Oral Arguments from the U.S. Court of Appeals

Case Summary: Grunt Style LLC v. TWD, LLC arises from a trademark dispute in which TWD, LLC originally sued Grunt Style LLC in the Northern District of Illinois in 2018, alleging that Grunt Style’s use of the military‑themed slogan “THIS WE’LL DEFEND” on apparel infringed TWD’s registered trademark, but Grunt Style counterclaimed that it had prior and superior rights in the slogan and that TWD was...

Case Summary: In the district court, Cornelius Jackson was prosecuted by the United States in a federal criminal case in the Seventh Circuit, and after the district court entered judgment against him, he appealed that judgment to the present court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where his case is docketed as No. 24‑1776 and was argued on January 29, 2026.

Case Summary: Nautilus Insurance Company issued a commercial general liability policy to Bee Quality Inc., a roofing contractor, covering certain work performed between February 8, 2022, and February 8, 2023, and then filed a declaratory-judgment action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (No. 1:23‑cv‑16782) seeking a declaration that it had no duty to defend...

Case Summary: Banco San Juan Internacional, Inc. v. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York arises from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s termination of Banco San Juan Internacional’s master account at the New York Fed, which the bank claims was unlawful under federal and state law. At the lower court level in the Southern District of New York, Banco San Juan Internacional, a Puerto Rico interna...

Case Summary: Deb Bardhan, individually and as independent administrator of the estate of Arindam Bardhan, filed a medical negligence and wrongful death action in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, alleging that Northwestern Memorial Hospital and other medical providers failed to timely diagnose and appropriately treat Arindam Bardhan’s cardiac condition, leading to his death. The trial c...

Case Summary: In re Quest Diagnostics ERISA Litigation is a putative ERISA class action in which participants in Quest’s profit‑sharing 401(k) plan challenge alleged fiduciary mismanagement of the plan, now on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit under docket number 24‑2866, argued on January 28, 2026. At the lower‑court level in the District of New Jersey, participan...

Case Summary: Radar Online LLC v. Federal Bureau of Investigation is a Freedom of Information Act appeal in which Radar Online LLC and journalist James Robertson challenge the FBI’s withholding of records about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex‑trafficking investigation and prosecution in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, docket number 24‑1964, where the case was argued on J...

Case Summary: Sunday Egahi v. Pamela Bondi is a civil immigration-related appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, docket number 23‑1974, in which plaintiff‑appellant Sunday Egahi challenges the district court’s dismissal of his suit against Attorney General Pamela Bondi, with oral argument held on January 28, 2026. At the lower‑court level in the District of Maryland,...

Case Summary: Skarbek v. Woodman’s Food Market, Inc. is a civil appeal in which plaintiff Nikki Skarbek, the appellant, challenges an adverse judgment entered against her in the Circuit Court of Lake County, Illinois, with her case now pending in the Illinois Appellate Court, Second District, under docket number 2‑25‑0054 and argued there on January 28, 2026. At the lower‑court level in Lake Count...

Case Summary: Oconee Landing Property, LLC v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue is an Eleventh Circuit appeal from a U.S. Tax Court decision disallowing most of a large charitable deduction and imposing penalties arising from a syndicated conservation easement transaction. In the Tax Court (lower court), Oconee Landing Property, LLC claimed about $20.67 million in charitable contribution deductions...

Case Summary: In the lower court, Poppleton Now Community Association, Inc. and six individual Poppleton residents sued La Cite Development, LLC, several related developer entities and their principal, current and former Baltimore City officials (including the Mayor, City Council, Housing Authority, and former Mayor Sheila Dixon), alleging that a 2006 Land Disposition and Development Agreement giv...

Case Summary: In the district court, Alison Reedy, as next friend on behalf of her minor son D.R., brought a federal civil‑rights suit against the Huron School District and related officials and agencies, and she now appeals to the Sixth Circuit from an adverse judgment. More specifically, Reedy filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit) under case...

Case Summary: the district court, Alex Reinig and other mortgage loan officers brought a wage‑and‑hour collective and class action alleging systemic underpayment of overtime, and the case is now on appeal in the Third Circuit under docket 25‑1076 with argument on January 28, 2026. In the Western District of Pennsylvania , the plaintiffs, mortgage loan officers employed by RBS Citizens, N.A. (Citiz...

Case Summary: United States v. Myelicia Rodgers is a federal criminal appeal in which Myelicia Rodgers, a criminal defendant, is challenging the judgment entered against her in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, docket number 24‑10638, with oral argument held before that court on January 28, 2026. At the lower-court level, Rodgers was prosecuted in federal district court...

Case Summary: In Fulton v. Noem, Raheem Delano Fulton brought a habeas and related civil action in federal district court challenging the federal government’s plan to remove him from the United States without providing the medical discharge planning and post‑release medications he needs to survive, and he now pursues his appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, docket n...

Case Summary: Richmond v. Sorensen is a federal civil employment‑discrimination case brought by plaintiff Julia Richmond against defendant Alan J. Sorensen arising out of the termination of her employment as deputy commissioner of the Orange County Planning Department and director of the County’s Transportation Council, with the case now on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seco...

Case Summary: Docket Number: 24-1891 Peng Guo v. Michigan Tech University arises from a pregnancy discrimination suit brought by Dr. Peng Guo, a former accounting professor at Michigan Technological University, who alleges that the university discriminated against her in violation of Title VII and Michigan’s Elliott‑Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA). In the lower court, Dr. Guo filed suit in January...

Case Summary: At the lower court level, F. F. v. Valley View Community Unit School District 365U was a federal civil-rights and education case in which a parent, on behalf of a minor student identified as F.F., sued Valley View Community Unit School District 365U and related defendants in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, case number 1:25‑cv‑09112, challenging...

Case Summary: In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, plaintiffs Multimedia Technologies, Inc., Geoffrey Anderson, and Peach Hospitality of Georgia, LLC sued the City of Atlanta, Georgia, alleging that the City’s efforts to force removal of two long‑existing billboard signs and to enforce related arrest citations violated their rights under the First, Fifth, and F...

Case Summary: At the lower level, the case involves an immigration removal proceeding against Jose Aristy‑Rosa, which resulted in a final administrative decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on petition for review. Jose Arcenio Aristy‑Rosa, a noncitizen with prior criminal convictions, was placed in removal proceedings...

Case Summary: United States v. Adam Power is a federal criminal appeal in which Adam Power challenges his federal child‑exploitation sentence in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, docket number 25‑1469, after pleading guilty in the district court to dozens of counts involving sexual exploitation of minors and related child‑pornography offenses and receiving a 60‑year priso...

Case Summary: In the district court, Vivian Ruggeri won a maritime personal injury action against NCL (Bahamas) Ltd arising from injuries she suffered on a cruise ship tender, and the case is now on cross-appeals in the Eleventh Circuit, where she is the appellee/cross‑appellant and NCL is the appellant/cross‑appellee. At the lower court level, Ruggeri filed suit in the Southern District of Florid...

Case Summary: Tajinder Singh v. Pamela Bondi is an immigration petition for review in which Tajinder Singh challenges a removal‑related decision involving claims for protection from return to India, now before the present federal court of appeals under docket number 25‑1521 and argued on January 27, 2026,

Case Summary: United States v. Deshon Hill is a federal criminal case in which Deshon Hill was convicted in the district court and is now challenging that judgment in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, docket number 24‑2972, where oral argument was held on January 27, 2026.

Case Summary: People v. Gaines (Richard L. Gaines), docket number 4‑25‑0290, is a criminal appeal in which the defendant seeks review in the Illinois Appellate Court, Fourth District, of his conviction and sentence entered by the circuit court, with oral argument held in the present court on January 27, 2026, following the trial court’s judgment in favor of the People of the State of Illinois.