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25-6760 Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days?
25-6738 Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP administrative-law federal-prisoner-rights federal-tort-claims-act fiduciary-responsibility inmate-property-loss little-tucker-act Whether the substantive law of 28 CFR §14.1 et seq. and 28 CFR §543.30 et seq. qualifies for the Little Tucker Act under United States V. Mitchell for…
25-6745 Linda Sun v. D.C. Office of Employee Appeals, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-06 Pending IFP administrative-law due-process fraud-on-court judicial-integrity mandate-rule party-presentation Whether a court's inherent power to set aside a judgment for fraud on the court is subject to a 'reasonable time' limitation when an adjudicator inten…
25-933 Daniel N. Arbeeny, as the Administrator for the Estate of Norman Arbeeny, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights covid-directive nursing-home-deaths qualified-immunity state-actors Whether the Second Circuit erred in concluding that state officials could not have comprehended the potential rights violations in the COVID-19 nursin…
25-924 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review presentment-clause res-judicata vaccine-compensation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding res judicata effect for special masters' findings in Vaccine Injury Compensation Plan claims and in uphold…
25-6675 Paul Wright v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law disability-claims judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-jurisdiction veterans-benefits Is an impacted veteran entitled to judicial review of a definitive decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assert jurisdiction under 38 U.S.C…
25-887 Sauer West LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law interim-trail-use physical-taking property-rights surface-transportation-board trails-act Whether the Surface Transportation Board's issuance of a Notice of Interim Trail Use and accompanying authorization of recreational trail use triggers…
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when determi…
25-6646 Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while dismissing unrebutted record evidence as 'unpersuasive,' without provi…
25-879 American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to an agency's legal interpretation of a statute despite the Supreme Court's holding in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,…
25-6628 Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending IFP administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order without a hearing violates due process and procedural requirements
25-794 Jordan Spatz v. Regents of the University of California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights intentional-discrimination medical-residency private-right-of-action Does the 1975 Age Discrimination Act apply to medical residency match applications and permit private right of action for age discrimination?
25-783 Sonia Hernandez Caruso v. Texas Medical Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending administrative-law due-process medical-licensing notice-requirements professional-discipline sovereign-immunity Whether the Texas Medical Board's actions in denying and restricting Dr. Caruso's medical license violated her due process rights under the Fourteenth…
25-763 PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court should summarily reverse and remand a Fourth Circuit case in light of Loper Bright Enterprises and Chevron deference overrul…
25-762 Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency Did FinCEN exceed its statutory authority by interpreting 'funds' in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to require registration of virtual currency businesses before co…
25-746 Carvin L. Thomas, et al. v. Roberta Kustoff, Chairman, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights liberty-rights parole-interest procedural-due-process tennessee-law Does a parole applicant in Tennessee have a liberty interest based on the expectation of parole?
25-722 Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-disclosure foia-exemptions government-transparency national-security records-search Does FOIA allow agencies to refuse to confirm or deny the existence of responsive records when invoking statutory exemptions, and may they do so witho…
25-6370 Evelyn Courtney v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-employment mspb-jurisdiction prohibited-personnel-practices Why will the MSPB not take jurisdiction over the petitioner's request for grievance involving prohibited personnel practices, threats to safety, and v…
25-659 Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence Whether the clandestine replacement of a Jewish Administrative Law Judge with a Muslim ALJ was prejudicial and violated due process rights, and whethe…
25-652 Patricia J. Curto v. Erie County Water Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process notice-requirements procedural-fairness water-service-termination Whether the Erie County Water Authority's alleged notice procedures violated due process rights when terminating water service to a customer based on …
25-6282 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process homeland-security labor-department osha-complaint whistleblower-protection Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings and erroneously dismissed the petitioner's AIR21…
25-627 Macy's Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law circuit-split labor-board nlra pecuniary-damages unfair-labor-practice Whether the National Labor Relations Board has statutory or constitutional authority to order employers to pay pecuniary harms resulting from an alleg…
25-609 Clinton Siples v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-11-25 Pending Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law agency-decision clear-unmistakable-error judicial-review legal-interpretation veterans-benefits To establish 'clear and unmistakable error' based on legal error, must a veteran show that there was an error of law at the time of the challenged dec…
25-608 Cambra L. Lucas v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board overpayment-recovery statutory-jurisdiction Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) violated its statutory jurisdiction and due process obligations by failing to provide adequate notic…
25-6174 Jill Capobianco v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security Does an ALJ have the authority to disregard all claimant medical evidence supporting disability, relying solely on Agency sources for determination?
25-6184 Albert Jackson v. Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review longshore-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an Administrative Law Judge can lawfully review, modify, and terminate a previously adjudicated Longshore Harbor Workers' Act claim without fo…
25-589 Robert B. Mitchell v. General Motors LLC Michigan 2025-11-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-requirements due-process hearing-procedure substantial-evidence willful-blindness Whether the administrative law judge erred in not ruling GM's avoidance of agency requirements violated due process and lacked substantial evidence
25-586 Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights by terminating employment without a full and fair investigation
25-6112 Luke Masood Arabzadegan v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court-discretion criminal-case filing-fee judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the 05th Circuit Court of Appeals and Travis County District Clerk's Office abused their discretion in filing and fee requirements for a crimi…
25A538 Village of Scarsdale, New York v. Scott Bessent, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-07 Application administrative-law charitable-contributions chevron-deference internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation tax-deduction Whether the Supreme Court should overturn an agency regulation interpreting Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code that limits charitable tax deduct…
25-555 SurfCast, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue 'opinion[s]' in PTAB appeals, is a reasoning giving directive that prohibits the …
25-6047 Peter Bormuth v. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, aka EGLE Michigan 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law due-process precedent religious-freedom standing Does the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause require state administrative tribunals to follow their own clearly established precedent? Do religious beli…
25-6048 Mark Brentley, Sr. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-service-commission federal-jurisdiction property-rights Whether the federal court has jurisdiction over the Civil Service Commission and can appeal based on 14th Amendment property loss
25-6038 Daniel Stewart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Pending IFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Pursuant to Kisor, are courts obligated first to determine whether a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before affording deference to the Sentencing Co…
25-535 Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III Arkansas 2025-11-03 Denied Amici (5) administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the Spending Clause can make private conduct illegal absent a clear congressional intent beyond federal fundin…
25A490 Kimberly Hanley, et al. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Pennsylvania 2025-10-29 Application administrative-law advanced-metering due-process federal-preemption privacy-rights utility-regulation Whether state administrative utility policy decisions can conflict with federal statutes governing advanced metering infrastructure and raise constitu…
25-482 Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law compensation-benefits disability-claims pension-benefits va-regulations veterans-benefits Whether the VA must process a disability claim as a claim for both pension and compensation if the veteran has a possible entitlement to both benefits…
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-06 Granted administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions governing FCC monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Amendment and Article III
25-5808 In Re David C. White 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation dam-removal judicial-discretion loper-bright pro-se-litigation Whether hydroelectric dams can be removed without Congressional consent and whether courts can dismiss cases as frivolous without thorough investigati…
25A392 Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether 38 U.S.C. § 503 permits equitable relief for veterans when a VA Regional Office commits clear and unmistakable error in adjudicating a benefit…
25-379 Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law article-three-standing election-integrity public-records statutory-interpretation voter-registration Did the appellate court err in applying TransUnion standing analysis to a public records request under the National Voter Registration Act?
25-367 Todd M. Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, et al. v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-governance executive-authority federal-courts removal-power separation-of-powers Whether Congress can constitutionally limit the Executive's authority to remove members of the National Credit Union Administration Board and whether …
25-369 United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference chevron-doctrine federal-officer-removal judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo permits judicial review of agency statutory interpretation and Chevron deference precedent
25-5725 In Re David C. White 2025-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law affirmative-action agenda-21 due-process educational-priority judicial-immunity Whether United States citizens shall be given priority over foreign students for participation in doctoral programs of public educational institutions
25-345 Ivy Darlene Johnson v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law disability-determination due-process medical-evidence residual-functional-capacity social-security Whether an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) violates a claimant's due process rights by omitting or discounting documented medical evidence when determi…
25A312 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Lisa D. Cook, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System District of Columbia 2025-09-18 Application Amici (25) administrative-law due-process federal-reserve fifth-amendment for-cause presidential-removal Whether the President's power to remove a Federal Reserve Board member 'for cause' encompasses discretionary judgment about an appointee's prior finan…
25-312 Cathy Harris v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-17 Pending administrative-law for-cause-removal merit-systems-protection-board presidential-authority removal-power separation-of-powers Whether Congress may provide by statute that members of the Merit Systems Protection Board may be removed by the President only for specific causes
25-313 Chinook Indian Nation, et al. v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law court-recognition federal-jurisdiction indian-law statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition Does a federal court have jurisdiction to recognize the existence of an Indian tribe where the findings in the Indian Tribe List Act provide that 'Ind…
25-319 Gwynne A. Wilcox v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-17 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law federal-courts nlrb removal-power separation-of-powers May Congress constitutionally limit removal of NLRB members to cases of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, and do federal district courts have …
25-5656 Kara Sternquist, aka Cara Sandiego, aka Kara Withersea v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional for permanently disarming citizens with remote, nonviolent prior felony convictions and whether ATF'…
25-5660 In Re David C. White 2025-09-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity loper-bright pro-se-litigation Whether U.S. courts systematically violate due process and judicial conduct through administrative law and summary judgment procedures in pro se litig…
25A304 Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law chevron-deference fda-regulation market-exclusivity orphan-drug-act statutory-interpretation Whether Congress implicitly ratified an FDA regulatory interpretation of the Orphan Drug Act's market exclusivity provision when it amended the statut…
25-5606 Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-ii ada-title-v administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment university-discipline Whether the Due Process Clause permits a 13-day interim suspension without notice or an exigency claim that merged into an eight-month suspension, usi…
25-5617 Magdoulen A. Sawires v. Elizabeth Board of Education, et al. New Jersey 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation teacher-dismissal whistleblower-protection Whether a public school teacher can be dismissed without prior investigation under New Jersey employment law
25-278 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District Florida 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process eminent-domain government-overreach property-rights takings-clause Whether the government violated the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause by leveraging a permitting monopoly to foreclose on private property
25-264 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether a 'contributing factor' in Section 42121(b) is one that 'alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of …
25-5495 Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights judicial-accountability procedural-fairness Whether the Supreme Court should provide counsel for an indigent plaintiff and hold the judiciary accountable for potential due process violations in …
25-227 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor and Loper Bright constrain the deference courts may accord the Sentencing Commission's inter…
25-5473 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2025-08-26 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-obstruction material-errors Whether the judicial review of material errors can be obstructed
25A190 United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete administrative-law chevron-deference labor-law nlrb prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the National Labor Relations Act permits the NLRB's General Counsel to unilaterally dismiss an administrative complaint while a dispositive mo…
25-5360 Rachel Goode v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law judicial-review law-of-case mandate-rule remand social-security Where a District Court remands a Social Security Administration decision addressing a specific error not related to residual functional capacity, does…
25-5361 Rita Arguijo Garcia v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-council due-process equal-protection filing-date social-security Whether Social Security regulations that permit a claimant to submit new evidence to the Appeals Council and receive a protective filing date violate …
25-175 In Re Andy Desty 2025-08-13 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power separation-of-powers Whether the Georgia Department of Human Services/Child Support Services violated constitutional due process rights through administrative hearings and…
25-149 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision arbitrary-capricious patent-challenge patent-trial-appeal-board Whether an agency decision is arbitrary and capricious when it fails to justify a different result reached on saliently similar facts, but involving a…
25-5298 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether a federal employee's speech reporting unsafe conditions and potential misconduct is protected under the First Amendment and whether agency ret…
25A149 Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete administrative-law compensation-benefits pension-benefits statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-benefits Whether a VA regulation requiring the agency to award the greater benefit to veterans unless they specifically elect the lesser benefit creates a mand…
25-97 Susan M. Smith v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's frivolous docket notice and whether a good faith defense shields defendants from dam…
25A103 National Institutes of Health, et al. v. American Public Health Association, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law agency-discretion grant-termination judicial-review research-funding subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal agencies have unreviewable discretion to terminate scientific research grants without providing specific justification or adhering to …
25-74 Sullivan Equity Partners, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-law due-process england-reservation pullman-abstention takings-clause Whether a property owner can pursue a 42 USC §1983 claim and constitutional takings claim in federal court after state court proceedings involving all…
25-66 Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math & Science High School, et al. v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. California 2025-07-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-employers union-membership Whether the government-speech doctrine allows states to categorically prohibit public employer agents and employees from sharing disfavored views cons…
25-5114 Emiliano Nava Munoz v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference judicial-precedent legal-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-doctrine Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie abrogated or overruled its earlier decision in Stinson v. United States
25-5118 George Hamilton v. California Department of General Services, Government Claims Program, et al. California 2025-07-15 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process government-claims mental-health-claims procedural-safeguards Does the Office of General Services' Government Claims Program violate due process by failing to process mental health claims filed by petitioner?
25A39 Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit 2025-07-10 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors…
25-5059 James R. Lowe v. North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance North Dakota 2025-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law insurance-liability medical-benefits pre-existing-conditions workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether Workforce Safety and Insurance can deny continued medical benefits for a work-related injury based on alleged pre-existing conditions
25-5033 Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-07 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes habeas-corpus prisoner-rights Question not identified.
24-1312 James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re…
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t…
24-1262 RDFS, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-authority certificate-issuance judicial-review natural-gas-act statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may defer to FERC on the threshold question of FERC's authority to issue blanket certificates without determining the legal…
24-1257 Martin Akerman v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-06-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law automated-enforcement confrontation-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-irregularities Whether the use of automated systems like 'Speed Camera Doe' for issuing citations without human oversight violates procedural due process protections…
24A1203 Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. First Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court exceeded its Article III jurisdiction by enjoining the Executive Branch's internal workforce management decisions at the De…
24-1253 Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations Whether the CMS Rule 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n) is constitutional according to conflicting Circuit Court interpretations
24-7366 Damien Deshawn Pugh v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security supplemental-security-income Whether social security applicants are unfairly subjected to political opinions that deviate from medical facts in disability determinations
24-1233 John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-discretion due-process regulatory-standard retroactive-application whistleblower-award Whether an agency can deny a whistleblower award by applying a new regulatory standard retroactively, after the whistleblower's claim has fully mature…
24-1221 Susan Neese, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied administrative-law article-iii-standing federal-funding healthcare-discrimination mootness summary-vacatur Should the Court summarily vacate the court of appeals' judgment under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., and remand with instructions to dismiss the…
24-1187 Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion drug-approval fda-regulation medical-innovation statutory-interpretation Whether FDA has acted contrary to its statutory mandate by substituting an evaluation of a drug development program's potential for assessing a new dr…
24-7265 Myron Dreun Cook v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law federal-guidelines judicial-deference precedent-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deference due to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines?
24-1150 Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether the burden of proof in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint is prima facie or preponderance of evidence
24-7154 Michele Kimberly Harris, et vir v. Springfield Housing Authority, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP administrative-law billing-dispute civil-rights fair-housing-act forma-pauperis judicial-procedure Whether Judge Beth Phillips correctly ruled on a forma pauperis application and applied appropriate case law in a civil rights dispute involving city …
24-7105 Andre Johnson v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law census civil-rights constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-7039 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the United States federal courts have jurisdiction over habeas corpus proceedings under 40 CFR
24-1080 Suzanne Gifford, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Michael Gifford v. Operating Engineers 139 Health Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure discovery-limitations erisa fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion Whether courts may effectively preclude ERISA plaintiffs from engaging in any discovery and whether plan administrators' fiduciary obligations require…
24-7006 Owen Marlon Alexander v. Andreea Gleeson, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct Are State and Federal Judges above the law, and do constitutional rights apply to a nationalized citizen experiencing alleged systemic abuse?
24-1074 Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law agency-order federal-preemption judicial-review regulatory-interpretation wholesale-tariff Whether the preemptive effect of a federal agency's order is an issue for courts to decide and cannot be controlled by the agency's opinion, or lack o…
24-6965 Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on post-conduct agency guidance lacking statutory authority?
24-6844 In Re Gayle George 2025-03-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-procedure congressional-oversight constitutional-authority dc-home-rule judicial-review Whether the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is an agency subject to congressional oversight under the DC Home Rule Act, and whether the DC …
24-1019 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-24 Denied administrative-law declaratory-relief federal-indian-law injunctive-relief mandamus tribal-recognition Whether the Supreme Court can review administrative tribal recognition under the List Act and determine the appropriate judicial remedy for lack of ad…
24-6804 Lawrence White v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-decision judicial-review mail-notification procedural-compliance proof-of-service Whether the Court of Appeals improperly evaluated agency decision-making regarding proof of monetary receipt and mailing responses
24-977 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation v. Doris Albrecht, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law drug-preemption fda-regulation pharmaceutical-liability state-law-liability warning-label Whether a pharmaceutical manufacturer can be held liable under state law for failure to warn when the FDA formally denies a proposed warning label cha…
24-971 Seafreeze Shoreside, Inc., et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference environmental-policy judicial-review offshore-energy statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit's decision improperly defers to agency interpretations of federal statutes in violation of recent Supreme Court precedent
24-6712 David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bivens-action document-production habeas-corpus judicial-review title-5 Whether a habeas corpus petition can be used to challenge administrative actions under Title 5 U.S.C. § 706 and invoke a Bivens cause of action for do…
24-6706 Lisa Ann Deweese v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law child-welfare civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability Whether Child Protective Services systematically violates constitutional rights and fails to protect children
24-943 Fares Jeries Rabadi v. Drug Enforcement Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied administrative-law article-ii dea-judges removal-power separation-of-powers take-care-clause Whether the Drug Enforcement Administration's Administrative Law Judges are unconstitutionally insulated from removal in violation of the Take Care Cl…
24-904 Alpine Securities Corporation v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2025-02-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law constitutional-structure finra-enforcement non-delegation-doctrine prosecutorial-discretion securities-regulation Whether an enforcement proceeding by a constitutionally illegitimate actor constitutes irreparable injury and whether FINRA's structure violates const…
24-866 Converter Manufacturing, LLC v. Tekni-Plex, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied administrative-law burden-of-proof patent-enablement patent-validity prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether the patent challenger bears the burden of proving enablement of prior art under Sections 102 and 103 of the Patent Act
24-6526 Samreen Farid Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2025-02-10 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-rights dental-board due-process judicial-discretion Did the Supreme Court of California abuse discretion and show bias in denying multiple petitions related to a dental board administrative proceeding i…
24-6534 Keith Robert Lugo v. California California 2025-02-10 Denied IFP administrative-law chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Enterprises ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine constitutes mandatory authority for California correction…
24-6473 Joshua Gunnar Olson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law claim-construction federal-circuit judicial-review patent-law patent-procedure Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted the scope of patent-related claims and standards of review for administrative patent determinations
24-6475 Charlene A. Greene-Rodriguez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. Puerto Rico 2025-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection tenure-rights Can the Judiciary of Puerto Rico deprive a U.S. citizen of due process by denying equal protection and issuing decisions without basing them on the U.…
24-6445 Neelam Uppal v. Florida Department of Administrative Hearings, et al. Florida 2025-02-03 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violations due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-review Did the Florida Supreme Court err in dismissing the appeal and consequently failed to address the constitutional violations raised
24-790 Laura Akahoshi, former Chief Compliance Officer v. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-review due-process enforcement-action judicial-review standing Does the target of an OCC enforcement action have standing to petition for meaningful federal court review of agency orders where the final decision c…
24-777 Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General First Circuit 2025-01-23 Granted Amici (9)Relisted (2) administrative-law asylum-eligibility board-of-immigration-appeals immigration-law judicial-review refugee-status Whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the BIA's judgment that a given set of undisputed facts does not demonstrate mistreatment severe enou…
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the SEC v. Chenery Corp. rule to Black Lung Benefits Act cases, contrary to other circuit court interpretati…
24A724 Johnny Copper, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-23 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-overreach fda-regulation procedural-due-process regulatory-burden statutory-interpretation Whether the FDA exceeded its statutory authority in issuing a regulatory order that imposes substantial burdens on a regulated entity without providin…
24-6334 John Fredenburgh v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe…
24-767 Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Sixth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference nlrb-review presidential-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Does this Court's deferential standard of review for NLRB interpretations of the NLRA survive Loper Bright?
24-744 Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. Iowa 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-quality statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection clauses apply to administrative law and statutory interpretation in healthcare quali…
24-6220 John F. Policastro v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-01-02 Denied IFP administrative-law cares-act disability-rights due-process equal-protection nevada-constitution Did the Nevada courts purposely ignore facts related to CARES Act emergency pandemic benefits fund improprieties by the State of Nevada?
24-698 Rose Ann Kimble-Davis v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review beneficiary-designation due-process evidence-standard opm-procedure Whether an agency or court can determine an individual is not a designated beneficiary without providing the claimed beneficiary with the appropriate …
24-696 Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company Limited v. Wheatland Tube Company Federal Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied administrative-law antidumping-duties commerce-clause judicial-review material-injury scope-ruling Did the court below err by deferring to Commerce in material injury determinations and may Commerce use scope rulings to assess antidumping duties?
24-693 Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-penalties judicial-review regulatory-compliance Whether judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act for agency notices of violation is unavailable until the agency takes formal enforcemen…
24-6206 Anthony Bowden, Sr. v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process federal-employment merit-system-protection-board reasonable-accommodation Whether the Merit System Protection Board's decision discriminated against a person with a disability and disregarded Mr. Bowden's arguments due to me…
24-659 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-interpretation income-tax tax-deficiency territory-clause uniformity-clause Did Puerto Rico become an incorporated Territory subject to the Uniformity Clause for federal income tax collection, and did the Commissioner of Inter…
24A599 Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process federalism regulatory-board state-sovereignty Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state regulatory boards from including industry representatives when there is no evidence of actual bias or p…
24A580 Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. Raymond Lofstad, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation fishery-management regional-council significant-authority Whether members of a Regional Fishery Management Council are 'Officers of the United States' subject to the Appointments Clause when they exercise adv…
24-6127 Jocelyn Lisa Doyle v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law employment-discrimination judicial-review prohibited-personnel-practice reinstatement whistleblower-protection Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Whistleblower Protection Enforcement Act by improperly dismissing a whistleblower's claims of retaliation an…
24-6094 Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts can review challenges to immigration detention decisions under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii)
24-604 Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend…
24A521 Kane County, Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete administrative-law federal-lands historical-access land-management public-lands right-of-way Whether federal land management agencies can restrict local government access to and use of historical roads and trails on federal lands under the Rev…
24-564 QYK Brands LLC, dba Glowyy v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chevron-doctrine federal-trade-commission judicial-review summary-judgment Whether in the post-Chevron era, a district court can issue a permanent lifetime ban through summary judgment by deferring to the FTC's interpretation…
24-5983 Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law evidence-tampering fruit-of-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation veterans-claims Whether the CAVC and CAFC improperly dismissed allegations of evidence tampering and government misconduct in a veterans' disability claim
24-536 M&T Farms v. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference farming-activity statutory-interpretation whole-farm-revenue-protection Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding Auer deference to the FCIC's retroactive interpretation of coverage under the Whole-Farm Revenue Protecti…
24-5965 David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules Whether a judge can improperly restrict court filings and impede access to judicial process
24-518 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue 'opinion[s]' in PTAB appeals, is a reason-giving directive that prohibits the Fed…
24-5914 Anthony Perry v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-service discrimination-claim due-process jurisdictional-review mixed-case-appeal Whether the D.C. Circuit Court's dismissal of a mixed case appeal without an evidentiary hearing violates due process and prevents judicial review of …
24-489 Gulf Coast Racing, L.L.C., et al. v. Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 GVR Relisted (3) administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-separation-of-powers industry-regulation non-delegation-doctrine regulatory-authority Whether Congress can empower a private nonprofit entity to regulate an entire industry through rulemaking and enforcement without proper constitutiona…
24A433 Panoche Energy Center, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law epa-permit monitoring-well property-rights statutory-interpretation underground-injection Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority by imposing a monitoring condition on an underground injection control pe…
24-475 Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied administrative-law agency-discretion health-insurance non-delegation-doctrine preventive-services statutory-interpretation Does 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(1)–(4) violate the non-delegation doctrine by empowering agencies to unilaterally decree preventive care coverage without…
24-472 National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. v. Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law constitutional-law legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine private-corporation separation-of-powers Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to a private corporation
24-474 Food and Drug Administration v. SWT Global Supply, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious-standard e-cigarette-products fda-authorization public-health tobacco-control-act Whether the court of appeals erred in setting aside FDA's denial orders as arbitrary and capricious
24A405 Robert Kennedy v. Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete administrative-law ballot-access constitutional-rights election-law presidential-candidate state-election-procedure Whether a state election official can remove a presidential candidate's name from the ballot after previously certifying the candidate based on allege…
24-465 Texas, et al. v. Jerry Black, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-24 GVR Relisted (3) administrative-law constitutional-authority federal-trade-commission legislative-delegation private-rulemaking separation-of-powers Whether Congress unconstitutionally delegated legislative authority to a private entity in the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA)
24-5812 Timothy Robert Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure precedent statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-446 Roobina Zadoorian v. Gwinnett Technical College, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action contract-interpretation spending-clause statute-of-limitations title-vi Does the U.S. Supreme Court characterize Title VI and other Spending Clause Statutes as 'Contract' or 'Personal Injury', and what is the appropriate s…
24-452 Louis Frantzis v. Todd B. Hunter, Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law board-of-veterans-appeals credibility-determination due-process hearing-procedure veterans-benefits Whether a Board member who conducts a veterans benefits hearing must be the same Board member who makes the credibility determination in the claim
24-5802 Burford Earl Frederick v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection medical-examination veterans-rights Whether a serviceman's overlooked SHA medical exam at discharge constitutes a Grave Prejudicial Error violating Due Process under the Fifth Amendment …
24-5803 Sharif A. Eltawil v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5805 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP administrative-law class-action public-safety standing statutory-warning texas-dps Whether Petitioner and similarly situated class members lack standing to challenge Statutory Warning DIC-24 Department of Public Safety forms promulga…
24-437 Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-18 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (2) abortion-regulation administrative-law federal-agency funding-condition spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether a federal agency can impose funding conditions on states under the Spending Clause when the underlying statute is ambiguous
24-433 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-17 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the doctrine of separation of power…
24-423 Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar Alabama 2024-10-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process equal-protection law-license-revocation Whether the Alabama Supreme Court justices violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights by affirming a state regulatory agency's decision to perman…
24-429 Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 GVR Relisted (3) administrative-law federal-trade-commission horseracing-regulation nondelegation-doctrine private-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 violate the private nondelegation doctrine
24A357 Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States District of Columbia 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-investigation criminal-procedure government-forms obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1519's prohibition on obstructing agency 'proper administration of a matter' encompasses routine administrative paperwork review or…
24-420 Bill H. Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-15 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-law constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-trade-commission private-enforcement rulemaking-authority Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act unlawfully delegates enforcement and rulemaking power to a private corporation
24-422 Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-authority contribution-rates nondelegation-doctrine telecommunications-act universal-service Whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the FCC to determine universal service contribution rates
24-412 George Kralik v. New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development, et al. New York 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action due-process statutory-interpretation tenant-rights Whether an administrative agency's prolonged inaction and failure to provide a hearing on a tenant's succession application violates due process right…
24A335 Adis Kovac, et al. v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-08 Presumed Complete administrative-law civil-liberties congressional-authorization major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation terrorist-watchlist Whether the major-questions doctrine requires clear congressional authorization for the government to maintain a standardless terrorist watchlist that…
24-5703 Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-action discrimination-claims judicial-review procedural-due-process whistleblower-protection Whether the district court improperly dismissed a pro se plaintiff's administrative law claims challenging the International Holocaust Remembrance All…
24-381 Jane Churchon v. Sutter Valley Hospitals California 2024-10-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-complaint employee-rights garmon-doctrine labor-law nlrb-preemption Whether the Court should overrule Garmon or clarify that factual overlap between a civil complaint and an NLRB complaint is insufficient to invoke Gar…
24-5697 Frank Deville v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-deference erisa judicial-review pension-benefits pro-se-litigation Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied deference to PBGC's interpretations of ambiguous ERISA provisions and ignored substantial harm to the p…
24-5688 In Re Eric Sutherland 2024-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-regulatory jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A315 B&L Productions, Inc., et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete administrative-law california emergency-application judicial-review mandate ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly issued a mandate affecting the legal rights of B&L Productions without proper judicial review
24-354 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-delegation nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether Congress and the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine in establishing and administering the Universal Service Fund through a private admini…
24-349 San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2024-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law clean-water-act environmental-law mining-permit regulatory-interpretation water-pollution Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in its interpretation of new source performance standards for copper mine discharge permits by using a 'material con…
24-343 Robert H. Aland v. Department of the Interior, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment-act federal-agency-appointment statutory-qualifications subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has standing and subject matter jurisdiction to hear a challenge to a federal agency director's appointment that alle…
24-5646 Lisa Hofschulz, et vir v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied IFP administrative-law controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization Whether Congress delegated authority to the Attorney General to define 'effective prescription' under the Controlled Substances Act and whether a pres…
24-5631 Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review citizenship-petition federal-court-jurisdiction naturalization-jurisdiction uscis-procedure Whether the district court has exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction in naturalization cases filed under 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c) after USCIS issues a final …
24A287 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law congressional-delegation federal-regulation horseracing-integrity regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's regulatory framework exceeds congressional delegation of authority under the Horseracing Inte…
24-325 Mark B. Gibson v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. New York 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers Whether New York's driver license restoration regime violates due process by allowing the DMV to write, administer, and adjudicate its own rules witho…
24A269 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion indian-lands native-american-rights statutory-interpretation trust-acquisition Whether the Department of the Interior exceeded its statutory authority by refusing to take land into trust for a Native American tribe when the land …
24-293 Mohammed Jibril, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y. J. and O. J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law dhs-trip due-process injunctive-relief standing-doctrine terrorist-screening-dataset Must plaintiffs establish standing to challenge the DHS TRIP redress process based on the likelihood of repetition of past harm, and must courts defer…
24A254 Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al. v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-11 Presumed Complete administrative-law charter-schools educational-governance oklahoma-constitution state-board virtual-education Whether a state charter school board's regulations regarding virtual charter schools violate state constitutional provisions or statutory limits on ed…
24-5523 Calvin Carnell Edwards, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference constitutional-interpretation government-branches judicial-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Kisor three-part test applies to agencies beyond the Executive Branch, including the United States Sentencing Commission
24-270 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied administrative-law agency-interpretation line-extension medicaid-rebate new-drug-application statutory-construction Does a decision upholding an agency's statutory interpretation merely because it is 'perfectly sensible' comport with Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raim…
24-265 Heidi Stirrup, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Visitors for the Air Force Academy, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law advisory-board-independence injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers Whether the President may remove at will presidentially appointed members of independent advisory Boards and suspend their operations despite statutor…
24-232 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law constitutional-delegation executive-power federal-contractors minimum-wage procurement-act Whether the Procurement Act authorizes the President to require federal permittees to pay their employees a minimum wage and whether such delegation v…
24-5429 Kemnorris Kinsey v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation judicial-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the administrative law principles set forth in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentar…
24-5417 Joshual Lamar Davis v. Ian Maxfield, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A221 Department of Education, et al. v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-08-29 Presumed Complete administrative-law borrower-defense higher-education-act institutional-misconduct loan-discharge student-loans Whether the Secretary of Education has the statutory authority under the Higher Education Act to establish comprehensive borrower defense regulations …
24A215 Continental Resources, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation methane-emissions oil-and-gas-industry Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating methane emissions regulations for the oil and gas industry
24-209 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure governmental-immunity jurisdictional-challenge mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether a writ of mandamus or prohibition can be sought under multiple test conditions involving governmental entities
24-210 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-08-27 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure judicial-review mandamus relief-sought writ-of-prohibition Whether mandamus or prohibition writs can be issued to compel specific administrative actions
24A213 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-authority epa-regulation regulatory-overreach state-sovereignty Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that impose substantial burdens on states' enviro…
24A203 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act emissions-restrictions epa-regulations greenhouse-gas rural-electric-cooperatives Whether the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations exceed statutory authority by imposing greenhouse gas emissions restrictions that disproportionately bur…
24-202 J.G. Kern Enterprises, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2024-08-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference judicial-review nlrb-precedent non-acquiescence statutory-interpretation Whether the NLRB is precluded from relying on vacated precedent and enforcing orders under its non-acquiescence doctrine following the Loper Bright de…
24A199 America's Power, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-23 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the MATS rule without exceeding its statutory au…
24A195 Louis Frantzis v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion administrative-law federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension veterans-benefits Whether a veteran can challenge a Department of Veterans Affairs benefits determination through a timely judicial appeal after exhausting administrati…
24A197 Talen Montana, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulati…
24A191 QYK Brands LLC, dba Glowyy v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference consumer-protection due-process ftc-injunction Whether the Supreme Court should limit the Federal Trade Commission's authority to impose lifetime industry-wide injunctions based on a presumption of…
24-185 National Collegiate Master Student Loan Trust, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-enforcement constitutional-removal consumer-financial-protection securitization-trusts separation-of-powers Whether enforcement actions initiated by an unconstitutionally-appointed agency head should be dismissed and whether passive securitization vehicles q…
24A179 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Clean Air Act permits the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants without explicit congressional authorizati…
24-5325 Richard Moaney, aka Richard Daniel Moaney, IV v. Texas Texas 2024-08-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A178 NACCO Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion clean-air-act epa-regulation mercury-emissions statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency's revised Mercury and Air Toxics Standards exceed its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act by imple…
24A173 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department income-contingent-repayment major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loans Whether the Department of Education exceeded its statutory authority in modifying income-contingent student loan repayment plans through a rule that c…
24-157 Roy C. Derksen v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction sovereign-citizen Whether the district court and 7th Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se litigant's constitutional challenges to administrative law proceedings withou…
24A155 Martin Akerman v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-law federal-employment interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-review mspb-procedure pro-se-litigation Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can be properly named as a respondent in federal appeals challenging its jurisdictional and procedur…
24-5253 Rafael Arden Jones v. Ned McCormack Second Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation legal-standards municipal-association Whether the Appellate Division's decision improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's determination of civil rights violations rel…
24A141 Mohammed Jibril, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y.J. and O.J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-deference article-three-standing civil-rights dhs-trip terrorist-screening-dataset Whether individuals challenging government travel restrictions have Article III standing to pursue claims under the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Progr…
24-118 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Alan McClain, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Amici (1) 340b-drug-pricing-program administrative-enforcement administrative-law contract-pharmacies contract-pharmacy drug-pricing federal-preemption federal-regulation healthcare-policy state-preemption state-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits and this Court—that a State may strip manufacturers of th…
24A116 Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power-industry epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulations that substantially i…
24A101 Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference loper-bright nlrb-decision retroactive-application Whether the Supreme Court's recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises overturning Chevron deference should apply retroactively to National Labor Rel…
24A102 Valley Health System, LLC, dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority chevron-deference judicial-review nlrb-decision statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises overturning Chevron deference should apply to National Labor Relations Board a…
24-5161 Genuine Truth Banner v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review prisoner-rights standing Should prisoner's claims be dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies where prison officials prevented him from exhausting?
24-91 Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist Whether this Court's holding in Fed. Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre warrants reversal of the court of appeals' decision affirming the district court…
24A97 National Mining Association and America's Power v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulations greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Whether the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations exceed the agency's statutory authority in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
24A98 Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-action environmental-law epa-regulation natural-resources statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in issuing a final agency action that improperly regulates natural resour…
24-5130 Devon Nunes v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law equitable-tolling immigration-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review numerical-limits statutory-motion statutory-motions-to-reopen immigration-law
24A78 Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether Title IX regulations implementing protections for transgender students in educational settings exceed the Department of Education's statutory …
24A79 Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether the Department of Education's Title IX rule implementing protections for transgender students exceeds its statutory authority or violates cons…
24-62 Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law municipal-employment performance-evaluation state-law summary-discharge Whether a permanent employee who has served for less than five years in the noncompetitive class in the City of New York could be summarily discharged…
24-66 United States, ex rel. Dana Johnson v. Raytheon Company Fifth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-contractor judicial-review national-security standing whistleblower Whether the standard in Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988) precludes a private-sector whistleblower case
24-5114 Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified
24-52 Gunes Biray v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2024-07-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process sec-enforcement securities-law securities-regulation whistleblower-protection Does the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) possess absolute immunity from appellate scrutiny when it arbitrarily or capriciously …
24A53 Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, et al. v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. First Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference endangered-species-act environmental-statutes loper-bright Whether the Supreme Court should apply its Loper Bright decision to review agency interpretations of environmental statutes and limit administrative d…
24-5091 Linda J. Feaser v. George L. Landress Connecticut 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
24-5081 Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti…
24A11 Alaska, et al. v. Department of Education, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete Amici (4) administrative-law executive-power heroes-act major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loan-forgiveness Whether the Secretary of Education exceeded statutory authority under the HEROES Act in implementing a broad student loan debt cancellation program wi…
24-4 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure distinction due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation petitioner standing statutory-interpretation Is Petitioner a distinction without a difference?
24A5 First Finance International Bank, Inc. v. Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions Puerto Rico 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete administrative-law equal-protection financial-regulation foreign-dormant-commerce-clause puerto-rico selective-enforcement Whether the Foreign Dormant Commerce Clause and Equal Protection Clause limit a state regulatory agency's ability to selectively enforce financial reg…
23-1370 David Dunlap v. JetBlue Airways Corporation, et al. New York 2024-07-02 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-requirements right-to-counsel workers-compensation Is due process of law violated by refusal to hear administrative appeal due to omission in information block?
23A1175 Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Presumed Complete administrative-law foia government-accountability judicial-review military-records transparency Whether the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) permits judicial review of a federal agency's decision to withhold records related to potential miscondu…
23-7813 John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-27 Dismissed IFP administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-7815 Jesus M. Romero, Sr. v. BronxCare HealthCare System, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-action child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-1352 Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-27 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action
23-7793 Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate Question not identified
23-7800 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Supermarket, Inc., et al. Georgia 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review compensable-injury medical-evidence ttd-benefits workers-compensation workers-compensation,administrative-law-judge,comp Whether the Administrative Law Judge made correct judgments regarding the compensability of the claimant's injuries, the award of TTD benefits, and th…
23-1324 Thomas Perttu v. Kyle Brandon Richards Sixth Circuit 2024-06-20 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure exhaustion-of-remedies jury-trial merits-of-claim prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights procedural-merits prisoner-rights
23-1326 Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-20 Denied Amici (1) administrative-appeals administrative-law cms-policies cms-policy federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-review medical-products-manufacturer medicare-act-42-usc-1395ii medicare-administrative-appeals notice-and-comment statutory-interpretation Whether 42 U.S.C. 405(h) prohibits a medical products manufacturer from filing a judicial action seeking relief from CMS policies without notice and c…
23-1323 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (3) administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-structure article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-law executive-power executive-removal humphreys-executor presidential-authority separation-of-powers Whether the for-cause restriction on the President's authority to remove Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission violates the separati…
23-7732 Jose Edgar Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2024-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process free-speech immigration-law judicial-review migrants-rights standing takings Question not identified
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23-1312 Interim Storage Partners, LLC v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-action hobbs-act jurisdictional-limitations nuclear-regulation nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing ultra-vires Whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's exercise of authority to issue a license to a private party to temporarily possess spent nuclear fuel at a…
23-1298 United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law chevron chevron-deference civil-procedure inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the IPR statute and SAS require the Federal Circuit to review de novo, or only for an abuse of discretion, the PTO's reliance on new grounds a…
23-1300 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-authority agency-review atomic-energy-act hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing statutory-authority Whether the Hobbs Act allows nonparties to obtain review of claims asserting that an agency order exceeds the agency's statutory authority
23-7690 Wendell Johnson, aka Lamar Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-06-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-7687 Ashley Reneé Cagle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
23A1105 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete administrative-law cms-regulation drug-pricing line-extension medicaid-drug-rebate statutory-interpretation Whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services exceeded its statutory authority by expanding the definition of 'line extension' drug beyond Co…
23A1097 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law due-process fee-waiver military-employment userra whistleblower-protection Whether the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) mandates court fee waivers for federal employees engaged in protected w…
23-1279 NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-split labor-law labor-relations nlra nlrb-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence taft-hartley-act Whether the application of the 'substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole' standard of review for Board determinations, 29 U.S.C. §160(…
23-7651 Gregory Scott Van Huisen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process non-delegation separation-of-powers Whether the Separation of Powers Doctrine under the U.S. Constitution permits Congress to delegate legislative authority to the Executive Branch witho…
23-7626 Jasper Frazier v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-law damages federal-damages standing state-services Whether the receiving state is liable for damages caused by the breach of a contract for new border security services
23-7624 Daniel Geter v. United States District of Columbia 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the court of appeals when it failed to find that the petitioners' substantive rights were…
23-1263 Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure complaint-screening dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure screening standing statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(b)(ii) allow screening or dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints before service of process and defendants' ans…
23-7603 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-determination civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel-of-choice due-process fraud fraud-statute judicial-review misconduct transcript Whether the court committed fraud on the court when it changed the trial transcripts of the petitioner's case without notice to counsel and the petiti…
23-7582 Manna Massaquoi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in finding that the FORA Consent Decree entered by the Pennsylvania Governor was not violated by the granting o…
23-7546 Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
23-1229 Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit
23-1230 Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (4) administrative-law centralized-review environmental-protection-agency epa-action nationwide-scope renewable-fuel-program small-refinery-exemption small-refinery-exemptions statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute Whether an EPA action is 'nationally applicable' or 'based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect' for venue under 42 U.S.C. §7607(b)(1)
23-1226 McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure district-court fcc fcc-interpretation hobbs-act legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
23-7522 Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23-7513 Russell Foreman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23A1032 William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-disclosure federal-records freedom-of-information privacy-rights tax-records Whether a federal agency can withhold tax records from a taxpayer seeking information about themselves and deceased family members under existing disc…
23-7493 Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Captain Duch, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-17 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions genuine-issues-of-fact judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation precedent standing statutory-construction summary-judgment Whether summary judgment for the defendant was proper where genuine issues of material fact existed and a jury trial was warranted
23-7495 In Re Grace Woodham 2024-05-16 Denied IFP administrative-law certiorari civil-rights court-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-petition standing summary-judgment supreme-court Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on summary judgment despite findings of fact indicating the state …
23-1217 Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Amici (5) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2)
23-7449 Jacob VanDyke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law Auer-v-Robbins Chevron chevron-deference child-pornography commentary deference guideline-commentary judicial-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the 1 to 75 ratio for videos found in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 is entitled to deference under Chevron, Federal-Express-Corporation-v…
23A984 Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-tribunal article-iii-review chevron-deference constitutional-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection Whether administrative law judges in agency tribunals exceed their constitutional and statutory jurisdiction when adjudicating whistleblower protectio…
23-1187 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (9) administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place …
23-1180 Palani Karupaiyan v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law alternative-relief civil-procedure extraordinary-relief extraordinary-writs judicial-review legal-standard mandamus standing writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether the lower court erred in denying the requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief
23-7338 Damon Sean Bellis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Did Kisor abrogate Stinson's holding?
23-7349 Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer whether-mandamus-relief-is-available
23-1140 In Re William B. Jolley 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure age-discrimination disability-discrimination due-process equal-employment equal-employment-opportunity federal-agencies judicial-review Is 29 C.F.R. § 1614 constitutional?
23-7267 Vincent Dewayne Gaylord v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's personal rights have been violated by the defendant's actions in violation of the relevant law(s)
23-1125 Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Third Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied Relisted (3) administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious electronic-nicotine-delivery-system electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fda-regulation menthol-flavoring premarket-tobacco-application premarket-tobacco-product-application retroactive-rulemaking retroactive-standard Whether the FDA's creation of a new, heightened standard for evaluating already-pending PMTAs for certain ENDS products was arbitrary and capricious
23-1117 James A. Crowe, et ux. v. Savvy IN, LLC Indiana 2024-04-15 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure covid-19 due-process mail-notification property-rights signature-protocol tax-sale Whether due process requires additional notification efforts by a tax sale purchaser when the return mail receipt is returned with only notations by a…
23-7214 Chanel Tarrant v. Christiana Care, et al. Delaware 2024-04-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-benefits employment-law long-term-disability occupational-safety tort-law workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether a hospital is required to provide long-term disability benefits to an employee after working for them for 30 years and getting injured on the …
23-7202 Craig Alford v. Lea Baylor, Director, Monroe County Correctional Facility, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation takings Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and regulations governing…
23-1106 Martin Akerman v. United States Armed Forces 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-state civilian-oversight due-process federal-employment habeas-corpus military-authority military-detention userra Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces err in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus case for lack of jurisdiction?
23A906 Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg Seventh Circuit 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state gaming commission's decision can overcome the deferential standard of review in federal a…
23-1091 Call-A-Head Portable Toilets, Inc., et al. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. New York 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-proceeding confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony Do the accused in State administrative proceedings have a Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses whose written testimony serves…
23-7135 Antonio Benjamin Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compelled-testimony constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the AIA's statutory scheme for post-grant patent review violates the Constitution's separation of powers and due process protections
23-7139 Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority Jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions from the federal circuit
23-7129 Cedric Jones v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-court civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction petition public-health rehearing standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Appellate Court has the authority to rule District Court lacked authority to enjoin the CDC from enforcing its eviction moratorium
23-7118 Danilo Augusto Feliciano, aka Danil Ezekiel Faust v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General District of Columbia 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-analysis due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation precedent-setting statutory-construction Can an agency decision not to enforce a law despite notification of a longstanding, persistent violation of the law that has been publicly admitted to…
23-1068 PacifiCorp, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Relisted (4) administrative-law circuit-court-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-disapproval federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-implementation-plan Whether the EPA's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit
23-1069 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C…
23-1070 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-04-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability jurisdictional-challenge mandamus multi-party-litigation official-capacity standing writ-of-prohibition Whether the petitioners' requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief were properly denied by the lower courts
23-7086 Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation whether-grievances-were-properly-filed
23-7072 Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accountability administrative-law civil-rights data-integrity due-process federal-employees federal-jurisdiction judicial-review transparency whistleblower-protection Did the Fourth Circuit Court's consolidation of appeals and selective review exacerbate the case's complexity, undermining the principles of thorough …
23-7073 James L. Miller v. Scott S. Harris, Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent-eligibility standing takings-clause Whether the government's denial of a patent application for a new invention violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
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…
23-7020 Donovan A. Reid v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-provisions public-records writ-petition Whether federal agencies must allow their policies, manuals, and other internal guidance to be publicly available when employees of the federal agency…
23-1027 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-03-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-governance corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination immigration-law outsourcing-practices standing treasury-recovery visa-fraud Whether the petitioners are entitled to the writs of mandamus, prohibition or alternative relief
23-1038 Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-decision agency-deference arbitrary-and-capricious e-cigarettes fda-regulation interstate-commerce public-health tobacco-control tobacco-regulation Whether the court of appeals erred in setting aside FDA's denial orders as arbitrary and capricious
23-7018 Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights consolidation-of-cases constitutional-challenge due-process federal-agency government-oversight personnel-management title-v-exemption whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the Title V Exemption extended to the Federal Aviation Administration from the Office of Personnel Management be considered Unconstitutional?
23-6997 In Re Russell Rope 2024-03-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-1009 Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation Whether a federal agency can defeat a plaintiff's standing by adding non-statutory factors to benefit distributions that are purportedly race neutral
23-6981 Ezekiel Davis v. Shadid Ansari, Individually and in His Official Capacity as GEO/LCF Medical Director, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure legal-issue medical-injury standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the 2 writs Cocret Abiwst A rts asceetybn denigihtg psbbaucn > Ln Foren (2 'goes' Hp); eshen! 4 Avr ewig sypnen| oat He vectrfs , hokditg (2 L…
23-6959 Lionel Scott Ellison v. Peter Bludworth, Warden, et al. Montana 2024-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-6946 Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. Royce C. Lamberth, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions Whether the DCCA correctly denied the petition for writ of certiorari
23-6921 Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review solitary-confinement Whether the State of Illinois violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process c…
23-6922 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university Whether sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment extends to a state university
23-6907 Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs …
23-965 Jin-Pyong Peter Yim v. National Institutes of Health Third Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-records agency-response foia-request freedom-of-information-act government-transparency non-exempt-records record-request record-specification responsive-records Must an agency specify which non-exempt records are responsive to a request?
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23-975 Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (38)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which …
23-949 In Re David Erlanson, Sr. 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi…
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23-6855 William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its affirmance of Petitioner William Hungerford's conviction by failing to properly account for the devastating har…
23A779 Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Third Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-rulemaking arbitrary-capricious electronic-nicotine fda-regulation marketing-application Whether the FDA improperly adopted a new and heightened evidentiary burden for marketing applications for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) …
23-892 Jason Antoine Brock v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equal-employment-opportunity federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2) is fair in allowing 30-days for judicial review
23-889 In Re William B. Jolley 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-law constitutional-appointment due-process equal-protection merit-systems-protection-board mspb-procedure veterans veterans-rights whistleblower whistleblower-protection Due process-violation-in-MSPB-appeals
23A758 Rachael Eubanks, in Her Personal Capacity, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor Sixth Circuit 2024-02-20 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari michigan procedural-review sixth-circuit state-sovereignty Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on state administrative procedures violates principles of state sovereignty or federal administrative law
23-6764 Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim to equitable tolling based on the prison mailroom's mishandling of prisoner mail, includin…
23-6746 Alexander Isaiah Perez v. Sandra Hijar, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion civil-rights due-process judicial-review notice-and-comment procedural-due-process regulatory-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Did the district court's dismissal of the Petitioner's § 2241 petition, without opportunity to amend, violate the meaning and scope of the rule?
23-876 KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-14 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law chevron-deference circuit-split federal-mine-safety-and-health-act federal-regulation mine-safety mining statutory-interpretation transportation Whether a truck or a truck repair shop that is not located at nor is adjacent to an extraction or processing site or an appurtenant road is a 'coal or…
23-870 Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26(b) precludes equitable tolling of 49 U.S.C. § 5127(a)'s ordinary and nonjurisdictional deadline to peti…
23-6736 Christopher R. Chin-Young v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-at-will federal-employees federal-employment mspb reassignment whistle-blower Whether covered Federal employees under employment-at-will have an absolute right to constitutionally sound due process procedures under MSPB administ…
23-6699 In Re Derlon Crain 2024-02-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Why the Western Disk 2 aid sor lose Dunes of Dist Cent sy makin o De Neva Aeteamisatio's pe these. Potters pe ePoat to which pbblechors Was made?
23-6685 Willie Perry Woods v. Heather Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-agency state-law statute-of-limitations Should certiorari be granted if the 4th USCA judgment conflicts with the USSG on whether state Statute Of Limitations (SOL) bars Fed agency adverse or…
23-852 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Jennifer VanDerStok, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-07 Judgment Issued Amici (28)Relisted (2) 5th-circuit-decision administrative-law atf-regulation atf-regulations firearm-definition gun-control-act regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation weapon-parts-kit Whether a weapon parts kit that is readily convertible into an operational firearm is a 'firearm' regulated by the Gun Control Act
23A731 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action capacity-auctions ferc judicial-review state-subsidies Whether a federal agency's deadlocked vote constitutes final agency action subject to judicial review and, if so, how courts should evaluate and resol…
23-6651 Falastin Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-accountability judicial-review legal-immunity sovereign-immunity whistleblower-protection Will the courts recognize that individuals that work for the U.S. Government are not above U.S. law?
23-819 Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (5) administrative-law article-i commerce-clause constitutional-limits delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power major-questions-doctrine osha statutory-interpretation workplace-safety Whether Congress's delegation of authority to write 'reasonably necessary or appropriate' workplace-safety standards violates Article I of the U.S. Co…
23-6605 In Re Darius Lake 2024-01-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection legal-procedure precedent racial-discrimination sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district attorney's striking of the only Black juror in the petitioner's trial violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
23-6584 David E. Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech nlrb-sanctions standing statutory-interpretation Whether the NLRB's denial of access to the courts and administrative agencies violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of the petitioner
23-811 Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior District of Columbia 2024-01-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/issue-preclusion applies when Merit-Systems-Protection-Board-has-resolved-an-issue
23-804 Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law federal-circuit induced-infringement inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-validity preclusion preclusion-doctrine ptab statutory-framework Whether a party may be liable for induced patent infringement when the PTAB has already issued a final written decision determining that the same pate…
23-6565 In Re Derrick Thompson 2024-01-25 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure duty-owed federal-agency federal-officer judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-duty writ-of-mandamus Should this court grant a writ of mandamus to compel a federal officer or agency to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff
23-6570 Bryan P. Hernandez v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington Washington 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated
23-6574 Deirdre Baker v. JEA Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-792 Jehan Agrama v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-search due-process international-comity investigative-procedure irs-summons powell-vs-united-states treaty-disclosure united-states-vs-clarke Whether the IRS summons should be quashed due to tainted investigation
23-6526 Larry Coates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa…
23-6509 Jonathan Joseph Good v. Wendi Walworth, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-charging-document civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure magistrate notice notice-requirement rule-83 summary-judgment Whether the denial of notice to file an answer to a motion for summary judgment violates due process and Rule 83
23-779 David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Amici (3) accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Federal Circuit misinterpreted 38 U.S.C. § 5103(a)(1) to allow VA to issue evidentiary notice only before receiving a veteran's claim
23-782 Kent Thomas Warren v. Department of Education Tenth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights department-of-education discrimination due-process federal-financial-assistance legal-mandate loan-default non-discrimination student-loans Is the U.S. Department of Education lawfully permitted to mandate payment on student loans taken by a student when non-discriminatory conditions for f…
23-6485 Keaton Lamar Shaw v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie policy-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs …
23-6486 Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs …
23-6500 Jimmy Lee Smart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-conflict criminal-sentencing federal-agencies judicial-deference kisor-standard regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-6440 Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Can the U.S.S.G. commentary definition of a 'minor' in § 2L1.1 commentary note 1 be considered unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to…
23-743 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) administrative-law constitutional-law federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine
23-736 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG § 2B1.1, cmt. n.3(A), expanding the meaning of 'loss' to include 'intended loss,' vio…
23-6421 Remberto Rivera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary …
23-6423 Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the United States District Court err in law by failing to consider exculpatory evidence in the record
23-700 Palani Karupaiyan v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-29 Dismissed administrative-law civil-procedure legal-procedure mandamus prohibition relief-request standing test-condition writ writ-of-prohibition Whether the petitioners have satisfied the requirements for the issuance of a writ of mandamus or prohibition
23-701 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-29 Dismissed Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writs judicial-procedure jurisdiction mandamus prohibition standing test-condition writ Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus or prohibition
23-6364 Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-12-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's sentence for second-degree murder was unconstitutional due to the sentencing court's error in applying the wrong sentencing la…
23-6372 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination retaliation security-clearance Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1698
23-6376 Judy Thorpe v. Board of Trustees, Public Employees' Retirement System New Jersey 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-decision administrative-law appellate-review due-process government-benefits judicial-discretion manifest-error pension public-employee-retirement retirement state-law state-pension Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev…
23-693 Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations Whether district courts may give Skidmore deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations when offered by one of its represen…
23-6312 Andre Reese v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether Kisor v. Wilkie applies to the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines
23-667 Blair Coleman v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force Fourth Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1210 administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious disability-rating medical-examination military-procedure physical-disability-board-of-review temporary-disability-retired-list veterans-benefits veterans-disability Whether a veteran is entitled to a medical examination prior to removal from the Temporary Disability Retired List and reduction of disability rating
23-6282 Clay Chastain v. Bedford Regional Water Authority Virginia 2023-12-18 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure public-utility rate-regulation statutory-interpretation takings Whether the utility doctrine uniformly and selectively charges customers for the costs of serving them
23-6287 Parnell R. May v. Kawhun Tims, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force federal-procedure judicial-review qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the U.S. District Court erred in granting a Supplemental 1983 claim
23-6269 Yavonne Hand v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights criminal-conduct declaratory-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-misconduct public-officials standing Right to a fair administrative hearing
23-6248 Pradeep B. Gupte v. Kimberly Davis, HR Director, Newington Public Schools, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
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
23-608 In Re Joseph Gothard, et al. 2023-12-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-overreach civil-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief mandamus property-rights standing Whether the Supreme Court grants certiorari to address major questions of national significance regarding agencies suspending laws and asserting autho…
23-593 S. O. v. Jay Hartzell, President, University of Texas at Austin, et al. Texas 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings property-interest property-rights student-rights university-administration Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act…
23-6167 In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. 2023-12-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether BUScd TALH) an to Secand or guesegelve aglicion, eh by focal, orlstegs ?
23-592 K. E. v. Denise M. Trauth, President, Texas State University, et al. Texas 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings legal-rights property-interest property-rights university-administration Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act…
23-6157 Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the de…
23-6150 Quindell Tyree Maloid v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP administrative-interpretation administrative-law deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23A497 KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference mine-safety national-cement-doctrine statutory-ambiguity Whether the National Cement doctrine of judicial remand for agency reinterpretation is unconstitutional and whether Chevron deference should be overru…
23A489 Martin Akerman v. General Daniel Hokanson, Chief, National Guard Bureau,et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete administrative-law bivens-claim constitutional-violations federal-employment government-officials national-guard Whether a federal employee can bring a Bivens claim against multiple government agencies and officials for alleged constitutional violations related t…
23-583 Amina Bouarfa v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-30 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review nondiscretionary-criteria revocation visa-petition Whether a visa petitioner may obtain judicial review when an approved petition is revoked on the basis of nondiscretionary criteria
23-577 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied administrative-law circuit-split court-of-appeals deference hobbs-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-question kisor-v-wilkie legal-background procedural-background statutory-provisions surface-transportation-board Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a Surface Transportation Board ruling
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…
23-6112 Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability Whether the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it failed or refused to apply the correct legal standard in evaluating the plainti…
23-551 GMS Mine Repair v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-22 Denied administrative-law auer-deference chevron-deference chevron-doctrine circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure judicial-review regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule Kisor or clarify that the 'traditional tools' of construction must be used to dispel ambiguity in a regulation, rath…
23-558 United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc. and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit 2023-11-22 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure definite-term federal-office federal-officer nlrb-procedure removal removal-authority statutory-interpretation Whether statutes that prescribe a definite term for a federal office, without providing for removal of the officer during the prescribed term, implied…
23-6102 Rolandis Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-deprivation court-procedure due-process federal-rights federalism judicial-power standing state-government takings Can Constitutional depravations be justified by some remote administrative benefit to the State such as an Administrative Plan?
23-6105 Alvin Henry Dalton v. M. Votari Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions dismissal district-court due-process environmental-justice equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether respondent's actions in forcing petitioner to live in an unhealthy environment violate petitioner's constitutional rights
23-543 Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims When the VA fails to adjudicate a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, without running afoul…
23-549 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd…
23-532 In Re William B. Jolley 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus mspb veterans veterans-rights whistleblower whistleblower-protection Do Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decisions of Veteran and Whistleblower appeals fail for lack of 'due process' where 5 C.F.R. § 1201.57(d), st…
23-6053 Nathan Nixon v. Florida Florida 2023-11-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing Whether the First District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida erred in denying Petitioner's federal constitutional claims
23-6059 Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-bias judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation standing whistleblower-protection Why did the Federal Circuit Court ignore Petitioner's MSPB case regarding her IRA
23A421 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split evidentiary-standards fair-notice fda-regulation Whether the FDA's marketing denial order for electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products was arbitrary and capricious by changing evidentiary …
23-494 MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit erred in substituting its own findings of fact for those of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instead of remanding as requ…
23-489 Office of the United States Trustee v. USA Sales, Inc., dba Statewide Distributors, a California Corporation Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustees constitutional-uniformity judicial-remedy retrospective-refunds statutory-interpretation Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel, supra, is to require the United States Trust…
23-461 Maria Navarro Carrillo, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights cooperative-federalism disability-rights due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit erred in setting aside binding state law in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act case
23-456 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (6) administrative-law constitutional-law fcc-authority federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine
23-458 Thomas De Cola v. Starke County Council, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights civil-tort comity due-process miscarriage-of-justice state-federal-review Whether the comity of state and federal court reviews of Petitioner's respective administrative appeal and concurrent 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil tort clai…
23A384 United States Steel Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-rulemaking interstate-pollution Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating a new rule regulating interstate ozone pollution that imposes…
23A391 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' commentary defining 'loss' as intended loss, rather than actual loss, impermissibly conflicts with the plain text o…
23-5888 Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of Florida's medical marijuana…
23-5848 In Re Naser A. Abdallah 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
23-413 Michael Lissack v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-19 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-action administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference discretion internal-revenue-service statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-whistleblower whistleblower-award Whether the IRS is required to pay a whistleblower award where the whistleblower's information caused the IRS to open an audit but the IRS ultimately …
23-418 Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing Can the 'injury in fact' element of standing be established by an evidentiary showing of increased consumer prices?
23-5798 Edgar Eugene Oliver v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Florida 2023-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review offender-review separation-of-powers state-agency-power supreme-court-authority Does the Florida Commission on Offender Review have the freedom to disobey the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution of the United States, the…
23A350 Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA's regulatory action impermissibly exceeds its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act or violates principles of administrative law
23A351 American Forest & Paper Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act emissions-standards epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that impose stringent…
23-402 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-17 Rehearing Amici (5)Relisted (6) administrative-law anti-commandeering federal-rulemaking federal-trade-commission horseracing-industry non-delegation-doctrine private-non-delegation regulatory-power state-funding state-taxation Does the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 violate the private non-delegation doctrine and the anti-commandeering doctrine?
23-5824 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process standing How can the FTC prove that they have an actual injury to a consumer's rights?
23-380 Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-discretion agent-orange-act chicago-convention herbicide-exposure international-civil-aviation judicial-review procopio-v-wilkie service-connection veterans-benefits whether-a-proper-construction-of-the-bwn-act-warra whether-the-secretary-conducted-a-flawed-interpret Whether the Federal Circuit's Decision Warrants Certiorari
23A315 West Flagler Associates, Ltd., et al. v. Debra Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-11 Presumed Complete administrative-law federal-indian-law indian-gaming-regulatory-act off-reservation-gaming sports-gambling tribal-gaming Whether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) permits a tribal-state compact authorizing online sports gambling to be conducted off Indian lands
23-367 Starbucks Corporation v. M. Kathleen McKinney, Regional Director of Region 15 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on Behalf of the National Labor Relations Board Sixth Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split federal-district-courts national-labor-relations-act national-labor-relations-board preliminary-injunction unfair-labor-practices whether-courts-must-evaluate-the-nlrb's-requests-for-section-10(j)-injunctions-under-the-traditional-stringent-four-factor-test-for-preliminary-injunc…
23-5705 Michael Sampson v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process electric-vehicle federal-action government-misconduct patent patent-pending standing takings technology-dispute USPTO Will the Supreme Court seek truth for the sake of humanity and compel the U.S.D.C. (E.D. Texas) to make available the papers of case no. G122-CV-BY?
23-339 J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits New Jersey 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment Whether ALJs violate the rule-of-law by depriving petitioners of their disability-pensions on credibility-grounds
23-345 In Re Jeffry Thul 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-employee federal-employee-rights mandamus regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation takings Whether the National Park Service municipality's conduct violated 5 C.F.R. § 353.301(d) or constitutional rights
23-5693 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-310 Cory Ratzloff v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the…
23-298 Riverdale Mills Corporation v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2023-09-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law auer-deference due-process federal-rules-of-evidence occupational-safety-and-health-administration osha-citation substantial-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals correctly applied the substantial-evidence-standard
23-5622 Ervie Savage v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disability disability-insurance employer-liability employment employment-law insurance sedgwick-claims workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether Walmart Stores has the right to decide not to cover an employee injured on the job
23-5613 Robert L. Allum v. Montana State Fund Montana 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-branch montana-constitution res-judicata state-court-structure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Montana Workers' Compensation Court is a constitutionally valid judicial body
23-256 Suleiman Abdu Ibrahim v. Department of the Interior Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-employee-rights federal-employees summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal employees' rights are determined under statutes that require all personnel actions affecting employees or applicants to be made free f…
23-5578 April Paw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5590 In Re Jamar L. Williams 2023-09-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present newly discover…
23-5558 Tracy J. McGill v. William Rankin Tenth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure equitable-estoppel government jurisdiction standing Whether a district court is estopped from sua sponte declining jurisdiction when the petitioner raises a claim of equitable estoppel against the gover…
23-235 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-medication administrative-law agency-action article-iii-standing civil-procedure fda fda-regulations mifepristone preliminary-relief standing Whether respondents have Article III standing to challenge FDA's 2016 and 2021 actions
23-5519 Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's convictions for possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of children violate the First Amendment and the Due P…
23-5532 Basil Warren Lewis, Jr. v. Phil Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute
23-5494 Dominic Asquith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
23-5501 May Chen v. Metropolitan Police Department, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process eeoc-enforcement employment employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-compliance regulatory-action standing Can federal agencies comply with EEOC's appeal decision and employment discrimination laws?
23-5482 Timothy Allan Dunlap v. Idaho Maximum Security Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
23-187 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 Are the cloud-based #NewOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court?
23-191 Nancy Williams, et al. v. Greg Reed, Secretary, Alabama Department of Workforce Alabama 2023-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedies section-1983 standing state-court state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court
23-164 John Doe v. Judith Rodgers, as Senior Advisor in Division of Practitioner Data Banks, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law career-ending-effects civil-rights due-process healthcare-professional-rights medical-credentialing national-practitioner-data-bank npdb-reporting professional-review-action professional-review-actions secretarial-review Whether the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) and its mandated adverse 'professional review actions' (Adverse Action Reports (AARs))…
23-159 Antonio Perez v. City of Miami, Code Enforcement Board Florida 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law appellate-review brady-standard civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-disqualification judicial-review standing substantive-due-process Whether the 'appellate review model' is contrary to evidentiary standard protections
23-5376 Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-133 Arlen Foster v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-15 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-review agriculture chevron-deference environmental-law statutory-interpretation swampbuster-provision wetlands wetlands-certification Whether a statute that provides that a wetlands certification 'remain[s] valid and in effect ... until such time as the person affected by the certifi…
23-137 Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant, was its intent clear that a substituted appellant co…
23-5356 Trequan Devonte James v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection identification judicial-review police-procedures statutory-interpretation Did the courts err in upholding the identification of the petitioner as the perpetrator of the crime
23-5344 Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious?
23-127 Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is the 'conduct unbecoming' standard unconstitutionally vague and violative of due-process in a case involving free-speech concerns?
23-125 Seaview Trading, LLC, AGK Investments, LLC, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure delinquent-returns filing-requirements legal-definition statutory-interpretation tax-code treasury-regulations Whether the word 'file' in 26 U.S.C. § 6229 (2000) and as used throughout the Tax Code carries its ordinary meaning for delinquent tax returns when no…
23-5252 Bruce Lamont Fuller v. California California 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-justice administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-rules standing Question not identified
23-5220 Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied IFP administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation whether-a-court-can-compel-a-party-to-disclose-privileged-communications-under-the-crime-fraud-exception
23-5202 Aaron Abadi, et al. v. Transportation Security Administration District of Columbia 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-authority air-carrier-access-act congressional-intent covid-19 health-regulations major-questions-doctrine pandemic-response statutory-interpretation transportation-security tsa-authority Did TSA have the authority to mandate nationwide restrictions and mandates with regards to health-related issues
23-5215 Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-rules financial-gain judicial-misconduct legal-malpractice oath-of-office summary-judgment Whether the lower court abused its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's case despite newly discovered evidence of judicial misconduct, violations…
23-60 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Feds for Medical Freedom, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 GVR Relisted (9) administrative-law civil-service-reform-act covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order federal-employee federal-employment mootness preliminary-injunction Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot
23-62 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Scott A. Hardin Sixth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Relisted (3) administrative-law atf-rule automatic-weapon bump-stock due-process firearms-regulation machinegun-definition mass-shootings second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a bump stock device is a 'machinegun' as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b)
23-5153 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure howey-test investment-contract securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-regulation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Howey test for determining an 'investment contract' under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
23-48 Indiana Municipal Power Agency, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Amici (2) administrative-interpretation administrative-law contract contractual-intent government-contract government-obligations money-mandating money-mandating-statute payment-obligation sequestration statutory-interpretation Whether a payment obligation imposed by Congress on the federal government under a money-mandating statute and specifically exempted from later reduct…
23-5107 Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly Fourth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari what-is-the-legislative-intent-of-18-usc-3553
23-5086 Betsy Sachs v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority First Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-constraints due-process executive-power finra-immunity non-delegation-doctrine private-delegation quasi-governmental quasi-governmental-entity securities-regulation Does FINRA have immunity?
23-5066 Juan Reyes v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines incorporation judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5060 Donald Edward McCord v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
23-21 Stuart R. Harrow v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2023-07-06 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (4) administrative-law federal-circuit federal-employee filing-deadline judicial-review jurisdictional jurisdictional-deadline merit-systems-protection-board nonjurisdictional statutory-interpretation Whether the 60-day deadline in 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) is jurisdictional
23-22 Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-06 Denied administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
22-1251 Simon V. Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-fraud administrative-law agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-procedure fraud injunctive-relief regulatory-misconduct standing Whether the Fifth Amendment requires that defendants answer allegations against them
22-1245 Brent A. Ristow v. Douglas R. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-capacity prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the crimi…
22-1246 Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-28 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law chevron-deference energy-regulation federal-energy-regulatory-commission megawatts power-generation power-production-capacity qualifying-facility solar-energy-project statutory-interpretation Whether 'power production capacity' refers to a facility's maximum net output to the grid at any one time, or whether that term instead refers to the …
22-7861 Darryl C. Daniels v. Z. Culpepper, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights retaliation Whether a prisoner can be punished for requesting protection from a prison administration
22-7865 Tiffany Recinos v. Mike Kreidler, et al. Washington 2023-06-26 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process government-accountability government-liability government-transparency official-immunity public-records public-records-exemption vicarious-liability Whether laws exist without documents when public disclosure is exempted
22-7856 Annice Hale v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tort-claims Whether assertion of violations against the government are waivers of sovereign immunity
22-1233 Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, P.C. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Second Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb civil-investigative-demand consumer-financial-protection consumer-financial-protection-bureau funding-structure independent-agency separation-of-powers Whether the Consumer Financial Protection Agency's funding structure violates the Appropriations Clause
22-1225 Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-21 GVR Relisted (8) administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
22-1222 Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (4) 26-usc-5845 administrative-law atf-regulation bump-stock-prohibition bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives chevron-deference machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-construction Whether the definition of 'machinegun' in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) includes non-mechanical bump stocks
22-1219 Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-16 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-power chevron chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management magnuson-stevens-act marine-fisheries regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule Chevron or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted el…
22-7795 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Laura B. Zuchowski, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Vermont Service Center Second Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-suppression civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-officials immigration-law Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the USCIS director's suppression of the plaintiff's appeal application, resulting in hi…
22-7759 Shirley Douglas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-protection contract contract-law due-process government-intrusion medical-consent medical-privacy plea-agreement privacy Is a plea proffer agreement and defense counsel retainer fee agreement legally enforceable contracts?
22-7738 Michael Alexander Rivera v. California California 2023-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-1189 Patricia A. Bogan v. Denton County District Attorney Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for [issue being raised]
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment
22-1178 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre Ninth Circuit 2023-06-06 Judgment Issued Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing Whether respondent's claims challenging placement on the No-Fly-List are moot
22-7698 Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance Whether the court exceeded its authority by not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the statutory maximum
22-7664 Forest Mitchell Kirst v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-investigation congressional-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1505 applies to accident investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an agency that has no power to take en…
22-7616 Milton Mendoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-proceedings separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place ultra-vires Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(Q), is ultr…
22-1136 In Re Robert Steven Mawhinney 2023-05-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-contract federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judicial-review labor-law nondiscretionary-duty statutory-interpretation Does 49 U.S.C. § 42121 provide the means to invalidate the exemption incorporated in 9 U.S.C. §1 and allow the deviation of the nondiscretionary duty …
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-7601 Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. First Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Was recusal mandatory under § 455(b)(1) and § 144 and § 455(a) where the trial judge's activities involved disputed evidentiary facts and a reasonable…
22-1121 Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power Whether the FDA has jurisdiction to enforce the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act
22-7560 Patrick Timothy Wyatt v. Jon Bolling Wood, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Whether a federal court has a duty to inquire into the bona fides of an affidavit when the record facially indicates the affiant may have violated the…
22-7576 Crystal Maye v. Ocean Tax Deed Investment, LLC Florida 2023-05-16 Denied IFP administrative-law beneficiary-rights civil-rights due-process jurisdiction legislative-authority property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-regulation trust-income whether tax appraiser has the authority to create a tax regulate private property not sanction by legislature or congress
22-1112 Avail Vapor, LLC, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious evidence-standard evidentiary-standard fda fda-regulation marketing-authorization premarket-applications tobacco-product-regulation tobacco-products Whether FDA's marketing denial order was arbitrary and capricious
22-7550 Daniel Novilla v. Department of Agriculture Federal Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-review court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction petition-timeliness procedural-due-process standing Why did the court accept my petition knowing it was late, they sent me a packet stating it was compliant with the rules of the court, it was processed…
22-7541 Luis Nunez-Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 administrative-law due-process immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr…
22-1102 Acquisition 362, LLC, dba Strategic Import Supply v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure court-of-international-trade customs-law federal-circuit import-protests jurisdictional-remedies standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that Petitioner's protests concerning rate and refund determinations were untimely and the Cour…
22-7488 Alex Adams v. Lorie Davis, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to the seizure of their bank account and property without due proc…
22-1071 Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied Amici (7) 8-usc-1101 administrative-law department-of-homeland-security due-process employment-authorization immigration immigration-law immigration-procedure nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
22-1056 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2023-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process expressive-association free-speech petitioning state-bar-court Whether the Final Decision of a State Court Denying Review of the Decision of an Administrative Agency Recommending Disbarment, Causes an Interlocutor…
22-7394 Mike Webb v. Department of the Army, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies agency-discretion agency-response civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment foia foia-request privacy-act pro-se-litigation standing Whether the failure of an agency to respond to a FOIA request violates due process
22-1027 The Dutra Group, Inc., et al. v. Kelly Zaradnik, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied administrative-law agency-review appellate-jurisdiction benefits-review-board judicial-review longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Whether appellate courts can restrict the limited jurisdiction of the Benefits Review Board
22-7323 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process freedom-of-information-act jurisdictional-challenge merit-systems-protection-board pro-se-filing standing suitability-determination unusual-circumstances Whether this appeal is frivolous
22-7297 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Allred Unit Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing-act standing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims under the Fair Housin…
22-991 George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-adjudication circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review jurisdiction securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether circuit courts have jurisdiction to remand to the SEC under 15 U.S.C. § 78y
22-976 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Michael Cargill Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (4) 2nd-amendment administrative-law atf atf-rule bump-stock firearms firearms-regulation machinegun-definition national-firearms-act statutory-interpretation trigger-mechanism Whether a bump stock device is a 'machinegun' as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b)
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…
22-7143 Xunxian Liu v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action agency-policy civil-rights due-process employment-rights federal-employment notice performance-improvement performance-improvement-plan procedural-rights Whether the DHHS violated Petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, and employment-rights by issuing a performance-improvement-plan and removing Petitio…
22-7123 Kenneth Chambers v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-940 Sheldon Schwartz v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-03-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law bill-of-rights due-process liberty-right medical-license medical-licensing professional-practice professional-regulation rational-basis state-board Is the taking of a physician's medical license a violation of the Bill of Rights to our Nation's scheme of ordered liberty?
22-935 Transervice Logistics, Inc., et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-termination evergreen-clause labor-agreement labor-law notice-requirement notice-requirements Whether a notice of termination for a collective bargaining agreement must contain a clear statement of an intent to terminate the agreement
22-7086 Lorenza Gerald Ferebee, Jr. v. C. Manis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
22-7109 In Re Freddie A. Land 2023-03-24 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law asylum due-process equal-protection immigration statutory-interpretation Whether the government's policy of categorically denying asylum to immigrants who enter the country illegally violates the Immigration and Nationality…
22-924 John M. Fife v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law declaratory-judgment due-process exchange-act federal-jurisdiction finra-discipline securities-exchange-act securities-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of their 'exclusive jurisdiction' to determine whether FINRA violates the Exchange Act whe…
22-916 Priscilla McManus v. NBS Default Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation time-limits When did the importance of deadlines cease to exist?
22-7044 In Re Jordan Powell 2023-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-law antitrust disaster-loan due-process economic-injury eidl loan-calculation patent sba sba-authority Whether the SBA had authority to apply an earlier loan calculation methodology to a longstanding increase request
22-7040 Michael Lee Gordon v. Doe, Designation Sentence Computation Center Official, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-20 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-review bias civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure recusal standing statutory-interpretation witness Whether the district court erred in denying Appellant's motion for recusal of the district court judge based on the judge's bias as a witness in the i…
22-7034 Earnest Gibson, IV v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law campus direct-supervision medical-treatment medicare-regulations off-site off-site-facility physician-oversight remote-location satellite-facility Whether Petitioner's PHP was in violation of Medicare's requirement that treatment must have occurred under a licensed physician's direct supervision?
22-911 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. California 2023-03-17 Denied administrative-law administrative-regulation agency-discretion chevron-deference civil-rights due-process judicial-review ministerial-duty prisoner-rights property-rights statutory-authority Did the California corrections agency exceed the bounds of its statutory authority?
22-897 The Ohio State University v. Edward Gonzales, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights due-process education-amendments education-law injury-accrual standing statute-of-limitations title-ix university-liability Whether, or to what extent, a Title-IX-claim accrues after the date of alleged-injury
22-7015 Timothy Reaves v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center First Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
22-884 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Varinder Singh Ninth Circuit 2023-03-14 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) administrative-law due-process immigration-law in-absentia-order notice-requirement notice-requirements removal-proceeding removal-proceedings rescission statutory-interpretation Whether the failure to receive, in a single document, all of the information specified in paragraph (1) of 8 U.S.C. 1229(a) precludes an additional do…
22-859 Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-09 Judgment Issued Amici (36)Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedin…
22-845 Robert Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process duty-to-assist judicial-notice judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the presumption of regularity violates due process
22-6932 In Re Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
22-6918 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the appointment of counsel for indigent de…
22-838 Integrity Advance, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tenth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause appropriations-clause consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process judicial-review lucia-v-sec separation-of-powers Whether the Lucia 'new hearing' remedy requires an actual new hearing or only a cold review of the record
22-6915 Leon H. McCormick v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-816 The School of the Ozarks, Inc., dba College of the Ozarks v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing enforcement executive-order fair-housing-act gender-identity notice-and-comment regulatory-enforcement standing Whether a notice-and-comment violation, on its own, can establish Article III standing for a regulated entity within the applicable zone of interests
22-6857 Cynthia J. Rowe v. Penny J. Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights crime-scene criminal-procedure defendant-presence documentary-evidence due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standard jurisdiction standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court erred in its ruling
22-6856 Cecil Guy Truman v. P. A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
22-6827 Sandra Rumanek v. Sherry R. Fallon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights court-resolution due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-questions petitioner-rights procedural-due-process right-to-be-heard standing Does petitioner Sandra Rumanek have the right to be heard?
22-6788 In Re Kent Williams 2023-02-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Should this court order the ninth circuit court of appeals to discontinue its practice of sending orders and answers to prisoner litigants to a third …
22-764 Hrair Kaladjian v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment freedom-support-act injunctive-relief presidential-waiver separation-of-powers standing Whether the President's violation of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act is actionable by a private citizen under the Fifth Amendment Equal Protect…
22-762 Robert Kreb v. Department of Labor Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious employee-protection employee-protection-rights evidentiary-burden standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What is the appropriate standard of review when an agency administrative law judge abuses their discretion, is arbitrary and capricious or otherwise u…
22-6722 Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. Washington 2023-02-07 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process goldberg-precedent government-benefits housing housing-voucher procedural-due-process public-assistance welfare-benefits Is Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970) the law at Washington State respecting the mandate pre-determination hearing before a needs based Housing Ch…
22-6689 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency federal-deposit-insurance-corporation foia-request freedom-of-information-act insurance-coverage separation-of-powers Whether the FDIC's denial of FOIA coverage for theft, robbery or embezzlement of the Byline Bank violates the separation of powers doctrine
22-714 Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp. and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the case to the agency after determining that the agency had applied…
22-715 Chevron USA, Inc., et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure federal-officer-removal federal-preemption national-emergency oil-production statutory-interpretation war-powers wwii Whether a private entity is 'acting under' a federal officer for purposes of removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 when federal officials, through orders and…
22-708 Gripum, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied administrative-agencies administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-deference conflicts-of-interest evidentiary-requirements fda-guidance judicial-deference judicial-review regulatory-conflict tobacco-control-act What level of judicial deference is afforded to administrative agencies with conflicts of interest?
22-698 Andrew Cohen, et al. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law cellphone-radiation civil-procedure fcc-regulations federal-preemption federal-regulations health-and-safety preemption radiation-safety state-health-law telecommunications-law Are state health and safety laws impliedly preempted, under a theory, by the FCC's procedural guidelines for reporting how much radiation a cellphone …
22-6630 John Butler v. Howard Sissem, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure correctional-facility federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing prisoner-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third Circuit, did in fact have jurisdiction concerning Petitioners' appeal under the Federal Rule…
22-6631 Larry Welenc v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service irs notice-of-intent property-rights property-seizure seizure tax-law tax-levy taxpayer-rights Can the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service issue a NON Final Intent of Notice for immediate payment of Amount Due, to be paid within a deadl…
22-6618 Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2023-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Ruloyed Cases 995.3 and A
22-6620 Alex Adams v. Sergeant Beusch, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law costs due-process fees judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
22-672 Northstar Wireless, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law agency-penalty due-process fair-notice fcc small-business small-business-regulation spectrum-auction Whether imposing massive penalties without providing either clear ex ante guidance or a meaningful post hoc opportunity to cure satisfies the fair not…
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-6567 Pedro Benitez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure government-action judicial-review standing What is the proper standard for determining whether a petitioner has standing to challenge a government action under the Administrative Procedure Act?
22-663 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-regulation consumer-financial-protection consumer-protection due-process financial-regulation removal-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the CFPB rule prohibiting certain preauthorized bank account withdrawals should be vacated
22-645 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference appellate-mandates appellate-procedure civil-procedure compliance due-process false-statements federal-agencies judicial-deference judicial-review Whether federal agencies are exempted from the rule requiring strict compliance with appellate mandates
22-626 Hazem M. Hamdan, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty informed-consent medicaid-regulations medical-ethics medicare-medicaid patient-rights Are complainants to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry entitled to statutory due-process?
22-629 David Holbrook v. Tennessee Valley Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied administrative-law agency-discretion congressional-intent government-corporation judicial-review public-utilities rate-setting statutory-interpretation Do federal courts have authority to review TVA's fidelity to its enabling statute, or is TVA's rate-setting excepted from all judicial review even whe…
22-6485 Annamarie Riethmiller v. Unnamed Defendants Fourth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation presidential-actions standing state-court statutory-interpretation Was the notice of appeal timely filed?
22-6464 Leonard Chase, Jr. v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
22-605 Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied administrative-law agency-deference mootness Munsingwear SEC-v-Chenery vacatur Whether under the United States v. Munsingwear 340 U.S. 36 (1950) the Court should grant certiorari and vacate the decisions below in this case that b…
22-6380 Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
22-6367 Randall Bernard Allen v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-action individual-rights rule-of-law standing takings Where government, state and city administrations are regulators, can The Rule of Law, and U.S.Constitutional rights be abandoned for those administrat…
22-6328 Versiah M. Taylor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing Whether the USCA erred in screening or denying notice of appeal and reasons for costs
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?
22-538 William F. Nored, et ux., as Conservators, Parents, and Next Friends of William F. Nored, Jr. v. Tennessee Department of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights developmental-disabilities government-liability intellectual-disabilities medicaid-act nondelegable-duty statutory-interpretation Whether the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities has a nondelegable duty to enforce The Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.C. §1396, …
22-6263 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-standards standing takings Whether the Supreme Court failed to address the decision of Magistrate Judge Payne and because the Supreme Court did not address this issue, the petit…
22-6264 Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Kisor constrains the deference courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines
22-526 Pulak Barua v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-12-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement service-of-process state-administrative-agency takings Whether the notice given to Petitioner violated his Due Process rights
22-520 Temple University Hospital, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-court-review federal-labor-policy judicial-estoppel labor-law labor-relations nlrb-jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit lawfully affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's new rule
22-484 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law administrative-review board-determination civil-rights due-process federalism fiscal-plan legislative-oversight promesa puerto-rico-sovereignty statutory-interpretation territorial-self-rule What standard of review governs a district court's evaluation of the Board's determination that Puerto Rican legislation 'would impair or defeat the p…
22-6139 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a petitioner has standing to bring a claim
22-451 Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-15 Judgment Issued Amici (83)Relisted (5) administrative-law agency-power chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management maritime-regulation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-silence Whether the Magnuson-Stevens Act implicitly grants the National Marine Fisheries Service the power to force domestic vessels to pay the salaries of th…
22-452 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2022-11-15 Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii issues-being-raised
22-448 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-14 Judgment Issued Amici (30)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-funding constitutional-law consumer-financial-protection-bureau judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-funding statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 12 U.S.C. 5497, v…
22-439 Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th…
22-5999 Enrique M. Flores-Vazquez v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals-process due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-mandate judicial-review veterans-affairs Authority-to-disregard-mandates
22-5958 Raul Tovar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
22-5961 Richard Rojas v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the court erred in denying relief
22-401 Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management Does ANILCA grant federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state law regulating how people hunt?
22-5884 Rolando Cifuentes-Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
22-5879 Eugene Thurman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst…
22-360 Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permits …
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…
22-342 Mary Corner v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor Seventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-record civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment labor-law labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act procedural-due-process secretary-of-labor standing union-member-rights Whether my rights to procedural due process was violated under the XIV Amendment
22-325 Adam Bruzzese v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law adverse-employment-action constitutional-rights due-process employment-action ex-parte-statements government-employment preponderance-of-evidence procedural-fairness self-defense Can the adverse employment action against Adam Bruzzese stand if it was administered in a manner which does not satisfy due process requirements?
22-326 In Re Adam Bruzzese 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process employment employment-action federal-agency government-employment mandamus-writ property-rights Did the ATF deprive Bruzzese of his property without due process?
22-5709 Erika Jacobs v. Oklahoma Tax Commission Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction standing supervisory-power Question not identified
22-5715 Michael J. Tarvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied IFP administrative-law critical-habitat endangered-species-act property-rights standing takings-clause Whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's designation of critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog under the Endangered Species Act violates the T…
22-297 Kevin Llewellyn McGhee v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights combat-related-injury correction-of-records disability due-process federal-claims federal-employee-rights military military-disability Whether a Court and an armed forces board of corrections can invalidate disability laws, disregard a service member's permanent disability combat-rela…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional?
22-5664 Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-modification medical-records mental-health statutory-interpretation Did the alteration of the receiving hospital report by Judge Burke as mandated by Minn. Stat. § 253B.12 (1990) violate substantive law?
22-5659 Donovan Moenell Williams v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-process case-jurisdiction civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-filing scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court's interpretation of the statutory provision is correct
22-270 Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Should the word 'established' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly?
22-258 Wayne B. Holstad, et al. v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review statute-of-limitations takings Whether a statute of limitations is a due process requirement, and if so, what statute of limitations is applicable to this case?
22-262 Berkley V. Walker v. BOKF, National Association, dba Bank of Albuquerque, N.A. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response Waived 12-cfr-7.4001 administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review national-bank-act overdraft-fees regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether extended overdraft fees are 'interest' under the National Bank Act
22-5612 Luis F. Gomez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility Does a prosecutor's improper vouching for a witness unduly prejudice the defendant and require reversal under the 6th Amendment?
22-5611 William A. White v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions disclosure due-process freedom-of-information-act judicial-review legal-jurisdiction public-interest standing statutory-provisions Whether the Seven Circus eXia Riding, Phe ony perseas' FOIA disclosure obstructions 'greatly Comfounded' under 5 USC 552(a)(4)(B) could be justified b…
22-5582 Deborah Fishman v. Victor Politis Massachusetts 2022-09-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
22-5585 Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the state agency can require future social-security recipients to prematurely apply for reduced ben…
22-5580 Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) is inconsistent with the guideline
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule
22-5570 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
22-228 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice
22-229 In Re Brian D. Swanson 2022-09-12 Denied 17th-amendment administrative-law article-5 article-five 22-228" article-five-consent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-ratification equal-suffrage federal-question-jurisdiction georgia judicial-discretion patent-rights popular-elections senate-elections senate-representation seventeenth-amendment state-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion in di Does the Seventeenth Amendment deprive the State of Georgia of its equal suffrage in the Senate, requiring its consent under Article 5 of the Constitu…
22-5553 Rafael Villagomez-Troche v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 administrative-law court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Whether service of a 'notice to appear' that complies with 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1) is required to vest jurisdiction in an immigration court over removal…
22-208 Benoit Brookens v. LaRhonda Gamble, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-regulation labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act labor-union-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the DC Circuit is bound by the Federal Regulation 29 CFR 458.1 interpreting 29 U.S.C. Sec. 411 concerning standards of conduct
22-5527 Dora L. Adkins v. Tyson's Lodging, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court-affirmance civil-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-sufficiency per-curiam-opinion rule-60-motion standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the per curiam unpublished opinion and/or Judgment
22-5493 Patrick Wiley v. R. Masterson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-review civil-procedure due-process standing statute-of-limitations Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with the 30-day deadline to file a petition for review of …
22-5468 Benjamin Lawrence Petty v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-5456 Min Jeong Kim v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit court has jurisdiction over criminal, bankruptcy, immigration, or state matters
22-163 Lenair Moses v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor constrain the deference that courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guideline…
22-5401 Ivan R. Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Did the U.S. District Court of Arizona have authority to impose a 302 warrant sanction under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2703 and 2705 without evidence to support th…
22-5393 Seth Mitchell v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Second Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights document-withholding due-process freedom-of-information-act government-transparency governmental-agencies privacy-act when-can-government-agencies-withhold-foia-documents
22-5347 In Re Charles Edward Jones, Sr. 2022-08-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the constitutional and statutory provisions at issue were properly applied by the lower court
22-5344 In Re Eric McCray 2022-08-11 Denied IFP administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law executive-authority separation-of-powers take-care-clause Whether the federal government's actions violated the Appointments Clause and the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution
22-5334 Nicole Renee Crosby v. Idaho Idaho 2022-08-10 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
22-120 Suntree Pharmacy, et al. v. Drug Enforcement Administration Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-deference administrative-law controlled-substances dea dea-registration deference legitimate-medical-purpose medical-purpose prescription prescription-filling regulatory-interpretation Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) and knowingly fills a prescription for a controlled substanc…
22-5323 Douglas Stephenson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights patent procedural-due-process standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its procedural-due-process, civil-rights, standing, takings, patent, administrative-law analysis
22-114 Mark Anthony Blommer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process irs irs-procedure non-statutory-notices statutory-compliance substitute-return substitutes-for-return tax-deficiency taxpayer-rights Whether a notice of deficiency must comply with applicable statutes to be valid
22-103 Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied §1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment Should an appeals court supplement the record when the government materially misleads the lower Court, either intentionally or unintentionally, regard…
22-5237 Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of 'controlled substance offense'…
22-5227 In Re Eric Krieg 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights national-security separation-of-powers standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the government's surveillance program
22-88 Kenneth Hawkins, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-discretion due-process housing housing-assistance judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-relief tenant-rights Whether the agency's withholding of statutory relief for tenants to obtain decent housing is final agency action subject to judicial review
22-90 NGL Supply Wholesale, L.L.C. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-29 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference chevron-deference federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review precedent-analysis regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Did the D.C. Circuit err in deferring to FERC's interpretation of its own precedent?
22-74 Allen Patterson v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-service civil-service-commission government-agency misconduct ny-statute resignation termination voluntary-resignation Is it legal for a government agency to convert an accepted voluntary resignation into a termination for misconduct?
22-5181 Edward Avila v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing Whether the Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the Respondent did not provide the Petitioner a voice as guaranteed by the United State…
22-5148 Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process equal-protection legal-claims separation-of-powers standing Whether the Florida Department of Corrections is allowed to choose not to enforce the law as the Department sees fit, in violation of the Separation o…
22-54 William A. Goddard v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference irs-regulations kisor-v-wilkie partnership-audits partnership-election regulatory-interpretation tax-interpretation tax-procedure tefra tefra-audit Whether a court can give deference to an agency's regulatory interpretation without considering the limitations on agency deference set out in Kisor v…
22-48 AC Interests, L.P. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-07-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights clean-air-act due-process emission-reduction-credits equitable-tolling mootness takings takings-clause Should the 60-month deadline for using emission reduction credits be equitably tolled?
22-5120 Glendrick Gardner v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment government-liability workers-compensation Whether the Gardner's workers' compensation claim was properly denied by LEUCG (Waste Management)
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Whistleblower By Proxy case
22-5095 J. Christopher Wreh v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petition for writ of certiorari
22-5098 Arthur Torlucci v. California California 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires that administrative law judges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission be app…
22-33 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-12 Denied administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation Is a pandemic-related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
22-5025 Arthur Luther McKinney v. Gary Painter, Sheriff, Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies prisoner-litigation standing Did McKinney exhaust the administrative remedies required by the PLRA?
22-5026 Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation District of Columbia 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-enforcement air-carrier-access-act circuit-courts civil-rights judicial-review private-action private-right-of-action standing statutory-interpretation Is there a right to a private action on violations of the Air Carrier Access Act?
22-9 Whirlpool Financial Corporation, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code regulations sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-law treasury-regulations Whether the divided Sixth Circuit properly held that a statute conditioned on regulations delineating its reach may be enforced without regard to thos…
22-5 Peter Cooks v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute rehabilitation-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C § 1658 supplying a 4 year statute of limitations apply to claims made under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended?
21-1607 Oleg Deripaska v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-orders foreign-assets-control international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-law national-emergency national-security sanctions treasury-department Whether the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control acted beyond the scope of its statutory authority under the In…
21-1592 Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers Whether Congress violated Article I, § 1 by improperly vesting the Department of Health and Human Services with discretion to determine criminalized a…
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
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute Can a state statute providing a right of appeal from an administrative decision serve as an 'exclusive remedy' to bar separate federal claims under 42…
21-1545 Allen Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board District of Columbia 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process gun-rights license-revocation standing vagueness Can the government render moot a fully briefed appeal challenging the denial of a license to carry a pistol by granting the license — though not confe…
21-1546 Caroline S. Alasagas v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State Fourth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction court-procedures due-process federal-agency federal-rules legal-standing petition-for-rehearing standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying the Petitioner's request for justice under the law, contrary to the court's …
21-1536 Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of INA requirement…
21-1526 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action
21-8057 Cliffrie Morgan v. St. Francis Hospital Sixth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-1520 Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process employer-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-board labor-law national-labor-relations-act section-8c standing union-authorization Did the NLRB violate employer-free-speech, 1st-amendment, 8c-nlra, 8a1-nlra, employee-rights-to-refrain, circuit-split
21-8013 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-06-01 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361
21-8004 Kofi Adomako Ohene Kyei v. Oregon Division of Child Support Oregon 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federal-preemption injunction interstate-commerce judicial-injunction license-suspension Whether the State's administrative order violated the licensee's federal constitutional rights
21-1472 Claudia J. Rohr v. Hawaii Crime Victims Compensation Commission Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied ada-amendments-act administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act board-action disability-discrimination false-evidence judicial-procedure judicial-process statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the statute of limitations accrued upon service of Commission Decision and Orders or upon first communication of the concurring vote of all th…
21-7935 Jason K. Feister v. Florida Florida 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS
21-7921 Jesus Eduardo Wirichaga-Landavazo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process property-rights public-health statutory-interpretation Whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded its statutory authority under the Public Health Service Act by issuing a nationw…
21-7887 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. K. Crandall, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline physical-incapacitation procedural-excuse statute-of-limitations tolling Whether Mr. Rodd could have been excused or allowed to file administrative remedies at a later date or been excused altogether due to physical incapac…
21-1446 Simin Nouritajer, et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied administrative-law agency-action immigrant-petition immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether considering the strong presumption of jurisdiction to review agency action repeatedly recognized by this Court, 8 U.S.C. §1155 and 8 U.S.C. §1…
21-1453 Joe A. Lynch v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Amici (6) administrative-law legislative-history pro-claimant pro-veteran-canon standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation va-claims veterans-benefits Are the many millions of disabled veterans, their survivors and dependents entitled to have the VA meet a higher threshold of proof to deny their clai…
21-1455 Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, dba Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law arbitration-agreements chevron-deference disfavored-treatment federal-arbitration-act health-and-safety long-term-care-facilities medicaid-act medicare-act medicare-and-medicaid-acts Whether the FAA allows states and federal agencies to penalize the use of arbitration agreements
21-1441 Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sixth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that …
21-7863 Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
21-1436 Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited
21-7833 Rhonda Nanette Polite v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
21-7797 Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board Fifth Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires courts to appoint substitute counsel when a defendant demonstrates a com…
21-7781 Jorge Palacios v. Kevin Smith Ninth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-assistance legal-procedure medical-care standing statutory-interpretation takings Why was my testimony denied?
21-7787 Faith M. Hibbard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure claim-filing due-process procedural-law service-connected-disability standing statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the court erred in denying benefits based on a hypothetical-entitlement-theory
21-1417 Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy Federal Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief?
21-7756 Robert James Swint v. Robert R. Redfield, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-29 Dismissed IFP administrative-law agency-deference appellate-review civil-procedure remand standard-of-review Whether the district court's remand to the agency constitutes a waiver of de novo review by the district court of the agency's decision on appeal
21-7740 Michael G. Peters v. Texas Children's Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the United States District Court for the District of Columbia erred in dismissing petitioners' complaint for lack of standing and failure to s…
21-7745 Raymond E. Lumsden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision
21-1387 Erik Leckner v. General Dynamics Information Technology, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights cybersecurity-risk due-process free-speech retaliation-claim sarbanes-oxley standing whistleblower-protection Whether the court of appeals failed to recognize that SOX whistleblower protections does extend to cybersecurity risks and breaches
21-7691 Larry Eugene Fuller v. Colorado Colorado 2022-04-26 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its ruling
21-7680 In Re Israel Romero 2022-04-21 Denied IFP abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision in an unrelated case?
21-1365 Moulay Tidiri v. The Board of Regents, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-document fraud judicial-review motion-to-dismiss post-tenure-review standing Whether the federal circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaints under FRCP 12(b)(6) despite evidence that the 2012 Post-Tenure Review Repo…
21-1348 Claudia A. Barber v. District of Columbia Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges District of Columbia 2022-04-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process government-employment judicial-review presumption-of-review statutory-interpretation tenure Whether only an expressed prohibition against judicial review can clearly and conclusively overcome the presumption in favor of judicial review of an …
21-7609 Desmond Deleon Carviel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law career-offender-guideline district-court-discretion guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation May a district court defer to the Sentencing Guideline commentary without first determining if the guideline is genuinely ambiguous
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 …
21-7593 David T. Young v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty judicial-review state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Did the State of Maho ma Violate Rtboners Louth and Fourtunth Amend ment igh bs
21-1342 Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Dismissed administrative-law circuit-split drug-exclusivity fda fda-regulation lambert-eaton-myasthenic-syndrome orphan-drug-act rare-disease statutory-interpretation Does the Orphan Drug Act unambiguously foreclose FDA's interpretation that the scope of orphan-drug exclusivity is tied to a drug's approved use?
21-7562 Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) in denying the petitioner's claim that the state court's decision was contrary to or an un…
21-7500 William Curtis Jones v. Texas Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-7490 Jeremy P. Spencer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Whether the court failed to provide a reasoned decision and adequate explanation for its ruling
21-7474 Jessie D. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process family-law notice-and-hearing standing Whether the Arizona Department of Child Safety violated the petitioner's due process rights by terminating her parental rights without providing adequ…
21-7453 Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-24 Dismissed IFP administrative-law due-process equal-protection medical-marijuana standing takings Whether the state's denial of a permit to operate a medical marijuana dispensary violates the Due Process Clause
21-7429 Damon Ramon Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-law crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation seminole-rock seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines Does the Sentencing Commission's commentary impermissibly expand the unambiguous definition of 'crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to include atte…
21-7422 Edward Shane West-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access delegated-authority due-process government-authority in-forma-pauperis judicial-review standing tax Where does Charles P. Rettig and his employee's that are on his staff get the Delegated Authority to question the Plaintiff Edward Shane WestEl regard…
21-7407 Janece Tisdel v. The Witness Protection Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction government-disability legal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the United States Court of Appeals and the United States District Court have subject matter jurisdiction?
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 whether-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-fifth-circuit-has-decided-an-important-federal-question-in-a-way-that-conflicts-with-relevant-decis…
21-7369 Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Whether the acting Leon Vhs Corl in Cape v. United States, 556 U.S. 255, 268, 129 S.Ct. 2155, 173 L.Ed.2d 1208 (2008), trial court's robbery under 18 …
21-1239 Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati…
21-1215 Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'machinegun' found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition?
21-1219 Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is …
21-7283 Earnest J. Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
21-7261 Ezeani Gregory Ifesinachi v. Guy Cirillo, Warden Third Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review procedural-inconsistency state-court Whether the District Court's refusal to review the legality of the petitioner's detention due to the government's failure to timely adjudicate his pen…
21-7243 Jabari J. Johnson v. Stephanie Dalton Tenth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP administrative-law asylum civil-rights due-process immigration standing whether the district court and court of appeals abused their discretion regarding title 42 asylum claims
21-7204 Corey Louis Hines v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings Can the Broad of Versions encumber the Act to vote of a 'cpt order?
21-7205 Lee Holland, Jr. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP active-duty administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-retirement due-process military-justice navy-procedures navy-regulations tucker Whether the United States Supreme Court should permit the United States Navy to violate its own procedures, regulations, and the Constitution
21-1150 Sharon Finizie, et al. v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process factual-findings federal-circuit judicial-review legal-misapplication merit-systems-protection-board standard-of-review Did the decisions/opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Merit Systems Protection Board constitute erroneous f…
21-7140 Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
21-1133 Charles Abrahamsen v. Department of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law anesthesia anesthesia-risks bullying-healthcare medical-disclosure orthopedic-surgery public-health-safety reasonable-belief whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the scope of the substantial and specific danger to public health and safety provision in 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(8) was erroneously limited
21-1140 UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied Amici (5) actuarial-equivalence administrative-law cms cms-rule healthcare-insurance medicare medicare-advantage overpayment-rule same-methodology statutory-interpretation Whether the Overpayment Rule violates the statutes' actuarial-equivalence and same-methodology mandates
21-7121 Joseph Lamont Wilson v. Phoenix Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the First Amendment's free speech protections
21-1109 Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due-process, whistleblower, recusal, administrative-law-judge, c…
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the lower courts erred in their analysis of the petitioner's ADA claim
21-7077 Catherine Kurkjian v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Federal Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-obligations bad-faith-doctrine civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law contract-reprisal government-contracts lost-profits statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation Whether a Court can neglect the legal and statutory obligations of an agency to adhere to a signed contract and the referenced clauses
21-7049 Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process product-liability standing takings Whether the FEA's decision to recall a model of car violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-1070 Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. Arizona 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing Whether the Arizona Appellate Court erred in its findings regarding material facts, procedural default, due diligence, and the possibility of a cure b…
21-1064 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure contract energy energy-law ferc ferc-regulation judicial-review mobile-sierra-doctrine settlement settlement-contract tariff-interpretation When may FERC and a court interpret a tariff inconsistently with a settlement contract and utility filing letter?
21-7021 John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case
21-7028 Fred Pride v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process equal-protection informal-claim medical-record pro-se pro-se-veteran va-medical-records veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the VA failed to ensure due process and equal protection for a pro se veteran by not examining all claims found in the medical record
21-7007 Amador Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act fintiv-factors inter-partes-review patent-act patent-office Whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's use of the Fintiv factors to deny institution of inter partes review violates the Administrative Proced…
21-6976 Tej Bahadur Karki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disparate-impact due-process fair-housing-act standing Whether the application of the Fair Housing Act to disparate impact claims is valid
21-6963 Vincent X. Lee, aka Imam M. Khalifa Al-Amin v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-01-25 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
21-1036 Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers Whether the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for further proceedings in light of Arthrex
21-6925 Chong Su Yi v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Maryland 2022-01-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-deference judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-fit statutory-interpretation Could the court apply rules that do not fit the person?
21-6903 Michel Thomas v. Grundfos, CBS, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory provisions
21-6883 Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing Whether RLUIPA requires courts to evaluate claims under the 'compelling interest' test or the 'least restrictive means' test
21-6868 Michael D. Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether summary judgment can be granted in a administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-religion standing Whether a requester is entitled to compel a district court to enjoin an agency from withholding records and order production of improperly withheld re…
21-986 Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order directly conflicts with Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970)
21-6810 Jodie T. v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-6814 Eleazar Flores-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-jurisdiction niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear (NTA) that di…
21-6798 Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place licensees with phys…
21-6767 Bryce Clair Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-972 Thomas H. Buffington v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (12) administrative-law chevron-deference chevron-doctrine deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the Chevron doctrine permits courts to defer to VA's construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the pro…
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels
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 Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP
21-925 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-limitations due-process fraud government-fraud government-overreach standing statutory-interpretation tax-regulations Whether the US government can circumvent constitutional limitations and defraud ~320 million American citizens
21-6641 Choo Washburn v. Juana Quico Clark Fourth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Question not identified
21-6613 DeAndre Russell, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-act pro-se standing stare-decisis Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-888 Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin…
21-858 Classic Cab Company v. District of Columbia Department of For-Hire Vehicles District of Columbia 2021-12-09 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-review appeals-process due-process hearing-process independent-adjudication judicial-review sham-hearing Is the use of a sham hearing process where the agency subject to an appeals process has the authority to overturn the determination of an independent …
21-848 Spire Missouri Inc., et al. v. Environmental Defense Fund, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-07 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-decision energy federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas public-interest remand remand-without-vacatur vacatur Whether remand without vacatur is the appropriate remedy where the record indicates that an agency's inadequately reasoned decision could be corrected…
21-826 K. John Corrigan, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference bureau-of-land-management chevron-doctrine federal-land-policy-and-management-act grazing-preference judicial-review statutory-interpretation taylor-grazing-act Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held that statutory silence on the issue before the court can be unambiguous for purposes of the Chevron doctrine
21-6501 Luke D. Patterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-6470 Michael George Kogianes v. Edward Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-rights state-court Did the state violate the federal due process rights of my petitioner by sanctioning the proper format accepted by the court to deny a sub-trial based…
21-777 Blake Edward Halfacre v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law employment-rights exclusive-provisions federal-employees federal-employment-compensation-act federal-tort-claims-act light-duty-job light-duty-job-offer united-states-court-of-appeals workers-compensation Are the 'exclusive provisions' in the FECA (Federal Employment Compensation Act) applicable, or available to Federal Employees who also have no formal…
21-6408 James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action Whether a state violates the express terms of a settlement agreement by refusing to affirm the decision maker of their authority to grant approvals th…
21-6418 Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o…
21-781 NVS Technologies, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied administrative-law consideration contract-law contract-termination due-process federal-agency funding-limitation good-faith good-faith-dealing government-contracts termination Can a federal agency refuse to allot available funds to an incrementally funded contract for any reason or no reason, and so terminate that contract, …
21-6378 Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing Whether a district court has authority to reduce a sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) when determining a compassionate release motion
21-6311 Curtis R. Gaylord v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law congressional-intent constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process fifth-amendment property-rights public-policy va-proceedings va-regulations veterans-benefits Are Veterans benefits a property right/interest protected under the United States Constitution, Fifth Amendment?
21-6312 Manuel Melgar-Diaz and Joaquin Benito-Mendoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law congressional-delegation constitutional-authority constitutional-law executive-power government-branches legislative-delegation legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether Congress can delegate its authority to another branch of government consistent with the Constitution by merely providing an 'intelligible prin…
21-6295 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst…
21-723 Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law Whether the United States is allowed to reduce the income of a person and then tax the income reduction of that person without due process or equal pr…
21-6228 Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Urena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements When a notice to appear fails to include information required by statute and/or regulation, does the immigration court lack jurisdiction over the matt…
21-686 Maria Esparraguera v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied administrative-law civil-service-reform-act constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board senior-executive-service whether-the-federal-circuit-erred-in-holding-that-neither-it-nor-the-mspb-may-review-a-career-senior-executive's-removal-from-the-senior-executive-ser…
21-688 Neris Montilla, et al. v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law conservatorship constitutional-claims due-process federal-agency federal-housing-and-finance-agency federal-national-mortgage-association mortgage-association state-actor Whether the Federal National Mortgage Association, when under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency, is a state actor for purp…
21-6205 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
21-675 Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Sons, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied administrative-law administrative-support congressional-intent director-standing federal-review-jurisdiction jurisdictional-review labor-director longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act private-fund statutory-interpretation wage-loss-claims workers-compensation Whether the First Circuit's finding that a US Labor Director could oppose Petitioners' wage-loss claims to protect a privately-financed Fund violates …
21-6173 Rotimi Salu v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs New York 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-adjudication administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone, denying the accused…
21-6170 Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers Whether the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request
21-6113 Clinton Rayshawn Grayson v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-631 Emily S. Wilson, as Executrix of the Estate of Joseph A. Wilson, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law chevron-deference foreign-trust irs-policy irs-reporting statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-penalty Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not resolving the ambiguity in the statutory provisions of 28 U.S.C. §§ 6048 and 6677 in favor of Petitioners
21-6097 Dashon Hines v. Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance Staff, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process medicaid Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state to provide free legal assistance to a disabled individual seeking to challenge …
21-6116 Christopher David Cobb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error oath-of-office public-employment standing Whether the conflict between Mechanik and Bank of Nova Scotia invite arbitrary decisions from the lower courts
21-589 Said Rum v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process factfinding-procedures fbar-penalties reporting-requirements standard-of-review willfulness Are courts to apply de novo review of agency actions when the inadequacy of the factfinding procedures is due to a procedural due-process violation
21-590 A. Michael Davallou v. United States First Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability hazard-disclosure negligence policy-decision specific-known-immediate-hazard warning-duty Whether the Government's failure to warn of a specific, known, immediate hazard is not the kind of broader social, economic, or political policy decis…
21-584 Agendia, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Ninth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure delegation-of-authority local-coverage-determination medicare-act medicare-administrative-contractor medicare-coverage-policy medicare-policy rulemaking-requirements statutory-interpretation Whether the rulemaking requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 1395hh(a)(2) apply to a Medicare policy deeming all molecular diagnostic laboratory tests 'investig…
21-6040 Louis Holger v. State of Alaska, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) denial of patent applications violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-6052 Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim Whether the 4th Circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative-exhaustion
21-574 Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agency-rulemaking bennett-v-spear environmental-impact nepa notice-and-comment procedural-finality standing standing-doctrine Whether the final NEPA procedures promulgated by federal agencies fail the two-pronged test in Bennett v. Spear for finality under the Administrative …
21-563 Warren M. Lent, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2021-10-18 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law administrative-penalty administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings Whether administrative agency can permanently deprive person of millions in fines using summary hearing process
21-5983 Jennifer L. Kammerer v. State Bar of California California 2021-10-15 Denied IFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights discrimination equal-protection mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination professional-license professional-licensing rehabilitation-program Does the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit punishing an individual for being mentally ill by revoking their professional license and denying th…
21-5974 Eduviges Ayala-Bello and Walter Velez-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-policy alienage alienage-classification citizenship-distinction due-process equal-protection immigration rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny Whether agency policies that distinguish on the basis of citizenship automatically receive rational-basis-review
21-5949 In Re Henryk S. Borecki 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure citizenship-documentation due-process federal-authority identity-documents immigration mandamus real-id-act travel travel-identification Whether this court should issue a writ of mandamus to expedite issuance of petitioner's REAL ID
21-528 Willie H. Goffney, Jr., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-interpretation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review medicare medicare-claims regulatory-deference regulatory-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the regulatory deference test set forth in Auer v. Robbins and Kisor v. Wilkie should be retired or revised to allow courts to interpret admin…
21-5938 Brenda M. Johnson v. Electronic Transaction Consultants, LLC Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-hearings administrative-law civil-action civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-litigation government-agencies government-liability legal-jurisdiction social-services standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government agencies' actions
21-519 Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends…
21-495 Dennis Black, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process erisa judicial-oversight pbgc pension-plan pension-termination statutory-interpretation Does ERISA permit the termination of a distressed pension plan through an agreement between PBGC and the plan administrator?
21-5872 Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs…
21-5877 Brian J. Neary v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law age-discrimination article-1 employment-discrimination executive-order federal-excepted-service federal-hiring-authority legislative-authority pathways-program separation-of-powers Has the Executive Branch breached the Separation-of-Powers principle?
21-5810 Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing Whether the administrator of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut…
21-5815 Jose Antonio Morales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory provisions
21-465 James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the term 'relevant official service department records' in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s 'reconsideration' provision encompasses all records that …
21-469 Tony B. Jobe, Esquire v. National Transportation Safety Board Fifth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 foreign-government freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-documents intra-agency-communications intra-agency-memorandums regulated-parties Whether FOIA's Exemption 5 includes an unwritten 'consultant corollary'
21-472 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o…
21-458 L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-5762 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. City of Eugene Police Department, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-standing oregon-supreme-court service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing the appeal on jurisdictional grounds
21-421 Damian R. Nastri v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-governance board-quorum civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing Can the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board make decisions, solicit, hire, promote, transfer, reassign, or fire staff, select, refer, refuse, adjudica…
21-387 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2021-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure blight-citation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-law property-rights Did the subject, February 14th, 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to the Plaintiff, violate many of the Plaintiff's important co…
21-5616 Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing Whether the court below erred in allowing the petitioner to bring a claim for a writ of mandamus
21-5630 Daniel Everett v. State Bar of California California 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-rights disability disability-inactive-status due-process involuntary-inactive-status medical-records postdeprivation-hearing predeprivation-hearing state-bar state-bar-rules Is constitutional due process of law violated by State Bar rules that allow the agency to enroll licensees with disabilities on involuntary inactive s…
21-379 Texas, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (9) administrative-law affordable-care-act agency-rule medicaid-rates nondelegation-doctrine private-entity rulemaking-authority statute-of-limitations Whether an agency rule delegating rulemaking authority to a private entity violates the nondelegation doctrine
21-5605 Mark E. Sells v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing
21-354 David Solomon v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing David Solomon's claims when uncontroverted evidence existed that he invoked federal jurisdiction first …
21-348 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-09-03 Denied Amici (7) administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in narrowly construing an express preemption clause by applying a presumption against preemption
21-339 Ali Hamza Suliman Al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2021-09-02 Denied administrative-law agency-discretion agency-head appointments-clause binding-upon-all executive-power final-and-conclusive judicial-review principal-officer sole-discretion statutory-interpretation Is an agency head a principal officer under the Appointments Clause?
21-346 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-records civil-rights dismissal driver-license due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process witnesses Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection?
21-5429 Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification
21-245 Pyrotechnic Specialties, Inc. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure contract-appeals due-process right-for-any-reason standard-of-review Is a litigant entitled to have the correct standard of law applied by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals or does a 'right for any reason' do…
21-5437 Jean Crump v. Social Security Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisons medication-access prisoner-retirement prisoner-rights retirement-funds retirement-plan room-and-board social-security Is the Social Security Administration employee funded retirement a retirement plan?
21-234 Kevin R. George v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-interpretation clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error disability-claim plain-meaning pro-veteran-system statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denies a veteran's claim for benefits in reliance on an agency interpretation that is later deemed invali…
21-202 Mylan Laboratories Ltd. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction inter-partes-review judicial-review nhk-fintiv-rule patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board statutory-interpretation Does 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) categorically preclude appeal of all decisions not to institute inter partes review?
21-5335 Omar Israel-Griffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-provisions contract-law cooperation criminal-procedure due-process federal-procurement government-contract government-discretion plea-agreement statutory-interpretation withdrawal Whether a defendant who has entered a plea agreement with the government and provided cooperation should be allowed to withdraw the plea if the govern…
21-182 Sean A. Clark v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Second Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment service-of-process social-security social-security-benefits standing student-loans Does this action violate the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause?
21-178 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law citizen-lawsuit civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-enforcement environmental-law judicial-procedure npdes-permits standing storm-water-runoff Are public entities violating the Clean Water Act, their NPDES permits, and/or nuisance laws?
21-159 W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (21) administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts should defer under Chevron to an agency interpretation of federal law when the federal government affirmatively disavows Chevron defere…
21-165 In Re Gracie E. McBroom 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision
21-5295 Anthony D. Jones v. Michelle Floyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-representation sixth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant legal standards
21-5296 Patrick C. Lynn v. Debra Lundry Tenth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-144 administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection physical-injury recusal reverse-error statutory-duty statutory-interpretation Did the 10th Circuit err in failing to hold its D.C.T. Judge Mclaren had a statutory duty under 28 USC § 144 to refer my affidavit of prejudice to ano…
21-132 Robert Pilchman v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-review labor-relations pro-se-litigation standing Whether a government agency has absolute discretion in non-enforcement decisions
21-133 Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that 'intra-agency memorandums or letters' in FOIA's Exemption 5 enco…
21-126 Lucio A. Barroga v. Board of Administration of California Public Employees' Retirement System Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation Whether the refusal or denial of the MEMORANDUM and ORDER to interpret the issues of questions of laws violated laws
21-129 Arthur Lopez v. Manuel A. Ramirez, Presiding Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing Where a Atika. Op pelle Gut and Greys deprive on Grp pela nt Ai United Retes Gnatititional Arnonah an Qdminstiottive Qa Asdusing. TC aces ate rand ten…
21-5263 Derrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection government-overreach Whether the government's actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
21-5264 In Re Melvin Dinkins 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the 'usages and principles' of 28 USC 3730(b)(2) allow a person to bring a civil action for the United States Government, and whether this is …
21-118 Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying …
21-94 Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation Definition of 'child' in Immigration and Nationality Act
21-86 Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (9) administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's structure…
21-5186 Mihran Melkonyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Auer deference applies to the Sentencing Guidelines
21-80 Outdoor Amusement Business Association, Inc., et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied administrative-law clear-statement-rule h-2b-visa immigration-law labor-certification legislative-rulemaking nondelegation-doctrine Whether Congress impliedly authorized the Secretary of Labor to promulgate legislative rules for the admission of H-2B workers and adjudicate H-2B lab…
21-82 Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department Does the SEC have independent authority to interpret and enforce the Bank Secrecy Act?
21-61 CHS-Glenwell Inc., et al. v. Ohio Department of Medicaid Ohio 2021-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process federal-preemption federal-regulation judicial-deference judicial-review medicaid-agency medicare state-medicaid Is a state Medicaid agency entitled to deference in judicial review of the agency's interpretation of an unambiguous, inapplicable federal Medicare re…
21-5116 In Re Jordan Powell 2021-07-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disaster-relief due-process economic-injury-disaster-loan executive-authority national-security presidential-powers small-business small-business-administration standing Did the United States Small Business Administration fail to complete its statutory duty by arbitrarily avoiding the issuance of an Economic Injury Dis…
21-35 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to determine its original and lower court's jurisdiction in OPM Investigation Case 01-904-277 and its Dec…
21-36 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-on-the-merits jurisdictional-review merit-systems-protection-board opm personnel-suitability standing Whether Petitioner has standing to correct a jurisdictional error before the Lower Courts
21-37 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-claims default-judgment federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge merit-systems-protection-board mspb-judgment office-of-personnel-management opm-investigation statutory-review void-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or 'lacks jurisdiction' to determine its original and lower court's jurisdiction in OPM Investigation Cas…
21-21 Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation Due-process-violation
21-5 Solomon Adu-Beniako v. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Michigan 2021-07-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law cdc-guidelines civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process expert-testimony government-liability judicial-review standing substantial-evidence Does the Respondent's unfairly tasking, and blaming the Petitioner for the DOJ/DEA responsibility violate the Petitioner's Constitutional rights?
21-7 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Leymis Carolina Velasquez, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-06 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) adjustment-of-status administrative-law admission-criteria immigration immigration-law lawful-permanent-resident permanent-residency statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether a grant of temporary protected status must be treated as an admission into the United States for purposes of a foreign national's application …
21-2 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2021-07-02 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chevron-deference erisa fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-benefits plan-termination statutory-interpretation Has the D.C. Circuit improperly extended Chevron deference to PBGC's construction of ambiguous statutory provisions in informal, non-binding adjudicat…
20-8457 Michael Izell Seals v. K. Allison, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-8459 Deon Frederick Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-overreach standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-8427 Bin Yang v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law amendment-xiv civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-allegations licensing-dispute medical-education nursing-internship Question Presented
20-8426 Bin Yang v. California Board of Registered Nursing California 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony government-agency government-misconduct licensing-board standing Why is Petitioner NOT ALLOWED to withdraw her application from a nursing-board
20-1775 Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-law apa civil-rights immigration mootness standing Whether States with interests should be permitted to intervene to defend a rule when the United States ceases to defend
20-1778 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the 'hazardous a…
20-1763 Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text Should disability-related interference claims be analyzed as retaliation claims or under a broader framework?
20-8365 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-jurisdiction legal-remedy standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit exceeded the scope of its analysis in rejecting the appellant's resistance claim
20-1744 Google, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, et al. California 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure federal-preemption labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlra-jurisdiction penalties preemption state-law-claims statutory-preemption Whether the National Labor Relations Act preempts a state-law claim for penalties based on the same conduct that formed the basis of relief under the …
20-8296 Carrington Sturgis v. Maryland Maryland 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified
20-1720 Joanne Taylor-Cotten v. District of Columbia Public Schools District of Columbia 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-law impact-process retaliation Whether the district court erred in holding DCPS and OFA for violation of the IMPACT process by no providing Staff development
20-1691 Paul E. Robinson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review veterans-benefits Did the court of appeals violate constitutional rights of the veteran?
20-1692 Henry Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution expert-testimony health-care-fraud healthcare-fraud medicaid medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation Whether Medicare regulations are controlling in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347
20-8201 Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation Does a 'found in' violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, or when the alien is 'found in' the United States by immigrat…
20-8206 Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-02 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation Can a person be convicted of alleged crimes based on mental retardation or other mental disabilities?
20-1662 William B. Trescott v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference agency-rulemaking chevron-deference due-process interstate-commerce professional-judgment Is it Constitutional for a court to defer to a person lacking professional experience under Chevron-vs-NRDC-Inc
20-8150 Andres Cabezas v. Richard Corcoran, Florida Commissioner of Education Florida 2021-05-26 Denied IFP administrative-law due-process judicial-review procedural-error property-revocation property-rights remand state-agency Did the reviewing court of a state agency's determination to revoke property overstep its judicial authority in not granting the parties' desire to re…
20-8137 Marilynn M. McRae v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights disability due-process eeoc-duty employee-protection employment government-agency light-duty-policy workplace-discrimination Whether EEOC has a duty to protect employees from discriminatory light duty policies
20-1631 Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Implicit, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-appointment officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-1617 Matthew Earley v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-8061 Jermaine Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-19 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law agency-adjudication civil-rights constitutional-interpretation custodial-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction miranda-rights police-misconduct property-rights Whether the proper procedural safeguards were provided to the petitioner in their request to remain silent and request for an attorney
20-1589 Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) 15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064
20-8022 Tillman T. Henderson v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
20-8034 George Poole v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing despite the petitioner's allegations of injury-in-fact, caus…
20-1575 Americare Emergency Medical Service, Inc. v. New Jersey Office of Emergency Medical Services, et al. New Jersey 2021-05-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing Does the Appellate Division's ruling regarding standing remain valid if both of the status terms the Court relied upon were held factually inaccurate?
20-7987 Gregory K. Clinton v. Cheryl Dean Riley Fourth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law endangered-species-act environmental-law national-environmental-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in up…
20-7975 Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure district-court document-redaction foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised Document released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, consisting only of a b…
20-1546 Bellflower Unified School District v. Fernando Lua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fape idea individualized-education-program local-educational-agency ninth-circuit parochial-school reassessments special-education unilateral-private-placement Is the District of Residence the responsible Local Educational Agency for providing reassessments, and coordinate provision of special education, to a…
20-7948 Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 15 Supreme Court justices are the last line of defense for religious freedom and the free exercise thereof?
20-1530 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (4) administrative-law clean-air-act congressional-authority congressional-power energy-policy environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation epa-authority federalism separation-of-powers Did Congress constitutionally authorize the EPA to issue significant rules without limits under the Clean Air Act?
20-1531 The North American Coal Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-authority carbon-dioxide-emissions carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan environmental-regulation epa epa-regulation generation-shifting power-plants Whether 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) grants the EPA authority to impose industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes
20-1532 Diana Garvey v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied administrative-law agency-deference agency-regulation chevron-deference judicial-review plain-meaning statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits willful-misconduct Whether the Secretary's regulation redefines the statutory definition of 'veteran' in an impermissible manner
20-7919 Edward Shane West-El v. C. K. ONeal Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights delegated-authority due-process indigenous-status judicial-hearing jurisdiction standing tax tax-compliance Where does the IRS agent have delegated authority to request tax forms from a Moorish American?
20-7922 Edward Shane West-El v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-hearing legal-standing procedural-fairness right-to-travel standing Why was the Petitioner denied the Right to Travel and had to pay a fine?
20-7891 Hasan Shareef v. Butler County Public Newspaper, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-1497 Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County, Maryland Maryland 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights county-regulations covid-19-restrictions due-process standing takings zoning zoning-violations Were the citations issued by the County sufficient notice of violations?
20-7862 In Re Momolu V. S. Sirleaf, Jr. 2021-04-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-review due-process federal-courts immigration-law jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-provisions Does the AE DPA rescedoraly ar veld Sodgmer C8) dis
20-1487 Donna M. Gilbert, et al. v. RADM Michael D. Weahkee, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law due-process eligibility-requirements federal-agency federal-law non-profit non-profit-corporation standing Whether a federal agency is allowed to enter into a contract with a state non-profit corporation when the state non-profit corporation was established…
20-7836 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-23 Dismissed IFP administrative-law age-discrimination appointment-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-employment federal-question standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the order of the district court to dismiss the Title VII civil rights and Age Discrimination in E…
20-1486 Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Ninth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-rulemaking disproportionate-share-hospital disproportionate-share-hospital-payments due-process logical-outgrowth medicare medicare-payments notice-and-comment Whether agencies must accurately include key facts and data in notices of proposed rulemaking to satisfy fair-notice, public-comment
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth 2021-04-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights
20-1458 Jon L. Bryan v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure duty-of-fair-representation grievance-procedure grievance-withdrawal labor-law statute-of-limitations union-representation Whether the court erred by ruling that a union member's duty of fair representation claim, filed two months after the union's withdrawal of his 19-yea…
20-1437 Optimum Services, Inc. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Federal Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action bid-protest contract-disputes-act court-of-federal-claims government-contracting judicial-review standard-of-review termination-for-convenience Is an agency's termination for convenience of a contract for voluntary corrective action in response to the filing of a post-award bid protest in the …
20-7742 Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs…
20-7736 John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing Whether the petitioner has standing to bring claims against the defendants for alleged abuse, negligence, incompetence, conspiracy, malfeasance, and d…
20-1427 Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in interpreting the term 'pending deportation' in 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(A) to include those awa…
20-7684 Richard S. Glenn, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action judicial-review legal-precedent standing Whether the court applied the wrong standard of proof for a member of the public to establish standing to challenge a government action
20-1368 Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative claims process is juris…
20-7599 Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera…
20-1354 City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of 'effect of prohibiting' in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting standa…
20-7548 David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden Third Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in concluding that the petitioner's prior conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was not a valid predicate offense for p…
20-7560 Hakim Jakuin Morris v. Jocelyn B. Cate, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection property-rights property-seizure standing strict-scrutiny Why was I denied Substantive & Procedural Due Process to challenge the validity of the alleged claims made by DMV, DSS and court officials?
20-1345 Keith Arnold v. City of Auburn, Washington Washington 2021-03-24 Denied abuse-of-authority abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion municipal-harassment parking-regulation parking-ticket Has the City of Auburn committed harassment under the cover of abuse of a position of authority against petitioner by giving petitioner a parking tick…
20-1322 Michael Neely v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Relisted (3) administrative-action administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights dodd-frank due-process equal-protection sarbanes-oxley standard-of-review whistleblower-rights Do Whistleblowers have a right to the equality of standard review under law, when the adverse effect dismisses the entire causes of action?
20-1326 Rebecca A. Moriello v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-rule-making due-process federal-regulations non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine notice separation-of-powers vagueness Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38 and 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.390 are inconsistent with the separation-of-powers-doctrine
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention is applicable and the district court may decline jurisdiction when there is a state administrative proceeding brought under…
20-7525 Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process?
20-7519 Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the lower courts' rulings are tainted by corruption financed by China's Communist party, and whether the Supreme Court should reverse the CAFC…
20-1309 Corcamore, LLC v. SFM, LLC Federal Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process lanham-act lexmark-test standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-trial-and-appeal-board Whether the Lexmark test is the sole determinant of the TTAB's statutory power to adjudicate a § 1064 trademark cancellation, or if the Federal Circui…
20-1311 Sedfrey M. Linsangan v. Territory of Guam, et al. Guam 2021-03-19 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-restrictions due-process government-authority public-health quarantine-rights standing takings Whether incoming residents and passengers into Guam are being unconstitutionally quarantined at government facilities despite no contact with infected…
20-7490 Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington Washington 2021-03-18 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing Whether it is legally permissible for police to use excessive force against a U.S. citizen committing no crimes, including shooting the person in the …
20-1292 Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation Should this Court overrule Kisor v. Wilkie, Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. and direct federal courts to stop giving deference …
20-1271 Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive?
20-1261 Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-7420 Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving good-time credits toward the service of his sentence, when such credits are mandated by statute…
20-7407 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments appointments-clause arthrex-decision article-i constitutional-review patent-appeal secretary-of-commerce separation-of-powers trademark-judges Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the appointment of administrative patent judges by the Secretary of Commerce violates the Appointmen…
20-7390 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under the 'residual clause' of 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
20-7324 Malcolm Elbray Traywicks, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general controlled-substances-act delegation-of-power due-process prosecutorial-discretion scheduling-authority separation-of-powers Does the Congressional delegation of power to the Attorney General permitting scheduling of substances under the Controlled Substances Act violate due…
20-7349 In Re Bobby Mellard 2021-03-05 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-7320 Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Washington 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation Whether the appellate court must apply de novo review where the trial judge failed to make specific findings on the prosecution's justifications for o…
20-7297 Demetries Sturgis v. Maryland Maryland 2021-03-02 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process government-benefits mathews-v-eldridge standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Mathews v. Eldridge balancing test for procedural due process claims
20-1195 Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the outc…
20-1190 Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery?
20-1178 Pacific Choice Seafood Company, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference commerce-secretary fishery-management quota-limits quota-shares statutory-interpretation Whether a court should defer, under Chevron, to an interpretation made by an advisory council that is not itself a federal agency, as part of that cou…
20-1180 Territory of American Samoa v. National Marine Fisheries Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied administrative-law american-samoa constitutional-law deeds-of-cession federal-law federal-obligations large-vessel-prohibited-area maritime-regulation territorial-law territory-of-american-samoa Whether the Deeds of Cession establish binding and enforceable obligations on the United States
20-7233 John Dan Bumphus, Jr. v. Unique Personnel Consultants, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
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 Whether the IDFPR's Final Order indefinitely suspending Petitioner's medical license for two years pursuant to the first order on remand, or one year …
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, must the retrospective elaboration be of a decisionmaker with auth…
20-7155 James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
20-1112 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis Whether Justice Barrett must enforce the Supreme Court's stare decisis precedents prohibiting repudiation of government-issued patent grants
20-1113 American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2021-02-12 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic…
20-1114 American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-12 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (3) administrative-law chevron-deference healthcare-regulation hospital-acquisition-cost medicare medicare-reimbursement reimbursement-rates statutory-interpretation survey-data Whether Chevron deference permits HHS to set reimbursement rates based on acquisition cost and vary such rates by hospital group if it has not collect…
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Circui…
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…
20-1075 John Robert Reichard, et ux. v. Russell A. Brown, Chapter 13 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-13-bankruptcy due-process federal-statutory-interpretation local-rules privacy privacy-protection tax-return-confidentiality tax-returns Whether the privacy protections due Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtors' income tax returns can be denied by a local rule of bankruptcy procedure
20-1079 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents?
20-7069 Martell Roberts v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs…
20-1057 Oracle America, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-record agency-deference bid-protest conflicts-of-interest criminal-statute federal-law harmless-error procurement procurement-law Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for 'harmless error' based on a rationale not present in the administr…
20-7016 Andrew David Bruins, II v. Michele Whitman, Associate Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-provisions civil-procedure civil-rights court-proceeding due-process mandate relief remedies standing statutory-interpretation undue-burden Does the act or process of accommodating or accommodative information establish when court proceedings are deemed?
20-1046 Marin Housing Authority v. Kerrie Reilly California 2021-02-01 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law annual-income developmental-disability housing-assistance income-calculation medicaid-funding medicaid-payments personal-caregiving public-housing Whether a public housing authority, in calculating a family's annual income, is required by this regulation to exclude Medicaid-funded payments made t…
20-1039 Elizabeth Aviles-Wynkoop v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-employment federal-regulations fifth-amendment whistleblower Can the Federal Government violate a Federal Employee's 5th Amendment right by depriving a federal employee of his or her property right (job) without…
20-6996 Delroy T. Booth v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law disability due-process judicial-review legal-precedent social-security standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Social Security Administration's denial of disability benefits to the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
20-1014 Organic Cannabis Foundation, LLC, dba Organicann Health Center v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied administrative-law due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment judicial-notice jurisdictional-deadline tax-law tax-procedure Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional under current Supreme Court case law?
20-1018 Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine interlocutory-appeal public-entities state-action-immunity Whether and under what conditions orders denying state-action immunity to public entities are immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctri…
20-1010 Ded Rranxburgaj v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Dismissed Amici (3) administrative-law agency-discretion immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Do legal determinations antecedent to agencies' discretionary decisions to commence proceedings, adjudicate cases, or execute removal orders 'arise fr…
20-6955 Theresa Skillings v. City of New York, New York New York 2021-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act child-services civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law immigration-law social-services-law statutory-interpretation Whether the respondent's agency the Administration for Children's Services violated the petitioner's rights with regard to the Americans with Disabili…
20-6962 Misael Herrera-Fuentes v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did not …
20-6939 Thomas Nevius v. Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-979 Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a nondiscretionary determination that a noncitizen is ineli…
20-6907 Dashon Hines v. TopShelf Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-employment standing title-vii Whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can pursue a Title VII disparate impact claim against an employer based on the employer's u…
20-6809 Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-917 800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. Third Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Primary …
20-906 Thomas Charles Horne, et al. v. Sheila Sullivan Polk Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process heck-rule property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations whether-the-heck-rule-should-apply-to-administrative-cases
20-6744 Sinclair Ellis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
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…
20-853 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-28 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-6578 Rickey White v. Gary L. Lumpkin, Presiding Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-15 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Whether the lower courts should be sanctioned for protecting the unconstitutional imposition of void and obsolete statute
20-6606 Paul W. Miller v. B. Von Blankensee Ninth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process remedies standing statutory-interpretation Can Congas Stabasly lowt by teak the Subject matter Tycho of Coors Cleated by ar het of acres 7 j
20-795 New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements?
20-796 City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Do the three substantive conditions the DOJ has imposed on Byrne JAG program eligibility exceed its authority under the statute?
20-787 Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 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…
20-6560 Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee v. Karen Stapleton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights procedural-due-process Whether the U.S. Department of Corrections' disciplinary procedures violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-6482 Derrick Moffite v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional/statutory provisions
20-6492 Calvin James v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the government is improperly denying a defendant's right to a pre-attachment hearing under the 5th Amendment
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment
20-742 Steven Bruce v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process false-and-misleading fifth-amendment medically-acceptable-indications medicare-part-d ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-section-504 Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sidestep issues under Medicare Part D by not looking behind a compendium's Medically Acceptable In…
20-6436 Daniel Lovato v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous
20-728 adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied 5-usc-7513 administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers severance statutory-interpretation us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-6349 Larry D. Odum v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-6365 Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-11-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-675 Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-311-312 35-usc-314 35-usc-318 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-invalidation patent-procedure patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board may invalidate patent claims based on a ground not asserted by the petitioner
20-685 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 GVR Amici (1) 10-usc-2808 administrative-law appropriated-funds cause-of-action federal-funding military-construction national-emergencies-act section-2808 standing statutory-authority Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Secretary's compliance with Section 2808 in reprioritizing appropriated …
20-672 Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. New York 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-6270 In Re Derrick Howell 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-6249 Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop to…
20-606 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an anti…
20-6242 Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of 'controlled su…
20-6203 Rachel O. v. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Alaska 2020-11-03 Denied IFP administrative-law alaska-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection guardianship native-american standing Question not identified
20-579 Zimmian Tabb v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous
20-6182 Kyle Rainey v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-570 Daniel Cvijanovich v. United States Secret Service Eighth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights criminal-prosecution foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act judicial-review law-enforcement-exemption law-enforcement-monitoring secret-service-records standard-of-review Does FOIA-exemption-(b)(7)(A)-apply-to-monitoring-of-individual
20-6178 William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization Whether the right to marry, have children, and raise a family free from unwarranted invasion of familial privacy and confidentiality is protected unde…
20-6160 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing Did the court of Appeals decision create a conflict between its decision and the decision of other appellate courts on the same issues?
20-6170 Justin David Brown v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance did-the-court-err-by-not-holding-a-hearing
20-543 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-26 Judgment Issued Amici (1) administrative-law alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporation cares-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance indian-tribe relief-funds statutory-interpretation tribal-government Whether Alaska Native regional and village corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act are 'Indian Tribe[s]' for purp…
20-6125 Edward Jones v. William Aaron Traylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-529 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights enforcement-scope fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review standing Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents?
20-525 Harold E. Rutila, IV v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit hearing-waiver johnson-v-zerbst merit-systems-protection-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner's due process rights
20-511 Chris George v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2020-10-19 Denied administrative-court administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-authority motor-vehicle personal-liberty property-rights right-to-travel standing What legal authority or standing does the V.I. Government have to take me a private individual into its administrative/commercial court (Magistrate Co…
20-6029 Pedro Tiempo-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant federal statutes and constitutional provisions
20-6035 Randy Williams v. South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a government action constitutes a regulatory taking under th…
20-6015 Lance R. Martin v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2020-10-14 Denied IFP administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-rights documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty state-court-procedure state-courts writ-of-mandate Whether the state courts wrongly misconstrued the writ of mandate for a habeas petition and denied the petitioner a hearing on his substantial claim f…
20-472 HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-13 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qual administrative-law disproportionate-economic-hardship energy-policy epa-regulation hardship-exemption renewable-fuel-standard small-refineries small-refinery-exemption statutory-interpretation Whether a small refinery must receive uninterrupted, continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qualify for a hardship exemption under the Renewable…
20-449 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act judicial-review notice-and-comment public-charge standing Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule
20-450 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-08 Dismissed Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment notice-and-comment-rulemaking public-charge standing statutory-interpretation Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule
20-454 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Granted Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-referrals administrative-law agency-rulemaking family-planning rust-v-sullivan statutory-interpretation title-x Whether the rule falls within the agency's statutory authority
20-458 Michael B. Brown v. Department of Labor Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure deposition-modification evidence factual-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure petition-for-review regulatory-compliance sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether a judge's change of a party's transcribed deposition is an appropriate factual finding, conclusion, and decision
20-459 Robert Ryan Snyder v. California California 2020-10-08 Denied administrative-law cell-assignment constitutional-rights due-process emergency-regulations equal-protection prison-overcrowding prisoner-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing-reform Should the extra living space created by California's prison population reduction measures be prioritized for long-serving or long-incarcerated prison…
20-5971 Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-for-writ remedies standing statutory-provisions whether-the-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-claims
20-5937 Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th…
20-5946 Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour…
20-437 United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry Whether a defendant automatically satisfies the prerequisites of 8 U.S.C. 1326(d) solely by showing that he was removed for a crime that would not be …
20-5925 Roberto Mendoza-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings service-of-process statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did not …
20-429 American Medical Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-law affordable-care-act arbitrary-and-capricious family-planning free-speech hhs-rule medical-ethics patient-communication reproductive-health title-x Whether the Title X family planning program rule is arbitrary and capricious, violates the Title X appropriations act, and violates the Affordable Car…
20-434 Paul A. Heinrich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process judicial-prejudice regulatory-enforcement rule-60b standing Whether judicial-prejudice requires-relief-from-judgment under-rule-60(b)
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due process
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid…
20-414 Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
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…
20-5828 Roderick A. Carter v. CPC Logistics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof driver-fatigue employer-admissions employment-discrimination federal-regulations protected-activity retaliation staa-protection trucking-safety whistleblower-protection When an employer admits to a violation in writing to the federal government, should they be held accountable to their words?
20-392 Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police New Jersey 2020-09-25 Denied administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar Termination-without-due-process
20-5779 Cynthia B. Woods v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-protection Whether the medical recommendation was approved and the living conditions of the individual were adequate
20-5745 Bradley William Monical v. Christina Towers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-employees governmental-powers judicial-review legal-standards park-county-orders qualified-immunity statutory-provisions Whether government employees' aid in violating clearly established park county orders and administrative law amounts to a due process violation
20-5725 Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation Was PeTL {tower's 42 U.S.C. 31493 COMPLATY ENTITLED To REVEFIT OF EQUITARE Tota
20-5700 Antonio Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction Why did a defendant's due process and equal protection rights be violated by the lower court's failure to address a defendant's sentencing error that …
20-5702 In Re Angel Osornio 2020-09-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-liability standing takings Whether the government's actions violate the petitioner's constitutional rights
20-5695 Tony DuPree v. Florida Florida 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Florida state courts erred in rejecting the petitioner's claims of due-process, civil-rights, standing, civil-procedure, takings, 35-usc-1…
20-322 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Esteban Aleman Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) administrative-law bond-hearing danger-to-community due-process flight-risk immigration-detention statutory-interpretation Whether an alien detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled to a bond hearing after six months of detention
20-5667 Lisa Tenaglia-Evans v. Thomas J. Evans Delaware 2020-09-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Did the court's rulings violate the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights?
20-314 RPM International Inc., et al. v. Alan Stuart, Trustee for the Cecil G. Stuart and Donna M. Stuart Revocable Living Trust Agreement, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-10 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law judicial-procedure officer-status patent patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing us-constitution-article-ii Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause challenge
20-315 Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-10 Judgment Issued Amici (12) 8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain status under 8 US.C. § 1255
20-5627 Justin Woodard v. New York New York 2020-09-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
20-5600 Jason Lee Harris v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-rights relief-petition standing statutory-interpretation When Preponderance of the Evidence Suffices Inference and Courts Judicial Notice
20-5594 William N. Lucy v. Estate of Annie D. Fox Alabama 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights discretion due-process estate-administration judicial-review probate procedural-requirements standing Whether the Mobile County Probate Court abused its discretion by ignoring Alabama law, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 43-2-42, and refusing to appoint …
20-276 Christopher M. Gibson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Amici (7) administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause constitutional-challenge dodd-frank free-enterprise-fund jurisdictional-review lucia-v-sec sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission separation-of-powers Whether Congress has implicitly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate separation-of-powers challenges to the authority of SEC…
20-5583 Gregory D. Crosby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-273 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-02 Dismissed administrative-law administrative-patent-judges agency-adjudication appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-5538 Michael Gerrell Boone v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-31 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing Whether the district court erred in finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of their claim th…
20-230 Donald L. Baker v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process judicial-notice judicial-review patent patent-law pro-se-litigation retaliation Whether U.S. Agencies may commit fraudulent acts to obstruct and delay applications
20-5525 Larry R. Bailey v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion discovery-rights due-process federal-lands fee-authority fees judicial-procedure public-lands public-records standing Whether the District Court erred when it determined that the Secretary of the Interior can charge an amenity fee
20-5456 Lorenzo Robertson v. Ozell Pace, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-construction Why have My Care not been Yaking, Serioas 2
20-5442 Condra L. Smith v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law amount-in-controversy civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction interstate-litigation standing student-loan-fraud subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-garnishment Whether the courts can exercise jurisdiction over a case involving parties from multiple states and the minimum amount in controversy for diversity ju…
20-5444 Mark Louis Sanders v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure asset-monetization civil-rights due-process government-overreach jurisdictional-challenge property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-procedure Whether the respondent violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by monetizing their assets without jurisdiction and in violation of statutory r…
20-167 Lilibeth Michelson v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law awol civil-rights de-novo-standard disciplinary-action due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-system-protection-board merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence Whether the Federal Circuit erred by reviewing a Merit System Protection Board Administrative Judge's decision that a medical note provided after the …
20-5365 In Re Jacquelyn B. N'Jai 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-160 Ahmed Halim v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence good-faith government-discretion housing-regulations official-good-faith standing state-variance takings What are the limits on due diligence?
20-162 Damon J. Claiborne v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-double-jeopardy administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process retroactive-enforcement retroactive-rule separation-decision separation-decisions statutory-authority Whether the Secretary violated departmental regulations that prohibited administrative double jeopardy
20-5333 Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied IFP administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun…
20-5343 James Brome v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process forfeiture jones-v-flowers mail-delivery notice notice-requirements prisoner prisoner-notice property-forfeiture statutory-notice What level of notice is required when providing a prisoner with notice that his property will be forfeited?
20-5345 Clarence Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law confrontation confrontation-right due-process government-burden hearsay revocation-proceeding testimonial-evidence witness-hearsay witness-testimony Whether due process requires the government to make an affirmative showing that a witness is afraid to testify before relying on testimonial hearsay a…
20-5352 Shawn Woodward v. Mohammed Ali, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to exhaust administrative remedies
20-141 Howard Bloomgarden v. National Archives and Records Administration District of Columbia 2020-08-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision exemption-6 freedom-of-information-act government-criticism government-employment personal-privacy public-disclosure Whether Exemption 6 of the Freedom of Information Act requires disclosure of a former government employee's termination decision when the employee has…
20-5325 Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Shane Cooknell conviction violates the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when the court denied his request for a co…
20-138 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transferrin…
20-5284 Tony Lam v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me…
20-114 Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this tax dispute?
20-110 Jack S. Kannry, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law disaster-relief disaster-tax-relief federal-tax-procedure irs-discretion irs-regulations stafford-act statutory-interpretation tax-procedure taxpayer-rights Whether the IRS should be free to pick and choose which mandated statutes and regulations to apply, and to avoid other highly relevant ones, by ignori…
20-111 Walter N. Strand, III v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied administrative-law board-discretion civilian-oversight due-process judicial-review military-records separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Secretary of the Navy is 'acting through' the Board for Correction of Naval Records as required by statute when he reweighs evidence and s…
20-105 John J. Davis, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2020-07-31 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-law-judge appointments-clause disability-benefits exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security Whether a claimant seeking disability benefits or supplemental security income under the Social Security Act must exhaust an Appointments Clause chall…
20-5234 Jeremiah Bryant v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination human-rights-act retaliation standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the underlying decision of the D.C. Superior Court based on the Office of Human Rights
20-5198 Franklin C. Smith v. Nurse Mayfield, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-5200 Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2020-07-29 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether a state court of appeals erred in dismissing a prisoner's case
20-5205 Jamaal A. Lewis, Sr. v. Hector Joyner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits due-process military-sexual-trauma veterans-affairs Whether the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has the authority to determine claims for disability benefits based on military sexual trauma
20-74 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-27 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's application of the statutory requirements for patentability under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102, 103, and 112 was …
20-65 Walter Reinhaus v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Cincinnati Ohio 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process historic-preservation municipal-law zoning zoning-dispute Did the court fail to recognize a constitutional right to due process?
20-5114 Leonel Romero-Ochoa v. Washington Washington 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
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 discretion to not request a periodic report from the AP but to instead obtain a periodic report by scheduling a second…
20-5100 Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the state's arrest of the plaintiff was frivolous
20-29 Sara Discepolo v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rights foia-review freedom-of-information-act judicial-presumption national-security presumption-of-good-faith summary-judgment Are the courts violating the FOIA and its mandate to conduct de novo review by applying the presumption in cases which have nothing to do with nationa…
20-37 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Charles Gresham, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-16 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights demonstration-projects health-care-coverage medicaid medicaid-demonstration-projects statutory-interpretation work-requirements Whether the Secretary may authorize demonstration projects to test requirements designed to promote the provision of health-care coverage by facilitat…
20-38 Arkansas v. Charles Gresham, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-16 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion experimental-projects health-benefits health-policy medicaid medicaid-expansion secretary-of-health-and-human-services social-welfare statutory-interpretation work-requirements Whether the Secretary's approval of the Arkansas Works Amendment was lawful
20-5043 Jiping Rizk v. Defense Finance and Accounting Service Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination language security-clearance workplace-termination Whether the termination of the plaintiff's employment was unlawful due to language barriers and lack of due process
20-5020 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Tri-Lift North Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-5022 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing Whether petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8922 Amber Renee Craker v. Texas Texas 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying discretionary review, in violation of the Petitioner's constitutional rights
19-1471 Jessica Lynn Tkacz v. Daniel G. Bogden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process evidentiary-standard. immigration standard-of-review administrative-law administrative-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence-standard immigration immigration-law judicial-review marriage-fraud standard-of-review Is the deferential 'substantial evidence' standard employed by federal courts to review decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals fundamentally in…
19-1475 Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied 35-usc-314 administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause due-process forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening chan…
19-1458 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-06 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congress due-process executive-review independence judicial-remedy patent separation-of-powers severance tenure tenure-protection Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy is consistent with congressional intent, where Congress has long considered tenure protections essentia…
19-1451 Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers Whether a court can refuse to entertain a constitutional, separation-of-powers challenge based on an intervening change of law on the grounds of forfe…
19-1448 Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasing Company, dba Excel Scaffold & Leasing v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law affirmative-defense civil-procedure due-process impossibility-doctrine judicial-review occupational-safety osha regulatory-compliance standard-of-review waiver Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) err in ruling that Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasin…
19-1449 Ronald E. Davis v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing tax Whether the United States Tax Court erred in dismissing petitioner's case for lack of jurisdiction
19-8871 Joshua Adam Schulte v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Does an administrative court order that unconstitutionally ends a case warrant appellate review?
19-8862 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Total Visa, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be gran…
19-1431 David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm…
19-1400 Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, LLC v. State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration Florida 2020-06-23 Denied administrative-law causation due-process license-revocation licensure-revocation mitigating-evidence notice opportunity-to-be-heard strict-liability substantial-causes Does the refusal to consider causation, substantial causes, and mitigating evidence—central to this licensure revocation—violate the Due Process Claus…
19-8761 Nivaldo Riascos v. United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts mandamus standing whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-dismissing-the-petition-for-writ-of-mandamus
19-8781 Egbert Francis v. Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing Was the petitioner's right to due process violated when the lower court dismissed their claim without considering the merits?
19-8748 Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
19-8749 Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unre…
19-8718 James Miller v. Michael Capra, Warden Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-1381 BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., fka MonoSol RX, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-review agency-discretion appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review mandate-implementation patent patent-office sas-institute Does the Judiciary have authority to review a Patent Office decision refusing to implement its mandate and this Court's precedent?
19-1376 Algignis, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2020-06-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-state agency-jurisdiction catch-22 civil-rights environmental-law innovation innovation-barriers judicial-review private-enterprise regulatory-capture regulatory-risk standing standing-doctrine Do small, relatively unknown groups have standing to try to solve their own local environmental problems that the government has failed to solve?
19-8714 Bodhi Tree v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-1373 Ming Wei v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-06-12 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination evidence fraud state-hearing Whether Wei's constitutional rights and due process rights were violated in the state proceedings
19-1355 Betzaida P. Jernigan v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) accredited-service-officer administrative-law advice-by-counsel agency-discretion civil-rights due-process false-evidence false-information government-misconduct judicial-authority judicial-review material-evidence omission-of-relevant-material-evidence presumption-of-withdrawal standing standing-contrary-to-petitioner's-claims willful-submission-of-false-information Is this a serious enough violation that merits judicial attention to remand in the interest of justice?
19-1348 Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-06-09 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'prescribed by the law of the State' in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to es…
19-8622 Kimberley McQueary-Layne v. Louisiana State Board of Nursing, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law case-number civil-procedure civil-rights court-case district-court due-process government-liability judicial-system jurisdiction legal-proceeding standing Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-8648 Vernon Wayne McNeal v. Fleming, C/O, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-penalties agency-authority civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction regulatory-compliance standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-strikes Question not identified
19-8636 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it …
19-8639 Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit Whether a plaintiff-African American male has been denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Caucasian …
19-8619 Deon Christopher Cobb v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-06-05 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory provisions
19-1335 Timothy James Dummer v. California Contractors State License Board, et al. California 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law certified-mail due-process government-taking hearing mail-service notice procedural-rights tax-notice tax-notices Where State law requires certified mail to be used for tax notices, is due process satisfied where the State instead only uses regular mail, which res…
19-8574 Calvin G. Latimer v. North Carolina Department of Transportation Fourth Circuit 2020-05-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Wel Ceihonaxnr (oniy > should be applied
19-8549 Emmanuel Adewale Adeyinka v. Brady Barrs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-8524 Gregory Preston Coker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 4th Circuit misapplied the standard in Madisyn vs. Whed to determine if the SIC Code 474-53-375 is applicable to a Qualified Affordable De…
19-8510 Juan Carlos Garcia Torres v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction noncitizen notice-to-appear removal-proceedings Whether an immigration court has jurisdiction to commence removal proceedings against a noncitizen if the 'notice to appear' at the removal hearing fa…
19-1310 Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation by exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl…
19-8452 William Strickland v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-13 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-8443 George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
19-1273 Assassination Archives and Research Center v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2020-05-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law cia-search cia-search-activities deliberative-process-privilege due-process epa-v-mink foia-exemption foia-exemption-5 foia-request freedom-of-information-act kennedy-assassination public-importance summary-judgment tax-analysts Whether CIA can assert a deliberative process privilege under Exemption 5 of the FOIA for its search activities in responding to a FOIA request?
19-8416 Hadori Karmen Chantel Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law boumediene-v-bush civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the administrative exhaustion requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) violates the right to habeas corpus under Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (…
19-8406 Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant had notice of the plaintiffs' assault, and whether the lack of such notice is sufficient to show that the plaintiffs' Eighth Ame…
19-8395 Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equitable-relief federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review standing statutory-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for equitable relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act and the Administrative Proc…
19-8381 Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-8359 Darin D. Phillips v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment labor-law minimum-wage Whether petitioner is entitled to the protections of Assembly Bill 2940
19-8322 Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-1231 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Prometheus Radio Project, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-20 Judgment Issued Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference arbitrary-and-capricious broadcast-media competition cross-ownership-restrictions fcc fcc-ownership-rules market-competition market-conditions regulatory-review telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-1996 telecommunications-act-of-1996 viewpoint-diversity Whether the court of appeals erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the FCC orders under review, which, among other things, relaxed the agency'…
19-8283 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-8287 Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation Whether the scope of a court's discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction over a claim for relief in the absence of a federal question is limite…
19-8245 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process standing takings Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioners' claims challenging the constitutionality of the Centers for Disease Co…
19-8252 Roscoe Chambers v. William Hardy, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process preemption regulations Whether the District Court can overlook regulations as preempting claims of due process rights
19-1212 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Innovation Law Lab, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority border-policy due-process immigration-law non-refoulement notice-and-comment preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation Whether MPP is a lawful implementation of the statutory authority conferred by 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(C)
19-1203 Children's Hospital Association of Texas, et al. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2020-04-09 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation chevron-deference disproportionate-share-hospital medicaid medicaid-reimbursement regulatory-policy statutory-interpretation supplemental-payments Whether an agency may receive Chevron deference when it erroneously denies that its current interpretation marks a change in position
19-1204 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-1198 CANVS Corporation v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law due-process government-contracts government-liability intellectual-property small-business small-business-innovation takings Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process…
19-1194 Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called 'Mindes test', or whether claims see…
19-8107 Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of 'aggravated felony' app…
19-8095 Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to compel discovery
19-1166 Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action
19-8070 Kenney Shi Lai v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-law agricultural-improvement-act civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction hemp-production standing takings Whether the federal government can prohibit the possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens
19-1156 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Judgment Issued administrative-adjudication administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review credibility credibility-determination due-process immigration-law judicial-review standard-of-review withholding-of-removal Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume an applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigr…
19-8032 Vaughn Harris v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ ripeness standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and ripeness in this case
19-8006 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the termination of a public employee in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights and the failure to provide due process in administra…
19-1119 Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. Department of the Interior, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-services arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-policy federal-property federal-property-and-administrative-services-act military-helicopter-training military-training national-environmental-policy-act national-park-service recreation secretary-of-the-interior standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Seventh Circuit err in concluding that the National Park Service's approval of military helicopter training exercises on property conveyed for…
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…
19-7978 Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness Was the security clearance questionnaire unconstitutionally vague?
19-1115 American Bankers Association v. National Credit Union Administration District of Columbia 2020-03-11 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law agency-authority agency-discretion chevron-deference delegation-of-authority local-community regulatory-definition separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation When a statute expressly directs an agency to define a statutory term, does the delegation expand the scope of the agency's authority at Chevron step …
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl…
19-7936 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine First Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment Whether the lower courts are correct to apply Nassar to FMLA cases
19-1089 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education eeoc-procedures employment employment-discrimination free-speech school-safety special-education standing student-discipline title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether a failure to recognize the current IEP which allow the coddling of the very dangerous kids who are a threat to teachers and other students?
19-7842 Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret Whether agency expertise could be applied to threshold questions accompanying a constitutional claim against a federal statute
19-7846 Cemaludin Veseli, II v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings When Ke Shee Gurte dove Cote 0 tiga & Arma
19-7822 Harry J. Williby v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
19-7798 Pablo Cantu Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances mootness patent-law standing takings Whether petitioner's claims became moot under extraordinary and unusual circumstances that were beyond the petitioner's control under the CARES Act of…
19-7783 Billy J. Martin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
19-7736 Silvester Woods v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals damages district-court due-process emotional-distress employment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress jurisdiction representation standing Whether the WMATA and ATU Local 689 presented unjustified excuses to reinstate the plaintiff and deny representation, and whether the district court a…
19-1040 March for Life Education and Defense Fund v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) abortion administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-rights contraception contraceptive-mandate due-process federal-regulations healthcare healthcare-coverage moral-objection moral-objections religious-exemption standing Whether states have Article III standing to challenge the religious and moral exemptions
19-1038 Department of Health and Human Services, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law affordable-care-act conscience-exemption contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate health-insurance preventive-services religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether the agencies had statutory authority under the ACA and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to expand the conscience exemption to the…
19-7584 Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County?
19-7586 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation Is the underlying case moot?
19-7558 Freddie Lee Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
19-7559 Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights DOES the First Amendment protect the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disrupti…
19-7573 Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness What is the appropriate enforcement mechanism for 38 U.S.C. §4215?
19-7543 Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Whether the Supreme Court should eliminate the requirement for an individualized, fact-specific determination regarding the availability of administra…
19-975 Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law border-wall constitutional-challenge homeland-security immigration-law immigration-reform non-delegation-doctrine Presentment-Clause separation-of-powers Whether ITRIRA § 102(c) violates the separation-of-powers, the non-delegation-doctrine, and the Presentment-Clause
19-965 Kenin L. Edwards v. Michael L. Atterberry, et al. Illinois 2020-02-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appeal conviction criminal-jurisdiction due-process illinois-supreme-court jurisdictional-challenge sentencing Whether it is a violation of due process for the Illinois Supreme Court to abstain from addressing criminal jurisdiction over Petitioner
19-966 Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-02-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. 324(e) permits review on appeal of the Director's threshold determination, as part of the decision to institute CBM review, that the…
19-7495 Abu Ala M. D. Badruddoza v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process employment equal-protection osha standing statutory-authority takings vaccination workplace-safety Whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) exceeded its statutory authority in issuing the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emer…
19-7444 Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondents' actions
19-7465 Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington Washington 2020-01-28 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review patent procedural-rights racial-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-7389 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. District of Columbia 2020-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process eeoc-obligations employment equal-employment-opportunity-commission equal-opportunity exhaustion-of-remedies human-rights judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Was the Petitioner adversely aggrieved by the actions of the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commiss…
19-7399 Frederick Charles Harris, II v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process irs jurisdiction tax-law Why was my demand denied when the defendant, the Commissioner of the IRS, admitted in writing that they didn't have jurisdiction to take my assets?
19-7402 Andrea Lee Sanders v. Hennepin County Human Service and Public Health Department Child Support, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech property-rights standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7391 Larry David Davis v. Larry Tegley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-sufficiency patent record-review standing takings trial-court Whether the PEMCE [5 in. (em) 12 support the petitioner's claims
19-7357 Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing Whether the USDC-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice Petitioner's § 1982 Complaint aft…
19-7358 Joshua Neil Harrell v. Fairfield Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period Whether the Second Circuit's holding that Ms. Castro's termination was based entirely on allegations of job-related misconduct is consistent with the …
19-914 Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC 'may seek' a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to 'file suit' se…
19-7321 Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-misconduct governmental-misconduct informed-consent mandamus mandamus-action medical-experimentation medical-information-withholding standing Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the evidence in this case and recognize and acknowledge that the respondent, the United States of …
19-7346 Peggy Jean Clark v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action-review administrative-law benefits-revocation due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-review military-benefits procedural-error property-rights retroactive-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the Appeals Court err in its judgment affirming the retroactive revocation of benefits on the premise that the initial determination granting …
19-7349 Angel Osornio v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-review standing Whether the petitioner was unlawfully denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the state court proceedings failed to prov…
19-896 Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Antonio Arteaga-Martinez Third Circuit 2020-01-21 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law bond-hearing clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process flight-risk immigration-detention immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government …
19-897 Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Maria Angelica Guzman Chavez, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 8-usc-1226 8-usc-1231 administrative-law detention immigration-detention immigration-law immigration-procedure removal-order statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal withholding-removal Whether the detention of an alien who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal is governed by 8…
19-879 Heon Seok Lee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law contractor-payment court-jurisdiction federal-funding federal-funds federal-jurisdiction municipal-jurisdiction municipality-customer sub-award sub-vendor sub-vendor-status whether federal court has jurisdiction to determine that (1) a municipality is a customer of its sub-vendor, and (2) a municipality sub-awards federal…
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…
19-7301 Michael Goodrum v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
19-878 Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission Third Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to 'obey the law' injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. …
19-7250 Thomas Kevin Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
19-7188 John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil Tenth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation Is the language of 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'s phrase 'at the same time' ambiguous?
19-7203 Arthur Luther McKinney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-challenge due-process habeas-corpus prison prisoner-rights property-rights reentry supervision Does the Texas Department of Criminal Justice have to provide due process before taking away property given for work?
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-7140 Antonio Medrano Ortiz v. George T. Solomon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-force judicial-review medical-care medical-rule standing statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations Where the District Court erred by dismissing my original complaint as time-barred by statutes of limitations
19-7157 Mother v. Lorain County Children Services Ohio 2020-01-03 Denied IFP abuse-neglect administrative-law child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law federalism jurisdiction parental-rights separation-of-powers Did Lorain County Children Services violate Parents' rights?
19-835 Valero Energy Corporation, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2020-01-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion annual-rulemaking clean-air-act epa-rulemaking judicial-review point-of-obligation renewable-fuel-standard Whether EPA must consider the appropriateness of the point of obligation in each annual renewable fuel standard rulemaking
19-7134 Jessie Carter v. Department of Agriculture Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law administrative-law-judge arkansas-dept-of-human-services civil-rights declaration disqualification due-process federal-regulations national-disqualified-list usda usda-program usda-regulations What is the proper interpretation of CFR 7 226.6 (c) (v)
19-819 Alfred Procopio, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure equal-access-to-justice equal-access-to-justice-act haas-v-peake judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation substantially-justified veterans-benefits Whether the 'substantially justified' standard under the Equal Access to Justice Act should be interpreted liberally in favor of veterans in benefits …
19-7103 Edward Merritt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to reaso…
19-7068 Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC Florida 2019-12-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings Whether the
19-813 Loring Edwin Justice v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment professional-conduct quasi-criminal self-incrimination Whether Tennessee violated the self-incrimination clause when it forced Justice to testify or suffer adverse inferences costing him his Tennessee law …
19-7046 Elvis Wayne Jones v. C. Overstreet, Commissioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing surveillance Question not identified
19-801 Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w…
19-804 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-allegation civil-rights constitutional-claim divine-communication due-process first-amendment legal-standing presidential-liability religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-interpretation separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims against the President of the United States and other government officials for alleged divine revelations and religious …
19-7031 Allen James Hancock v. Texas Texas 2019-12-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection land-use property-rights regulatory-takings standing statutory-interpretation takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement as a condition of …
19-7036 Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai…
19-7017 Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings WHEY Wo dipatiwvZrv3unnmMe gv Bus iv Ess
19-6989 George Calvin Belt v. Florida Florida 2019-12-18 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (DOR CSP) can enforce Fla. Stat. § 443.051 that became esta…
19-748 John B. Lepore v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge-findings administrative-law annuity-calculation basic-pay civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-a-6 creditable-service due-process fact-finding federal-employment government-benefits government-employee-retirement government-employment judicial-review retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation Whether the court below had the right to ignore the finding that the petitioner's retirement date was April 16, 1983
19-752 Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether state statutes can provide the 'relevant rule of decision' in an ERISA § 502(a) action when the state statutes create an adjudicatory procedur…
19-738 Tom Domingo, Sr. v. Department of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction kloeckner-v-solis mixed-cases obstruction-of-justice reduction-in-force standing supreme-court-ruling veterans-preference Did the US. Court of Appeals obstruct justice by ignoring or usurping the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Kloeckner v. Solis Secretary of Labor federal c…
19-6867 Jose Luis Maya v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asylum civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process immigration jurisdiction parole standing statutory-provisions Whether the Department of Homeland Security's policy of denying parole to asylum seekers violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Proc…
19-698 Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2019-12-04 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections as applied to the regulation of political speech
19-6822 Guy Cozzi v. American Stock Exchange, et al. New York 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law article-8-a due-process equal-protection judicial-review rb-89 separation-of-powers stare-decisis workers-compensation Were the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) rulings denying my Article 8-A claim and RB-89 rehearing request arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of disc…
19-699 Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discretionar…
19-705 John F. Sharpe v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion federal-claims military-pay separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treasury-disbursements Whether the acts of officials of the Departments of Defense and of the Navy are bound by statute and regulation
19-6782 Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred in requesting all documents from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission on the petitioner's appe…
19-6765 Anthony Lee McNair v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-11-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court's dismissal of his motion under the All Writs Act
19-671 Daniel A. Grover v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-deference administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation civil-procedure civil-service due-process federal-regulations regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies' interpretation of their own regulations must continue in light of the admission by the Offi…
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-6749 Bryan Keith Johnson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-liability standing Question not identified
19-6714 Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite…
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when it releases an inmate serving a consecutive sentence into the custody of another so…
19-6730 Cameron A. Harinarain v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights
19-628 Michael Cetta, Inc., dba Sparks Restaurant v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discharge due-process employee-discharge employer-statements employment labor-dispute labor-relations mutual-understanding national-labor-relations-act permanent-employment prudent-employee prudent-employee-standard replacement-workers standing unconditional-offer-to-return Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding striking employees had been discharged in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
19-630 Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore Lake was not an 'area' where a fee was charged,…
19-6642 Michael Allen Channel v. Benjamin Marquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy search-and-seizure standing technology Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and …
19-6626 Allen Dodson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-604 Ernest L. Francway, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law burden-of-proof department-of-veterans-affairs due-process federal-circuit judicial-presumption medical-examination medical-examiner medical-expertise presumption-of-competency pro-claimant va-medical-examiners veterans-benefits Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the VA enjoys a presumption that its medical examiner is competent in every veterans-benefit case
19-6548 Julian Marcus Raven v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parties standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles
19-599 Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-578 Sandra G. Hale v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law chemical-burns chemical-exposure expert-testimony federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice pesticide-regulations pesticide-usage veterans-affairs Whether an expert Toxicologist can testify regarding chemical burns
19-6481 Harold B. Rotte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct illegal-immigration irs judicial-review reputation standing tax tax-dispute Whether the laws protect Plaintiffs reputation, due process, and are real, or a front, discretionary as if friend or foe
19-6449 Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-decision administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-screening PLRA prison prisoner-rights standing Does the PLRA require the court to look beyond a prima facie showing when screening prisoner in forma pauperis complaints?
19-6462 Stephen L. Bush v. David W. Gray, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
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…
19-563 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Patrick J. Collins, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-29 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law anti-injunction anti-injunction-clause conservatorship conservatorship-powers derivative-action fannie-mae federal-housing-finance-agency freddie-mac shareholders-rights statutory-interpretation succession-clause takings third-amendment treasury Whether the FHFA's Third Amendment to the agreements with Treasury is precluded by the anti-injunction and succession clauses of the statute
19-550 Kimberly Watso, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference child-services civil-rights federal-preemption indian-child-welfare-act parental-custody state-agency-rules tribal-jurisdiction tribal-rights Whether the lower court improperly deferred to the Indian Child Services Department Manual over state agency rules and interpretations of the Indian C…
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 Whether the Federal Bureau of Prisons can torture an inmate diagnosed with asthma by exposing them to oleoresin capsicum spray, toxic smoke, and tear …
19-6339 Jackson Miles v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process healthcare-law informed-consent national-childhood-vaccine-injury-act-of-1986 regulatory-oversight regulatory-policy vaccine-injury-compensation vaccine-injury-compensation-program Where the special master of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) violates the 2017 Secretary of Health and Human Services' posted Rule that …
19-6359 Stephen Nivens v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-25 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law correctional-services double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentencing-credits special-project-credits standing statutory-interpretation venue Whether Judge Daniel P. Dwyer as the Administrative Judge was to preside over and hear Petitioner's hearing for Judicial Review instead of Judge Boyer
19-6383 Nelli Kesoyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)?
19-6347 Rafael Alvarado v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Illinois 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the lower court dismissed his case without a hearing …
19-6337 Monica Birch-Min v. Middlesex County Board of Social Services, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agencies guardianship judicial-review senior-citizens Whether the US Supreme Court will permit Government agencies to take away Senior Citizens' Constitutional Rights for due process and the necessity of …
19-508 AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (6) administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether §13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution
19-6281 Donald R. Sanders v. Barack Hussein Obama, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure. civil-rights constitution due-process free-speech standing administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration-enforcement standing Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the constitutional issues raised in the petition
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held that under 26 CFR §301.7502-1(e) the common-law mailbox rule no longer is available to establish timely fil…
19-481 In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy 2019-10-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions regarding his candidacy in the 2016 and 2020-2024 elections
19-6244 Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion in dismissing the case, in violation of the petitioners' civil-rights, due-process, and free-spe…
19-6224 Philong Huynh v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-statutes court-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception discretionary-standard due-process government-oversight investigation-power judicial-review legal-interpretation Whether the government oversight function, including the power of investigation, is subject to the discretionary function exception under congressiona…
19-6193 Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data incident to arrest when the phone is not immed…
19-464 Veterans Contracting Group, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judic administrative-law agency-action civil-procedure due-process government-contracts judicial-review service-disabled-veterans small-business small-business-set-aside standing statutory-compliance va-procurement veterans-affairs veterans-contracts Whether agency action based on an earlier, unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judicial correction based on an individual employee's alleged l…
19-455 ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a PTAB decision denying inter partes review
19-6160 Reggie D. Caswell v. New York New York 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se-appeal sixth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-431 Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-rule affordable-care-act contraceptive-coverage injunction intervene nationwide-injunction religious-freedom-restoration-act standing standing-to-appeal Whether a litigant who is directly protected by an administrative rule and has been allowed to intervene to defend it lacks standing to appeal a decis…
19-432 All American Check Cashing, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fifth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-defect consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process enforcement-action meaningful-relief seila-law separation-of-powers standing unconstitutional-agency Whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the separation of powers
19-435 SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation Whether the Third Circuit erred in deferring to the IRS regulation under Chevron
19-421 In Re William Henry Hamman 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Does the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection extend to Florida's children here, or may the executive willfully break the black letter of la…
19-422 Patrick J. Collins, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-30 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law agency-independence agency-structure congressional-appropriations constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-housing-finance-agency independent-agency presidential-removal separation-of-powers standing Whether FHFA's structure violates the separation-of-powers
19-6097 Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied IFP administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional?
19-402 Howard L. Baldwin, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-deference brand-x-doctrine common-law common-law-mailbox-rule stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund Should Brand X be overruled?
19-396 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination Whether the lower court erred in denying legal sufficiency of the well-pleaded facts of unlawful termination without cause and restricting judicial re…
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations Whether the ex post facto clause is violated when a newly modified state parole regulation is applied
19-6018 Joey Little v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent…
19-375 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al. Indiana 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-expense administrative-expenses administrative-law appeal appeal-on-merits civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment standing trial-court Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman's administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and othe…
19-343 New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied administrative-law first-amendment free-association free-speech investment-advisers political-contributions sec sec-rule-2030 Whether Rule 2030 of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which imposes a two-year ban on political contributions by investment advis…
19-5935 Rachel C. Brown v. Civil Service Commission Michigan 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals civil-rights civil-service civil-service-commission due-process hearing long-term-disability procedural-rights property-interest Is Petitioner, and All Others Similarly Situated, entitled to a hearing and due process in long-term disability (LTD) appeals?
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims
19-334 Norman Douglas Diamond v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights document-retention due-process government-accountability government-liability jurisdictional-challenge non-resident-rights standing takings tax tax-refund unauthorized-collection Whether US non-resident citizens have any right to recovery of illegally retained tax overpayments, and to compensation for unauthorized collection ac…
19-325 Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim by applying preclusive effect to the ver…
19-312 Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction Whether Section 4072's provision of 'exclusive' federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers
19-5832 Daniel G. Durain v. Florida Florida 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt Can motive be used to establish premeditation?
19-295 Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. First Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction Whether the court of appeals improperly afforded Auer deference to a federal agency's informal interpretation of a regulation
19-296 Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (5) administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Chevron deference takes precedence over the rule of lenity
19-271 Catherine Stouffer, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference federal-agency-deference federal-highway-administration federal-preemption federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations railroad-safety regulatory-interpretation state-federal-agreement state-law-claims state-railroad-agreement state-railroad-agreements warning-time Should FRA regulations be interpreted in concert with FHWA regulations to enforce safety standards in 'State-railroad agreements,' rather than 'suppla…
19-5773 John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether a federal court can deny a habeas corpus petition without providing a reasoned decision, in violation of the Due Process Clause
19-5714 Dianne Michele Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings Is the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature superior?
19-5666 Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the case on standing grounds
19-5673 Dennis Calo v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fairness-doctrine judicial-discretion judicial-review ohio-constitution parole parole-board standing state-constitution state-courts Are Ohio's courts performing a 'front operation to shield Ohio's parole board and department of rehabilitation and correction from exposure for corrup…
19-221 Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit 2019-08-20 Dismissed Amici (3) administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation Whether the Commissioner of Social Security can impose monetary sanctions on a disability benefits recipient for failing to report unpaid volunteer wo…
19-5628 Charles Rochester v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power administrative-law anti-injunction-act civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction investigative-misconduct state-court-proceedings tampering-with-evidence Does the United States District Court and United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals have a duty to protect jurisdiction and join a state case, and…
19-199 Manfredo M. Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-decision-making benefits-determination final-decision judicial-review railroad-retirement-act railroad-retirement-board railroad-unemployment-insurance-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Railroad Retirement Board's denial of a request to reopen a prior benefits determination is subject to judicial review
19-5594 Tina Davis v. Texas Children's Hospital Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eeoc-rights employment-discrimination employment-law judicial-disqualification recusal standing summary-judgment ten-amendment Whether the district court abused its discretion in granting summary judgment under Rule 60(b) and denying the appellant's motion for summary judgment…
19-5597 Randall B. Lord v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation Is it a plain error for the District Court to defer to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a statute?
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…
19-5571 Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-5469 Brock Fay Fish v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-5476 Anthony L. Williams v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. California 2019-08-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-defense default-judgment due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission standing supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts make an exception in this case in denying statutory default judgment to the petitioner in support of a corporate defendant and vi…
19-161 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-removal habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause Whether Section 1252(e)(2) is unconstitutional under the Suspension Clause as applied to respondent
19-144 James Thomas Ryan v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process employment federal-circuit federal-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board notice-and-opportunity personnel-action whistleblower-protection Can the government sustain a specification without giving the employee notice?
19-5419 Raleigh D. Wiggins v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process medical-care prison standing takings Whether the Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to provide appropriate medical care and treatment
19-134 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements
19-132 Lawrence I. Fejokwu v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-delegation civil-rights due-process regulatory-enforcement regulatory-investigation self-regulatory-organization strict-liability willfulness Willfulness & Good-faith
19-5303 Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision?
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di…
19-5280 Charles D. Tuttoilmondo, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search border-patrol checkpoint-search civil-rights commercial-vehicles constitutional-reasonableness criminal-procedure drug-interdiction fourth-amendment roving-patrol search-and-seizure special-needs-doctrine Does Texas' use of commercial motor vehicle inspectors combined with a roving drug interdiction task force unconstitutionally and unreasonably abuse t…
19-5245 Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
19-74 Michael A. Willner, et ux. v. James Dimon, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-claims due-process fdic federal-deposit-insurance-corporation financial-institutions financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce firrea judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the DC Circuit erroneously held that 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)(A) required claimants to have filed their constitutional claims against the FDIC i…
19-68 Unity HealthCare v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Eighth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference civil-procedure judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation volume-decrease-adjustment Whether federal courts must defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of its own regulations
19-71 FNU Tanzin, et al. v. Muhammad Tanvir, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability due-process federal-employees free-speech religious-freedom rfra standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seqg., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal emplo…
19-5039 Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware Delaware 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation whether-the-lower-court-erred-in-its-interpretation-of-the-relevant-statute
19-5057 William Fletcher v. Corizon Health Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure grievance-procedures judicial-review prison-grievance standing Did the Plaintiff Exhaust All Administrative Remedies of Idaho Department of Corrections Prison Policy of Grievance and Informal Resolution?
19-5076 William J. Daugherty v. Randy L. White, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the judge had a sufficient basis to dismiss the complaint
19-15 Bank of Louisiana, et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-court federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing Where does one seek judicial review in a case alleging discrimination, neither on merits nor on a procedural ground, but for lack of jurisdiction?
19-5029 Frederick Tyrone Calhoun v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain equal-protection just-compensation private-property standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-7 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2019-06-28 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-governance constitutional-law constitutional-structure consumer-financial-protection-bureau executive-authority independent-agency separation-of-powers single-director Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, vi…
18-1591 R. F., a Minor Child, By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, E. F. and H. F., et al. v. Cecil County Public Schools Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied administrative-law due-process educational-benefit educational-rights fape free-appropriate-public-education hearing-officer idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea parental-participation procedural-safeguards special-education Whether a violation of the IDEA's procedures that significantly impedes parents' opportunity to participate in the decisionmaking process regarding th…
18-9827 Donald Wayne Lamoureaux v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fundamental-rights marriage-equality standing takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires States to license and recognize same-sex marriages?
18-1582 Bryan A. Krumm, CNP v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia 2019-06-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law cannabis-scheduling controlled-substances controlled-substances-act dea federalism mandamus-relief medical-marijuana medical-use scheduling witness-testimony Can the Attorney General and DEA continue Schedule 1 placement of Cannabis now that it has 'accepted medical use' in 33 States, the District of Columb…
18-9784 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Dr. Demisa, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions-below standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due process and equal protection rights
18-1556 Peggy Edwards, et al. v. Louisiana Workforce Commission, et al. Louisiana 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-adjudication agency-decision burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard medical-claims medical-treatment standing workers-compensation Does the Louisiana administrative system for adjudicating medical claims by injured workers violate due process
18-9704 Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance Did the lower courts erroneously decide in favor of a governmental agency that broke a contract between a Black American citizen and that agency?
18-9709 Angie Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious due-process judicial-review legal-accountability obstruction-of-justice standard-of-review When Justices obstruct the law and legal proceedings by not adhering to the legal standards of review, who will hold them accountable?
18-9713 Steven Allen Brende v. Darin Young, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process south-dakota standing state-court-appeals supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of South Dakota erred in its July 17, 2013 decision
18-9679 Gary Raymond Harvey, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP in conflict with Chevron and Section 6325(f)(2) administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference irs-fiduciary-duty irs-lien lien-validity limitation-period statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tax-debt tax-lien-reinstatement-validity tax-procedure Whether the courts' below, in conflict with this Court's ruling in Chevron, erroneously held the lien valid even though when it was erroneously releas…
18-9651 Carlos Arturo Patino-Restrepo v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process foia freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review mandatory-regulation summary-judgment Does a district court abuse its discretion in granting an agency summary judgment in a FOIA proceeding where the agency has failed to comply with a ma…
18-9667 Loretta J. Alford v. Tina Ballard, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights federal-employment general-services-administration government-employment inspector-general personnel-practices prohibited-personnel-actions prohibited-personnel-practices retaliation timecard-fraud whistleblower-protection Does the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act indicate that the General Services Administration handles personnel actions for the AbilityOne Commission?
18-9637 Robert Travis Jenkins v. Kansas Kansas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights compliance-burden constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-regulations judicial-review jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in denying Jenkins' Batson challenge during jury selection
18-1531 South Carolina v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to challenge the DOE's final ac…
18-1521 Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-07 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law de-facto-officer de-facto-officer-doctrine ongoing-injury oversight-board principal-officers puerto-rico relief uncon-stitutional-appointments united-states-constitution Whether the de facto officer doctrine allows for unconstitutionally appointed principal Officers of the United States to continue acting, leaving the …
18A1280 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-review Whether a state agency's denial of an employment-related claim constitutes a violation of an individual's constitutional due process rights
18A1260 Unity HealthCare v. Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Eighth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review medicare-regulations volume-decrease-adjustment Whether federal courts must defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of its own regulations under the Auer deference doctrine
18-1511 Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) permit cumulative fines for technical violations of 21 U.S.C. § 842(a)(5)?
18-9507 Theon Smith v. Charleston County Domestic Relations, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-government parental-rights sovereign-immunity standing title-iv-d Does the United States unequivocally wave its sovereign immunity when it does business with its citizens?
18-9496 Darren Deon Johnson v. Barbara Hoober, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-among-circuits due-process environmental-law federal-question standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the decision of the district court in Loggerhead Turtle v. County Council of Volus…
18-1496 Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of All Title III Debtors Other Than COFINA v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-31 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause article-ii article-iv constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight financial-oversight-and-management-board financial-oversight-board oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-clause territorial-governance Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
18-1493 Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-05-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act Whether a U.S. court of appeals can decline to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent on user fees, and instead apply its own test
18-9480 Gregory Stanley Roberts v. Inservco Insurance Services Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP act-534 administrative-determination administrative-law agency-determination benefits-denial disability-benefits due-process employment-law injury-claim light-duty workers-compensation workplace-injury youth-development-center Whether the Insurance Service's denial of Act 534 benefits and light duty work for the petitioner's second injury was proper under the relevant worker…
18-1483 Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing Must doctors have an ownership interest in their medical practices in order to have cognizable privacy or property interests in medical records that (…
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Whether the Surface Transportation Board had jurisdiction to render a decision in the underlying proceeding
18A1222 Hotze Health & Wellness Center, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action judicial-review regulatory-compliance standing Whether a private party may seek judicial review of an agency's regulatory action under the Administrative Procedure Act without demonstrating individ…
18-1467 Ty Clevenger v. Melanie Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived abstention administrative-hearing administrative-law article-iii-judges civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-administrative-hearing state-court-judicial-review state-court-review younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Where a state administrative hearing officer is prohibited from hearing a party's federal claim, may a federal court abstain from hearing that claim o…
18-1469 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Casa de Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion deferred-action dhs-policy executive-discretion immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review policy-rescission standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab…
18-9279 Regina M. Preetorius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9318 Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9337 Ronnie Barnes v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law anatomical-definition anatomy back-injury civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process neck-injury permanent-disability-rating statutory-interpretation workers-compensation workers-compensation-act Does the term 'Back' as used in the Award of June 01,1982 include petitioner's neck?
18-9313 Warren D. Watson v. Matthew Killough, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures handbook-interpretation prisoner-rights procedural-confusion What is considered proper exhaustion and was there enough confusion in the policy handbook and other procedures to warrant non-exhaustion?
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-1432 Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin…
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…
18-9232 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Officer Banicki, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-10 Dismissed IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-error judicial-remedy standing Whether the court below committed reversible error in dismissing the pro se appellant's complaint for failure to state a claim
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix Whether the NH District Court abused its discretion in dismissing a Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, failing to hold Dartmouth accountable for de…
18-9126 Alan L. Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-medical-trea 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules medical-records medical-treatment prison-conditions security-concerns standing Whether the denial of the petitioner's request for medical treatment violates his constitutional rights
18-9195 Keith Walter Bullard v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection index-of-authorities jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-certiorari standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-1403 Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent Whether petitioner was denied due process when respondents revoked his license without adequate procedural protections
18-9138 Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Timothy J. Corrigan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-9141 Matthew James Griffin v. Unknown Gregoline, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Did the court of appeals err in holding that the petitioners lacked Article III standing to challenge the government's action?
18-9165 Robert Warren v. Bobbette Ramage, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process prison prison-rulemaking rulemaking state-law Whether or not prison authorities' failure to follow state law procedures for rulemaking denies due process
18-9099 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Alliance Security Services, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate ' 'civil-procedure" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'patent' ' 'standing" ' 'takings" administrative-law civil-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge property-rights tax-assessment Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due-process, civil-rights, standing, civil-procedure, takings, patent
18-9096 Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9107 In Re Garvester Bracken 2019-05-02 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles and application of the facts to the law
18-9109 Jose Christian Nunez-Belemontes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-order constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding dea drug-enforcement-administration due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard title-21 title-21-usc-841 title-21-usc-841a Is an administrative order conclusive and in violation of constitutional due process without the administrator providing notice and opportunity to be …
18-9073 Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party Whether the state bar examination process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against a disabled veteran-examinee
18-1371 Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent Whether conflicts within the D.C. Circuit and between the D.C. Circuit and other circuits created by Morley XI require reversal in order to maintain n…
18-1360 Robert G. Thornton v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process fair-hearing first-amendment fraud judicial-review obstruction-of-justice standing veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether a veteran has a right to meaningful access to the courts and administrative agencies under the First Amendment when the government concealed e…
18-9035 In Re Clifford E. Avery 2019-04-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9017 Ronald R. Myles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction review standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-8935 Scott B. Miserendino, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bribery-conviction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act question-not-identified section-2255-petition standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-8950 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Arizona Arizona 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-8953 Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits Whether the petitioner was denied just compensation pursuant to Title 38 USC § 1151 when the Department of Veterans Affairs statute (being challenged)…
18-8959 James Paul Arlotta v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and appeals court properly addressed the constitutionality of the Wall Street Reform Act
18-1331 William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records Sixth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial Whether the Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records has the authority to remove an unjust summary court-martial sentence from a service member's …
18-1332 Mario Alberto Recinos v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemen's Retirement System New Jersey 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-decision break-in-service civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing pension pension-benefits pension-rights police-and-fireman-retirement-system retirement-benefits retirement-system undersheriff-position Should certiorari be granted as an important question of federal law that should be settled by this Court exists as the petitioner Mario Alberto Recin…
18-1328 Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the obligati…
18-8919 In Re Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review mandamus procedural-due-process standing Does any Court have a legal right to issue a dispositive Order without a detailed explanation about why this decision was reached?
18-8896 Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreason…
18-8877 Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Should the District Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1361 be reviewed?
18-1309 Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration Does the presumption under the American Rule that 'each litigant pays his own attorneys' fees, win or lose, unless a statute or contract provides othe…
18-1285 Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection
18-8745 Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation Does Mr. Piccone's Pennsylvania reciprocal suspension, based upon the USPTO action conducted in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery and d…
18-8752 Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal …
18-8679 John James Bell v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure legal-representation Did the petitioner receive equal protection of the law under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
18-8684 Robert E. Young v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial mixed-cases pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation rules-of-evidence standing summary-judgment Did the 7th District Court and the 7th Circuit Court deny the Appellant the protection and benefits granted by the 5th and 7th Amendments?
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency?
18-1264 Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation Can the EPA revise Clean Air Act to allow defeat devices,can EPA revise state plans to allow defeat devices,can a citizen intervene when EPA refuses t…
18-1260 Jessica Cooke v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation Whether the common-law 'mailbox rule' applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a)
18-1250 Corey Lea v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agricultural-law civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause exhaustion-requirements fifth-amendment foreclosure moratorium-relief usda Denial of formal hearing for Black and socially disadvantaged farmers on discrimination complaints
18-8545 Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation Whether the mailbox rule should apply to bankruptcy filings
18-8582 Malvin Nater-Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-8595 Charles Kenneth Wallace, Sr. v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-03-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process filing-deadline free-speech legal-procedure mailbox-rule petition-timing standing takings Did the 5th Circuit deny certiorari as untimely, when under mailbox rule is timely filed?
18-8552 Herman Gaines v. Brad Busnardo, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-treatment procedural-rights standing statutory-provisions Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due-process by declining to consider the petitioner's claim that t…
18-8530 Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-8486 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Minnesota 2019-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ. of Habeas corpus moot?
18-8452 In Re Harold B. Mason 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment in the lower court proceedings
18-8467 Abukar Osman Beyle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
18-1209 Nicholas J. Bonacci v. Transportation Security Administration District of Columbia 2019-03-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure apa-section-706 chevron-deference chevron-doctrine due-process judicial-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether Sec. 706 of the APA is compatible with Chevron, or other deference models when a Court is faced with a significant question of statutory law
18-1214 Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-18 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act apportionment-clause census-act census-citizenship-question census-data commerce-department commerce-secretary constitutional-authority constitutional-provisions district-court-injunction due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-injunction standing statutory-interpretation voting-rights-act Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census
18-8438 Abdul Cole v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu…
18-8423 Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation Whether the application should have been granted after the respondent failed to reply to the court orders
18-1177 Bradford G. Peters, as Executor of the Estate of Andrew J. McKelvey, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied administrative-law fair-notice internal-revenue-code judicial-gap-filling phantom-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-law-exceptionalism tax-regulation treasury-delegation treasury-regulations Whether the judiciary may enforce an ambiguous provision of the Internal Revenue Code by filling a statutory gap when Congress delegated gap-filling r…
18-1180 New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order
18-8368 Desmond Martin v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
18-8375 Zebadiah Holland v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-8334 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus Whether Petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus
18-8287 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Uttam Dhillon, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration Second Circuit 2019-03-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-patent-takings-due-proce administrative-law civil-rights controlled-substances-act due-process equal-protection standing Whether the DEA's denial of a petition to reschedule marijuana violates the Controlled Substances Act and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-1143 Ronald Lee Blake v. Federal Bureau of Investigation District of Columbia 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-determination employment-law expungement federal-employment federal-law-enforcement full-faith-and-credit standing state-felony-conviction can federal law enforcement employment determinations be based upon a state felony conviction that was expunged by operation of law within the state o…
18-1144 Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board
18-8249 Rickey Morgan v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner West Virginia 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights code-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-obligation mandamus prosecutorial-duty refund state-law state-tax-commissioner tax Does the West Virginia State Tax Commissioner Dale Steager have a legal obligation pursuant to the West Virginia Code § 11-1-5, to provide the petitio…
18-8260 Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
18-8265 Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app…
18-8192 James Anthony Barnett, Jr. v. Alamance County Sheriff Office Detention Center, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights compassionate-release due-process federal-courts first-amendment prison-conditions standing Did the United States District Courts of North Carolina unlawfully deny petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
18-8195 Malcolm Bolden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
18-8200 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Texas legislature's strategic dismantling of the SAFE-Keeping proviso of the 1987-Amended Law violates substantive due process
18-1122 Alpenglow Botanicals, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 26-usc-280e administrative-determination administrative-determinations administrative-law civil-rights criminal-culpability criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process irs irs-investigation section-280e standing tax tax-deductions tax-law Taxpayer's challenge to IRS authority to investigate federal drug law crimes and administratively determine criminal culpability under 26 U.S.C. §280E…
18-1117 Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied administrative-framework administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process hearing-officer judicial-review lucia-v-sec procedural-validity ryder-v-united-states separation-of-powers structural-constitutional-objections timely-challenge Whether petitioners who timely challenge the constitutional validity of the administrative framework, including the appointment of the officer adjudic…
18-8142 Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case
18-8062 Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services District of Columbia 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion
18-1106 Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment May a federal court preempt a state's administrative-review-process by substituting a federal-finality-standard for a state-finality-standard
18-1108 Stephanie C. Stucky v. Dwight Takeno, et al. Hawaii 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure collective-bargaining due-process labor-relations mootness prohibited-practice prohibited-practices voluntary-cessation Petitioner did not receive due process when the Prohibited Practice Complaint was dismissed as moot, despite the respondents voluntarily ceasing viola…
18-1100 Wayne D. Ramsay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure deficiency deficiency-interest interest internal-revenue-service jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax tax-court tax-law Does the U.S. Tax Court have jurisdiction to determine deficiency interest assessed by the Internal Revenue Service?
18-8088 Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims due to failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison…
18-1075 RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC Federal Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's…
18-1072 James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether the standard for determining if prior art is 'analogous' in making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, and whether a finding of no…
18-7987 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeal civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal conviction-expungement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus revocation standing Whether the District Judge committed a reversible error by forestalling Appellant's relief pending the outcome of a revocation proceeding
18-7992 Kessele Livingston v. Lauri Esslinger, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law child-custody civil-rights due-process evidence government-agencies government-authority standing Does a government agency have the authority to verify the age of a child who is in their custody and the child's mother and father there?
18-7999 Raoul A. Galan v. Larry Gegenheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error racial-discrimination standing Were the lower courts manipulated by internal and/or external influences to deny petitioner his state and federal constitutional rights of protection?
18-7874 Richard Booze v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection separation-of-powers standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
18-7806 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure due-process judicial-review notice notice-of-rights public-health-law state-law Did the Connecticut Department of Public Health act improperly, and deny the Petitioner his right to due process, by failing to inform him on how to p…
18-7839 Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review If the Arbitrator's decision was rendered unlawfully will this limit the scope of the preclusive effect of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel per th…
18-1027 Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (4) 35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal Whether the PTAB's application of 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)'s time-bar provision in its decision to institute IPR is appealable under 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), and…
18-7768 Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure Kentucky 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to restr…
18-1017 Angelex, Ltd. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-02-04 Denied 33-usc-1904 administrative-delay administrative-law apps-act-to-prevent-pollution-from-ships civil-procedure compensation-claim due-process government-liability maritime maritime-law marpol-treaty statutory-interpretation takings unreasonable-delay vessel-detention Whether the court below erred in prematurely dismissing Angelex's case and failing to apply the correct 'reasonableness' standard for unreasonable del…
18-7755 Pauline Garcia v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-regulation civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-law due-process henderson-v-shinseki judicial-review procedural-rights standing veterans-affairs veterans-law When should a Veteran be allowed to raise a Constitutional Due Process issue under 38 C.F.R. § 20.1409?
18-7709 John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-7695 Leroy O. Williams v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error constitutional-law constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment veterans veterans-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects veterans seeking review of allegations for Clear and Unmistakable Error?
18-983 City of Mackinac Island, Michigan, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-01-29 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chenery-doctrine federal-power-act judicial-review regulatory-agency retroactive-rate-increase retroactive-rate-increases statutory-construction Does the prohibition against retroactive rate increases set forth in Section 206(a) of the Federal Power Act foreclose a judicially created exception …
18-7589 William Lee Judy v. Kathy Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment government-liability qualified-immunity administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-officials government-liability medical-regulations ministerial-duties qualified-immunity Whether the government, its agencies, and employees are entitled to the exception under 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) and qualified immunity when they fail to a…
18-7549 Bonnie Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments Kansas 2019-01-25 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-fairness lower-court-rulings procedural-violations statutory-procedure Why should it be lawful for the lower court to ignore 'STATUTORY PROCEDURE' violations by the Respondents during a lower court hearing and then questi…
18-7550 Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against the petitioner was not fundamentally unfair,…
18-7535 Timothy S. Chalfant v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Third Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process judicial-review social-security standing Whether the Social Security Administration and federal courts have to follow the same laws and rules that apply to all other litigants
18-7551 Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining the existence of a valid contract under state law
18-7562 Donald Jodiah Isaiah v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings Whether the Shalev Woelks doctrine violates the Dunrerve Cru ver tule
18-961 Mitchell R. Swartz v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-145 35-usc-section-145 administrative-law civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-procedure patent patent-application patent-law-35-usc-145 patent-office standing takings Whether the court erred in not being consistent with prior Supreme Court decisions regarding the requirement of 35 U.S.C. §145 claims to address new e…
18-7484 Nimon Naphaeng v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-7415 Anthony James Scott v. California California 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law alcohol-regulation civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation local-ordinance preemption procedural-rules state-constitution statutory-provisions transportation-of-alcohol Whether an officer could have reasonably entertained a good faith belief that a local ordinance prohibiting the transportation of alcohol in public wa…
18-7376 Scott Peters v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence standing Whether the records used by the Commissioner as substantial evidence were found to be clearly erroneous
18-7381 Anthony C. Hernandez v. California California 2019-01-11 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing medical-license professional-discipline regulatory-agency standing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the denial of a hearing on the revocation of his medical license
18-899 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceeding federal-circuit indian-tribe inter-partes-review patent-challenge patent-law patent-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereign-immunity Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is the type of proceeding in which tribal sovereign immunity may be asserted
18-7355 Michael R. Haynes v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review opinion order record standing Whether the record shows that the respondents deviated from the applicable legal standards
18-7315 James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination Whether the trial court and administrative agency denied petitioner due process and equal protection rights by terminating him from a program without …
18-7338 Crystal Nicole Jones v. Office of Administrative Hearings, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights discrimination drug-addiction due-process medical-care medical-treatment professional-licensing standing Did the Kansas State Board of Nursing improperly deny a nursing license to the petitioner?
18-7317 Willie Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-intent due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Appellate Court's reading of 18 U.S.C. 2 overrides Congressional intent?
18-7276 Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight May a for-profit corporation enact a system of retribution-and-deterrence by way of policy, in desecration of the dicta of Kansas-v-Hendricks, 521-U.S…
18-853 United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Postal Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-deference cost-attribution institutional-costs package-delivery postal-accountability-and-enhancement-act postal-regulatory-commission postal-service statutory-interpretation Should this Court reconsider the doctrine of Chevron deference?
18-856 Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department Maryland 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland?
18-7193 Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician What is the standard for assessing harmless error when a treating doctor has provided a form medical opinion statement that an applicant for social se…
18-799 Deborah J. Davis v. Mehul Bhatt Georgia 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law battery-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection expert-witness georgia-state-law legal-procedure medical-malpractice standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause to the facts of this cas…
18-801 Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) 35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation Whether the phrase '[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings' in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in…
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was the Third Circuit's failure to address the Surface Transportation Board's jurisdiction a clear error?
18-790 Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation Whether Congress' use of the words 'will' and 'until' in a provision of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 1993 requires the Corps…
18-795 William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) conflicts with the D.C. Circuit's standard
18-6930 Asia Johnson v. Jacob Rothschild Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the doctrine of mootness
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?
18-6888 Kathy Glenn Clay v. Peace Officer Papik Ninth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its decision
18-6881 Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security Mississippi 2018-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights under…
18-6839 Billy A. Robin v. United States District of Columbia 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing statement-of-the-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-6790 Clarence Otworth v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeal appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-jurisdiction final-order jurisdiction notice-of-appeal oath-of-office presidential-nonfeasance standing Is an appeal of a final order and a notice of appeal the same thing?
18-6852 Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Relisted (7)IFP 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) violates the constitutional no…
18-6794 Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights were violated
18-657 Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights Was petitioner deprived of a fair and meaningful opportunity to protect his property interest when he was denied the opportunity to access and examine…
18-6740 Lena Lasher v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy Pennsylvania 2018-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-actions due-process equal-protection fair-notice judicial-review license-revocation perjury pharmacy-board Whether the Pennsylvania Board of Pharmacy violated the Fair Notice/Warning Rule and the Equal Protection Clause in revoking the plaintiff's pharmacis…
18-6598 Darryl A. Robinson v. Tony Baynes Sixth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
18-6609 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Office of Personnel Management Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-immunity due-diligence due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction negligence statutory-interpretation Whether the Office of Personnel Management can be held liable under FTCA statutes
18-599 Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-315b administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa indemnity-agreements inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab standard-of-review time-bar Whether the PTAB panel violated the Administrative Procedure Act by refusing to admit known indemnity agreements into evidence when deciding whether t…
18-6578 Elebert Fox v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Whether the State of Illinois violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection by denying his post-conviction petiti…
18-6603 David Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings voting-rights Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of Indiana's Voter ID law under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
18-587 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca department-of-homeland-security-dhs dhs-policy due-process equal-protection executive-power immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-588 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-05 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-589 Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Martin Jonathan Batalla Vidal, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion daca-policy deferred-action due-process executive-action executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-law judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-6541 Michael Stoller v. Wilmington Trust Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-568 Bart H. Rippl v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantive-regulations Does the Fifth Amendment's due process of law guarantee apply to the specific language set forth in the Internal Revenue Code and other laws, and in s…
18-562 Elizabeth Haring Coomes v. Maryland Insurance Administration Maryland 2018-10-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-362-b-4 bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process insurance-licensing police-power regulatory-action regulatory-power Whether 11 U.S.C. 362(b)(4) applies to a Debtor's appeal of a final regulatory action
18-554 Charles J. Weiss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2018-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process irs levy-action notice statutory-interpretation tax tax-notice taxpayer-rights Whether the IRS notice means what it says - that the 30 days runs from 'the date of this letter,' or whether it means the 30 days runs from the date o…
18-6448 In Re Michael Quattrocchi 2018-10-26 Denied IFP administrative-forfeiture administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-approval judicial-review procedural-violations property-rights statutory-interpretation trial-delay unborn-rights Whether the administrative forfeiture of Bond's property under case 04-12958 was judicially approved, where Bond was deprived of his property for over…
18-6410 Michael McKinzy v. Carletha Gaston (McKinzy) Missouri 2018-10-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-notice notice procedural-fairness service service-of-process state-action state-court Did Missouri (CSE) violate Father's United States Constitutional Rights to Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fourteenth Amendm…
18-534 Well Luck Company, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied administrative-law customs-classification customs-law explanatory-notes general-rules-of-interpretation hts-heading-1206 hts-heading-2008 legislative-intent nesoi prior-statutory-construction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tariff-classification trade-classification Whether the panel disregarded legislative intent and prior statutory construction to improperly use the General Rules of Interpretation and the Explan…
18-6376 Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei…
18-512 Lee Simmons v. Paul Daniel Smith, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the National Park Service, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency-deference administrative-law agency-action agency-discretion chevron-deference due-process judicial-review property-rights statutory-interpretation takings wild-and-scenic-rivers-act Whether an agency can advance an interpretation of a statute for the first time in litigation and demand deference under Chevron
18-6379 Ramess Nakhleh v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a 'loud and unusual noise' unconstitutionally vague?
18-488 In Re Pamela Denise Idlett 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-determination due-process federal-agency judicial-misconduct material-evidence social-security social-security-disability social-security-policy standing Whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) gives verbal acknowledgement in his federal hearing to a known disabil…
18-468 SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on the multiple-proceedings rule under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d)
18-448 Estate of Jerry West, Deceased v. Department of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447 38-usc-511 administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction probate-exception remand subject-matter-jurisdiction veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Kentucky probate court has exclusive jurisdiction over the disability award under the 'probate exception' to federal-court jurisdiction, w…
18-6231 Dawud Rahim v. South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services Fourth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-circuit notice notice-requirement parole parole-revocation procedural-rights standing state-deference Was the petitioner denied procedural due process when the respondent failed to notify him prior to the reconvening of the Parole Board to reconsider a…
18-6192 Pedro Rodriguez v. William D. Gore, Sheriff, San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-426 Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-procedure arnett-v-kennedy codd-v-velger due-process evidence meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard notice notice-of-termination personnel-records privacy-act privacy-act-5-usc-552a-e-5 third-party-verification Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in its rulings on the Privacy Act's verification requirement and the due process right to a meaningful opportunity to b…
18-6181 Michael Patino v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP and does not contain a full petition for writ of but the text you've provided appears to be incomp I cannot extract a meaningful Question Presented I will respond with: Question not identified. administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the petitioner's claims are barred by the statute of limitations
18-6191 Quordalis V. Sanders v. Carlo Esqueda, Dane County Clerk of Court Wisconsin 2018-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process felon-in-possession free-speech mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in upholding the conviction of Quovadis Sanders for violating the Wisconsin statute prohibiting the possessi…
18-397 William G. Clowdis, Jr. v. Virginia Board of Medicine Virginia 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process full-faith-and-credit medical-licensing modes-of-procedure sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires Whether the Virginia Board of Medicine violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause by declaring a physician a convicted felon based on a felony charge t…
18-6131 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Leslie M. Arp Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct standing takings Whether the petitioner's 1307 and 1306 forms violate the 5th Amendment's due process clause and the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause
18-388 Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence Whether the substantial' evidence required to support agency action under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(E) must be evidence of record?
18-6100 Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16
18-376 Lisa Partin, et vir v. Michigan Children's Institute Michigan 2018-09-24 Denied administrative-law adoption arbitrary-and-capricious best-interest best-interest-factors child-protective-services civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law michigan-adoption-code parental-rights standing whether-michigan-adoption-code-mcl-710.45-violates-due-process
18-6019 John Randall Quintero v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice parole separation-of-powers standing Whether the legislative mandate of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-1,135 violates the separation of powers doctrine by requiring the judicial branch to conduct a…
18-346 Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits whether-the-trial-court-properly-determined-the-estate's-complaint-must-fail
18-333 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law discretion federal-energy-regulatory-commission ferc-discretion filed-rate-doctrine market-based-rate polar-vortex reliability retroactive-ratemaking Whether the court of appeals erroneously determined that the filed rate doctrine and the rule against retroactive ratemaking leave the Federal Energy …
18-340 In-N-Out Burger, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law compelled-speech constitutional-rights-free-speech employer-rights first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-relations national-institute-of-family-and-life-advocates-v- nlrb-doctrine special-circumstances special-circumstances-doctrine Whether the NLRB's order compelling speech of a private employer violates the First Amendment
18-5976 In Re Jaame Amun Re El 2018-09-14 Denied IFP administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis Is it a judge's/administration's duty to interpret a statute?
18-318 Christos Koutentis v. New York City Police Department, Licensing Division New York 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms-permit firearms-regulation licensing nypd-regulations revocation second-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness Do the N.Y.P.D. regulations, as applicable to the revocation of a firearms permit, violate the Petitioner's rights under the Second Amendment?
18-5942 Darren K. Byler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure clean-water-act de-minimis-standard environmental-law refuse-act sewage-discharge statutory-interpretation water-pollution Does 33 U.S.C. 407, The Refuse Act, apply to sewage?
18-5922 Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court res-judicata violated-supreme-court-precedent administrative-law civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court manifest-injustice res-judicata void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other courts acted inconsistently with due process and Supreme Court precedent in affirming the peti…
18-5907 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Mary Ellen Elia, Commissioner, Office of Professional Discipline, Board of Regents, Education Second Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech retaliation standing Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, free-speech, and retaliation
18-5919 Lance R. Martin v. Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr., et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute
18-284 Scott Gessler v. Matt Smith, et al. Colorado 2018-09-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-state civil-penalty civil-rights due-process government-ethics notice quasi-criminal vagueness void-for-vagueness Are civil laws that impose a personal penalty subject to the same void-for-vagueness standards as criminal laws and deportation laws?
18-263 Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. Illinois 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th…
18-5813 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Jennifer Henkin Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process executive-power judicial-review standing Whether the court erred in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction
18-5825 Eric Lamont Johnson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit international-trade-commission judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing Whether the ITC's decision to decline to adjudicate a patent infringement claim was an abuse of discretion
18-254 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the President of the United States has the authority to disregard the religious beliefs and revelations of the spiritual Adam, Xiu Jian Sun, a…
18-5777 Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Alaska 2018-08-27 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings Whether the Alaska Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims against Arctic Slope Regional Corp. for lack of standing
18-5740 In Re Mark Clark 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process relief separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute
18-5743 Joyce Simmons v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
18-5749 Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process government-immunity pro-se pro-se-plaintiff public-duty-doctrine statute-of-limitations When equal but separate was overturned, there was little or no precedent to support this
18-5760 William Benjamin Brown v. Andrew Mansukhani, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Did Yar Dishtich Lourl Moose ays Disteion BY Nol Address x's Cour OADER 7?
18-5729 Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for production of documents and placing excessive burdens on the respondents to produ…
18-5706 Hugo Islas-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-100.4 8-cfr-100.4(a) 8-usc-1325 8-usc-1325(a)(1) administrative-law administrative-regulation entry federal-code geographic-designation immigration immigration-law port-of-entry statutory-interpretation Whether immigration officials designate[d]' geographic areas or physical port facilities for 'entry' in 8 C.F.R. § 100.4(a) for purposes of 8 U.S.C. §…
18-223 In Re Christopher Dawson 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection due-process financial-misconduct foreclosure standing Whether Christopher Dawson has been denied due process rights by US courts and government agencies, whether he is entitled to relief under 28 USC 1651…
18-5661 Calvin Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-dispute docket-interpretation due-process jurisdictional-challenge lease lease-validity oil-and-gas resource-rights standing takings well-ownership Does Samson Resources actually hold a valid lease with the petitioner?
18-197 E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii Whether Petitioner, at the time of his personal injuries, was a private citizen and not an employee subject to exclusive remedy under Title VII
18-5550 Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who is not afforded the opportunity to apply for available relief has suffered prejudice
18-5551 In Re Rafael A. Joseph 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight jurisdiction malfeasance mandamus nonfeasance oversight Can the Circuit & Court of Appeals Executive refuse to refer my petition for reconsideration; Clerk Court of Appeals refuse to docket my motions to sh…
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme…
18-5448 Ellen Elizabeth Packenham Stanley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-405(h) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se pro-se-appellant social-security-administration standing stare-decisis tort tort-claim venue venue-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Federal District Court of Minnesota is the appropriate venue and jurisdiction to present an appeal for a tort suit against the Social…
18-153 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-03 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law cost-allocation energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-ratemaking ferc-refund-policy holding-company-cost-allocation preemption rate-making ratemaking refund regulatory-policy state-ratemaking supremacy-clause Given the text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari, the issue being raised is: May FERC deny a refund authorized by FPA Section 206(b) based o…
18-5443 Antoine D. DeGrate v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-action-unlawful civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fact-finding-clearly-erroneous human-rights judicial-dynamics-human-rights judicial-review legal-precept-plenary-review standing substantial-evidence-record Whether the trial court abused its discretion, whether its fact findings are clearly erroneous, whether it erred in formulating or applying a legal pr…
18-5407 Mladen Mitrovic v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability Whether the district court erred in excluding exculpatory witness statements under the Confrontation Clause and Federal Rule of Evidence 807 despite t…
18-5429 Michael Garry v. Trane Company Wisconsin 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud judicial-review jurisdiction labor-law standing state-court-appeals Whether the Wisconsin courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud and due pro…
18-137 Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o…
18-138 Brian Huffman v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied administrative-law agency-procedure agency-regulations circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process harmless-error remand right-to-counsel Whether a court must remand a matter for a new board hearing when an administrative board's failure to follow its own regulations implicates a petitio…
18-139 Thomas E. Freeman, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection exceeded-authority judicial-review prejudiced-rights procedural-rights state-action state-agency state-employee May a court deny due-process of law and equal justice under the law of a State employee, when it is suspected that a State agency may have prejudiced …
18-5421 Sheila L. Gaines v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal administrative-law arthritis civil-rights disability disability-benefits due-process employment medical-evidence medical-records social-security standing Whether the Social Security Administration improperly denied disability benefits to the petitioner despite medical evidence of her advanced arthritis …
18-5362 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review miranda-warnings standing unpublished-decisions Whether the Ninth Circuit panel decision conflicts with established Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedents on Miranda warnings, and whether the pa…
18-5341 Roger Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing Whether the appeals court committed a reversible error by denying the petitioner's motion to vacate a default judgment, where the petitioner claims he…
18-5344 Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-accountability jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Whether the district court erred in dismissing the lawsuit on the grounds that the petitioner lacked standing to challenge the government's actions
18-5310 Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)
18-5237 Sharon K. Bland v. Gellman, Brydges & Schroff, et al. New York 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection standing takings workers-compensation Is New York State Workers' Compensation Law Constitutional?
18-5241 Victor Maturino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission may amend the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines to create new categories of conduct that increase sentences wi…
18-65 David Aronstein, et al. v. Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure corporate-misrepresentation disclosure disclosure-requirements due-process investor-communications material-omission materiality sec sec-disclosure securities-law securities-regulation securities-regulation-sec united-states-v-ohagan Whether the SEC's regulatory framework under Item 303 should be given controlling weight or if lower courts can substitute their own judgment on the a…
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court Did the Eighth Circuit have jurisdiction to adjudicate Case No. 17-3679?
18-5170 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully married to Shabana before he became naturalized?
18-37 Securiforce International America, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Amici (1) abuse-of-discretion administrative-law authorized-agent authorized-official contract-termination discretionary-determination discretionary-determinations government-contracts government-procurement judicial-review procurement standard-of-review Whether discretionary government procurement determinations may be upheld as reasonable when the authorized official expressly disavows making the req…
18-38 Illya Erwin v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-cfr-315-804 5-usc-1221 5-usc-2302 administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-circuit personnel-action probationary-employee prohibited-personnel-practice termination-defense whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the agency can claim it would have taken the same personnel action absent whistleblower disclosure based on grounds not stated in the terminat…
18-5130 Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. District of Columbia 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the 14th Amendment's due process clause protects against arbitrary government action
18-5145 Chauncey Bennett v. John Wolfe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-facilities standing Whether the Lower court erred in denying the petitioner's filing, a Leastcost, vs due?
18-5165 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-23 Edward R. Stolz, dba Royce International Broadcasting Company v. Federal Communications Commission District of Columbia 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process fcc fcc-ruling fifth-amendment interlocutory-judgment judicial-review mootness reversionary-interest telecommunications-act Whether the FCC violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process
18-15 James L. Kisor v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-07-02 Judgment Issued Amici (33) administrative-law agency-deference ambiguous-regulation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review regulatory-interpretation retroactive-benefits statutory-interpretation substantive-canons veterans-benefits Whether the Court should overrule Auer and Seminole Rock
18-5038 Neil Sweeney v. United States First Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the differing applications of the Circuit Courts' balancing tests under Federal Rules of Evidence 403 and 414 resulted in a violation of the p…
18-5043 Guy St. Amour v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel interpretation of an FAA regulation in a criminal statute, to encompass conduct never before penalized by the FAA…
18-5026 Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's discrimination claim against respondent
18-5034 Jodi Anderson v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law banking child-welfare civil-rights criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federalism property-rights taxation Can we legalize drugs in the form of the D.I.C. Policy?
23A712 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete administrative-law chemical-abortion drug-safety fda-regulation medical-procedure reproductive-rights Whether the FDA's regulatory framework for chemical abortion drugs satisfies the requirements of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and does not pose un…
24A61 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado Presumed Complete administrative-law antitrust-violations charter-schools civil-rights employment-discrimination state-agency-action Whether a state civil rights agency and local school district can be held liable for alleged antitrust violations and employment discrimination in den…