| 25-6737 |
Clyde Pontefract v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act equitable-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-standing standing |
1. When a Constitutional Right is being denied against a federal prisoner of the First Amendment Access-to~Court claim and he ask for Equitable Relief… |
| 25-6197 |
Edmund Lowell Fields v. Fredeane Artis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief ministerial-duties notice-requirements |
I.
PER THE MINISTERIAL DUTIES SET FORTH IN FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE
4(a)(6) DOES "ACTUAL NOTICE" SUPERSEDE "FORMAL NOTICE," AND SHOULD THE… |
| 25-465 |
Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Pending |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
asset-seizure constitutional-limits due-process equitable-relief fifth-circuit securities-law |
The United States Government brought parallel crim-inal and civil enforcement actions against Petitioner Tim-othy Barton, alleging violations of the s… |
| 25-448 |
Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
back-pay equitable-relief judicial-estoppel reinstatement religious-freedom-restoration-act retirement-points |
The Religious Freedom Rest oration Act
("RFRA") permits courts to award " appropriate relief "
against the government. 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb -1. This
… |
| 25-446 |
Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Pending |
|
back-pay equitable-relief judicial-estoppel reinstatement religious-freedom-restoration-act retirement-points |
1. Whether RFRA permits the equitable relief of reinstatement, to include back pay and retirement points.
2. Whether Respondents are judicially estop… |
| 25A392 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 25A265 |
Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
asset-seizure due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction receivership securities-law |
Question not identified. |
| 25-165 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
district-court equitable-relief inherent-power injunctive-standards treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a district court has "inherent equitable power" to enter a coercive "decree" restricting an Indian tribe's treaty rights without its consent a… |
| 24-5084 |
Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig |
Ohio |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers |
Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections, under 45 CFR § 303.6(c)(4-5), violates substantive due process as well as privileges and immun… |
| 23-1206 |
Elite IT Partners, Inc., dba Elite IT Home, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
|
change-in-law civil-procedure consent-judgment decisional-law equitable-monetary-relief equitable-relief federal-trade-commission injunctive-relief rule-60(b)(6) |
In 2019 the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint under seal and obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order against Petitioners —a (now-shu… |
| 23-7301 |
Reginald Burrell v. Sharon Langham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraudulent-judgments habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supervisory-power |
Whether thi U.S.Cou.rT of appeals for thi Eleventh Circuit Entered. a decision, or proposed to inter a decision in Conflict coith other U.S. Courts of… |
| 23-809 |
Peter Kleidman v. Martin R. Barash, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process equitable-relief federal-judges free-speech judicial-immunity prospective-injunction pulliam-precedent standing |
Are federal judges immune from claims for equitable relief? Pulliam v. Allen, 466 US 522 (1984) held "that judicial immunity is not a bar to prospecti… |
| 23-5296 |
Leonel Marin-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-relief first-step-act guidelines-range ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a district court, when deciding a First Step
Act motion on the pleadings, complies with Concepcion v. United
States, when it fails to calcu… |
| 22-1110 |
Justin Paul Dreiling v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitution court-of-federal-claims equitable-jurisdiction equitable-relief executive-department executive-regulation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction monetary-claims statutory-interpretation united-states |
1. Shall the Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded upon any regulation of an e… |
| 22-469 |
Cooperative Educational Service Agency #5 v. Sarah Simon |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights equitable-relief federal-family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation monetary-damages prejudice-standard ragsdale-v-wolverine-world-wide seventh-circuit-interpretation standing |
1. Does an employee's subjective loss of status that cannot be remedied by monetary damages or appropriate equitable relief constitute prejudice that … |
| 22-321 |
Wilbur Slockish, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2) |
equitable-relief federal-courts federal-land mootness mootness-doctrine native-american-rights nonparties religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site sacred-site-preservation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's mootness ruling warrants summary reversal where the panel clearly misapprehended governing law on mootness and on the auth… |
| 22-115 |
Micheal W. Buckner, as Trustee of the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. United States Pipe & Foundry Co., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
11-usc-101 bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge claims-definition coal-act equitable-relief individual-employer-plan individual-employer-plans statutory-obligations |
1. Whether the equitable right to compel a covered company to maintain an IEP is a dischargeable "claim" under 11 U.S.C. § 101(5)(B).
2. Whether the … |
| 21-1541 |
Quannah L. Harris v. Jerry Biddle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-limitations standing |
1. Does Rule 4(a)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure limit equitable relief as it is part of the broad powers granted to the Federal Courts?
2. W… |
| 21-1516 |
Swagelok Associates Welfare Benefits Plan v. Laura Patterson, et vir |
Ohio |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure equitable-relief erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction plan-participant reimbursement state-court-jurisdiction welfare-benefits |
Is a state law action brought by a Plan Participant for an injunction barring an ERISA welfare benefit plan from enforcing its subrogation/reimburseme… |
| 21-1310 |
Garnet Turner, et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appropriate-equitable-relief benefit-claims civil-action concrete-injury eleventh-circuit equitable-relief erisa erisa-section-502(a)(3) fraud-claims fraud-in-equity statute-of-limitations |
In an issue of critical importance affecting approximately 13,000 Allstate retirees, as well as ERISA beneficiaries elsewhere, the Eleventh Circuit ad… |
| 21-784 |
In Re Melba L. Ford |
|
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct conscience-based-duty court-discretion due-process equitable-relief fraud fraud-allegations judicial-duty judicial-ethics petition-review standing |
Question I.
Do Justices owe a mandatory , non-discretionary,
equitable, conscience-based moral duty to themselves,
to all Federal Bar attorneys and … |
| 21-5593 |
Dennis Akaazua v. Walker Novack Legal Group, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court equitable-relief equitable-tolling filing-deadline postal-delivery postal-service pro-se timeliness weather-conditions winter-conditions |
Whether the U.S. District Court which received the removal brief, on behalf of the
Respondents, could Equitably rule that despite (40) degrees below z… |
| 20-1301 |
Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief |
1.
Whether, and to what extent, United States v. Morgan, 346 U.S. 502 (1954) fashioned the writ of coram nobis to incorporate the former federal equit… |
| 20-1257 |
Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii |
It is well understood that plaintiffs can and should, for strategic reasons, bring claims under every theory of liability that may apply to a defendan… |
| 20-7046 |
Paul A. Bilzerian v. Securities Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-in-circumstances civil-procedure court-access equitable-relief judicial-discretion legal-standards motion-to-terminate permanent-injunction rule-65 standing |
1. Whether a district court has the discretion to deny an unopposed motion to terminate a 20-year-old permanent injunction prohibiting access to any s… |
| 20-933 |
In Re Jack R. Finnegan |
|
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fraud-prevention injunction judicial-jurisdiction standing |
The courts have no authority to arbitrarily impose a misapplication of a legal doctrine to action in equity. This elliptical action leads to incorrect… |
| 20-6750 |
In Re Mark Marvin |
|
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion access-to-court civil-rights due-process equitable-relief property-rights |
A, WHETHER MARK MARVIN SHOULD RECEIVE THE REMAINS AND PROPERTY OF HIS WIFE MARJORIE MARVIN FROM THE DEFENDANT BUREAU OF PRISONS?
B, WHETHER THE FIFTH… |
| 20-128 |
Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
|
all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power |
Petitioner Big Port Service DMCC ("BPS") was permanently enjoined from pursuing an arbitration against Respondent China Shipping Container Lines Co. L… |
| 20-28 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction |
Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of … |
| 19-1269 |
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations |
Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment rig… |
| 19-8395 |
Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equitable-relief federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review standing statutory-protection |
ISSUES PRESENTED FOR REVIEW
THE VIDEO PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (VPPA) (8 USC §§ 2710(A), 2710(B)(2)(C), 2710(4), 2710(E)
AMAZON V. LAY 758 F.SUPP.2D 11… |
| 19-7714 |
Angelique de Maison v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
disgorgement enforcement-action equitable-relief liu-v-sec penalty securities-law standing supreme-court |
Whether, as this Court will be deciding in the petition now before the Court in Liu v. Securities & Exchange Commission, 754 F. App'x 505 (9th Cir. 20… |
| 19-791 |
Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
|
appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver |
Whether federal district courts possess the authority to require appeal rights to be waived as a condition for receiving an award available under law.… |
| 19-6961 |
Hernan Navarro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process equitable-relief evidence evidentiary-proceedings intellectual-predicate judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
fordamenton error of equitable sharispr tence by evaluating the Detitoners
WS Under an erroneous Stendo revi Me tn &&
B0id Claimg being unFarnly rejec… |
| 19-589 |
Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment |
Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act. |
| 18-9769 |
Ishmael Wahid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals ERRED WHEN not FOLLOWING THE CORRECT STANDARD FOR GRANTING C.O.A. |
| 18-1501 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
agency-enforcement disgorgement equitable-relief judicial-review kokesh-v-sec lower-court-precedent penalty sec-enforcement securities-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as "equitable relief" for a securities law violation even… |
| 18-1279 |
K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
|
29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation |
Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under § 1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches… |
| 18-8509 |
Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine |
Since the following is entirely true and accurate, how may it be credibly claimed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit didn't substan… |
| 18-8440 |
Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review |
WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHEN THE
CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY APPLIED AN "OVERLY RIGID
PER SE APPROACH" IN DENYING COA ON PETITIONER'S
MOTION… |
| 18-1036 |
Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
|
60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment |
1. If a client is blameless, is a lawyer's gross neglect of the client's case a basis for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)? (7-2 … |
| 18-723 |
Jose Rodriguez v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Florida |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equitable-relief foreclosure foreclosure-evidence impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement |
Whether the due process protections enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U. S. Constitution prohibit Florida Courts from turning a blind ey… |
| 18-598 |
Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ |
Whether the Second Circuit erred that to grant Appellees motion for summary affirmance while to deny Chien's three motions as moot, indicating so far … |
| 18-578 |
William L. Pender, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
|
appropriate-relief benefit-plan civil-procedure divided-bench employee-benefits equitable-relief equity-courts erisa judicial-remedy pension-law solicitor-general statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word "appropriate" in ERISA § 502(a)(3) authorizes ERISA courts to decline to award an established equitable remedy based on consideration… |