| 25-787 |
John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers |
A jet engine mechanic brought a civil rights lawsuit after a Massachusetts County denied him a permit to perform plumbing on the home he was building.… |
| 25-6111 |
Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fisa-warrant fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny |
1. Constitutional Validity of FISA Warrants Obtained Through Systematic Perjury and
Evidence Fabrication
Whether this nation will tolerate FISA warra… |
| 25A25 |
Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii |
1) the definition and scope of religious belief under Title VI when religious belief and secular beliefs are intertwined and 2) the role of the judici… |
| 24-7468 |
Donald Perry v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-transfer fdic-transfer judicial-scrutiny mortgage-assignment operation-of-law stare-decisis |
1. Whether the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) transfer of Washington Mutual Bank (WaMu) to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in 2008 constitut… |
| 24-1114 |
Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate |
(1) Whether a State may avoid judicial review of an authorizing statute that categorically prohibits religious accommodations to compulsory vaccinatio… |
| 24-503 |
Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo |
When the government restricts political speech, to satisfy the First Amendment, the government must "point to record evidence or legislative findings … |
| 23-265 |
Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate |
1. Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact … |
| 21-788 |
Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc., dba Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium due-process eviction-moratorium judicial-scrutiny lease-impairment municipal-law takings |
1. Whether a municipal law challenged under the Contracts Clause as impermissibly impairing private contracts is subject to variable scrutiny based on… |
| 21-6345 |
Jeremy Schenck v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
benign-information evidence-description judicial-scrutiny legal-review paragraph-structure probable-cause scrutiny search-warrant vulgar-slang warrant-application |
1. Are allegations in a warrant application entitled to lesser scrutiny when the district court concludes that the allegations are essential to the pr… |
| 20-1053 |
Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources |
1. Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny where, as here, the Affiant failed to: v… |
| 18-1002 |
Cynthia Davis, et al. v. Valsamis, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admiralty-law carnival-cruise-lines carnival-cruise-lines-v-shute contract-interpretation cruise-line-liability fundamental-fairness judicial-scrutiny limitation-of-liability majestic-the maritime-law notice-requirement passenger-ticket passenger-tickets pre-suit-notice the-majestic ticket-limitation |
Whether under this Court's holdings in Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 499 U.S. 585 (1991) (limitation clauses that are contained within form pa… |
| 18-826 |
Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
church-autonomy first-amendment hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc intra-church-disputes intra-church-litigation jones-v-wolf judicial-scrutiny leadership-succession neutral-principles religious-dispute serbian-eastern-orthodox-diocese-v-milivojevich |
Whether this Court should clarify Jones v. Wolf and Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., given the doctrinal uncertainty and unpredictability reflected in incon… |
| 18-177 |
Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
|
bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process |
When a criminal defendant has posted bond and is entitled to be released from jail subject only to administrative processing, does the defendant's rig… |