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25-855 The Visionary, Books + Cafe, LLC v. Bank OZK Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitral-award contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review party-presentation-principle sua-sponte-grounds This petition concerns the proper scope of judicial review under §10(a)(4) of the Federal Arbitration Act, which permits a court to vacate an arbitral…
25-764 Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims Whether placing the "tort" label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract.
25-6176 Melanie Nicole Moore v. Pooches of Largo, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-interpretation employment-law flsa-retaliation judicial-procedure minimum-wage wage-dispute 1. Whether the district court's characterization of Petitioner's unpaid wage complaint as "merely" a contract dispute rather than a violation of the F…
25-5355 Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP catering-industry contract-interpretation covid-19-restrictions employment-discrimination employment-guide workplace-rights Was employee Toya M Gibson discriminated against, considering she was hired and then denied the ability to work the guaranteed hours that was noted in…
24-1311 Kevin T. Lavery v. Pursuant Health, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation patent-law patent-misuse royalty-agreement stare-decisis Whether the Court should overrule Brulotte and Kimble or at least clarify that an agreement containing a post-expiration royalty is not per se patent …
24-1145 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act mass-arbitration ninth-circuit severability-doctrine 1. Whether the FAA protects all arbitration agreements (as this Court and five circuits have stated) or only a subset of traditional, bilateral arbitr…
24-1104 Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution equal-protection private-contract remedy-rights When every right withheld must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress I, Charles Dean of the Hood family present the following questions f…
24-1103 Caleb D. Glick v. American Bar Association Fifth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived antitrust-statutes constitutional-law contract-interpretation stare-decisis state-immunity supremacy-clause 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution, and the laws derived from it, and the Texas Constitution, and the laws derived from it, are binding contracts betwee…
24-1073 Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States Second Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Amici (1) contract-interpretation district-court federal-prosecutors plea-agreement prosecutorial-promise santobello-principle Under Santobello and common principles of contract interpretation, does a promise on behalf of the "United States" or the "Government" that is made by…
24-789 ECB USA, Inc., a Florida Corporation, et al. v. Chubb Insurance Company of New Jersey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation erie-doctrine federal-common-law judicial-precedent state-law 1. Whether under the mandate of Erie v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), a federal court is permitted to apply federal common law rules of construction i…
24-741 Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing I. The insured under a policy insuring against accidental death, which was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") an…
24-738 Juan Cartaya v. Travelers Indemnity Company Colorado 2025-01-13 Denied appraisal-process arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act insurance-law Whether the insurance industry's appraisal process, which fully and finally resolves insurer-insured disputes over the loss amount when two of three a…
24-569 BMC Software, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commercial-licensing contract-interpretation copyright-law fifth-circuit-ruling software-licensing trade-restraint Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in overriding a license agreement's plain language and holding that a contractual provision regarding the use of copyr…
24A432 Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. Iowa 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights contract-interpretation employment-dispute release-provision settlement-agreement summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-446 Roobina Zadoorian v. Gwinnett Technical College, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action contract-interpretation spending-clause statute-of-limitations title-vi 1. Statute of Limitation of Title VI 11th Circuit Appeal Court dismissed Plaintiffs discrimination claims against Gwinnett Technical College et al., i…
24-257 Harley Marine Services, Incorporated v. Conrad Shipyard, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived agency-authority appellate-review clearly-erroneous contract-interpretation corporate-liability fifth-circuit-ruling Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar…
24-223 Paragon Asset Company, Ltd. v. American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation force-majeure maritime-law parol-evidence reasonable-care shipowner-liability 1. Whether , under federal maritime law, the unambiguous terms of a written maritime contract cannot be altered by parol evidence, as this Court ha…
24-217 SFA Holdings, Inc., fka SAKS Incorporated v. 4 Stratford Square Mall Holdings, LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing contract-interpretation federalism lease-agreement summary-judgment waiver-doctrine 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit—in holding that Petitioner waived its right to assert affirmative defenses under…
23A1092 SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review bankruptcy contract-interpretation corporate-restructuring time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1081 Joseph Stafiniak, et al. v. Marc Kirschner, as Trustee of the NWHI Litigation Trust, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-546e avoidance avoidance-action bankruptcy-code contract-interpretation financial-institution section-546e statutory-interpretation transfer-exemption transfer-interpretation Whether Section 101(22)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, which defines a "financial institution," should be interpreted on a contract-by-contract basis or a…
23-1051 Great American Insurance Company v. Crystal Shores Owners Association, Inc. Alabama 2024-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived binding-resolution contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act federal-law-vs-state-law independent-appraisal independent-appraisal-panel statutory-construction I. Does federal law or state law govern what qualifies as an "arbitration" provision under the Federal Arbitration Act? II. Does a contract's dispute…
23-1047 HSU Contracting, LLC v. Holton-Arms School, Inc. Maryland 2024-03-21 Denied Response Waived aia-contract commerce-clause construction-industry construction-law contract-interpretation damages equal-protection small-businesses standard-contract-terms In 2018, the Petitioner and Respondent entered into an AIA (American Institute of Architects) contract, a widely utilized construction industry standa…
23-6860 Keyron Lamonte Binns v. American General Life and Accident Insurance Company, AIG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion amendment contract-interpretation contract-law diversity-jurisdiction extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdictional-standing stare-decisis 1.) DID U.S. EASTERN DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY UTILIZING EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE TO DENY THE PLAINTIFF'S COMPLAINT WITH PREJUDICE. ALTHOUGH THAT COURT FAILED…
23-840 HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability-determination arbitration arbitration-delegation circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory nonsignatory-liability standing The signatories to a contract agreed to arbitrate any claim or dispute arising out of the contract and delegated to the arbitrator the power to determ…
23-661 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine delegation-of-arbitrability gateway-questions nonsignatories nonsignatory third-party-beneficiary When an arbitration agreement delegates gateway questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, may a court still interpret the agreement for itself to …
23-518 In Re Henry Klein 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation filed-rate-doctrine group-life-precedent group-life-vs-royal-drug insurance-regulation louisiana-insurance-code risk-spreading state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-insurance Did the Louisiana district court violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution by giving higher deference to the Louisiana Insurance …
23-393 Shichinin, LLC v. Sprint Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitration-venue contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act forum-shopping hawaii-arbitration-statute post-arbitration-proceedings venue volt-v-stanford Where Respondent Sprint Corporation filed a motion for arbitration in Hawaii state court pursuant to the Hawaii arbitration statute, and the Hawaii St…
23-271 Ryan Lynch v. Condominiums of Buena Vista, Inc. Minnesota 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review arbitrability-clause arbitration-clause arbitration-standards contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review procedural-rights state-courts statutory-interpretation (1) When state courts misconstrue or ignore a written agreement controlling an arbitrability clause governed by the FAA, if the provisions under §2 an…
23-269 Charles Juntikka v. Cadell & Chapman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitrator-decision civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process equity-doctrine federal-arbitration-act serious-error stolt-nielsen-v-animal-feeds supreme-court-precedent 1. Does the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers , 531 U.S. 57, 62 (2000) holding that an arbitrator's "serious error does not suffice…
23-19 Bird Industries, Inc., et al. v. The Tribal Business Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation Eighth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-clause civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-tribe jurisdictional-waiver sovereign-immunity tribal-law 1. Does inclusion of a mandatory arbitration clause in an Agreement with an Indian Tribe waive the Tribe's sovereign immunity?
23-3 Coinbase, Inc. v. David Suski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-30 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-scope civil-procedure contract-interpretation delegation-clause dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act judicial-review jurisdiction Where parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, should an arbitrator or a court decide whether that arbitration agreement …
22-7383 Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution Can the Court Oua front Substitute the Underlying under the Pertinent §§ of the Contract & Discrimination Regarding State of Employment? Can the Cour…
22-968 Ginger Atherton v. Key Bank, N.A. Washington 2023-04-06 Denied arbitrability arbitration-agreement conditions-precedent contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-courts 1. When there is a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate, and the dispute is within the scope of the arbitration agreement, does the FAA preemp…
22-935 Transervice Logistics, Inc., et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-termination evergreen-clause labor-agreement labor-law notice-requirement notice-requirements Whether a notice of termination for a collective bargaining agreement must contain a clear statement of an intent to terminate the agreement, as the S…
22-7096 Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to …
22-518 Petrobras America Inc., et al. v. Transcor Astra Group S.A., et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arbitrability arbitration-clause contract contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine federal-courts judicial-review state-courts superseded-contract superseding-contract Whether, when parties have entered a contract with an arbitration clause that delegates to the arbitrator questions of arbitrability, the arbitrator—r…
22-470 Oceltip Aviation 1 Pty Ltd. v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provision choice-of-law contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act federal-common-law state-law state-standards Whether, in interpreting contracts that contain both an arbitration provision and a choice-of-law provision, courts may displace state principles of c…
22-103 Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied §1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment This petition presents one or more questions of exceptional importance. In particular, the Tenth Circuit conflicts with authoritative decisions of the…
22-102 John Doe, et al. v. Airbnb, Inc. Florida 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable clear-and-unmistakable-evidence contract-interpretation dispute-resolution first-options-v-kaplan presumption procedural-rules If a form arbitration agreement provides that an arbitration, if it occurs, will be administered using a particular set of procedural rules, and those…
22-20 John Klaas v. Allstate Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived allstate benefit-termination circuit-court-interpretation contract-interpretation early-retirement eleventh-circuit employee-rights erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits In an issue of critical importance affecting approximately hundreds of Allstate retirees, as well as ERISA beneficiaries elsewhere, who retired early …
21-1551 Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul Seventh Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor.
21-8109 Eric Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether …
21-7077 Catherine Kurkjian v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Federal Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-obligations bad-faith-doctrine civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law contract-reprisal government-contracts lost-profits statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation Question 1: Whether a Court can neglect the legal and statutory obligations of an agency to adhere to a signed contract and the referenced clauses; by…
21-856 Barry D. Bilder v. Janice Dykstra Seventh Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response Waived agreement-construction civil-procedure clean-hands contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation contract-law contract-terms due-process fact-determination fraud good-faith legal-definition In contracts, after signing an agreement, is the term, "new fact," applicable to a fact that is new and previously unknown to one party, or new and pr…
21-602 Michigan Education Association Family Retired Staff Association, et al. v. Michigan Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived benefit-vesting civil-rights cnh-industrial-v-reese contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation employee-benefits erisa extrinsic-evidence plan-interpretation retiree-medical-plan vesting Whether a retiree medical plan that is ambiguous on its face, within the meaning enunciated in CNH Industrial v Reese, 138 S. Ct. 761 (2018), may be s…
21-592 Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation decade-and-a-half Gibson-Dunn inconsistent-positions judicial-estoppel legal-ethics medical-license oath settlement-agreement USC whistleblower-claims Under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, should the lower courts have upheld the sanctity of the oath and estopped USC and Gibson Dunn from arguing in…
21-196 SNH SE Ashley River Tenant, LLC, et al. v. Thayer W. Arredondo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Hubert Whaley, Deceased South Carolina 2021-08-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency agency-law arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements contract-interpretation equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act powers-of-attorney preemption The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts "to put arbitration agreements on an equal plane with other contracts." Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P…
21-111 NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia, ex rel. Mark R. Herring, Attorney General Virginia 2021-07-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process federal-preemption individual-relief litigation-exception non-signatory standing state-attorney-general Whether a state attorney general who is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement may bring claims that are covered by the agreement and seek indivi…
21-51 Central Payment Co., LLC v. Custom Hair Designs by Sandy, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification contract-interpretation contractual-rights-and-obligations federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-defenses rule-23 rules-enabling-act Whether a class may be certified under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the class claims turn on materially different contractual …
20-1804 In Re Peter R. Culpepper 2021-06-25 Denied arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), respondent-chancellor abused her discretion in applying the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act ("th…
20-7927 Daryl DeWayne Riggins v. DeAnn Morris, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP admissions civil-procedure contract-interpretation denials exhibits federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts pleadings state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
20-7841 Sylvia J. Manor v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation date-of-accrual insurance-law legal-interpretation life-insurance statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions The Defendant, (Respondent), life insurance company maintains that they are free to choose a Date Of Accrual which is in flagrant violation of the con…
20-1494 Nob Hill General Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause ninth-circuit precedent precedential-value publication-rules Contracting parties use a "notwithstanding any language to the contrary" clause in their contracts to preclude the applicability of competing contract…
20-1352 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in…
20-6858 Benjamin Mario Soto v. AFSCME Union Council 5 Local 12181, et al. Minnesota 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct state-constitution 1. My employment contractual due process property rights were deprived without due process by all defendants violating the 5th and 14th Amendments of …
20-829 WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab…
20-743 DISH Network L.L.C. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-30 Dismissed circuit-split common-law-agency contract-interpretation contractual-performance-standards federal-communications-commission performance-standards telemarketing telemarketing-law vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability must be assessed in light of the four bedrock theories of common law agency, or whether a contractual term imposing perfor…
20-622 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernadean Rittmann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-exemption arbitration-regimes contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery ninth-circuit seamen-railroad-employees transportation-workers Congress extended the Federal Arbitration Act's strong support for arbitration to the full reach of its powers to regulate foreign and interstate comm…
20-6159 Nelson L. Bruce v. Pentagon Federal Credit Union Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrability arbitration-clause contract-interpretation contract-validity delegation-clause dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction-challenge redress-of-grievance 1. Whether the agreement/contract presented before the court evidences an "arbitration clause " (See...Doc. 75... Exhibits/Evidence Set - C- U.S. Dis…
20-514 Edward F. Sadjadi, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response Waived contingent-obligations contract-interpretation debt-repayment irs irs-agreement offer-in-compromise payment-terms statutory-obligation tax-compliance tax-payments Wlier© the IRS argues that the Offer In Compromise (OIC) form the petitioners used was clear and unambiguous, does the OIC form contain clear and unam…
20-68 Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a …
20-55 William A. Anderson v. American General Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied arbitration arbitration-defense contract-interpretation contract-law due-process evidence-falsification false-evidence judicial-misconduct officer-of-court officer-of-the-court 1. Is it a violation for an Arbitrator to assert a defense on behalf of a defendant of which the defendant did not request or present on their own beh…
20-28 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of …
19-1382 Sterling Jewelers, Inc. v. Laryssa Jock, et al. Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Amici (2) absent-class-members arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-authority class-arbitration consent consent-requirement contract-interpretation due-process lamps-plus lamps-plus-v-varela stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds In Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp., 559 U.S. 662 (2010), this Court held that an arbitrator cannot compel class arbitration if t…
19-1334 Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this …
19-1227 Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting With respect to the surviving spouse class members whose retiree-spouses died on or after January 10, 2005 (after expiration of the 1998 contracts) ("…
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review In Ragab v. Howard, 841 F.3d 1134 (10th Cir. 2016), the Tenth Circuit determined that two parties did not have a meeting of the minds with respect to …
19-1154 Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, et al. v. Andrew Phillips, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Phillips, et al. Arkansas 2020-03-20 Denied contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law federal-arbitration-act mutuality-of-assent mutuality-of-obligation preemption state-law-rules third-party-beneficiaries 1. Whether the FAA preempts a state-law contract rule that singles out arbitration agreements for invalidation because they were signed by family memb…
19-963 Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) appellate-conflict arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law delegation-doctrine federal-arbitration-act federal-courts questions-of-arbitrability state-courts Whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of…
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents (1) Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permi…
19-341 Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting Applying "ordinary principles of contract law," this Court held that collectively-bargained retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by "explicit t…
19-331 Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC v. Jessica Gingras, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied arbitrability arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation contract-law court-jurisdiction delegation-provision federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction Where an arbitration agreement contains a separate "delegation provision" that reserves for an arbitrator the authority to decide any disputes concern…
19-165 Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) alimony-contract appellate-court contract contract-interpretation due-process en-banc judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation overrule same-case No court has addressed this case's question: Whether it is due process of law for an intermediate appellate court, not en banc, to overrule its decis…
18-1546 Century III Mall PA LLC v. Sears Roebuck & Co. Third Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied 9-usc-10a4 arbitration-award arbitration-review arbitrator-authority binding-arbitration civil-litigation contract-interpretation contractual-rights dispute-resolution judicial-restraint lease-valuation prudential-restraint scope-of-authority statutory-interpretation While courts exercise prudential restraint when considering whether to vacate an arbitration award under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4) ("where arbitrators excee…
18-1415 ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC Ninth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver 1. Whether a collective bargaining agreement ("CBA") that expressly states "[t]he arbitrator shall not have jurisdiction or authority to add to, detra…
18-1288 Jean Coulter v. ADT Security Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection contract contract-interpretation contract-renewal contractual-limitations contractual-period due-process fraud fraud-in-inducement implied-contract public-safety statute-of-limitations Did "Fraud in Inducement" occur, and is it applicable for Renewals or later Implied Contracts (until the Fraud is discovered)? a. Can a Written Contr…
18-1083 Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. Washington 2019-02-21 Denied collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation (1) Whether a state labor claim that requires the plaintiff to show that an employer acted with "willfulness," "unreasonableness," or other mental sta…
18-1011 Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. Texas 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act The Texas Supreme Court has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has preemptive effect over incompatible state law when the parties have agreed the …
18-1002 Cynthia Davis, et al. v. Valsamis, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law carnival-cruise-lines carnival-cruise-lines-v-shute contract-interpretation cruise-line-liability fundamental-fairness judicial-scrutiny limitation-of-liability majestic-the maritime-law notice-requirement passenger-ticket passenger-tickets pre-suit-notice the-majestic ticket-limitation Whether under this Court's holdings in Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 499 U.S. 585 (1991) (limitation clauses that are contained within form pa…
18-7551 Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY?
18-811 JPay, Inc. v. Cynthia Kobel, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitrability-delegation arbitration-agreement class-arbitration contract-interpretation contractual-language dispute-resolution oxford-health-plans parties-intentions presumption stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-presumption May courts presume parties intended to let an arbitrator decide if class arbitration is available when they "simply agree[d] to submit" disputes over …
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…
18-467 Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent Fletcher v. Honeywell International Inc. , 892 F.3d 217 (6th Cir. 2018) holds that a "CBA's general durational clause applies to [retiree] healthcareb…
18-175 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. California 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont 1. Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read, consistent with the Federal Arbitration…
18-174 Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law "Congress adopted the [Federal] Arbitration Act in 1925" because "courts were unduly hostile to arbitration." Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 161…