| 25A827 |
John A. Amster, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Application |
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administrative-interpretation dodd-frank enforcement-action objective-standard sec-regulations whistleblower-award |
1. This case presents an important question regarding whether the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is entitled to reinterpret its own regulati… |
| 24-1233 |
John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-discretion due-process regulatory-standard retroactive-application whistleblower-award |
Whether an agency can deny a whistleblower award by applying a new regulatory standard retroactively, after the whistleblower's claim has fully mature… |
| 24A727 |
John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-procedure agency-delay retroactive-guidance sec-interpretation statutory-guidance whistleblower-award |
Question not identified. |
| 24-715 |
Thomas Shands v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court whistleblower-award |
I. Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction to review the IRS's denial of a mandatory whistleblower awar… |
| 23A899 |
Manoranjan Rao v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-09 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process enforcement-action sec-investigation whistleblower-award |
Question not identified. |
| 23-413 |
Michael Lissack v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-19 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-action administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference discretion internal-revenue-service statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 7623 of Title 26 governs the Internal Revenue Service's (hereinafter the "IRS") ability to pay awards to whistleblowers. Prior to 2006, awards… |
| 23-5680 |
Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any … |
| 22-963 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award |
In denying a whistleblower award to Petitioner, the SEC interpreted key provisions of the statutory whistleblower program created by Congress in the D… |
| 22-185 |
Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award |
1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro… |
| 20-1652 |
Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Do the statutory rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in order
to qualify for whistleblower award, violate the Double Jeopardy Clause in t… |