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25-963 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship vaccine-mandate 1. Whether an employer faces a per se Title VII undue hardship if granting an otherwise federally required religious accommodation would conflict with…
25-904 La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response Waived disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh…
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25A624 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2025-11-26 Application employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii (1) whether the Supremacy Clause allows states to bypass Title VII's accommodations requirement; and (2) whether employers can avoid Title VII religio…
25A612 Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. Texas 2025-11-24 Application internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act Whether the Texas court may decline jurisdiction over nonresident defendants who committed wrongs by virtual means against a Texas resident in violati…
25-585 SunTrust Bank v. Charles Daniel Bickerstaff, as Administrator of the Estate of Jeff Bickerstaff, Jr., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated Georgia 2025-11-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreement class-action federal-arbitration-act opt-out preemption state-court-rule Whether the FAA preempts a state court rule permitting a proposed class representative to effectively opt out of arbitration on behalf of all unnamed …
25-505 Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Response Waived judicial-exceptions machine-learning patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 flouts this Court's instruction to consider preemption, as discu…
25-495 The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members Texas 2025-10-22 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) airline-industry collective-bargaining-agreement preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claims third-party-liability Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law claims against a third party that cannot be resolved without interpreting a collective bargaining agr…
25-438 Pacific Gas & Electric Company, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Ninth Circuit 2025-10-09 Pending Response Waived federal-power-act ferc-jurisdiction interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-incentives Regional transmission organizations ("RTOs") operate the interstate electricity grid independently. Congress in the Federal Power Act ("FPA") mandated…
25-311 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to …
25A298 The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members Texas 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining labor-union preemption railway-labor-act state-law-tort third-party-claim Question not identified.
25-145 Total Quality Logistics, LLC v. Robert Cox, as Personal Representative and Special Administrator of the Estate of Greta Cox Sixth Circuit 2025-08-06 Pending Amici (2) federal-transportation-law freight-broker motor-carrier negligence-claim preemption safety-exception Whether a common-law negligence claim alleged against a freight broker, based on the broker's selection of a motor carrier to provide transportation o…
25A147 Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether this Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, 592 U.S. 80 (2020) clarifies the test for statutory preemptio…
25-113 Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-30 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny Petitioners Breanna Renteria and Laura Smith joined a ministry with fellow Christian believers to share healthcare costs. Petitioners' religious belie…
25-64 Iron Bar Holdings, LLC v. Bradly H. Cape, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Amici (3) corner-crossing eminent-domain land-grant preemption property-rights trespass Whether the Unlawful Inclosures Act implicitly preempts private landowners' state-law property right to exclude in an area covering millions of acres …
25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-07-01 Denied Amici (2) financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
24-1318 American Electric Power Service Corporation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied energy-law federal-power-act interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-regulation Regional transmission organizations ("RTOs") operate the interstate electricity grid independently, to foster competition, improve reliability, and lo…
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation 1. Whether a federal agency does not act arbitrarily or capriciously in determining that a postsettlement change of law concerning one alleged compone…
24-1242 Jeremiah Hogan, et al. v. Lincoln Medical Partners, et al. Maine 2025-06-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-tort parental-consent preemption public-health-emergency state-law-immunity vaccine-administration In the Fall of 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a "vaccine clinic" was being conducted at a school in Maine where the minor child of Petitioners wa…
24-1238 Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-04 Granted Amici (19)Relisted (2) common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver?
24-1230 Coinbase, Inc., et al. v. Darren Kramer, et al. California 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law Whether, or to what extent, the FAA preempts a state-law rule allowing a plaintiff to evade arbitration by pleading a request for "public injunctive r…
24-868 The Art and Antique Dealers League of America, Inc., et al. v. Amanda Lefton, in Her Official Capacity as the Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Amici (1) administrative-exception endangered-species-act federal-regulation ivory-trade preemption state-law Whether the ESA's preemption provision protects all activities enjoying an exception under the ESA, even if self-executing, or instead only those acti…
24A720 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation v. Doris Albrecht, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-22 Presumed Complete drug-labeling failure-to-warn federal-regulations pharmaceutical-liability preemption product-liability Question not identified.
24-6252 Rebecca Wu v. Gina Carreon, et al. California 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process government-tort-claims preemption section-1983 whistleblower-protection 1. Can a state require under CCP 1714.10 a Pre-Filing in Conspiracy to sue an Attorney under 42 USC 1983 or is it a violation of the Preemption or Sup…
24-682 Dario Politella, et al. v. Windham Southeast School District, et al. Vermont 2024-12-26 Denied Response Waived covered-countermeasure emergency-use immunity preemption public-health subject-matter-jurisdiction In Vermont, a young schoolboy was injected with a emergency use "covered countermeasure" against his and his parents' express refusals. Officials clai…
24A528 Lexington Insurance Company, et al. v. Suquamish Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete environmental-contamination federal-jurisdiction insurance-coverage maritime-law policy-interpretation preemption Question not identified.
24-365 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California 2024-10-01 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement consumer-legal-remedies-act federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief unfair-competition-law Whether the FAA preempts California's McGill rule.
24-161 New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (5) broadband-service common-carrier communications-act interstate-commerce preemption rate-regulation While the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has repeatedly reversed course on whether broadband internet access service ("broadband") is a com…
24A144 Frank McKenna v. Dillon Transportation, LLC Sixth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete consumer-reports defamation employment-records fair-credit-reporting-act preemption truck-driver Question not identified.
24A89 Monsanto Company v. John D. Carson Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete epa-approval failure-to-warn fifra labeling preemption state-law-claims Question not identified.
24A40 New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete broadband federal-law internet-access preemption state-regulation telecommunications Question not identified.
24-7 Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-08 Judgment Issued Amici (29)Response WaivedRelisted (8) article-iii-standing california-waiver clean-air-act epa-waiver greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing zero-emission-vehicle 1. Whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by relying on the coercive and predictable effects of regulation…
23-1320 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1) can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug, can the consumer's home state assert specific personal jurisdiction over an ou…
23-1271 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Wendy Rincon, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration arbitration-stay civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim paga-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-1272 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Jessica Reyes Whitt, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claim standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-1213 Glen Mulready, in His Official Capacity as Insurance Commissioner of Oklahoma, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Tenth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process erisa-preemption medicare-part-d network-participation pharmacy-benefit-managers pharmacy-choice preemption rural-patient-access rutledge-v-pcma state-regulation 1. Whether ERISA preempts state laws that regulate PBMs by preventing them from cutting off rural patients' access, steering patients to PBM-favored p…
23-1185 In Re W. A. Griffin 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit-interpretation assignment-of-benefits civil-rights erisa erisa-rights georgia-law georgia-state-law medical-benefit-assignment preemption standing statute-of-limitations statutory-penalties 1. Whether or not Dr. Griffin's assignment of rights and benefits language is sufficient for all remedies supported by US Supreme Court Case law. 2. …
23A977 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Erik Adolph California 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete arbitration federal-arbitration-act paga preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing Whether the Federal Arbitration Act and this Court's decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana preempt California's interpretation of the Priv…
23-1132 Lyft, Inc. v. California California 2024-04-18 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-monetary-relief monetary-relief preemption public-officials state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state law authorizing public officials to pursue claims for individualized monetary relief in court for t…
23-1130 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. California, et al. California 2024-04-18 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-agreements eeoc-v-waffle-house federal-arbitration-act individual-relief litigation-claims monetary-relief preemption state-law state-officials Does the FAA allow state officials to litigate claims for monetary relief on behalf of people who agreed to arbitrate those claims?
23-1076 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption health-care healthcare-law labor-act medical-emergency patient-stabilization preemption reproductive-rights state-law Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, 42 U.S.C. 1395dd, preempts state law in the narrow but important circumstance where terminating…
23-1066 Continuing Care Risk Retention Group, Inc. v. Jacob Benson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-rights civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-preemption insurance-business insurance-regulation liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act preemption risk-retention-groups statutory-interpretation Can Arizona's anti-arbitration garnishment statute A.R.S. § 12-1584, which itself violates the Federal Arbitration Act, reverse preempt the Liability …
23-999 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits 1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.…
23-962 Oxnard Manor, LP, dba Oxnard Manor Healthcare Center, et al. v. Anna Sigala, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights complete-preemption covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-remedies preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-6883 Shawn David McMinn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-01 Denied IFP certiorari constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea indian-law judicial-review post-conviction preemption supreme-court Question not identified.
23-952 Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-03-01 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law 1. Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law a…
23-938 Cynthia Wheeler, et al. v. Orange County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-appearance civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine emotional-distress intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress preemption statutory-rights tort tort-claims 1. Whether the "pure" form of "Continuing Violation Doctrine" should apply to Civil Rights and Tort Claims of Intentional and Negligent Infliction of …
23-785 PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie Fourth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Amici (4) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court civil-contempt debt-collection discharge-injunction federal-preemption preemption state-law-claims uniform-federal-law Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law claims premised on alleged efforts to collect a debt in violation of the bankruptcy court's discharge i…
23-788 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the…
23-645 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2023-12-14 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) arbitration california-supreme-court civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claims non-individual-claims paga paga-claims preemption severance standing In Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, 142 S. Ct. 1906 (2022), this Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts the California-law rule th…
23A530 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc. v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete drug-approval enforcement fdca preemption private-litigation state-law Question not identified.
23A518 PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie Fourth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge debt-collection discharge-injunction preemption state-law-claims 1. PHH seeks review of a decision of a divided panel of the Fourth Circuit that creates a direct conflict among the courts of appeals on an important …
23-605 Erich M. Martin v. Raina L. Martin Nevada 2023-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) collateral-estoppel due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-convenience preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits 1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.…
23-6152 In Re Michael Alonza Rufus 2023-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review preemption statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
23-580 Lisa O'Brien, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied anti-terrorism-act damages federal-courts federal-statute preemption state-law statute-of-limitations wrongful-death 1. Whether Congress intended to preempt state wrongful death distribution laws in enacting the Anti-Terrorism Act ("ATA"),! to award wrongful death da…
23A451 Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu California 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement federal-arbitration-act paga-claims preemption state-law-claims viking-river-cruises This case involves the preemptive effect of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., on state-law claims brought under California's Pr…
23A416 Robinhood Financial LLC v. William F. Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete broker-dealer fiduciary-duty investor-protection preemption regulatory-conflict sec-regulation Whether a state regulator may intentionally override a federal regulation.
23-482 Catherine Craig-Myers, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Meyers, Deceased v. Otis Elevator Company, et al. Florida 2023-11-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elevator-safety jury-trial osha osha-safety-laws preemption wrongful-death 1. Do Florida trial and appellate courts violate constitutional rights to a jury trial and due process by refusing to admit into evidence culpable neg…
23-475 Ying Ye, as Representative of the Estate of Shawn Lin, Deceased v. GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Amici (1) federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act freight-broker motor-carrier motor-vehicle negligent-hiring personal-injury preemption safety-exception Whether a personal injury claim against a freight broker based on the broker's negligent hiring of an unsafe motor carrier to transport property by mo…
23-368 Huntington Ingalls Incorporated v. Lynn Barrosse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-remedy federal-preemption longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act maritime-employee navigable-waters preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim workers-compensation The question presented is whether the Fifth Circuit correctly held—in conflict with the decisions of other federal and state courts of appeals—that an…
23-318 Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. California 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding? Does the Due Process Clause of the Four…
23-294 San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-289 Marshall B. Lloyd, et al. v. Ford Motor Company Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived consumer-protection deceptive-advertising energy-policy-and-conservation-act epa-regulations epca-regulations fuel-economy implied-preemption preemption state-enforcement Section 32919(b) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) expressly permits a State "to adopt or enforce a law or regulation on disclosure of …
23-275 Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied 42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as th…
23-258 Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (1) business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power When determining whether a state insurance statute preempts a federal law of general application under the McCarran Ferguson Act, are the three statut…
23-249 Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as Ti…
23-207 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) engine-manufacturers federal-law federal-preemption national-meat ninth-circuit preemption product-standards sales-ban sales-bans state-standards tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products.
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardsh…
23A58 Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii Question not identified.
23-43 Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Georgia 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-laws court-preemption due-process federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute judicial-review jurisdiction-conflict preemption state-jurisdiction supersedeas-bond whistleblower-protection 1. When there is admitted by courts conflict be tween the federal courts and state courts on such all- important matters such as jurisdiction per Pet…
22-1237 Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. Massachusetts 2023-06-23 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. ("FAA"), pursuant to Article VI of the United States Constitution ("Supremacy Clause"), …
22-1192 Headstream Technologies, LLC v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived airline-deregulation-act circuit-split contract-formation intentional-fraud package-delivery preemption service-preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims summary-judgment To foster economic competition among airlines, Congress in the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits States from enacting or enforcing any law re…
22-1180 Shire U.S., Inc., et al. v. Mark Blackburn Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Amici (1) drug-labeling fda-preapproval FDA-regulations federal-preemption pliva-v-mensing preemption prescription-drugs state-law-claim state-law-claims unilateral-change unilateral-label-changes Whether a state-law claim is preempted if it places a duty on a drug manufacturer to unilaterally change FDA-approved language that appears in the Hig…
22-7572 Tyrone Doutherd v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-discrimination civil-rights due-process preemption supremacy-clause workers-compensation Do the federal civil rights and anti-discrimination statutes expressly pre-empt state workers' compensation laws? Do the federal civil rights and ant…
22-1094 Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li Georgia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption The Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (FFCCSOA) grants continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to a court of a State to modify its child s…
22-968 Ginger Atherton v. Key Bank, N.A. Washington 2023-04-06 Denied arbitrability arbitration-agreement conditions-precedent contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-courts 1. When there is a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate, and the dispute is within the scope of the arbitration agreement, does the FAA preemp…
22-821 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Hoboken, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied civil-rights climate-change federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-injury Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused…
22-761 Todd Bowers v. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, AFL-CIO Fourth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied due-process federal-question-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act motion-to-remand notice-of-removal preemption removal state-law-claims Whether it was proper for a district court to maintain federal question jurisdiction upon Notice of Removal and Response in Opposition/Motion to Reman…
22-698 Andrew Cohen, et al. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law cellphone-radiation civil-procedure fcc-regulations federal-preemption federal-regulations health-and-safety preemption radiation-safety state-health-law telecommunications-law Are state health and safety laws impliedly preempted, under a purposes-and-objectives theory, by the FCC's procedural guidelines for reporting how muc…
22-529 Alex Cantero, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bank of America, N.A. Second Circuit 2022-12-08 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) banking-regulation consumer-protection escrow-accounts interest-rates mortgage-lending national-bank-act preemption state-law state-law-preemption Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks?
22-523 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-conflict climate-change climate-change-litigation federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal federal-preemption greenhouse-gas-emissions jurisdictional-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation transboundary-pollution 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442 precludes removal by federal officers and persons acting under them unless the …
22-524 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island First Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption public-nuisance removal state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction transboundary-harm Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused…
22-495 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change climate-injury federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-impact Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused…
22-480 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a…
22-471 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws "relating to" the "subject matters" expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state…
22-6064 Laura Fettig v. Hilton Garden Inns Management, LLC, et al. California 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-vehicle contract-preemption due-process federal-motor-carrier-safety-act legal-error preemption rule-60b1 tort-liability tort-negligence 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly held that a contract claim preempts a tort cause of action for recovery from the negligence of a federally r…
22-459 Ohio v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Ohio 2022-11-15 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) federal-railroad-safety-act grade-crossing grade-crossing-statute interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption railroad-preemption railroad-safety state-regulation transportation transportation-law Ohio's "Blocked Crossing Statute," Ohio Rev. Code §5589.21, prohibits stopped trains from blocking public roads for longer than five minutes, with cer…
22-6020 John M. Esposito v. Florida Florida 2022-11-08 Denied IFP citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federalism legal-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute IS THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PROSECUTING AND CONVICTING U.S. CITIZENS UNDER § 794.011, FLORIDA STATUTES, A VOID…
22-5965 Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a (Rule 91a) Dismissal of Baseless Cause of Action, became effective March 1, 2013, and suppose to be similar to Feder…
22-349 Flagstar Bank, N.A. v. William Kivett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-13 GVR CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) banking-powers federal-banking-law federal-powers federally-chartered-banks mortgage-escrow mortgage-escrow-accounts national-bank-act preemption state-laws state-regulation Whether the National Bank Act preempts state laws that, like California Civil Code § 2954.8(a), attempt to set the terms on which federally chartered …
22-338 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights express-preemption federal-regulation flavored-tobacco ninth-circuit preemption sales-ban state-and-local-laws tobacco-control-act Twice in the last two decades, this Court has reversed the Ninth Circuit for allowing states and localities to use sales bans to evade express federal…
22-5820 S. Patrick Mendel v. Liane Randolph, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights congressional-preemption criminal-conduct due-process federal-courts federal-enforcement preemption pro-se-petition public-safety transportation transportation-law Congress regulates transportation throughout the United States and preempts by law State interference, to insure a competitive marketplace; and import…
22-221 Jose Mendoza, Jr. v. Amalgamated Transit Union International, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-forum labor-management-relations-act labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act preemption state-law-claims state-law-preemption union-constitution union-constitutions union-governance 1. Does § 301 of the LMRA completely preempt state law claims and remedies by union members against their unions to enforce union constitutions despit…
22-5427 Jade Christian Nichols v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst…
22-142 Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied constitutional-analysis constitutional-preemption insular-cases oversight-board plan-of-adjustment preemption preemption-doctrine promesa puerto-rico puerto-rico-law statutory-preemption 1. Whether the preemption doctrine allows for the displacement and amendment of Puerto Rico laws by the Oversight Board through a Plan of Adjustment c…
22-5342 Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst…
22-121 ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use…
22-78 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law…
21-1604 Robin G. Thornton, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived agency-guidance consumer-protection federal-meat-inspection-act federalism food-labeling labeling-regulations meat-inspection-act preemption Can the beef packing industry and United States of Agriculture override the clearly stated Congressional purpose of enacting the Federal Meat Inspecti…
21-1571 Rozalyn Ragan, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Phillip Ragan, Deceased v. Melissa Ragan, aka Melissa Hudson Colorado 2022-06-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) after an ERISA plan administrator has fully distr ERISA preempts a claimant's state-law right to th beneficiary-rights benefit-distribution distribution distribution-dispute erisa ERISA-preemption federal-court-jurisdiction life-insurance life-insurance-proceeds plan-administrator preemption state-law state-law-claim In Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan, 555 U.S. 285 (2009), this Court held that ERISA foreclosed a claim against a pl…
21-1572 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) class-of-workers commerce-clause federal-arbitration-act goods-transportation in-state-delivery interstate-commerce intrastate-deliveries preemption statutory-interpretation workers-classification Whether drivers making solely in-state deliveries of goods ordered by in-state customers from an in-state warehouse are nevertheless a "class of worke…
21-1539 Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine First Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 generally prohibits states from "regulat[ing] the rates for the provision of cable service" by cable compa…
21-8095 Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Commissioner, Caddo Parish, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federalism preemption sovereign-immunity standing Question not identified.
21-1444 Dolgen California, LLC v. Tricia Galarsa California 2022-05-16 GVR bilateral-arbitration employment-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims The question presented is: Does the FAA require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot assert representati…
21-1449 Glacier Northwest, Inc., dba CalPortland v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174 Washington 2022-05-16 Judgment Issued Amici (17) labor-dispute labor-disputes labor-relations national-labor-relations-act preemption property-destruction property-rights state-tort-claim tort-law union-activity Does the National Labor Relations Act impliedly preempt a state tort claim against a union for intentionally destroying an employer's property in the …
21-1400 Estate of Anthony J. Zdroik, Deceased, by Trishann W. Zdroik, Personal Respresentative v. Iowa Southern Railway Company, et al. Iowa 2022-05-02 Denied Response Waived 49-usc-20106 administrative-interpretation contractor-employees federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations on-track-safety preemption railroad-safety roadway-workers state-law-action Federal Railroad Administration ("FRA") regulations found at 49 C.F.R. § § 214.303(a)-(b) and 214.307 (App. G, infra , 55a-57a) require railroads to…
21-1388 Best Payphones, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of New York, et al. New York 2022-04-27 Denied Response Waived federal-communications-commission federal-preemption payphone-service payphone-services preemption public-service-commission state-regulation state-requirements tariff-compliance telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-1996 Is the finding of the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Thi…
21-7678 Robert Elton v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to …
21-1334 Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Dismissed Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims 1. Does § 301 of the LMRA preempt claims brought in federal court under federal statutes, like the RICO claims in this case? 2. In interpreting the a…
21-1296 City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation When trains block traffic at road intersections, they impose numerous safety risks. Oklahoma enacted a statute prohibiting trains from stopping where …
21-1286 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty health-plan mandamus pre-emption preemption Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"), a Georgia provider, who obtained a writte…
21-1272 Monsanto Company v. Alberta Pilliod, et al. California 2022-03-21 Denied Amici (1) compensatory-damages due-process epa-regulation failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption preemption product-labeling punitive-damages 1. Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where the warning cannot be added to a product without EPA approval and EPA has repeatedly…
21-1245 O'Donnell & Sons, Inc. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. New York 2022-03-15 Denied exemption federal-credit-union federal-credit-union-act federal-preemption mortgage-recording mortgage-recording-tax preemption state-tax statutory-interpretation taxation Whether the Federal Credit Union Act—which exempts federal credit unions "from all taxation" other than taxes on credit unions' real property and tang…
21-1246 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Melanie Winns, et al. California 2022-03-15 Dismissed Response Requested california-labor-code federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-action-waiver viking-river-cruises Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-1188 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. North Carolina 2022-02-28 Denied arbitration-rights assignee-rights assignees contract-law discrimination-against-arbitration evidentiary-burden federal-arbitration-act preemption third-party-beneficiary Whether the FAA preempts a state rule of contract law that requires assignees seeking to enforce arbitration rights to meet a higher evidentiary burde…
21-1144 Tracie Leach, et al. v. Mentor Worldwide, LLC Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adverse-events defective-manufacture failure-to-warn food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device-amendments preemption rule-12(b)(6) state-common-law The question presented is whether preemption under the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act supports Rule 12(b)(6) dismiss…
21-1142 James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 1. Does Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) preempt classification-based discrimination claims by a customer against an interact…
21-1121 Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote California 2022-02-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1106 Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s…
21-1079 Shipt, Inc. v. Jade Green California 2022-02-04 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-action-waiver viking-river-cruises Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-6893 Jabari J. Johnson v. Harold Clayhurst, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federalism preemption standing state-law Question not identified.
21-998 Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. Minnesota 2022-01-13 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee…
21-895 John Rodrigues, Jr. v. County of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied civil-rights due-process federal-preemption firearms firearms-law law-enforcement leosa preemption qualified-retired-officer statutory-interpretation Does LEOSA (18 U.S.C. Sec. 966C) preempt State firearms laws that prohibit the transport, carrying and possession of firearms by a Qualified Retired L…
21-879 Gregory Mayer v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company Second Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response Waived benefit-determination benefit-determinations choice-of-law commerce-clause de-novo-review erisa erisa-preemption judicial-review preemption 1) Is a state law prescribing de novo judicial review for challenged benefit determinations, regardless of any discretion the Plan grants to the admin…
21-867 Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. v. Jessica T. Badilla, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights combatant-activities due-process federal-preemption federal-tort-claims-act military military-operations preemption statutory-interpretation tort-claims Whether state-law tort claims that arise out of the uniquely federal sphere of the military's combat operations are preempted by the interests embodie…
21-737 David Saxon Bagley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Jeremiah Ray Bagley v. Ramona Rogers, M.D., et al. Texas 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice excessive-force expert-report mandatory-dismissal medical-liability preemption section-1983 state-healthcare state-healthcare-institutions Whether the Texas Medical Liability Act's expert report and mandatory sanction of dismissal with prejudice for failure to serve an expert report provi…
21-742 Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu California 2021-11-18 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) bilateral-arbitration federal-arbitration-act iskanian-precedent iskanian-v-cls-transportation preemption private-attorneys-general-act recurring-issue representative-claims Does the Federal Arbitration Act require the enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that a worker cannot raise representative clai…
21-708 CLMS Management Services Limited Partnership, et al. v. Amwins Brokerage of Georgia, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration-provision federal-arbitration-act foreign-insurer insurance-regulation mandatory-arbitration mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-insurance-regulation state-law Whether a provision of state law prohibiting mandatory arbitration in a policy of insurance issued by a foreign insurer is preempted by the Federal Ar…
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii "[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten." Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 68 (2020). More…
21-678 Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1362 cigarette-sales federal-charter federal-indian-law indian-reorganization-act indian-tribe preemption tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether an Indian tribe incorporated by federal charter under section 17 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (25 U.S.C. § 5124) is an "Indian …
21-676 Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. Minnesota 2021-11-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for…
21-661 City of Eugene, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cable-act cable-franchising federal-right local-fees non-cable-services preemption revenue-based-fee rights-of-way Whether the Sixth Circuit properly held, in conflict with the Oregon Supreme Court, that a fee which is consistent with the Cable Act's only express p…
21-627 Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation The Airline Deregulation Act ("ADA") expressly preempts any state law "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(…
21-629 Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, et al. v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process free-speech preemption radio-frequency-radiation right-of-access-to-courts right-to-petition takings telecommunications telecommunications-act 1. Whether by 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv) the preemption of any State remedy for injury by telecommunications facilities without providing a substitu…
21-588 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Dismissed Amici (20) abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
21-526 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Damaris Rosales California 2021-10-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-453 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2021-09-23 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-405 Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance Massachusetts 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law This case concerns, as far as Petitioner can determine, the first law in American history that restricts taxpayers' speech about a tax. It also concer…
21-364 Sarada Mohapatra v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 alice-doctrine alice-mayo citizen-inventors computer-implemented-invention mayo-framework non-preemptive-solution patent patent-eligibility practical-solutions preemption process-improvement Whether computer-based process improvement by Citizen patent applications for inventions Inventors - characterized by narrow and well-defined practica…
21-348 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-09-03 Denied Amici (7) administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation 1. In Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, this Court held that courts should "not invoke any presumption against pre-emption" when a "s…
21-343 Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased Massachusetts 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance In Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc 418 US 323(1974), Justice Powell, • t in reference to Defamation/Libel claims of a private individual concerning an issue…
21-312 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General Ohio 2021-08-31 Denied Amici (4) clean-air-act emission-standards epa-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Title II of the Clean Air Act ("CAA") grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") broad and exclusive authority to enforce auto manufactur…
21-270 BNSF Railway Company v. Robert Dannels Montana 2021-08-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-employers-liability-act non-frivolous-defenses preemption railroad-liability settlement settlement-obligations state-law-claims state-law-duties unfair-settlement-practices uniform-federal-framework Whether FELA preempts state-law duties that require a defendant to settle and pay FELA claims even when the defendant has non-frivolous defenses to li…
21-268 Coverall North America, Inc. v. Carlos Rivas Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian ninth-circuit preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims sakkab state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule which precludes the enforcement of an agreement to arbitrate claims on an individual bas…
21-260 Virgin America, Inc., et al. v. Julia Bernstein, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (4) airline-deregulation-act carrier-regulations federal-aviation-administration flight-attendants ninth-circuit preemption significant-impact state-law state-laws The Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) expressly preempts state laws that are "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713…
21-241 Monsanto Company v. Edwin Hardeman Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) daubert-standard epa-approval expert-testimony failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption herbicide-regulation preemption state-law-claims 1. Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where the warning cannot be added to a product without EPA approval and EPA has repeatedly…
21-194 California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (3) federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act ("FA") expressly preempts state laws "related to a price, route, or service, of any motor carrie…
21-196 SNH SE Ashley River Tenant, LLC, et al. v. Thayer W. Arredondo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Hubert Whaley, Deceased South Carolina 2021-08-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency agency-law arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements contract-interpretation equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act powers-of-attorney preemption The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts "to put arbitration agreements on an equal plane with other contracts." Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P…
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut…
21-119 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Jacob Rimler, et al. California 2021-07-28 Dismissed Amici (1)Response Requested california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule paga-claims preemption private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption After twice being ordered to and agreeing to do so, the Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) caused intrinsic and extrinsic fraud upon…
21-26 Brittany Billetts, et al. v. Mentor Worldwide LLC Ninth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied adverse-events common-law-claims defective-manufacture failure-to-warn food-and-drug-administration medical-device-amendments medical-device-manufacturing preemption rule-12(b)(6) The question presented is whether preemption under the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act supports Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal …
21-31 Fast Auto Loans, Inc. v. Joe Maldonado, et al. California 2021-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-arbitration preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent Is California's McGill rule, under which agreements for individualized arbitration are invalidated when a plaintiff seeks public injunctive relief, pr…
21-13 KinderCare Education, LLC v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. California 2021-07-07 Denied arbitration-agreement contra-proferentem federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus-v-varela preemption state-common-law state-law supreme-court-precedent Notwithstanding the express holding of this Court in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, 139 S. Ct. 1407, 1417 (2019) ("Lamps Plus") that the Federal Arbitrat…
20-1822 Amber Brooks, et al. v. Mentor Worldwide LLC Tenth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied adverse-events defective-manufacture failure-to-warn food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device-amendments medical-device-manufacturing preemption rule-12(b)(6) state-common-law The question presented is whether preemption under the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act supports Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal …
20-1804 In Re Peter R. Culpepper 2021-06-25 Denied arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), respondent-chancellor abused her discretion in applying the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act ("th…
20-1744 Google, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, et al. California 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure federal-preemption labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlra-jurisdiction penalties preemption state-law-claims statutory-preemption Where plaintiff has sought and obtained relief under the National Labor Relations Act, does the Act preempt plaintiff's state-law claim for penalties …
20-1572 Ramon D. Johnson, II v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brand-name-liability brand-name-manufacturer FDA-approval generic-drug generic-drug-liability label-defect leave-to-amend preemption product-liability state-law-claims texas-presumption-of-no-liability unapproved-indication In Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing 564 U.S. 604 (2011) the only question before this Court was whether a state law duty for a generic drug manufacturer to p…
20-1570 HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief This Court has repeatedly held that the Federal Arbitration Act "protect[s]" agreements "to use individualized rather than class or collective action …
20-1502 Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law 1. Is 49 US.C. § 44092(b) inapplicable to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 cases? 2. Should the "cat's paw" analysis of Staub v. Proctor Hosp., 562 U.S. 411 (2011) b…
20-1483 Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC New York 2021-04-22 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims that are premised on an alleged misuse of bankruptcy proceedings or that seek to im…
20-1453 Cal Cartage Transportation Express, LLC, et al. v. California, et al. California 2021-04-16 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commercial-ramifications federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-statute independent-contractor independent-contractors motor-carrier preemption pricing-regulation statutory-interpretation worker-classification Does the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, which expressly preempts state laws "related to a price, route, or service of any motor ca…
20-1354 City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation 1. Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of "effect of prohibiting" in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting sta…
20-1307 Michael White v. Donald Knapp, Jr., et al. Michigan 2021-03-19 Denied bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-law debtor-rights due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit preemption preemption-doctrine property-ownership property-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction When a debtor uses 11 USC 522(d)(3) to legally exempt property from the bankruptcy estate and a subsequent state court jurisdiction ownership conflict…
20-7487 Rodarius Grimes v. Alabama Alabama 2021-03-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federalism jurisdictional-issue legal-conflict preemption standing state-court-decision supreme-court-law I. WHETHER THE STATE COURT DECISIONS WAS/IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH CLEARLY ESTABLISH LAW AS DETERMINED FROM THE U.S. SUPREME COURT?
20-1263 Gianinna Gallardo, an Incapacitated Person, By and Through Her Parents and Co-Guardians Pilar Vassallo and Walter Gallardo v. Simone Marstiller, In Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) beneficiary-rights federal-statute future-medical-expenses healthcare-reimbursement medicaid-act medicaid-recovery medical-expenses preemption reimbursement statutory-interpretation tort-recovery tort-settlement Whether the federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid's payment of a beneficiary's past medical…
20-1215 North American Meat Institute v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agricultural-regulation animal-welfare commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce preemption state-police-power Whether the Constitution permits California to extend its police power beyond its territorial borders by banning the sale of wholesome pork and veal p…
20-1069 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. A. Y., et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (4) civil-liability drug-labeling fda-regulation federal-preemption impossibility-preemption off-label-use preemption state-tort-law Whether federal law preempts state-law claims that a manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings relating to the off-label use of their products,…
20-994 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Title II of the Clean Air Act ("CAA") grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") broad and exclusive authority to enforce auto manufactur…
20-963 Stephen K. Walton, Sr. v. Virginia International Terminals, LLC Virginia 2021-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) land-based marine-terminal-operator personal-injury preemption property-handling shipping-act shipping-act-1984 state-law terminal-operator time-limitation Pursuant to the Shipping Act of 1984, is a marine terminal operator's schedule of rates, which is authorized by the Act to pertain to the receiving, d…
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California 2021-01-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-953 Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, expressly saves certain state laws from preemption. For those state laws that are saved…
20-851 Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied 42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits 1. The Fifth Circuit held that veterans' disability benefits deposited in Petitioner's inmate trust fund (ITF) account are not protected from being us…
20-772 Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) congressional-approval ex-parte-young interstate-compact interstate-compacts preemption sovereign-immunity state-officials Whether, under the doctrine of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), an interstate compact agency may sue a state official to prevent that official fro…
20-748 PHI Air Medical, LLC v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied Amici (3) air-ambulance air-carriers airline-deregulation-act mccarran-ferguson-act medicare-rate preemption rate-regulation workers-compensation 1. Whether the ADA preempts a state workers' compensation system that limits the prices an air-ambulance company can charge and collect for its air-tr…
20-700 Addie Smith v. Syhadley, LLC Washington 2020-11-20 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act motion-to-compel preemption state-law state-law-conflict supersedeas supreme-clause 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state Supersedeas law? Does this state law conflict with the FAA? 2. Whether the Federal Arbitration …
20-683 Dirk Wilke, Interim State Health Officer of North Dakota, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 GVR civil-rights eighth-circuit employee-benefits erisa erisa-preemption health-care-law pharmacy-benefit-managers plan-administration preemption state-regulation 1. Whether, contrary to decisions of this Court and every other court of appeals that has addressed the issue, ERISA preempts a State law simply becau…
20-663 Peter R. Culpepper v. Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Tennessee 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act grounds-for-vacating notice-requirement preemption state-arbitration-law state-law-preemption supremacy-clause time-limitation Whether a state arbitration law that provides a stricter mandate than Congress intended is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and the Supremacy …
20-645 Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (13) 16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law The Petitioners allegedly operate a Colorado state legal cannabis dispensary and sold cannabis in accordance with state law. The IRS claims that altho…
20-635 Soo Line Railroad Company, dba Canadian Pacific v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act jurisdiction preemption rail-corporation state-law termination-act Whether the court of appeals erroneously held that the exemption provision of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (49 U.S.C. § 11321(a)…
20-542 Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-26 Denied Amici (9)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-election-day federal-election-statutes judicial-interpretation mail-in-ballots mail-in-voting pennsylvania-supreme-court preemption A Pennsylvania statute unambiguously provides that absentee and mail-in ballots must be received by Election Day. Brushing that requirement aside, a 4…
20-495 Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship 1. Whether, and under what circumstances, claims arising under federal statute are subject to the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement. 2. Whether…
20-453 Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 1) Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is dire…
20-328 Charlie Wilson, as Executor of the Estate of Debra Wilson v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health and Hospital System Texas 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure conflict-preemption federal-appeal federal-removal jurisdictional-ping-pong preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-deadlines statutory-deadline tolling 1. Are state statutory pre-discovery deadlines tolled – either by the rules of federal appeal, rules of federal procedure, or equitable tolling princi…
20-299 Milliman, Inc. v. James J. Donelon, Commissioner of Insurance for Louisiana, in His Capacity as Rehabilitator of Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc. Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-arbitration federal-arbitration-act forum-selection-clause insurance-insolvency insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-regulation Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (the "FAA") preempts the state's forum selection clause and requires the commissioner to arbitrate these pre-insol…
20-249 Doug Ommen, in His Capacity as Liquidator of CoOportunity Health, et al. v. Milliman, Inc., et al. Iowa 2020-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-clause contract-defense contract-defenses equal-footing federal-arbitration-act insurance-liquidation mccarran-ferguson mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-law-preemption Whether the FAA preempts the generally applicable disavowal defense codified in Iowa's Liquidation Act; and If so, whether McCarran-Ferguson exempts …
20-237 Old Republic Home Protection Company, Inc. v. William B. Sparks, et al. Oklahoma 2020-08-28 Denied appellate-court-decisions federal-arbitration-act insurance-contracts interstate-commerce mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-arbitration-statute Whether, in a case involving interstate commerce and a written contract with an arbitration provision that expressly requires application of the FAA, …
20-5332 William David Bush v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code, openly declares supremacy in codified authority to the articles and rights guaranteed in law b…
20-32 Steve Morsa v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claims-analysis federal-circuit patent patent-eligibility patent-office preemption section-101 undue-preemption This Court has held that any machine or process is eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101, subject only to narrow exceptions where the p…
20-5094 Anita Laux v. Mentor Worldwide, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cgmps circuit-split current-good-manufacturing-practices federal-requirements food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device medical-device-preemption parallel-claims preemption state-law-claims twombly-iqbal (1) Whether state-law claims against a medical device manufacturer, based on duties that parallel federal requirements, preempted by the Medical Devic…
20-5027 Christopher Allred v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process preemption privileges-and-immunities supremacy-clause vagueness Is it tre that, "All pusons born or naturalized in the United states, and of the state wherein thay reside? And if so... And, becanse of t Supremacy …
20-8 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, et al. v. Robert R. McCormick Foundation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) bankruptcy-law creditor-rights financial-institution fraudulent-transfers merit-management-group merit-management-precedent preemption 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly held, in conflict with the decisions of four other circuits and of this Court, that the presumption against …
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-1364 Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the decision of the District Court that Petitioners' claim is ba…
19-8689 Rebeca Lawrence v. Medtronic Ninth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-events failure-to-warn fda-reporting fda-requirements fraud fraud-allegations medical-device pre-market-approval preemption product-liability reliance 1. What is the scope of the FDA's requirements of reporting of adverse events and whether Title 21 §803.50; Title 21 §803.56; and Title 21 §814.84 exp…
19-8587 Reginald Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment In adjudicating a medical negligence claim brought in federal court that is governed by state substantive law, must a district court apply a state law…
19-1299 The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-19 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls claim-construction federal-circuit machine-invention machine-or-transformation patent patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 Whether the Federal Circuit improperly expanded § 101's narrow implicit exceptions by failing to properly assess Chamberlain's claims "as a whole," wh…
19-1279 Jake LaTurner, Kansas State Treasurer v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied abandoned-property bond-ownership bond-redemption due-process escheat escheat-power federal-law federal-preemption preemption redemption savings-bonds state-sovereignty treasury-regulations 1. Whether States that have exercised their historic power to escheat title to abandoned United States savings bonds may redeem those bonds as success…
19-1246 Rita McDaniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Johnny F. McDaniel, Deceased v. Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied failure-to-warn fda-labeling fda-regulations federal-regulations implied-preemption medication-guide parallel-federal-regulations preemption state-law tort-claim Whether a state-law, failure-to-warn claim that parallels a defendant's failure to follow FDA labeling regulations is impliedly preempted?
19-8252 Roscoe Chambers v. William Hardy, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process preemption regulations OYtr/odU ffoiejj Iws,D uW-W\tr fk(L n«rf iV\H'' n<[ £0JUil fe<W(C0^ 0\ l*vX b^r vtJ) Uktkr
19-8241 Joseph Llewellyn Worrell v. Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-security preemption servicemembers-civil-relief-act summary-judgment Whether a mortgage security instrument created six days before the underlying promissory note is sufficiently executed provides sufficient standing to…
19-1188 Samaca, LLC v. Cellairis Franchise, Inc., et al. Georgia 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act georgia litigation preemption sanctions standing state-law Is Georgia's remedy for abusive litigation under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-1154 Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, et al. v. Andrew Phillips, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Phillips, et al. Arkansas 2020-03-20 Denied contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law federal-arbitration-act mutuality-of-assent mutuality-of-obligation preemption state-law-rules third-party-beneficiaries 1. Whether the FAA preempts a state-law contract rule that singles out arbitration agreements for invalidation because they were signed by family memb…
19-1144 Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims I. Does The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA ") (29 U.S.C. §1144(a)), preempt state law claims of a labor union official agains…
19-1112 Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the…
19-1078 AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. v. Steven McArdle Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements california-law civil-procedure class-wide-injunction consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief California law authorizes plaintiffs asserting a claim under the State's consumer-protection laws to seek "public injunctive relief'—which it defines …
19-1066 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Charles E. Tillage, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied bilateral-arbitration bilateralism consumer-disputes contract-revocation federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief saving-clause 1. Whether the McGill rule falls outside the FAA's saving clause because it is not a ground that "exist[s] at law or in equity" for the "revocation" o…
19-1056 Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota, et al. v. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Eighth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied economic-impacts fiscal-demands preemption state-interests state-taxation bracker-test economic-impacts federal-regulation indian-gaming preemption state-interests state-taxation tribal-sovereignty Does the Bracker test currently serve as a consistent and predictable rule of law in light of the exponential expansion of Indian gaming since 1988 an…
19-7774 Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing 1. Is the 7th circuits decision appropriate for this courts review, and if so why must this court hear and decide this? 2. Would any irreparable harm…
19-982 Erica Y. Bryant, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-transfer multi-district-litigation multidistrict-litigation preemption procedural-error state-law statute-of-repose 1. Whether it is error, when considering a state statute of repose, for an MDL transferee court to ignore the decisions of the transferor court's stat…
19-7423 Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden Missouri 2020-01-27 Denied IFP criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal…
19-875 OTO, L.L.C. v. Ken Kho, et al. California 2020-01-15 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-proceeding arbitration-agreement civil-litigation federal-arbitration-act preemption procedural-protections state-law substantive-unconscionability unconscionability Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a State from invalidating an arbitration agreement as substantively unconscionable on the ground that it …
19-866 Emmanuel E. Ubinas-Brache v. Surgery Center of Texas, LP Texas 2020-01-10 Denied Response Waived anti-kickback-statute healthcare-fraud limited-partnership medicaid medicare partnership-agreement preemption state-contract-law surgical-center Animated by concerns over fraud and rising costs in federal healthcare reimbursement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, Congress enacted an anti-kic…
19-752 Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation If state statutes create an adjudicatory procedure that is contrary to the exclusive civil enforcement mechanism under the Employee Retirement Income …
19-733 Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co. v. Jamey Murphy Connecticut 2019-12-10 Denied Response Waived federal-railroad-safety-act passenger-platform preemption state-law-claim state-law-claims track-conditions track-safety train-speed transportation-regulation Does the Federal Railroad Safety Act preempt a state-law claim that a train may not travel on a track next to a passenger platform at the operating sp…
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution? Does the…
19-721 W. A. Griffin v. Humana Employers Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. Georgia 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived assignment-of-benefit assignment-of-benefits consent-requirement erisa georgia-law georgia-statute health-insurance insurance-contracts insurance-law medical-assignment preemption provider-assignment provider-rights 1. Whether or not a medical provider who obtained a written assignment of benefit in accordance Georgia § 33-24-54 is required to obtain a consent or …
19-710 Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, LLC, dba Total Wine & More v. Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law commerce-clause market-competition preemption price-fixing sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-regulation wholesale-pricing Whether Section 1 of the Sherman Act preempts state laws facilitating such unsupervised private price-fixing.
19-6435 Iyang Peter Oduok v. Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority, dba Grady Memorial Hospital, et al. Georgia 2019-10-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-preemption constitutional-violation due-process federal-law georgia-supreme-court judicial-procedure preemption rule-13 rule-38 writ-of-certiorari 1. Does Georgia Supreme Court Rule 38 Requirement that a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari be filed within twenty (20) days of disposition of a motion…
19-532 United States v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (14) anti-commandeering civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law information-sharing intergovernmental-immunity preemption sb-54 state-enforcement state-law Whether provisions of California law that, with certain limited exceptions, prohibit state law-enforcement officials from providing federal immigratio…
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut 2019-10-15 Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary…
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule 1. Complete-Preemption Doctrine refers to a rule that a federal statue's preemptive force may be so extraordinary and all-encompassing that it convert…
19-352 Robin Brindle, et al. v. Delta Airlines, Inc., et al. Rhode Island 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) airline-deregulation airline-deregulation-act civil-procedure federal-law federal-preemption labor-law local-wage-regulation preemption state-regulation state-wage-regulation transportation transportation-law wage-regulation Whether the preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(1), exempts airlines from state and local wage regulati…
19-354 Colleen A. Easterday v. Estate of Michael J. Easterday Pennsylvania 2019-09-17 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-designation breach-of-contract common-law-waiver contract-claim erisa erisa-preemption joint-survivor-annuity kennedy-v-plan-administrator plan-documents preemption 1. Can an Estate bring an action in State or Federal Court, and prevail, against a Joint Survivor Annuity beneficiary specifically named in ERISA plan…
19-339 Eugene J. Sonnier, II v. Catholic Foundation of The Diocese of Lafayette, et al. Louisiana 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) armed-forces congressional-intent dis-internment federal-law federal-preemption military-benefits military-remains preemption remains-disposition service-member-rights state-statute Whether Louisiana's dis-internment statute, La. R.S. 8:659, is preempted by Title 10 U.S.C. § 1482, and whether the state statute is in direct conflic…
19-259 Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. California 2019-08-28 Denied berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation 1. How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination? 2. P…
19-214 Michael R. Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process financial-privacy internal-revenue-code notice-requirements preemption right-to-financial-privacy standing summons-enforcement tax tax-investigation third-party-summons Whether, by holding that the federal Right to Financial Privacy Act was fully preempted by the Internal Revenue Code despite the Tenth Circuit's decis…
19-5370 Pedro Medina Castillon v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness presentedquestion (s)IV.this Honorable from theand/or petition sCastillon wishesPetitioner Pedro Medina review this Stateand in distinguishing and/or …
19-129 Neil Feinberg, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-policy drug-trafficking federal-preemption federalism interstate-commerce irs-tax-code marijuana-legalization preemption state-legalization state-rights tax-law Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the Controlled Substances Act superseded and preempted Colorado marijuana laws?
19-99 Northern Kentucky Area Development District v. Danielle Snyder Kentucky 2019-07-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement contract-defense employer-employee employment-contract equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act kentucky-revised-statutes preemption state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts Ky. Rev. Stat. § 336.700(2), which invalidates arbitration agreements between an employer and an em…
19-72 PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Richard Smigelski California 2019-07-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure consent federal-arbitration-act legal-fiction preemption state-consent state-law state-party Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state law rule that prohibits the enforcement of an arbitration agreement in a dispute covered by that …
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Petitioner is a lawyer licensed by the State of New York and duly authorized to practice before the U.S Department of Homeland Security pursuant to th…
18-1526 Patrick J. Tobin v. City and County of San Francisco, California Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts federalism forum-shopping government-code-911.3(b) judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-interpretation preemption rule-10(a) state-law supervisory-powers 1. WHETHER THIS COURT HERE MUST EXERCISE ITS SUPERVISORY POWERS OVER LOWER FEDERAL COURTS UNDER RULE 10(a) TO KEEP THEM FROM ENCROACHING ON THE EXCLUS…
18-1437 Winston & Strawn LLP v. Constance Ramos, et al. California 2019-05-16 Denied Amici (6) arbitration arbitration-agreements armendariz civil-rights contract-law employment employment-arbitration federal-arbitration-act preemption severability unconscionability In AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, this Court reiterated that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts to "place arbitration agreements on a…
18-1386 Dan M. Lipschultz, In His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, et al. v. Charter Advanced Services (MN), LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) brand-x brand-x-test communications-act fcc-regulation federal-communications-commission information-services preemption state-regulation telecommunications-services voice-over-internet-protocol voip-classification 1. Whether, in the absence of an FCC decision classifying VoIP service as an information service, FCC policy can conflict with and preempt state regul…
18-1382 American Eagle Express, Inc., dba AEX Group v. Ever Bedoya, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-classification federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act preemption presumption-against-preemption state-regulation transportation-of-property (1) Whether the Third Circuit erred by holding that New Jersey's statutory test for determining employment classification is not preempted under the F…
18-1335 Continental Motors, Inc. v. Elizabeth Snider, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response Waived aviation-accident aviation-safety component-part component-part-defect component-part-liability general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act manufacturer-immunity manufacturer-liability manufacturing-defect preemption product-liability statute-of-repose Whether the preemptive statute of repose created by the General Aviation Revitalization Act, 49 U.S.C. § 40101, insulates the designer and manufacture…
18-1308 KPMG, LLP v. Singing River Health System, aka Singing River Hospital System Mississippi 2019-04-16 Denied arbitrability arbitrability-question arbitrability-questions arbitration-agreement contract-enforceability contract-formation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act preemption state-law-challenge state-law-contract-challenge 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from relabeling a state law contract challenge as relating to contract formation, as opposed t…
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection I. Does the Precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict United States Supreme Court precedent of Schindler Elevator Co…
18-1223 Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional Is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Title 5 U.S.C. § 706) somehow nonrelevant under Alice/Mayo, or does the Federal Circuit's refusal to addres…
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause 1. Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution when it denies the protections…
18-1199 InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Amici (8) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption Does the Federal Circuit's "physical realm" test contravene the Patent Act and this Court's precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patentable …
18-1175 Colin Shillinglaw v. Baylor University, et al. Texas 2019-03-11 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption res-judicata state-court-procedure 1. Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay l…
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-553, …
18-1140 Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims.
18-1106 Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment Section 401 of the Clean Water Act requires an applicant for an interstate natural gas pipeline project to obtain "a certification from the State in w…
18-1097 SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (2) airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Is a state law exempt from the Dormant Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce? 2. Is a state law exem…
18-1083 Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. Washington 2019-02-21 Denied collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation (1) Whether a state labor claim that requires the plaintiff to show that an employer acted with "willfulness," "unreasonableness," or other mental sta…
18-1070 Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-15 GVR employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act states that nothing in the Act "shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of ag…
18-1039 Jeremy Levin, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Second Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied anti-terrorism-law asset-attachment correspondent-banking electronic-fund-transfer federal-preemption new-york-ucc preemption terrorism-risk-insurance-act Are blocked EFTs, originating with Iran, transferred into the U.S. by agents of Iran, and used to benefit its financial interests, im mune from reco…
18-1011 Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. Texas 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act The Texas Supreme Court has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has preemptive effect over incompatible state law when the parties have agreed the …
18-1012 Patrick Lafferty, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. California 2019-02-04 Denied attorney-fees california-consumers-legal-remedies-act consumer-legal-remedies-act consumer-protection consumer-protection-act federal-trade-commission holder-rule implied-cause-of-action preemption private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action unfair-or-deceptive-acts 1. Whether the "Holder Rule" as discerned by the California Third District Court of Appeal implies a new private cause of action? 2. Whether the "Hol…
18-985 BMP Family Limited Partnership, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code katz-v-united-states neece-v-irs non-party-clients preemption privacy right-to-financial-privacy right-to-privacy standing summons-privacy tax-summons The issue is whether the court below erroneously held that the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party c…
18-7608 James E. Whitney v. Blake H. Chancellor Arkansas 2019-01-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process list-of-parties preemption preface standing table-of-contents takings 1) Should an Individuals secured and protected Constitutional Right under the First Amendment to redress the Government for the wrongs perpetuated aga…
18-979 Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause In California Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co., 480 U.S. 572 (1987), this Court considered the question whether states might assert permitting autho…
18-929 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Inc., et al. v. Rae Weiler California 2019-01-17 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-forum arbitration-agreement arbitration-costs arbitrator-role contract-law cost-sharing cost-sharing-provision federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption state-contract-law state-law This case involves the cost-sharing provision of an arbitration agreement. Executed as part of a contract to buy a restaurant, the agreement provides …
18-7415 Anthony James Scott v. California California 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law alcohol-regulation civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation local-ordinance preemption procedural-rules state-constitution statutory-provisions transportation-of-alcohol Whether an officer, could have regsonably entertained a good faith belief a bocal ordinance trohibitins the transtortation of alcohol in Public was la…
18-912 AmeriCare MedServices, Inc. v. City of Anaheim, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure commercial-market-participant commercial-participant federal-antitrust-law market-competition municipal-services preemption regulatory-capacity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity 1. A state statute governing ambulance services allows one type of competition displacement. Is a municipality that is not authorized by that statute …
18-910 City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board California 2019-01-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based Whether California Government Code section 3505, the "meet-and-confer" provision of the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act [Cal. Gov't Code section 35…
18-879 Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. John B. Rhodes, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Amici (2) energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-preemption just-and-reasonable-rates market-based-auctions preemption state-subsidies wholesale-electricity wholesale-electricity-markets The question presented is whether the FPA preempts only state subsidies that explicitly require a wholesale generator to sell its output in FERC appro…
18-887 California Trucking Association v. Julie A. Su Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied california-labor-commissioner employment-classification federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act labor-commissioner motor-carrier motor-carrier-preemption motor-carriers owner-operator owner-operator-contracts owner-operators preemption transportation-deregulation transportation-industry workforce-exclusion Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding the FA does not preempt California's interference with contractual agreements between motor carriers and owner-op…
18-868 Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. Anthony M. Star, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auction-rates federal-power-act ferc ferc-jurisdiction just-and-reasonable-rates market-rates preemption preemption-doctrine state-subsidies wholesale-electricity wholesale-electricity-markets The question presented is whether the FPA preempts only state subsidies that explicitly require a wholesale generator to sell its output in FERC appro…
18-847 BNSF Railway Company v. Juanita Nye, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey Nye Oklahoma 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-funding federal-rail-safety-act grade-crossing preemption state-tort-claim tort-claim warning-devices When the project documents and authenticating testimony demonstrate that federal funds participated in a state-wide project to install warning devices…
18-855 Ray Allen, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. v. International Association of Machinists District Ten, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Dismissed Amici (4)Relisted (2) dues-checkoff federal-law labor-law labor-relations national-labor-relations-act preemption right-to-work summary-affirmance union-authorization Whether this Court should overrule its summary affirmance in Sea Pak v. Industrial, Technical, and Professional Employees, Division of National Mariti…
18-831 Michael Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process financial-privacy financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code irs-investigation preemption right-to-financial-privacy-act right-to-privacy tax-summons third-party-summons The issue is whether the court below erroneously held that the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party c…
18-803 Wendy B. Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, fka SmithKline Beecham Corporation Seventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Relisted (2) clinical-trials drug-labeling drug-manufacturer fda-regulations impossibility-preemption labeling-changes preemption truthful-risks unilateral-labeling-changes unilateral-warning wyeth-v-levine Does federal law prevent a drug manufacturer from enhancing its label to reflect truthful risks revealed in its clinical trials when the relevant FDA …
18-7041 Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2018-12-17 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by …
18-6712 Bryan Marque Gilstrap v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism preemption state-rights state-sovereignty Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons…
18-615 Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)?
18-612 CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence Whether, as the Eleventh Circuit held, Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on the fuel used by interstate motor carriers sufficiently justifies …
18-593 StarLink Logistics, Inc. v. ACC, LLC, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-06 Denied Relisted (2) clean-water-act effluent-limits navigable-waters npdes-permit point-source point-source-pollution preemption supremacy-clause Whether a state law that authorizes a polluter to discharge covered pollutants from a point source into the navigable waters of the United States with…
18-579 Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-requirement civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-preemption labor-relations ninth-circuit-ruling preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claim state-law-claims In order to promote stability in labor-management relations and minimize disruptions in vital transportation services, the Railway Labor Act (RLA) req…
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva conventions.
18-519 Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings Ohio 2018-10-19 Denied agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits Whether in light of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Howell v. Howell, 137 S Ct. 1400 (2017), veterans disability compensation may l…
18-499 Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. Iowa 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci…
18-464 Hatfield Enterprizes, Inc., et al. v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived carrier-classification carrier-control federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation 1. The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, 49 U.S.C. § 14501(c)(1), ("FA") broadly preempts any state action that relates even indirect…
18-466 Gulick Trucking, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa-preemption federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-regulation independent-contractor independent-contractors owner-operator preemption prices-routes-services state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation 1. The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, 49 U.S.C. § 14501(c)(1), ("FA") broadly preempts any state action that relates even indire…
18-469 MacMillan-Piper, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act- federal-lease-contract-provisions federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation unemployment-compensation-taxes 1. The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, 49 U.S.C. § 14501(c)(1), ("FA") broadly preempts any state action that relates even indire…
18-447 Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to transport goods interst…
18-449 Pharmavite LLC v. Noah Bradach Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived class-action class-certification class-members federal-preemption federal-statute individual-inquiry preemption state-law-claims supremacy-clause 1. Is it a violation of the Supremacy Clause, U.S. ConsT. art. VI, cl. 2, for a federal court to certify a class that includes class members asserting…
18-312 David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard Tennessee 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,…
18-256 Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived cercla-preemption circuit-court-review circuit-court-summary-order civil-rights common-law-tort common-law-tort-claims congressional-intent cts-corp-v-waldburger due-process environmental-law judicial-precedent preemption statutory-interpretation torts toxic-exposure 1) Did the Circuit Court's Summary Order, which held that CERCLA preempts Petitioners' common law tort claims, directly contradict this Court's decisi…
18-212 Bank of America, N.A. v. Donald M. Lusnak Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Amici (1) escrow-accounts federal-banking-powers federal-preemption mortgage-escrow mortgage-lending mortgage-loan-escrow national-bank national-bank-act occ-regulations office-of-the-comptroller-of-the-currency preemption real-estate-lending state-banking-law state-banking-laws 1. Whether the National Bank Act preempts state laws regulating national bank loan terms, such as California's law requiring payment of interest on mo…
18-205 Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. California 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes…
18-166 John M. Probandt, et al. v. Dennis P. Walker Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law deprivation-of-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment internal-affairs-doctrine negotiable-instrument preemption state-courts uniform-commercial-code Is the State Courts' intentional refusal to apply the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code ("Neb. UCC") (a preemptive and uniform Code w…
18-174 Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law "Congress adopted the [Federal] Arbitration Act in 1925" because "courts were unduly hostile to arbitration." Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 161…
18-175 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. California 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont 1. Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read, consistent with the Federal Arbitration…
18-153 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-03 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law cost-allocation energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-ratemaking ferc-refund-policy holding-company-cost-allocation preemption rate-making ratemaking refund regulatory-policy state-ratemaking supremacy-clause 1. Given this Court's holdings that the Federal Power Act ("FPA") preempts inconsistent state ratemaking and requires state agencies to treat cost all…
18-5385 Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights I. Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state resp…
18-1 C. G. v. Deborah Heart and Lung Center, et al. New Jersey 2018-06-29 Denied federal-statute health-care-quality-improvement-act hospital-immunity immunity medical-reporting patient-care preemption professional-review state-law To what extent does the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 ("HCQIA"), 42 U.S.C. § 11101 et seq. , preempt state laws governing a hosp…