judicial-doctrine
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-857 | Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response Waived | circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment | Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio… |
| 25-420 | Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine | Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights? Does a peti… |
| 24-664 | Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued | Minnesota | 2024-12-19 | Denied | child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion | This case implicates fundamental protected rights including custody rights of natural parents. The Minnesota Judiciary has knowingly sustained relianc… | |
| 24-529 | Dale Scott Heineman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process equitable-maxim first-amendment judicial-doctrine oath-of-office | A serious conflict exists between decisions rendered from this Court and lower appeal courts, along with constitutional provisions and statutes, in de… |
| 24-5545 | Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict constitutional-theory criminal-procedure government-agents judicial-doctrine sentencing-entrapment | Whether the conduct of government agents or officials can constitute sentencing entrapment, as that constitutional theory is recognized outside of sen… |
| 23-1231 | Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Amici (11) | equitable-doctrine good-faith-procurement investment-backed-expectations judicial-doctrine obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-invalidation patent-term-adjustment statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions | Whether a patent procured in good faith can be invalidated on the ground that statutory Patent Term Adjustment, which requires lengthening a patent's … |
| 23-842 | Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing | Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity. | |
| 23-570 | Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance | Under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1133, employee benefit plans must, in accordance with th… | |
| 22-926 | U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers | The lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require it to … |
| 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 … |
| 21-6178 | Henry Baird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment | WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-317 | Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction | 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County… |
| 20-1519 | Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Dismissed | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing | 1. Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified immunity? 2. Whether the District Court correctly applied c… | |
| 20-7246 | Renaldo Demarquis Metcalf v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-history judicial-doctrine legal-departure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-process | Does the use of the "de facto career offender" doctrine distort the sentencing process and lead to unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 20-440 | Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (2) | 35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation | In the Patent Act, Congress established that invalidity is a "defense[] in any action involving the validity or infringement of a patent." 35 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-1416 | Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory | Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine, which stands in derogation of over three hundred years of Western political theory a… | |
| 19-41 | Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions | May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … | |
| 18-5548 | Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation | Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt… |