proximate-causation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-435 | Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Requested | administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests | Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding, including a trade mark opposition proceeding at the United States Pate… |
| 25A157 | Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | administrative-proceeding lanham-act proximate-causation statutory-standing trademark-opposition zone-of-interests | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6248 | Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment | I. Whether Trial Counsel Was Ineffective, Under Strickland . For Failing to Follow Through With Brown's Causation Defense Theory By Failing To Request… |
| 23A832 | Alexander Bayonne Stross v. Zillow, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | copyright-infringement direct-infringement legal-standard ninth-circuit proximate-causation volitional-conduct | Whether the Ninth Circuit's requirement that plaintiff prove that a defendant commit "volitional conduct" in the form of an affirmative act to recover… | |
| 23-5812 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-9 | AstraZeneca UK Limited, et al. v. Joshua Atchley, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-07-05 | GVR | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act direct-liability foreign-government-agency foreign-terrorist-organization proximate-causation specific-attack terrorist-organization transacting-with-government-agency | 1. Whether, in light of Taamneh, the Court should grant, vacate, and remand for further proceedings. 2. Whether plaintiffs plead proximate causation … |
| 22-7518 | John William Iron Road v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award | Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-817 | Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard | Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below, and in other Tenth Circuit cases, conflicts with this Court's deci… |
| 21-1608 | McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix | Second Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities | Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 20-6153 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death enhancement" of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation when the statute's language is ambiguous - triggering the rul… |
| 18-1540 | VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response Waived | automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct | The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.… |
| 18-890 | David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario | Second Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… | |
| 18-746 | County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit disregarded this Court's clear directives on remand and whether, in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, a plaintiff's injuries res… |