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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Tags	Question Presented
25A911	Jane Elizabeth Roberts, et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2026-02-12	Application	None	Question not identified.
25-918	Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2026-02-04	Pending	district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act	1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha…
25-901	Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2026-01-30	Pending	appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering	Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d…
25A842	Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2026-01-22	Application	appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction	Question not identified.
25-840	International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc., et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2026-01-15	Pending	article-iii-standing child-welfare fundamental-liberty-interest gender-transition judicial-standing parental-rights	Whether parents have standing to challenge a law or policy that deliberately displaces their decision making role as to "gender transitions" of their …
25-780	Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2026-01-05	Pending	commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination	The State of Washington makes it unlawful to sell a lawful product "with which evidence of sexual assault is collected" if, and only if, the seller "m…
25A733	Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-12-22	Application	appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions	Question not identified.
25-6398	Loni Nicole Granger, et al. v. Lauren J. King, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-12-18	Pending	constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mandamus ninth-circuit random-assignment	1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated petitioners ' Fifth Amendment due-process rights by summarily denying in-forma-pauperis status and dismissing t…
25A703	Aila Curtis, et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-12-17	Application	certiorari judicial-discretion petition-filing procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension	Question not identified.
25-606	John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-11-24	Pending	first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention	1. On September 16, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals held that the State Medical Commission's COVID-19 misinformation enforcement policy targe…
25A522	Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-11-05	Application	None	Question not identified.
25A482	Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-10-28	Application	None	Question not identified.
25A452	Leda Health Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-10-21	Application	bill-of-attainder commercial-speech constitutional-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment medical-testing	Whether a state statute regulating medical testing constitutes an unconstitutional content-based restriction on commercial speech and a bill of attain…
25-364	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-09-29	Pending	birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law	The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
24A885	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-03-13	Presumed Complete	article-iii-standing birthright-citizenship executive-authority executive-order preliminary-injunction universal-injunction	Whether district courts may issue universal preliminary injunctions that enjoin enforcement of an Executive Order as to non-parties and States lacking…
24-595	William L. Harris v. City of Kent, Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2024-12-03	Denied	appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment stare-decisis	Whether a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged violations of Supreme Court precedent an…
24A440	John Stockton, et al. v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2024-11-04	Presumed Complete	constitutional-protection covid-19 first-amendment government-censorship physician-speech strict-scrutiny	Whether the First Amendment protects physicians' public speech on COVID-19 from government investigation and potential disciplinary action under stric…
24-5812	Timothy Robert Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2024-10-23	Denied	administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure precedent statutory-interpretation	Question not identified.
23-935	Gene Gonzales, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Washington	2024-02-27	Denied	constitutional-property due-process exclusionary-rights landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-relationship physical-taking physical-takings property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings	Whether an ordinance that compels the possession of property by an unwelcome occupant is a categorical physical taking
23-807	El Papel, LLC, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2024-01-25	Denied	5th-amendment constitutional-law due-process eighth-circuit land-use-regulation ninth-circuit physical-taking property-rights rental-property takings takings-clause	Whether an ordinance that compels the possession of property by an unwelcome occupant is a categorical physical taking
23-539	Raymond De Botton v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2023-11-20	Denied	appellate-jurisdiction article-iii case-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process good-behavior judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-review standing	Whether Article III courts are required to apply the law to the facts of a dispute
23-500	James Gimenez v. Franklin County, Washington, et al.	Washington	2023-11-14	Denied	at-large-elections constitutional-law constitutional-scrutiny election-systems equal-protection gerrymandering racial-polarization redistricting voting-rights	Whether the Washington Voting Rights Act is subject to strict scrutiny
23-490	Enrique Jevons, as a Managing Member of Jevons Properties LLC, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2023-11-08	Denied	covid-19 declaratory-judgment eviction-moratoria fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking standing takings-clause	Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing a challenge to Washington State's COVID-19 eviction moratoria as moot
23-467	Benancio Garcia, III, Appellant v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.	Washington	2023-11-02	Denied	None
23-171	Chris Quinn, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Washington	2023-08-23	Denied	commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause due-process excise-tax extraterritorial-taxation federalism interstate-commerce property-rights state-taxation	Whether the Constitution permits a state to tax out-of-state transactions involving only out-of-state property
22A1084	Chris Quinn, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Washington	2023-06-14	Presumed Complete	None
22-942	Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2023-03-28	Denied	counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty	Whether a law that censors conversations between counselors and clients as 'unprofessional conduct' violates the Free Speech Clause
22-632	Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2023-01-09	Denied	42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983	Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming im…
22-6446	James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2023-01-04	Denied	case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred	Whether Hardin v. Straub is relevant to the Supreme Court's holdings
22-449	Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al.	Washington	2022-11-15	Denied	constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal	Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims
22-130	Lonnie Tofsrud v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-08-10	Denied	chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech officer-misconduct pickering-garcetti-framework public-employee public-employee-speech supervisor-retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection	Does a city police detective's complaint to a county attorney about officer misconduct meet the test for private speech?
22-67	Robert "Bob" King v. Specialty Hospital of Washington, et al.	District of Columbia	2022-07-26	Denied	anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expedited-hearing free-speech fundamental-rights pro-se-litigant procedural-rights special-motion-to-dismiss standing	Whether the mandatory expedited hearing on a special motion to dismiss under an anti-SLAPP law is necessary to prevent a deprivation of fundamental pr…
21-7772	Timothy R. Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-05-05	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing	Question not identified
21-1248	Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-03-15	Denied	congressional-action constitution executive-branch federal-courts indian-treaty-rights issue-preclusion	Whether the federal courts have the constitutional authority to unilaterally abrogate all rights guaranteed to an Indian tribe under a treaty with the…
21-1127	Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-02-15	Denied	dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law	Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
21-1066	Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Washington	2022-02-01	Denied	circuit-split corporate-taxation discriminatory-proxy discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce out-of-state-entities precedents proxy-discrimination state-taxation	Does a law that is triggered by a proxy for participating in interstate commerce and that burdens out-of-state entities almost exclusively violate the…
21A331	Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-01-18	Presumed Complete	None
21-6683	David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al.	Washington	2021-12-21	Denied	arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection	Whether the State of Washington and the police have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a W…
21-906	Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation	Ninth Circuit	2021-12-20	Denied	boundary-dispute congressional-act congressional-authority indian-reservation land-disposition ninth-circuit-error statutory-interpretation treaty-interpretation	Whether a court may override an Act of Congress adopting a boundary for an Indian reservation
21A181	Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Washington	2021-11-24	Presumed Complete	None
21A138	Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation	Ninth Circuit	2021-11-08	Presumed Complete	None
21-5966	Cecile Andrea Brown v. John C. Coughenour, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-10-14	Denied	article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process fundamental-rights government-accountability judicial-review mootness nominal-damages standing	Whether nominal damages account for harms associated with past constitutional violations
21-404	United States v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-09-14	Judgment Issued	contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation	Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers is barred by intergovernmental-immunity or authorized b…
20-1334	Bradley Boardman, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-03-24	Denied	first-amendment harris-v-quinn information-access opt-out-rights public-records public-sector-unions speech-rights viewpoint-discrimination	Whether a law that skews the debate over the value of public-sector unions and undermines public-sector employees' opt-out rights by giving incumbent …
20-1222	Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-03-03	Denied	42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights	Does a comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) foreclose resort to a 42…
20-1120	Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-02-16	Denied	42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues	Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived the…
20-1085	Scott Erik Stafne v. Thomas S. Zilly, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-02-08	Denied	42-usc-1983 article-iii civil-rights due-process good-behaviour-tenure judicial-independence judicial-tenure jurisdictional-challenge separation-of-powers standing	Whether the challenge that a jurist is not an Article III judge because she or he does not have 'good behaviour' tenure is a jurisdictional one which …
20-981	Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2021-01-25	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege	Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private indiv…
20-6886	Zachary M. Enslow v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-01-14	Denied	civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest illegal-incarceration speedy-trial	Question not identified
20-6785	Timothy R. Petrozzi v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-01-08	Denied	civil-rights due-process liberty safety standing takings	Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the continued use of 'time-limited' and 'immediately' orders that deprive the petition…
20-787	Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al.	Washington	2020-12-09	Denied	14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing	Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad…
20-753	Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2020-12-01	Denied	agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty	Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect…
20-431	John L. Corrigan, Sr. v. Grant County, Washington, et al.	Washington	2020-10-05	Denied	appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte summary-judgment	Was Corrigan's U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process violated?
20-330	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al.	Second Circuit	2020-09-14	GVR	article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing	Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar…
20-148	Marvin Washington, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al.	Second Circuit	2020-08-13	Denied	5th-amendment administrative-review controlled-substances-act due-process federal-patents medical-cannabis	Can Congress criminalize medical cannabis without exception?
19-1130	Dale Danielson, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2020-03-16	Denied	42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights court-ruling good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution retroactivity takings	Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es…
19-333	Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Washington	2019-09-12	Rehearing	civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny	Whether the State violates a floral designer's First Amendment rights to free exercise and free speech by forcing her to take part in and create custo…
19A229	Arlene's Flowers, Inc., et al. v. Washington, et al.	Washington	2019-08-28	Presumed Complete	None
19-160	Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al.	Washington	2019-08-02	Denied	14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state	Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court can authorize a pro tem judge to exercise judicial power consistent with the Supremacy Claus…
19-5090	Frances Du Ju v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-07-05	Denied	14th-amendment 28-usc-2283 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment absolute-immunity judgment-on-the-pleadings malicious-prosecution quasi-judicial-immunity re-examination-clause amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judgment-on-pleadings judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution rooker-feldman	Whether the District Court's Rooker-Feldman doctrine, Judgment on the Pleadings, and 'copy and paste' to dismiss this Malicious Prosecution case commi…
18-1492	Katherine Miller v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-05-29	Denied	associational-freedom childcare-providers civil-rights compulsory-representation due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-relations mandatory-representation public-policy state-mandated-representation state-policy union-representation	Whether Washington's compelling nonmember providers to accept a private organization as their exclusive representative for dealing with the State over…
18-636	The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church	Virginia	2018-11-16	Dismissed	church-property civil-procedure constitutional-competence ecclesiastical-abstention establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise merger-analysis neutral-principles religious-freedom religious-organizations subject-matter-jurisdiction	Whether the trial court's determination that Grace Presbyterian was the successor church to Pure Presbyterian, which was held to have been extinguishe…
18-527	Frank Straub v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2018-10-22	Denied	at-will-employment at-will-termination constitutional-rights due-process employment free-speech government-employee government-employment internet-publication liberty-interest liberty-interests reputation stigma stigma-damage	Whether a government must provide notice and an opportunity to respond before publishing professionally crippling charges against an employee during a…
18-476	Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2018-10-15	Denied	14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent	Whether a pretrial detainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must show subjective intent or ob…
18-438	Carllene M. Placide v. Supreme Court of Washington, et al.	Washington	2018-10-05	Denied	attorney-client-relationship attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline bar-discipline constitutional-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,equal-protection,legal-pr equal-protection legal-ethics legal-practice legal-procedure procedural-fairness racial-discrimination	Whether an attorney can be deprived of his/her constitutionally protected right to practice law
18A276	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2018-09-17	Presumed Complete	None
18A274	Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al.	District of Columbia	2018-09-14	Presumed Complete	None
18A22	City of Clarkston, Washington, et al. v. Ryan J. Bonivert	Ninth Circuit	2018-07-03	Presumed Complete	None