| 24-5124 |
Lawrence Christopher Smith v. Ralph Diaz, former Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-issue petition pleading standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7255 |
Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine |
1. Whether the 11th Circuit Court erred when it did not consider Horace's medical records and expert witness statements raised in argument to the Dist… |
| 23-7111 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal |
1) Whether the Trial Court' erred as a matter of law by dismissing
Petitioner 's case based upon the Lower Court 's decision that
Petitioner, failed… |
| 23-1050 |
Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation |
When a person is convicted of a drug crime, 21 U.S.C. § 853 calls for bifurcated proceedings to ascertain what property may be forfeited as a result o… |
| 23-120 |
United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint |
Whether allegations that members of an
association agreed to adhere to the association's rules,
without more, are sufficient to plead the element of
c… |
| 22-1035 |
Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
After holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine jurisdictionally barred it from determining whether a state court judgment is void ab initio and subjec… |
| 22-831 |
Bailie Bye v. MGM Resorts International, Inc., dba Beau Rivage Resort and Casino |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-procedure complaint legal-theory motion notice-pleading pleading pleadings summary-judgment |
Is a plaintiff precluded from invoking a legal theory in opposition to a summary-judgment motion solely because she did not expressly cite that theory… |
| 22-5258 |
Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) |
Question not identified. |
| 22-89 |
Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c… |
| 21-7742 |
Marvel Jones v. John M. Carter, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-review criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules legal-ruling pleading prejudice res-judicata standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1382 |
Audubon Imports, LLC, dba Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust civil-procedure conspiracy conspiracy-inference district-court lawful-conduct plausibility-standard pleading pleading-burden sherman-act |
To determine whether plaintiffs have met their
burden to plead a plausible claim under § 1 of the Sherman Act, may the district court weigh whether an… |
| 21-1025 |
Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach, such as re… |
| 21-1018 |
Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
|
ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing |
1. Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly
be a disability covered by the Americans with
Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA
Amendm… |
| 21-936 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Cathy Owsley v. Fazzi Associates, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraudulent-scheme pleading pleading-particularity rule-9(b) rule-9b standing |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also pl… |
| 21-654 |
Judith Frei, et al. v. Taro Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion pleading pleading-standards standing |
Whether, consistent with Due Process and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15, a court has discretion to dismiss a plaintiff's complaint under Federal R… |
| 21-462 |
Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation |
Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal… |
| 21-426 |
Elias Karkalas v. Linda Marks, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal federal-complaint federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-knowledge pleading pleading-standard source-of-knowledge standing |
Is a federal complaint subject to dismissal when the plaintiff fails to identify the source of his knowledge of specific information contained in the … |
| 21-5590 |
Ray Scott Heid v. Algenon L. Marbley, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process pleading standing |
1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the district court when his complaint was dismissed as a failure to state a claim?
2. Was Petitioner denied d… |
| 20-7001 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffrey Brennen, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-rules free-speech judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standards standing |
1. How does this Amended Complaint not
2. How does this Amended Complaint not be granted pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2) which freely gives the … |
| 20-898 |
Coneisha L. Sherrod v. United Way Worldwide |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act employment employment-contract indirect-evidence interference non-contracting-party pleading race-discrimination section-1981 |
(1) Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ("Section 1981") prohibits a non-contracting party from interfering with person's contract,… |
| 20-58 |
Anita Smith v. Vestavia Hills Board of Education |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation causation causation-standard civil-rights discrimination-claim motivating-factor pleading summary-judgment title-vii |
Nearly thirty years ago, Congress replaced Title VII's but-for causation standard with the "more forgiving" motivating factor standard. Bostock v. Cla… |
| 19-1276 |
Michael B. White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Darla K. White, Deceased v. Medtronic, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
|
21-usc-360 adulteration buckman diversity-of-jurisdiction fda-regulations medical-device-preemption off-label off-label-use pleading pleading-standard private-causes-of-action riegel state-court-jurisdiction summary-disposition |
1. Adulterated products are not a medical device, no preemption for FDA violations.
2. A doctor could not develop well-informed off-label use opinion… |
| 19-802 |
David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing |
To plead diversity of citizenship, is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on "information and belief" sufficient, or must a… |
| 19-6387 |
Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure default default-judgment pleading procedural-rules summary-judgment supervisory-power waiver-of-rights writ writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition |
1. Rule 15(a)(3) provide the time a party must respond. Rule 55(a) authorizes the clerk to enter a default " when a party against whom a judgment for … |
| 19-497 |
The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. v. Lincoln Property Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act pleading pleading-requirements policy-challenge prima-facie-claim racial-discrimination racial-segregation robust-causality standing texas-v-icp |
1. Whether the pleading of an FHA prima facie disparate impact claim must show the identified policy not only has caused the adverse effects on the ra… |
| 19-457 |
Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing |
1. Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud… |
| 19-381 |
Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company |
Tennessee |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118
unconstitutional as applied, given the lack of due
process created by artificially limiting a Defendant's… |
| 19-225 |
United States, ex rel. Stephanie Strubbe, et al. v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
billing civil-procedure false-claims-act medicare medicare-billing motion-to-dismiss pleading protected-activity qui-tam whistleblower |
1. Paramedics and EMTs at a county hospital were ordered by management to perform unnecessary services and then enter incorrect time into the hospital… |
| 19-5294 |
Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing |
1. Whether the Fed. R as a matter of course' Responsive pleading is filed can be arbitrarily disregarded and denied?Cxim. P. 15(a) Motion 's right to … |
| 19-65 |
Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing |
1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8… |
| 19-5040 |
Jennifer Lu v. Stanford University |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-amendment complaint-amendment dismissal district-court-procedure due-process judicial-guidance leave-to-amend legal-notice pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness |
Whether when granting a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must identify the complaint deficiencies so that the pro se lit… |
| 18-1574 |
William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law |
Where all court filing fees have been paid to initiate pursuit, what is the appropriate inquiry for determining when only a litigant's factual allegat… |
| 18-1448 |
Glasswall Solutions Limited, et al. v. Clearswift Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 berkheimer berkheimer-standard conclusory-legal-assertions federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-specification pleading presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 twombly |
Where a threshold patent-eligibility determination under 35 U.S.C. § 101 is presented in a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a clai… |
| 18-1366 |
Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search |
cepts of tort law. A fundamental concept of tort law is joint and several liability, which shifts the burden to plausible joint tortfeasors to apporti… |
| 18-8543 |
Anthony Peoples v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filed-mon-ogy-2018 fraud maps-to-eet-ve-asssiamle-of-counsel pleading pleading-to-b-pabudolent-zhlolip-tion standing verindes-cousriruriaal |
WAS PETIOVERS CONSTITUTIONAL RKSTS TO EfFECTIVE
ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL UNDER THEBH AMENDMENT AND
DUE PROIESS SW AND I4TY AMENDMENT, VIOLATED BY,
PLEADI… |
| 18-1171 |
Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing |
1. Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation?
2. Can a plaintiff state a plausible claim fo… |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7493 |
Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent |
Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. … |
| 18-862 |
Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing |
May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense? |
| 18-782 |
William C. Bond v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether when denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must provide a reason for that denial (as held by the Third, Sev… |
| 18-6357 |
In Re Rajamani Senthilnathan |
|
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure commitment court-authority document-upload due-process electronic-case-filing electronic-filing filing-requirements judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-filing-procedure pleading pleading-submission standing |
Does the court have the authority to consider an ECF (Electronic Case Filing)
pleading as having filed when the filing is not fully committed to, with… |
| 18-6263 |
Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing |
1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE AND MAGISTRATE CONDUCTING A 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP SCREENING ACTS ON AN EXCESS OF JURISDICTION AND BEYOND THE LIMITS O… |
| 18-5801 |
Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Did claim(s) state a cause of action? |
| 18-119 |
Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that "the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of ge… |