| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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… |