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Whether HHS is able to meet an order to eliminate its backlog of Medicare claims appeals within 4 years

Whether a group of venue stagehand employees called riggers may form a separate collective-bargaining unit

A bankruptcy trustee's bid to recover the value of a lost gaming license by suing a proposed Chicago-area casino's former directors alleged to have ties to organized crime

Province of Manitoba's opposition to NAWS, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's plan to provide water from the Missouri River Basin to North Dakota, which risks the introduction of alien invasive species into the Hudson Bay Basin

Dispute between Asarco and ARCO over responsibility for a $100m cleanup at a lead smelter and zinc Superfund site

North Carolina lottery's bid to register "First Tuesday" as a trademark

Appeal by the Alzheimer's Institute of America of a decision that it must pay $3.9m in attorneys fees to Avid

Dispute over property titles and investment losses in a divorce

Whether the Hon. Scott L. Silliman must recuse himself from serving as a judge in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's case before the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review

Claim by a manager fired by Victoria's Secret after posting racially charged pictures on Facebook that the posts were meant to be funny, protest racism

Country-rap artist Mikel Knight's claims over a Facebook page, Families Against Mikel Knight

Whether sovereign immunity protects a tribe from its former law firm's claims of false lawsuits, obstructing justice

Claim for $425m in milestone payments related to testing, approval of Lifitegrast, a new dry-eye treatment

Whether a proposed barge facility for the Lydia Ann Channel on the Texas gulf coast violates NEPA and the Endangered Species Act

Appeal by the high-speed trader found guilty in the first U.S. criminal trial involving spoofing

Maryland's battered spouse syndrome law and a woman who ordered the contract killing of her husband

Challenge of the so-called podcasting patent used by a patent troll

Whether SQM is liable for causing perchlorate contamination in the City of Pomona's water system

Appeal of a Court of International Trade decision on an antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades from China

Review of the conviction and sentencing of Academi, f/k/a Blackwater, guards in connection with the killings of unarmed Iraqi civilians

Review of the Forest Service citing a previous map error as grounds to cut 23k acres from a wild-horse sanctuary in the Modoc National Forest

A nonreligious anti-abortion group's bid to be granted the Obamacare contraception mandate exemption given to religious organizations

Review of an NLRB finding that CNN's replacement of its unionized contractor with a nonunion, in-house workforce violated labor laws

Review of FCC's rate revisions for inmate payphone providers

Shareholder seeking disgorgement of billionaire Carl Icahn's short-swing profits

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko's challenge of the U.S. seeking forfeiture of $250m related to his crimes of money laundering, conspiracy

A newspaper's public records request related to the George Washington Bridge closure scandal

Yahoo's anti-SLAPP motion arising out of a dispute between a writer and those he identified as white supremacists

An individual's challenge of President Trump's authority to carry out missile strikes against Syria without first obtaining approval from Congress

Negligence claims against The Citadel military school arising out of the child sexual abuse scandal involving one of its summer camp counselors, Skip ReVille, who pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 23 boys

"A hapless retired baseball player seeking to invest his earnings, a self-described 'con man' who claims to be reformed, persons running a Ponzi scheme, and a man who 'had no business handling the investment finances of others'"

Review of Endangered Species Act protection for gray wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

Claims alleging excessive force and improper arrests during the Ferguson protests following the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer

Whether Dodd-Frank displaced the long-standing balancing test that courts apply when ruling on motions to seal or unseal judicial records

Challenge of the Forest Service's approval of a restoration project that encompasses 12k acres within the Colville National Forest

Disputes arising out of city, state and federal investigations into a police department's phone recordings of its officers

Bid to have courts declare the U.S. in breach of its Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations and order good-faith negotiations

Proposal for a solar farm on top of a capped landfill in a conservation area of the Pinelands National Reserve

Review of FCC-set rates that utilities may charge telecom providers for attaching their networks to utility poles

Whether a public transportation authority breaches a contract with its customers when storms interrupt service

Whether a U.S. citizen improperly held in immigration detention for more than 3 years has a right to sue the government

Challenge of an Arkansas law restricting use of the so-called abortion pill

Challenge of the FAA decision not to regulate the shrinking size of airline seats as a safety issue

Whether Sudan must pay more than $7b in damages to the families of victims of embassy bombings carried out by al Qaeda

Review of an EPA decision to waive ethanol blending requirements

A Rastafarian inmate's challenge of the Louisiana Department of Corrections' policy prohibiting inmates from having dreadlocks

Challenge of D.C.'s law that restricts concealed carry permits to those who can show good reason for carrying handguns

Tannerite Sports' defamation claim over a Today Show report that it obtained ingredients to make a bomb from its store

Claim that L'Oreal fired an in-house patent attorney because he wouldn't compromise his professional ethics

Motion to dissolve a TRO against Susan Devine, who is alleged to have engaged in a money laundering scheme with her ex-husband, Florian Homm

Coal mining company's challenge of an enforcement decision by a Department of the Interior administrative law judge

Privacy concerns arising out of the Trump election commission request for voter data from the states

School board's appeal of a court decision rejecting its choice for a chief desegregation implementation officer

Whether an activist had a First Amendment right to document how government agents herd buffalo into Yellowstone National Park

Whether a horse breeder has standing to challenge a statewide plan for the distribution of prize money between breeders and owners

Whether a statutory ban on smoking on airplanes applies to e-cigarettes

African-American deputy marshals' allegation of racial discrimination by the U.S. Marshals Service

Appeal of the FCC's denial of a low-power FM permit for a community organization

Claims against the estate of a pilot for a plane crash in Nigeria that left 163 dead

Challenge of the $6.8b merger between Pepco and Exelon

Whether a federal district court had discretion to vacate a previously approved $57m arbitration award against the government of Laos after the award was tossed out by a foreign court

Attorney's fees following Planned Parenthood's successful bid for a permanent injunction against the Missouri DHSS after it attempted to revoke PP's license to provide abortion services

Chicago firefighter's claims of discrimination on the basis of national origin

Supreme Court preliminary ruling that allows an exemption for extended family members under President Trump's travel ban on immigrants and visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries, but also temporarily blocks an exemption for refugees

In a criminal appeal related to LIBOR, consideration of whether testimony given by an individual involuntarily under the legal compulsion of a foreign power may be used against that individual in a criminal case in a U.S. court

Whether the U.S. government must pay a share of the $1b in hazardous waste cleanup costs that Chevron Mining expects to incur from extracting molybdenum on federal land

Review of a $38.5m damages verdict awarded to families of two Kraft employees killed by a disgruntled co-worker

Sierra Club challenge of EPA's use of surrogates to set standards on pollutants such as PCBs and hexachlorobenzene

Environmental groups' bid to force the EPA to issue an order on the pesticide chlorpyrifos

Lawmakers' challenge of governor's veto of a bill repealing a 6 percent sales tax on groceries

Whether New Mexico has the right to delay licenses for a tribal casino's vendors after the tribe's gambling compact expired

Constitutionality of FBI gag orders preventing recipients from disclosing receipt of national security letters, which are subpoenas that require communications providers produce customer data for national security investigations

Whether an employee fired because she tested positive for legal use of medical marijuana may seek a civil remedy against her employer

Claim by several generic drug companies that a patent on the cancer treatment Velcade was obvious and should not have been granted

Dispute over rights to mineral leases in roughly 180,000 acres of the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana

Claims against the National Bar Association arising out of an alleged rape of an attendee at its conference

Defamation claim against Trump adviser Roger Stone over a "Sexual Predator Alert" sent out about a gubernatorial candidate

Bid by 3 state GOP committees to challenge a rule restricting political contributions by municipal advisers

Whether FCC acted legally when it limited electromagnetic spectrum bidding credits available to small businesses, rural telephone companies, and businesses owned by members of minority groups and women

Pope Trading's claim that Twitter is liable for losses Pope sustained while trading Twitter stock because Twitter didn't prevent early release of news about Twitter's unfavorable quarterly earnings

Suit by former officers of Booz Allen who claim that they were improperly denied compensation after their retirement

Copyright dispute related to internet-based games

Review of FCC's rules governing how local governments may regulate cable companies and cable services

The Miami-Dade County State Attorney's threat of prosecution against a resident for recording a conversation with a police chief to discuss complaints about an officer's alleged reckless driving in his neighborhood

A former Discovery survival TV show host's defamation claim against a cast member of another Discovery survival show

Privacy and malpractice claims arising out of a doctor's alleged disclosure without consent of a patient's HIV status

A former city council member's claims against the organizers who led a recall campaign against her

Appeal of the Court of International Trade decision affirming the Department of Commerce's antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from India

Challenge of the methodology used by the Department of Commerce to calculate the antidumping duty on frozen warmwater shrimp from India

Whether studies concluding that lead exposure causes various attention problems constitute a sufficient basis for an expert's testimony that lead caused a plaintiff's ADHD

Whether a trial court erred in excluding expert testimony regarding lead-source causation and medical causation

Whether Exxon can enforce an arbitration award against Venezuela related to the nationalization of its oil industry

Trademark dispute between furniture makers who sold items in different regions

Dispute over tax assessment rates for structures located on islands versus those on the mainland

Family's bid to recover a Pissarro painting surrendered to Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Germany during the Holocaust

Patent dispute between Google and Intellectual Ventures over touchscreen technology

A former marine's claims that other marines falsely accused him of sexual harassment and assault after a Marine Corps Ball

Claims that a college foundation and board members provided false progress reports on students in order to keep federal grant monies

Defamation claims over a profile of a candidate for county commissioner

Whether journalists and ordinary bystanders have a First Amendment right to record police officers conducting their official duties in public

Securities fraud action against Petroleo Brasileiro, an oil and gas company that is one of Brazil's partially state-controlled firms

Whether the Bankruptcy Code's automatic stay provision prevents collection of criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act

Review of a 340-month sentence for crimes that involved speech and letters riddled with "scurrilous language"

Claim that a school denied entry into a program based on the student's religious beliefs

An African American farmer's racial discrimination claims against the USDA

Whether retirement accounts for someone not of retirement age are subject a 25 percent garnishment cap or whether the government can seek an order that the funds be turned over to fulfill a restitution judgment

Class action against a county and county correctional facility for an online, publicly searchable "Inmate Lookup Tool," which includes information about tens of thousands of people held or incarcerated since 1938

Review of a Florida state law that directs Sarasota County to reimburse private hospitals for providing care to indigent patients

Whether homeowners granted a permit to build a new seawall protecting their bluff-top homes forfeited rights to sue over limits that were placed on the permit

A former research technician's claims against Northwestern University

Whether unaccompanied children who cross the border have a right to a court hearing to challenge a decision to detain them instead of turning them over to family in the U.S.

Environmental groups' challenge of the EPA's decision to stay implementation of a rule on methane and other greenhouse gas emissions

TravelPass' allegations that Expedia aided in Res.com's alleged misappropriation of trade secrets

Dispute over attorney fees after a settlement of a class action case involving royalties from gas wells

Challenge of a Kansas regulation requiring pesticide treatment in preconstruction applications, claiming that it limits consumer choice and competition

A church's complaint about a music festival

Whether the EPA must consider harm to protected plants and animals before approving new pesticides

Whether states must provide publicly funded benefits to its employees' same-sex spouses

Challenge of the DEA's decision to revoke a prescription medication supplier's ability to deal in controlled substances, including opioids

A Tea Party group's challenge of Texas' ban on direct corporate campaign contributions

Claims that taking Motrin resulted in a rare skin disease, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

Challenge of the federal government granting permits for U.S. long-haul operations to Mexico-domiciled trucking companies

FilmOn's libel claims against DoubleVerify, alleging it falsely classified FilmOn's websites as "Copyright Infringement-File Sharing" and "Adult Content"

Claims by current and former Secret Service employees that they were denied 2 consecutive days off from work to which they were statutorily entitled

Claims against Belneftekhim for the Belarusian petrochemical company's alleged role in abducting and holding captive a U.S. citizen and his assistant

Challenge of the approval of a class action settlement over hexavalent chromium contamination in Jersey City brought on behalf of property owners whose homes were allegedly contaminated by two Honeywell and PPG plants, and their successors in interest

Whether a newspaper can obtain a copy of a database from the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia under FOIA or whether it must instead ask individual court clerks

Whether a law enforcement officer lying necessarily renders a suspect's consent to a search of a home involuntary

Death-row inmates' challenge of Ohio's use of midazolam, part of a three-drug lethal injection protocol

PETA's challenge of the USDA renewing licenses for animal exhibitors despite a licensee's noncompliance with the Animal Welfare Act

A former ASU student's complaints arising out of his suspension

Constitutionality of San Francisco's Pregnancy Information Disclosure and Protection Ordinance, a law designed to protect indigent women from misleading advertising by anti-abortion centers

Adequacy of the U.S. Navy's EIS for the expansion of a Trident nuclear submarine operating center at Naval Base Kitsap

Whether Wisconsin's legislatively created Crime Victims Rights Board has power to sanction judges

Whether the State of New York is failing to provide a "sound basic education"

Supreme Court's preliminary review of President Trump's executive order enacting a travel ban on immigrants and visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries

Supreme Court ruling on whether the State of Missouri can deny public funds to a church simply because it is a religious organization

Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of an Arkansas law that prevents adding the names of both parents in a same-sex union to the birth certificates of their children

Supreme Court ruling on whether the family of a slain Mexican teenager can sue the federal agent who shot him across the U.S.-Mexico border

Supreme Court ruling on whether the filing of a securities class action stops the clock on the 3-year statute of repose for claims under the Securities Act

Supreme Court ruling on whether claims of ineffective assistance of counsel during state appeals should be treated the same as during the original trial

Dispute over emeralds fraudulently claimed to be discovered by treasure hunters in international waters in the Gulf of Mexico

Charges against "Latter-day capitalist" Claud Rick Koerber related to his "Equity Mill"

Patent dispute related to a Point-to-Point Internet Protocol

Challenge of a Mississippi law that allows businesses and government officials to deny marriage-related services to same-sex couples

Whether members of the U.S. Navy who provided humanitarian aid after an earthquake and tsunami in Japan can pursue claims in the U.S. alleging radiation exposure from the Fukushima nuclear power plant

Supreme Court ruling on whether a naturalized American citizen can be stripped of citizenship if a lie or omission on immigration forms was irrelevant to the government's original decision to grant entry into the United States

Supreme Court ruling on the appeal by the 7 members of the Eighth and H Street Crew convicted for the notorious 1984 gang murder of a woman in the Washington neighborhood adjacent to Capitol Hill

Supreme Court ruling on whether a murder defendant is entitled to a new trial because the public was shut out from jury selection during his trial, and his lawyer failed to object to the closing of the courtroom

Douglas Jordan-Benel's claim that Universal City Studios' movie The Purge was derived from his screenplay

The de Csepel family's decades-long effort to recover a valuable art collection seized by the Hungarian government and Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust

Whether royalties from oil and gas leases on Pennsylvania forest land must be dedicated to conserving public natural resources instead of used to reduce general budget shortfalls

Whether FERC's new capacity rules for PJM Interconnection discriminate against renewable energy

Whether school district officials violated the Establishment Clause by announcing they were partnering with a Christian student group and soliciting parents and students for mission trip donations

Supreme Court ruling on trademark protection for terms that may be offensive, such as The Slants, an Asian-American band, or the Redskins, Washington's NFL team

Supreme Court ruling on whether 6 men detained after the September 11 attacks can sue former Bush administration officials for constitutional violations

Supreme Court ruling on a North Carolina law that banned registered sex offenders from using social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter

Supreme Court ruling on whether an Alabama death-row inmate, as an indigent defendant, is entitled to an expert to evaluate his mental health

Supreme Court on whether out-of-state claimants can join California residents in a class action against Bristol-Myers over its Plavix blood thinner

Supreme Court review of an appeals court's consideration of a claim of faulty jury instructions in a death penalty case

Whether the use of a Taser on a rancher accused of threatening officers was excessive force

Dispute over patents for methods to test for myeloperoxidase, a human enzyme

Whether 92 Occupy Chicago protesters had a free-assembly right to remain in Grant Park after an 11 p.m. curfew

Art collector Douglas Oliver's dispute with the IRS over an $11m deduction for a conservation easement for a historic warehouse designed by architect Cass Gilbert

Attorney fees dispute pitting Colorado's prohibition on referral fees between lawyers in different law firms against the state's permitting of the division of attorney fees between lawyers who are not in the same firm, other than in proportion to the work that each performed when the lawyers were jointly responsible for the engagement

Dispute over patents related to methods for absorbing nitrites after extended exposure to pollutants in engine combustion gases

A Democrat's defamation suit that alleges the Republican who unseated him and the state party published campaign materials with false information about his position on tax increases for the middle class

Ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers did not fully consider impacts from the Dakota Access Pipeline on the hunting, fishing and environmental justice rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Environmental organizations' opposition to a new transfer station for commercial oil and gas exploration and production waste

Challenge of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax, which taxes sugar-sweetened beverages

First Amendment challenge of a California law banning alcohol manufacturers and wholesalers from paying to advertise in liquor stores

Conspiracy claims against an unidentified defendant related to allegations of a Mormon Church cover-up of the Michael Jensen sex abuse scandal

Sentencing of defendants convicted in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved more than 100 loan transactions

117 felony charges arising out of a real estate developer's bankruptcy, including alleged failure to disclose a $1.5m bank deposit

United Airlines' bid for a refund of $1.5 million in overpayments it made to the TSA

State Department officers' negligence claim against the U.S. Government for the alleged faulty construction and design of their diplomatic housing

Hotel-related businesses and investors alleging a LIBOR-fraud claim against the Royal Bank of Scotland

Review of President Trump's executive order enacting a travel ban on immigrants and visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries

Supreme Court ruling on constitutionality of the gender-based difference in the law governing U.S. citizenship for children born abroad

Supreme Court ruling on whether consumers who sued Microsoft over Xbox console claims had a right to immediately appeal after a trial judge rejected their bid to press the case as a class action

Supreme Court ruling on whether manufacturers of low-cost biosimilar drugs need to wait an extra 6 months after FDA approval to launch products

Supreme Court ruling on whether Virginia's geriatric release program meets requirements that nonhomicide juvenile offenders cannot get life without parole

Supreme Court ruling on a proposed consumer class action suit over alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Whether the government must return $167k taken from a motor home during a traffic stop that resulted in no criminal charges

Review of an International Trade Commission decision that invalidated two patents for wireless headsets

Claims that Fuji Music and BMG sold unauthorized licenses to copyrighted songs to third parties

A for-profit school's challenge of the denial of its accreditation

Claims of misappropriated trade secrets and tortious interference with a business relationship between electronic payment software developers

Dispute between a closely held family-owned business and its former CEO

Constitutionality of law enforcement obtaining a blood sample from an unconscious defendant without first obtaining a search warrant

A petitioner seeking the court to extend habeas corpus relief to 2 chimpanzees caged in a warehouse and a storefront

Dispute between Ford's patent subsidiary and auto parts provider LKQ

A nanny's claim that her school tried to cover up sexual abuse allegations against a parent

NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl's bid to correct his voter registration to Republican after checking boxes for both Democrat and Independent when registering to vote

Claims by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas that the United States breached its fiduciary obligations with respect to two trusts

Whether relatives of those involuntarily sterilized by the State of North Carolina will receive compensation if those victims died before 2013

Review of a North Carolina county planning board's decision to deny permits for a solar farm

Opposition to the expansion of the Nebo Lodge, an inn owned by U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree of Maine

Whether San Diego police used excessive force when they released a police dog that bit a woman who had fallen asleep at her office

Whether New York City's zoning restrictions on "adult establishments" violate free speech rights

Supreme Court on whether the North Carolina General Assembly redrew state legislative districts using racial gerrymandering to dilute the clout of black voters

Supreme Court on whether a 5-year statute of limitations applies to SEC's enforcement power to disgorge profits

Supreme Court review of the ERISA exemption of "church plans," which affects the funding and protections provided for employee pensions

Supreme Court on whether a conspirator of drug crimes can be held liable for property acquired by another conspirator

Supreme Court ruling on a long-running dispute over a housing and golf development on nearly 400 acres

Class action alleging that Whole Foods systematically overstated weights of prepackaged products and overcharged customers

Larry Klayman's claim that President Obama and those involved in the Black Lives Matter movement incited criminal activity, including the July 2016 Dallas police shooting

Claim that Harvard uses prohibited "racial balancing" in admissions, as well as denies highly qualified Asian-American applicants on the basis of their race or ethnicity

Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr.'s complaints about FBI conduct and pre-indictment press leading up to his conviction on bank and tax-fraud charges

Claims against Guthy-Renker and WEN by Chaz Dean

Property owners' claims against Dow over dioxin contamination of their property

Review of Whole Foods' policy that bars employees from making audio or video recordings at work

Class action challenging the IRS regulation requiring professional tax return preparers to obtain and pay for PTINs, preparer tax identification numbers

VOC and PCE contamination of groundwater in Orange County

Recovering $200m for a project to address VOC groundwater contamination in Orange County

Whether the Oregon DEQ has delegated authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate visible turbidity from suction dredge mining

Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht's appeal of his life sentence for running the dark web marketplace, which sold some $183m worth of drugs and other illegal goods and services

Constitutionality of a district court's policy of routinely shackling all pretrial detainees in the courtroom

Review of a district court decision to grant a utility's request to compel arbitration with a wind power supplier

Community group's opposition to tax-increment financing of a redevelopment project

Review of a decision to deny a permit for a frac sand mine due to health, environmental and other concerns

A stockholder's complaint related to Charter Communication's merger with Time Warner

Whether a Wisconsin school illegally discriminated against a transgender student by prohibiting him from accessing the boys restrooms

Supreme Court ruling on the so-called provocation rule, which allows a claim of excessive force when an officer intentionally or recklessly provokes a violent confrontation

Supreme Court ruling on where injury lawsuits may be filed, limiting the ability of plaintiffs to bring claims in friendly courts

Supreme Court ruling on whether patent-holders, like printer-maker Lexmark, can keep their rights over a product once they sell it

Supreme Court ruling on whether a Mexican immigrant's consensual sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend constituted sexual abuse of a minor under the Immigration and Nationality Act

Review of the injunction on President Trump's executive order enacting a travel ban on immigrants and visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries

A family law attorney's defamation claim against a law school professor over a brief submitted to the court

Review of a civil suit filed by the late actor Robert Culp that resulted in barring the L.A. Zoo from using electric shock on elephants

Mississippi circuit judge candidate's allegations of violations of elections laws and procedures by election officials

Review of the administration of Arizona's campaign finance statute

A former state representative's defamation claims arising out of a series of editorials

Sex-based discrimination claim against an insurance provider that denied coverage for gender-reassignment surgery

Dispute between a vineyard and a cigar maker over the use of the trademark "Insignia"

Whether a law enforcement officer is shielded from liability for negligence where the officer is the sole cause of the harm suffered by the plaintiff

Constitutionality of an arrest of a Las Vegas street performer

Wikipedia's challenge of Upstream, NSA's mass online surveillance program

Maine Supreme Court review of the state's new ranked-choice voting system

Bid to reverse a FinCEN decision that the now-defunct Banca Privada d'Andorra was a primary money laundering concern

Whether FERC violated the Clean Water Act by giving conditional approval of a 30-mile expansion of a gas pipeline before a state permit was issued

Dispute between the State of Delaware and developers over rights to 63 acres, including some nature preserve land

Supreme Court review of a ruling striking down two congressional districts, finding that North Carolina relied too heavily on race when creating them

Supreme Court ruling on where patent-infringement suits can be filed, limiting the ability to channel cases to venues favored by so-called patent trolls

Supreme Court ruling on whether the Hague Service Convention prohibits service of process by mail

Whether citizens who tried to recall a school board member are protected from his claims of harassment under SLAPP suit protections

Whether a trust that permits 75 percent of beneficiaries to amend the terms of a trust also allows three of four siblings to remove the fourth sibling as a beneficiary

Whether the FAA has statutory authority to require recreational drone users to register their model aircraft with the federal government

Federal government's suit against Washington State on behalf of 21 tribes over fish-blocking culverts that contributed to diminished salmon runs

Whether battery manufacturer Limnia's claims of cronyism over the DOE's loan programs should be heard in court or by the agency

Whether a 2-year statute of limitations bars residents' claims related to nearby natural gas facilities

Dispute between county commissioners and judges over the right to set salaries for judicial employees

Constitutionality of Arizona's policy of letting state prison officials read inmates' outgoing mail to their lawyers

Whether companies that lease rooftop solar systems to homeowners can be charged property tax for the systems

Bid by R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris to limit claims related to smoking-related illnesses, deaths

Constitutionality of the "Can Ban," a law banning cans and large coolers on the Comal and Guadalupe Rivers

A copyright infringement dispute between an online journalism site and a news website

Approval of a proposed charter school and whether it would be run by a for-profit management firm or its nonprofit board

Whether the BLM approved an industrial solar project without adequately assessing its effects on the Mojave Desert tortoise

Whether the term "google" is so popular as a verb that the Google trademark is now generic and should be canceled

Whether a Senate committee must return documents subpoenaed from Backpage-com for a child sex-trafficking investigation

Plan to distribute $380m remaining in a USDA settlement fund for Native American farmers and ranchers discriminated against in farm credit programs

Review of Missouri municipal court reform legislation passed following a DOJ report that criticized the Ferguson court for prioritizing raising revenue over protecting rights

Dispute between two steel companies over patents as well as a covenant not to sue

Supreme Court ruling on whether debt collectors can use bankruptcy proceedings to try to collect liabilities past the statute of limitation

Supreme Court ruling on whether a nursing home could enforce its arbitration agreement with the families of its residents

Review of the sentence for a Tennessee man known as "Dr. Evil" who was convicted in an extortion scheme involving Mitt Romney

Georgia inmate's request to be executed via firing squad instead of by lethal injection

Supreme Court ruling on whether a divorced spouse should be reimbursed when a retired service member receives VA disability payments

Kentucky printing shop that refused to make shirts for an LGBT group because of the company owner's religious objections to "pride in being gay"

Dispute over $275m in tax refunds between the FDIC, as the receiver for 8 failed banks, and FBOP, the parent company of the banks

Appeal by the former owner and COO of Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago of their convictions for engaging in a scheme to pay kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals

Whether county appraisal board members were employees and, therefore, eligible for unemployment benefits when their terms ended

Class action suit on behalf of residents of an Iowa town who live within 1.5 miles of a corn milling plant

Amphastar's qui tam action alleging Aventis committed fraud against the U.S.

Petition for review of the constitutionality of the America Invents Act, which allows an executive branch agency to invalidate patents

Appeal of a $2.5m award in attorney fees in a patent infringement case

Whether a royalty owner was fraudulently induced into a settlement

Constitutionality of a state law requiring that counties impose fees of up to 3.2 percent on gross gaming revenues

Challenge of the Chicago Police Department's order requiring its officers cover tattoos

Validity of AT&T's patent for a method of compressing and transmitting digital video data

Dispute over patents related to fiber optic communication signals

Opposition to plans to develop the site of a Valencia orange orchard dating back to around 1912

Former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg's challenge of the $85m government bailout of AIG during the financial crisis

Whether the names of foreign students and instructors at the WHINSEC, f/k/a U.S. Army School of the Americas, are exempt from FOIA disclosure

Dispute over whether a film documenting Jimi Hendrix's February 1969 performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London will be released

Coordination of more than 775 cases across California that allege Ford breached warranties with respect to cars equipped with DPS6 transmissions

Challenge of a fireworks permit that results in residual pollutant discharges to waterways

Right-to-Know Law request for information related to ProTechnics, a business that performs drilling diagnostics using radioactive tracers

U.S. citizen's appeal of his 15-year sentence for selling DuPont's titanium dioxide technology to China

Whether Texas' free speech law can be used to defend against allegations of misuse of business trade secrets, confidential information

Palestinian immigrant's discrimination and hostile work environment allegations over slurs that Target employees allegedly used against him

Whether gold wholesaler Dillon Gage must return $5m to the receiver for the Stanford multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme

Review of a decision to reject a proposed $145m casino in Kansas

Review of a denial of unemployment benefits to a Walgreens employee after she was terminated for committing "inadvertent errors"

Whether New York State can block its Supreme Court justices from receiving judicial pensions if they remain on the bench after they reach the state's judicial retirement age of 70

Whether indigent defendants in criminal cases have a constitutional right to state-funded investigators and experts when they are represented by pro bono private counsel instead of public defenders

Dr. Osvaldo Wesly's defamation claims against Dr. Craig M. Kessler and Georgetown University

Challenge of California's decision to issue permits for 214 new oil wells

Whether restricted stock received as employee compensation should be considered salary in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy

Parents' challenge of South Dakota's participation in a group that developed Common Core-aligned testing for students

Whether the SEC administrative law judge hiring process violates the Constitution

Allegation that AARP, through its arrangement with Medigap, transacts insurance without a license in violation of the California Insurance Code

Trademark dispute over the use of "OrderLink"

Whether US Airways must refund a $15 checked baggage fee because it did not deliver the bag until the next day

Dispute over attorney fees awarded in a qui tam action related to financial aid fraud claims

Review of the Patent and Trademark Office's refusal to grant patent protection for a cancer therapy using "natural killer" cells

A same-sex couple's claims against the county clerk who, based on her religious beliefs, denied them a marriage certificate

Celebrity chef Kyle Connaughton's claims against Chipotle and its CEO for lost business opportunities related to a ramen restaurant chain

Claims that Aventis/Sanofi failed to warn of birth defect risks related to the infertility drug Clomid

Whether a former Wisconsin DOJ agent was improperly fired after he brought a whistleblower complaint against his boss related to the allegedly illegal sale of guns

Whether the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear its landmark opinion on the FCC's net neutrality rules

Supreme Court ruling on whether cities may sue banks over predatory lending

Supreme Court ruling on whether claims that Venezuela illegally seized 11 oil rigs from an Oklahoma-based company can proceed

Whether Teva Pharmaceuticals can proceed with a generic version of Helsinn's anti-nausea drug Aloxi

False Claims Act case alleging Genentech suppressed data about the multibillion dollar cancer drug Avastin

Whether employers can legally pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in the workers' previous salaries

Constitutionality of Cleveland's gun regulations and its gun offender registry

Constitutionality of fees charged to students and the statewide system of funding Idaho's public schools

Disputes arising out of investments into the production of films, including one on the life of musician Tupac Shakur

Fort Bend Herald's request for disclosure of documents regarding allegations of attempted bribery made by school district trustees

Claims against engineering consultant firms involved in the Flint water crisis

Philip Morris' complaint regarding the court-ordered "here is the truth" language in the corrective statements on the health effects of smoking

Dispute between SoundExchange and Muzak over royalties for music channels for satellite and cable TV subscribers

Dispute between a small Oregon wind farm and the utility serving Portland over how much power the utility must purchase

Review of an NLRB finding that the Bellagio unlawfully interfered with an employee's right to have a union rep present during an investigative meeting

Whether Oversee.net co-founder Frederick Hsu can proceed with his claims against venture capital firm Oak Hill Capital Partners

Whether a clause that a parent company could never be liable to its subsidiary is unconscionable and unenforceable

Whether online travel companies, such as Expedia and Priceline, failed to properly charge Denver's lodger's tax

Dispute lasting more than 12 years over attorney fees between firms involved in a class action over California's DMV fees

Dispute over a patent for a system to simulate trauma with lifelike mannequins

Challenge of a Berkeley ordinance requiring retailers warn customers about the possible health effects of carrying cell phones close to their bodies

Appeal by Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced to 14 years for 18 crimes committed while he was Governor of Illinois

Challenge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's investigation into a leading accrediting agency for for-profit colleges

Request by Hawaii to skip a review by a three-judge panel and instead move directly to an en banc panel to consider President Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries

Toxic tort claims by 4,300 individuals who allege injuries from the operation of a wood-treatment plant owned by Tronox, f/k/a Kerr-McGee

NPR Foundation, San Diego State University Research Foundation, Unicef and Doctors Without Borders' action against the attorney for Siv Ljungwe over her estate

Dispute between an heir of Duwain E. Hughes, Jr., and Tom Green County over the naming of a library in honor of Duwain Hughes or Frances Hughes Crews, and other matters

Customers' challenge of Frontier Communications' arbitration requirements

Proposed ballot initiative to give Florida voters the exclusive right to decide whether to authorize casino gambling in the state

Proposed ballot initiative to restore the voting rights of some felons after they complete their sentences

Alabama Supreme Court review of the suspension of Chief Justice Roy Moore for the remainder of his term

Supreme Court ruling on whether the state is obligated to refund fees, court costs and restitution paid when a criminal conviction is invalidated

Supreme Court ruling on whether a person convicted of a crime and later ordered to pay restitution must file a separate appeal to challenge the order

Opposition to a settlement agreement that resulted in a rate hike for residential and small commercial customers

Interest on a jury's damage award against Wegmans

Whether the VALOR Act allows veterans to avoid DUI convictions, in some cases, in recognition of the toll of combat in war zones

Supreme Court review of a $2.7m award against Goodyear for withholding documents from a family that sued the tiremaker

Supreme Court ruling on whether insurance companies can recover funds that federal employees win in settlements with third parties

Challenge of FERC determinations following compliance filings by the regional transmission organization for New England's electric grid

Allegation that Chesapeake Energy, Chesapeake Exploration, others conspired to keep the prices for mineral leases artificially low by agreeing not to compete against each other

Disputes and allegations among the children of the late Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative political activist

Review of a $15.7m damage award against Samsung for infringing on 2 Rembrandt patents relating to Bluetooth technology

Class action against SeaWorld over its "EZ Pay" annual pass payment system

Dispute over the construction of three solar power projects in Massachusetts

Whether a more than 18-year prison sentence for possession of child pornography is unreasonable

Publisher Roy Brown's claims his bankruptcy counsel pushed an asset sale to banks they also represented

Price-fixing allegations against All Nippon Airways, EVA Airways and China Airlines

Challenge of FERC's base return on equity for providers of transmission services for customers in New England

Whether an 87-year-old man was under undue influence when he deeded over approximately 1,000 acres of his land weeks before his death

Convictions of Midamar Halal's Aossey brothers arising from the sale of falsely labeled halal meat

Claims under FSIA against Bashar al-Assad by the families of 3 Americans killed allegedly by the Zarqawi terrorist organization

Whether a 75-year-old woman selling a paperweight that contained a bit of moon rock may try to hold a NASA IG official liable for detaining her

Claim against R. Kelly, Bryan Cave and Linda S. Mensch alleging a $500k advance deposit wasn't returned after tour negotiations broke down

Ongoing disputes among trustees of the LL Nunn Trust over Deep Springs College going coed

Royal Bahamas Cruise Line claims against a Texas man over his comments to the FCC regarding unsolicited phone calls

Allegations of pay-for-delay schemes involving generic versions of Lipitor and Effexor XR

Whether former University of Tennessee football players Michael Williams and A.J. Johnson can obtain social media communications from witnesses for their upcoming rape trials

Bid by BP to quash a rule requiring gas station signs to state whether advertised prices are for customers using debit or credit cards

Patent dispute related to a treatment of certain autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis

Patent dispute over calcium acetate capsules

Defamation claims by Harry Belafonte's half-brother against Belafonte and the publisher of his autobiography

Banning of the "Animal House" fraternity after it branded 11 pledges with the Alpha Delta fraternity letters

Whether the EPA erred when it exempted most farms from having to report air pollution from hog, cattle and other animal waste

Lumber companies' challenge of 9.5mn acres in 3 states designated as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl

Whether placing pumpkins and corn near hunting stands violated a chronic wasting disease baiting and feeding ban

Trademark infringement dispute over the use of "Streamline"

Challenge of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard over its effects on biodiesel consumption and related NOx emissions

Dispute over restitution payments by Orhun Hakan Yalincak, the former NYU student behind a multimillion dollar sham hedge fund

Town of Aquinnah's opposition to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head operating a gambling facility on its tribal lands

Damages for an injury received while attempting a triple front flip at an indoor trampoline park

Dispute over the payment for board and care of 2 show jumping horses imported from Europe

Copyright dispute and whether Oh No They Didn't moderators act as LiveJournal agents when they review posts

Challenge by the alleged leaders of the "Waked Money Laundering Organization" of their designation under the Kingpin Act by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

Attorneys' fees for 3 couples who successfully challenged Nebraska's ban on placing foster children with same-sex couples

ERISA complaint that Cliffs Natural Resources harmed workers' retirement savings by investing in an ESOP

Whether the Lacey Act prohibits shipment of injurious species between states in the continental U.S.

Whether California's cap-and-trade plan to reduce greenhouse gases amounts to an illegal tax

Challenge of an amendment making Arizona's college campuses off-limits to legal medical marijuana

Constitutionality of Ohio's new drug protocol for lethal injections

Attorney fees for the $76mn settlement with Caribbean Cruise Line and associated companies for allegedly placing telemarketing calls to consumers without their consent

Patent dispute related to bivalirudin, a synthetic peptide used to prevent blood clotting in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization

Class action over the rights of publicity of NCAA student-athletes whose likenesses have been used without consent

Whether the "100 Percent Natural" labels on certain Quaker Oats products are false and misleading

Review of a man's 40-day jail sentence and 5 years of probation for drowning four cats

Disputes related to dredging Coos Bay to create a new multipurpose slip and marine terminal

Whether federal civil rights laws prohibit discrimination against LGBT individuals

NextEra's challenge of FERC's order that the solar power company is not eligible for $32mn in refunds for improvements it made to transmission lines

Patent dispute over a generic version of the Exelon skin patch for treatment of Alzheimer's

Dispute over $6mn in legal fees between the estate of Dr. Michel Mirowski, inventor of the implantable defibrillator, and Medtronic

Whether a personal injury lawyer made bad faith claims alleging Medicare noncompliance by liability insurance companies

Dispute between the Navajo Nation and the BIA over when a document was received during the government shutdown

Arizona's challenge of emissions-control measures imposed by the EPA in a bid to improve visibility at federal parks

Dispute between Alcoa Power and the State of North Carolina over ownership of a 45-mile segment of the Yadkin riverbed

Copyright infringement case over fabric designs

Whether videos of Guantanamo Bay prison guards force-feeding a detainee on hunger strike will be kept secret

An African-American lawyer's claim that the Mississippi state flag depicting the Confederate battle flag violates his rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution

Teamsters' challenge of Cook County sheriff's Gang Order and off-duty rules for conduct on social media

Challenge of an Amazon warehouse policy requiring clocked-out workers go through post-shift theft-prevention screening that takes up to 30 minutes

Dispute over union membership for drivers of a successor employer that distributes parts for Toyota

FOIA request for information on complaints against NYPD's Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer who applied a chokehold to Eric Garner

Whether New York civil rights code prevents the public release of police officers' disciplinary records

Cliven Bundy's latest petition to have Larry Klayman represent him in his trial over a standoff with federal agents near his ranch

Claims by a student over his dismissal from a seminary for a "credible accusation of homosexual activity"

Challenge of Newport Beach City Council's development plans for 400 acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Supreme Court review of the New York law barring merchants from imposing surcharges on credit card purchases

Challenge of federal ESA protections for the Utah prairie dog, a species that exists solely within one state

Collecting a $67m judgment against Iran for its support of a terrorism attack by the Palestine Islamic Jihad

Racial discrimination claims over random drug tests at a Catholic school, which receives federal funds for the program

Dispute over how to account for money derived from the production of two films, Pathology and Henry Poole is Here

Challenge of DHS redactions of reports describing the refugee-adjudication process

Whether Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

Dispute between KBR and a contractor over a military dining facility in Iraq

Employment discrimination claim against the United Nations Foundation

Whether an undocumented immigrant is entitled to workers compensation benefits

Claims against the Palestinian Authority for an attack at Joseph's Tomb, a holy site in the West Bank

Review of Banner Health's confidentiality agreement barring workers from sharing information about salaries and employee discipline

Claim the City of Austin manipulated a selection process to favor Taser in a bid to supply the police department with body cameras

Property owners' claims that a tree-pruning company contributed to a fire that destroyed more than 1,600 homes

A dentist's defamation claims against another dentist

6 teens' petition to halt the issuance of fracking permits until it is proven that the practice doesn't harm human health and the environment

Disputes related to a failed $6bn merger of two gas pipeline businesses

Charitable-use tax exemptions for hospitals

Dispute over patents related to Tuschl II patents and RNA interference, a process for silencing certain genes that may be useful in treating a variety of diseases

Insurance coverage dispute over whether insurers must compensate a chemical company for expenses and fines associated with environmental claims in Ohio and Arkansas

Supreme Court's unanimous ruling rejecting nominee to the Court Neil Gorsuch's lower IDEA standard on educational benefits for children with disabilities

Supreme Court ruling on whether cheerleading uniform designs, made up of lines, chevrons and colorful shapes, are eligible for copyright protection

Dispute between writer-producers of the TV show Home Improvement and Disney over $1b from syndication of the show

Claims by the family of one of the child subjects in the 1990s HUD lead paint study conducted by the Kennedy Krieger Institute

Supreme Court ruling on whether structured bankruptcy dismissals must follow priority rules unless creditors consent

Supreme Court ruling on whether then-President Obama exceeded his legal authority with a temporary appointment of an NLRB general counsel in 2011

Supreme Court ruling on whether a man jailed for nearly 7 weeks after an arrest based on fabricated evidence can sue police and the City of Joliet

Whether Internet streaming services can retransmit broadcast network content under cable system copyright rules

Doctor's defamation claims over an article alleging his patients died from prescription drug overdoses

Supreme Court ruling on a patent infringement dispute over adult incontinence products

Whether sex offenders on probation must submit to lie-detector tests and therapy sessions that can be shared with probation officers

Florida blocking the sale of skim milk from an all-natural dairy because it doesn't add Vitamin A to the milk after the skimming process

Bad faith claims arising out of a $1bn Enbridge Energy pipeline deal

Hopi Tribe petition for review of the EPA federal implementation plan for the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona

Tribal conservation organizations' and environmental groups' challenge of the EPA plan for the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona

Qualified immunity and a police shooting that resulted in the death of an innocent man in his own home

Challenge of Arizona Department of Health Services rules on when doctors can recommend marijuana to patients with PTSD

Whether claims that an additive accelerates plastic biodegradability were deceptive

Jury award of $36m in damages for patent infringement claims related to simulation/emulation technology

Trademark infringement dispute over the name "Streamline"

Temporary Restraining Order on President Trump's travel ban on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries

Constitutionality of President Trump's travel ban on immigrants and visitors from certain Muslim countries

Whether federal law allows pipelines with FERC approvals to proceed without state reviews

Whether U.S. citizens can sue foreign governments for planting spyware on their computers

Nancy Zimmerman's claim the IRS improperly disallowed approximately $50m of losses from her Russian Recovery Fund

Whether a white landlord has the right to evict a tenant because he is black

Dispute over software source code developed for monitoring drilling operations

Class action against the City of Los Angeles alleging the city unlawfully charges a trash disposal fee to those living in multi-unit dwellings who don't receive trash disposal services from the city

Opposition to Chicago's ordinance regulating the home sharing industry, such as rental sites Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway

Mexican nationals charged tourism taxes when flying to the U.S. even though they are exempt from the tax

Whether consumers can obtain a court order compelling online pharmacies to file for sales tax reimbursements

Opposition to a local air quality board's finding that an oil refinery expansion would have no significant adverse effect on the environment

Whether 3 Texas congressional districts violate the Constitution and Voting Rights Act because of legislators' use of race

Whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex discrimination, covers discrimination based on sexual orientation

Now-disbarred Stanley Chesley's challenge of the $42m compensatory damages award related to the Fen-Phen settlement

Whether Glassdoor must reveal the identity of an anonymous reviewer of Machine Zone, the Game of War software developer

Allegations of numerous defects in the Massachusetts Gaming Commission's process for awarding a gaming license to Wynn

Nanko Shipping's claims over bauxite from the Republic of Guinea

Class action against AbbVie for alleged SEC violations related to a proposed merger with Shire, another biopharmaceutical company

Police officer allowing a police dog to attack a homeless man after the officer knew the man was not a suspect

Allegations that Quicken Loans underwrote and approved mortgage loans for FHA insurance that violated FHA requirements

Dispute between the Cleveland Browns and player Ryan Pontbriand over a permanent partial disability application for an injury incurred during a game

Prison senentence for a former credit union CEO who embezzled nearly $1.5m

Dispute over the sale of the former Showboat casino

Whether billionaire Ira Rennert must pay a $213m judgment for allegedly diverting money from MagCorp to help build his Hamptons mansion

Whether clips from the Ben Affleck movie The Town prejudiced jurors during a bank robbery trial

Claims that cow feed sickened and killed dairy cows

Dispute over extending a dock to access property located within the boundaries of Cumberland Island National Seashore

Whether models were misclassified as independent contractors

"Opt-out" parents who kept their third-graders from taking a mandatory statewide standardized reading test

Whether the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has federally established rights to groundwater in the Coachella Valley

An El Salvador man imprisoned for more than 2 years after he crossed the border at a port of entry while washing car windows

$13m restitution order against former Aeropostale VP Christopher Finazzo and Douglas Dey for causing Aeropostale to overpay for merchandise

Dispute over patents covering hybrid vehicle technology

Supreme Court on whether courts can examine jury deliberations when there are indications of racial bias that deprived a defendant his right to a fair trial

Supreme Court on sentencing guidelines and whether a "crime of violence" includes offenses that present "serious potential risk of physical injury to another"

Removal of statues of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans

Whether the Philadelphia Eagles must pay workers compensation, plus a penalty, for the career-ending injuries of defensive end Victor Abiami

Dispute over patents for systems to manage access to protected data provided over "untrusted" networks

Federal district court on law barring protests at the Supreme Court

Delisting the gray wolf in Wyoming as a protected species under the Endangered Species Act

Louisiana levee board claims against oil and gas companies for infrastructural and ecological damage to coastal lands

JP McManus's bid to recover $5.2m in taxes withheld from his $17.4m winnings from a 3-day backgammon match

Province of Manitoba and State of Missouri's opposition to North Dakota's plans to pipe drinking water to the Minot area

Artifact collector's complaint about a $5k jury award for a collection he claimed is worth $175k to $500k

Whether government employees can keep private their work-related emails and texts sent on personal devices

Constitutionality of Florida's law that bans openly carrying handguns

Whether Kansas is adequately funding public schools

Opposition to the financing of a new courthouse

Voter registration challenge

Review of the jury verdict that Apple must pay $533m to Smartflash, which claimed iTunes infringed data storage patents

Claim that Iran's support for Hamas terrorist activities makes it liable for deaths and injuries caused by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem

Toxic tort class action against Union Carbide, a subsidiary of Dow, over its release of ethyl acrylate at its Louisiana facility

Review of the $455m award to Bayer in a patent dispute with Dow

Shareholder suit related to Medtronic's alleged improper promotion to physicians of the off-label use of Infuse

Challenge of the outdoor-mass-gathering permit for a music festival near Portland, What the Festival

Dispute over mineral rights

Challenge of a Minnesota statute prohibiting the wearing of political insignia at polling places on election days

EPA's non-acquiescence statement regarding discharge permits for publicly owned water treatment facilities

California's gang injunction and whether the Broderick Boys is a criminal street gang

Review of the $31m in damages a federal jury awarded Lord & Taylor from the owners of the former White Flint Mall

Homeless sex offenders' complaint that they were not able to register under the Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act without home addresses

Police actions against Phillip Turner, who routinely films public officials on public property

Bid by Compassion Over Killing to require labels on egg cartons indicating the conditions in which the chickens were raised

Whether a troubled child with suicidal tendencies and ADHD is entitled to an IDEA IEP and special education services

Using as evidence a blood sample obtained without a warrant

Patent dispute between Phigenix and Genentech over Kadcyla, a drug targeting a type of metastatic breast cancer

Dispute between Bombardier Recreational Products and Arctic Cat over patents relating to snowmobile frames and seating positions

Whether Texas can once again enforce criminal penalties for harboring or concealing immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally

Harassment and abuse allegations by Hispanic employees against Koch Foods, a poultry processor

Whether Planned Parenthood doctors can perform abortions and sonograms at a Florida health center

Parent's complaint arising from the process to exempt her children from Michigan's vaccination requirement to attend public school

Whether Colorado's Urban Renewal Law permits a municipality to delay the start date of a tax increment financing period by writing the delay into an urban renewal plan

Securities violations related to the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme

Supreme Court on a request for a new trial by death-row inmate Duane Buck, who claims racially biased evidence was presented at his first trial

Supreme Court on whether Ehlena Fry can sue a school district for its decision that she couldn't bring her service dog to school

Dispute between the State of Wyoming and the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes over boundaries of the Wind River Reservation

Supreme Court on whether a party that supplies a single component of a multicomponent invention for manufacture abroad can be held liable for infringement under U.S. patent law

Constitutionality Maryland's ban of AR-15s and other military-style assault weapons

Supreme Court on whether a sue-and-be-sued clause grants federal district courts jurisdiction over cases involving Fannie Mae

Supreme Court on immunity for a police officer who shot and killed a suspect without having heard whether other officers issued a warning

Whether the Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to release Trinity River water from the Lewiston Dam to help prevent a mass die-off of salmon in the lower Klamath River

Academy of Doctors of Audiology seeking an injunction barring the International Hearing Society from issuing Tinnitus Care Provider Certificates

Cardroom's claim that other poker websites' allegedly illegal activities place it at a competitive disadvantage

Allegation that the antiepileptic drug Depakote caused birth defects

Dispute over a FOIA request for transactional documents related to the USDA Export Credit Guarantee Program

Washington Mutual's bid for a refund on taxes related to the acquisition of several savings and loans during the 1980s

"Docs v. Glocks," Florida's law barring doctors from asking patients about gun ownership

Reconsideration of a ruling that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's structure is unconstitutional

Review of New York City's plan to give homeowners a one-time credit of $183 on their water and sewer bills

Challenge of estate taxes levied on $5.5m in federal gift taxes paid by former Seattle SuperSonics owner Barry Ackerley in the years before his death

Pay and benefits claims against the U.S. Space and Rocket Center

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling against President Trump's 90-day travel ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, ordering that the ban should not go into effect while the courts review the legalities of the executive order

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on President Trump's travel ban: "The 'specific sequence of events' leading to the adoption of the EO bolsters the Commonwealth's argument that the EO was not motivated by rational national security concerns."

Challenge of a board of commissioners' practice of beginning its monthly meetings with a prayer

Challenge of Tennessee's Campaign Financial Disclosure Act by a group of parents concerned about the removal from public schools of a textbook that includes discussion of Islam

Dispute over the antidumping-duty rate applied to wood flooring imports from China

Challenge of permits and fees required for pub crawls

Detectives' claim their dismissal was in retaliation for exercise of their First Amendment rights

Sanctions for spoliation of evidence in a case involving trade secrets related to paint additives

Whether a sunshine law applies to the Department of Corrections revealing names of pharmacists who supply lethal injection drugs

Claims by 5 L.A. Police Academy recruits dismissed after they were injured during training

Jury's $550k defamation and blacklisting verdict in favor of a former high school athletic director

Whether sending sexually explicit photographs to a 16- or 17-year-old is permitted under Indiana state law

Federal district court's temporary restraining order prohibiting the enforcement of President Trump's travel ban

Virginia's motion to intervene on behalf of two Yemeni citizens who held IR2 immigrant visas but which Customs and Border Protection stamped as "canceled" during implementation of President Trump's travel ban

Request to continue the Boston TRO that prohibited the detention and/or removal of individuals with approved refugee applications who would be legally admitted to the United States in absence of President Trump's travel ban

Motion for a temporary restraining order against President Trump's travel ban

Constitutionality of President Trump's travel ban

Cheryl Jacobus' defamation claims against Corey Lewandowski and President Trump for "deliberate fabrications," including that she "begged" and was "turned down" for a job

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on courts deferring to federal agencies in determining what laws and regulations mean: "There's an elephant in the room with us today. We have studiously attempted to work our way around it and even left it unremarked. But the fact is Chevron and Brand X permit executive bureaucracies to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers' design. Maybe the time has come to face the behemoth."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's dissenting opinion on the limits of warrantless searches of residences: "While a homeowner may stop others from entering his curtilage, the government contends a homeowner may never stop its agents from entering the curtilage to conduct a knock and talk. Really, then, the government's argument here isn't that it enjoys a license or invitation flowing from the homeowner, for it turns out the homeowner has nothing to do with it. In the government's telling, its agents enjoy a special and irrevocable right to invade a home's curtilage for a knock and talk — what might be more accurately called a sort of permanent easement — whatever the homeowner may say or do about it."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on whether the Medical Device Amendments prevent states from establishing requirements of medical devices that are different from federal requirements: "Allowing more regulation of medical devices could yield benefits for patient safety. But it could also mean forcing manufacturers to abide not one but fifty-one sets of requirements, a prospect that could deter or delay access to innovative devices and wind up hurting more patients than it helps."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on whether a man who fired a single gunshot that wounded one victim and killed another should be charged with two counts of using a firearm during a crime

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on the Securities Act imposing liability on issuers who offer opinions about future events: "Establishing that an opinion about the future failed to pan out in the end may go some way to meeting that standard but it doesn't go all the way. After all, few of us would label a deeply studied, carefully expressed, and earnestly held opinion about the future as false or misleading at the time it's made simply because later events proved it wrong."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on whether the Bureau of Prisons wronged a Native American inmate by denying him access to a sweat lodge, which was part of his religion: "Andrew Yellowbear will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. Time he must serve for murdering his daughter. With that much lying behind and still before him, Mr. Yellowbear has found sustenance in his faith. No one doubts the sincerity of his religious beliefs or that they are the reason he seeks access to his prison's sweat lodge — a house of prayer and meditation the prison has supplied for those who share his Native American religious tradition. Yet the prison refuses to open the doors of that sweat lodge to Mr. Yellowbear alone, and so we have this litigation."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's concurring opinion in Hobby Lobby: "No doubt, the Greens' religious convictions are contestable. Some may even find the Greens' beliefs offensive. But no one disputes that they are sincerely held religious beliefs."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on when a court may sanction parties for abuses of the discovery process: "Our justice system has a strong preference for resolving cases on their merits whenever possible, but no one, we hold, should count on more than three chances to make good a discovery obligation."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on immunity that state and municipal governments sometimes enjoy from federal antitrust laws: "When a city acts as a market participant it generally has to play by the same rules as everyone else. It can't abuse its monopoly power or conspire to suppress competition. Except sometimes it can."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on the 90-day deadline for decisions on restitution payments for crime victims: "The district court's restitution order was undoubtedly late, coming after the deadline prescribed by the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act. But a tardy restitution order is not an invalid one. Rather than creating a jurisdictional bar to untimely restitution orders, the MVRA's deadline seeks to prod the government into ensuring victims swift compensation. Sometimes, of course, the government is not so easily prodded."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's dissenting opinion regarding whether crosses alongside public roads amount to government endorsement of Christianity: "And this raises an even larger question. The court's holding does and must rest on the view that anything a putatively 'reasonable observer' could think 'endorses' religion is constitutionally problematic. Indeed, the result in this case could hardly be achieved under any different test. It is undisputed that the state actors here did not act with any religious purpose; there is no suggestion in this case that Utah's monuments establish a religion or coerce anyone to participate in any religious exercise; and the court does not even render a judgment that it thinks Utah's memorials actually endorse religion. Most Utahans, the record shows, don't even revere the cross. Thus it is that the court strikes down Utah's policy only because it is able to imagine a hypothetical 'reasonable observer' who could think Utah means to endorse religion—even when it doesn't."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion regarding Colorado requiring out-of-state retailers notify customers of taxes they owe: "If anything, by asking us to strike down Colorado's law, out-of-state mail order and internet retailers don't seek comparable treatment to their in-state brick-and-mortar rivals, they seek more favorable treatment, a competitive advantage, a sort of judicially sponsored arbitrage opportunity or 'tax shelter.'"

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's oft-cited opinion in a case regarding copyright over items sold on eBay: "In this way, it is something like a bank shot in basketball. A player who shoots the ball off of the backboard intends to hit the backboard, but he does so in the service of his further intention of putting the ball into the basket. Here, defendants intended to send the NOCI to eBay in California, but they did so with the ultimate purpose of cancelling plaintiffs' auction in Colorado. Their 'express aim' thus can be said to have reached into Colorado in much the same way that a basketball player's express aim in shooting off of the backboard is not simply to hit the backboard, but to make a basket."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on accommodations for disabled employees: "The Rehabilitation Act seeks to prevent employers from callously denying reasonable accommodations that permit otherwise qualified disabled persons to work — not to turn employers into safety net providers for those who cannot work."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on qualified immunity for police in case brought by parents whose son died after being tasered: "We sympathize with the Wilsons over their terrible loss. But the Supreme Court has directed the lower federal courts to apply qualified immunity broadly, to protect from civil liability for damages all officers except 'the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law,'... in order that officers might not be unduly "inhibit[ed]...in performing their official duties."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's concurring opinion regarding a hearing for a man convicted of having a gun after his earlier criminal conviction: "None of these arguments compels us to perpetuate the injustice of disregarding the plain terms of the law Congress wrote and denying defendants the day in court that law promises them."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's dissenting opinion in a case about a seventh grader arrested for disrupting class: "If a seventh grader starts trading fake burps for laughs in gym class, what's a teacher to do? Order extra laps? Detention? A trip to the principal's office? Maybe. But then again, maybe that's too old school. Maybe today you call a police officer. And maybe today the officer decides that, instead of just escorting the now compliant thirteen year old to the principal's office, an arrest would be a better idea. So out come the handcuffs and off goes the child to juvenile detention. My colleagues suggest the law permits exactly this option and they offer ninety-four pages explaining why they think that's so. Respectfully, I remain unpersuaded."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on an insurance dispute over coverage for on-the-job injuries at a haunted house: "Haunted houses may be full of ghosts, goblins, and guillotines, but it's their more prosaic features that pose the real danger. Tyler Hodges found that out when an evening shift working the ticket booth ended with him plummeting down an elevator shaft. But as these things go, this case no longer involves Mr. Hodges. Years ago he recovered from his injuries, received a settlement, and moved on. This lingering specter of a lawsuit concerns only two insurance companies and who must foot the bill. And at the end of it all, we find, there is no escape for either of them."

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's opinion on a criminal death penalty case: "Scott Eizember left a Tulsa jail intent on settling a score. He was upset with his ex-girlfriend, Kathy Biggs, because she had tipped off authorities about his violation of a protective order. So just as soon as he could he made for her hometown of Depew. Once there, he noticed an elderly couple leaving a house across the street from Ms. Biggs's home. Mr. Eizember decided the place would make an ideal lookout for Ms. Biggs and, after the couple left, he broke in. But A.J. and Patsy Cantrell didn't stay away as long as Mr. Eizember hoped, and when they returned home they found him pointing their own shotgun at them."

Dispute between Jim Beam and a bottler of alcoholic beverages

Dispute over licenses for stationery logos for Lego, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks and other brands

Dispute between garden club members and their club president

Puget Sound Energy's challenge of the disapproval of a conditional use permit

Challenge of a felony child abuse conviction reduced to a misdemeanor

Dispute between a university's chancellor and regent over access to student-admissions information

$400k in attorney fees for an 8-year dispute over the rights to a parking space in San Francisco

Alleged breach of contract for the sale of powdered nutritional supplements for runners

Challenge of Mylan's application to manufacture and sell a generic equivalent of a Shire pharmaceutical product named Lialda

Dispute over the management of the red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico

Challenge of plans to build a reservoir and transfer water from the Sulphur River Basin to the Trinity River Basin

A surrogate seeking rights as the mother of triplets and custody of at least one of the children

A property developer's complaints against those who opposed its rezoning and development plans

Dispute between two companies in the election industry

Whether a court will rehear a case on letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the government customer emails stored overseas

Whether a countywide ban on red-light cameras violated county municipalities' rights

Challenge of D.C.'s rules on sign posting

Whether a case over alleged side effects from Accutane will be heard in the user's home state of Alabama or in Hoffmann-La Roche's home state of New Jersey

Discrimination claims brought by a former employee related to his termination following alleged harassment incidents

Whether copyright plaintiffs must be shown to have caused the wrongful copying when claiming a tech service infringes copyrighted material

To avoid underinsurance, whether insurance companies can be required to include detailed likely costs of home replacements in estimates

Whether police must return medical marijuana to a man acquitted of marijuana-related drug crimes

Bid to establish an inmate voting system for those detained pretrial or incarcerated as a result of a misdemeanor and eligible to vote

Recovering allegedly erroneous refunds of federal taxes made related to the research and development tax credit

Teachers' union challenge of a law that ended teacher tenure

Reimbursement from a judge who accepted insurance coverage and benefits beyond those allowed by law

Claims for personal injuries sustained by 18 workers who participated in the September 11, 2001, cleanup

First Amendment challenge of regulations on alcohol advertising

Class action complaint alleging Samsung misrepresented the performance of the Galaxy S4 phone

Defamation claims by directors removed from a corporate board

Whether the court or the arbitrator should decide if Arabian Motors can be compelled to arbitrate its dispute with Ford

Constitutionality of a law that allows a state board of education to overturn local denials of charter-school applications

Disputes among Safari Club members, including charges of official misconduct, invasion of privacy, negligence

Muslim woman fired for wearing a headscarf, which was against the workplace uniform policy

EPA rule permitting government agencies to transfer water between different bodies, such as rivers and lakes, without needing to safeguard for pollution

A medical marijuana user's opposition to the legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington State

Challenge of a federal fishing rule resulting in longer recreational red snapper seasons for charter boat services than for private anglers in the Gulf of Mexico

ANSWER Coalition's request to protest along the inaugural parade route for President-elect Donald Trump

Whether a city ballot proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour can go ahead when state law prohibits minimum wages different from the state's $7.70 an hour

Enforcing a new law requiring remittance of sales tax on internet sales by sellers lacking a physical presence within South Dakota

Whether a man's right against self-incrimination was violated when a judge ordered him to provide his fingerprint to unlock his phone

Challenge of a jail policy that leaves detainees naked, with only bedding for cover, every 4 nights for women and every 2 or 3 nights for men

First Amendment challenge of a city's ordinance on size limits for political lawn signs

Whether "owners" but not "operators" are subject to a storage tank act's closure requirements

Taxes owed to the State of Nevada when a gaming casino or restaurant provides a meal to a patron or an employee on a complimentary basis

Travel agent who booked military-rate travel for her non-military clients

Review of an illegal firearm sales conviction following a previous settlement with the ATF

Whether Apple has an illegal monopoly on the sale of iPhone apps

Whether a proposed generic from Teva would infringe on Eli Lilly's patent for Alimta

Couple's claim their vows of poverty mean that they are exempt from paying taxes on support they receive from their church

Appeal of an award of nearly $1m in attorneys' fees in a copyright case

Review of a warrantless search following a noise complaint

Challenge of a law establishing buffer zones to keep protesters at bay around abortion clinics

Preacher arrested for refusing to leave while reading the Bible in front of a DMV

Worker's comp benefits awarded to an employee after finding he suffered a work-related mosquito bite that infected him with the West Nile virus

Whether fines for a leak from a fracking operation should be based on length of the initial release or the days before cleanup

IDEA claims by parents of twins with autism

U.S. seeking forfeiture of $250m connected to Pavlo Lazarenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister who fled his country in 1999

Proposed consumer class action claiming that UPS overcharged for shipments that had a declared value of more than $300

Review of an EPA enforcement action arising out of the permit process for construction at a coal-fired power plant

A parent seeking tuition reimbursement and claiming procedural and substantive violations of IDEA

Whether a city violated the contract clause of the Constitution when it declared that its sewage treatment plant would no longer accept wastewater discharged by one of its customers, a large metal refinishing plant

Review of a court decision to pierce the corporate veil in a dispute over a failed business venture

Whether a police officer violated clearly established law when he shot and killed an armed man without first calling out a warning

Allegation that Volkswagen infringed four patents related to devices that limit body roll or tilt in a car while it is going around a turn

Patent dispute over cancer treatments

Challenge of U.S. Customs' classification of bauxite proppants imported from China

Tenant's complaint about mold

Dispute over the method to calculate franchise taxes

Claims by the family of Yogi Bhajan over the control of two nonprofit entities associated with the Sikh Dharma religious community

Patent infringement claims against generic companies seeking to market copies of PENNSAID, a treatment for osteoarthritis

Challenge of three taxes imposed on non-Indian businesses and their patrons in a political subdivision of the Tulalip Tribes

An author's claims that Amazon sold counterfeit copies of his books

Excessive force claim by the family of a man killed by a deputy after a low-speed chase following a traffic stop

Dispute over rights to BorderFest, an annual cultural festival based in Hidalgo, Texas, for the last 4 decades

Whether the BLM violated federal policy in failing to comply with the California Desert Conservation Area Plan when it granted a right of way to construct a wind energy facility

Whether a pimp can be convicted on multiple counts of promoting prostitution when multiple prostitutes are involved

Whether a man's Facebook photo of himself with a gun was sufficient enough evidence to justify his illegal gun possession conviction

Putative securities fraud class action based on alleged corporate excess at Identiv

Review of a judge's statement during a sentencing that a man had a "serial harem"

Attorneys fees for a Voting Rights Act case that ended in a settlement creating a satellite office for voter registration and in-person absentee voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Religious discrimination claim by a minister terminated from the National Park Service after performing a baptism for a park visitor while on his lunch break

Whether a woman can sue her doctor for the wrongful death of her embryo after she had a miscarriage in her first trimester

Challenge of a Minnesota program that indefinitely detains sex offenders after they complete their prison sentences

Human trafficking and negligence claims against KBR related to the murder of 12 Nepali men in Iraq

Libertarian Party challenge of FEC campaign finance rules barring the party from accepting a $235k bequeathed donation

Dispute between Asarco and Noranda over the $1.79b fund to clean up contaminated mining sites

Dispute over a patent related to stents used to deliver medication

$38m contempt judgment against infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau

Dispute over tickets purchased online for the World Cup Soccer tournament in Germany

Dispute over ballot processing that created the opportunity for election judges to learn the identities of some voters who had mailed in their ballots

Whether a city is immune from liability for a traffic crash at an intersection where a tree obscured a stop sign

Civil enforcement action against Marc Mandel and Wall Street Radio, d/b/a Winning on Wall Street

Wisconsin Democratic Party's bid to have the state release training videos made by its Republican attorney general that allegedly include racist and sexist remarks

Challenge of the Bureau of Land Management's approval of a proposed Mt. Hope molybdenum mining operation in Nevada

Whether the Bureau of Land Management holds stockwatering rights in reservoirs constructed on federal land in Montana

Opposition to a development planned for 1,000 new houses near New Market, Maryland

Whether unpaid retirement contributions constitute an outstanding obligation of a closed charter school

Review of State Department actions to recover Clinton emails, including possible referral to the U.S. attorney general to pursue enforcement action

Whether James Ferrari should be compensated after his Ferrari was seized and auctioned off following his drunk driving arrest

Disputes arising out of the sale of the mixed martial arts clothing line known as Hitman Fight Gear

Securities fraud class action against Esperion, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, and its CEO

Landowners seeking compensation for a taking of their property following a spillway modification to Grand Lake Saint Marys that has caused recurring flooding

Challenge of a ban on non-hunting firearms in state parks and forests

Dispute between a city and its water board over a decision to stop fluoridating the city water supply

Freelance photographer's complaint over his camera being seized by a state trooper at the scene of a vehicle crash

Dispute over a public records request for unredacted documents from an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by a former county attorney

Whether the Employee Investment Study Implementation Team is an "agency" subject to the Wyoming Public Meetings Act

Defamation claims by Michael Mann, a leading climate change researcher, against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and two writers

Whether police must prove that medical marijuana patients arrested for driving under the influence are too impaired to be driving, regardless of the outcome of any blood tests

Review of a Florida death penalty case in light of Hurst v. Florida, which struck down the state's death penalty sentencing system

Constitutionality of Linn State's mandatory drug testing for all students

Former sports agent's claims against Robert Quinn and Marvin Austin, former North Carolina players who went on to the NFL

Whether employers are required to permit their employees to take off-duty rest periods, and whether employers may require their employees to remain "on call" during rest periods

Opposition to an asphalt processing facility

Defamation claims against Scripps' Caller-Times over articles about the former Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce CEO

Commercial fishers' challenge of California charging nonresident commercial fishers higher fees than resident fishers

Whether a Sikh political activist can bring suit in U.S. courts against the government of India

Denial of compensation for wrongful imprisonment for a man who spent 9 years in prison for the murders of 4 teens

Malicious prosecution claim by a company sued for its alleged involvement with the manufacturing and sale of steering wheel covers that contain lead

Dispute over an ACLU FOIA request for documents related to drone strikes

Media challenge of officials withholding body camera footage for 6 business days after a University of Cincinnati police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop

Whether radio broadcasters must pay royalties for pre-1972 recordings

Conviction of a former Lindenwood University wrestler for infecting another with HIV as well as attempting to expose others

Multiple challenges by 9 alleged members of the Vineland Boys gang of voir dire, pretrial publicity, other trial proceedings

Whether police officers can be held liable for unlawfully seizing property in violation of the Fourth Amendment because they shot and killed 2 dogs while executing a search warrant

Federal appeals court review of a Utah law that lets retailers sell contacts at prices below those set by three of the biggest manufacturers of contact lenses

Former California Senator Ronald Calderon's defamation claims over statements two lawyers made about kickbacks and bribes related to medical services

Homeowners' allegations that DuPont's failure to activate a dam emergency plan resulted in Hurricane Irene damage

Newspaper's request for Department of Corrections' records related to the health of inmates housed near toxic coal waste

Claims against police officers for stopping and detaining two men outside their house and recording studio

Challenge of registration and licensing mandates of the Arms Export Control Act

Department of Commerce's review of imports of lightweight thermal paper covered by an antidumping duty order

Oil producers' challenge of a decision to treat separate oil and gas fields operated by common owners as a single entity when calculating oil production taxes

Copyright infringement claim over a children's chalk holder shaped like a pencil

State employee's claim he was fired in retaliation for complaining about allegedly being pressured to work overtime without pay

Claim the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs' failure to spend appropriated funds caused a loss of federal matching funds

Disputes between former business partners in a martial arts business

Antidumping duty investigation into solar modules assembled in Mexico but incorporating Taiwanese components

Disputes between a colocation consultant and a real estate broker

Whether a "heart balm" statute bars recovery of an engagement ring following the breakoff of an engagement

Second Amendment challenge to California's law requiring a 10-day waiting period for gun purchases

Whether Ohio's law that limits noneconomic damages to $350k violates the constitutional rights of an underage sexual assault victim

Review of a $1.3m award to the City of Miami Beach for claims of landscaping and playground defects at a local park

Oklahoma law requiring abortion clinics to have doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals

Whether Virginia's voter ID law requiring voters present photo IDs violates the Voting Rights Act

CNN's free speech claim in a private employment discrimination and retaliation case

Trademark dispute between DJ Logic and the rapper known as Logic over the use of "Logic"

DMCA safe harbor policy on terminating repeat infringers and copyright infringement claims over thousands of recordings

Local opposition to construction of a rapid transit bus system along Central Avenue in Albuquerque

FOIA request for documents related to a New York Times article about U.S. cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear program

Challenges of the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians casino

Patent disputes between competitors in the power supply controller chip market

Supreme Court on whether stealing money from a bank customer's account can be prosecuted as bank fraud

Splitting a $2.25m work bonus in a divorce proceeding for a 14-month marriage that was part of an 8-year relationship

Claims against Airbus by families of passengers killed when AirAsia Flight 8501 plunged into the Java Sea

Dispute over patents for technology related to VPNs

Claim a city violated two residents' rights by interfering with their participation in a municipal referendum to repeal two ordinances

Whether e-mails exchanged between two business partners constituted an enforceable contract for one partner to sell his interest in their jointly owned company to the other partner

Firefighter's ADA disability discrimination claim over a fire department policy prohibiting beards

Whether same-sex couples need a court order to have the names of both spouses on their children's birth certificates

Family of Russian car dealers who allegedly ran "bait and switch" sites GlobalAutoUSA.com and EffectAuto.com

Dispute over attorneys' fees for a whistleblower case related to alleged tax improprieties by Novartis

Occupy DC protesters' challenge of arrests related to removal of the "Occubarn" at McPherson Square, a federal park

Challenge of approval to demolish structures on the historic McMillan Reservoir and Filtration Complex to develop the 25-acre parcel of land

Kelley Blue Book's challenge of a $5k fine for using the term "invoice" in its internet advertising

Whether Lake Michigan property owners' rights extend to the water's edge, wherever the water's edge is at any given moment

Challenge of a decision to revoke the security clearance of a Navy employee who carried a gun onto Navy property following the Washington Navy Yard shooting

Dispute over the environmental assessment for a proposed golf and hotel development in Aliso Canyon, a biologically diverse Laguna Beach area

Alleged scheme to advertise false original prices and false discounts for wines sold on WTSO.com

Whether Samsung must pay $400m to Apple after adapting aspects of iPhone designs for its smartphones

Whether insider trading prosecutions should be limited to those who profit from revealing confidential data

Dispute over leaking the existence of a lawsuit against State Farm for allegedly defrauding a federal flood insurance program after Hurricane Katrina

Investors' claim they were shut out of a Cliffs Natural Resources private debt swap reserved for institutional buyers

Dispute between Duke Energy and a wind farm over paying for power when the regional grid is overloaded

Revoking a contract awarded to Verizon Deutschland and referral of the matter to the DOD IG and the Senate Armed Services Committee

Bid by 32 models to obtain the membership list of a "swingers" club they allege pirated their images to use in online advertising

Renowned photographer George Steinmetz's copyright infringement claim against McGraw-Hill

Patent infringement dispute between Sprint and Comcast over VoIP and other telecommunications technologies

Dispute over patents related to computer processors, graphics processing units and graphics cards

Slander claims and disputes over the trusts for the twin grandchildren of Walt Disney

Libertarian Party challenge of New Hampshire shortening the period during which parties gather nomination signatures

Claims against a physician and hospital, alleging that the physician breached her fiduciary duty by failing to obtain preauthorization for a medevac transfer

Third appeal concerning a variance for a wireless communications tower in Baltimore County

Review of a $340m jury verdict for alleged attempt to monopolize the safety syringe market, false advertising

$122.5 million civil judgment against a former doctor convicted of injuring a medical board chairman in a bombing

Claim arising out of the FTC's "Robocall Challenge," a competition to create solutions to block illegal robocalls

Constitutionality of requiring a county assessor to cooperate with an IG investigation

Property owners' bid to recover oil and gas proceeds after they were ordered into a drilling pool

Claims a lawyer cyberstalked his former employer, posting negative reviews about her and her firm online

Ameranth's patent infringement claim against Apple, Domino's and others over technology that allows a wireless device to access a menu of options to place online orders

Review of a judge's order that a transgender teen who wanted a name change from Natalie to Nathan, with his mother's consent, undergo a mental examination

Dispute over the environmental impact study done on a new arena for the Golden State Warriors basketball team

Whether a 1998 environmental review is adequate for construction more than a decade later of the San Francisco T-Third Mission Bay loop

Claim that a $29.5m stock valuation used in a divorce settlement was false because it didn't account for downstream businesses

Voting Rights Act challenge of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, redistricting plan creating three white-majority city districts of five total when the city population is 54 percent black

Police officer's defamation and other claims after he reported alleged racial profiling and other constitutional violations by fellow officers

Excessive force claim against an officer who shot a woman four times as she carried a kitchen knife in her yard

Whether the developer of the exclusive Yellowstone Club may sue a former lawyer for alleged misconduct related to the resort bankruptcy

Claim that a cigar wholesaler didn't obtain a required business license, resulting in the state assessing a fine against Wynn

Exoneration of the "San Antonio Four," four lesbians who served almost 15 years on charges of sexually assaulting two girls

Stockholder suit alleging iHeartCommunications abused its position as controlling stockholder of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings

Whether Qwest must pay $2m for losses because of a mistake that shut down U.S. Airways' reservations systems and affected 1,360 flights nationwide

Whether the federal Surface Transportation Board has exclusive jurisdiction over railroad repair work done at the direction of a federally regulated rail carrier but performed by a contractor

Challenge of the denial of the right of Puerto Rico citizens to vote for representatives to the U.S. House

Appeal by a man sentenced to 6 months in jail for hanging a black-faced dummy in his front yard on the same day black churchgoers in South Carolina were killed

Whether Maine's Republican governor is immune from a civil rights claim over his threatening to withhold funding from a nonprofit that offered a job to a Democrat

Sunoco's bid to recover more than $300m in federal income taxes

Constitutional standards that apply to a warrantless search of a probationer's residence

Proposed class action over unwanted phone calls on behalf of The Breast Cancer Society, Inc.

Constitutionality of redistricting in Wisconsin

Ruling that a ban on teachers having sex with high school students doesn't apply to a coach convicted of sexual assault of a sophomore cheerleader

Whether a prosecutor's "racially coded references" made fair sentencing of a black man before an all-white South Carolina jury impossible

Review of the real estate practice known as "dual agency," when a broker represents both the buyer and seller

Whether a law firm can use a nursing home's service marks in an ad campaign soliciting abuse and neglect cases

Claim that AstraZeneca and Ranbaxy reached an illegal deal to delay the launch of a generic version of the heartburn drug Nexium

Appeal by Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer dubbed the Merchant of Death, convicted of selling assault rifles, anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons on the black market

Whether federal and state law preempt Maui County's ordinance banning the cultivation and testing of genetically engineered plants

Whether a Kentucky county's so-called "right to work" ordinance is unenforceable because it is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act

Claim that Florida's hazing law is unconstitutional by a man found guilty of manslaughter and hazing in the death of a drum major at Florida A&M

Dispute between the FCC and AT&T over fees it is allowed to charge LECs

Dispute over the proper classification of liquid-filled glass bulbs according to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule

Appeal by the Florida man who claimed self-defense when he shot and killed a teenager after complaining about his "thug music"

Florida Supreme Court order reducing the sentences to life imprisonment for two death-row inmates convicted of murder

Whether other states can challenge a California law that prohibits the sale of eggs from chickens that are not raised in accordance with strict space requirements

Challenge of TVA's policy of removing any tree within power line easements that could grow higher than 15 feet

Whether surveillance camera footage collected as evidence by police is subject to public records requests

ESPN's public records request to the Notre Dame Security Police Department for information regarding 275 student athletes

Dispute over a contract to extract helium gas from roughly 21k acres of federal lands in Colorado and Utah

Dispute over patents related to migrating individualized settings to new computers, such as email addresses, desktop settings and stored passwords

Consumer's claim she was injured by the door of a Viking refrigerator that had been recalled

Former nursing students' claims against Salem International University over its loss of accreditation

A divorced couple's dispute over the custody of frozen pre-embryos

Whether West Virginia's eminent domain laws apply to a pipeline that will carry natural gas to out-of-state markets

The plain-view doctrine and a warrantless seizure of heroin from a woman's car by police investigating a drug ring

Claim by the brother of a death row inmate whose botched execution led Oklahoma to review its lethal injection protocols

$45K sanction for a letter an attorney sent to an expert's employer regarding testimony in a lung-cancer-related case

Selling the neglected USS Sequoia, the former presidential yacht once used by JFK, for zero dollars

Copyright claim by photographer Yves Sicre de Fontbrune over photos of Pablo Picasso artworks reproduced by Alan Wofsy

Dispute between Adidas and a church over trademarks for "ADIZERO" and "ADD A ZERO"

Challenge by a group of Detroit residents over the city shutting off water service to homes

Dispute over a permit for a proposed commercial geoduck farm that will affect eelgrass beds, a critical and fragile aquatic habitat

Preliminary injunction ordering the State of Michigan to deliver bottled water to Flint residents who don't have properly installed water filters

Reversal of $300k in damages and lawyer fees granted to protesters who displayed banners and signs in an unapproved area of the Wisconsin Capitol

Challenge of the Iowa governor's closure of two state-run mental health care facilities by vetoing their appropriations

In light of Graham v. Florida, challenge of Virginia allowing convicted juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment to seek release starting at the age of 60

City of Austin's constitutional challenge of property appraisal provisions of the Texas Tax Code

RICO claims by 41 private health insurance companies that purchased billions of dollars' worth of adulterated pharmaceuticals from GlaxoSmithKline

Constitutional challenge of the installation of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of a city hall

Dispute regarding 13,000 acres in central New York taken into trust on behalf of the Oneida Indian Nation

Disputes related to patents for implants for spinal fusion surgery

Challenge of a permit denial for a digital billboard

Claims against members of the Baltimore Police Department by the family of Tyrone West, who died while in police custody

Public records request for a city councilmember to turn over emails regarding city business from his personal email account

24 plaintiffs' personal injury claims for birth defects they suffered as a result of their mothers taking the antiepileptic drug Depakote

Dispute over a Recovery Act grant to a biomass facility

Dispute over the Arizona water supply and federal water rights

Constitutionality of Colorado's election disclosure laws

Including nominees on the ballot to fill a vacancy created by a district court judge who resigns effective after a primary election

Dispute between software companies over several trademarks containing the word "collective"

Claim the U.S. Forest Service failed to follow its policies, resulting in a fire causing harm to a ranch

Claim that Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas dump patients in other states by giving them bus tickets

Defamation claims related to the book "The Nazis Next Door"

Challenge of East Hampton's curfews on flights in and out of the East Hampton Airport

Challenge of federal and state programs that offer advantages in highway construction contracting to disadvantaged businesses

Claim T-Mobile employees didn't properly erase a returned phone and then uploaded a sensitive photograph to the customer's Facebook page

Whether Arizona's precinct vote rule violates the Voting Rights Act

Dispute between a microchip company and its venture capital investors over a $20m settlement

Whether tenant farmers are entitled to notice of a tax lien sale

Employees' challenge of Starbucks' practice of withholding taxes from baristas' paychecks based on the cash tips they receive

An action in rem against a yacht that was taking on water near Galleon Marina in Key West

Review of the injunction blocking Arizona from implementing provisions restricting the collection of voters' early ballots

Constitutional challenge by death-row inmates of Ohio's newly enacted statute concerning the confidentiality of information related to lethal injections

Opposition to automatic traffic enforcement cameras

Challenge of the update to the plan on development for the Lake Tahoe Region

Oil and gas leases and whether Ohio follows the "at the well" rule or the "marketable product" rule

Trademark and licensing dispute over merchandise associated with The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, and Tom and Jerry

Determining the standard for a punitive damages award for unlawful discriminatory acts in violation of NYC's human rights law

Assessing impacts on lynx critical habitat in the Gallatin National Forest

Dispute over the permitting of a new wind farm

Dispute over patents for a system designed to solve an accounting and billing problem faced by network service providers

Allegation that Ritz Carlton's negligence resulted in two sexual assaults on a minor while staying at its hotel in Grand Cayman

Disputes arising out of an investigation into the possible illegal manufacturing of an airsoft version of the G36 submachine gun

Dispute over an oil facility Superfund site

Opposition to a fracking operation in the Mancos Shale formation of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico

Dispute over a federal cash rebate for solar panels

An attorney disbarred for misconduct in a variety of matters arising from the dissolution of his parents' marriage

Dispute over software for nonprofits to measure the effectiveness of their programs

An inverse condemnation action over beachfront property in Bay St. Louis

Duty-related disability benefits and whether a firefighter's colon cancer was related to his occupational exposure to carcinogens

Homeowner Loren "Buzz" Kiskadden's claims that a natural gas drilling site contaminated his well water

A student's challenge of his dismissal from a nursing program after fellow students complained about his Facebook posts

Securities class action against Arena Pharmaceuticals executives in connection with public statements about Arena's weight-loss drug lorcaserin

Seeking to recover the proceeds of CDs transferred to the Libyan Foreign Investment Company as part of the Stanford Ponzi scheme

Whether a fetus can be considered a victim when the mother is assaulted

Copyright dispute between record labels and MP3Tunes over ISPs claiming safe harbor from copyright liability and their repeat infringer policies

State of Connecticut and Public Citizen's challenge of FERC's approval of a New England electricity capacity auction

Whether NYC public schools' joint parent-educator "School Leadership Team" meetings should be open to the public

Indiana Department of Child Services case manager's challenge of DCS exceeding the legal caseload by more than double the limit of 17

Defamation claims arising out of a CBS New York report that the mafia used a strip club as part of a sex trafficking scheme

Whether certain populations of bearded seals should have endangered species protections now due to expected climate change effects in the future

Review of BLM's decision to remove wild horses from "Checkerboard" public land in southwestern Wyoming

Reversal of an award of $3m in attorney fees

Dana-Farber's challenge of an HHS decision denying reimbursement of the gross amount of a tax imposed by Massachusetts

False Claims Act suit alleging Dynamic Visions submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid

A Chicago man's conspiracy and malicious prosecution claims against Chicago police officers

Four Iraqis' claim they were tortured by employees of CACI while they were held at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War

Contract dispute over management of Florida's telecommunications system

Dispute over an agreement for online marketing of electronic cigarettes

Dispute over repairs for the Centennial Lake Dam

Whistleblower Act claim alleging reports of mismanagement of funds and overspending resulted in the elimination of a director's position

Review of the military commission's life sentence of Ali Hamza al Bahlul, who made videos for al Qaeda

Property rights for domestic partners and Illinois' statutory prohibition against common-law marriage

Removal of a judge for bullying, intimidation, ethnic smearing and name-calling

If a qui tam action brought on behalf of the City of Chattanooga against the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga is a case of the city suing itself

A SLAPP suit claim related to a real estate developer's defamation claims against a HOA member

Whether the National Voter Registration Act preempts a Kansas law requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration

Whether a judge was being "vindictive" when he resentenced a convicted child molester to more than 15 years in prison

$100m claim alleging police officers fabricated evidence and coerced witnesses in the investigation of the murder of a Missouri sports editor

A qui tam False Claims suit alleging a college fraudulently induced the DOE to provide funds by falsely promising to keep accurate student records

Privacy concerns arising out of a Right to Know Act request to school districts for the names and addresses of all school employees

Dispute over ozone process patents and development rights in exchange for royalties

Claim that Capital One directors disregarded their responsibility to oversee compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering laws

Civilian advocates for soldiers seeking continued access to Fort Carson, an Army base in Colorado

Dispute over patents for methods of treating or preventing influenza by administering the drug zanamivir by oral inhalation

Disqualifying counsel for Prevezon Holdings, which is accused of laundering proceeds of a massive Russian tax fraud

Constitutionality of Memphis Police Department's routine practice of sweeping Beale Street at 3 a.m. on weekend nights to order all persons to immediately leave the sidewalks and street

Whether geographic and site limitations of the California Charter Schools Act apply to charter school resource centers

Dispute over attorneys' fees related to the contested appraisal of Dell stock

Wire fraud charges against the owner of the fourth largest tax preparation company in the United States

Infringement claims over a patent related to methods for efficiently designing computer circuit chips

Constitutionality of requiring religiously affiliated pregnancy clinics to inform women about abortion options

GOP public records request for Senate candidate Katie McGinty's emails from when she was a staff member for Governor Tom Wolf

Walmart's unfair labor practice complaint with the NLRB over flashmobs and other in-store demonstrations

Proposed class action over copying fees for public records requests

Challenge of San Diego's ordinance regulating the establishment and location of medical marijuana consumer cooperatives in the city

Whether a rule requiring that half of New York City's taxis be accessible to disabled patrons by 2020 is in conflict with an earlier statute encouraging taxi owners to use hybrid-electric vehicles

Whether Missouri's execution drug supplier can remain anonymous

Challenge of a tort-overhaul amendment to mandate a cap for "non-economic damages" of at least $250k in medical lawsuits

Dispute over patents related to growing cells in vitro to produce organ tissue in vivo

Loan forgiveness for a $25m loan made by multi-billionaire Hong Kong businessman Chen Din-Hwa to his daughter to purchase a Utah ranch

Challenge of a requirement that truck drivers get medical exams to determine whether they have obstructive sleep apnea

Appeal of a conviction for smuggling a drug known as XLR11, which is used to make so-called designer drugs

Constitutionality of the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Whether gay parents have the same parental rights as straight parents in light of the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriages

Copyright dispute over the use of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine in the Broadway play Hand to God by Robert Askins

Dispute between the BLM and Wyoming over management of the population of wild horses on seven areas of public land

An employed school board member's use of school lunch subsidies for her children

Challenge of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam

Dispute over a billboard atop a Sunset Strip hotel

$120 million jury award for Apple against Samsung in the ongoing patent war between the smartphone manufacturers

Tax exemptions for domestic companies selling products abroad

Claims that Uber failed to pay minimum and overtime wages

Student bid to force Harvard to divest its holdings in the coal, gas and oil industries because of their role in climate change

International Paper's liability for dioxin contamination of state waters

Challenge of the permit for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope to be built atop Haleakala, a site for Native Hawaiian religious ceremonies

Dispute over the environmental assessment for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope to be built atop Haleakala, a site for Native Hawaiian religious ceremonies

Review of the antidumping duty order on pure magnesium from China

Constitutional challenge of NSA's warrantless wiretap surveillance

Claim that Novartis failed to provide adequate warning that Aredia and Zometa contribute to the risk of developing osteonecrosis of the jaw

Whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act allows an unsuccessful job applicant to sue an employer for using a practice that has a disparate impact on older workers

3 students' claims against Valencia College over its program that includes students performing ultrasound procedures on each other

Decades-long dispute over the $24m estate of Walter L. Green

Dispute over the credit sequence for the film Good Kill

DISH subscribers seeking monetary relief for Turner and FOX News service interruptions

Whether a person who agrees to "surrender" his house in bankruptcy may oppose a foreclosure action in state court

Whether ballpark vendors are exempt from paying overtime to seasonal concession workers

Mercedes-Benz's challenge of NLRB decisions related to union organizing

Disputes over patents related to anti-malware and anti-spam software

Claim that Stream Energy, through its multi-level marketing program, Ignite, operated a fraudulent pyramid scheme

Wrongful death claim by the family of deceased former New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard against the NHL

5 Chicago policemen's claims against the Sun-Times for violation of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act related to a homicide investigation involving Mayor Daley's nephew

A boutique upscale movie theater chain's antitrust claims against Regal and AMC

Dispute over patents for remotely controlled devices

Constitutionality of New Hampshire banning voters from taking "ballot selfies"

Conservative group challenge of how voter eligibility disputes over possible felony convictions are resolved in Minnesota

U.S. citizen Yonas Fikre's claims related to his inclusion on the no-fly list and alleged pressure to become an FBI informant

Dispute between arts patron Marguerite Hoffman and international financier David Martinez over confidentiality of a Mark Rothko painting sale

Challenge of NPS approval of a seismic exploration survey for oil and gas deposits within the Big Cypress National Preserve

Shareholder challenge of AOL's acquisition of Millennial Media

Alabama's ban on transfers of campaign contributions between PACs

FTC claim the Penn State-PinnacleHealth hospital merger would raise prices and lower healthcare quality in the Hershey, Pennsylvania, region

French media giant Vivendi's appeal of a $50m judgment awarded to investors

GAMCO's claims related to Vivendi's liquidity problems

Illinois' Employee Credit Privacy Act and an applicant allegedly denied a Neiman Marcus sales clerk job due to bad credit

Whether states can apply their voter ID requirements on federal voter registration forms

Whether AmEx can bar merchants from steering customers toward other cards with lower fees

A $2m judgment against a San Francisco art editor who reprinted and sold copyrighted photos of Picasso paintings

Dispute over a patent related to creating and distributing videos with clickable links

Federal whistleblower retaliation claims alleging violations of Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank

Challenge of the removal of registered voters from voter rolls by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted

A high school band director who was fired for leaving a loaded handgun in his office

FTC seeking to hold LeadClick Media liable for its role in the use of deceptive websites to market LeanSpa weight-loss products

Plot to extort money from Home Depot by placing a device purporting to be an inert "model" of a pipe bomb in stores

Claims arising out of an outbreak of Hantavirus in Yosemite National Park that infected 10 people and killed 3

Whether banks must turn over Sudanese funds to victims of Al Qaeda's 2000 bombing of the USS Cole

Dispute between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the players association over using members' photos in a tequila ad

Dispute over a patent for a "caller announcement" system that uses a phone's speaker to announce callers

Dispute between D.C. and Maryland Jericho Baptist church members

Challenge of an executive order pertaining to direct care workers

Federal vs. state management of fishery plans for Cook Inlet, one of the nation's most productive salmon fisheries

Challenge of Reverse Mortgage Solutions' foreclosure of a widow's home

Challenge of a county's practice of opening its commission meetings with prayers specific to one religion

Claims arising out of a failed educational program that was to be hosted at the University of Michigan

Bid for a special election after 2 judicial candidates were left off of the general election ballot

Free speech vs. national security dispute arising out of the promotion of 3D-printed guns

Constitutionality of limiting the admissibility of evidence of medical costs in personal injury actions

Compensation for an attorney who is the former fiance of John Menard, Jr., for work she performed for Menard and his companies

Disputes arising out of the securities class action settlement agreement with AIG

Former Army Reserve IG's suit to overturn a decision that she violated the Military Whistleblower Protection Act

A former hedge fund manager's claims against Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine over royalties for Beats headphones

Title VII gender-discrimination lawsuit against the City of Chicago brought by women who applied unsuccessfully to work as Chicago paramedics

Denial of HHS's motion to stay proceedings related to the backlog of Medicare reimbursement appeals

Groups seeking to compel the EPA to respond to their request that the agency regulate Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations as a source of air pollution under the Clean Air Act

Police officer's request to dismiss a wrongful death suit against him after he shot and killed Benny Herrera less than a second after giving him a command to take his hand out of his pocket

Grant Thornton appeal of $100m in damages related to fraud and negligence claims by Bill Yung and the Yung Family Trust

Dispute between the University of Texas chancellor and regent over access to student records related to admissions favoritism claims

Disputes arising out of a determination that a landowner didn't comply with a forest-management plan, which resulted in the loss of a tax incentive

Whether banning employees from wearing their hair in dreadlocks is racial discrimination

Civil action arising out of the New Jersey Bridgegate scandal

Claim for compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act on behalf of a child suffering from encephalopathy

Discrimination claim against a school board by a teacher who says she was treated differently because of her same-sex marriage to another teacher

Alleged Clean Air Act violations at refineries located in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Louisiana, Illinois and Texas

Allegation that Bankrate executives executed a scheme to artificially inflate revenues and understate expenses

Disputes related to patents for a method of recovering oil from the concentrated thin stillage produced by a conventional dry mill ethanol plant

Whether Louisiana can block Medicaid funding for non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities in the state

A newspaper's public records request for the names and addresses of pistol permit holders

Florida Keys property owner's regulatory takings case that began in 1970

Truck purchasers' claim that parts manufacturers and suppliers conspired to monopolize the market

Constitutionality of Ohio's voting restrictions

Whether Maryland can compel attorneys licensed in the state to disclose their Social Security numbers to the Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland

Patent dispute over methods for syncing facial movements of animated characters

Trademark infringement and counterfeiting claims related to Coach products

Claim that United Airlines discriminated against an employee because he has ADHD

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's bid to block the Army Corps of Engineers' permitting of the Dakota Access Pipeline

Constitutional challenge of the Small Business Administration's 8(a) business development program

Claims against the NFL by Super Bowl XLV ticketholders who were displaced from their seats or had obstructed views of the field

Patents dispute over database search methods brought by Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

Claims over real estate seminars associated with Armando Montelongo from A&E's "Flip This House"

Fraud allegations stemming from several purchases of collectible coins

Challenge of FDA's new drug determination on PREPOPIK, a colonoscopy prep treatment

News media request for the names of unindicted co-conspirators in the New Jersey Bridgegate scandal

Proposed class action by Uber contractors challenging Uber's background-check practices

Issues arising out of ex-Dolphin Jason Taylor's failed $21m purchase of a small island in U.S. Virgin Islands

Whether the challenge of a proposed merger affected the purchase price for Outdoor Channel

Ryan Shapiro's FOIA case against the Justice Department over its search for records related to the late Internet openness activist Aaron Swartz

Erin Andrews' claims related to her being secretly videotaped in her hotel room

When communications relating to both nonlegal and legal advice may be covered by the attorney-client privilege

Supreme Court ruling declining to reinstate North Carolina voter restrictions said to target African-American voters

Challenge of a ban on gun sales to medical marijuana card holders

Whether government agencies may "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of records in response to public records requests

Whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to hear claims brought by terrorism victims against the Palestinian Authority and PLO

Domestic farm workers' class action alleging Mercer Canyons failed to follow its federal H-2A program agreement

Bid to halt the military commission trial of the Saudi national charged with orchestrating the USS Cole attack

Whether non-biological and non-adoptive parents can seek visitation and custody if a couple breaks up

Patient privacy claims related to Gundersen Health System employees who weren't authorized to view patient records

FTC claim that AT&T misled wireless subscribers of unlimited data plans by slowing service based on usage

The "cat's paw" doctrine and a ruling that could make it easier for employers to face liability in discrimination cases where the firing was caused by company negligence

Claims by a former co-chairman of Universal Pictures and executive with Deutsche Bank who was injured when he allegedly tried to attack two LAPD officers

Whether a vote related to self-governance for Native Hawaiians should be open only to Native Hawaiians or to all registered voters in the state

Disputes over the management of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and the O'Shaughnessy Dam in Yosemite National Park

A New York City taxi driver's challenge of the constitutionality of mandated GPS-tracking of cabs

Trademark dispute over Trader Joe's-branded products resold in Canada in a store designed to mimic Trader Joe's

Challenge of Wisconsin's law requiring voters have photo IDs

Libertarian Party's challenge of Kentucky's ballot access rules

Candidate's challenge of a decision to leave his name off the Libertarian primary ballot for U.S. Senator

Consumer claim over the sale of a product containing sibutramine, a controlled substance removed from the market

Stockholders' proposed class action to challenge a merger

Challenge of election results for a county judge

A big game hunter's appeal of the suspension of his license for 20 years

Whether a woman living in the United States illegally should be deported because she was convicted of using a false Social Security number to work

OtterBox's challenge of its tariff classification

Disputes arising out of the sale of a fish farm with a history of trout infected with whirling disease

Voice of America contractors' claims against the Broadcasting Board of Governors

Copyright dispute over photographs of stem cells

Constitutionality of a ban on non-commercial advertising at the Philadelphia International Airport

Constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Spoofing Statute

Claim that a coal-fired power plant has been out of compliance with Clean Air Act standards thousands of times

Veteran access to information from the Department of Veterans Affairs about a medical examiner's qualifications

Costs of cleaning up hazardous substances at three California facilities owned by Lockheed Martin

Dispute over a patent for a plate used to print images on flexible materials

Dispute over a union contract following a lockout of employees

Challenge of how a civilian board reviews corrections of military records

Extending property rights to unmarried couples

Whether a board member's conflict of interest voided a public-private partnership's five agreements to collaborate on a water desalination project

Patent disputes over methods for multi-level encryption and limiting access to encrypted files

Dispute over a license to market and distribute a cardiac monitoring device in the U.S.

Whether a government prohibition on making golden parachute payments to terminated employees of Freddie Mac constitutes a taking or an illegal exaction

Constitutionality of Michigan's elimination of straight-party voting and whether it places more of a burden on African-American voters

Free speech claim by a fire chief fired after alerting firefighters to the potential closure of their fire department

Dispute over nine patents relating to PENNSAID, a treatment for the pain of osteoarthritis of the knees

Tobacco companies' challenge of FDA finding that a labeling change or a quantity change to an existing product is a "new tobacco product"

Antitrust claims related to the AbilityOne Program, a government procurement system for non-profits that employ blind or severely disabled persons

Dispute among the county government, the federal government and environmental groups over a road in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada

Challenge of petition signatures submitted in support of the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act

Whether the BLM complied with Endangered Species Act requirements when considering expansion of off-road vehicle use in the Imperial Sand Dunes

Trademark disputes between sno-ball industry competitors

Age-based harassment claims against Forever 21

The so-called Mega Conspiracy and collecting funds deposited in New Zealand and Hong Kong banks

Challenge of regulations for dredged materials discharged into navigable waters by surface coal mining operations

Ongoing challenges of the $8.6b judgment against Chevron in Ecuador

Review of water quality-related permitting actions by New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the Transcontinental pipeline, a 10,000-mile pipeline that runs from South Texas to New York City

Challenge of L.A.'s practice of delegating the review of parking violations to Xerox, its contract "processing agency"

Challenge of a proposed constitutional amendment establishing a right to use agricultural technology and livestock production and ranching practices

Dispute over ballot titles for initiative petitions

Bid by the Libertarian and Green Parties to be included in the 2016 presidential debates

Challenge of a proposed wind farm that may pose a danger to endangered Indiana bats

Whether a child with a strong academic record may still be found to have a learning disability and a need for special education

Patent dispute in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Seagate test

Challenge of an annual fee states are mandated to pay under Obamacare

Whether property buyers have the right to remove their properties from historic property designations

Dispute about evidence related to class action claims over wild bird food treated with unapproved pesticides

Appeal of convictions for securities fraud charges related to "channel stuffing"

Defamation claims arising out of an article about libertarians

Patent infringement claims related to indexing multimedia data based on motion, such as indexing time and location related to caputured images

Environmental impact of a coal lease application for the Flat Canyon tract underlying the Manti-La Sal National Forest

Fair Labor Standards Act claim related to overtime requirements

Families of terror victims seeking to have ICANN turn over control of Iran's top level domain

Challenge, by a super-PAC supporting Mike Huckabee, of an FEC rule prohibiting unauthorized political committees from using candidates' names in the titles of their websites and social media pages

An alleged conspiracy over polystyrene recycling

Putative class action regarding the no!no! Hair removal device

Dispute over private vs. public ownership of a municipal water system

Constitutionality of requiring parental notice for minors seeking abortions

Challenge of patents related to Apple's voice recognition systems

Claims the prescription acne drug Accutane caused ulcerative colitis

A Pakistani immigrant's challenge of an FBI decision to revoke his security clearance

Ruling that a Texas law requiring voters show government-issued ID before voting is discriminatory and violates the Voting Rights Act

Whether the U.S. government can seize a Manhattan office tower originally built by the Shah of Iran

Polar's heart rate monitor patent infringement claims against Suunto

First Amendment challenge of a law banning the gathering of signatures within 100 feet of a polling place

EMI's copyright claims against a distributor of karaoke products

Owners who claim they have been harmed by a drop in the value of their GM cars due to ignition switch and other potentially fatal defects

Texas and energy companies' challenge of haze reduction plans for the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and Big Bend National Park

Challenge of the National Marine Fisheries Service's approval of harm to marine mammals from the Navy's peacetime use of the LFA sonar

BP's challenge of FERC approval of certain contract terms for operation of Dominion's Cove Point terminal

Environmental organizations' petition for review of FERC's authorization for the conversion of Cove Point from an import terminal to an import/export terminal

Anti-SLAPP suit issues related to defamation claims

A Seventh Day Adventist's religious discrimination claim against Dollar General over requiring managers to work Saturday Sabbath

Miners' challenge of a 5-year permit regulating suction dredges in Oregon waterways

Trademark dispute between Jim Beam and JL Beverage

Challenge of procedures to place initiatives on Nebraska state and municipal ballots

Allegation Wells Fargo Home Mortgage violated the TCPA by using robocalls over a period of 4 years

Complaints arising out of Department of Education decisions, based on audit results, to not use certain student loan collection agencies

Dispute over the appraisal of the fair market value of Lands' End's headquarters

Opposition to an air-quality permit for a new open-pit copper mine in Southern Arizona

Allegation the Fish and Wildlife Service violated its statutory authority by terminating a translocation program for the southern sea otter

Discrimination claims against the City of Long Beach over ordinances that first regulated and then entirely prohibited medical marijuana dispensaries

Whether a debtor's recreational hunting bow is a "household good"

Greenhouse gas emissions from a planned community development

Pension plan disputes

Allegation of misappropriating proprietary practice-management software

First Amendment claim by a police officer fired for comments he made as a candidate for town council that were critical of the police department and the police chief

Challenge of a ballot title for an initiative petition seeking to increase tobacco taxes to fund children's health and education programs

A city's challenge of a state law on red-light camera citations

Dispute over the use of groundwater to irrigate farmland

Whether the BIA has authority to intervene in a tribal membership dispute in which more than 150 people were disenrolled from the Pala Band of Mission Indians

Challenge of abortion-related provisions in an Ohio budget bill

Alleged attempts by university officials to shut down a blog that aims to expose perceived mismanagement at the school

Charges against a self-described "Internet troll" who offered to purchase election ballots

Applying Texas' anti-SLAPP law in a defamation case among Masonic Lodge members

Allegation that distributors of airline fare and schedule information to travel agents conspired to restrain competition

Claim that New York wrongly denies Medicaid coverage for treatment of gender dysphoria

Attorneys' fees for a case alleging that an ordinance regulating door-to-door solicitation abridged First Amendment rights

Patent infringement claims over salmon aquaculture methods

Attempt by plaintiffs with lung cancer to join in one action claims against both asbestos and tobacco defendants on the premise that their cancers arose from exposure to the products of both sets of defendants — that the cancers were caused by both smoking cigarettes and exposure to asbestos

Coal mine operators' challenge of a Department of Labor modification of mandatory mine safety standards

Securities purchasers alleging a failure to disclose a $100m material tax withholding liability

Shareholders alleging company executives misrepresented and failed to disclose project cost overruns and production delays

Constitutionality of New Jersey's requirement that eligible persons register to vote no later than 21 days prior to an election

Claims of redistricting using illegitimate factors and racial gerrymandering

Challenge of FERC's cost-of-service tariffs on oil pipelines

Alaska Natives' bid for the Interior Department to take land into trust for indigenous Alaskan tribes

Copyright infringement claims over a photo allegedly displayed on websites without permission

Applying the Endangered Species Act to private land

Challenge of Bay Area agencies' plans to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks

Antitrust class action on behalf of approximately 12m merchants against Visa and MasterCard

Dispute over several million dollars between a diocese and the Episcopal Church

Whether attorneys who used their law firm's in-house general counsel on ethical obligations in representing a firm client may invoke attorney-client privilege to deny the client's demand for disclosures of that advice

Alleged unconstitutional seizure of 90,000 acres of private property along the Red River in Texas

Disputes arising out of a land exchange of 100,000 acres in the Everglades for property in Phoenix

Dispute over a deal to create a style guide for newscasters

Married lawyers convicted for a scheme involving money for sex

Recovering approximately $1b distributed to noteholders at the start of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy

Constitutional limits to Delaware's enforcement of its unclaimed property laws

Putative class action alleging that Rheem manufactured defective residential HVAC systems under the Rheem and Ruud brand names

Copyright infringement claims over lace designs

Allegations Viacom and Google unlawfully collected personal information about children, including sites they visited and videos they watched

Allegation Kraft manipulated wheat prices in a "long wheat futures scheme"

Tribes' fishing rights claims against Washington State over policies affecting the salmon population

Claims related to a contract to build new e-commerce websites

Misrepresentations made about a winery's loans through the USDA

Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of an affirmative action program used by the University of Texas to increase student diversity

Supreme Court ruling on whether police must obtain a warrant before requiring a suspected drunk driver to submit to a blood alcohol test

Andrea Davidovich's bid to separate from the Israel Ice Skating Federation so she can compete internationally for the U.S.

Supreme Court ruling on who qualifies as an "armed career criminal," a classification that carries a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison

A veteran's challenge of the residency requirements in the Hazlewood Act, which allows certain vets to attend public universities in Texas free of charge

Objections to a settlement of a class action alleging that Wal-Mart and ORI falsely claimed Lipozene and MetaboUp have weight loss benefits

Dispute over the failure to provide early voting on the Appalachian State University campus

Claims related to a defamation suit against MLB player Ryan Braun by his former friend

Claims against Mario Badescu Skin Care for marketing and labeling two face creams without disclosing all ingredients

Claims against lawyers over their representation in a trade secrets case involving alternative energy technology

Allegation the State Department violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it approved the Detroit River International Crossing Agreement

Challenge of a Massachusetts regulation barring the sale of handguns without load indicators or magazine safety disconnects

Allegation Bloomberg obtained a confidential presentation on earnings projections

Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland's appeal of his conviction and 30-month sentence for violating campaign-finance laws and falsifying records

Challenge of an ordinance barring convicted sexual predators from a 1,000-foot zone around schools, daycare centers, parks

Discovery dispute over the disclosure of the source of Hatch Chile's peppers

Record labels' copyright claims against Vimeo for videos containing allegedly infringing musical recordings posted to its site

Free speech claims over the cancellation of an event about an "internal threat to America posed by radical Muslims"

Torture Victim Protection Act claims by heirs of 8 civilians killed by Bolivian troops acting under the direction of the then-president who was suppressing opposition to his administration

A blind student's claim the LSAT has a discriminatory effect on the blind because some questions require visual diagramming

Nonprofit's dispute over land with the Pueblo of San Felipe, which has immunity from suits in state and federal courts

Cable and telephone companies' challenge of government net-neutrality rules

Montana's and Massachusetts' claims that the SEC's Regulation A Plus rule impermissibly preempted state law

Union official's defamation claim over a column written by Karen Heller and published in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Approximately 90 U.S. citizens' bid to collect on money judgments against the Islamic Republic of Iran for deaths and injuries suffered in terrorist attacks sponsored by Iran

Whether an arbitrator, instead of a court, may determine whether parties in a consumer lawsuit agreed to arbitration

Appeal of the $1.8m award to former Gov. Jesse Ventura in a defamation case over an alleged incident described in Chris Kyle's book, American Sniper

Whistleblowers' claim Boeing falsely certified that several aircraft it sold to the government complied with all applicable FAA regulations

Supreme Court review of federal felony convictions of domestic assault that impose longer sentences for repeat offenders in Indian country

Supreme Court review of the two-part test for determining when a district court may increase damages for patent infringement

Supreme Court ruling on whether federal law preempts Puerto Rico from enacting its own bankruptcy laws

Claim against Southwestern Energy for allegedly misuing proprietary information to drill in confidential "sweet spots"

Bid for judicial review of the Texas Commissioner of Education's decisions to revoke certain school charters

Dispute over a patent for a set of software tools that allows users to develop, edit and debug software for a particular programming language

Challenge of a recently enacted law prohibiting civil servants from serving on city councils

Complaint about an Internet retailer charging sales tax on shipping charges

Whether members of the general public have a Second Amendment right to carry concealed guns in public

Jared Fogle's claim his nearly 16-year sentence was based on fantasies rather than actual conduct

Supreme Court ruling that a judge should recuse himself from an appeal because he was previously involved in the case as the D.A.

Supreme Court ruling on whether a federal court can recall a discharged jury to correct a mistake or must remedy an error only with a new trial

Supreme Court ruling on whether Puerto Rico and the United States may successively prosecute a single defendant for the same criminal conduct

Challenge of a voter-approved $35 tax that pays for art and music teachers

Pornographers' free speech challenge of the statute criminalizing child pornography that requires them to document the identities and ages of their performers

Whether a state-designated advocate for people with disabilities has authority to review personal medical records

Government of Belize seeking to prevent the confirmation of an international arbitration award entered against it

Whether exotic dancers are contractors or employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws

Issues related to third-party appeals

Vacating a $30m settlement in a class-action suit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan involving price-fixing allegations

Challenge of New Mexico subpoenaing federal prosecutors in grand jury and other criminal proceedings

Appeal of a judgment requiring the removal of defamatory reviews about a law firm posted on Yelp

Whether BLM permitting wind turbines makes it complicit in future related violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act

Dispute over a public records request for the San Diego City Attorney's emails from his personal account that pertain to official business

$1m defamation lawsuit by Paul Brodeur, a former staff writer at The New Yorker, over a scene in the film American Hustle about the dangers of microwaves

Determining the value of a pet injured or killed by someone else's negligence and whether pet owners can collect costs incurred trying to save their animal

Review of a rule preventing K-4 visa holders ages 18-21 from becoming permanent residents after their parents marry U.S. citizens

Dispute over a database patent

Dispute over the sale of 13 Jim Beam brands

Petition for review of an NRC rule concerning the storage of spent fuel from nuclear power plants

Challenge of the reinstatement of an Endangered Species Act exemption for captive-bred antelope

Challenge of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights by government officials, parents of school-aged children and educators

Whether an employer's matching contributions to an employee's 401k plan should be considered part of earnings for purposes of calculating workers' compensation benefits

Copyright claim alleging Madonna's "Vogue" copied a 0.23-second segment of horns from another song

NRC's consideration of terrorism risks at a nuclear power plant

Investigation into improprieties in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement program

Challenge of a city code requiring the disclosure on a public website of information regarding NYC affordable housing projects

The number of signatures required to qualify for the general election ballot

California Assembly candidate's defamation claim against his former opponent over a 30-second TV ad characterizing him as an "unscrupulous lawyer"

Maryland landowners' class action against the state, alleging an unconstitutional taking

Residents' claim flooding of their subdivision resulted from the parish's decision not to maintain a drainage system

Whether federal agents need a warrant to obtain records that show the location of a cellphone

Complaint alleging violations of a statute restricting the flaring of gas produced from an oil well

Citizen suit alleging that Exxon violated federal permits governing operations at its Baytown complex thousands of times over a nearly 8-year period

Whether school funding is distributed equitably among all Kansas school districts

Allegations regarding Kmart's pricing for prescriptions covered by Medicare and health insurance

Whether the "accommodation doctrine" applies between a landowner and the owner of groundwater interests

Claims over groundwater contamination from gasoline additives

Audubon Society challenge of a wind-energy development on the grounds that the BLM environmental review didn't adequately address impacts to the greater sage grouse

Challenge of the N.J. Department of Higher Education's award of public grants to two sectarian institutions

Dispute over a FOIA request for documents related to the D.C. Police Foundation

SEC claim the China Infrastructure Investment Corporation didn't disclose that its CFO resigned

Opposition to the construction of a new bridge next to the Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River

Delays by the FCC in updating media ownership rules

An organization's claim it was denied tax-exempt status because of its conservative political views

Allegation that Delta's mobile app is in violation of the privacy policy requirements mandated by California's Online Privacy Protection Act

A former Tyson employee's malicious prosecution claim after he faced criminal mischief and battery charges related to an ammonia leak

Negligence claims related to a tractor-trailer accident that resulted in the escape of millions of honeybees

A 14-year-long legal dispute over control of the well-funded Missouri Baptist Foundation

Flight attendants' claims against SkyWest, which paid only for hours worked when an aircraft's main cabin door was closed

Challenge of an arbitration award based on claims the arbitrator didn't disclose matters relating to bias

Allegation the government of Ethiopia surreptitiously recorded computer activities and communications of a family in Maryland

Attorney fees for a successful workplace-discrimination suit against the Embassy of France

Supreme Court ruling that a Georgia man sentenced to death is entitled to a new trial because prosecutors deliberately excluded all African-Americans from the jury based on their race

Supreme Court ruling related to charges of racial gerrymandering in Virginia

Supreme Court ruling on a former postal employee's discrimination claim and the time limit for contacting the EEOC

Supreme Court order, in light of Montgomery v. Louisiana and Miller v. Alabama, that sentences of life without parole for offenses committed before the age of 18 have the benefit of an individualized sentencing procedure that considers an offender's youth and immaturity at the time of the offense

Opposition to the remodeling of a Jack in the Box restaurant in San Diego

Claims by the family of an unarmed 18-year-old U.S. citizen fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent

Whistleblower's claim of retaliation

Allegations debt collectors engaged in various deceptive practices under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Allegations that municipal employees improperly accessed personal data

Requiring utility companies to negotiate a deal with a "clean coal" project

Whether the Second Amendment allows U.S. citizens to own machine guns

Claims by Sikhs over the Army's allegedly unlawful grooming and personal appearance regulations and discriminatory treatment with respect to requests for religious accommodations

Challenge of a law effectively giving the governor veto power over rules written by the state's education superintendent

Constitutional challenge of a state budget provision that allowed the governor to appoint the head of the Department of Transportation

A Christian school's challenge of a zoning regulation barring it from using its land to operate a religious school

Whether the state fulfilled its statutory mandate to limit greenhouse gas emissions

Dispute arising out of Unocal's withdrawal from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska

Patent dispute related to the PEBBLE HD portable electronic magnifier

Patent dispute related to a protocol that permits communication over a wireless network and conserves battery life

Supreme Court ruling on the challenge to the Obamacare birth-control mandate and the accommodation offered to religious nonprofits

Supreme Court ruling on lawyers using the AG's letterhead to collect debts owed to the state

Whether the Second Amendment places any limits on regulating the commercial sale of firearms

Supreme Court ruling on the proper forum for a suit that blames securities firms for driving down the stock price of Escala, a seller of collectible stamps and coins

Supreme Court ruling on whether the "actual fraud" bar to discharge under the Bankruptcy Code applies only when the debtor has made a false representation

Supreme Court ruling on Internet search firm Spokeo, which was sued for posting false information about people

Supreme Court ruling on the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's deferential-review provisions