| 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 |
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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? |