| 24-547 |
Maria E. Smith v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure agency-discretion citizenship-petition due-process immigration-law record-inspection |
Did the agency violate Mrs. Smith's due process rights by requiring that she rebut what it asserted was derogatory information but summarizing that in… |
| 24-5631 |
Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-review citizenship-petition federal-court-jurisdiction naturalization-jurisdiction uscis-procedure |
Whether the district court has exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction in naturalization cases filed under 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c) after USCIS issues a final … |
| 24-91 |
Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist |
Whether this Court's holding in Fed. Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre warrants reversal of the court of appeals' decision affirming the district court… |
| 24A44 |
Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se litigant's international travel and limited preparation time constitutes sufficient grounds for an extension of time to file a petiti… |
| 23-1176 |
Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec… |
| 23A805 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Valancourt Books, LLC |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-01 |
Presumed Complete |
copyright-deposit copyright-protection fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation library-of-congress |
Whether the mandatory deposit requirement for copyrighted works constitutes an unconstitutional taking of private property under the Fifth Amendment's… |
| 23-837 |
Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace |
Are employer statements on religious discrimination binding judicial admissions in a Title VII de novo review? |
| 23-374 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
GVR |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process felons felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) complies with the Second Amendment |
| 23A302 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Blackhawk Manufacturing Group, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Presumed Complete |
ATF-rule federal-firearms-licensing frame-or-receiver ghost-guns Gun-Control-Act untraceable-firearms |
Whether the ATF's rule clarifying that certain partially completed firearm frames and receivers constitute 'frames or receivers' subject to federal fi… |
| 23-342 |
X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction |
Whether the Government's prohibition on disclosure of the receipt of national security process is unconstitutional in the absence of the procedural re… |
| 23-277 |
Usha Soujanya Karri v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
abstention bribery civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law criminal-cover-up judicial-misconduct murder-conspiracy procedural-technicality rule-of-law |
Is it lawful when the Trial Court cites 'abstention grounds' and refuses to order for investigation as per the 'Rule of Law', as Chicago Police were b… |
| 23A140 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Presumed Complete |
18-USC-922g constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess firearms notwithstanding a prior conviction for a non-violent felony-equivalent… |
| 23-115 |
Fathi Elltaif Saad Elldakli, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action citizenship-and-immigration-services final-agency-action immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings status-adjustment |
Whether a status-adjustment decision by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services constitutes final agency action within the meaning of t… |
| 23A84 |
Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
aggregate-disclosure first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act national-security-letters prior-restraint transparency-reporting |
Whether the First Amendment requires that a prior restraint on a service provider's disclosure of aggregate data regarding national security letters a… |
| 23A82 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Jennifer Vanderstok, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-procedure-act atf-regulation firearm-definition frame-or-receiver ghost-guns second-amendment |
Whether the ATF's regulation defining 'frame or receiver' to include partially complete components and parts kits that may be readily converted into f… |
| 23-59 |
Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights |
Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election |
| 23-62 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Scott A. Hardin |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law atf-rule automatic-weapon bump-stock due-process firearms-regulation machinegun-definition mass-shootings second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a bump stock device is a 'machinegun' as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) |
| 23-5051 |
Andrew Valles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-law due-process federal-review first-amendment habeas-corpus separation-of-powers standing state-court-adjudication |
Does the resort of 28 U.S.C. 2415(e) - a safety valve created by Congress - succumb entirely to and find defeat in 8 U.S.C. 1182(a) - a seeming inhere… |
| 22A1098 |
Fathi Elltaif Saad Elldakli, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22M107 |
Sealed Appellant v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A884 |
Zenith E. Vivas v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-7248 |
Zenith E. Vivas v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 22-976 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Michael Cargill |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Judgment Issued |
2nd-amendment administrative-law atf atf-rule bump-stock firearms firearms-regulation machinegun-definition national-firearms-act statutory-interpretation trigger-mechanism |
Whether a bump stock device is a 'machinegun' as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) |
| 22-665 |
Gordon M. Price v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
commercial-speech content-based-restriction first-amendment permit-requirement prior-restraint public-forum |
Whether filmmaking is communicative activity protected by the First Amendment |
| 22-5971 |
Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-02 |
Dismissed |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing |
Denial of meaningful access to prison law library due to COVID-19 restrictions |
| 22A248 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Gilberto Pereira Brito, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-140 |
Yvette B. Beaulieu v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process equal-protection federal-employee government-investigation government-misconduct legal-fairness |
Why is there no equal application of relevant fairness principles in civil and criminal matters? |
| 21-1415 |
John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-right-to-informational-privacy constitutional-rights freedom-of-information-act government-records informational-privacy privacy-act relevance single-publication-rule statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief? |
| 21A509 |
Alberta Rose Josephine Jones v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1215 |
Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'machinegun' found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition? |
| 21A312 |
Anesh Gupta v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A190 |
Anesh Gupta v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-5665 |
Ramon Jauregui-Garcia v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 21-5617 |
Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure |
Does the Federal Government have the authority to seize individuals' bank accounts? |
| 21-5591 |
Veretta Burnett v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment freedom geographical-profiling justice law-enforcement liberty section-242 standing |
Whether the plaintiff's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the FBI and City of Highland Park failed to pay the plaintiff for geogr… |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should defer under Chevron to an agency interpretation of federal law when the federal government affirmatively disavows Chevron defere… |
| 21-104 |
Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there can be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the pr… |
| 21-7 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Leymis Carolina Velasquez, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
adjustment-of-status administrative-law admission-criteria immigration immigration-law lawful-permanent-resident permanent-residency statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether a grant of temporary protected status must be treated as an admission into the United States for purposes of a foreign national's application … |
| 20-1826 |
Robert H. Newell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 20-1610 |
Kaysha Dery Richardson v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 20-1407 |
Orwa Ali Al-Saadoon, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 20-812 |
Lisa M. Folajtar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felons felony-prohibition firearm-possession nonviolent-crimes second-amendment self-defense tax-fraud |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 20-782 |
Raymond Holloway, Jr. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process firearms-prohibition gun-ownership individual-liberty misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does a lifetime firearms prohibition based on a nonviolent misdemeanor conviction violate the Second Amendment? |
| 20-322 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Esteban Aleman Gonzalez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law bond-hearing danger-to-community due-process flight-risk immigration-detention statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled to a bond hearing after six months of detention |