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March 28, 2020
Question Presented: In Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250 (2006), the Court held that probable cause defeats a First Amendment retaliatory-prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as a matter of law. Does probable cause likewise defeat a First Amendment retaliatory-arrest claim under § 1983? -
March 28, 2020
Villegas-Sarabia v. Sessions, No. 17-1559 (cert. petition filed on May 14, 2018)
Question Presented: For purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, is misprision of a felony categorically a crime involving moral turpitude? -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Whether Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2520, requires the suppression of evidence obtained pursuant to a wiretap order that is facially insufficient because the order exceeds the judge’s territorial jurisdiction. -
March 28, 2020
Questions Presented: (1) Whether seamen may recover punitive damages for their employer’s willful and wanton breach of the general maritime law duty to provide a seaworthy vessel, as held by the Washington Supreme Court and the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, or whether punitive damages are categorically unavailable in an action for unseaworthiness, as held by […] -
March 28, 2020
Muccio v. Minnesota, No. 17-209 (petition for writ of certiorari filed on August 4, 2017)
Question Presented: Do statutes that criminalize any sexually related speech sent to a minor electronically with the intent to arouse satisfy First Amendment scrutiny? -
March 28, 2020
Scott v. Georgia, No. 16-523 (cert.-stage reply filed February 28, 2017)
Question Presented: Is a Georgia statute, which forbids communicating otherwise-protected sexually related speech to minors with the intent to arouse or satisfy someone’s sexual desire, facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment? -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Whether “service advisors” at car dealerships are exempt under 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(10)(A) from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime-pay requirements. -
March 28, 2020
Questions Presented: (1) Does the Federal Tort Claims Act allow children of active-duty mothers to bring birth-injury claims against the federal government as the Fourth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits have held, or should the Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950) doctrine be expanded to bar a child’s birth-injury claim when government negligence injures […] -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirements of 15 U.S.C. § 1635 by “notifying the creditor” in writing within three years of the consummation of the transaction, or must a borrower file a lawsuit within three years of the consummation of the transaction? -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: (1) Are disparate-impact claims cognizable under the Fair Housing Act § 804(a)? (2) Should this Court establish a methodology for assessing disparate-impact claims under FHA §804(a) when petitioners make no claim that this case would come out differently under any of the tests employed by courts of appeals and, in any event, Housing and […]
