Richmond, VA

Whether personal injury claim based on soundwaves falls under exception to waiver of sovereign immunity under Federal Tort Claims Act § 2680(h); other issues.

Validity of § 924(c) conviction for brandishing firearms during and in relation to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and drug trafficking crime.

Whether Plaintiff was frequently, regularly, and proximately exposed to asbestos attributable to Defendant.

Propriety of ALJ's conclusion that claimant did not have a severe medical impairment. 15-minute case.

Challenge by court clerks to district court's ruling in favor of news service regarding its right of contemporaneous access to new civil court complaints.

Whether reinstatement of vacated 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) counts based on different predicates violates the Double Jeopardy Clause.

Whether Appellant had standing to bring claims related to breach of contract and fiduciary duty by captive insurer; whether discovery was necessary.

Cross-appeals raising multiple issues related to district court's rulings regarding set-off of damage awards, application of Parratt-Hudson doctrine, attorney's fees, other issues.

Whether the district court erred by determining that defendants did not satisfy the "acting under" provision of the federal officer removal statute.

Whether district court must apply nonretroactive changes to Sentencing Guidelines when considering motion for sentence reduction under First Step Act.

Whether the Virginia offense of accessory after the fact is an offense relating to obstruction of justice under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S); related issues.

Whether state court rulings upholding exclusion of expert testimony and denying racial animus claim contravened federal law; propriety of procedurally barring ineffective assistance claim.

Appeal from denial of relief on state habeas corpus challenge to capital sentence imposed following guilty plea.

Whether Tennessee statutory rape qualifies as predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(b)(1); sufficiency of explanation of term and conditions of supervised release.

Whether district court erred by dismissing defamation claims as time-barred based on single publication rule; other issues; cross-appeal from denial of sanctions.

Challenge to ruling that officer had reasonable suspicion, under totality of the circumstances, to detain appellant, who was openly carrying an AR-15 rifle.

Whether the plan administrator's decision denying benefits was reasonable and supported by substantial evidence.

Whether district court erred in its interpretation of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act's definitions of plant closing, single site of employment, and employer.

Challenge to ruling dismissing for lack of standing plaintiff's claims challenging President's use of Federal Vacancies Reform Act to designate employee as acting officer; other issues.

Whether district court abused its discretion in denying First Step Act motion for compassionate release on the sole basis that the § 3553(a) factors cautioned against relief without addressing arguments favoring relief.

Whether Sixth Circuit's actual innocence requirement for § 2255(e) savings clause is substantive law applicable to § 2241 petitioner convicted in that circuit; other issues.

Multiple issues arising from district court's grant of defendants' Rule 59(e) motions and grant of summary judgment to defendants on plaintiffs' malicious prosecution claims.

Whether vehicle search was valid as a search incident to arrest or under the automobile exception.

Whether a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1357 implicates Fourth Amendment interests; whether widespread statutory violations permit use of court's supervisory authority to suppress evidence.

Whether district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant sheriff in terminated officer's First Amendment action.

Cross-appeals from district court's order dismissing claims of defamation by elected public official and denying defendant's request for attorney's fees.

Challenge to issuance of permit by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Maryland Transit Authority pursuant to § 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Propriety of district court's rulings that charter school's uniform policy requiring girls to wear skirts violated the Equal Protection Clause but not Title IX.

Whether the district court erred by dismissing for lack of standing plaintiffs hospital associations' Takings Clause and preemption claims.

Whether substantial evidence supports the finding that the Petitioner's fear of persecution was not on account of her family ties; related issues.

Whether the plaintiff has standing to pursue discrimination claims predicated on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' physical abilities test.

Reasonableness of 52-year sentence imposed on remand upon defendant who was fifteen when he committed the offenses.

Whether district court erred by concluding that state waived its sovereign immunity by accepting federal funds.

Multiple issues on appeal arising from jury verdict for plaintiff in wrongful death products liability action.

Whether substantial evidence supports the agency's adverse credibility determination.

Whether district court erred, at summary judgment, in equitably tolling statute of limitations applicable to Somali national's Torture Victim Protection Act claims.

Whether unknowing distribution of child pornography precludes application of a two-level reduction under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(1).

Whether § 922(g)(3) is void for vagueness on its face; whether facial challenge permitted in absence of as-applied challenge; application of USSG § 3A1.4 terrorism enhancement.

Whether Wikimedia established a genuine issue of material fact as to its standing to challenge National Security Agency's Upstream surveillance program; state-secrets privilege.

Whether ERISA-protected assets can be garnished by the government to satisfy a restitution order.

Whether restitution and forfeiture orders exceed district court's authority; whether waiver precludes appeal.

Constitutionality of 360-month upward variant sentence selected after vacating defendant's § 924(c) conviction and the related 30-year mandatory, consecutive sentence; procedural reasonableness of sentence.

Whether district court erred in determining that petitioner failed to establish that arresting officer's public corruption convictions rendered his plea involuntary.

Sufficiency of the evidence to support drug and firearm convictions; propriety of jury instructions under Rosemond and Rehaif.

Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1326 is constitutional; related issues.

When appeal period begins to run in § 2255 proceeding when order grants all requested relief but resentencing on unchallenged count has not occurred.