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25A882 Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund Ninth Circuit 2026-02-05 Application 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…