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25-435 Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-10-09 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding, including a trade mark opposition proceeding at the United States Pate…
25A264 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete Amici (4) administrative-agency article-ii executive-power federal-trade-commission presidential-removal separation-of-powers Whether the President possesses the constitutional authority to remove a Federal Trade Commission commissioner at will without cause, notwithstanding …
25A228 United States v. Darby Development Company, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-agency fifth-amendment government-action regulatory-taking statutory-authority takings-clause Whether an administrative agency's unauthorized regulatory action that exceeds its statutory authority can constitute a compensable taking under the F…
24A696 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete administrative-agency appropriations-clause consumer-protection dodd-frank funding-structure separation-of-powers Whether the Dodd-Frank Act's funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitutio…
24-156 Leachco, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Amici (5) administrative-agency constitutional-law due-process preliminary-injunction presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers Does the for-cause restriction on the President's removal of CPSC Commissioners violate the separation of powers, and can such a violation constitute …
24-40 Leonard L. Grigsby, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-agency-finding burden-of-proof funding-exclusion independent-review judicial-review presumption-of-correctness research-activities research-and-development-tax-credit summary-judgment tax-credit Whether an administrative agency finding should be presumed correct when the agency conducted no independent review prior to filing suit
23-1124 Judson Hawkins, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Ohio 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-agency constitutional-interpretation due-process procedural-rights property-rights substantive-rights Does the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a substantive right to prevail against …
23-1127 Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Todd Heath Seventh Circuit 2024-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-agency administrative-corporation circuit-conflict circuit-split e-rate-program false-claims-act government-funding telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-of-1996 Whether reimbursement requests submitted to the E-rate program are 'claims' under the False Claims Act
23-1119 Loredana Ranza v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied adea administrative-agency civil-rights claim-preclusion discrimination extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens title-vii Does claim preclusion bar an expatriate U.S. citizen from bringing discrimination claims under the extraterritorial provisions of Title VII and the AD…
23-7094 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the …
23-7036 Brent J. Daigle v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy standing unlawful-imprisonment Can a United States District Judge deny the right of a private citizen to invoke the aid of the courts of the United States if held in unlawful impris…
23-6863 Rena Bilbro v. Education Professional Standards Board Kentucky 2024-02-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-agency administrative-hearing civil-rights due-process plea-agreement professional-conduct professional-standards right-to-counsel teacher-license-revocation teaching-license Whether a tenured teacher is entitled to appointed counsel
23A766 Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-02-22 Presumed Complete administrative-agency agency-authority jurisdictional-interpretation patent-review statutory-construction statutory-deadline Whether a statutory deadline imposed by Congress on an administrative agency is jurisdictional or merely hortatory, and the extent to which an agency …
23-620 Dominique Gerald Burns v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge procedural-due-process standing state-agency Whether the court of appeals erred in its ruling when it failed to protect the appellant's procedural due process
23-6131 Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the 'Use of a Minor' sentencing enhancem…
23-261 Henry L. Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana 2023-09-18 Denied administrative-agency administrative-procedure axon-enterprise-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review lawyer-discipline meaningful-judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct sec-v-cochran Did Louisiana ODC violate Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran principles by having a single deputy assume all prosecutorial and adjudicatory rol…
22-948 Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County Medical Care Facility, et al. Michigan 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law contract-clause due-process earned-compensation equal-protection paid-time-off tax-evasion wage-and-hour Did the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division violate the US Constitution Contract Clause when it used the Michigan P.W.F.B.A st…
22-543 Altagracia Sanchez, et al. v. District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2022-12-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law due-process economic-liberty individual-rights judicial-deference nondelegation-doctrine occupational-licensing regulatory-authority Does the Due Process Clause require complete and total judicial deference to these regulations?
22-337 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District Florida 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law county-judge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process florida-statute florida-statutes judicial-assignment state-circuit-court trial-by-jury Whether a county judge can be elevated to permanent state circuit court duty outside his county solely by assignment of a state circuit judge, ignorin…
22-5312 Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, is habeas corpus still the remedy to correct the judgment entry of commitment when …
21-8194 Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley Whether a state administrative agency can deny access to publications protected by the First Amendment based on incarceration status
21-1346 Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, et al. v. Central Maine Power Company Maine 2022-04-12 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law civil-procedure federal-aviation-administration federal-preemption judicial-review no-hazard-determination regulatory-determination state-law Whether the issuance of a non-binding 'No Hazard Determination' by the Federal Aviation Administration preempts the application of state law, despite …
21-1124 National Postal Policy Council, et al. v. Postal Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied administrative-agency congressional-delegation congressional-power nondelegation-doctrine postal-accountability-and-enhancement-act postal-rate-setting regulatory-commission statutory-requirements Whether the nondelegation doctrine should be disallow Congress from transferring to a federal agency the power to rewrite the postal rate-setting syst…
21-974 Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. v. Tony K. McDonald, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech-clause government-speech judicial-department keller-v-state-bar overrule-precedent state-bar Whether the State Bar of Texas qualifies as a government agency for purposes of the government speech doctrine
21-693 Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act Whether a state administrative agency lacking federal jurisdiction can be assigned authority of a state court of record
20-1722 Damian Cruz v. Glenda I. Lebron Vazquez Puerto Rico 2021-06-11 Denied administrative-agency civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-personam-jurisdiction interstate-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of t…
20-1288 Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied administrative-agency americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-violations third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), where the record…
20-1094 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law agency-determination civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review methodology procedural-fairness retroactive-application retroactive-methodology Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject of an agency determination for fail…
20-563 Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC Texas 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su…
20-410 NTCH, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-29 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law agency-discretion auction auction-integrity cash-payments integrity public-interest regulatory-agency regulatory-benefits rule-making Whether an administrative agency may accept cash payments in exchange for granting regulatory benefits required to be granted solely on relevant publi…
19-1124 Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other circui…
19-6851 Lena Lasher v. Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-agency administrative-discretion civil-rights due-process equal-protection ethnic-discrimination independent-agency independent-review licensing pharmacist pharmacy-licensing state-board-of-pharmacy witness-credibility Did the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy (NE BOP) err by not acting independently in considering the matter concerning the appellant's pharmacist license on…
19-5602 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the petitioner's federal habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 rather than under Titl…
18A1265 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete administrative-agency equal-employment federal-employment pro-se-litigation retaliation workplace-discrimination Whether federal administrative agencies can engage in workplace discrimination and retaliation against employees without legal recourse
18-1429 Stahl York Ave. Co., LLC v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2019-05-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law due-process fact-findings fifth-amendment independent-judicial-fact-finding independent-judicial-factfinding judicial-review just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Whether a property owner suing an administrative agency for violating the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is entitled to develop the facts suppo…
18-1141 Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine New Hampshire 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr…
18-717 PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes?