punitive-damages
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A690 | United Services Automobile Association, Inc. v. Estate of Sylvia F. Minor, et al. | Mississippi | 2025-12-12 | Application | compensatory-damages due-process fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages ratio-test state-farm | This case implicates the due process limits on punitive damages when a plaintiff has already recovered substantial compensatory damages. See State Far… | |
| 25A683 | Monsanto Company v. Daniel Anderson, et al. | Missouri | 2025-12-10 | Application | cancer-warning failure-to-warn fifra-preemption glyphosate pesticide-labeling punitive-damages | Question not identified. | |
| 25-506 | Stroma Medical Corporation, et al. v. Samuel Blumberg | California | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review due-process economic-harm punitive-damages statutory-malice substantial-evidence | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires California appellate courts to review punitive damages awards de novo, as this Court held in Cooper Industr… |
| 25-70 | William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment | 1. Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retali… | |
| 25-60 | James Greiner v. Democratic National Committee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-17 | Denied | Response Waived | congressional-voting constitutional-rights political-representation punitive-damages separation-of-powers two-party-system | 1) Harmful Inflation: a) Is there a difference between "economic derived inflation" and "purposefully reckless derived inflation", with the first bei… |
| 25-46 | Boat Santa Rita II, Inc. v. Magnus Aadland | First Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Dismissed | Response Waived | court-of-appeals maintenance-and-cure maritime-law punitive-damages standard-of-review vessel-owner | Under the general maritime law of maintenance and cure, what standard governs the award of punitive damages where a vessel owner provides maintenance … |
| 24-1264 | David M. Kirk v. Citigroup Global Markets Holdings, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review due-process financial-fraud jurisdictional-challenge punitive-damages venue-transfer | 1. The first and most important question presented is whether this case is of high national importance. This case is one of a string of seven recent f… |
| 24-1077 | Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew | Nevada | 2025-04-15 | Dismissed | constitutional-protections due-process excessive-fines fair-notice gore-guideposts punitive-damages | The Constitution requires that "a person receive fair notice not only of the conduct that will subject him to punishment, but also of the severity of … | |
| 24-506 | J. Michael White, et al. v. Lindsay Davis, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | compensatory-damages due-process legal-authority punitive-damages reasonable-relationship state-actor | This Court has held that a private actor making it's own choices under authority granted to it by the state, and acting on those choices, is not a sta… | |
| 24A406 | Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel | Third Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment prison-conditions punitive-damages sexual-assault | Question not identified. | |
| 24-127 | The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor | Alabama | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Alabama's civil wrongful death statute, codified in 1872, imposes civil liability, including punitive damages, for the "death of a minor child . . … |
| 23-7423 | Glenn Francis v. Thomas Scarantino, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights immunity immunity-doctrine jury-trial probable-cause punitive-damages writ-of-certiorari wrongful-incarceration | Can you deny me a jury trial for civil rights violations and wrongful incarceration and punitive damages based only on immunity of defendants that I t… |
| 23-1098 | Thomas Cole v. Foxmar, Inc., dba Education and Training Resources | Second Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response Waived | bmw-of-n-am-inc-v-gore civil-procedure due-process harm-to-others jury-award potential-harm punitive-damages reasonableness remittitur tx-production-corp-v-alliance-resources-corp | The punitive damages standard set forth by this Court in TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp., 509 U.S. 448 (1993) and BMW of N. Am., Inc.… |
| 23-386 | Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. v. Epic Systems Corporation | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response Waived | avoided-costs civil-procedure damages due-process economic-harm federal-courts legal-damages punitive-damages trade-secret trade-secrets unjust-enrichment | 1. Whether avoided costs are available as unjust enrichment damages where they both do not reflect any actual benefit obtained by the defendant and th… |
| 23-316 | Curtiss Davis, III v. Pedro Bonilla, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process intelligence-identities-protection-act punitive-damages restitution sanctuary-policies standing summary-judgment | Whether both the US District and US Court of Appeals had inequitably applied US laws to deny restitution; as well as, a default summary judgment and p… |
| 23-5595 | Ronnie R. Rolland, Sr. v. Aurora Retirement, LLC, dba Cherry Creek Retirement Village, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process protected-activity punitive-damages standing summary-judgment title-vii | QUESTION ONE: WHETHER AN APPEALS COURT MAY CONSTITUTIONALLY IN ERROR RETAIN AUTHORITY OVER SUMMARY JUDGMENT ACTIONS THAT INCLUDES MOOT EXCLUDED HEARS… |
| 22-7508 | Herma Barbara Medina Reyna v. PNC Bank, N.A., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-fraud mortgage-ownership punitive-damages racketeering rooker-feldman-doctrine standing title-fraud | 1. Can a party who was wronged by a bank or business entity that committed mass fraud, misrepresentation, and racketeering actions that render the Roo… |
| 22-1010 | Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo | 1. Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory an… |
| 22-630 | Kristen Behrens, et al. v. Arconic, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | american-corporation civil-rights due-process forum-non-conveniens piper-aircraft-v-reyno punitive-damages | (1) Should this Court extend its holding in Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235 (1981) and hold that where a foreign plaintiff has made a well s… |
| 21-8012 | Soraya Maria Rigor v. Dale Carlsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process intellectual-property punitive-damages racketeering special-relationship takings university-trustees | [i]n what circumstances may punitive damages be awarded under the 1) United States Constitution, when civil violations by California State University … |
| 21-7947 | Cedric Greene v. Harbor Police, et al. | California | 2022-05-24 | Denied | IFP | amendment-interpretation case-records civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity legal-standards punitive-damages rights-protection standing vexatious-litigant | To thee attention of how things are meant to be governed. When a series of Judicial standards known as judges speak for the blind scale of justice. Wh… |
| 21-7761 | In Re Shannon Riley | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond | KANSAS STATE COURT REVERSE A KANSAS APPELLATE M. CAN A COURT ON A COUNTERCLAIM? DOES THE REQUIREMENT OF A SUPERSEDEAS BOND ON A DEFENDANT FACING PUN… | |
| 21-1377 | The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2022-04-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | cover-up due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause punitive-damages retroactive-legislation sexual-abuse-claims statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause allows retroactive legislation that was enacted with an avowedly punitive purpose, imposes additional punitive lia… |
| 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… |
| 21-6219 | Martin Lindstedt, et al. v. Bryan Anthony Reo | Ohio | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-lawfare civil-procedure defamation false-light jurisdiction monopoly-license public-figure punitive-damages statutory-limitations white-supremacy | 1. Does the Mentor Ohio Municipal and Lake County Ohio Court of Common Pleas have any lawful and legitimate jurisdiction to reach out and try Dual-See… |
| 20-1716 | Melvin Trent Walker v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law declaratory-judgment discrimination-claims district-court-jurisdiction employee-definition employee-status punitive-damages standing title-vii | Constitutional Question is the Governors Code of Conduct constitutional? 16AM Juris. 2nd Ed.Const. Law. Sect. 177 Declaratory Judgement Act Commonweal… |
| 20-1426 | Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) | civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets | Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s… |
| 20-1177 | National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment | Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code governs involuntary bankruptcy cases. In an involuntary bankruptcy case it is the creditors, not the debtors, who s… |
| 20-7117 | Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. Mount Sinai Beth Israel | New York | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraudulent-signature judicial-review legal-motion procedural-misconduct punitive-damages standing | On September 15, 2020, The State Of New York Court Of Appeals denied Petitioner's Motion. Why when the Court Of Appeals learned that Respondent admit… |
| 20-999 | Lloyd Industries, Inc. v. Ronald Watson | Third Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process free-speech punitive-damages ratio ratio-analysis reprehensibility title-vii | Should this Court grant a Writ of Certiorari: 1. to correct a pervasive error by many lower courts, including the Third Circuit in this case, which h… | |
| 20-297 | TransUnion LLC v. Sergio L. Ramirez | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Judgment Issued | Amici (28) | article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action damages due-process fair-credit-reporting-act punitive-damages standing statutory-damages | 1. Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an i… |
| 19-1248 | Eli Dunn v. Bryce Hatch, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-27 | Denied | admiralty admiralty-jurisdiction civil-rights commercial-fishermen commercial-fishing maritime maritime-law public-policy punitive-damages seamen-rights statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour wage-disputes wages | 1. Should punitive damages be available to commercial fishermen cheated on their wages? 2. Is there a conflict among federal courts of appeal, and wi… | |
| 19-1120 | Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment | I. Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur … |
| 19-646 | Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens | Alaska | 2019-11-19 | Denied | bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages | A Superior Court Judge in Alaska, presiding without a jury in a bench trial, imposed a $20 million judgment (principally based on treble damages under… | |
| 19-412 | Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. | Maine | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law | Whether, when an appellate court overturns its own controlling precedent, constitutional guarantees of due process require remand to the trial court f… |
| 19-302 | Michael Bornemann v. Tamae M. Kekona, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Paul Kekona, Deceased | Hawaii | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment double-penalty due-process due-process,punitive-damages,14th-amendment,excess fourteenth-amendment hrs-657-5 judicial-review legal-appeals punitive-damages statutory-interest | A. Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award against Bornemann in violation of the Due Process … |
| 19-306 | Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky | First Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction | This diversity case involves state-law claims of age discrimination in employment. Petitioner disputed the applicability of the New York City Human Ri… | |
| 19-240 | Noah Thomas Ballard v. Vicky Lynn Ballard | Tennessee | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-malpractice attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights damages divorce-decree due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-malpractice punitive-damages standing supreme-court-review | 1. Can you, Please, overrule, the No. 2016DV97 decree, and award, decree, mandate, to me Noah T. Ballard, the accurate, appropriate, equitable, fair, … |
| 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… | |
| 18-8979 | Lisa Jacobs v. Lorraine MacDonald, et vir | New Hampshire | 2019-04-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-malice constitutional-rights defamation defamation-damages first-amendment negligence-per-se presumptive-damages punitive-damages | Whether enhanced compensatory damages in connection with an action for negligence per se requires proof of "actual malice" consistent with St. Amant v… |
| 18-1256 | BP West Coast Products, LLC v. Steven Scharfstein, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Oregon | 2019-04-01 | Dismissed | civil-procedure class-action class-certification cy-pres due-process oregon oregon-law punitive-damages signage-laws statutory-damages | In this class action, the Oregon courts upheld an aggregated statutory-damages award of $409 million based on petitioner's failure to disclose a $0.35… | |
| 18-533 | Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii | Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the "higher management" standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley… | |
| 18-266 | The Dutra Group v. Christopher Batterton | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (18)Relisted (2) | civil-procedure general-maritime-duty jones-act maritime-law personal-injury punitive-damages seaman-rights seaworthiness seaworthy-vessel unseaworthiness vessel-seaworthiness | Whether punitive damages may be awarded to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury suit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a se… |
| 18-5200 | Kerry Kruskal v. Allan Meltzer, et al. | New Mexico | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collection-fees contract contract-dispute due-process judgment-lien punitive-damages standing takings trust-account | Should Kruskal be entitled to a full release for paying off the entire judgment lien on 10/1/2015 On 10/1/2015, when Kruskal entirely paid off the ju… |