Published Opinions

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Supreme Court

Pereira v. United States, 347 U.S. 1 (1954) ♠
United States v. Turkette, 452 U.S. 576 (1981) ♠ ♣
Sedima, S.P.R.L. v. Imrex Co., 473 U.S. 479 (1985) ♠ ♣
Agency Holding Corp. v Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc., 483 U.S. 143 (1987) ♠
H.J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell, 492 U.S. 229 (1989) ♠
Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corp., 503 U.S. 258 (1992) ♠
Reves v. Ernst & Young, 507 U.S. 170 (1993) ♠ ♣ ♥
National Organization for Women v. Scheidler, 510 U.S. 249 (1994) ♠
Klehr v. A.O. Smith Corp., 521 U.S. 179 (1997) ♠ ♣
Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997) ♠
Rotella v. Wood, 528 U.S. 549 (2000) ♠ ♣
Beck v. Prupis, 529 U.S. 494 (2000) ♠
Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. Don King, 533 U.S. 158 (2001) ♠
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., 537 U.S. 393 (2003) ♠
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., 547 U.S. 9 (2006) ♠
Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp., 547 U.S. 451 (2006) ♠ ♣
Wilkie v. Robbins, 551 U.S. 537 (2007) ♠
Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co., 553 U.S. 639 (2008) ♠
Boyle v. United States, 556 U.S. 938 (2009) ♠
Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York, 559 U.S. 1 (2010) ♠
Morrison v. National Australia Bank, 561 U.S. 247 (2010) ♠
RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Comty., 136 S.Ct. 2090 (2016) ♠
Yegiazaryan v. Smagin, 599 U.S. 533 (2023) ♠

First Circuit Court of Appeals

Systems Management, Inc. v. Loiselle, 303 F.3d 100 (1st Cir. 2002) ♠
Giuliano v. Fulton, 399 F.3d 381 (1st Cir. 2005) ♠
Sanchez v. Triple-S Management, Corp., 492 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2007) ♠ ♣
In re Neurontin Marketing and Sales Pract. Litig., 712 F.3d 21 (1st Cir. 2013) ♠
Calderon Serra v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico, 747 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2014) ♠
Home Orthopedics Corp. v. Rodriguez, 781 F.3d 521 (1st Cir. 2015) ♠
Sterling Suffolk Racecourse, LLC v. Wynn Resorts, Ltd., 990 F.3d 31 (1st Cir. 2021) ♠
Efron v. UBS Fin. Serv. Inc. of Puerto Rico, 96 F.4^th 430 (1^st Cir. 2024) ♠

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Bankers’ Trust Co. v. Rhoades, 859 F.2d 1096 (2d Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1007 (1989) ♠
First Nationwide Bank v. Gelt Funding Corp., 27 F.3d 763 (2d Cir. 1994) ♠
Riverwoods Chappaqua Corp. v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A., 30 F.3d 339 (2d Cir. 1995) ♠
United States v. Carson, 52 F.3d 1173 (2d Cir. 1995) ♠
United States v. Allen, 155 F.3d 35 (2d Cir. 1998) ♠
Bank of China v. NBM LLC, 359 F.3d 171 (2d Cir. 2004) ♠
Spool v. World Child Intern. Adoption Agency, 520 F.3d 178 (2d Cir. 2008) ♠ ♣
Norex Petroleum Ltd. v. Access Ind., Inc., 631 F.3d 29 (2d Cir. 2010) ♠
MLSMK Inv. Co. v. JP Morgan Chase & Co., 651 F.3d 268 (2d Cir. 2011) ♠
Ideal Steel Corp. v. Anza, 652 F.3d 310 (2d. Cir. 2011) ♠
Koch v. Christie’s Int’l PLC, 699 F.3d 141 (2d Cir. 2012) ♠
Lundy v. Catholic Health System of Long Island, Inc., 711 F.3d 106 (2d Cir. 2013) ♠
Cruz v. FXDirectdealer, LLC, 720 F.3d 115 (2d 2013) ♠
European Cmty. v. RJR Nabisco, Inc., 764 F.3d 129 (2d. Cir. 2014), rev’d, 136 S.Ct. 2090 (2016) ♠
Chevron Corp. v. Donziger, 833 F.3d 74 (2d Cir. 2016) ♠
Reich v. Lopez, 858 F.3d 55 (2d Cir. 2017) ♠
U1IT4Less, Inc. v. FEDEX Corp., 871 F.3d 199 (2d Cir. 2017) ♠
Bascunan v. Elsaca, 874 F.3d 806 (2d Cir. 2017) ♠
Kim v. Kimm, 884 F3d 98, 104 (2d Cir. 2018) ♠
United States v. Kirsch, 903 F.3d 213 (2d Cir. 2018) ♠
United States v. Zemlyansky, 908 F.3d 1 (2d. 2018) ♠
Butcher v. Wendt, 975 F.3d 236 (2d Cir. 2020) ♠
United States v. Gershman, 31 F.4th 80 (2d Cir. 2022) ♠
D’Addario v. D’Addario, 75 F.4th 86 (2d Cir. 2023) ♠
Horn v. Medical Marijuana, Inc., 80 F.4th 130 (2d Cir. 2023) ♠

Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Keystone Ins. Co. v. Houghton, 863 F.2d 1125 (3d Cir. 1988) ♠
Banks v. Wolk, 918 F.2d 418 (3d Cir. 1990) ♠
Lightening Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp., 4 F.3d 1153 (3d Cir. 1993) ♠ ♣ ♥
Jaguar Cars, Inc. v. Royal Oaks Motor Car Co., Inc., 46 F.3d 258 (3d Cir. 1995) ♠
Steamfitters Local No. 420 Welfare Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc., 171 F.3d 912 (3d Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 1105 (2000) ♠
Anderson v. Ayling, 396 F.3d 265 (3d Cir. 2005) ♠
United States v. Urban, 404 F.3d 754 (3d Cir. 2005) ♠ ♣
Humphrey v. GlaxoSmithKline PLC, 905 F.3d 694 (3d Cir. 2018) ♠
United States v. Fattah, 914 F.3d 112 (3d Cir. 2019) ♠
St. Luke’s Health Network, Inc. v. Lancaster Gen. Hosp., 967 F.3d 295 (3d Cir. 2020) ♠
LABMD Inc. v. Boback, 47 F.4^th 164 (3d Cir. 2022) ♠♣♥

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Brandenburg v. Seidel, 859 F.2d 1179 (4th Cir. 1988), overruled on other grounds, 517 U.S. 706 (1996) ♠
American Chiropractic Ass’n v. Trigon Healthcare, Inc., 367 F.3d 212 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 125 S.Ct. 479 (2004) ♠
Walters v. McMahen, 684 F.3d 435 (4th Cir. 2012) ♠
Slay’s Restoration, LLC v. Wright Nat’l Flood Ins. Co., 884 F.3d 489 (4th Cir. 2017) ♠
United States v. Farrell, 921 F.3d 116 (4^thCir.), cert. denied, 140 S. Ct. 269 (2019) ♠
Percival Partners Ltd. v. Nduom, 2024 WL 1864970 (4th Cir. 2024) ♠

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Crowe v. Henry, 43 F.3d 198 (5th Cir. 1995) ♠
St. Paul Mercury Ins. Co. v. Williamson, 224 F.3d 425 (5th Cir. 2000) ♠
Procter & Gamble Co. v. Amway Corp., 242 F.3d 539 (5th Cir. 2001) ♠
Abraham v. Singh, 480 F.3d 351 (5th Cir. 2007) ♠ ♣
St. Germain v. Howard, 556 F.3d 261 (5th Cir. 2009) ♠
Davis-Lynch, Inc. v. Moreno, 667 F.3d 539 (5th Cir. 2012) ♠ ♣ ♥
North Cypress Med. Ctr. Operating Co., Ltd, v. Cigna Healthcare, 781 F.3d 182 (9th Cir. 2015) ♠
Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C. v. Houston Ind. Sch. Dist., 786 F.3d 400 (5th Cir. 2015) ♠♣
Malvino v. Delluniversita, 840 F.3d 223 (5th Cir. 2016) ♠
Walker v. Beaumont Ind. School Dist., 938 F.3d 724 (5th Cir. 2019) ♠
Molina-Aranda v. Black Magic Enterprises, L.L.C., 983 F.3d 779 (5th Cir. 2020) ♠
HCB Financial Corp. v. McPherson, 8 F.4th 335 (5th Cir. 2021) ♠

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Grantham and Mann v. American Safety Prods., 831 F.2d 596 (6th Cir. 1987) ♠
Firestone v. Galbreath, 976 F.2d 279 (6th Cir. 1992) ♠
Advocacy Organization for Patients and Providers v. Auto Club Ins. Ass’n, 176 F.3d 315 (6th Cir. 1999) ♠
United States v. Riddle, 249 F.3d 529 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 930 (2001) ♠
Moon v. Harrison Piping Supply, 465 F.3d 719 (6th Cir. 2006) ♠
United States v. Daidone, 471 F.3d 371 (2d Cir. 2006) ♠
Henrich v. Waiting Angels Adoption Serv., 668 F.3d 393 (6th Cir. 2012) ♠
Williams v. Duke Energy Int’l, Inc., 681 F.3d 788 (6th Cir. 2012) ♠
Jackson v. Sedgwick Claims Mgmt. Serv., Inc., 699 F.3d 466 (6th Cir. 2012) ♠ ♣
Wallace v. Midwest Fin. & Mortgage Serv., Inc., 714 F.3d 414 (6th Cir. 2013) ♠
In re Classicstar Mare Lease Litig., 727 F.3d 473 (6th Cir. 2013) ♠
Jackson v. Sedgwick Claims Mgmt. Serv., Inc., 731 F.3d 556 (6th Cir. 2013) ♠
Brown v. Ajax Paving Ind., Inc., 752 F.3d 656 (6th Cir. 2014) ♠
Alexander v. Rosen, 804 F.3d 1203 (6th Cir. 2015), cert. denied, 136 S.Ct. 2392 (2016) ♠
Grubs v. Sheakley Group, Inc., 807 F.3d 785 (6th Cir. 2016) ♠
Courser v. Allard, 969 F.3d 604 (6th Cir. 2020) ♠
Grow Michigan LLC v. LT Lender LLC, 50 F.4^th 587 (6^th Cir. 2022) ♠

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Midwest Grinding Co., Inc. v. Spitz, 976 F.2d 1016 (7th Cir. 1992) ♠ ♣
Fitzgerald v. Chrysler Corp., 116 F.3d 225 (7th Cir. 1997) ♠
Perlman v. Zell, 185 F.3d 850 (7th Cir. 1999) ♠
Roger Whitmore’s Auto, Service, Inc. v. Lake County, Illinois, 424 F.3d 659 (7th Cir. 2005) ♠
Evans v. City of Chicago, 434 F.3d 916 (7th Cir. 2006) ♠
Limestone Dev. Corp. v. Village of Lemont, Illinois, 520 F.3d 797 (7th Cir. 2008) ♠
RWB Services, LLC v. Hartford Computer Group, Inc., 539 F.3d 681 (7th Cir. 2008) ♠
Crichton v. Golden Rule Ins. Co., 576 F.3d 392 (7th Cir. 2009) ♠
Rao v. BP Products North America, Inc., 589 F.3d 389 (7th Cir. 2009) ♠
Jay E. Hayden Found. v. First Neighbor Bank, N.A., 610 F.3d 382 (7th Cir. 2010) ♠
BCS Services, Inc. v. Heartwood 88, LLC, 637 F.3d 750 (7th Cir. 2011) ♠
DeGuelle v. Camilli, 664 F.3d 192 (7th Cir. 2011) ♠ ♣
Santana v. Cook County Bd. of Review, 679 F.3d 614 (7th Cir. 2012) ♠
United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Heath Benefits Fund v. Walgreen Co., 719 F.3d 849 (7th Cir. 2013) ♠
BSC Services, Inc. v. BG Investments, Inc., 728 F.3d 633 (7th Cir. 2013) ♠
Bible v. United Student Aid Funds, Inc., 799 F.3d 633 (7th Cir. 2015), cert. denied, 136 S.Ct. 1607 (2016) ♠
Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, 942 F.3d 328 (7th Cir. 2019), cert. denied, 140 S. Ct. 2674 (2020) ♠
Muskegan Hotels, LLC v. Patel, 986 F.3d 692 (7th Cir. 2021) ♠
Ryder v. Hyles, 27 F.4th 1253 (7th Cir. 2022) ♠
South Branch LLC v. Commonwealth Edison Co., 46 F.4th 646 (7th Cir. 2022) ♠

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

United States v. Darden, 70 F.3d 1507 (8th Cir. 1995) ♠
United States v. Elliott, 89 F.3d 1360 (8th Cir. 1996) ♠
Handeen v. Lemaire, 112 F.3d 1339 (8th Cir. 1997) ♠
Dahlgreen v. First Nat’l Bank, 533 F.3d 681 (8th Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 555 U.S. 1153 (2009) ♠
Crest Construction II, Inc. v. Doe, 660 F.3d 346 (8th Cir. 2011) ♠
Gomez v. Wells Fargo, N.A., 676 F.3d 655 (8th Cir. 2012) ♠
Stonebridge Collection, Inc. v. Carmichael, 791 F.3d 811 (8th Cir. 2015) ♠
H & Q Prop., Inc. v. Doll, 793 F.3d 852 (8th Cir. 2015) ♠
UMB Bank, N.A. v. Guerin, 89 F.4th 1047 (8th Cir. 2024) ♠

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Musick v. Burke, 913 F.2d 1390, 1398 (9th Cir. 1990) ♠
River City Markets, Inc. v. Fleming Foods West, Inc., 960 F.2d 1458 (9th Cir. 1992) ♠
Religious Technology Ctr. v. Wollersheim, 971 F.2d 364 (9th Cir. 1992) ♠
Nugget Hydroelectric, L.P. v. Pacific Gas and Elec. Co., 981 F.2d 429 (9th Cir. 1992) ♠
Howard v. American Online Inc., 208 F.3d 741 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 828 (2000) ♠ ♣
Simon v. Value Behavioral Health, Inc., 208 F.3d 1073, 1083 (9th Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1104 (2001), overruled on other grounds, 486 F.3d 541 (9th Cir. 2007) ♠
Diaz v. Gates, 420 F.3d 897 (9th Cir. 2005) ♠
Living Designs, Inc. v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Co., 431 F.3d 353 (9th Cir. 2005) ♠ ♣
Powers v. Wells Fargo Bank NA, 439 F.3d 1043 (9^th Cir. 2006) ♠
Swartz v. KPMG LLP, 476 F.3d 756 (9th Cir. 2007) ♠ ♣
Odom v. Microsoft Corp., 486 F.3d 541 ( 9th Cir. 2007) ♠
Sybersound Records, Inc. v. UAV Corp., 517 F.3d 1137 (9th Cir. 2008) ♠ ♣
Canyon County v. Syngenta Seeds, Inc., 519 F.3d 969 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 555 U.S. 970 (2008) ♠ ♣
Walter v. Drayson, 538 F.3d 1244 (9th Cir. 2008) ♠
Avalos v. Baca, 596 F.3d 583 (9th Cir. 2010) ♠
United States v. Chao Fan Xu, 706 F.3d 965 (9^th Cir. 2013) ♠
Eller v. EquiTrust Life Ins. Co., 778 F.3d 1089 (9th Cir. 2015) ♠
Yagman v. Garcetti, 852 F.3d 859 (9th Cir. 2017) ♠
City of Almaty v. Khrapunov, 956 F.3d 1129 (9^th Cir. 2020) ♠
Abcarian v. Levine, 972 F.3d 1019 (9th Cir. 2020) ♠
Global Master Int’l Group, Inc. v. Esmond Natural, Inc., 76 F.4th 1266 (9th Cir. 2023) ♠

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Grider v. Texas Oil & Gas Corp., 868 F.2d 1147 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 820 (1989) ♠
Cory v. Aztec Steel Building, Inc., 468 F.3d 1226, 1234 (10th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 550 U.S. 918 (2007) ♠
Dummar v. Lummis, 543 F.3d 614 (10th Cir. 2008) ♠
Hall v. Witteman, 584 F.3d 859 (10th Cir. 2009) ♠
Bixler v. Mineral Energy and Technology Corp., 596 F.3d 751 (10th Cir. 2010) ♠ ♣ ♥
United States v. Kamahele, 748 F.3d 984 (10th Cir. 2014) ♠ ♣
Robert Kroenlein Trust v. Krichhefer, 764 F.3d 1268 (10th Cir. 2014) ♠ ♣
CGC Holding Co., LLC v. Broad and Cassel, 773 F.3d 1076 (10th Cir. 2014) ♠
George v. Urban Settlement Serv., 833 F.3d 1242 (10th Cir. 2016) ♠
Safe Streets Alliance v. Hickenlooper, 859 F.3d 865 (10th Cir. 2017) ♠

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Grogan v. Platt, 835 F.2d 844 (11th Cir. 1988) ♠
Bivens Gardens Office Bldg., Inc. v. Barnett Bank of Florida, Inc., 906 F.2d 1546 (11th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 500 U.S. 910 (1991) ♠
United States v. Beasley, 72 F.3d 1518 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 518 U.S. 1027 (1996) ♠
Liquidation Comm’n of Banco Intercontinental, S.A. v. Renta, 530 F.3d 1339 (11^th Cir. 2008) ♠
Edwards v. Prime, Inc., 602 F.3d 1276 (11th Cir. 2010) ♠
American Dental Ass’n v. Cigna Corp., 605 F.3d 1283 (11th Cir. 2010) ♠
Simpson v. Sanderson Farms, Inc., 744 F.3d 702 (11th Cir. 2014) ♠
United States v. Godwin, 765 F.3d 1306 (11th Cir. 2014) ♠
Ray v. Spirit Airlines, Inc., 836 F.3d 1340 (11th Cir. 2016) ♠
Blevins v. Aksut, 849 F.3d 1016 (11th Cir. 2017) ♠
Alamanza v. United Airlines, Inc., 851 F.3d 1060 (11th Cir. 2017) ♠
Crawford’s Auto Ctr., Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co., 945 F.3d 1150 (11th Cir. 2019) ♠
Cisneros v. Petland, Inc., 972 F.3d 1204 (11th Cir. 2020) ♠ ♣
Omnipol, A.S. v. Multinational Defense Serv., LLC, 32 F.4th 1298 (11th Cir. 2022) ♠

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Riddell v. Riddell Washington Corp., 866 F.2d 1480 (D.C. Cir. 1989) ♠
Western Assoc. Ltd. P’ship, ex rel. Ave. Assoc. Ltd. P’ship v. Market Square Assoc., 235 F.3d 629 (D.C. Cir. 2001) ♠
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., 396 F.3d 1190 (D.C. Cir. 2005) ♠
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., 566 F.3d 1095 (D.C. Cir. 2009) ♠ ♣
United States v. Eiland, 738 F.3d 338 (D.C. Cir. 2013) ♠