| Petitions and applications docketed on July 29, 2026 | |||||||
| type | Caption | Docket No | Court Below | Petitioner's Counsel | Counsel's Address | Recent Filings | QP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| paid | Safron Capital Corporation
v. Elanco Animal Health Inc. |
26-127 | Court of Appeals of Indiana, No. 24A-CT-1164
Judgment: August 01, 2025 |
Mitchell M.Z. Twersky | Abraham , Fruchter & Twersky, LLP 450 Seventh Avenue, 38th Floor New York, NY 10123 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] | NA |
| paid | Shalini Ahmed
v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut |
26-128 | Second Circuit, No. 25-3030
Judgment: February 18, 2026 |
Shalini Ahmed | P.O. Box 5146 Greenwich, CT 06831 | [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented: 1 | QUESTION PRESENTED This case presents a Seventh Amendment sequenc- | | ing question arising from the denial of mandamus. : | After remand in a long-running SEC receivership proceeding, the district court entered an order resolv- | ing disputed factual issues concerning ownership, - tracing, commingling, and the availability of assets ti- | | tled to relief defendants to satisfy ajudgment against | | another person. Petitioner and other Relief Defend- : ants filed a Rule 59(e) motion raising, among other things, a Seventh Amendment jury-trial claim. Peti- . : : tioner then filed a separate jury demand to preserve | that right. The district court denied the jury demand as “premature” because the same jury-trial argu- | . |. -_ ments were already pending in the Rule 59(e) motion. | Petitioner sought mandamus, arguing that the dis- | SO trict court could not decide overlapping factual issues | : before adjudicating the jury-trial right. The Second : Circuit denied mandamus, holding that Petitioner , | : | had not shown a clear and indisputable right to the Oo writ or the absence of another adequate remedy. The . Eighth Circuit, applying Cheney, granted mandamus | | to restore a jury demand where the government , | sought a money judgment reaching funds that were | allegedly dissipated or commingled. Jn re Brazile, 993 F. 3d 593, 595 (2021). The question presented is: | | Whether mandamus is available to enforce the Sev- enth Amendment sequencing rule of Beacon Theatres | and Dairy Queen where a district court denies a jury demand as premature and proceeds to consider a Rule 59(e) motion involving factual issues overlapping with that jury demand. |
| paid | Peter Protopapas
v. Whittaker, Clark & Daniels Inc. |
26-129 | Third Circuit, No. 24-2210, 24-2211, 25-1044
Judgment: September 10, 2025 |
Bryan Michael Killian | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20004 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTION PRESENTEDPetitioner, a state-appointed receiver, objected to the bankruptcy court’s jurisdiction over Respondent’s Chapter 11 case: relying on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, Petitioner argued that Respondent (the state-court loser) complains of injuries from a state- court order appointing Petitioner as receiver and invokes federal bankruptcy jurisdiction to overturn the receivership order. The Third Circuit rejected Petitioner’s objection, relying on circuit precedent that limits the Rooker-Feldman doctrine only to state-court orders that are either final or effectively final. Subsequently, in 7.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp., 608 U.S. —, 146 8. Ct. 1739 (June 18, 2026), this Court held that the Rooker- Feldman doctrine bars district courts from exercising jurisdiction over cases brought by state-court losers complaining of state-court judgments, “regardless of whether those judgments are final _ trial-court judgments or those of a State’s highest court.” The question presented is whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of 7.M. |
| paid | Teck Metals Ltd., fka Teck Cominco Metals Ltd., a Canadian corporation
v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation |
26-130 | Ninth Circuit, No. 24-5565
Judgment: September 03, 2025 |
Jeffrey B. Wall | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 1700 M Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Main Document] [Main Document] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDThe Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) author- izes the United States, the States, and Indian tribes to recover damages for “injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources.” 42 U.S.C. § 9607(a)(4)(C), (f)(1). Those damages may be recovered for “use only to re- store, replace, or acquire the equivalent of such natural resources.” Id. § 9607(£)(1). The question presented is whether CERCLA au- thorizes damages for the felt loss of a cultural connec- tion to natural resources. (I) |
| paid | Jonatan O. RosarioMartinez
v. United States |
26-131 | United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, No. 25-0102
Judgment: — |
Kyle William Rodewald | Navy-Marine Corps Appellate Defense Division 1254 Charles Morris Street, SE Suite 100 Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDEvery American prosecuted in state or federal civilian court has the constitutional protection of a unanimous verdict before being convicted of a serious crime. One class of defendants, however, does not receive that protection: those prosecuted before a court-martial. Under Article 52 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the federal government may convict a service member of murder, rape, or another serious offense—even one punishable by life imprisonment—based on the votes of only three- fourths of a panel of lay members. This petition asks whether that practice survives this Court’s decision in Ramos v. Louisiana. Service members charged with ordinary criminal offenses that have long been tried before civilian juries may be convicted by a non-unanimous military panel, as courts-martial no longer require a military nexus. For many defendants charged with ordinary criminal offenses, including the four Petitioners, the only distinction between receiving the protections of a unanimous verdict and conviction by a= non- unanimous vote is the government’s decision to prosecute before a court-martial rather than an Article III court. That choice alone determines whether an accused enjoys the _ constitutional protection of a unanimous verdict. The Question Presented 1s: Does the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause permit conviction in a court-martial by the non- unanimous vote of a panel of lay members? |
| paid | Hongfei Liu
v. Min Li |
26-132 | Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, No. 14-23-00810-CV
Judgment: July 15, 2025 |
Hongfei Liu | 9507 Stone Castle Drive Houston, TX 77064 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTED The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that no State shall deprive any person of property without due process of law, a protection that bars the imposition of substantial | civil monetary judgments based upon arbitrary, | speculative, or mathematically impossibleevidentiary grounds. In a state marital dissolution proceeding, the trial | court entered a massive community asset “waste” finding and a dependent monetary judgment against | : Petitioner. The record demonstrates that this financial hability was manufactured by : systematically double-, triple-, and quadruple-counting single cash flows (such as counting a single separate-property transfer four distinct times as a transfer, tuition, housing, and maternal support), penalizing legally non-existent transactions that were fully reversed on the banking record, and inventing decades of fictitious collegiate housing costs. The state appellate courts acknowledged independent property errors but affirmed this specific financial penalty in full. The question presented is: Whether a state court’s judicial imposition and subsequent appellate affirmation of a substantial |
| paid | Albert Yum
v. Superior Court of California, Orange County |
26-133 | Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, No. G066563
Judgment: February 26, 2026 |
Albert Yum | 4924 Saint Andrews Ave. Buena Park, CA 90621 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| 1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDTitle V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”), under Section 6807 (also known as the “savings clause’), allows for states to create legislation that provide greater privacy protections for consumers in controlling what Congress has defined as “non-public personal information.” The state of California, in enacting their own legislative version titled California Financial Information Privacy Act (“SB 1”), extends this definition of “non-public personal information” to include any information contained about a person in a “consumer report”. (See Cal. Fin. Code § 4052(b)(7)). Previously, the Ninth Circuit remanded and | upheld a district court ruling that pre-empts the Fair Credit Reporting Act (““FCRA”) definition of “consumer reports’, from the affiliate sharing provision pursuant to § 4053(b)(1) | of California SB 1. See American Bankers Ass‘ns v. Lockyer, | 541, 1214 (9th Cir. 2008). Judicial opinion on a constitutional . privacy claim made in connection with § 4053(b)(4) of SB 1 and the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act (““ECOA”), currently does not exist in the state or federal courts. Therefore, the questions presented ask:
FCRA, holds deference to apply to § 4053(b)(4) of California’s SB 1, when a creditor has failed to comply with the notice requirements relating to § 1691(d)(1)- . (3) of the federal ECOA. 2. Whether a state “right to privacy” under Cal. Const. Art. 1 § 1 and California SB 1, is an adequate post- deprivation due process claim per 42 U.S.C. § 1983. |
| paid | Edward S. Phillips
v. Matthew Plummer, Warden, Menard Correctional Center |
26-134 | Seventh Circuit, No. 25–1393
Judgment: April 29, 2026 |
Nancy Lynne Vincent | Office of the State Appellate Defender PO Box 5240 Springfield, IL 62705 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTEDUnder the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pen- alty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), when a habeas corpus peti- tioner seeks to initiate an appeal of the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition, the right to appeal is governed by the certificate of appealability (COA) requirements found at 28 U.S.C. §2253(c). In Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), this Court held: “Where a district court has rejected the constitutional claims on the merits, the showing required to satisfy §2253(c) is straightforward: The petitioner must demonstrate that reasonable jurists would find the district court’s assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong.” Id., at 484. The principal question presented is whether the Seventh Circuit has so far departed from the rule of law established in Slack, and/or sanctioned such a de- parture from this rule of law by the Southern District of Illinois, as to call for an exercise of this Court’s su- pervisory power, per 8. Ct. R. 10(a). |
| paid | Antoinette Williams
v. LOGS Legal Group, LLP |
26-135 | Appellate Court of Maryland, No. 0246
Judgment: December 26, 2025 |
Michelle E. Stawinski | Law Office of Brian Gormley, LLC 7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 | [Petition] | NA |
| paid | Tesla, Inc.
v. Granite Vehicle Ventures LLC |
26-136 | Federal Circuit, No. 2026-116
Judgment: February 27, 2026 |
Michael Frank Qian | Haynes and Boone, LLP 2801 N. Harwood Street, Suite 2300 Dallas, TX 75201 | [Main Document] [Petition] | NA |
| paid | Michael J. Madigan
v. United States |
26-137 | Seventh Circuit, No. 25-2249
Judgment: April 27, 2026 |
Lisa S. Blatt | Williams & Connolly LLP 680 Maine Avenue SW Washington, DC 20024 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED The government prosecuted Michael Madigan, for- mer Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, under the federal-program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B), on the theory that he corruptly promised to help a utility company in connection with future, uni- dentified legislation in exchange for a “stream of benefits” in the form of jobs for Madigan’s political associates. The government also prosecuted Speaker Madigan under the honest-services fraud statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1848 and 1346, on the theory that he separately promised to recom- mend a local politician to the governor-elect for a position on a state board in exchange for the politician’s referring potential clients to Madigan and his son. For both sets of counts, the parties agreed to define the quid pro quo ele- ment by reference to the definition of “official act” in 18 U.S.C. § 201(a)(). The questions presented are: 1. Whether a public official acts “corruptly” under § 666(a)(1)(B) merely because he understands the alleged bribe-giver’s intent to influence or reward the official in connection with his official duties. 2. Whether future, unidentified legislation affecting a company’s financial struggles is a sufficiently specific “question or matter” under 18 U.S.C. § 201(a)(8). 3. Whether a legislator’s alleged promise to make a job recommendation to a governor-elect consti- tutes an “official act” under 18 U.S.C. § 201(a)(8). (I) |
| paid | Steven T. Savage, et ux.
v. Coastal Capital, LLC |
26-138 | First Circuit, No. 25-1249
Judgment: February 27, 2026 |
Terrie Harman | Harman Law Offices 129 Water Street Exeter, NH 03833 | [Main Document] [Petition] | NA |
| paid | Monsanto Company
v. Mike Dennis |
26-139 | Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, No. D084130
Judgment: November 24, 2025 |
Paul D. Clement | Clement & Murphy, PLLC 706 Duke Street Alexandria, VA 22314 | [Main Document] [Petition] | NA |
| paid | W. A. Griffin, M.D.
v. Travelers Property Casualty Company of America |
26-140 | Second Circuit, No. 25-1272
Judgment: February 12, 2026 |
W. A. Griffin | P.O. Box 570519 Atlanta, GA 30357 | NA | |
| ifp | Vickiel Vincent Vaughn
v. United States |
26-5174 | Fifth Circuit, No. 25-50136
Judgment: April 24, 2026 |
Joseph Jeff Ostini | National Defense Law 756 Brohard Rd Ray, OH 45672 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION PRESENTEDWhen determining whether to impose supervised release and the length of that term, a district court may not consider the retributive factors identified in 18 U.S.C. § 8553(a)(2)(A) and Esteras v. United States, 145 $8.Ct. 2031 (2025). The question presented is as follows: Whether a district court actually relies on § 3558(a)(2)(A), at least by unmistakable implication, when it expressly invokes those factors in an undifferentiated explanation immediately before imposing imprisonment and supervised release, without limiting the factors to imprisonment? 1 |
| ifp | Andre Dewayne Williamson
v. United States |
26-5175 | Fourth Circuit, No. 23-4601
Judgment: April 30, 2026 |
Richard Wallace Weston | Weston Injury Law, PLLC 201 West Short Street Suite 820 Lexington, KY 40507 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a juror’s deliberate concealment of material, disqualifying infor- mation during voir dire can be cured under the Sixth Amendment solely by the ju- ror’s own subjective, post-trial assurances of impartiality. 1 |
| ifp | Kennie Whitby
v. Ronald Fenner, Warden |
26-5176 | Sixth Circuit, No. 24-1682
Judgment: January 15, 2025 |
Kennie Whitby | #206315 Thumb Correctional Facility 3225 John Conley Dr. Lapeer, MI 48846 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented| | : QUESTION PRESENTED || sDID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN IT FAILED TO SUPPRESS THE | FRUITS OF AN EDWARDS v. ARIZONA VIOLATION, FIFTH AND SO ROURTEENTH AMENDMENT, RESULTING IN A WARRANTLESS | SEARCH OF PETITIONER’S CELL PHONE, RILEY v. CALIFORNIA, | FOURTH AMENDMENT VIOLATION, ALL OF WHICH RESULTED IN JUDGMENTS THAT ARE CONTRARY TO CLEARLY ESTABLISHED = SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND UNREASONABLE | oo APPLICATION OF FEDERAL LAW? |
| ifp | Gregory Michael Nierenberg
v. Richard D. Comerford, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
26-5177 | Eleventh Circuit, No. 25-11057
Judgment: November 18, 2025 |
Michael Robert Ufferman | Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A. 2022-1 Raymond Diehl Road Tallahassee, FL 32308 | [Main Document] [Lower Court Orders/Opinions] [Written Request] [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedA. QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of counsel claims. ial |
| ifp | Kamal Williams
v. Florida |
26-5178 | Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-1521
Judgment: January 20, 2026 |
Kamal Williams | #L83540 Santa Rosa Correctional Inst. 5850 E. Milton Rd. Milton, FL 32583 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTION(S) PRESENTED \ Wretwer Vee Stare Cou RT \ftocaters Vex (LTIONERS ar 5 Wade IKE FET Sit,ws You PXCENTH AMENDNENT S By D ENN} Ah Wa Bers CoePos Yeviee AKERE TAKE KAQ _ : — vl ma WEoeMATIon Names one hucqer Victim Bot The Feosen tion Whos ; ~, . - he eee Whe NAME Preserten kh Mar EMnY DiFFEREST NAMED Victim XT VR Kesourid hk ¥ex [ROPANCE Tor — Cocnnien h oo G |i TH NRA AN WOEPRA NING THE Coid% OF SOUWCriod, COMSDICTIONM DEFECT hic ConsTeucTiVe hmenOmedT.
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| ifp | Vincente R. Zavaleta
v. Texas |
26-5179 | Court of Appeals of Texas, Twelfth District, No. 12-24-00339-CR
Judgment: October 31, 2025 |
Amy Ruth Blalock | Blalock Law Firm P.O. Box 765 Tyler, TX 75710 | [Petition] | NA |
| ifp | Shannon Irons
v. Charter Communications, Inc. |
26-5180 | Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B336763
Judgment: December 31, 2025 |
Shannon Irons | 313 Grand Blvd. #1063 Venice, CA 90291 | NA | |
| ifp | Deenvaughn Rowe
v. United States |
26-5181 | District of Columbia Circuit, No. 23-3010
Judgment: March 31, 2026 |
Barry Coburn | Coburn & Eisenstein PLLC 1200 G Street, NW, Suite 800 Second Floor Washington, DC 20005 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presented1 QUESTIONS PRESENTED
4, Whether it was error for the appellate court not to order a remand sua sponte where the evidentiary record is undeveloped and serious concerns regarding the effectiveness of counsel have arisen. |
| ifp | Jermaine Shennett
v. Florida |
26-5182 | District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District, No. 4D2024-1797
Judgment: March 12, 2026 |
Benjamin Nathaniel Paley | Office of the Public Defender 421 3rd Street West Palm Beach, FL 33401 | [Petition] [Appendix] | Question(s) presentedQUESTIONS PRESENTED
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| app | Alabama
v. California |
26A139 | First Circuit, No. 26-1774; 26-1779
Judgment: — |
Louis Joseph Capozzi III | Missouri Attorney General 815 Olive Street Suite 200 St Louis, MO 63101 | [Main Document] | NA |
| app | Shantubhai N. Shah
v. Aerotek Affiliated Services, Inc., fka Aerotek Inc. |
26A140 | Supreme Court of Oregon, No. S072439
Judgment: — |
Shantubhai N. Shah | 6637 SW 88th Place Portland, OR 97223 | [Main Document] | NA |