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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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… |
| 25-798 | Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar | California | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Amici (3)Response Waived | administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules | 1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional … |
| 25-706 | Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company | California | 2025-12-18 | Denied | arbitration-rights civil-procedure contract-law equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act preclusion-doctrine | Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides equitable estoppel in enforcing arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. | |
| 25-6115 | Anton Lazzaro v. LGM Consulting Group, Inc. | Florida | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights contract-law damages first-amendment fundraising political-speech | The State of Florida authorizes political fundraising consultants to recover expectancy damages in breach of contract actions against political campai… |
| 25-560 | Sheffield Korte Joint Venture v. Daniel P. Driscoll, Secretary of the Army | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-law design-build government-contract government-liability implied-warranty spearin-doctrine | In a landmark decision, this Court held in United States v. Spearin, 248 U.S. 132 (1918) (Spearin), that the federal government impliedly warrants to … |
| 25-404 | Mark Hunt v. Zuffa, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure contract-law mma-sports performance-enhancing-drugs public-policy summary-judgment | Firstly, did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming summary judgment on the Petitioner's battery and aiding-and-abetting battery claims by holding that co… |
| 25-311 | Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Requested | arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption | Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to … |
| 25-220 | John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment | Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any … | |
| 25-5447 | La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC | Georgia | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce | The Federal Arbitration Act FAA 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16 is a substantive rule applicable in state as well as in federal Courts. The FAA withdrew the power of… |
| 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… |
| 24-1293 | Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform | Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t… |
| 24-1143 | Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement | Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are "for," as Brulotte and Kimble require. |
| 24-1092 | Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir | South Carolina | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court | Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli… |
| 24-935 | Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Granted | Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 24-6465 | Leslie Robert Burk v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud | 1. Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statemen… |
| 24-633 | Matthew McCurley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | bid-rigging contract-law fair-housing-act housing-discrimination privity third-party-beneficiary | Whether the signing of Form HUD-9548, (Wells Fargo's version being the "Owner Occupancy Certification Form" stating "criminal and/or civil liability")… |
| 24-5844 | Kimberly Edelstein v. Max Edelstein | Ohio | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights contract-law due-process free-exercise-clause neutral-principles religious-marriage | 1. Does the Ohio court's dedsiofi to invalidate a Jewish Ketufaah as an unenforceable "promise to marry " and void as against public policy conflict w… |
| 24-5685 | Okwuchukwu Jidoefor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation contract-law criminal-procedure government-breach judicial-review plea-agreement | Whether the Eighth Circuit's holding that the government could cure its breach of a plea agreement in a criminal case can be cured by a partial retrac… |
| 24-335 | Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. | New York | 2024-09-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction | Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant lacking any contacts with… |
| 24-5511 | Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | Second Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | IFP | contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix | Q1: Does it amount to deliberate indifference under Title IX when a recipient (a) fraudulently tailor sexual assault case outcome to secure federal fu… |
| 24-5383 | Samuel James Kent v. Darryl LaCounte, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure contract-law federal-procurement indian-self-determination-act statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protections | Several provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 1 ("ISDEAA ") were amended in 1988 to foreclose the United States B… |
| 24-5345 | Benjamin-Macon Bell, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights-violation contract-law federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-immunity state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest? Does absolute immunity apply when a iudae has acte… |
| 24-119 | Alan Safahi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation | Whether, in the absence of fraudulent inducement, a party who subsequently breaches the contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud. | |
| 24-104 | Commerzbank AG v. U.S. Bank, N.A. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | choice-of-law conflict-of-laws contract-dispute contract-law fiduciary-obligation restatement-analysis restatement-second securities-industry securities-trade third-party-activities trustee-liability | 1. Whether the Restatement's choice-of-law analysis for contract claims is properly determined by the actions and expectations of the contract parties… |
| 23-7626 | Jasper Frazier v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-law damages federal-damages standing state-services | Is the Sending State "Indiana" liable for damages in the Contract Caused by the receiving State of "New Jersey" Contract for services Interstate Comme… |
| 23-7630 | Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement | WAS THE APPEAL BARRED BY THE APPEAL WAIVER IN THE PLEA AGREEMENT, I.E. SHOULD THE COURT OF APPEALS HAVE ENFORCED AND THUS APPROVED THE APPEAL WAIVER? |
| 23-1246 | Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law | Can oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualify as "maritime commerce," triggering the application of maritim… | |
| 23-7515 | Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract | Verbal agreements are contracts made by individuals through a verbal exchange. There need not be more information involved in an oral contract than ju… |
| 23-1208 | David Do v. County of Santa Clara, California | California | 2024-05-10 | Denied | administrative-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process fraud judicial-estoppel labor-dispute labor-relations statutory-interpretation | Does rule of law exist in California, where the U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper, statutes are ignored and MOU/CBA/contract is not contract,… | |
| 23-1169 | Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review | Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te… | |
| 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… |
| 23-909 | Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | civil-rights commercial-exchange contract contract-law due-process mail-fraud property property-rights sovereign-interest wire-fraud | Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not th… |
| 23-6675 | Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Timothy Ryan, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. | Arizona | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure contract-law discretion equity-principles judicial-discretion litigation public-policy rescission settlement-agreement settlement-agreements | 1. Does public policy strongly favor settlement of disputes without litigation; or do Courts have discretion to not enforce settlement agreements? 2.… |
| 23-800 | Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act | The Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1635 (or "TILA"), requires that a borrower tell a lender within three years of her intent to rescind the loan. J… | |
| 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… | |
| 23-6290 | In Re Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure contract-law due-process in-personam in-personam-judgment jurisdiction license-agreement parol-evidence personal-jurisdiction service-of-process void | Is a judgment rendered in personam against a defendant without jurisdiction of his person void? Is an Appeals Court record closed even if a party ple… | |
| 23-647 | Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing | Should this Court 1) adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in his concurrence to the denial of certiorari in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, … |
| 23A480 | HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | aaa-rules arbitration-agreement contract-law delegation-provision non-signatory threshold-arbitrability | Question not identified. | |
| 23-479 | Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers | Does the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but … | |
| 23-209 | Ottawa OH, LLC v. Pandora Distribution, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-law contract-law due-process land-ownership property-rights real-estate real-estate-transfer standing takings | Is due process denied by holding, contrary to the laws of every state, that a buyer of land owns things on land for which the buyer has no title or co… |
| 22-7804 | Ricky Simmonds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing | Whether the United States of America breaches a negotiated plea agreement when it fails to affirmatively state at the Sentencing hearing that the stip… |
| 22-7759 | Shirley Douglas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-protection contract contract-law due-process government-intrusion medical-consent medical-privacy plea-agreement privacy | 1. IS A PLEA PROFFER AGREEMENT AND DEFENSE COUNSEL RETAINER FEE AGREEMENT LEGAL ENFORCEABLE CONTRACTS? DOES THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ARTICLE ONE… |
| 22-7569 | Andrew Payton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors voluntary-forfeiture | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-7472 | Raj K. Patel v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty | I. Whether the judiciary, via the United States Court of Federal Claims or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, must de novo re… |
| 22-7286 | Vonteak Alexander v. Jane Doe, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-reformation mistake-of-law mutual-mistake plea-agreement | May a court reform an accepted, valid, federal plea agreement containing a mutual mistake of law to circumvent the mistake to the defendant's prejudic… |
| 22-886 | Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover | Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial activity within the meaning … |
| 22-804 | Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. | South Carolina | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions… |
| 22-6702 | Jason Boyet v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors waiver-enforceability | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-722 | Frank Calapristi v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2023-02-02 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-law federal-circuit government-contractor government-contracts government-control government-involvement implied-contract implied-contracts tucker-act | In Lynch v. United States , 292 U.S. 571, 579 (1934) the Court held that when the United States enters into contractual relations, its rights and duti… |
| 22-557 | Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP | California | 2022-12-19 | Denied | attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication | Question 1. Does California's legal framework — whereby prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees are adjudicated summarily as claims… | |
| 22-6106 | David Shane Paquette v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement | Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit. |
| 22-5928 | David L. Hildebrand v. Wilmar Corporation | Tenth Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust business-dealings contract-law contractual-law due-process patent-expiration patent-law royalties royalty-agreement settlement-intent standing | 1. Is it illegal to agree to continue to pay royalties or fees of any kind to an inventor following the expiration of his patent. 2. Should a court b… |
| 22-306 | Lindsay O'Brien Quarrie v. Stephen Wells, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights civil-rights-act contract-law due-process mendacity property-rights racial-discrimination standing title-vi | 1. Whether ignorance of the law can excuse racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.) and theref… |
| 22-288 | TD Bank, N.A. v. Tania Pulliam, et al. | California | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | attorney-fees civil-procedure consumer-credit contract-law creditor-liability holder-rule recovery-limitation seller-misconduct | Whether, and in what circumstances, the Holder Rule's limit on "recovery" by the debtor, 16 C.F.R. § 433.2(a), applies to, and thus caps, an attorney'… |
| 22-257 | Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act | I. Although the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication and other fundamental constitutional rights must be voluntary, the Sixth C… |
| 22-230 | The Golden 1 Credit Union v. Dwaine Burgardt | California | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | discriminates against arbitration and is contrary when such modifications are permitted under ordin arbitration-agreement contract-law contract-modification federal-arbitration-act jury-trial jury-trial-waiver kindred-nursing mutual-assent state-common-law state-law | Whether a special rule that prohibits parties from adding an arbitration provision to a contract by mutual assent manifested by conduct, when such mod… |
| 22-26 | Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation | May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee… |
| 21-1536 | Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations | Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of 'INA ' requirem… | |
| 21-1474 | Candace Owens, et al. v. Lead Stories, LLC, et al. | Delaware | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights contract contract-law defamation first-amendment free-speech marketplace-regulation tortious-interference | 1. Should the First Amendment provide a defense to claims of tortious interference and similar torts that happen to involve speech? 2. May a business… |
| 21-1359 | Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. | California | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver | 1. WHETHER "PREJUDICE" TO THE PARTY OPPOSING ARBITRATION IS EVEN A FACTOR, LET ALONE THE DETERMINATIVE FACTOR, A CALIFORNIA STATE COURT OR ANY STATE O… |
| 21-7418 | James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2022-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments | Under Mabry v. Johnson, the prosecution may not breach a term of a plea agreement that can be said to have induced a plea, although jurisdictions are … |
| 21-1188 | Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. | North Carolina | 2022-02-28 | Denied | arbitration-rights assignee-rights assignees contract-law discrimination-against-arbitration evidentiary-burden federal-arbitration-act preemption third-party-beneficiary | Whether the FAA preempts a state rule of contract law that requires assignees seeking to enforce arbitration rights to meet a higher evidentiary burde… | |
| 21-1154 | Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-02-22 | Denied | bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement | Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy? | |
| 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… |
| 21-6987 | Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing | Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-… |
| 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… |
| 21-781 | 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 … | |
| 21-526 | Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Damaris Rosales | California | 2021-10-08 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption | Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali… |
| 21-508 | In Re William J. French, et al. | 2021-10-06 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion class-certification contract-law district-court-discretion economic-discrimination insurance-discrimination long-term-care-insurance qualified-long-term-care-insurance summary-judgment tax-benefits | In 1996 Congress enacted Internal Revenue Code ("Code") Subchapter C—Long-Term Care Services and Contracts, which entitles purchasers of Qualified Lon… | ||
| 21-453 | Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg | California | 2021-09-23 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent | Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali… |
| 21-5708 | Rodney Dale Hood v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-17 | Denied | IFP | contract-law contractual-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings judgment judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-power | 1. Wether the current Due Process standard for interpreting the obligations of the parties in plea agreements Is to broad? 2. Are the States free to … |
| 21-416 | Darell Anthony Anderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | breach civil-procedure contract contract-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure plea-agreement | (1). The petitioner's direct appeal, as of right, was not adjudicated in accord with due process of law, and the plea agreement contract is vague, and… |
| 21-365 | Branch Banking and Trust Company v. Sevier County Schools Federal Credit Union, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | arbitration-requirement circuit-court-split contract-law customer-dispute-resolution dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act standard-form-contract state-common-law | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act displaces a state common-law rule forbidding companies from adding an arbitration requirement to their standard-fo… |
| 21-328 | Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Relisted (2) | arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver | Waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right and, in the context of contracts, occurs when one party to a contract either explicitly repu… |
| 21-5335 | Omar Israel-Griffin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-provisions contract-law cooperation criminal-procedure due-process federal-procurement government-contract government-discretion plea-agreement statutory-interpretation withdrawal | When a defendant enters a plea agreement (guilty/nolo contendere), providing that the government is allowed to withdraw if the government believes the… |
| 21-119 | Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Jacob Rimler, et al. | California | 2021-07-28 | Dismissed | Amici (1)Response Requested | california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule paga-claims preemption private-attorneys-general-act | Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali… |
| 21-5194 | Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | IFP | 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause | Judicial officers acting clearly/substantially beyond their judicial capacities fraudulently legislating/extrapolating law deliberately fraudulently m… |
| 21-5040 | Joseph A. Cunningham, Jr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | Third Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | banking civil-rights consumer-protection contract-law due-process mortgage | Question not identified. |
| 20-1724 | David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. | New York | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata | (1) There is an arbitration agreement and it contains a delegation clause. Respondents argued that Petitioner's claims are subject to arbitration, und… |
| 20-8239 | Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process | I. When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run … |
| 20-1597 | Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans | May commercial lenders create non-dischargeable debts by placing language in the promissory notes that identifies the loan as a "student loan," "educa… |
| 20-7902 | John Laponte v. California | California | 2021-04-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing | Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement; 1 . Is indefinite incarceration constitutional; 2 . What constitutes excessive pu… |
| 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… |
| 20-1487 | Donna M. Gilbert, et al. v. RADM Michael D. Weahkee, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-23 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law due-process eligibility-requirements federal-agency federal-law non-profit non-profit-corporation standing | The question is whether a federal agency is allowed to enter into a contract with a state non-profit corporation when the state non-profit corporation… |
| 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… |
| 20-1200 | Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation | May the United States invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Aff… |
| 20-1162 | Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Amici (3) | affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation | Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua… |
| 20-7143 | Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash | New York | 2021-02-12 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment | Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1. There is no one plaintiff in the contract , … |
| 20-1016 | Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code | Under Florida law the tort of false arrest occurs when a person procuring an arrest provides false information to the arresting officer and the tort i… | |
| 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. |
| 20-642 | Jorge Mendoza v. Uber Technologies Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-law contract-law dispute-resolution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure procedural-rights | Whether Constitutional Due Process can be part of Arbitration Jurisdiction. |
| 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. |
| 20-153 | Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | 10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress | 1. Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D Cooperative-Federalism 42 U.S.C 654(3) contactors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th a… | |
| 20-151 | Joe Blessett v. Beverly Ann Garcia | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process federal-contract federal-court-jurisdiction homestead-exemption property-seizure standing title-iv-d | 1. Has the Court decision denied Blessett 's U.S. Constitution protected right not to contract into Title IV-D services? 2. Did the 5th Appellate Cou… | |
| 20-5288 | Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement | k. WHETHER CONTRACT LAW IDENTIFIES THAT AN AGREEMENT CAN BE SUED "BAD FAITH" AND MADE VOIDABLE BY EITHER EXTRINSIC FRAUD OR, ANOTHER INADVERTENT OMISS… |
| 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… | |
| 19-8768 | Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court | 1) IS Contract Law Supreme? 2. Can a State Government legislate around Contractual obligations? 3. IS The Constitution of the United States the Supr… |
| 19-8639 | Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit | Question not identified. |
| 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 … | |
| 19-8553 | Devian Phillips v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-05-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights constitutional-validity contract-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-inducement prosecutorial-promise | Whether guilty plea is voluntarily and intelligently made, which rests on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, which can be said to be part of th… |
| 19-1314 | Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille | New Hampshire | 2020-05-26 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights | 1. Whether in regards to a contract for rental housing between a long-term resident of an extended-stay hotel property and the extended stay hotel pro… | |
| 19-1285 | Andrea Lea, Arkansas State Auditor v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-05-13 | Denied | contract-law escheatment federal-preemption property-rights savings-bonds takings-clause treasury-regulations us-savings-bonds | 1. Whether the federal statute, regulations, and contractual provisions governing the transfer and redemption of United States Savings Bonds preempt t… | |
| 19-1230 | Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection | I. DID THE COURT BELOW FAIL TO USE AN APPROPRIATE STANDARD OF REVIEW WHEN GRANTING ALL THE DISMISSAL MOTIONS WITHOUT RECOGNIZING THE PETITIONER 'S… |
| 19-1198 | CANVS Corporation v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force | Federal Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law contract-law due-process government-contracts government-liability intellectual-property small-business small-business-innovation takings | Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process… |
| 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… | |
| 19-7897 | Brent Evan Webster v. CorVel Enterprise Company, Inc., et al. | Oregon | 2020-03-06 | Denied | IFP | arrest-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process fraud human-trafficking identity-theft legal-abuse legal-coercion remedy standing | Can this man Reverse- Fraudulently Incurred Jail-Bond-Contracts, with Public and Private Corporate Entities, by Implementing his own Legally Binding T… |
| 19-1079 | M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing | This Court says that "the scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners, and not by reference to what might satisfy the purposes… | |
| 19-985 | Native Wholesale Supply Company v. California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, et al. | California | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | contract-law indian-commerce-clause indian-reservation indian-tribe interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction state-regulation tribal-corporation tribal-sovereignty | 1. Whether a contract for the purchase of goods entered into, and fully performed by, an Indian Tribe outside the exterior boundaries of the state in … |
| 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… |
| 19-879 | Heon Seok Lee v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law contract-law contractor-payment court-jurisdiction federal-funding federal-funds federal-jurisdiction municipal-jurisdiction municipality-customer sub-award sub-vendor sub-vendor-status | whether federal court has jurisdiction to determine that (1) a municipality is a customer of its sub-vendor, and (2) a municipality sub-awards federal… |
| 19-873 | Geophysical Service, Inc. v. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof contract-law copyright-infringement foreign-government-compulsion implied-license kirtsaeng-doctrine kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons seismic-works | 1. This Court has never addressed the nature or scope of the defense of implied license to copyright infringement, and the circuits are split. a. Is … |
| 19-7152 | Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. | Massachusetts | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont | 1)Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substan… |
| 19-7065 | Carrie A. Braspenick v. Johnson Law PLC | Michigan | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure contract contract-law court-judgment judgment legal-ethics legal-representation order professional-ethics statute-of-limitations termination | 1. Can an attorney terminate the attorney-client relationship prior to the Circuit Court issuing a JUDGMENT/Order in the client's case? 2. Did the lo… |
| 19-776 | James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment | Issue 1. There is an important, recurring issue on which the Federal circuits and the states' highest courts are split, i.e. whether the police can pr… |
| 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… |
| 19-6409 | Sean Reilly v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-duty contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding plea-bargaining sixth-amendment written-plea-offers | Whether counsel for the accused has a constitutional duty under the Sixth Amendment to document and present the client plea offers (contracts) in writ… |
| 19-6400 | Robert W. Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | South Carolina | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | borrower-protection civil-rights contract-law default due-process foreclosure lender-misconduct mortgage mortgage-foreclosure property-rights standing takings | Was Consumer Financial Protection denied from ROBERT WILLIAM WAZNEY by swindle of JPMorgan Chase Bank through abuse of distress, in violation of U.S. … |
| 19-526 | Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law | Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish… | |
| 19-480 | John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law | Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law? |
| 19-6183 | Reginald Chatman v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution | 1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.… |
| 19-407 | Alexander Christian Miles v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief | 1. Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post conviction relief when the government, years after a d… |
| 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… | |
| 19-314 | Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin | California | 2019-09-06 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation | Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law? | |
| 19-5811 | Joe Edger v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity conflict constitutional-rights contract-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-process due-process government-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Does the phrase "cited in the affense of conviction" mean "information used in a partriular count of an indictment or information that initiat the … |
| 19-5539 | Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation | Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b… |
| 19-154 | Zafer Construction Company v. Army Corps of Engineers | Federal Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | administrative-procedure bid-mistake bid-mistakes bid-verification cfr-14.407-3 contract-law drawing-errors government-contracts hollerbach-v-united-states judicial-precedent precedent reliance-on-drawings sulzer-bingham-pumps-v-lockheed | 1. It is historically known that unlike private construction agreements, government contracts are unfairly onerous in favor of the Government and cont… | |
| 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. |
| 19-5161 | Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property | Question 1: The 9th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (henceforth CoA9) has a long settled screenwriting case law regarding Desny claims o… |
| 19-5038 | Donald Willems v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial | 1. Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speed… |
| 18-9749 | Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | IFP | citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel | 1. Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabita… |
| 18-9704 | Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance | 1. Did the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) or Agency officials located in Beckley, West Virginia discriminated against the Petitioner on… |
| 18-9386 | Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge | Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process - a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches. Wheth… |
| 18-1437 | Winston & Strawn LLP v. Constance Ramos, et al. | California | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Amici (6) | arbitration arbitration-agreements armendariz civil-rights contract-law employment employment-arbitration federal-arbitration-act preemption severability unconscionability | In AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, this Court reiterated that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts to "place arbitration agreements on a… |
| 18-1394 | Waterfront Marine Construction, Inc., et al. v. Heard Construction, Inc. | Virginia | 2019-05-06 | Denied | bid-protest contract-law federal-contract federal-procurement federal-regulations state-tort-action subject-matter-jurisdiction tucker-act | 1. Where a disappointed bidder to a federal contract fails to file a bid protest pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (2016), does a state tri… | |
| 18-9114 | Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations | IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS AND PROSECUTORS TO IGNORE, ALTE… |
| 18-9049 | Jackie Madore v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity | I. Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law. A concatenation … |
| 18-8517 | Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | IFP | antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law | COURT HAS Jurisdiction 28 USC 1331: FEDERAL QUESTION Sprint fail to disclose information on any documents or website that has Sprint logo or Public No… |
| 18-8515 | E. Drake v. Murphy, Austin, Adams, Schoenfeld, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | IFP | choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-personal-jurisdiction civil-rights contract contract-law due-process fraud fraud-claims internet internet-commerce internet-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction websites zippo-standard | Petitioner is a consumer, who was seeking reliable transportation. Even though the Petitioner have pled that he first noticed the subject vehicle, a 2… |
| 18-1224 | NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contract-relationships contractual-relationships federal-maritime-law maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner vessel-supplies | Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-1211 | NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contractual-relationships maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner | Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-8175 | Wessley J. Gunchick v. Bank of America, N.A. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure contract-law due-process employment-contract employment-dispute erisa erisa-standards legal-precedent standing | Did Respondent Bank Of America present any court case that would have allowed for a full due process to be fullfilled with the case at hand of Wessley… |
| 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. |
| 18-7897 | Larael Owens v. Maria Zucker, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation contract-law due-process federal-question-jurisdiction immunity judicial-immunity standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1.Does a State Judges have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflicts of interest Does absolute immunity apply when ajudge has acted… |
| 18-1048 | GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation | Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitra… |
| 18-7618 | David S. Neal v. ASTA Funding, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | alternative-theories arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure condition-precedent contract contract-law dispute-resolution due-process non-parties non-party-enforcement standing | Can non-parties to a contract with an arbitration provision be compelled to arbitrate based on alternative theories when the contractual condition pre… |
| 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? |
| 18-929 | Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Inc., et al. v. Rae Weiler | California | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | affordable-forum arbitration-agreement arbitration-costs arbitrator-role contract-law cost-sharing cost-sharing-provision federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption state-contract-law state-law | This case involves the cost-sharing provision of an arbitration agreement. Executed as part of a contract to buy a restaurant, the agreement provides … |
| 18-925 | A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter | Missouri | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation | Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t… |
| 18-828 | Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations | The case involves application of the "separate accrual rule" to commissions earned by the Petitioners and collected each month by the Respondent from … |
| 18-700 | Tiby J. Saunders-Gomez v. Rutledge Maintenance Corporation | Delaware | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act jurisdiction statute-of-limitations | Whether it is a violation under the Constitution 5th and 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Under the Law Clauses that the Delaware Super… |
| 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… |
| 18-638 | Greg Anderson v. Gary Herbert, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy contract-law contractual-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge property-rights standing state-court-procedure void-judgment | Is a judgment void on its face, when a State Court steals a paid-for home at the motion to dismiss stage of the proceedings, under the guise that the … |
| 18-610 | TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | For a consignee to be liable for demurrage it must agree to be a consignee for the goods being shipped as the liability for such charges is based in c… |
| 18-6338 | Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations | Is a Plea Bargain Agreement in essence a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the StateRWA And if so, can the defendant be r… |
| 18-5335 | Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance | Virginia | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents | Which policy did Kwon contract original policy? Kwon filed policy exhibit I page 002089-002 102 that Kwon contracted. Erie filed policy exhibit A pa… |
| 18-19 | Republic of Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, et al. v. BAE Systems Solution & Services, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | arms-export-control-act civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-15 contract-law foreign-military-sales foreign-sovereign-immunities-act national-security sovereign-immunity united-states-contractors | 1. Whether the court of appeals' blanket invalidation of contracts between United States contractors and foreign governments that relate to contemplat… |