vicarious-liability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1073 | Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-03-11 | Pending | americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure federal-funding-recipients party-presentation-principle section-504-rehabilitation-act vicarious-liability | 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the party presentation principle by sua sponte inserting the derivative liability issue into the case? 2. Are pub… | |
| 25A781 | Joquetta Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Application | conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability | Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil… | |
| 25A688 | Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Application | americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability | Question not identified. | |
| 25-3 | Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes | Nevada | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability | Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen… |
| 25-2 | Deon Reese v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-conspiracy due-process judicial-precedent pinkerton-doctrine statutory-interpretation vicarious-liability | Whether this Court should overrule Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946). |
| 24-6948 | Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights federal-rules-procedure section-1981 section-2000e state-action vicarious-liability | Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by failing to apply the vicarious liability principle enunciated in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (… |
| 24-1058 | CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | direct-use federal-circuit method-claims patent-infringement system-claims vicarious-liability | Whether the same vicarious liability analysis for direct use infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) must be applied to both method and system claims. |
| 24-181 | Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | circuit-split commercial-gain copyright-infringement direct-infringement secondary-liability vicarious-liability | Whether the profit requirement of vicarious copyright infringement permits liability where the defendant expects commercial gain from the enterprise i… |
| 23-7628 | Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment | In Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), this Court held that under Ti… |
| 23-7415 | Carlos Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability | 1. Whether, following this Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019), a jury instruction permitting a finding of guilt on an 18 … |
| 22-7865 | Tiffany Recinos v. Mike Kreidler, et al. | Washington | 2023-06-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process government-accountability government-liability government-transparency official-immunity public-records public-records-exemption vicarious-liability | Whether or not laws exist without documents when public disclosure is exempted? Whether Commissioners of the government are held to obeying the laws … |
| 22-1053 | ABKCO Music, Inc., et al. v. William Sagan, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | bootleg-recordings commercial-exploitation contributory-infringement copyright-infringement digital-distribution direct-liability music-licensing secondary-liability vicarious-liability | Whether direct liability for copyright infringement is limited to the person who actually "presses the button" to make the infringing copies. |
| 22-5915 | Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-10-26 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability | The following questions are presented: Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test to p… |
| 21-1544 | Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. | California | 2022-06-09 | Denied | civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability | In an attempt to immunize a tribe and its employees from liability, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ("the Tribe") ratified … | |
| 21-1426 | Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Dismissed | ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability | Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., as three courts of appeals … | |
| 21-1292 | S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination public-entity rehabilitation-act respondeat-superior standing vicarious-liability | Whether a public entity can be vicariously liable under a theory of respondeat superior for its employees' violations of Title II of the Americans wit… |
| 20-1667 | City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black | Ohio | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability | The case below conflicts with the precedents of the Sixth Circuit, other circuits, fellow state supreme courts as well as is violative of constitution… |
| 20-743 | DISH Network L.L.C. v. United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Dismissed | circuit-split common-law-agency contract-interpretation contractual-performance-standards federal-communications-commission performance-standards telemarketing telemarketing-law vicarious-liability | Whether vicarious liability must be assessed in light of the four bedrock theories of common law agency, or whether a contractual term imposing perfor… | |
| 20-374 | Continental Resources, Inc. v. Zachary Buckles, Deceased, By and Through His Personal Representative, Nicole R. Buckles, et al. | Montana | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | due-process federalism forum-contacts independent-contractors personal-jurisdiction sovereign-interest specific-jurisdiction tort-liability vicarious-liability | Zachary Buckles worked at an oil-production site in North Dakota where he died, allegedly as the result of tortious acts or omissions of contractors a… |
| 20-194 | Franklin Cox v. Texas Workforce Commission, et al. | Texas | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | duty-to-defend employment-law substantial-evidence-rule tax-audit unemployment-insurance vicarious-liability | 1. Will the employee have a duty to defend employer tax audit for unemployment joined as employer in the above reference cause? 2. Under Tex. Lab. Co… |
| 19-5385 | Darlene Rodgers v. Taura McDaniel, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | IFP | calumnious-decision civil-monetary-penalties civil-rights civil-rights,qualified-immunity,civil-procedure,du compensatory-settlement court-errors due-process judicial-misconduct legal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice qualified-immunity vicarious-liability | (1) . In Rodgers, the Appellant 's case, "Whether " 8th Circuit Court is vicariously liable for dishonest conduct, withholding the Federal District C… |
| 18-1183 | Dorothy A. Smulley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-liability agency-relationship circuit-procedures conservatorship due-process fannie-mae federal-instrumentality fhfa internal-operating-procedures mortgage-servicers mortgage-servicing regulatory-oversight rico vicarious-liability | Is the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) a federal instrumentality under the regulatory oversight and conservatorship of the Federal … |