proximate-cause
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-1302 | MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute | (1) Whether, in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs, physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening … |
| 24-629 | Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act | 1. What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO? 2. Can … |
| 24-288 | Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction | Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of "proximate cause" is unreasonable because it fails to honor the breadth of the RICO statute and ignores… |
| 23-1141 | Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos | First Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (45) | aiding-and-abetting drug-cartel-violence drug-cartels firearms-industry firearms-trafficking international-tort legal-causation plcaa proximate-cause trafficking | The production and sale of firearms in the United States is the "proximate cause" of alleged injuries to the Mexican government stemming from violence… |
| 23-6331 | Hannibal Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense burden-of-proof criminal-conduct criminal-law disqualifying-element imminent-threat justification-defense legal-alternative proximate-cause | The question presented is whether the courts should also take a narrow view in considering the disqualifying element of the justification defense, and… |
| 23-5587 | Daniel Carrington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. BURRAGE, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), CREATED A BRIGHT LINE RULE ESTABLISHING A RIGHT OF THE DEFENDANT TO PR… |
| 22-7843 | George John Maslovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact | Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte… |
| 22-1159 | Troy Newman v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | civil-rico false-identification interstate-commerce pattern-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering-activity predicate-acts proximate-cause rico-statute undercover-investigation | In a classic case of the "abortion distortion," Planned Parenthood repackaged its PR black-eye over selling aborted baby parts into a court-approved R… | |
| 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? |
| 22-642 | General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act | Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca… | |
| 21-8116 | Demarco Tempo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition to but-for causation for the "death results" enhancement in 21 U.S.C. § 841?… |
| 21-1243 | City of Oakland, California v. Oakland Raiders, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-standing associated-general-contractors clayton-act judicial-limits lexmark-international proximate-cause prudential-balancing zone-of-interests | In Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 572 U.S. 118, 126 (2014), this Court considered a multifactor balancing test of pru… |
| 21-6915 | Maxwell Gaffney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing | Kyle Rodriguez died after voluntarily using heroin. The government proved to a jury he bought it from Petitioner Maxwell Gaffney. The Government also … |
| 21-5595 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND (B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 21-5266 | Alla V. Stepanets v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1) Whether a defendant "dispenses" drugs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(l)(B) when they are shipped to a medical facility where a physician will write… |
| 20-8026 | Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts | 1. This is a question of first impression since AEDPA. When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts, the opportunity to review federal claims, this fa… |
| 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… |
| 20-5854 | Trumaine Muller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause | I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES… |
| 20-5768 | RaySean D. Barber v. Todd Wasmer, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel factual-basis information motor-vehicle-operation plea-colloquy proximate-cause | Was Appellant denied Due Process of Law and Effective Assistance of Counsel where the charging document (information) did not include within the state… |
| 20-343 | Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause | Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller, 538 U.S. 329 (2003) to determine whether the Califo… |
| 20-217 | Richard Balter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | expert-witness federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice proximate-cause standard-of-care virginia-medical-malpractice-act | Does the Virginia Medical Malpractice Act's requirement that a plaintiff possess a written opinion signed by an expert witness that, based upon a reas… | |
| 19-8807 | Cassandra Cean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment | Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat… |
| 19-7952 | Michael Deon Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-1069 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing | This petition involves a putative nationwide class action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), in which respondents … |
| 19-1008 | Jim C. Hodge, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | but-for-causation causation causation-standard false-claims-act foreseeability fraud legal-elements proximate-cause substantial-factor | Whether the causation element standard under the False Claims Act is proximate cause, requiring both that the harm was foreseeable and that the false … | |
| 19-7589 | Michael M. Monzel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | 1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-901 | Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud | What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… | |
| 19-688 | Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability | Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a "logical bond" between the alleged statutory violation a… |
| 19-675 | Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. City of Miami, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | causal-chain civil-rights directness-principles fair-housing-act injury injury-recovery proximate-cause standing statutory-violation | In its prior decision in this case, this Court held that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) requires proof of proximate cause in the same way as other federal… |
| 19-6554 | Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation | Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43… |
| 19-237 | James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert | Nevada | 2019-08-22 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding | 1. Did the Nevada Supreme Court have the right in its Order of Affirmance to blatantly disregard past decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court as to statut… | |
| 18-9761 | John Givens v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability | Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder, which allows a criminal defendant to be convicted of felony murder when the d… |
| 18-1367 | Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability | Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation. |
| 18-1123 | Southern Trust Metals, Inc., et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-of-america-v-city-of-miami commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission dura-pharmaceuticals-v-broudo foreseeability industry-ban judicial-injunction lifetime-industry-ban loss-causation proximate-cause reliance separation-of-powers | The Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA") limits restitution in enforcement actions to "losses proximately caused" by a violation of the CEA and CFTC regulat… |
| 18-8069 | Eric Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation | Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 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… | |
| 18-537 | Booth James v. Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-violations employment-termination evidence-substitution fraud free-speech proximate-cause whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation | Could a reasonable jury have found that Mr. Perry retaliatory attitude toward Officer James for whistleblowing, to a government representative, the pr… | |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-5957 | Raul Arcila v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process evidentiary-issues jury-evidence jury-instructions plain-error proximate-cause sentencing-factor unfair-prejudice | Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the government to convert a sentencing factor, "resulting in death," under 21 USC §841(b)… |