| 25-830 |
Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness |
Article III confines federal courts to live cases or controversies. When claims become moot on appeal, this Court has long required vacatur —not a mer… |
| 25-481 |
Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
due-process federal-funding informed-consent liberty-interest medical-treatment state-action |
Since the passage of the 1974 National Research Act, federal policy has ensured that no individual faces penalties or loss of benefits for refusing un… |
| 25-432 |
Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
auto-pen-signature constitutional-procedure informed-consent judicial-nomination presidential-delegation quorum-validity |
United States Supreme court precedent has determined that a party affected by the appellate circuit decision of what they believe to be an improper ju… |
| 25-431 |
Ealaila Conard v. Chanel, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-discrimination employment-law informed-consent job-related-standards medical-privacy medical-treatment |
Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal tradition … |
| 25A310 |
Ryan Thomas Thornton v. Ascension All Saints Hospital, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
hospital-negligence informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-rights sepsis standard-of-care |
Question not identified. |
| 25-204 |
Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action |
Since Congress enacted the 1974 National Research Act, it has been the federal government's policy that no individual can be subjected to a penalty or… |
| 25-9 |
Keith M. Wilkins v. Steve Herron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
emergency-use-authorization experimental-drugs food-drug-cosmetic-act informed-consent private-right-of-action section-1983 |
May an individual bring a lawsuit via 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of his right to informed consent to the administration of an EUA experimental dru… |
| 24A234 |
Sandra A. Zikry v. Exodus Women's Center, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent |
Question not identified. |
| 24A233 |
Sandra A. Zikry v. Hernie David Vann, Jr., et al. |
Florida |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent |
Question not identified. |
| 24-173 |
Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity |
The well-established law is that medical experimentation on humans cannot be performed without informed consent, or with any degree of duress or coerc… |
| 24-94 |
SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-1127 11-usc-1144 attorney-malpractice bankruptcy-plan bankruptcy-reorganization-plan chapter-11 informed-consent malpractice-claims procedural-rules third-party-release |
1. Whether a non-consensual third-party release of debtors' attorneys for malpractice claims is valid under a Chapter 11 plan even though debtors' att… |
| 23-144 |
Anthony Marciano v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization informed-consent municipal-vaccine-mandate quarantine quarantine-law state-law state-preemption vaccination |
The question presented is whether the Mayor of the City of New York, through his appointed police and health commissioners, acts without legislative a… |
| 22-7480 |
Elbert Silas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process index-of informed-consent procedural-rights reason-for-granting-the-writ sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Silas's due process rights were violated by the enforcement of the appeal waiver when Mr. Silas was not advised and did not know that he w… |
| 22-7426 |
George Donald Hatt, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent informed-decision mandatory-minimums offender-score plea-bargain plea-negotiations trial-strategy |
Does effective assistance of counsel in a plea bargain context require that counsel actually and substantially assist a client in deciding whether to … |
| 22-7250 |
Willie T. Washington v. University of Texas Medical Branch, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
causation exhaustion informed-consent medical-malpractice relief-claim statute-of-limitations surgical-procedure unnecessary-surgery |
1. Petitioner Complains That Surgery Was Unneccessary Done October 31,2016:
2. Petitioner Complains Surgery Done By Means /rRbsults OfoUninformed Con… |
| 22-6899 |
Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject |
1. Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures by a physician in … |
| 22-626 |
Hazem M. Hamdan, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty informed-consent medicaid-regulations medical-ethics medicare-medicaid patient-rights |
Are complainants to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry (the Board) entitled to the statutory due process as plainly stated in 45 CFR § 164.508, and MN S… |
| 22-6090 |
Shirley Marie Trent v. Virginia Commonwealth University |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-autonomy civil-rights due-process government-overreach informed-consent medical-privacy |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5266 |
Elizabeth Downing, as Administrator of the Estate of Linda Berry v. Paul Grossman, et al. |
Iowa |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment informed-consent kidney-tumor medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose |
1.) How is it not viable that all the care Linda Berry received from October 1, 2009 until December 31, 2009 not be considered fraudulent concealment?… |
| 21-8086 |
Jeremiah F. Wooden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-record guilty-plea ineffective-assistance informed-consent meritorious-defenses plea-bargaining plea-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Whether, under the Sixth Amendment, plea counsel has a duty to advise of the impact of a conviction on his client's criminal record before his clie… |
| 21-8065 |
Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing |
1. ) Did the 9th Circuit - U-S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion
when the Court denied petitioner's appeal? When the issue was
not the constitut… |
| 21-7111 |
David Roy Worthy v. Corizon Medical Group, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights delayed-diagnosis due-process government-liability informed-consent medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-harm patient-rights professional-liability standard-of-care |
When a delayed diagnosis is in effect, shouldn't the Dept. of Corrections be responsible? |
| 21-6685 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The prosecutor, defense counsel, and the district court all informed Mr. Dominguez that if he went to trial he would face a mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 21-295 |
In Re America's Frontline Doctors, et al. |
|
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization genetic-vaccine informed-consent medical-rights natural-immunity scientific-consensus vaccine-mandate |
1. It is undisputed that every FDA fact sheet for EUA Covid-19 vaccines states the same disclaimer, "It is your choice to receive or not receive the [… |
| 20-1504 |
J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. |
Washington |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability |
1. Did the Washington Supreme Court and the Washington Court of Appeals violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to allow an attorney t… |
| 20-7633 |
Sam Sterling Alford v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability consolidation consolidation-risks counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent right-to-counsel |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) on his claim that his counsel re… |
| 20-798 |
In Re Leonard Patti |
|
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-review medical-malpractice medical-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? The only thing that had any bearing on this case was the Affidavit of … |
| 20-797 |
Leonard Patti v. George C. Peck, Jr. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent jury-trial medical-malpractice standing |
1. Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? The only thing that had any bearing on this case was the Affidavit of … |
| 19-1138 |
DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether a claim for violation of a prisonerpatient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and … |
| 19-7321 |
Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-misconduct governmental-misconduct informed-consent mandamus mandamus-action medical-experimentation medical-information-withholding standing |
(1) Whether The United States Supreme Court, Will review The Evidence In this Case and recognize and
Acknowlege That The Respondent, The United States… |
| 19-6498 |
Andrea Rene'e Tootle v. Beaux Art Institute of Plastic Surgery, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abscess cellulitis civil-rights duty-of-care informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-harm plastic-surgery radiation-treatment standard-of-care surgical-consent tissue-expander |
1. Is defendant liable for HARM, MAIME, DISFIGUREMENT, MISUSE PATIENT TRUST, USE EXTREME CARE, PRACTICE OUTSIDE THE REALM OF PLASTIC SURGERY, FAIL TO … |
| 19-6443 |
Amro A. Elansari v. University of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-funding informed-consent research-ethics research-experiments standing |
Whether the University of Pennsylvania, federally funded, is subject to federal jurisdiction for funding that using human research experiments without… |
| 19-6339 |
Jackson Miles v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process healthcare-law informed-consent national-childhood-vaccine-injury-act-of-1986 regulatory-oversight regulatory-policy vaccine-injury-compensation vaccine-injury-compensation-program |
Where the special master of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
(hereafter noted as "the Program ") violates the 2017 Secretary of Health a… |
| 19-417 |
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law |
The Kentucky Ultrasound Informed Consent Act (House Bill 2) requires a physician, while performing a pre-abortion ultrasound, to (i) describe the ultr… |
| 18-9012 |
Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo |
Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations -- i.e., privacy, freedom of association, reproduc… |
| 18-1019 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
GVR |
Amici (9)Relisted (7) |
abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement |
May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, require an ultrasound as part of informed consent at least eighteen hours before an abortion? |
| 18-7403 |
Keith Lamar Blackwell v. Charlie A. Dooley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent medical-care medical-ethics medical-licensing medical-practice patient-consent pharmacist-duties physician-duties physician-licensing professional-licensing state-regulations |
1. In the State of Missouri,can a license pharmacist redunciently practice medicine as to aphysicia±. duties of professional judgment and proform phys… |
| 18-6401 |
James Gabriel Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure |
FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 requires district courts to engage in a specific, on-the-record plea colloquy. In reviewing a plea colloquy, is it sufficient for … |
| 18-529 |
Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-process case-merger civil-procedure consolidation consolidation-of-cases due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins hall-v-hall informed-consent judicial-consolidation judicial-practice standing third-circuit |
Whether the decision of the Third Circuit conflicts with the Supreme Court decision by holding in this instant case that the District Court effectivel… |
| 18-97 |
Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC |
California |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
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clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics |
Whether a drug company which is medically monitoring the participants of its drug study has a duty under federal regulations to exercise its independe… |