| 25A882 |
Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
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bankruptcy chapter-11 executory-contract financial-accommodation pension-fund settlement-agreement |
Question not identified.
The petition text provided is an "Application to Extend Time for Filing Petition for Writ of Certiorari," not a petition for… |
| 25-141 |
Arnold G. Phillips v. Cecilia Abundis, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing atomic-energy-act due-process medical-license nuclear-medicine settlement-agreement |
a. Why did the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, twice unilaterally impose the punishments of "Sus… |
| 25-38 |
Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
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contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts |
1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part… |
| 25A26 |
Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-record agency-misconduct judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board settlement-agreement whistleblower |
Whether an appellate court's judgment may stand when extrinsic evidence reveals that the underlying administrative record was corrupted by the adjudic… |
| 24-705 |
Bud Conyers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
false-claims-act government-intervention relator-share settlement-agreement statutory-interpretation whistleblower-rights |
After the Government intervenes in a False Claims Act ("FCA") case, is the whistleblower "relator" entitled to 15%-25% of the "proceeds of the action,… |
| 24A432 |
Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. |
Iowa |
2024-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
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civil-rights contract-interpretation employment-dispute release-provision settlement-agreement summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5772 |
Stephen Sewalk v. Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-stay due-process erisa extortion hobbs-act settlement-agreement |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit sanction a violation of Petitioners' due process rights (as well as sanction violations of Bank… |
| 24-9 |
Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement |
Whether a private release agreement between a relator and a qui tam defendant, executed after the filing of the qui tam action, is enforceable when th… |
| 23-1063 |
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
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antitrust-law class-action competition-restraint injunctive-relief private-enforcement prospective-waiver settlement-agreement |
Whether settlement agreements may immunize ongoing restraints on competition from private enforcement under the federal antitrust laws by releasing ce… |
| 23-6676 |
Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Bestway USA Inc., et al. |
Arizona |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deficient-service evidentiary-hearing interlocutory-decision judicial-notice parol-evidence res-judicata service-of-process settlement-agreement settlement-agreements void-order |
May a Court take judicial notice of another Court's Order that is void due to deficient service; where the agreements that gave rise to the dispute we… |
| 23-6675 |
Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Timothy Ryan, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure contract-law discretion equity-principles judicial-discretion litigation public-policy rescission settlement-agreement settlement-agreements |
1. Does public policy strongly favor settlement of disputes without litigation; or do Courts have discretion to not enforce settlement agreements?
2.… |
| 23-708 |
Chava Rachel Mark, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of T. B. M., R. L. M., and E. B. M., Minors, et al. v. Republic of Sudan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
consolidated-appropriations-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act judicial-review settlement-agreement state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction sudan-sponsored-terrorism |
1. Whether, as the D.C. Circuit held, the SCRA stripped the courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the rest of the settlement or the… |
| 23-626 |
Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action sec-enforcement settlement settlement-agreement standing unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether a party's acceptance of a benefit prevents that party from contending that the government violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine in… |
| 22-7507 |
Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement |
1. ) Does and Out 6'f Court Settlement Agreement "Set the Perimeters "
for future so-called Legitimate Correctional Goals in a specific instance??
O… |
| 22-898 |
Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
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declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement |
Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case with three parties and two of the parties agreed to a settlement between them, that did not i… |
| 22-551 |
Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Pursuant to this Court's decisions in Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue Engineering & Mfg., 545 U.S. 308, 314 (2005) and Gunn v. Minton, … |
| 22-5008 |
Anthony A. Patel v. Sonya Bhatia |
California |
2022-06-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion martial-law settlement settlement-agreement sua-sponte-sanctions vexatious-litigant |
May courts impose sua sponte punishments against litigants in cases which were already settled as a matter of law? |
| 21-1536 |
Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
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administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations |
Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of 'INA ' requirem… |
| 21-1490 |
Arvind Gupta v. Marty Walsh, Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-standards h-1b-visa immigration-compliance immigration-nationality-act labor-department labor-law nonimmigrant-worker prevailing-wage settlement-agreement wage-requirements working-conditions |
Whether employers can have legally enforceable private settlement agreement with the nonimmigrant worker to pay less than the wages required under the… |
| 21-1462 |
Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions under terms entitling plaintiffs attorneys to reasonable fees and costs as… |
| 21-7210 |
James Thomas Webb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings |
Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case 07-… |
| 21-1154 |
Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
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bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement |
Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy? |
| 21-1033 |
Edward Mandel v. White Nile Software, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-procedure discharge due-process judicial-review non-dischargeable-claims settlement-agreement |
1. Where the court of appeals did not allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement, should this Court summarily g… |
| 21-6499 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion |
Where the trial court erred by precluding the Use of a CivifSettlement Agreement between Henry Pratt and Nationwide which was admissible to show Natio… |
| 21-6408 |
James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action |
1. Whether A state violates The Express Terms of A settlement Agreament By Failing To Inform The Decison Maker of Ther Authorlty To Grant Approvals Th… |
| 21-638 |
David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims |
After a data breach at Equifax disclosed nearly 150 million Americans' sensitive personal information, 300 class actions against Equifax were consolid… |
| 21-592 |
Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-interpretation decade-and-a-half Gibson-Dunn inconsistent-positions judicial-estoppel legal-ethics medical-license oath settlement-agreement USC whistleblower-claims |
Under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, should the lower courts have upheld the sanctity of the oath and estopped USC and Gibson Dunn from arguing in… |
| 21-99 |
Hensley K. McCalla v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure contract district-court enforcement federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-enforcement settlement-agreement |
1) Did the District Court maintain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement that defendant placed before it ?
2) Did the District Court have … |
| 20-1682 |
Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii |
Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action brought by the United States against the State of … |
| 20-7602 |
Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing |
1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DISCRETION SUSTAINING/AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER BECAUSE NO SUBSTANTIAL QUESTION WAS PRESENTED… |
| 20-5885 |
Mario Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-representation settlement-agreement |
whether Defense Counsel Provided Ineffective Assistance Under The Sixth Amendment For Failing To Challenge The Factual Resume Failing To Protect Petit… |
| 20-296 |
Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii |
1. The circuit courts of appeals split on the issue of jurisdiction regarding breach of settlement agreement resolving discrimination charge under Tit… |
| 19-8742 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine |
The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The elected… |
| 19-1043 |
Paul G., a Conserved Adult, By and Through His Conservator Steve G. v. Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
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administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedures due-process-complaint exhaustion-requirement free-appropriate-public-education futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act local-educational-agency non-IDEA-claims relief-not-available-under-IDEA settlement-agreement |
Whether exhaustion of the administrative procedures provided by the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1415(l), is required w… |
| 19-7641 |
Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend pr… |
| 19-823 |
Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS |
Ohio |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement |
I. Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parti… |
| 19-6568 |
Kenisha S. Boyd v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
acceptance attorney-authority bona-fide-settlement conflict-of-interest contingent-contract contract-formation contract-rejection judicial-discretion mediation mediation-procedure rejection settlement-agreement |
1. Whether a bona fide settlement between the parties exists when the agreement is contingent in nature, and one party has the right to reject the off… |
| 19-355 |
Kohlberg Ventures, LLC v. Peter Wojciechowski |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure claim-splitting court-authorization dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-authorization litigation-scope non-parties res-judicata settlement-agreement single-employer single-enterprise |
Under federal rules of res judicata, when a lawsuit is dismissed with prejudice by agreement, should a term of the agreement that purports to allow th… |
| 18-9840 |
Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement |
1. Whether a settlement agreement entered into by an inmate and
a State, which incorporates the mandatory language of the Interstate
Corrections Comp… |
| 18-9286 |
Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1356 |
Dayo Adetu, et al. v. Sidwell Friends School |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-deference civil-rights damages discrimination human-rights-act material-adverse-action material-adversity non-pecuniary-damages retaliation retaliation-claims settlement-agreement summary-judgment |
42 U.S.C. § 1981(b) and the D.C. Human Rights Act, § 2 -1402.61 protect individuals who engage in protected activity from retaliation. This case conce… |
| 18-1225 |
Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
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attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement |
1. Whether a deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for the former client violates said attorney's due process rights … |
| 18-1080 |
Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit |
Does Microsoft v. Baker, 137 S.Ct. 1702, 198 L.Ed. 2d 132 (2017) mandate that only plaintiffs who litigate their individual claims to a final judgment… |
| 18-1032 |
Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the "DOL's independent interest in Mawhinney's AIR21 discrimination and retaliation complaint ... cea… |
| 18-631 |
Kevin McCabe v. Gerardo Aranda, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement-agreement class-members cy-pres district-court due-process guidance judicial-discretion potential-recipients procedural-fairness recipient-selection settlement-agreement standing |
1. Whether a cy pres provision of a class-action settlement agreement may, in authorizing the class members to make recommendations for the selection,… |
| 18-259 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction |
1. Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense when it became implicated during Discovery… |
| 18-131 |
Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement |
Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen… |