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511 Petitions
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Case
Subject
Status
Question(s) Presented
Docket No.
19-748
Case
Lepore v. Office of Personnel Management
Subject
MSPB
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“The calculation of annuities for government employees upon their retirement is governed by 5 U.S.C. 8331(4). This section requires a determination of ‘the largest annual rate resulting from averaging an...
Docket No.
19-7399
Case
Harris v. United States
Subject
Pro Se
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Why was my demand denied when the defendant, the Commissioner of the IRS, admitted in writing that they didn’t have jurisdiction to take my...
Docket No.
19-705
Case
Sharpe v. United States
Subject
Pro Se
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“This case concerns the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and its inexplicable refusal under 10 U.S.C. § 1552(c) to calculate, with respect to certain military pay and allowances, which...
Docket No.
19-6900
Case
Smith v. Wilkie
Subject
Veterans
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“This Court in Buckhannon addressed an award of prevailing party attorneys’ fees pursuant to Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 due to voluntary...
Docket No.
19-671
Case
Grover v. Office of Personnel Management
Subject
MSPB
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies interpretation of their own regulations must continue in the light of the admission by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that if its...
Docket No.
19-6339
Case
Miles v. Azar
Subject
Pro Se
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Where the special master of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) (hereafter noted as ‘the Program’) violates the 2017 Secretary of Health and Human Services’ (hereafter referred to as...
Docket No.
19-619
Case
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
35 U.S.C. § 101 provides that a patent may be obtained for “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.”...
Docket No.
19-610
Case
Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc.
Subject
Procedure
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether the appropriate standard of review for a ‘relation back’ determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) is: (1) the de novo standard of review applied by the First,...
Docket No.
19-604
Case
Francway v. Wilkie
Subject
Veterans2 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Congress has established a veterans-benefits system that is uniquely pro-claimant. In veterans benefit cases, every statutory and regulatory presumption favors the veteran over the Department of Veterans Affairs. Despite this,...
Docket No.
19-601
Case
Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corp.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“When U.S. Patent No. 5,952,714 issued in September 1999, the Patent Act provided only two avenues for challenging the validity of the patent’s claims: ex parte reexamination and district court...
Docket No.
19-597
Case
Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corp.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether this case provides an appropriate vehicle for this Court to state with clarity and certainty the definition of an ‘abstract idea’ under 35 U.S.C. § 101, so courts...
Docket No.
19-591
Case
Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc.
Subject
Rule 36
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“In an appeal from an inter partes review decision of unpatentability, a losing Patent Owner-Appellant is more than three times as likely to receive a one-word summary affirmation than a...
Docket No.
19-586
Case
Hollingsworth v. Department of Veterans Affairs
Subject
Veterans
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1984 (USERRA) provides reemployment rights to all employees serving in the uniformed services. See 38 U.S.C. §§ 4312-4318. Congress delegated the...
Docket No.
19-584
Case
Nuvo Pharmaceuticals v. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that, whenever the prior art teaches away from a pharmaceutical composition, the written description of a patent claiming that composition can satisfy 35...
Docket No.
19-58
Case
Xitronix Corp. v. KLA-Tencor Corp.
Subject
Jurisdiction
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“In Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp., 382 U.S. 172 (1965), this Court held that ‘the enforcement of a patent procured by fraud on the Patent...
Docket No.
19-571
Case
Intel Corp. v. Continental Circuits, LLC
Subject
Patent4 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether courts should construe a patent’s claims in light of the written description of the invention disclosed in the patent’s specification, or whether, as the Federal Circuit held, courts should...
Docket No.
19-5657
Case
Rogero v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Subject
Pro SeAmicus
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether Court of Appeals conclusion, that Rogero had not established by a preponderance of the evidence between his encephalopathy and his DTaP vaccination, is in accordance with 42 U.S.C....
Docket No.
19-5593
Case
Swisher v. Wilkie
Subject
Pro Se
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
Petition unavailable
Docket No.
19-5526
Case
Lake v. Wilkie
Subject
Pro Se
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Will the U.S. Supreme Court please respect decisions given by lower courts and intervene to Alabama (understand they are way behind) to approve pension benefits – my clock is...
Docket No.
19-5335
Case
Brunette v. Wilkie
Subject
Veterans
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38 C.F.R. Section 3.156(c) with respect to taking the actions required upon reopening and reconsidering the hearing of the May, 1982...