settlement-negotiations

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A262 Vincent Cannady v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge Question not identified.
25-56 Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements 1. Federal Rule of Evidence (F.R.E.) 408, regarding compromise offers and negotiations, aims to encourage settlements by making evidence of settlement…
24A1041 Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination federal-rule-of-evidence-408 jury-instructions plain-error-review pretext-evidence settlement-negotiations Question not identified.
23-6753 Michael Avenatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 civil-litigation criminal-extortion federal-criminal-law honest-services-fraud legal-ethics settlement-negotiations statutory-vagueness void-for-vagueness Petitioner, an attorney representing a plaintiff with potential contract and tort claims, was convicted of honest services fraud, in violation of 18 U…
19-1127 Wheeler K. Neff v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud 1. Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations to resolve a civil lawsuit constitute a …
18A1367 McLeod Health, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure consent-decree eeoc-enforcement employment-discrimination judicial-review settlement-negotiations Question not identified.
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 'error' when the court concluded that Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment Right was not violated during t…