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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1023 | James Marshall Shoemaker, III v. Leslie R. Moore, Esq., as Personal Representative and Trustee of the Estate of James Marshall Shoemaker, Jr., et al. | South Carolina | 2026-02-25 | Pending | appellate-jurisdiction attorney-malpractice due-process judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-recusal vacatur | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process is violated when a judge knowingly rules on the merits of a case while maintaining an u… | |
| 25-504 | Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard… |
| 24A1093 | Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. | Florida | 2025-05-14 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-award arbitration-procedure federal-arbitration-act procedural-due-process state-court-review vacatur | Question not identified. | |
| 24-948 | Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur | Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), a court of appeals' decision should be vacated because the appeal became moot b… |
| 24-6663 | Darrell Turner v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur | (1) DOES A DEFENDANT MEET THE "SUBSTANTIAL DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT" STANDARD UNDER 28 USCS § 2253(c), WHEN HE PRESENTS THE 'VACATUR' OF HIS P… |
| 24-844 | Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur | Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial … | |
| 23-660 | Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A., et al. v. Autoridad del Canal de Panama | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-19 | Denied | arbitration arbitrator-impartiality disclosure disclosure-requirements evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act reasonable-impression-of-partiality vacatur | 1. What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral … | |
| 23-6057 | Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S… |
| 23-303 | Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-opportunity fraud-on-court judge-misconduct judicial-misconduct procedural-rules res-judicata vacatur wage-discrimination | The Plaintiff requests the supreme court to analyze the application of the doctrine of Res Judicata applied to cases 18cv02742 and 21cv02226 and deter… |
| 23-5638 | Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur | QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by committing a factual error in which likely impacted the outcome of their Decis… |
| 23-154 | Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. v. Hunter Doster, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-17 | GVR | Relisted (3) | civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process military military-vaccination mootness mootness-doctrine munsingwear-doctrine preliminary-injunction religious-exemption standing vacatur | Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i… |
| 22-7768 | Nidal Ayyad v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur | Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7701 | Jose Pena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur | Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-1138 | John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine | The question presented for review is whether vacatur is required where a case becomes moot solely by the action of defendants who had prevailed in the… |
| 22-7121 | Christopher Barret v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur | 1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc… |
| 22-6557 | Diana Louise Houck v. Lifestore Bank, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure cumulative-finality dismissal finality interlocutory-appeal right-to-appeal rule-58 vacatur | 1. Cumulative Finality: When a Plaintiff has not requested cumulative finality for an interlocutory appeal, the Circuit Court of Appeals did not deter… |
| 22-605 | Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2023-01-03 | Denied | administrative-law agency-deference mootness Munsingwear SEC-v-Chenery vacatur | Question not identified. | |
| 22-6129 | Artak Ovsepian v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur | Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United… |
| 22-5435 | Rahsaan Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | GVR | IFP | concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court-denial district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-review mitigating-information post-sentencing-conduct sentencing-mitigation vacatur | Whether the district court's denial of Mr. Johnson's First Step Act motion must be vacated in light of Concepcion v. United States because the court d… |
| 22-31 | Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur | 1. Whether the motion to intervene was timely. 2. Whether the opinion below should be vacated as moot under Munsingwear. |
| 21-8199 | Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur | Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-1329 | Estate of Geraldine F. Jennings, et al. v. Gulfshore Private Home Care, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process final-judgment notice notice-requirement sua-sponte sua-sponte-vacatur vacatur | In this case, the district court entered an order dismissing the case upon summary judgment and directed the clerk to enter judgment. The clerk did so… |
| 21-7172 | Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur | Although "an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the trial court enters a permanent injunction " incorporating the sam… |
| 21-848 | Spire Missouri Inc., et al. v. Environmental Defense Fund, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law agency-decision energy federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas public-interest remand remand-without-vacatur vacatur | The Spire STL Pipeline is a critical source of natural gas for the St. Louis region. The pipeline—which became operational in 2019—was constructed to … |
| 21-5808 | In Re Tommy Rutledge | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur | When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins… | |
| 21-344 | Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur | This Court has recognized that while the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) reflects a federal policy of favoring arbitration, "there is no federal policy … |
| 20-1804 | In Re Peter R. Culpepper | 2021-06-25 | Denied | arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur | Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), respondent-chancellor abused her discretion in applying the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act ("th… | ||
| 20-1553 | Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur | Petitioner Reiyn Keohane is a Florida prisoner who challenged the denial of medically necessary care for gender dysphoria under then-applicable Florid… | |
| 20-1343 | Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur | 1. Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in … |
| 20-1047 | Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-02 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated. |
| 20-895 | Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. | Nebraska | 2021-01-07 | Denied | actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur | 1. Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy. 2. W… | |
| 20-5499 | Savannah Rolle v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states vacatur | Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2020), in which the defendant was not advised of the essent… |
| 19-1173 | Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Amici (3) | article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders, pursuant to Unit… |
| 19-777 | Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-12-18 | Denied | administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur | 1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to … | |
| 19-712 | Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. | Louisiana | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur | 1. Is "manifest disregard of the law" still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award? 2. Did the arbitrator in this case manifestly di… |
| 19-6710 | Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur | This Court has consistently recognized that when a prevailing party's unilateral action renders a case moot before appellate review concludes, the pro… |
| 19-5857 | Jonathan P. Flom v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittance civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation deliberation due-process fundamental-error government-misconduct material-disclosure sentence-enhancement vacatur | I. Whether the Order of Dismissal with Prejudice as an Acquittance provides preclusive and legal force, requiring Vacatur; Whether various violations … |
| 19-5852 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-06 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5383 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-31 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-117 | Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds | 1. Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under t… | |
| 18-8848 | Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-04-16 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur | 1. Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias… |
| 18-502 | William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur | Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud? Plaintiffs were uns… | |
| 18-5542 | Stephen Mayer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur | Whether when, an Appellate court vacates a forfeiture order on direct appeal 'having found only partial of the District Court's trial order was valid … |
| 18-5119 | Ambrose King v. Mary King | Maryland | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur | DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE SUBSTANTIVE AND PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS IN NOT VACATING THE DISMISSAL OF THE APPEAL IN THE INSTANT MATTER? DID THE LOWER C… |