| 25-258 |
Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development |
Michigan |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio |
ISSUE I.
ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS VOID
AB INITIO REQUIRING RETROSPECTIVE
TREATMENT OF OPINIONS AFFECTING
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS?
ISSUE II.
DO MICHIGA… |
| 24-1142 |
Robert Holman v. Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
GVR |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-536 |
M&T Farms v. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference farming-activity statutory-interpretation whole-farm-revenue-protection |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding Auer deference to the FCIC's retroactive interpretation of coverage under the Whole-Farm Revenue Protecti… |
| 24-5422 |
MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance |
Whether a state employer's refusal to hire a person based on race while citing workforce racial balance concerns constitutes intentional racial discri… |
| 23-7104 |
In Re Tonya Knowles |
|
2024-03-29 |
Dismissed |
14th-amendment civil-liability civil-rights disqualifications fair-credit-reporting-act insurrection rebellion sovereign-immunity |
Does the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously 'Waive' Sovereign Immuni… |
| 23-1009 |
Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation |
Whether a federal agency can defeat a plaintiff's standing by adding non-statutory factors to benefit distributions that are purportedly race neutral |
| 23-904 |
Larry Golden v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
5th-amendment due-process government-appropriation just-compensation patent takings |
Is it a violation of procedural due process to order the Patent Owner to prove the Government directly infringed Patent Owner's patents under 28 U.S.C… |
| 23-133 |
Arlen Foster v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
GVR |
administrative-law agency-review agriculture chevron-deference environmental-law statutory-interpretation swampbuster-provision wetlands wetlands-certification |
Whether a statute that provides that a wetlands certification 'remain[s] valid and in effect ... until such time as the person affected by the certifi… |
| 23A96 |
Henry Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Louisiana |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-adjudication appointments-clause due-process lawyer-discipline non-article-iii-officers separation-of-functions |
Whether a state agency that combines prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions within a single entity, without meaningful separation of those functions… |
| 22-7550 |
Daniel Novilla v. Department of Agriculture |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-review court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction petition-timeliness procedural-due-process standing |
Why did the court accept my petition knowing it was late, they sent me a packet stating it was compliant with the rules of the court, it was processed… |
| 22-7001 |
Sheniqua L. Watson v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex job-requirements prima-facie-case substantially-equal veteran-status veterans-preference |
Can veteran status be used as a 'factor other than sex' affirmative defense for a job that does not require military service experience? |
| 22-846 |
Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Judgment Issued |
civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seg., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i… |
| 22A642 |
United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5815 |
Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii |
Question not identified |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word 'established' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly? |
| 22A98 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-986 |
Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board |
Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order directly conflicts with Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970) |
| 20-627 |
E. H., III v. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing |
Florida |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-rights concealed-carry constitutional-law due-process expungement expungement-order firearms firearms-permit full-faith-and-credit state-reciprocity |
Did the Florida Court of Appeal commit reversible error and abuse its discretion in declining to recognize and apply Petitioner's New Jersey Expungeme… |
| 19-7134 |
Jessie Carter v. Department of Agriculture |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing administrative-law administrative-law-judge arkansas-dept-of-human-services civil-rights declaration disqualification due-process federal-regulations national-disqualified-list usda usda-program usda-regulations |
What is the proper interpretation of CFR 7 226.6 (c) (v) |
| 19-636 |
Estate of Earnest Lee Boyland, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
agency-action civil-rights claims-framework discrimination due-process equal-protection racial-classification racial-discrimination standing strict-scrutiny |
Is it a denial of Equal Protection for the USDA and Epiq to afford women and Hispanic claimants access to a remedial claims framework, but bar Black m… |
| 18-9704 |
Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance |
Did the lower courts erroneously decide in favor of a governmental agency that broke a contract between a Black American citizen and that agency? |
| 18-8605 |
Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
| 18-1250 |
Corey Lea v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agricultural-law civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause exhaustion-requirements fifth-amendment foreclosure moratorium-relief usda |
Denial of formal hearing for Black and socially disadvantaged farmers on discrimination complaints |
| 18-1141 |
Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine |
New Hampshire |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr… |
| 18-1145 |
Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process |
Dormant Commerce Clause challenge to Wisconsin butter grading law |
| 18A665 |
Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Sheila Harsdorf, In Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-795 |
William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) conflicts with the D.C. Circuit's standard |
| 18-336 |
Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny |
Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture extends to the political context, precluding class-of-one equal pro… |