| 25-6894 |
Ricardo Esquivel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus mootness-doctrine supervised-release-revocation |
Whether expiration of a short federal supervised-release revocation sentence during the pendency of a direct appeal categorically moots the appeal und… |
| 25-6039 |
Allan Douglas Wilson v. Department of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-rights compensatory-damages due-process evidence-preservation mootness-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the D.C. Circuit's reliance on mootness doctrine to avoid addressing a case of first impression regarding temporary deprivation of citizens… |
| 25A238 |
Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
collateral-consequences criminal-conviction january-6 mootness-doctrine presidential-pardon supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5243 |
Karen Y. Baez v. Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mootness-doctrine pro-se-complaint |
1) Whether a district court violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by dismissing a factually supported pro se complaint as frivolous un… |
| 24A1146 |
Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-iii-case-or-controversy class-action-certification federal-jurisdiction inherently-transitory-exception mootness-doctrine putative-class-action |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1140 |
Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa |
The gravamen of the institutionalized persons' 2021 complaint is that Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) is choosing not to follow the Religious La… |
| 24-6493 |
Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant |
1. Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion —thereby prejudicing the petitioner's substantive… |
| 24-265 |
Heidi Stirrup, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Visitors for the Air Force Academy, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law advisory-board-independence injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers |
Petitioners were appointed to the Boards of Visitors of the three United States military academies. These Boards are advisory groups subject to the Fe… |
| 24-245 |
Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-transparency federal-records-disclosure freedom-of-information-act government-accountability judicial-standing mootness-doctrine |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the District Court lacked jurisdiction because the case was not justiciable premised on mootness.
… |
| 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… |
| 23-1203 |
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… |
| 23A821 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-03-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-violation indigent-representation mootness-doctrine parole-revocation post-conviction-relief |
Whether South Carolina's appellate courts failed to apply an exception to the mootness doctrine, where, as a result of an unconstitutional parole revo… |
| 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. |
| 23-6393 |
Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing |
This case raises pressing issues of significant importance: whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery inva… |
| 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… |
| 23-89 |
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… |
| 22-1201 |
Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation |
Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the "absolutely clear" standard if it maintains the authority … |
| 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… |
| 22-5808 |
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… |
| 22-182 |
Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition
22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to |
Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor… |
| 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… |
| 22-30 |
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)? |
| 21-1413 |
James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-order first-amendment friends-of-the-earth-v-laidlaw mootness-doctrine roman-catholic-diocese-of-brooklyn-v-cuomo state-of-emergency |
Does the Supreme Court's Mootness Doctrine found in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOG), Inc., 528 U. S. 167 (2000), he… |
| 21-1205 |
Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action |
1. Whether, under the incorporation doctrine, the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial should apply to the States for parents in quasi-prosecutoria… |
| 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… |
| 21-698 |
Butler County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process government-response mootness-doctrine pandemic-response pandemic-restrictions standing takings voluntary-cessation |
Whether the doctrine of mootness applies;
Whether the "voluntary cessation" exception or "capable of repetition yet evading review" exception to moot… |
| 21-567 |
Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings |
1. To obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic—and to satisfy the exception to mootness for a controversy "capable of rep… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 18-1362 |
James Hall v. John H. Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
ballot-access capable-of-repetition class-action courts-of-appeals election election-law elections-mootness evading-review judicial-review mootness-doctrine standing |
Under what circumstances can a candidate continue to challenge a ballot-access rule after the election over which he originally sued has passed? |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
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… |
| 18-1104 |
Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 18-6529 |
Don Kozich v. Ann Deibert, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-injunction-act civil-rights due-process federal-housing hud hud-vash landlord-tenant lihtc mootness-doctrine rooker-feldman-doctrine section-8 section-8-housing standing |
Neither the Rooker-Feldman nor Mootness doctrines nor the Anti-Injunction Act apply to the facts of this unlawful tenant eviction case from HUD Sectio… |
| 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… |