| 25-5298 |
Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether a federal employee's speech —reporting unsafe school conditions,
unauthorized personnel practices, and retaliation to oversight bodies —is… |
| 24-971 |
Seafreeze Shoreside, Inc., et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-deference environmental-policy judicial-review offshore-energy statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit's decision improperly defers to agency interpretations of federal statutes in violation of recent Supreme Court precedent |
| 24-966 |
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, a D.C. Nonprofit Corporation v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
administrative-interpretation federal-permitting fishing-industry ocean-energy offshore-wind statutory-construction |
Should the Court review the Secretary's interpretation of Section 1337(p)(4) regarding offshore wind project approval and its impact on fishing indust… |
| 24-622 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
congressional-delegation interior-department land-claims self-sufficiency-fund tribal-lands trust-submission |
Whether Congress delegated to the Department of the Interior the authority to reject a mandatory trust submission for tribal land acquisition under th… |
| 24-343 |
Robert H. Aland v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
administrative-law article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment-act federal-agency-appointment statutory-qualifications subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal district court has standing and subject matter jurisdiction to hear a challenge to a federal agency director's appointment that alle… |
| 24A269 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law agency-discretion indian-lands native-american-rights statutory-interpretation trust-acquisition |
Whether the Department of the Interior exceeded its statutory authority by refusing to take land into trust for a Native American tribe when the land … |
| 23-933 |
Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) grant district courts authority to set a partial filing fee for in forma pauperis litigants, as the Ninth Circuit below an… |
| 23-839 |
David Littlefield, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
carcieri-v-salazar federal-jurisdiction indian-reorganization-act land-into-trust secretary-of-interior tribal-recognition tribal-status |
Whether the decision of the court of appeals conflicts with Carcieri? |
| 23-811 |
Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase |
Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/issue-preclusion applies when Merit-Systems-Protection-Board-has-resolved-an-issue |
| 23-256 |
Suleiman Abdu Ibrahim v. Department of the Interior |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-employee-rights federal-employees summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether federal employees' rights are determined under statutes that require all personnel actions affecting employees or applicants to be made free f… |
| 23-5288 |
Jay Hymas v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
attorney-client-privilege case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-appellate-rules judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals procedural-standards |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion overcomes the Federal Appellate Rules regarding the disposition of a case, and if so whether the pr… |
| 22-1251 |
Simon V. Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
administrative-fraud administrative-law agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-procedure fraud injunctive-relief regulatory-misconduct standing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment requires that defendants answer allegations against them |
| 22A534 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-439 |
Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th… |
| 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? |
| 22-51 |
Department of the Interior, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
federal-fiduciary-duty federal-government-duty fiduciary-duty judicial-enforcement native-american-law native-american-rights navajo-nation sovereign-obligations treaty-interpretation treaty-rights water-rights |
Whether the federal government owes the Navajo Nation an affirmative, judicially enforceable fiduciary duty to assess and address the Navajo Nation's … |
| 21-1510 |
David P. Marana v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights commander-authority due-process hipaa-privacy military-discretion reasonable-person-standard redacted-evidence standing subculture-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing |
What court, tribunal, and or investigative agency ensures that information with redacted information when presented as evidence is valid, legal, and n… |
| 21-1484 |
Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Judgment Issued |
arizona-v-california breach-of-trust colorado-river federal-jurisdiction federal-trust-responsibility indian-reservation indian-reservations water-rights winters-doctrine |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Opinion infringes upon the Supreme Court's retained and exclusive jurisdiction over the allocation of water from the Lower B… |
| 21A704 |
Department of the Interior, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1298 |
Leonard Albrecht, et al. v. Riverside County, California, et al. |
California |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
federal-preemption indian-lands indian-reorganization-act leasehold-interest reservation-rights state-taxation tax-preemption tribal-sovereignty |
Whether federal regulations governing the leasing of Indian lands preempt state and local governments from taxing the leasehold interest conveyed by t… |
| 21-696 |
Stand Up for California!, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
congressional-termination federal-supervision indian-reorganization-act indian-services land-in-trust land-trust rancheria-termination rancheria-termination-act |
Whether the Secretary can acquire land in trust on behalf of Indians whose federal supervision was terminated by Congress |
| 20-1195 |
Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing |
Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the outc… |
| 20-6667 |
Ronald Douglas v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure civil-rights communications-act constitutional-challenge due-process eminent-domain government-owned-stations human-rights-violations jurisdiction property-rights takings |
Whether the district court had exclusive jurisdiction over the in rem eminent domain action |
| 20-562 |
John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal |
Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad… |
| 19-1119 |
Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-services arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-policy federal-property federal-property-and-administrative-services-act military-helicopter-training military-training national-environmental-policy-act national-park-service recreation secretary-of-the-interior standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in concluding that the National Park Service's approval of military helicopter training exercises on property conveyed for… |
| 19-403 |
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes |
Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming |
| 18-1263 |
Jason Brian Braun v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
civil-procedure-error civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-petition standing status-conference transfer venue venue-transfer |
Whether district court erred in dismissing claims and transferring venue in violation of rules and procedures |
| 18-6345 |
Felix J. Bruette, Jr. v. Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
citizenship citizenship-act congressional-authority due-process indian-reorganization-act land-rights political-doctrine property-rights reservation-lands tribal-affiliation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty |
What legal Historical standing does the Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Community claim to convey the lands and rights of a historical Tribe in the State of… |
| 18-61 |
Stand Up for California!, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
best-interest-of-tribe detrimental-impacts detrimental-to-community gaming-exception indian-gaming-regulatory-act indian-reorganization-act off-reservation-gaming off-reservation-land surrounding-community tribal-affiliation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-recognition trust-land |
Whether the Secretary may conclude that a casino would not be detrimental to the surrounding community' despite uncontroverted evidence the casino wil… |
| 25A474 |
Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
|
Application |
disability filing-requirements financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court |
Whether a pro se litigant with limited income and disability can obtain an extension of time and partial relief from Supreme Court filing requirements… |