| 23-980 |
Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Amalgamated Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split disclosure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure loss-causation materiality pleading-standard risk-disclosure securities-fraud |
This petition presents two important questions that have divided the federal courts of appeals. First, the circuits have split three ways concerning w… |
| 23-660 |
Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A., et al. v. Autoridad del Canal de Panama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitrator-impartiality disclosure disclosure-requirements evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act reasonable-impression-of-partiality vacatur |
1. What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral … |
| 23-506 |
Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Granted |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit |
Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality if it shows the arbitrator "might reasonably be thought biased,"… |
| 23-342 |
X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction |
The U.S. Government conducts surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals by issuing "national security process" to electronic communication servic… |
| 22-852 |
Donald V. Watkins, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud criminal-intent disclosure economic-benefits financial-disclosure insider insider-lending nominee-loan regulation-o regulatory-compliance wire-fraud |
1. Whether a bank "insider " who acknowledged
receiving tangible economic benefits from a
$151,739.50 bank loan made to his business
associate, com… |
| 22-5678 |
Eugene Roberts v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment giglio-violation internal-affairs internal-affairs-report right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Virgin Islands Supreme Court violated Appellant's constitutional right to due process and right to counsel by not granting a mistrial b… |
| 22-5611 |
William A. White v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions disclosure due-process freedom-of-information-act judicial-review legal-jurisdiction public-interest standing statutory-provisions |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in finding that any person's right to receive or obtain records promptly from federal agencies under 5 U.S.C. §552 (all 3)… |
| 22-5209 |
Adam Paul Blomdahl v. Doctor Jaffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
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| 22-5056 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5037 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
May courts impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims that focuses on the actions of the defense rather than the government, effectively limi… |
| 21-1611 |
Robert Koger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-investigation defense-counsel disclosure due-process reversal sixth-amendment witness witness-testimony |
1. Whether a criminal defendant establishes an
"actual " unwaiveable conflict of interest that
adversely affects counsel 's representation
when def… |
| 21-1555 |
Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation |
The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 makes it "unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or disclose personal information, from a motor vehic… |
| 21-7636 |
Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence |
Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def… |
| 21-7421 |
Linda Jolly v. Carmelita White, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights disclosure disclosure-laws due-process federal-government federal-law no-fear-act retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Why did the United States Federal Government allow Federal UNAX Law (IRM 10.5.5) and Retaliation Laws to be broken through the "No Fear Act"? Why was … |
| 21-6712 |
Jermar Jamie Fuller v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure disclosure disclosure-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence prejudice prejudice-inference speedy-trial speedy-trial-analysis |
1. The court of appeals determined that the delay caused by the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence did not weigh against the State under… |
| 21-5832 |
In Re Leslie Willis |
|
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
beneficiary beneficiary-designation civil-procedure disclosure disclosure-request financial-institution mandamus pnc-bank safe-deposit-records trust trust-instrument writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Court should issue a WRIT OF MANDAMUS to PNC Bank, N.A. and The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. ("PNC") to disclose, to Petitioner, the… |
| 21-456 |
George C. Vann v. Roane County Commission, et al. |
West Virginia |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-interests constitutional-rights disclosure due-process estate-administration jurisdiction-challenge probate-court standing |
To preserve the Right of the Fifth and Fourteenth of the Constitution of the United States should a party be denied the Right to Question Jurisdiction… |
| 21-5537 |
John Creech v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy? |
| 20-1779 |
Carlos A. Morales-Vázquez v. Óptima Seguros |
First Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
contract-avoidance disclosure federal-maritime-law insurance-disclosure marine-insurance maritime-insurance maritime-law material-risk materiality reliance uberrimae-fidei |
Does the traditional doctrine of wberrimae fidei continue to apply in its strict form (as held by the First Circuit in the decision below and also by … |
| 20-1599 |
John Doe 7, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure confidentiality disclosure modification-standard protective-order rule-26c stipulated-order stipulation |
Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows courts to grant protective orders, for good cause shown, regarding information produced by a… |
| 20-7325 |
Eric Todd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony |
Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment to right to a fair trial, by preventing Todd from finding and … |
| 20-983 |
Celestino G. Almeda v. Department of Education, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-records deliberative-process-privilege disclosure exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act good-faith-presumption reasonable-person-standard segregable-portions |
1. Whether publicly-known, purely factual content selected, organized, and recited in an agency's records can be fully withheld from disclosure under … |
| 20-678 |
M&T Bank Corporation, et al. v. David Jaroslawicz, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
compliance corporate-governance disclosure disclosure-obligations materiality public-company regulatory-compliance risk-factors sec-regulation securities-disclosure securities-regulation |
(1) Whether Item 105 of Regulation S-K, which obligates public companies to discuss material risk factors in registration statements, periodic SEC fil… |
| 20-5920 |
Richard Cortez v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disclosure due-process sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when the State's eyewitness primary to the offense testifies under a false name a disclosure to … |
| 20-5793 |
Francisco Zendejas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-defendant disclosure disclosure-motion due-process-rights in-camera-hearing roviaro-standard roviaro-v-united-states threshold-showing |
When a criminal defendant moves to disclose the identity of a confidential informant under Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 (1957), and makes a t… |
| 20-289 |
Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
|
corporate-disclosure disclosure employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-disclosure insider-information securities-law |
1. Whether Dudenhoeffer's "more harm than good" standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of an a… |
| 19-1333 |
Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review |
1. What is the standard for determining whether
an arbitration award must be vacated for "evident partiality" under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S… |
| 19-8517 |
Edward F. Novotny, III v. Plexus Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy civil-procedure claim-litigation debtor-disclosure disclosure estoppel intent intent-standard judicial-estoppel judicial-presumption third-party |
Courts of appeals are divided on the question presented in this case and left open in New Hampshire v. Maine; whether a debtor who has inadvertently f… |
| 19-1224 |
Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim |
California |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
|
campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal |
I. The public record shows that Judge Susan Greenberg of the California Superior Court of San Mateo County accepted campaign contributions from Respon… |
| 19-8222 |
Steven Mason v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's very late disclosure of ext… |
| 19-7421 |
Lawyer J. Henderson v. Kevin Franklin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandoned-claim bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition chapter-7-trustee civil-rights claim-abandonment disclosure due-process inadvertent-disclosure intent-standard judicial-estoppel presumption-of-deceit pro-se-litigant standing |
Courts of appeals are divided on the question presented in this case and left open in New Hampshire V. Maine; whether a debtor who has inadvertently f… |
| 19-7340 |
Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct |
Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u… |
| 19-6709 |
Adam L. Acosta v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-35 disclosure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial prosecution rule-16 rule-16-disclosure rule-33 rule-33-motion-for-new-trial rule-35 |
Whether the Court of Appeals misconstrued Rule 35(c)(3)(VII), Colorado Rules of Criminal Procedure, in declining to consider a claim of ineffective as… |
| 19-484 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether, notwithstanding FECA's express bar on prohibiting the disclosure of any investigation, and its careful constraints on the FEC's disclosure po… |
| 19-307 |
Stuart A. McKeever v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
disclosure district-court-authority grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy historical-significance historically-significant inherent-authority judicial-discretion public-interest rule-6(e) rule-6e |
Whether district courts have inherent authority to release grand jury materials in extraordinary circumstances, such as when the case is historically … |
| 18-8627 |
Frank Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing |
The sentencing court failed to disclose the "Confidential Recommendation" of the Probation Officer in regards to the sentencing of the Petitioner. The… |
| 18-1116 |
Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. 1113(2), which runs from "the ea… |
| 18-1010 |
Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law |
The U.S. Courts of Appeals are currently split on whether the federal securities laws impose a duty on corporate issuers to update a statement that wa… |
| 18-909 |
Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
|
bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings |
Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, from pursuing her claim —e… |
| 18-7172 |
Tomas Marco Keen v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Does the prosecutor have a duty to disclose exculpatory information relating to threatened--but not filed--charges during plea negotiations?
2. Do… |
| 18-577 |
David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata |
Premise of the Question: A Federal Judge is a Board member and Board advisor of a major social organization. The defendant in a case being heard by th… |
| 18-6336 |
Chamontae Walker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty |
This petition raises an issue on which courts are divided: is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty disclose evidence favorable to the… |
| 18-410 |
Corey D. Yates v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
|
brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence |
Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he did not know of the evidence suppressed by t… |
| 18-164 |
First Solar, Inc., et al. v. Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) |
disclosure fraud fraud-claim loss-causation market-price private-plaintiff securities-fraud standing |
Whether a private securities-fraud plaintiff may establish the critical element of loss causation based on a decline in the market price of a security… |
| 18-109 |
Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-102 35-usc-119 disclosure federal-circuit filing-date patent patent-application patent-law patent-prior-art prior-art priority subject-matter |
Do unclaimed disclosures in a published patent application and an earlier application it relies on for priority enter the public domain and thus becom… |
| 18-65 |
David Aronstein, et al. v. Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure corporate-misrepresentation disclosure disclosure-requirements due-process investor-communications material-omission materiality sec sec-disclosure securities-law securities-regulation securities-regulation-sec united-states-v-ohagan |
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), through its regulatory releases under Item 303, has defined the circumstances under whic… |