| 25-6746 |
Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2026-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution pleading-requirements severe-harm |
1. Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject t… |
| 25A543 |
Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Granted |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access judicial-procedure pleading-requirements procedural-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 25A277 |
Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Granted |
|
certiorari-petition court-rules fraud-on-court motion-for-leave page-limit pleading-requirements |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1325 |
Go New York Tours Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
factual-inference judicial-interpretation plausibility-standard pleading-requirements summary-adjudication twombly-iqbal |
There is substantial confusion and inconsistency among the lower courts concerning how to interpret and apply the "plausibility" pleading standard, le… |
| 24A748 |
Meng Uoy Chang v. David Rout, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice diversity-jurisdiction federal-question pleading-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1205 |
Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened… |
| 23-1007 |
Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci… |
| 23-970 |
NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18)Relisted (2) |
class-action expert-opinion falsity falsity-allegations internal-documents pleading-requirements pslra scienter securities-fraud |
1. Whether plaintiffs seeking to allege scienter under the PSLRA based on allegations about internal company documents must plead with particularity t… |
| 23-848 |
Wen Lian Patience v. Shannon Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment-immunity judicial-misconduct pleading-requirements prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983-claim |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit and district court exhibited negligence, violated their discretion, and permit judicial misconduct?
2. Whether the trial cou… |
| 23-409 |
Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the "shotgun pleading" standard to affirm the dismissal of the Petitioner's complaint for violations … |
| 23-359 |
Kelvin Lionell Wright, II v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The United States District Court, Western District of Texas lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 5:19-CR-321-FB-1 for the reasons below:
The Compl… |
| 22-1104 |
Shawn Talbot v. Louis Eric Johnson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process facial-challenge federal-court federal-rules jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations pleading-requirements standing |
The United States District Court, District of Nevada lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 2-09- CR-0078, and 2-10 'CR-00520 for the reasons below:
… |
| 22-659 |
Padma Rao v. Anita Rao, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
|
american-rule due-process equity equity-doctrine fee-shifting litigation-penalty pleading-requirements retroactive retroactive-application |
Whether it was a violation of due process to retroactively impose a new fee-shifting penalty in contravention of the established American Rule, where … |
| 22-6015 |
Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process florida-jurisprudence florida-supreme-court giglio-precedent giglio-v-united-states pleading-requirements pleading-standards procedural-specificity supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court contravened Giglio v. United States and procedural due process by requiring heightened specificity in pleading? |
| 21-1517 |
Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.… |
| 21-1145 |
Molina Healthcare of Illinois, Inc., et al. v. Thomas Prose |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split false-claims-act implied-certification implied-false-certification material-noncompliance materiality pleading-requirements pleading-standard rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-compliance |
This petition presents the same question as Johnson v. Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care LLC, No. 21-462, and United States ex rel. Owsley v. Fazzi As… |
| 20-6970 |
Charles Maxwell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process equal-justice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pleading-requirements state-statutes |
This Court has extended constitutional protections to the indigent on the first appeal of right, "[f]or there can be no equal justice where the kind o… |
| 20-981 |
Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege |
1. Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private in… |
| 20-857 |
Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review |
1. Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action, brought under diversity jurisdiction, must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand lett… |
| 20-5017 |
Jerry Glendon Modisette v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act health-care pleading-requirements |
1. Do I have a Constitutional right to health care.
2. Did Federal Bureau of Prisons breach it's duties under 18 uses 4042 Certification of merit on … |
| 19-1125 |
Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's
mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of
rac… |
| 19-595 |
Eric O'Day, et al., Individually and on Behalf of the SunEdison, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan v. Ahmad Chatila, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
asset-management context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-standard inside-information pleading-requirements prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded publicly-traded-assets securities-law |
Whether Dudenhoeffer's "context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations" can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p… |
| 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… |
| 19-460 |
Alexander Y. Usenko, Derivatively on Behalf of the SunEdison Semiconductor Ltd. Retirement Savings Plan v. MEMC LLC, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
|
asset-valuation context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-requirement pleading-requirements pleading-standard prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded-assets retirement-plan |
Whether Dudenhoeffer's "context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations" can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p… |
| 19-5674 |
Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
| 19-228 |
United States, ex rel. Michael Ray Perry v. Hooker Creek Asphalt & Paving, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure false-claims-act insider-knowledge particularity-pleading personal-knowledge pleading-requirements qui-tam rule-9(b) rule-9b |
In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq., must the relator be an insider with personal knowledge of the contrac… |
| 18-1419 |
Andrea Hirst, et al. v. SkyWest, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
|
ashcroft-v-iqbal context-specific fair-labor-standards-act iqbal-standard pleading-requirements rule-8 wage-violations workweek workweek-averaging |
Must an employee protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act always allege wage violations averaged across a specific seven-day workweek, or may an empl… |
| 18-852 |
Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
GVR |
|
administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements |
Inmates who wish to challenge a method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must plead and prove an alternative method that is "feasible, readily i… |
| 18-699 |
Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter |
This Court has affirmed False Claims Act (FCA) liability, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., under a theory of "implied false certification." See Universal Hea… |
| 18-419 |
Len Boogaard, et ux., as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Derek Boogaard, Deceased v. National Hockey League, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights federal-jurisdiction forfeiture judicial-discretion pleading-requirements remand removal state-law-claims tort-law |
Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in usurping a states' power to adjudicate common law tort claim s originally filed in state court ,… |
| 18-418 |
United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter |
Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d… |
| 18-316 |
Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion… |
| 18-289 |
Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not… |
| 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… |
| 18-115 |
Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion… |