Circuit Split Alerter

Whether a robbery defendant who merely brandishes a firearm and orders victims to comply thereby "physically restrains" them for purposes of the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B).

Whether the 30-day petition-for-review filing deadline in 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1), now deemed a non-jurisdictional claim-processing rule after Riley v. Bondi, is subject to equitable tolling.

Whether, under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(i), a party that adopts sections of a co-party’s appellate brief must count those adopted words toward the word-limit set by Rule 28.1(e).

Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's discretionary-function exception shields the United States from liability when the challenged conduct is merely careless/negligent rather than a conscious policy judgment.

Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1920(4) allows a prevailing party to tax e-discovery costs that go beyond scanning or file-format conversion (e.g., costs for collecting, preserving, processing, hosting, indexing, and extracting electronically stored information).

Whether the Fourth Amendment's 'community-caretaking' exception requires police to follow standardized criteria when deciding to impound a vehicle (as is required for post-impound inventory searches).

Whether a non-citizen must demonstrate prejudice when an Immigration Judge fails to comply with 8 C.F.R. § 1240.10(a)(1)’s requirement to ask if the respondent desires counsel.

Whether a federal district court that has dismissed a case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction may nevertheless entertain and award attorney’s fees under a fee-shifting provision.

Whether sports-event contracts offered on federally regulated designated contract markets are “swaps” under 7 U.S.C. §1a(47) such that the CEA grants the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction and pre-empts state sports-gambling laws.

Whether law-enforcement officers may, without a new warrant, open and examine digital files referenced in a NCMEC CyberTip under the private-search doctrine.

Whether individuals with felony convictions are within "the people" protected by the Second Amendment and therefore may invoke Second-Amendment rights against 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

Whether a warrant supported by probable cause is required to conduct a strip search of an arrestee outside the jail/prison context, or whether reasonable suspicion suffices under the Fourth Amendment’s search-incident-to-arrest doctrine.

What constitutional standard governs an emergency, pre-hearing removal of children from parental custody by child-protective authorities?

How to count videos as “images” under U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(7) when determining the number-of-images enhancement for child-pornography offenses.

Standard for when a court may deny a Rule 48(a) motion or dismiss an indictment with prejudice – whether discretion is limited to prosecutorial bad-faith/harassment (or other patent unfairness to the defendant) or may rest on broader ‘public-interest’ and ‘integrity of the courts’ considerations.