Richmond, VA

Whether district court erred in granting summary judgment on failure to protect claim because prisoner failed to identify future attacker; other issues.

Challenge to district court order recognizing and enforcing Chinese arbitration agreement.

Propriety of district court relying on potential defenses to claims to determine Plaintiff did not satisfy amount-in-controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction; other issues.

Whether movant was denied effective assistance of counsel; whether district court erroneously granted Government's motion to dismiss without first conducting an evidentiary hearing.

Challenge to district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of officers and town related to excessive force claims.

Whether district court properly awarded qualified immunity to defendant officers on First and Fourth Amendment claims related to traffic stop of plaintiff.

Whether conditions of supervised release are plainly substantively unreasonable, including prohibitions against "excessive use of alcohol" and "possession of children's items." 15 mins.

Whether district court erred in finding Appellants defaulted on right to arbitrate despite invoking arbitration clause prior to filing an answer; other issues.

Whether CERCLA "arranger liability" requires knowledge that disposed substances contain hazardous materials.

Whether bankruptcy court erred in approving professional retention application submitted by Chapter 11 Trustee after his appointment was terminated.

Whether petitioner's allegations of past harm and feared future harm qualify as "persecution"; propriety of adverse nexus ruling in mixed motive case; other issues.

Whether inmate stated plausible claim of cruel and unusual punishment by alleging voluntary work program exposed participants to COVID-19 and other hazards.

Whether "crime of child abuse" under 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(E)(i) includes inchoate or strict liability offenses.

Whether district court erred finding the agreement between Virginia and D.C. to operate area airports preempts Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Virginia's workplace safety laws.

Whether incarcerated workers working outside of the prison are employees covered by FLSA.

Multi-issue capital appeal challenging denial of specialist services, effective assistance of counsel, composition of the jury, and other issues.

Challenge to district court's dismissal of environmental claims related to solid waste disposal.

Whether district court erred granting summary judgment for defendant employer who terminated employee based on belief that he was misusing FMLA leave.

Whether a dismissal pursuant to Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), counts as a strike for purposes of the PLRA, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).

Whether claim under North Carolina's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act was untimely because it relied on time-barred claim under Retail Installment Sales Act.

Whether statute of limitations precludes rail company's antitrust claims alleging anticompetitive switch rate pricing for access to Norfolk International Terminals.

Propriety of the district court's rejection of Slocum's claim that counsel was ineffective in failing to challenge Count 2 of the indictment as multiplicitous.

Whether court erred by declining to reopen appeal period; if appeal is timely, whether counsel's failure to object to certain testimony constitutes ineffective assistance.

Whether district court erred in granting Fed. R. Civ. P. 50 motion in action involving value of land condemned for issues.

Whether the court has jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders; propriety of summary judgment absent appointment of counsel and additional time for discovery.

Whether district court or Government breached Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreements; reasonableness of downward-variant sentences.

Whether delays in prison disciplinary hearings denied due process; whether court erred in declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims.

Whether the district court erred in finding that 18 U.S.C. § 2253 requires forfeiture of the entirety of Defendant's electronic devices; related issues.

Whether district court properly instructed jury regarding intent and meaning of lascivious exhibition in child pornography case; related issues.

Whether Virginia use of a firearm, Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-53.1, and Virginia common law robbery are violent felony offenses under USSG § 4B1.2(a)(1).

Whether district court properly excused juror under Fed. R. Civ. P. 47(c) because juror expressed to Plaintiff desire to hug her; other issues.

Whether defendant's speedy trial right was violated by transportation delay occurring after defendant was declared incompetent.

Interlocutory appeal from district court's denial of qualified immunity in § 1983 wrongful conviction claim.

Whether district court erred in admitting various out-of-court statements.

Whether the district court erred in denying motion to dismiss official capacity claims based on Eleventh Amendment immunity.

Whether the district court plainly erred by not informing Defendant during plea hearing of advance knowledge element of aiding and abetting § 924(c) offense.

Whether the district court erroneously denied Appellant's motion to dismiss the indictment as untimely; other issues.

Multi-issue cross-appeal raising due process concerns related to city's ordinance governing disposal of personal property after evictions.