| 25-6448 |
Torrence Belcher v. Terri Hale, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights state-law |
Whether intervening circumstances affect the continuing validity of a legal rule or policy in the context of prisoner rights and constitutional protec… |
| 24-5185 |
George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights |
Does the US government's mass collection of private banking data violate the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments? |
| 23-7535 |
Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness |
Whether a COA should issue due to federal enforcement of §1591 to local pandering and prostitution cases |
| 22-7403 |
Anthony Carl Eccarius v. Mendocino County Social Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equity federalism judicial-review legal-standing power-in-equity standing tenth-amendment |
Shall the People exclude a single citizen's 10th Amendment power in equity? |
| 22-7274 |
Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene |
Whether the United States District Court violated the claimant's inalienable rights to due process and equal protection under the law within the meani… |
| 22-7027 |
Lester Barnett v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner |
Was it unconstitutional for them to convict petitioner for a safecracking that happened while petitioner was confined at Mecklenburg County Jail on th… |
| 22-661 |
David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the right to marry to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
| 21-966 |
New York, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
|
10th-amendment 16th-amendment article-1-section-8 constitutional-limits federal-taxation federalism-principles legislative-power sovereign-authority state-sovereignty state-taxes tax-deduction tax-policy |
Whether Congress's imposition of a $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction violates Article I, Section 8 and the Tenth and Sixteenth Amendments of the Unite… |
| 21-376 |
Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (5) |
10th-amendment anticommandeering article-iii-standing equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act placement-preferences recordkeeping standing tenth-amendment |
Whether ICWA provisions violate the anticommandeering doctrine |
| 21-5442 |
Jasper Crook v. Robin Shea |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation-claim equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation treason-allegation |
If beneficiaries of the United States Constitution have the right to prosecute in their own name under Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution |
| 20-6885 |
David Alan Vogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment |
Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appealabil… |
| 20-5332 |
William David Bush v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment |
Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code declares supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, under what circumstances does Article X not appl… |
| 20-153 |
Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress |
Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D 42 U.S.C 654(3) contractors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th amendment protections unde… |
| 19-6436 |
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment |
Are federal agencies exempt from complying with the Tenth Amendment such that they can deem State law 'irrelevant' and violate the individual rights o… |
| 19-6240 |
John Lee Norris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction judicial-standing plea-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause |
Whether the United States Court's for the Eighth circuit has failed to adhere to the accepted and usual course of Judicial proceedings |
| 18-8905 |
Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to asset seizures by state and local governments |
| 18-8823 |
Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure |
Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights |
| 18-8236 |
Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States District Court/United States Court of Appeals violated the 10th Amendments of the United States Constitution when they creat… |
| 18-735 |
Maricopa County, Arizona v. Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (7) |
10th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contempt-powers county-authority-under-state-law federal-courts federalism federalism-limits-on-federal-courts final-policymaker guarantee-clause mcmillian-precedent rizzo-v-goode sovereign-prerogatives tenth-amendment |
Are sheriffs 'final policymakers' under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for their counties with regard to law enforcement? |
| 18-6499 |
Dominique Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-agents federal-government fourth-amendment home-arrest standing tenth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether an individual can challenge a warrantless arrest inside a home by federal government agents under the 4th Amendment |
| 18-5858 |
Lance Edward Gloor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment |
Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated? |