issue-preclusion
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-834 | Erie Indemnity Company v. Troy Stephenson, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | claim-preclusion final-judgment issue-preclusion legal-theory ongoing-conduct res-judicata | This Court has emphasized that a previous court's judgment bars any claims between the parties or their privies that "involve a common nucleus of oper… | |
| 25A250 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll | Second Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | defamation federal-tort-claims-act issue-preclusion presidential-immunity scope-of-employment westfall-act | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7452 | Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart | California | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participa… |
| 24A1230 | Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company | California | 2025-06-12 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-enforcement collateral-estoppel contract-severability federal-arbitration-act issue-preclusion supremacy-clause | (1) Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides the equitable estoppel to enforce arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.… | |
| 24-7227 | Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California | California | 2025-05-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-asset-forfeiture claim-preclusion due-process federal-judgment issue-preclusion state-criminal-prosecution | Does the Due Process Clause, independent of the Double Jeopardy Clause, require a state to apply issue and/or claim preclusion to a federal judgment i… |
| 24-1109 | Karl Hansen v. Tesla, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-award issue-preclusion predispute-arbitration sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-claim | 1. Whether a confirmed arbitration award on related or overlapping claims may be given issue-preclusive effect so as to bar a Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX")… |
| 24A701 | Karl Hansen v. Elon Musk, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Presumed Complete | arbitration dean-witter-reynolds issue-preclusion protected-activity sarbanes-oxley securities-law | Question not identified. | |
| 24A475 | Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Presumed Complete | ashe-standard double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion jury-verdict preponderance-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 23-811 | Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior | District of Columbia | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase | (1) Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/Issue preclusion applies when Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) a quasi-judicial federal adminis… |
| 23-591 | Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts ' adherence to issue preclusion doctri… |
| 23-6057 | Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S… |
| 23-6067 | Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata | IF LEGAL CLAIMS PRESERVED BY A STATE COURT DURING DIRECT REVIEW, SHARE THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS AS THE RIGHT TO AN APPEAL FROM A FINAL JUDG… |
| 22-7860 | Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice | Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents regarding fundamental miscarriage of justi… |
| 22-5410 | Claud R. Koerber v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial government-misconduct issue-preclusion sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations | 1) SIXTH AMENDMENT SPEEDY TRIAL: Did the Tenth Circuit fundamentally err in its application of Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 513, 531-36 (1972); when it a… |
| 22-5371 | Darrell Harris v. Robert Hudgins, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel federal-court federal-offense federal-prosecution issue-preclusion res-judicata sixth-amendment speedy-trial | WHETHER PRINCIPLES OF "RES JUDICATA" TRIGGERED APPLI CATION OF ISSUE PRECLUSION AND COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL SO AS TO DEPRIVE THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUTHORI… |
| 22-118 | Marquis Shaw v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Relisted (12) | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts | (1) Do either the Jury Clauses of Article III and the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment bar a court from imposing a mor… |
| 22-5133 | Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court issue-preclusion obstruction procedural-fairness standing witness-protection | 1) Whether plaintiffs and witnesses have a right to receive protection from obstructive crimes while a case is proceeding in federal courts of justice… |
| 21-8209 | Alan M. Leschyshyn v. AbbVie Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arizona-law case-filing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel contemporaneous-filing issue-preclusion judicial-discretion prior-decision summary-judgment | One of the four elements for the doctrine of collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion under Arizona law is previous case. Did the lower court err or a… |
| 21-1560 | Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions | The Questions Presented are: 1. Rule 2.11 of the Code of Conduct and as pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455 and Cannon 3C(1) of the Code of United States Jud… | |
| 21-1483 | Leander Bacon, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ejectment-action foreclosure-dispute issue-preclusion rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings title-restoration veterans-affairs veterans-rights | This case has involved an effort by a wounded combat veteran and his wife seeking (a) an injunction against eviction based on a disputed foreclosure o… |
| 21-1248 | Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | congressional-action constitution executive-branch federal-courts indian-treaty-rights issue-preclusion | 1. Whether the federal courts have the constitutional authority to unilaterally abrogate all rights guaranteed to an Indian tribe under a treaty with … |
| 21-7308 | Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University | District of Columbia | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing | 1. Was the D.C. Court of Appeals obligated to consider all of my allegations —including allegations pled in my Opposition to Howard 's Motion to Dismi… |
| 21-1127 | Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response Waived | dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law | 1. Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over the Snoqu… |
| 21-1034 | Peter Kagel v. Jay Laurence Raftery, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-24 | Denied | 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud issue-preclusion rooker-feldman vagueness | 1. Should the "Inextricably Intertwined" doctrine be abolished because it violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment since it is unconsti… | |
| 21-1015 | Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure due-process equal-protection issue-preclusion judicial-power separation-of-powers sua-sponte ultra-vires | The Fifth Circuit vastly departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and sanctioned the same by the lower court. Both the lowe… |
| 21-6691 | Aaron Hicks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct conflict-of-interest counsel-representation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion joint-trials right-to-counsel severance | 1. When a co-defendant is represented by counsel who previously represented the defendant, thereby creating an actual conflict of interest, may a cour… |
| 21-870 | Michigan v. Treshaun Lee Terrance | Michigan | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ashe-v-swenson constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion jury-acquittal michigan-courts perpetrator-identity yeager-v-us | 1. Since issue preclusion is a civil doctrine and not originally part of the double jeopardy clause, should it apply in criminal cases? Should Ashe v … |
| 21-6543 | Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing | Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial … |
| 21-407 | James P. Mhina v. Beth Van Doren, Assistant District Attorney of Onondaga County, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-action collateral-estoppel criminal-action due-process issue-preclusion res-judicata | UNDER HE DOCIRINE OF RES JUDICATA, OR CLAIM PRECLUSION AND DOCTRINE OF COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL DOES THE FINAL JUDGMENT ON THE MERS OF A CRIMINAL ACTON PRE… |
| 21-47 | Khai Quang Bui v. Abdul Alshaer | Virginia | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response Waived | causes-of-action civil-procedure claim-preclusion issue-preclusion judicial-review legal-procedure question-not-identified res-judicata standing supreme-court | The question asks this Court should separate and distinct causes of action overrule res judicata defense. |
| 20-1508 | Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim | Issue 1. Did the resolution of the tort claim against Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or claim that plaintiff raises in the presen… |
| 20-1394 | PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre… |
| 20-1339 | Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Dismissed | civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv… | |
| 20-942 | Christopher L. Buie v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-findings discrimination-claims employee-protection issue-preclusion substantial-evidence surface-transportation-assistance-act unsafe-acts vehicle-operation | 1. Does the "refuses to operate " clause under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act ("STAA ") afford protection to employees who refuse to commit… |
| 20-563 | Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC | Texas | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption | Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su… |
| 19-8171 | Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute | In litigation between two parties, time-tested principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion govern when parties may —and may not—litigate issue… |
| 19-8160 | Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation | DID THE FLORIDA TRIAL COURT VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY WHEN IT REFUSED TO APPLY THE DOCTRINE OF ISSUE PRECLUSION … |
| 19-1057 | Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called "community caretaking" where the alleged danger to the co… |
| 19-769 | Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata | Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid… |
| 19-489 | Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial | Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a… |
| 19-319 | Bonnie Cruickshank-Wallace, et vir v. CNA Financial Corporation, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | alter-ego-doctrine civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process holding-company issue-preclusion jurisdiction malpractice precedent standing subsidiary-liability technicality | 1. This case provides an issue of first impression before this Court: should this Court affirm the standard that '"cZaim preclusion ' requires...the [… | |
| 18-1403 | Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether Petitioner was denied Due Process when the Respondents revoked his license by operation of law without adequate procedural protections, con… |
| 18-8878 | Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | IFP | administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii | What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give to rise to a new claim? Storey, 347 F.3d 383. See eBay INC .v MercExchange. … |
| 18-1086 | Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata | Whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated… |
| 18-7924 | Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY ALLOWING THE ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE TO BE USED TO GRANT MOTION FOR ISSUE PRECLUSION? |
| 18-7398 | Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt | New Mexico | 2019-01-14 | Denied | IFP | amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights | In this case- Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summery judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues… |
| 18-898 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston | Florida | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata | Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s… |
| 18-7082 | Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal | I. May collateral estoppel ever be applied offensively against a criminal defendant, to bar him from relitigating an issue resolved in a previous case… |
| 18-654 | Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. v. Richard Boatright, et ux. | Florida | 2018-11-20 | Denied | civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action due-process engle-progeny issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion procedural-due-process | The Florida Supreme Court has devised a new, class-action-specific doctrine of claim preclusion in order to facilitate the classwide adjudication of i… | |
| 18-649 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Cheryl Searcy, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol LaSard | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | actually-decided civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion | The Florida Supreme Court has devised a new, class-action-specific doctrine of claim preclusion in order to facilitate the classwide adjudication of i… | |
| 18-621 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy | Florida | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco | Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh… |
| 18-551 | Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Jordan | Florida | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure class-action constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings issue-preclusion jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding tobacco | Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings … |
| 18-549 | Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten… | |
| 18-498 | Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act | In McMillian v. Monroe County, Alabama, 520 U.S. 781 (1997), this Court held that counties cannot be liable in actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 … | |
| 18-264 | New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal | Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… |
| 18-5783 | Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | IFP | brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense | Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with now, the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits, and the California Court of Appeal, First an… |