| 25-901 |
Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering |
Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d… |
| 25-830 |
Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness |
Article III confines federal courts to live cases or controversies. When claims become moot on appeal, this Court has long required vacatur —not a mer… |
| 25A794 |
Segundo Inga-Inga v. Robert A. McDonald, etc., et al. |
New York |
2026-01-08 |
Application |
|
administrative-review appellate-procedure case-controversy judicial-standing legal-dismissal mootness |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6451 |
Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness |
Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty… |
| 25-734 |
Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official |
New York |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine |
WHETHER, in this U.S. Constitution, Article II, §1, Clause 5 "natural born Citizen " challenge to the 2024 Democratic candidate for President of the U… |
| 25-648 |
Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, fka Greenback Business Services LLC, dba Cleer Tax |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review contempt-sanctions due-process legal-consequences mootness temporary-restraining-order |
Whether due process permits contempt sanctions to be imposed under a Temporary Restraining Order that was never reviewed on appeal, where the court of… |
| 25A578 |
Edgal Iribhogbe v. C. Lepe, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
case-or-controversy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-dismissal mootness pretrial-detention section-2241 |
Question not identified. |
| 25A564 |
Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation |
Whether a "voluntary cessation of offensive conduct will only moot litigation if it is clear that the defendant has not changed course simply to depri… |
| 25-5639 |
Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa |
Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq… |
| 25-5589 |
Shane Stevens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by
a sentence later declared void ab initio—on the grounds of proced… |
| 25-5456 |
Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America |
Maryland |
2025-08-25 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appointed-counsel equal-protection mootness procedural-due-process service-of-process |
1. Whether a state court of last resort erred in affirming a lower court decision to dismiss
petitioners' appeals overlooking deprivation of petition… |
| 25-116 |
Nicholas Roddy Ramlow v. Amanda Marie Mitchell |
Idaho |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment mootness pandemic-law public-health |
1. Whether mask-wearing is symbolic or expressive speech.
2. Whether Petitioner's appeal is moot.
3. Given the cyclical nature of pandemics, the exi… |
| 25A96 |
Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra |
Question not identified. |
| 25A94 |
Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra |
Question not identified. |
| 25-50 |
Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing |
Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio… |
| 24-1221 |
Susan Neese, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law article-iii-standing federal-funding healthcare-discrimination mootness summary-vacatur |
Should the Court summarily vacate the court of appeals' judgment under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), and remand with instruc… |
| 24-1158 |
Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing |
circuit courts, but contrary to the D.C. Circuit below, this Court's decision in U.S. Parole Commission v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 (1980), remains good… |
| 24-1126 |
Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming that the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after December 3, 2020 without the filin… |
| 24-6997 |
Eric Ellis v. Cargill Meat Solutions, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-III mootness rule-68 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tender |
1. Whether a random mailing of a check (unconditional tender) that is not linked to a rule 68 offer a judgment rob a plaintiff of his article III stan… |
| 24-6861 |
Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri… |
| 24-948 |
Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur |
Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), a court of appeals' decision should be vacated because the appeal became moot b… |
| 24-6685 |
Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint |
1. Was the exposure to COVID-19 sufficiently serious enough to trigger an
Eighth Amendment protection?
2. Does the permanent loss of the sense of sme… |
| 24-844 |
Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur |
Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial … |
| 24-684 |
Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
civil-procedure constitutional-law doctrine-of-capable-of-repetition election-law judicial-review mootness |
Whether the "capable of repetition, yet evading review" doctrine requires plaintiffs in election law cases to predict and articulate specific plans fo… |
| 24-6203 |
Jesus Perez-Garcia and John Thomas Fencl v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-three-jurisdiction certiorari judicial-review mootness remand second-amendment |
(1) Whether this Court should grant this petition, vacate the Second Amendment opinion below, and remand with instructions to dismiss the case as moot… |
| 24A493 |
Anthony Michael Branch v. Fannie Mae, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process foreclosure intervention judicial-review mootness property-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24A375 |
Atif B. Malik v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons earned-time-credits first-step-act mootness pro-se-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 24A356 |
Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capable-of-repetition certiorari circuit-split election-law judicial-review mootness |
Whether the "capable of repetition, yet evading review" standard is given a flexible interpretation in election law cases. |
| 24-306 |
Michael Bush, et al. v. Linda Fantasia, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
injunctive-relief mootness pro-se-plaintiffs rule-12-procedure standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Town administrators imposed two distinct face mask mandates that included various secular exemptions. Certain aggrieved residents sued pro se for fail… |
| 24A256 |
Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jennifer Zuch |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
iRS-proceedings levy-review mootness tax-court-jurisdiction tax-credits underlying-tax-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 24-230 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity |
On August 6, 2021, New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner and Judge Glenn Grant, in their administrative capacities as the heads of the New Je… |
| 24-226 |
Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing constitutional-rights declaratory-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-analysis mootness |
Whether plaintiffs seeking only declaratory relief, without alleging an "ongoing" or "imminent" or "continuing" deprivation of constitutional rights, … |
| 24-5301 |
Derek J. DeGroot v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equitable-exception federal-court jurisdictional-limitation mootness rluipa sua-sponte |
Given that there are no equitable exceptions to jurisdictional limitations, and the doctrine of mootness includes a "capable of repetition yet evading… |
| 24-129 |
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, et al. v. Smithsonian Institution |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing benin-bronzes enslaved-africans ethical-return-policy long-term-loan mootness public-hearing-process repatriation smithsonian-institution subject-matter-jurisdiction title-transfer Whether descendants of enslaved Africans in the Un Whether the courts below improperly held the matte |
1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction exists over the Smithsonian Institution's repatriation of artworks to a foreign state under an Ethical Return p… |
| 24-5204 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act |
Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral order … |
| 24-113 |
John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affordable-care-act civil-rights-standing-mootness-due-process-janus-v constitutional-rights mootness religious-exemption standing state-actor |
1) Is it a proper exercise of discretion for an Appeals Court to sanction raising the bar presented by the elements of standing and mootness to a virt… |
| 24-5088 |
In Re Gavin B. Davis |
|
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… |
| 24-45 |
Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-harm effectual-relief mootness prospective-relief standing |
Whether, under this Court's precedent, legislation enacted during a lawsuit renders asserted claims for prospective relief moot if the legislation doe… |
| 24-5017 |
Aaron Abadi v. Indiana Civil Rights Commission, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-standing civil-rights civil-rights-law congress covid-19-mandate damages damages-claim due-process judicial-resolution mootness mootness-doctrine standing |
1) In light of the alleged injuries, requested damages, and established legal principles articulated by this Court, does the denial of standing and th… |
| 23-7467 |
Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Did the panel of the Eighth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app… |
| 23-1203 |
Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation |
1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, do minors have pro se rights that can be asserted by their parents on their behalf based on a parent's fundamental right to… |
| 23A986 |
Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7237 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation |
1. Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with this Court's constitutional framework, where—in every case—indigent inmates are deprived… |
| 23-1009 |
Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation |
Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S… |
| 23-833 |
Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule |
For two centuries, this Court has maintained the "time of-filing" rule: "jurisdiction depending on the condition of the party is governed by that cond… |
| 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… |
| 23-729 |
Roee Kiviti, et ux. v. Naveen Prasad Bhatt |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii article-three-courts bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction case-or-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine standing |
Whether bankruptcy courts are bound by the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III of the Constitution. |
| 23-627 |
Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation |
1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania "mask mandate" moot when the restriction is capable of repetition yet so short in duration tha… |
| 23A513 |
Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing |
1. This case presents two substantial and unsettled questions of federal law that divide the circuits. First, whether a court may bypass a mootness in… |
| 23A499 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner mootness section-2255 supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 23A439 |
Nancy Roe, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of A.R., et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-exhaustion fape idea mootness preliminary-injunction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-465 |
Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals |
If a n RCA under Rule 23 of the F ederal Rules of Civil Procedure is dismissed based on an erroneous interpretation of law , but not on the merits, do… |
| 23-448 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether an exception to the final
judgment rule is valid under
U.R.A.P. 5 as the June 9th, 2023
and June 13th, 2023 arose from an
improperly di… |
| 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 … |
| 23A207 |
Rita C. Simpson-Vlach, et al. v. Michigan Department of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
free-appropriate-public-education IDEA mootness special-education standing-doctrine systemic-violations |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5472 |
Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED… |
| 23-154 |
Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. v. Hunter Doster, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process military military-vaccination mootness mootness-doctrine munsingwear-doctrine preliminary-injunction religious-exemption standing vacatur |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i… |
| 23-5344 |
Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate |
1) Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious? (This is not moot, as the… |
| 23-97 |
Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention |
1. Whether Younger v. Harvis, 401 U.S. 87 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional chal… |
| 23-89 |
Jennifer Reinoehl v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights covid-19 covid-emergency-powers due-process emergency-powers federal-civil-procedure individual-capacity-suit mootness mootness-doctrine standing state-official-immunity |
Whether a case involving COVID-19 emergency powers is moot, even though the same emergency powers can be reinstated at any time for COVID-19 or any ot… |
| 23-60 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Feds for Medical Freedom, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (9) |
administrative-law civil-service-reform-act covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order federal-employee federal-employment mootness preliminary-injunction |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i… |
| 23-5123 |
Aaron Abadi v. Target Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-USC-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process injunction intra-corporate-conspiracy mootness pandemic pandemic-mandate standing |
1) During these last few years with the Covid-19 pandemic, government agencies and large corporations took advantage of the people and instated variou… |
| 22-1225 |
Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (8) |
administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing |
1. Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (195… |
| 22-1178 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing |
Individuals are sometimes removed from the No Fly List during ongoing litigation about their placement on that list. The Fourth and Sixth Circuits hav… |
| 22-1138 |
John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine |
The question presented for review is whether vacatur is required where a case becomes moot solely by the action of defendants who had prevailed in the… |
| 22-877 |
John Lugo v. Avena L. Sturm |
Illinois |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-exception civil-procedure collateral-consequences judicial-review legal-precedent mootness sibron-v-new-york standing state-court |
In determining whether a case is moot, is a State Court bound by Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40, 53 (1968): "Where "a secondary or 'collateral ' inju… |
| 22-837 |
Charles Clark, III, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capable-of-repetition constitutional-claims evading-review government-defendant government-defendants inter-circuit-conflict judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation |
Courts have struggled with mootness—a problem intensified recently with governments' hefty issuances of recurrent orders. Improper dismissal of a case… |
| 22-778 |
Danielle Howard Martinez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
|
covid-19-education declaratory-relief disability-rights free-appropriate-public-education idea-compliance individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine school-closures state-educational-agencies |
1. Whether Petitioners' claims that the CDE Defendants violated federal law by (i) effectively waiving LEAs' compliance with the IDEA after forced sch… |
| 22-6663 |
Steven Janakievski v. Phillip Griffin, Executive Director, Rochester Psychiatric Center |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-consequences constitutional-rights custody-discharge due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition insanity-acquittee mental-health mootness standing unconditional-discharge |
Is Petitioner Steven 's Federal Habeas Petition moot, now that he has been "Unconditionally Discharged" from the custody of the Office of Mental Healt… |
| 22-605 |
Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference mootness Munsingwear SEC-v-Chenery vacatur |
Question not identified. |
| 22-586 |
Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation |
1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restric… |
| 22-5883 |
Walter Drummond v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process lawless-conduct mootness pending-motion |
1.) How can a 'pending motion be "renderedmoot when it is the Respondent being LAWLESS ?? |
| 22-5808 |
Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing |
1. Whether an inmate that was confined at a correctional institution during the COVID- 19 Pandemic has a right to sue for damages for the denial of ex… |
| 22-321 |
Wilbur Slockish, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2) |
equitable-relief federal-courts federal-land mootness mootness-doctrine native-american-rights nonparties religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site sacred-site-preservation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's mootness ruling warrants summary reversal where the panel clearly misapprehended governing law on mootness and on the auth… |
| 22-250 |
Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing |
Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu… |
| 22-181 |
Resurrection School, et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review circuit-conflict constitutional-claims government-defendants judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine presumption-of-good-faith voluntary-cessation |
1. Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness a government must satisfy the "absolutely clear" standard and, if not, to what extent s… |
| 22-48 |
AC Interests, L.P. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality |
Texas |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights clean-air-act due-process emission-reduction-credits equitable-tolling mootness takings takings-clause |
1. Should Common Law allow the 60-month deadline for using emission reduction credits to be equitably tolled while a party seeks to establish the righ… |
| 22-31 |
Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur |
1. Whether the motion to intervene was timely.
2. Whether the opinion below should be vacated as moot under Munsingwear. |
| 22-33 |
Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a pandemic related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
… |
| 22-30 |
David Ritter v. Linda Migliori, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
Amici (9) |
civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process election election-law mail-in-voting materiality-provision mootness mootness-doctrine standing statutory-interpretation third-circuit-decision |
Should this Court vacate the Third Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)? |
| 21-8220 |
Mary Alice Nelson-Rogers v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-limitations damages federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction internal-revenue-code moot-controversies mootness standing |
1. Involves both constitutional limitations on federal court jurisdiction and prudential limitations on its exercise concerning moot controversies. Th… |
| 21-1489 |
Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption |
Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution.
Whether Pennsylvania Law sup… |
| 21-7862 |
Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K… |
| 21-1351 |
Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay |
Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate revie… |
| 21-1328 |
Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing |
Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri… |
| 21-1218 |
Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
On remand from an appeal successfully challenging a proposed nationwide settlement, class counsel and his clients stopped representing the class membe… |
| 21-1155 |
Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing |
I. Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the … |
| 21-7172 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur |
Although "an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the trial court enters a permanent injunction " incorporating the sam… |
| 21-1120 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing |
1. Whether ever-changing and ongoing governmentissued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment
challenges to ballot access restrictions.
2. Whether… |
| 21-1122 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal |
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss a ballot challenge for failure to state a claim without ever having construed it in the light most favorabl… |
| 21-977 |
Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. |
Washington |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
|
case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion |
The state courts have failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial. The case was later settled. The failure conflicts with three d… |
| 21-6358 |
Michael A. Young v. Ned Lamont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-or-controversy civil-rights emergency-relief jurisdiction mootness standing |
(1) WHETHer"SECOND CIRCUI"Court "ERROREDnestra sponte that it
"LAcKEDjurisdiction despite "LAcKf "moorNES"
(2) WhEther "SECOND CIRCUIT"Court SubSEqUe… |
| 21-566 |
Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. |
Texas |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When its petition was filed, did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
After the Bank pled in its Motion for… |
| 21-5966 |
Cecile Andrea Brown v. John C. Coughenour, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process fundamental-rights government-accountability judicial-review mootness nominal-damages standing |
Whether nominal damages account for harms associated with past constitutional violations acknowledges that plaintiffs have suffered real injuries from… |
| 21-5676 |
Patsy Naomi Sakuma v. Association of Condominium Homeowners of Tropics at Waikele, et al. |
Hawaii |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mootness |
(1) Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals for the State of Hawaii improperly applied mootness to dismiss the case by bypassing the federal questio… |
| 21-5522 |
Meghan Kelly v. Donald J. Trump |
Delaware |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure establishment-clause executive-order free-exercise-of-religion government-religion mootness religious-freedom-restoration-act ripeness service-of-process standing substitution-of-parties |
I. Whether failure to serve anyone my Delaware Supreme Court Brief, after the Defendant, President Trump, was removed from office was fatal error, giv… |
| 21-272 |
Ralph Abekassis v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulations judicial-review mootness second-amendment standing |
Whether, based on this Court's jurisprudence as articulated in City of Mesquite and Honig, the Second Circuit erred in dismissing this case as moot wh… |
| 21-108 |
Clint A. Krislov, et al. v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access civil-rights due-process first-amendment mootness mootness-exception public-interest public-interest-exception signature-requirements |
Whether federal courts recognize a public interest exception to mootness, such that Petitioners' challenge to the Cook County Election Board's policy … |
| 21-18 |
Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing |
Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli… |
| 20-1775 |
Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law apa civil-rights immigration mootness standing |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §§1101 et seq., an alien is "inadmissible" if, "in the opinion of the [Secretary of Homeland Secur… |
| 20-1738 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-15 |
GVR |
|
article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou… |
| 20-8313 |
Jason Hunter Bell v. Macy's Corporation Services, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada arbitration-opt-out civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment-dispute justiciability mootness motion-of-default standing |
1. The issue is if the "Plaintiff timely Opted out of Arbitration.
1A. Are records/software over 7 years old that are oudated and not currently i can… |
| 20-1619 |
Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing |
(No. 17,322) The question presented is whether Uzuegbunam merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine wh… |
| 20-1606 |
Brett Hendrickson v. AFSCME Council 18, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-consent civil-rights janus-v-afscme mootness public-worker union-dues |
1) Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the "affirmative consent" required by Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 244… |
| 20-1556 |
Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release |
A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi… |
| 20-1553 |
Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur |
Petitioner Reiyn Keohane is a Florida prisoner who challenged the denial of medically necessary care for gender dysphoria under then-applicable Florid… |
| 20-7620 |
Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ |
1. Does a criminal conviction halt or defeat a pending pretrial Habeas Corpus Action?
2. Does the successive-writ doctrine bar a Petitioner from fili… |
| 20-7294 |
James Peter Sabatino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL AS MOOT, IN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUBSEQUENT RULING REAUTHOR… |
| 20-1096 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness |
Petitioner asks this Court to review whether he was denied a constitutional appeal on the false preliminary premise that the appellate courts — both t… |
| 20-1047 |
Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated. |
| 20-1001 |
Columbia MHC East, LLC, et al. v. Melody Stewart, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment just-compensation mootness state-action takings |
The Northern District of Ohio Trial Court dismissed with prejudice, prior to the issuance of summons, the complaint seeking redress against official s… |
| 20-944 |
Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark |
Tennessee |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition |
1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents ap… |
| 20-6838 |
Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing |
A) Whether a lower federal court loses its jurisdiction
over a petition for writ of habeas corpus upon release
of the civil detention petitioner, al… |
| 20-538 |
Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation |
Rentberry, which operates a website that allows landlords and potential tenants to communicate through an auction-style bidding process, and Delaney W… |
| 20-482 |
Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the Sixth Circuit's judgment and remand with ins… |
| 20-305 |
Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness |
The Governor of Texas, in reliance on the COVID 19 pandemic, issued an executive order that banned nearly all abortions in Texas for at least a month,… |
| 19-8724 |
Michael Garry v. Trane Company |
Wisconsin |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error |
(1) The Wisconsin Supreme Court was manifestly wrong in rejecting the Petitioner's Appeal for Review, when it failed to consider mitigating, newly dis… |
| 19-1323 |
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland |
Following this Court's decision in CRST, does the standard for determining whether a defendant is a "prevailing party" require the "material alteratio… |
| 19-1173 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders, pursuant to Unit… |
| 19-7798 |
Pablo Cantu Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances mootness patent-law standing takings |
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| 19-7726 |
Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question. |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT? |
| 19-968 |
Chike Uzuegbunam, et al. v. Stanley C. Preczewski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (32)Relisted (2) |
censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy mootness nominal-damages standing |
Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed v… |
| 19-864 |
Bradley Beers v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
GVR |
|
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-restriction involuntary-commitment mental-health mootness second-amendment |
May the government permanently deny a mentally healthy, responsible, and law-abiding citizen of the United States the opportunity to recover his Secon… |
| 19-777 |
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur |
1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to … |
| 19-6900 |
Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change |
This Court in Buckhannon addressed an award of prevailing party attorneys' fees pursuant to Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 and Americans with Dis… |
| 19-6710 |
Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur |
This Court has consistently recognized that when a prevailing party's unilateral action renders a case moot before appellate review concludes, the pro… |
| 19-6451 |
Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals |
Rhode Island |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception |
The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by not allowing Petitioner's appeal to proceed on the merits. The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing … |
| 19-519 |
Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules |
Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over
a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment
under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo… |
| 19-6127 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights |
(1) What effect, if any, does a concession made by the U.S. on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim have on the court's ability to ajudicate the… |
| 19-6118 |
Aaron Brent v. Ashley Workman |
Michigan |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-database mootness personal-protection-order takings |
1. Michigan law (MCL 600.2950(4)) requires the Court to issue a personal protection order whenever there is reason to believe the person to be enjoine… |
| 19-5253 |
Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles |
West Virginia |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order |
I. Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a St… |
| 18-1593 |
Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an… |
| 18-1487 |
Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation |
In Summers v. Earth Island Institute, 555 U.S. 488 (2009), this Court held that a "vague desire to return . . . without any description of concrete pl… |
| 18-9098 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mootness prison-discipline retaliation standing |
Should a COA have been issued?
Do inmates lose all constitutional rights merely because actions were taken in the guise of prison discipline no matte… |
| 18-8486 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Minnesota |
2019-03-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ of Habeas corpus moot?
Did Court error by holding his petition was moot… |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing |
Did 8th Circuit incorrectly apply mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits, at which point they are then free to tra… |
| 18-1125 |
ZocDoc, Inc. v. Radha Geismann, M.D., P.C. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-action-standing deposit federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individual-relief judgment-entry mootness mootness-doctrine rule-67 rule-68 rule-68-offer standing |
In Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 577 U.S. ___, 186 S. Ct. 663, 672 (2016), this Court held that an unaccepted offer of judgment under Federal Rule of C… |
| 18-1129 |
Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
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article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution |
1. Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C.
§ 78p(b), must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction
o… |
| 18-1108 |
Stephanie C. Stucky v. Dwight Takeno, et al. |
Hawaii |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure collective-bargaining due-process labor-relations mootness prohibited-practice prohibited-practices voluntary-cessation |
Did the Petitioner in this case receive due process
of law when the Respondent/Intervenor, Hawai'i Labor
Relations Board dismissed Petitioner's Prohib… |
| 18-1101 |
Classic Cab, Inc. v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights dormant-commerce-clause emergency-rulemaking mootness preexisting-contracts regulatory-taking res-judicata statutory-requirement |
I. Is the use of illegal emergency rulemakings in the absence of any objectively
cognizable emergency resulting in the complete elimination of an indu… |
| 18-1104 |
Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
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ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing |
There is generally agreement among the courts of appeal that under 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act that a non-di… |
| 18-1080 |
Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit |
Does Microsoft v. Baker, 137 S.Ct. 1702, 198 L.Ed. 2d 132 (2017) mandate that only plaintiffs who litigate their individual claims to a final judgment… |
| 18-923 |
Carol Coghlan Carter, Next Friend of A. D., C. C., L. G., and C. R., et al. v. Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act damages declaratory-relief due-process mootness prospective-relief retrospective-relief standing title-vi |
Whether claims for declaratory and damages relief to redress past injuries under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. SS 2000d2000d-7, … |
| 18-7049 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Was. Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case?
Can the State escape their Eighth Amendment Duty … |
| 18-622 |
Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power |
(1) Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise
jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a
discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege… |
| 18-329 |
Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
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amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's opinion in this case causes a circuit split to whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dis… |
| 18-5800 |
Brent F. Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-jurisdiction article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure heckler-v-chaney mootness mootness-doctrine standing standing-article-iii-constitution |
Whether the District Court lacks jurisdiction under
under. Article III of theConstitution. Case or Constroversy
clause, in light of Heckler v. Chane… |
| 18-184 |
John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. … |
| 18-140 |
In Re Cliven Bundy |
|
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the
erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's ("Mr. Klayman") admission pro hac vice in the U.S. District… |
| 18-23 |
Edward R. Stolz, dba Royce International Broadcasting Company v. Federal Communications Commission |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process fcc fcc-ruling fifth-amendment interlocutory-judgment judicial-review mootness reversionary-interest telecommunications-act |
1. Whether the FCC violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process when it enforced section 405(a) of the Telecommunications Act, which bot… |