federal-circuit-split
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5811 | Ricky Joe Bland v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-testing federal-circuit-split probation-officer sentencing-procedure supervised-release | Did the district court below err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release a requirement that "[t]he defendant… participate in a progra… |
| 25A12 | City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Presumed Complete | arm-of-the-state federal-circuit-split municipal-standing political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-law-analysis | 1. This case presents a question on which the Ninth Circuit has split with at least five other federal appellate courts. That question is whether a po… | |
| 24-5782 | Harvey Miguel Robinson v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | federal-circuit-split habeas-corpus jury-instructions legislative-interpretation sentencing-law state-court-review | (1) Whether, under Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), a court may, in the course of instructing the jury that a life sentence means life … |
| 24-6 | Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger | Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the "state-created-danger" doctrine by recognizing t… |
| 22-913 | Richard Devillier, et al. v. Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation legislative-authorization property-rights self-executing self-executing-clause state-court-rulings statutory-authorization takings-clause | May a person whose property is taken without compensation seek redress under the self-executing Takings Clause even if the legislature has not affirma… |
| 22-397 | Maria Solange Ferrarini v. Ipek Irgit, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | 17-usc-507b civil-procedure claim-accrual copyright-infringement federal-circuit-split judicial-interpretation laches laches-doctrine petrella-v-mgm statute-of-limitations | Whether the judge-made laches-like ownership claim accrual test applies to bar a copyright infringement suit brought within the three-year look-back p… | |
| 20-905 | Independent School District No. 283 v. E. M. D. H. ex rel. L. H. and S. D. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | CVSGAmici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-complaint administrative-procedure continuing-violation-doctrine education-law federal-circuit-split individuals-with-disabilities-education-act negative-consequences statutory-time-limit | Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the two-year statutory time limit to file an administrative complaint under the Individuals with … |
| 20-863 | Akeva L.L.C. v. Nike, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation federal-circuit-split innovation-goals judicial-precedent patent-claim-construction patent-law patent-property-rights predictability property-rights public-notice | Whether the Federal Circuit's "heavy presumption" line of cases or its "holistic" line should govern claim construction. |
| 20-203 | LaDonna Degan, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights dallas-pension-statute federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment legislative-amendment property-interest retirement-funds takings-clause | Prior to 2017, retired Dallas police and firefighters had the right to withdraw the earned and accrued retirement funds deposited in their Deferred Re… |
| 19-120 | IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention | Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai… |
| 18-7156 | Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio | This Court has held, in several traffic stop cases, that investigatory stops based on probable cause can violate the Fourth Amendment in scope and dur… |
| 18-6189 | Eduardo Salgado v. California | California | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment carry-outside-home civil-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry concealed-carry-license due-process federal-circuit-split firearm-rights good-cause-requirement level-of-scrutiny scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing | Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense, and what level of scrutiny applies to laws that … |