October Term 2022

Decided Feb 20, 2024

Originating court

Lower court information is still being verified.

Whether the Second Circuit’s “right to control” theory of fraud—which treats the deprivation of complete and a...

21-1170

Louis Ciminelli, Petitioner v. United States, et al.

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Argued Nov 28, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Whether a private citizen who can exercise "de facto control" over government decisions owes a fiduciary duty ...

21-1158

Joseph Percoco, Petitioner v. United States, et al.

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Argued Nov 28, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Turkiye Halk Bankasi, a Turkish state-owned bank, was indicted for participating in a money-laundering scheme ...

21-1450

Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States

This case considers whether an order resolving a Federal Tort Claims Act claim blocks other claims arising fro...

Argued Jan 17, 2023

Decided Apr 19, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

22-912

King v. Brownback

Decided Oct 30, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

A deaf student sued his school district under the Americans with Disabilities Act for compensatory damages aft...

21-887

Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools

This case involves a legal dispute between an individual identified as N.S. and the Kansas City Board of Polic...

Argued Jan 18, 2023

Decided Mar 21, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

22-556

N.S. v. Kansas City Board of Police

Awaiting scheduling

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

The Supreme Court considered whether a federal district court has the authority to hear constitutional challen...

21-1239

SEC v. Cochran

Argued Nov 7, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Michael and Chantall Sackett were blocked from building a home on their property by the EPA, which claimed the...

21-454

Sackett v. EPA

Argued Oct 3, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Voters challenged Alabama's 2021 congressional redistricting map, arguing that it illegally packed Black voter...

21-1086

Allen v. Milligan

Argued Oct 4, 2022

Originating court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Adolfo Arellano applied for veterans' disability benefits 30 years after his discharge and argued that the one...

21-432

Arellano v. McDonough

Argued Oct 4, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal 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

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

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

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

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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

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

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

Argued Apr 25, 2023

Decided Jun 22, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

22-823

Thompson v. Henderson

TrackingKey context available; fuller brief still in progress

Originating court

Supreme Court of Washington

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

This case involves whether civil penalties imposed by the IRS are subject to the Constitution's protection aga...

22-177

Toth v. United States

Decided Jan 23, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

This case involves an emergency application by the State of Alabama to vacate a stay of execution granted to a...

22-580

Hamm v. Smith

Decided May 15, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Supreme Court considered whether a pharmacy chain knowingly violated the False Claims Act by overbilling t...

21-1326

United States ex rel. Schutte v. Supervalu Inc.

Oswald arose from a habeas case after the Sixth Circuit denied a certificate of appealability following his Oh...

Argued Apr 18, 2023

Decided Jun 1, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

22-304

Oswald v. Mauer

Awaiting scheduling

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

This capital case involved a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during the sentencing phase, specifica...

22-5891

Burns v. Mays

Decided Apr 24, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that social media platforms cannot be held liable for aiding ...

21-1496

Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh

Argued Feb 22, 2023

This case considers whether New York laws that prevent landlords from terminating leases at the end of a fixed...

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

22-1130

74 Pinehurst LLC v. New York

Decided Feb 20, 2024

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

This case considers whether a court clerk is entitled to quasi-judicial immunity after notifying a minor's par...

22-312

Chapman v. Doe

Decided Mar 20, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This case asks whether a federal court can assume it has jurisdiction to decide state law issues against a par...

22-914

Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

Decided Jun 26, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

This case asks whether a state law banning certain counseling conversations as unprofessional conduct violates...

22-942

Tingley v. Ferguson

Decided Dec 11, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

This case involves a dispute over whether individuals have standing to bring an Establishment Clause claim aga...

22-278

City of Ocala v. Rojas

Decided Mar 6, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

This case considers whether a federal immigration law prevents a court of appeals from reviewing an immigrant'...

21-1436

Santos-Zacaria v. Garland

This case involves a dispute over whether a U.S. company can sue a foreign distributor for trademark infringem...

Argued Jan 17, 2023

Decided May 11, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

21-1043

Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int'l, Inc.

In a case involving Slack's direct public listing, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals suing under Sectio...

Argued Mar 21, 2023

Decided Jun 29, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

22-200

Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani

Gorgi Talevski's family sued a state-run nursing facility for allegedly using unnecessary chemical restraints ...

Argued Apr 17, 2023

Decided Jun 1, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

21-806

Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion Cty. v. Talevski

Argued Nov 8, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Tony Terrell Clark filed a petition against the State of Mississippi. The case involves an assessment of wheth...

22-6057

Clark v. Mississippi

Originating court

Supreme Court of Mississippi

This case involves a determination of whether police officers used excessive force when they held a handcuffed...

22-510

Lombardo v. St. Louis

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

John Montenegro Cruz, who was sentenced to death, sought post-conviction relief arguing a significant change i...

21-846

Cruz v. Arizona

Argued Nov 1, 2022

Originating court

Supreme Court of Arizona

The Supreme Court considered whether the Andy Warhol Foundation's commercial licensing of artwork derived from...

21-869

Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith

Argued Oct 12, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

This case considers whether a federal prisoner can file a habeas corpus petition to challenge their conviction...

21-857

Jones v. Hendrix

Argued Nov 1, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

This case considers whether gender dysphoria is excluded from the definition of a disability under the America...

22-633

Kincaid v. Williams

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Supreme Court considered whether California's Proposition 12, which bans the in-state sale of pork from an...

21-468

National Pork Producers Council v. Ross

Argued Oct 11, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Axon Enterprise sued the Federal Trade Commission, arguing that the agency's structure and procedures are unco...

21-86

Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC

Argued Nov 7, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Michael Hewitt, an offshore oil rig supervisor paid a daily rate totaling over $200,000 annually, sued his emp...

21-984

Helix Energy Solutions v. Hewitt

Argued Oct 12, 2022

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Efrain Lora was convicted under a federal statute for his role in a drug-trafficking-related murder. The Supre...

22-49

Lora v. United States

Argued Mar 28, 2023

Decided Jun 16, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that two of Amgen's patents for cholesterol-lowering drugs we...

21-757

Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi

Argued Mar 27, 2023

Originating court

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit