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No. 25-1386October Term 2025Before Arguments

Docket 25-1386October Term 2025 (2025–2026)

Jamila Hambrick, Administrator of the Estate of Derrick Khalid Hambrick, Petitioner v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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What it's about

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Question presented

1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit’s categorical rule excluding all third-party statements recorded in police reports from the hearsay exceptions under Federal Rules of Evidence 803(8), 804(b)(3), and 807, regardless of the circumstances of the statement’s making conflicts with this Court’s broad, flexible approach to the Federal Rules of Evidence as articulated in Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey, 488 U.S. 153 (1988), and with the approaches of other circuits that evaluate such statements under a totality-of-the-circumstances analysis. 2. Whether a court violates the Seventh Amendment’s guarantee of the right to trial by jury and this Court’s summary judgment precedents in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986), and Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 (1986), when it excludes a plaintiff’s key evidence on hearsay grounds and then grants summary judgment on the basis that the plaintiff lacks sufficient evidence to create a genuine dispute of material fact.

Case path

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit / Accepted by the Court

Area

Supreme Court case awaiting argument

Timing

Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term

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Sep 1, 2026
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