safe-harbor
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A777 | Fairfield Sentry Ltd., et al. v. Citibank NA London, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Application | bankruptcy-code extraterritorial-application foreign-liquidators ponzi-scheme safe-harbor securities-settlement | Whether the Bankruptcy Code's "safe harbor" for securities settlement payments under 11 U.S.C. §546(e) applies extraterritorially to bar foreign commo… | |
| 25-178 | Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, LLC v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | excise-tax highway-tractor safe-harbor statutory-interpretation tax-exemption taxable-article | The term "taxable article" or its equivalent are used repeatedly as a term of art throughout the tax code, case law, and Internal Revenue Service guid… |
| 25-157 | Richard Hall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-kickback-statute burden-of-persuasion criminal-defense federal-health-care-program safe-harbor statutory-interpretation | The Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"), 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b), generally bars "remuneration" to induce referrals for health care goods and services for w… |
| 24-729 | Forrest L. Geist v. Kansas State University Foundation, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights intellectual-property property-protection safe-harbor sovereign-immunity takings-clause | Q: May a natural person, whose IP is taken by state gov't w/o payment, seek fair redress under the self-executing Takings Clause if that state's legis… |
| 24-671 | Mark Holliday, Liquidating Trustee of the BosGen Liquidating Trust v. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | avoidance-powers bankruptcy-code congressional-intent fraudulent-transfer safe-harbor securities-transfer | 1. In Merit Management Group, LP v. FTI Consulting, Inc., 583 U.S. 366 (2018), this Court held that the "safe harbor" in § 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Co… |
| 24-428 | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation | Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is "solely for uses reasonably related" to the federal regulatory process, when the infri… |
| 24-5715 | Lashaun Casey v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance law-enforcement-questioning safe-harbor statement-suppression strickland-standard | Whether, under the framework set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not moving to … |
| 23A1074 | Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Incorporated, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Presumed Complete | contributory-liability copyright-infringement digital-millennium-copyright-act fourth-circuit internet-service-provider safe-harbor | Question not identified. | |
| 23A580 | Antowan Thorne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Presumed Complete | election-certification election-challenge election-dispute federal-law safe-harbor state-official | Question not identified. | |
| 23-486 | Sidney Powell, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure electoral-college first-amendment petition petition-clause rule-11 safe-harbor sanctions | The Sixth Circuit upheld large joint-and-several monetary sanctions and bar-referral sanctions under Rule 11(c)(2) for a complaint against Michigan's … |
| 22-276 | Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. | Utah | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant | 1. Whether application of the contempt analysis associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant orde… |
| 19-1349 | George L. Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of HomeBanc Corp. v. Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-stay bankruptcy-code collateral collateral-liquidation creditor-protection financial-crisis repurchase-agreements safe-harbor statutory-interpretation | In times of acute economic distress, the automatic stay of the Bankruptcy Code functions as a critical circuit breaker: it backstops a vulnerable fina… |
| 19-651 | John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion | May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 by informal communications, the rule applied by Seventh Circuit, o… |