| 25-879 |
American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation |
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to applia… |
| 25-654 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error |
1) Did 3rd Circuit Court err by blatantly accepting
District Court 's erroneous interpretation on a
County Prothonotary-signed court order, not
sig… |
| 25A279 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari circuit-court petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond standard deadlines for personal and health … |
| 23A841 |
Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Presumed Complete |
clean-air-act disproportionate-economic-hardship epa-interpretation renewable-fuel-standard rins-credits small-refinery-exemption |
Whether the EPA's interpretation of the Clean Air Act's small refinery exemption provision improperly expands the statutory criteria for granting rene… |
| 22-150 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower |
Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning |
| 21-1577 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit |
When a person requests records from a federal agency under the FOIA, may the agency redact the requester's own name? |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-1109 |
Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due-process, whistleblower, recusal, administrative-law-judge, c… |
| 19-5299 |
Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Dismissed |
civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-protection design-theft due-process intellectual-property patent patent-infringement patent-registration standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court can allow a company to steal a person's copyright ownership, design, drawing and blueprints and secure a patent for the… |
| 18-1574 |
William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law |
Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi… |
| 18-1531 |
South Carolina v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to challenge the DOE's final ac… |
| 18-627 |
William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-statutory-causes-of-action constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a district court's conclusion that service of process by Certified Mail is insufficient under Federal Rules of … |