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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24A573 | Kenneth Carey, et al. v. Jonathan Kirk, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Presumed Complete | contract-dispute copyright creative-attribution intellectual-property music-rights record-label | Question not identified. | |
| 23-565 | Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party | What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act? | |
| 23-5856 | Dmt MacTruong, aka Mac Truong v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abortion civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice standing texas-heartbeat-act | Does Petitioner, Dmt MacTruong, a U.S. citizen living in New Jersey, have standing to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas… |
| 23-299 | ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings | 1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-5612 | Festus Okwudili Ohan v. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law copyright due-process judicial-review legal-precedent patent property-rights statutory-interpretation trademark | I am he Ory hare And Man AGC of . tp everything un He World and Letp aL dA Ew 2) LT oined ah Pakerts Ard (beyvignes that BVI Finale ny Shoe lev A Ar… |
| 22-7743 | Mac Truong v. Kevin Stitt, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | IFP | abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation copyright copyright-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing | Does Petitioner, Dmt MacTruong, a male U.S. citizen living in New Jersey, have standing to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of … |
| 22-1078 | Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. v. Sherman Nealy, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15) | 17-usc-507-b civil-action civil-actions copyright copyright-act copyright-law judicial-review retrospective-relief statute-of-limitations | Whether the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U.S.C. 507(b), precludes retrospective relief for acts that occurred more tha… |
| 22-121 | ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law | Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use… |
| 21-1535 | David Lowery v. Benjamin Joffe, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Amici (1) | class-action copyright cy-pres first-amendment google-litigation privacy-rights rule-23 settlement-fairness standing | 1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirem… |
| 21-1519 | Joe Gregory Carlini v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | copyright copyright-infringement expert-opinion extrinsic-test fact-finder inverse-ratio-rule pleading-stage pleadings-stage selection-and-arrangement substantial-similarity | 1. Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the extrinsic test for substantial similarity by "filter[ing] out" elements that the… |
| 21-1217 | Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. v. Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | architectural-works copyright copyright-law infringement marketing marketing-materials pictorial-representation pictorial-representations real-estate real-estate-industry statutory-interpretation | Whether floor plans constitute "pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations" of an architectural work within the meaning of 1… |
| 21-869 | Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (41)Relisted (2) | artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work | Whether a work of art is "transformative" when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material (as this Court, the Ninth Circuit, a… |
| 21-711 | Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. v. Hasbro, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 1909-act 1976-act copyright copyright-law copyright-ownership employer-employee independent-contractor statutory-interpretation work-for-hire | Whether a party that commissions a work from an independent contractor qualifies as the creator's "employer" within the meaning of the Copyright Act o… |
| 21-242 | Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages | Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provides "an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action . . . for which any two or… |
| 21-125 | Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico | Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded after instructions on remand or another amount order… |
| 20-1829 | Deafueh Monbo v. Eric Blair | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-7-bankruptcy copyright copyright-infringement discharge in-re-green-v-staples trademark trademark-infringement willful-and-malicious | 1. Question: Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred when the Bankruptcy Court failed to recognize that Section 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code prohibits … | |
| 20-1648 | James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation | The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect s the integrity of copyright management information ("CMI"), a defined term. 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Section… |
| 20-1359 | Superama Corporation, Inc., dba USA Sumo v. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | arbaugh-v-y-h-corp copyright copyright-act extraterritorial-application jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit reed-elsevier-v-muchnick statutory-requirement subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application, applied in the context of the U.S. Copyright Act, creates a jurisdictional bar. |
| 19-1244 | Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-23 | Denied | attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing | Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by refusing to consider any legal arguments raised on appeal, inclu… | |
| 19-620 | Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act | Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa… |
| 19-6579 | David Lee Smith v. North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights copyright criminal-procedure due-process habitual-felon habitual-offenders in-forma-pauperis legal-publication punitive-law standing statutory-law | Are PRO. SE PETITIONERS ENTITLED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT LEAVE TO PROCEED AS PAUPER IN ISSUING COMPLAINT, WHEN CIRCUIT COURT ENTER DKILY FX) FRIVOLOUS I… |
| 19-6373 | Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington | Washington | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code | 1. Did The Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington Error by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the Pu… |
| 19-6326 | Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter | Pub L 100-352 102.5 Public Safety Threat to the $ Cmeut With Computerization Analysis Cincuits Built with cincutry 9 inthe A5 a volume tegnety Propert… |
| 19-365 | John Barth v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause | 1. Violation of Constitutional Rights Did acts of a federal court in publishing sealed documents of investigation rather than returning them, violate… |
| 18-1430 | ReDigi Inc., et al. v. Capitol Records, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | copyright copyright-law copyright-reproduction digital-distribution electronic-transfer exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-use first-sale-doctrine reproduction-right statutory-interpretation | 1. Under 17 U.S.C. § 109(a), is the acknowledged owner of a particular digital phonorecord lawfully purchased via electronic distribution under 17 U.S… |
| 18-8613 | Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-03-28 | Denied | IFP | antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret | Legislative Goals Quincy Magee has ownership of Quincy Magee's Companies Properties and Names Renaissance Media Productions - Aesthetic Media Product… |
| 18-8258 | Lowell Edward Jackson v. Eddie Climmer, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-registration civil-action civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-registration due-process infringement library-of-congress registration standing statutory-provisions | NON-NEGOTIAALE (iscopylight violation, Title-17 copuright Registation civil infringement hapter 4.411 action. Foran action brought fora +000x3(07 auth… |
| 18-1150 | Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (34)Relisted (2) | annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation | Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of… |
| 18-7509 | Antonio Lee Mixon v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech mail-censorship standing takings | 1.) out of prisoner's prospnce thon roturred bick to prisoner opened with no nottes as to why it was not soat and roturned opsed days lator? for leuse… |
| 18-877 | Frederick L. Allen, et al. v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Judgment Issued | Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 14th-amendment article-i-power congress congressional-power constitutional-law copyright copyright-infringement copyright-remedy-clarification-act federal-power federal-remedies federal-statute intellectual-property sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity | Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act, Pub. L. No. 101-553, 104 Stat. 2749 (1990), in… |
| 18-728 | Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement | Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui… |
| 18-701 | Clayton Prince Tanksley v. Lee Daniels, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 7th-amendment access amendment copyright copyright-infringement jury-trial lay-observer-test pleading-stage prima-facie-claim probative-similarity similarity substantial-similarity | (1) The question presented is whether the trial court should engage in a substantive analysis and determination regarding substantialsimilarity as a m… |
| 18-615 | Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress | Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)? | |
| 18-6129 | Arika Matelyan v. CD Baby Distribution Co. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property standing | Question not identified. |
| 18-5829 | Arika Matelyan v. Atlantic Records WMG, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech patent privacy standing takings | IF BARBIE BONE CAME OOT WITh A song Dated Before Be capng co B. befere bor Sect. If swiss Barb Smokng Gun. ceted copy Qiqut A person that was born to … |
| 18-63 | Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing | Whether by failing to clarify and update internet widespread dissemination access guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual prop… |