Petitions and applications docketed on November 13, 2025
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paid Agilent Technologies, Inc. v.

Synthego Corp.

25-570 Federal Circuit, No. 2023-2186, 2023-2187

Judgment: June 11, 2025

Denise Marie De Mory Bunsow De Mory LLP 701 El Camino Real Redwood City, CA 94063 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition]
Question(s) presenteda QUESTIONS PRESENTED

A party challenging the validity of an issued patent in district court or in an inter partes review (“IPR”) proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) bears the burden of proving invalidity. 35 U.S.C. 8§ 282, 316(e). To anticipate a claim of an issued patent, a prior art printed publication must disclose and enable said claim. Seymour v. Osborne, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) 516, 538 (1870); Amgen Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., 314 F.3d 1318, 13854 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (“a non-enabled disclosure cannot be anticipatory (because it is not truly prior art)’). The questions presented are:

  1. Should printed publications be presumed to be enabling when a party challenging the validity of issued patent claims asserts that a printed publication is anticipatory prior art, such that the burden of proving that the printed publication is nonenabling lies with the patentee?

  2. Should the holding in Rasmusson v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 413 F.3d 1318, 1826 (Fed. Cir. 2005), that “proof of efficacy is not required in order for a reference to be enabled for purposes of anticipation,” be vacated or significantly narrowed?

paid James Stuart Faller, II v.

Department of Justice

25-572 Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5955

Judgment: June 25, 2025

James Stuart Faller II PO Box 121 Edgefield, SC 29824 [Petition] [Appendix]
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paid Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v.

E. Jean Carroll

25-573 Second Circuit, No. 23-793

Judgment: December 30, 2024

Justin Daniel Smith James Otis Law Group, LLC 530 Maryville Centre Drive, Suite 230 St. Louis, MO 63141 [Main Document] [Petition]
Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTED

I. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 415 overrides Rule 403’s requirement to balance the probative value of temporally remote propensity evidence against its prejudicial effect before such evidence can be admitted?

II]. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 413(d) authorizes the admission of temporally remote propensity evidence that the defendant committed the “crime” of “sexual assault” when the alleged prior act did not constitute a crime or a sexual assault?

III. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)(2) permits the admission of “modus operandi” or “corroboration” evidence of prior “bad acts” without establishing a non-propensity purpose of the evidence, such as identity, absence of mistake, or another enumerated exception in Rule 404(b)(2)?

paid Ron K. Elfenbein v.

United States

25-574 Fourth Circuit, No. 24-4048

Judgment: July 17, 2025

Martin S. Himeles Jr. Zuckerman Spaeder LLP 100 East Pratt St, Ste 2440 Baltimore, MD 21202 [Petition]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED

Under 18 U.S.C. § 1847, a person is guilty of health care fraud if he willfully executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme to obtain money or property from a health care benefit program “by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises… .” In a so-called “upcoding” case like this one, the allegedly false representations are the numeric codes attached to a healthcare provider’s claim for insurance reimbursement. The selection of these codes, which represent medical services and procedures, are governed by a complex set of rules promulgated by the American Medical Association (“AMA”).

The question presented—which has divided six circuits—is:

When an allegedly false statement is premised on an ambiguous rule open to multiple reasonable inter- pretations, can the government secure a defendant’s conviction merely by persuading a jury that its preferred interpretation is “better”?

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paid Will McLemore v.

Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission

25-575 Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5794

Judgment: August 12, 2025

Wencong Fa Beacon Center of Tennessee 1200 Clinton Street, Suite 205 Nashville, TN 37203 [Petition]
Question(s) presenteda QUESTIONS PRESENTED

In Natl Inst. of Family & Life Advocates v. Becerra, 585 U.S. 755, 768 (2018) (NJFLA), this Court rejected the professional speech doctrine, which gave government “unfettered power to reduce a group’s First Amendment rights by simply imposing a licensing requirement.” Yet in the seven years since, “the division between speech and conduct has not been evenly applied throughout the country, particularly when it comes to licensing schemes that determine which individuals can speak about certain topics.” Richwine v. Matuszak, 148 F.4th 942, 953 (7th Cir. 2025) (citing conflicting decisions from federal courts of appeals). The decision below deepened that acknowledged circuit split. The questions presented are:

  1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law.

  2. Whether a law that imposes incidental burdens on speech must satisfy intermediate scrutiny.

ifp Christopher J. Rahaim v.

Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida

25-6099 Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-12630

Judgment: April 15, 2025

Christopher J. Rahaim #R02347 Raiford Medical Center PO Box 628 Lake Butler, FL 32054 [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED | 1. Should the established, freestanding public records rights be revisited for settling the states conflicting, questionable lawful authority to fraudulently conceal evidence that proves substantive, procedural rights violations falsely imprisoning a criminal defendant, the state court lacking any compelling government interest, evidentiary privilege or subject matter jurisdiction? | 2. Do established laws protect and prevent the indefinite suppression of public records that show fraudulent prosecutions of non-existent crimes, impeachability of all prosecution witnesses, an insufficiency of evidence to sustain any conviction and the lack of any lawful authority by non-elected, appointed judges and prosecutors to perpetrate and conceal unconstitutional processes facilitating extrinsic fraud and false imprisonment? 3. Do established Federal and International laws enforce the right to a fair, speedy trial and correct the deprivation of that right, perpetrated through trickery, deceit, extrinsic fraud, depriving face to face confrontation, material evidence of impeachability and actual innocence?

’ 4. Does the deprivation of self-representation/access to courts, with the purpose of preventing challenges to rights violations, entitle the victim, through established law, to . review of the disqualified challenges and or dismissal of criminal charges and release from custody?

  1. Does established law protect an enforce rights violated through vague, ambiguous,

conflicting state legislation, non-elected appointed officials and prolonged ex—parte

influence/inadmissible evidentiary support and arguments?

  1. Is this court obligated to revisit, under stare decisis, impact of actuality, highest level of . controversy, the internal constitutional conflict between the 9t and 14t* Amendments for

vague and ambiguous wording in the 9 Amendment, violating International law, when the

application results in arbitrary detention perpetrated by non-elected, appointed judges and

assistant prosecutors falsely claiming a lawful authority?

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ifp Leihinahina Sullivan v.

United States

25-6100 Ninth Circuit, No. 25-3490

Judgment: August 14, 2025

Leihinahina Sullivan #09779122 Victorville Camp FCI Med 1 PO Box 5300 Adelanto, CA 92301 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED

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ifp Brittany Lyn Isaacson v.

United States

25-6105 Tenth Circuit, No. 24-8044

Judgment: July 15, 2025

Emily Marie Harris Harris, Harris & Quinn, P.C. 2618 Warren Avenue Cheyenne, WY 82001 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) 1s unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 US. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024). ia
ifp Rico Gonzalez v.

United States

25-6106 Second Circuit, No. 24-1539

Judgment: August 13, 2025

Edward Scott Zas Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. 52 Duane Street New York, NY 10007 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) 1s unconstitutional on its face or as applied to petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal government may not permanently disarm citizens whose prior felony convictions were for nonviolent offenses only. 1
ifp Davon Amos Johnson v.

United States

25-6107 Fourth Circuit, No. 25-4079

Judgment: August 21, 2025

Patrick L. Bryant Office of the Federal Public Defender 1650 King Street, Suite 500 Alexandria, VA 22314 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1)’s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment, either facially or as applied to the Petitioner. 1
ifp Johnathan Anton Williams v.

United States

25-6108 Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-13858

Judgment: August 11, 2025

Laura J Daines Office of the Federal Public Defender MDFL 400 N Tampa St Ste 2700 Tampa, FL 33602 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED!
  1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, 1s constitutional under the Second Amendment.

  2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) 1s unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s authority under the Commerce Clause as applied to intrastate possession of a firearm.

1 This first question in this petition, regarding whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly holds § 922(g)(1) constitutional without engaging in an as-applied analysis and categorically barring felons from possessing firearms, 1s also raised in other petitions, including Jones v. United States, No. 25-5820 (distributed for conference of Nov. 14, 2025). The question of whether § 922(g)(1) 1s subject to an as-applied challenge is also similar to—but distinct from—other petitions that turn on the availability and scope of an as-applied challenge. See, e.g., Howard v. United States, No. 25-5220 (distributed for conference of November 21, 2025) (“Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(¢)(1) comports with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony conviction is drug trafficking?’); Vincent v. Bondi, No. 24-1155 (distributed for conference of November 21, 2025) (“Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Melynda Vincent, who has one seventeen-year-old nonviolent felony conviction for trying to pass a bad check.”).

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ifp Dion Marsh v.

United States

25-6109 Third Circuit, No. 24-2452

Judgment: August 13, 2025

Timothy Michael Shepherd Office of the Federal Public Defender 22 South Clinton Avenue Station Plaza #4, Fourth Floor Trenton, NJ 08609 [Petition] [Appendix]
Question(s) presented1 QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant’s silence.
app Shirley V. Remmert v.

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

25A553 Ninth Circuit, No. 25-2931

Judgment: —

Shirley V. Remmert 1000 Twin Dolphin Drive Apt. 306 Redwood City, CA 94065 [Main Document] NA
app BAS, LLC v.

Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas

25A554 Supreme Court of Arkansas, No. CV-24-645

Judgment: —

Robert H. Thomas Pacific Legal Foundation 555 Capitol Mall, Ste 1290 Sacramento, CA 95814 [Main Document] NA
app Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc. v.

Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois

25A555 Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, No. 3-21-0073

Judgment: —

Dmitry N. Feofanov ChicagoLemonLaw.com, P.C. 404 Fourth Avenue West Lyndon, IL 61261 [Main Document] NA
app La Union del Pueblo Entero v.

Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas

25A556 Fifth Circuit, No. 24-50826

Judgment: —

Nina Perales MALDEF 110 Broadway Suite 300 San Antonio, TX 78205 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] NA
app United States v.

Donte J. Carter

25A557 District of Columbia Court of Appeals, No. 23-CF-0388

Judgment: —

D. John Sauer Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 [Main Document] NA
app Chantel Mitchell v.

Office Depot, Inc.

25A558 Ninth Circuit, No. 24-292

Judgment: —

Chantel Mitchell 6815 Peck Ave. Anchorage, AK 99504 [Main Document] NA
app James E. McNair v.

K. Johnson

25A559 Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-10153

Judgment: —

Andrew Timothy Tutt Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 601 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001 [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] NA