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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5917 Myrna De Jesus v. Dignity Health Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-malice defamation private-citizen publication qualified-immunity slander-per-se Whether the concepts of actual malice and excessive publication are required elements of defamation slander per se for a private citizen to prove that…
23-280 Darrell Gaebel v. United States Polo Association Fourth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived actionable-harm civil-rights defamation disciplinary-hearing due-process free-speech legal-process private-association publication Whether a private association can commit actionable defamation by publicizing defamatory material during a legally improper disciplinary hearing, even…
22-1168 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Amici (5) civil-rights creative-pleading due-process emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech general-application-law public-speech publication standing tort tort-liability The circuit courts are divided over when the First Amendment protects defendants against tort claims arising out of speech or expression. In Hustler M…
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers retaliation by employers against employees. The second question is: Did Morni…
19-708 Gold Value International Textile, Inc. v. Sanctuary Clothing, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 17-usc-411 attorneys-fees copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership copyright-procedure copyright-registration copyright-validity good-faith publication publication-status statutory-interpretation 1. Can a court invalidate a copyright registration – and thus terminate a pending case – on the basis of a good-faith inclusion of inaccurate informat…
18-8560 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON OCTOBER 31, 2018 W…
18-6957 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON AUGUST 20, 2018 WI…
18-388 Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence In Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U.S. 150 (1999), this Court held that The United States Patent Office must support rejection with substantial evidence. See…