judicial-exception
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-888 | Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing | 1. Should this Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing? 2. If there is a municipal-taxpayer ex… | |
| 25A581 | Ashley Grayson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Application | clean-hands-doctrine congressional-intent judicial-exception privacy-protection statutory-interpretation wiretap-act | Whether the Federal Wiretap Act's exclusionary rule in 18 U.S.C. § 2515 applies to unlawfully intercepted communications regardless of whether the gov… | |
| 24-836 | Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction functional-claim judicial-exception patent-act patent-eligibility scientific-building-blocks | Section 101 of the Patent Act provides that "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" is eligible for a patent. This… |
| 23-559 | Adekunle C. Omoyosi v. Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal-timeliness civil-procedure court-discretion due-process eeoc federal-courts judicial-exception legal-procedure procedural-rules standing timeliness | Whether, or under what circumstances, may the court excuse untimeliness of appeal. |
| 22-772 | Ultra Petroleum Corporation, et al. v. Ad Hoc Committee of OpCo Unsecured Creditors, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bankruptcy-code creditor-recovery judicial-exception lower-court-confusion post-petition-interest solvent-debtor-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-text unmatured-interest | Whether an unwritten "solvent-debtor exception" overrides the Bankruptcy Code's statutory text and allows creditors in solvent-debtor cases to recover… |
| 22-113 | Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas | Texas | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application | Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law when it retroactively applied a newly announced and judicially cr… |
| 21-1370 | Spireon, Inc. v. Procon Analytics, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction fact-question federal-circuit judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility pleadings | 1. What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's tw… |
| 21-1228 | Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | 35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 | This computer-based patent infringement case presents the same questions pending before the Court in American Axle & Mfg, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC,… | |
| 20-891 | American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | 35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework | American Axle invented a new process for making a new, useful, and tangible thing – a quieter automobile driveshaft. It is the type of invention that … |
| 19-867 | Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett | Third Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal | If a prisoner fails to exhaust administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit, does Section 1997e(a) mandate dismissal of the unexhausted claims, or … |
| 19-5553 | Angela Roy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards | Whether the widely criticized "inextricably intertwined" or "intrinsic evidence" family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf… |
| 18-415 | HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing | The question presented is whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the… |