military-service

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5040 Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS ") and its employees deny an application for naturalization because the applicant …
24-1078 Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights 1. Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against a servicemember's ability to bring tort claims "incident to service" is only triggered when the injury was…
24-274 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC, dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied disability-rights employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra veterans-protection I. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in in applying 38 U.S.C. § 4311 of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Ri…
23A1109 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-standards employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra Question not identified.
23-600 Dan Robert, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived adverse-effects armed-forces constitutional-rights covid-19-vaccine experimental-injection experimental-medical-treatment judicial-review medical-coercion military-service separation-of-powers vaccine-mandate 1. Whether the unlawful implementation of the harmful Covid vaccine mandate in the Armed Services properly evades judicial review based on repeal of t…
23-5697 Asem Farooq v. Manheim Remarketing, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration-dismissal civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-protected-class military-service military-service-protection wrongful-termination Where a corporation violates rales announced in Torres v. Texas dept & Phillips v. Starbucks corp by terminating an employee that was a federally prot…
22-7324 Byron R. Fisher v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disability-claims due-process judicial-review military-service standing veterans-benefits Did the lower court violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by not addressing the crimes commited by the Respondent? …
22-259 Lewis B. Jones v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied armed-forces claim-accrual disability-rating medical-technology military-service retirement-pay statute-of-limitations tucker-act veterans-benefits 1. Whether a cause of action for retirement pay can accrue and for the statute of limitations to run before a service member receives a disability rat…
21-6666 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header …
21-827 Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof discriminatory-animus employee-rights employment-discrimination employment-rights federal-employment military-service protected-status reemployment-rights userra Whether, to shift the burden of proof to the employer in a Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) case, the employee must …
20-1473 Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden Georgia 2021-04-20 Denied due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers For purposes of the disposition of Petitioner's constitutional rights (including those with respect to custody of and visitation with his minor childr…
20-559 Jane Doe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation 1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled? 2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem…
19-801 Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w…
19-586 Devona Hollingsworth v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied due-process employment-rights federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board military-service opm-regulations probationary-period reemployment-rights termination uniformed-services userra 1. Are USERRA's reemployment rights applicable to federal employees during their probationary period? If so, may an agency-employer terminate an emplo…
18-1137 Les Schwab Tire Centers of Portland, Inc., et al. v. Scott Wilcox, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Jenna Wilcox Oregon 2019-03-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights due-process federal-courts legal-proceeding military-service representative-capacity servicemembers-civil-relief-act standing state-courts statute-of-limitations tolling The question presented is whether the SCRA tolls a statute of limitations applicable to a claim brought by a servicemember in a purely representative …
18-678 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Aiden Stockman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction standing transgender transgender-military-service transgender-policy Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide.
18-677 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Jane Doe 2, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction transgender transgender-military-service In 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a new policy concerning military service by transgender individuals. Under the Mattis policy, tra…
18-676 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ryan Karnoski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) due-process equal-protection first-amendment gender-dysphoria military-service military-service-policy transgender transgender-individuals transgender-policy Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide.