS Technologies, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security | Federal Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | administrative-law consideration contract-law contract-termination due-process federal-agency funding-limitation good-faith good-faith-dealing government-contracts termination | After nearly four years of work on an incrementally funded research and development contract, and six months away from Petitioner's working prototype … | |
| 21-680 | Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing | 1. Under the FHAA, are landlords required to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the rental arrangement … |
| 21-231 | Julie Ellen Wartluft, fka Julie Ellen Bartels, et al. v. The Milton Hershey School, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-rights civil-rights-act consideration consideration-definition disability disability-discrimination fair-housing fair-housing-act housing-discrimination rental-definition renter student-housing | To rent is defined in the Act as to lease or to let or otherwise to grant for consideration the right to occupy premises. 42 U.S.C. §3602(e). The Milt… |
| 20-6720 | Terek Harper v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration | Whether A Federal Criminal Plea Agreement is Void and Unenforceable When it Lacks Consideration. |
| 20-5785 | Michael Hunter Cook v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure consideration contract contract-law due-process judicial-review standing | Whether, consistent with due process, an appellate court may enforce an appellate waiver unsupported by consideration. |
| 19-6560 | Matthew Joseph Lucio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consideration contract-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus plea-agreement united-states-court-of-appeals | Whether Mr. Lucio's plea agreement which extracted his guilty plea lacks consideration, and if so, whether his guilty plea violates the Fifth Amendmen… |
| 19-5407 | Fabian Delgado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing | 1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 18-8130 | Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing | 1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 18-6125 | Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | IFP | breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal | Wheather A Court Can Rey on Material outside the pleadings When Rullng on a Motion to dismiss? When pleadings are Supported by Declaration ar Affidul… |
| 18-6020 | Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals | Each and every point is stated within the petition for writ of certiorari. Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (… |