consideration

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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 (…