Decided Cases

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This case considers the proper timing for evaluating a capital defendant's intellectual functioning. Specifica...

19-7481

Murphy v. Texas

Originating court

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

This case asks whether a defendant can be retried for a greater offense if the original jury hung on that char...

19-605

Arizona v. Martin

Originating court

Supreme Court of Arizona

This is a case appealed from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to the Supreme Court. Sp...

19-1238

Watson v. McCarthy

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a decision by the Supreme Court of Pe...

19-618

Shaffer v. Pennsylvania

Originating court

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Western District

This case asks the Supreme Court to reconsider the Feres doctrine, which prevents military service members fro...

19-7228

Carter v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This case involves a legal dispute between an individual, Armstrong, and the Securities and Exchange Commissio...

19-392

Armstrong v. Sec. & Exch. Comm'n

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

This case asks whether a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses is violated when a trial court...

19-6926

Campbell v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Shevtsov against the United States, appealing ...

19-7361

Shevtsov v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed with the Supreme Court, seeking review of a decis...

19-774

Marsh v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

This case considers whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for using bodyweight pressure o...

19-6657

Smith v. Scott

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir...

19-6426

Ramirez v. Davis

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a criminal prosecution for tax crimes where the defendant argues that excluding evidence re...

19-5921

Montgomery v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This matter involves a procedural request submitted to Justice Sotomayor seeking permission to file a petition...

19-6442

Yeager v. Nat'l Pub. Radio

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

The National Association for Gun Rights petitioned the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Ninth Circuit...

19-767

Nat'l Ass'n for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Mangan

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Whether the double jeopardy clause prevents the government from retrying a defendant after a mistrial if the g...

19-766

North Carolina v. Courtney

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

Supreme Court of North Carolina

1. Whether the Fifth Circuit’s decision that Petitioner’s claim was procedurally defaulted is contrary to, or ...

19-6701

Labat v. Vannoy

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari regarding a decision by the United States Court of Appe...

19-1228

Kaneka Corp. v. Xiamen Kingdomway Grp. Co.

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth C...

19-7685

Lindsey v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh ...

19-7127

Tomlin v. Patterson

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed with the Supreme Court following a decision by th...

19-737

Douse v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari appealing a decision from the Supreme Court of Alabama.

19-7456

Carroll v. Alabama

Originating court

Supreme Court of Alabama

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari appealing a decision from the United States Court of Ap...

19-55

Richards v. Barrett

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

1. Whether the Ninth Circuit’s "extrinsic test" for copyright infringement—which requires a court to filter ou...

19-1247

Lovingood v. Discovery Commc'ns, Inc.

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case considers whether a state law violates the First Amendment by using an opt-out rule that presumes in...

19-670

Fleck v. Wetch

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Kevin Sheppard filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court regarding a decision by the Cour...

18-9693

Sheppard v. Louisiana

Decided Apr 27, 2020

Originating court

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit

This case involves a legal dispute between Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC and Environment...

19-1005

Hotze Health Wellness Ctr. Int'l One, LLC v. Envtl. Research Ctr., Inc.

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case considers the definition of an extrajudicial killing under federal law and whether it requires a sum...

17-1406

Republic of Sudan v. Opati

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court regarding a decision by the Court ...

18-1585

Nagi v. Louisiana

Decided Apr 27, 2020

Originating court

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit

Whether the Clean Water Act regulates the discharge of pollutants into groundwater that eventually migrates in...

18-268

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. v. Upstate Forever

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Supreme Court vacated a lower court decision regarding the admission of evidence about the defendant's ext...

23-6573

Andrew v. White

Decided Jan 21, 2025

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Whether several states can intervene to defend Title 42, a Trump-era border policy that allowed immigration of...

22-592

Arizona v. Mayorkas

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Decided May 18, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

This case asks whether courts can appoint their own prosecutors for criminal contempt charges when the U.S. At...

22-274

Donziger v. United States

Decided Mar 27, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

This case involves a legal dispute between Joslyn Manufacturing Company and Valbruna Slater Steel Corporation ...

19-917

Joslyn Mfg. Co. v. Valbruna Slater Steel Corp.

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

The Supreme Court held that the exclusionary rule does not apply to evidence found during searches conducted i...

22-5364

Davis v. United States

Decided Feb 21, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case asks whether the First Step Act's definition of a felony drug offense changes how sentence enhanceme...

19-8401

Lewis v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Supreme Court held that the IRS is not required to give notice when issuing a summons for a third party's ...

21-1599

Polselli v. IRS

Argued Mar 29, 2023

Decided May 18, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari from the Supreme Court of North Dakota. The specific le...

19-876

Ramirez v. Hogue

Originating court

Supreme Court of North Dakota

This case asks whether the government can use a patient's race or ethnicity to determine their health risk and...

22-757

Roberts v. McDonald

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Barton v. Stange is a legal dispute originating from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court wa...

19-8483

Barton v. Stange

Decided May 19, 2020

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This case examines whether a person's threatening Facebook messages constitute a 'true threat' unprotected by ...

22-138

Counterman v. Colorado

Argued Apr 19, 2023

Decided Jun 27, 2023

Originating court

Court of Appeals of Colorado

This case asks whether minor amendments to a state law originally passed with racist intent can cleanse the la...

22-412

Harness v. Watson

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

This case involves a legal dispute between Blankenship and NBCUniversal that was appealed from the United Stat...

22-1125

Blankenship v. NBCUniversal

Decided Oct 10, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Vitaly Smagin, a Russian citizen, sued another Russian citizen residing in California under the RICO Act for a...

22-381

Yegiazaryan v. Smagin

Argued Apr 25, 2023

Decided Jun 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case asks whether a federal court can base a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which they were...

21-1557

McClinton v. United States

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

1. Whether a party is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on a motion for a new trial. 2. Whether restricting ...

22-823

Thompson v. Henderson

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

Supreme Court of Washington

Kate Bartenwerfer and her husband sold a house with defects, leading to a fraud judgment against them before t...

21-908

Bartenwerfer v. Buckley

Decided Feb 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Supreme Court ruled that when a federal agency makes a legal error, an appeals court must send the case ba...

22-714

Calcutt v. FDIC

Decided May 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit