No. 25-7583October Term 2025Before Arguments
Antonio Goodwin, Petitioner v. AT&T Corporation
from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Case status
- Current stage
- Before Arguments
- Latest event
- Accepted by the Court
- Decision timing
- No window until argument is scheduled.
- What it's about
from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Question presented
Whether due process is violated where Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin filed a dispositive motion on September 10, 2025 that should have been granted in Plain tiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin ’ s favor, where the dispositive motion filed on September 10, 2025 proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin was an employee of AT&T, AT&T Inc., and AT&T Corp., where Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin filed more than 1,053 documents identifying Antonio Goodwin on AT&T, AT&T Inc., and AT&T Corp, documents as an employee of those entities, where Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin received an AT&T envelope dated January 17, 2022 containing his full name, employee number, AT&T password, clothing-order records, AT&T phone number 1-800-331-0500, and the att.com/returns website, where a live AT&T customer service agent confirmed in writing “ this is AT&T, ” where Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin preserved those text messages, where Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin has a video-recorded phone call message from AT&T stating “ this is AT&T ” from his employee document, where Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Goodwin has a live agent texting?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Accepted by the Court
- Area
Supreme Court case awaiting argument
Timing
Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term
The Court granted review but has not yet scheduled oral argument. Once argued, the median case reaches a decision in 94 days. Nearly all cases are decided by the end of the term in which they are argued.
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Sep 1, 2026
- Method
- Methodology