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25A855 Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application continuing-criminal-enterprise effective-assistance jury-trial narcotics-violation sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires unanimous jury findings for each separate narcotics violation in a Continuing Cri…
25A668 Samson Tug and Barge Co., Inc. v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Alaska Longshore Division, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Application labor-relations landlord-tenant nlra secondary-boycott union-coercion work-preservation-defense Whether the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) permits a union to coerce a landlord to impose penalties on a tenant employer as a form of secondary b…
25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska 2025-11-24 Denied bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure Did the Alaska Supreme Court misapply Heck v. Humphrey and violate the Bill of Attainder prohibition in a decision of national importance?
25-6073 Brett Alan James Talmadge v. Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied abstention-doctrine court-appointed-counsel habeas-corpus incarceration pro-se-pleading speedy-trial Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of a habeas petition on abstention grounds where the petitioner was incarc…
25A400 Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split equitable-remedy erisa fiduciary-breach section-1132 surcharge Whether a plaintiff can seek equitable surcharge as a remedy under ERISA Section 1132(a)(3) when federal circuit courts are split on the availability …
25A337 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands Whether the Second Circuit's test for determining 'waters of the United States' under the Clean Water Act conflicts with the Supreme Court's interpret…
25-320 Alaska, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied alaska-lands federal-regulation land-management navigable-waters public-lands statutory-interpretation Whether the United States can regulate fishing on Alaska's navigable waters under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act when its statuto…
25-246 Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska Alaska 2025-09-03 Pending constitutional-law culpability due-process excessive-fines judicial-standard property-forfeiture Whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the…
24A1287 Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska Alaska 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete alcohol-transportation dry-village eighth-amendment excessive-fines forfeiture mandatory-seizure Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment prohibits the mandatory forfeiture of an aircraft used to transport a small quantity of alc…
24-7469 David Simmons v. Alaska Alaska 2025-06-20 Denied None Question not identified.
24-1277 Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2025-06-16 Denied administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish state-based administrative procedures violates the Constitution and the Help America Vote A…
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-20 Denied confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap…
24-7152 Terrance Barrett v. Alaska Commission for Human Rights Alaska 2025-05-06 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6075 Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. Alaska 2024-12-05 Denied constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law Whether the plaintiff seeks judicial review of potential constitutional and labor law violations by Alyeska Seafood company and government agencies
24-5034 Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska Alaska 2024-07-10 Denied bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for sexual offenders for pa…
24A11 Alaska, et al. v. Department of Education, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete administrative-law executive-power heroes-act major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loan-forgiveness Whether the Secretary of Education exceeded statutory authority under the HEROES Act in implementing a broad student loan debt cancellation program wi…
23-1316 Doug Smith, et al. v. Richard Stillie, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Chair, Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech disclosure-requirements first-amendment political-contributions Does Alaska's donor disclosure requirements violate the First Amendment?
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Whether a court applied the correct standard in dismissing a complaint alleging a violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act
23A931 Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Alaska improperly exercised jurisdiction over a dispute involving federal law when determining the underlying case
23-7051 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Alaska 2024-03-21 Dismissed appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial?
23-1041 Flying Crown Subdivision Addition No. 1 and Addition No. 2 Property Owners Association v. Alaska Railroad Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied 1871-land-grants alaska-railroad alaska-railroad-act easement exclusive-use-easement land-grant property-law property-rights railroad-rights-of-way statutory-interpretation Whether railroad rights-of-way reserved under the 1914 Alaska Railroad Act are nonpossessory simple easements' like other railroad rights-of-way conve…
23-6913 Carl Thompson v. Marjorie K. Allard, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure complaint-amendment federal-courts futile-amendment futility-standard judicial-discretion procedural-review rooker-feldman standing Was there a violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
23-6743 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2024-02-14 Denied constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to 'effective representation' require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto…
23A661 Andrew Tablack v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-indictment federal-crime scheduling statutory-interpretation Whether a federal drug indictment fails to state a valid offense when the alleged controlled substance is not explicitly scheduled in the U.S. Code or…
23A613 Michael Jonathon Carlson v. Arizona Arizona 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error criminal-procedure fair-trial postconviction-relief supreme-court-review Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's denial of postconviction relief violated the defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial in a capital case
23A560 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead…
23-6084 Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections Ninth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Whether a candidate's right to have their full legal name on the ballot
23-5938 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2023-11-02 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-testimony sixth-amendment structural-error Does the Sixth Amendment guarantee to a 'fair trial' implicitly require that the trial be free of structural error?
23-5753 Ben J. Latham v. Alaska Alaska 2023-10-11 Denied civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the retroactive application of a punitive ex post facto law is prohibited under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-328 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-09-28 Denied constitutional-taking due-process environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substance strict-liability takings water-system Whether the Alaska Supreme Court's imposition of strict liability violated petitioners' right to due process
23-179 Alaska, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO Alaska 2023-08-25 Denied civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech paycheck-deduction public-sector-unions state-action union union-speech voluntary-waiver waiver Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from taking money from employees' paychecks to subsidize union speech when the state lacks sufficient ev…
23A149 Andrew J. J. Wolf v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-obstruction prison-officials Whether prison officials' intentional obstruction of an inmate's access to personal legal papers and court materials, implemented through standard ope…
23A121 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from imposing retroactive environmental liability for the discharge of a …
22O157 Alaska, Plaintiff v. United States, et al. 2023-07-28 Pending None
22-7673 James Michael Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied anonymous-jury apprendi-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection jury-trial public-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to a public jury
22M64 Sean Wright v. Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-12-29 Presumed Complete None
22-6019 Richard Lee Green v. Dinh Hoang Phuong Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied arbitral-award federal-jurisdiction foreign-arbitration international-forum-shopping jurisdiction-abstention new-york-convention res-judicata younger-abstention younger-doctrine Whether the federal court improperly abstained from confirming a foreign arbitral award under the Younger doctrine
22-401 Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management Does ANILCA grant federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state law regulating how people hunt?
22-5587 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability from a specifically chosen circuit judge?
22-5573 Anne P. Mulligan v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2022-09-14 Denied civil-rights corruption criminal-investigation due-process hipaa hipaa-violation hospital-records medical-privacy privacy sovereign-immunity Whether the respondent's conduct in investigating the petitioner and making allegations against her violated her constitutional rights, including her …
22-108 Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secular a…
22-107 Marianne E. Burke v. Criterion General, Inc., et al. Alaska 2022-08-03 Denied constitutional-rights due-process funeral-expenses gross-negligence legal-representation schiel wedmore white workers-compensation workplace-negligence workplace-safety Was Workers' Compensation law and the cases of Schiel, Wedmore, and White involving mostly injury, misapplied to this case; a case that is about gross…
21-7834 Anne P. Mulligan v. Johnna Kohl Alaska 2022-05-11 Denied billing-practices charity-care medicaid-fraud medical-billing medical-ethics patient-privacy physician-ethics tax-deduction tax-deductions Can a physician legally obtain a patient's Medicaid information without the patient's knowledge and bill Medicaid?
21-1393 Clarence Alexander, et al. v. Gwitchyaa Zhee Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied alaska-native-claims-settlement-act due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review land-reconveyance native-participation native-rights recoupment village-corporations Whether the decisions by Alaska Native Village Corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to reconvey land under Section 14(c) must co…
21-1293 John Albert Scudero, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2022-03-25 Denied aboriginal-rights congressional-legislation conservation-necessity fishing-permits limited-entry-permits native-fishing-rights presidential-proclamation state-regulation treaty-rights Can the State of Alaska prohibit Alaska Native members from harvesting fish in their traditional waters?
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska 2021-12-23 Denied criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant has incompetent representation, as it does when there is a physical absence of counsel at tri…
21-822 Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission Alaska 2021-12-03 Denied campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing Whether the original meaning of the First Amendment permits regulations against contributions to independent political action committees
21-615 Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver Do government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence that employees waived their First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing un…
21-6040 Louis Holger v. State of Alaska, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) denial of patent applications violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-5745 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage trial-counsel Was reversible error committed when trial counsel abandoned petitioner during a critical stage of the trial
20-8380 David Simmons v. Earl Houser, Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied 14th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure constitutional-claim dna-registration due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application state-supreme-court Whether the district court erred in failing to give deference to the state supreme court's determination that petitioner's administrative remedies had…
20-6904 Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme Whether a court evaluating an ex post facto challenge to a statute that has previously been found to be nonpunitive and has since been amended should …
20-940 Alaska v. Sean Wright Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 GVR custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2…
20-6815 Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations Is it written in the U.S. Constitution that a person may be indicted, reindicted 3-times with same cause number: broaden, abandon, and bring abandoned…
20-719 Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation Does racial bias disproportionately affect the federal courts' treatment of marginalized people of color, when addressing the international treaty asp…
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Whether vacatur of a conviction by settlement qualifies as a favorable termination under Heck v. Humphrey when the vacatur was merely the ministerial …
20-6203 Rachel O. v. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Alaska 2020-11-03 Denied administrative-law alaska-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection guardianship native-american standing Question not identified
20-543 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-26 Judgment Issued administrative-law alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporation cares-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance indian-tribe relief-funds statutory-interpretation tribal-government Whether Alaska Native regional and village corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act are 'Indian Tribe[s]' for purp…
20-544 Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-26 Judgment Issued agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition Whether ANCs are 'Indian tribes' under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act
20-5978 Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska Alaska 2020-10-09 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search Whether the decisions of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution's protections against double …
20-5322 Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska Alaska 2020-08-11 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures Whether the decision of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals is consistent with the Fourteenth-Amendment, Sixth-Amendment, Fourth-Amend…
19-1365 Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual serving a wrongfully enhanced sentence is barred from obtaining relief solely because the wrongfulness of the sentence was estab…
19-8271 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2020-04-16 Denied equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally may bar evidence of juror bias when offered to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment to an impartial…
19-1202 Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska Alaska 2020-04-08 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case?
19-1065 Teresa Ann Johnson v. Alaska Alaska 2020-02-28 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-report sixth-amendment surrogate-expert testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the prosecution from introducing into evidence at trial a certified lab report reflecting statements of non…
19-7704 Kevin Massengale v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process god-given-rights human-rights inalienable-rights inherited-rights title-iv-d Whether the U.S. Supreme Court and every court in the U.S. have a duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution and protect the petitioner's civil-rights, inal…
19-646 Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens Alaska 2019-11-19 Denied bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages Whether the factors identified by BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore should be used to analyze excessive statutory civil damages
19-6648 Ralph Loren Barenz II v. Alaska Alaska 2019-11-15 Denied community-condemnation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct protective-order Has the petitioner been deprived of due process?
19-122 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment
18-9759 Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-21 Denied cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus fa…
18-1538 Dartmond Cherk, et al. v. Marin County, California California 2019-06-13 Denied development-exactions development-fees dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process essential-nexus koontz-v-st-johns-river-water-management-district land-use legislative-exactions nollan-v-california-coastal-commission permit-conditions property-rights rough-proportionality takings takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Whether permit conditions are exempt from review under the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine when their intended purpose is not to mitigate adverse…
18-9272 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Nancy Dahlstrom, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections Alaska 2019-05-14 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction juror-bias jury-bias no-impeachment-rule right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment Does the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require courts to apply a Sixth Amendment constitutional exception to a no-impeachment ru…
18A1132 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Presumed Complete None
18-8754 Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska Alaska 2019-04-10 Denied 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered
18-1216 R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis Retaliation against pro se respondents, emolument manipulation, falsification of facts, lack of due process, election irregularities, anti-American bi…
18-7413 Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Does the Fell Faith and Credit Clause apply to the Bradshaw v. Ash case involving disciplinary actions against a prisoner?
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by errors in his criminal trial and sentencing proceedings
18-605 Mitchell J. Stein v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s…
18-579 Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied arbitration-requirement civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-preemption labor-relations ninth-circuit-ruling preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claim state-law-claims Whether federal courts lack authority to inquire into the nature and scope of an alleged state law claim in determining whether resolution of that cla…
18-5777 Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Alaska 2018-08-27 Denied administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings Whether the Alaska Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims against Arctic Slope Regional Corp. for lack of standing