No. 25-5245

Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-07-31
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause
Latest Conference: 2025-10-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether state sovereign immunity can be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft under the Supremacy Clause

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a question of law, de novo, because when the Constitution of the United States or laws of the United States directly contradict a law or statute of the State of Tennessee, a decision must be made to make clear boundaries of what details of the civil proceedings will agree with the Constitution of the United States and laws or statutes of the State of Tennessee. Specifically, in this proceeding the law or statute of the State of Tennessee is sovereign immunity. On the other hand, the Constitution of the United States has federal fraud laws, federal theft laws, and denounces itself as the Supreme Law of the Land. Also, federal fraud and theft laws contradict state sovereign immunity laws as well because you cannot simply enforce both at the same time unless new laws are created.

Docket Entries

2025-10-14
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
2025-06-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 2, 2025)

Attorneys

Zachary C. Crouch
Zachary Crouch — Petitioner