| 25-6558 |
Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
judicial-construction legal-hermeneutics legislative-intent plain-meaning statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the statutory language is plain, must courts enforce it according to its terms? |
| 25-146 |
Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri, & Zahida Aman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federalism legislative-intent plain-meaning state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation |
When applying the plain language of a broadly worded federal criminal statue would intrude on an area historically left to the states, must a court ap… |
| 24-7527 |
Kh'Lajuwon Amari Murat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent judicial-construction plain-meaning revocation statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1. Whether, when a district court revokes a term of supervised release and imposes a period of imprisonment followed by a new term of supervised relea… |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word "established," as used in FACA, be construed in accord with its "plain" meaning (as the Eleventh Circuit held) or should be it constru… |
| 21-6418 |
Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-234 |
Kevin R. George v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error disability-claim plain-meaning pro-veteran-system statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denies a veteran's claim for benefits in reliance on an agency interpretation that is later deemed invali… |
| 20-1532 |
Diana Garvey v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference agency-regulation chevron-deference judicial-review plain-meaning statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits willful-misconduct |
Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842 (1984), held, the first question when interpreting a statute is "whether Congr… |
| 20-383 |
PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts may look to state law to define
"present right to possession" in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e… |
| 19-1353 |
AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
|
29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations |
There is no uniformity among the Circuit Courts
as to the meaning or application of the ERISA statute
of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty, 29 … |
| 18-9259 |
Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit |
May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning, as the Tenth Circuit did in … |