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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