administrative-discretion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A748 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Application administrative-discretion agency-rulemaking hydrofluorocarbons legislative-power nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25A647 HMTX Industries, LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-12-03 Application administrative-discretion china-trade section-301 tariff-authority trade-act trade-representative Question not identified.
25A326 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. National TPS Alliance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete Amici (4) administrative-discretion homeland-security judicial-review statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status tps-termination Question not identified.
25A266 Amanda Luz Marin, aka Amanda L. Leon v. Gaston Leon Nevada 2025-09-05 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion alternate-payee due-process judicial-review qdro-modification retirement-benefits Question not identified.
24A910 Department of Education, et al. v. California, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-discretion district-court-jurisdiction executive-power federal-grants judicial-review separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24A516 In Re Martin Akerman District of Columbia 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion automated-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-safeguards This case presents urgent and significant constitutional questions about the intersection of automated enforcement systems, due process, and fundament…
22-7212 In Re Solomon Roberts 2023-04-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-discretion pluralist-rule standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
22-922 Ryan J. Welter v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-03-22 Denied administrative-discretion capacity-to-deceive career-ending-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-materiality-harm misleading-statements occupational-licensing When a Legislature delegates authority to an occupational licensing board to prohibit "misleading" statements and conduct with "the capacity to deceiv…
22-795 Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America Eighth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation 1. Whether , in this denial of benefits case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. , the cour…
21-954 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Judgment Issued Amici (24) administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy due-process homeland-security immigration-law immigration-policy judicial-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP. 2. Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the Secretary's new deci…
21-656 John Oirya v. Brigham Young University Tenth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied 10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix 1. Should this Court amend its holding in Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565, 579 (1975), and require federal courts to review the disciplinary decision of a…
20-1156 Alan H. Olefsky v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, et al. Illinois 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-review disciplinary-action due-process medical-license medical-license-suspension mitigating-circumstances past-discipline 1. Whether the IDFPR's Final Order indefinitely suspending Petitioner's medical license for two years pursuant to the first order on remand, or one ye…
20-850 Big Time Vapes, Incorporated, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Amici (2) administrative-discretion administrative-law constitutional-limits executive-authority executive-power legislative-authority legislative-delegation non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers tobacco-control-act tobacco-product-regulation Whether Petitioners have stated a claim that § 387a(b) grants excessive policymaking discretion to the executive branch to determine which tobacco pro…
20-378 North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that "two other courts" upheld the administrator's int…
20-41 Warren Wexler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion administrative-law attending-physician discretion jurisdiction medical-evaluation occupational-injury periodic-report second-opinion workers-compensation Whether it is within the OWCP's (Office of Workers' Compensation Programs) discretion to not request a periodic report from the AP (attending physicia…
19-7763 Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation DOES THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS EXCEED THE STATUTORY AUTHORITY CONFERRED UPON THE AGENCY BY CONGRESS IN 18 U.S.C. § 3585(a), WHEN IT COMMENCES A …
19-7296 In Re Gilbert M. Martinez 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law disability-benefits due-process evidence gerd medical-evidence property-tax-exemption rheumatoid-arthritis social-security social-security-administration-discretion social-security-disability Did the Social Security Administration abuse its discretion holding that plaintiff is ineligible for Social Security disability benefits after claiman…
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 1. Did the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy (NE BOP) erred by not acting independently in considering the matter at hand concerning the appellant's pharmaci…
19-6416 Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention 1) WHETHER THE FEDERAL AGENT ROW (PARTY WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ASTHMA CAN BE TORTURED IN CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS BY EXPOSURE TO OLEORESI…
19-551 Ronald Calzone v. Eric Olson, Superintendent, Missouri State Highway Patrol Eighth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-discretion civil-rights closely-regulated-industry constitutional-rights fourth-amendment search-and-seizure seizure warrantless-search 1) Does the "closely regulated industry" exception to the Fourth Amendment apply to persons who have not chosen to involve themselves in any business …
18-1498 UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al. v. Louis J. Peterson, on Behalf of Patients E, I, K, L, N, P, Q, and R, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed administrative-discretion circuit-split deferential-judicial-review erisa-plan-administration erisa-plan-interpretation firestone-deference firestone-standard firestone-standard-of-review judicial-review plan-construction plan-interpretation plan-silence remedial-actions standard-of-review This Court held in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101 (1989), that a highly deferential standard of judicial review applies to interpr…