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25A845 CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-23 Application administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process federal-circuit patent-review summary-affirmance Whether the Federal Circuit may use summary affirmance to shield potential due process violations by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) when leg…
25-782 Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin…
25-721 Jennie Landsman, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of J. L. v. Melissa Aviles-Ramos, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure burlington-carter-test due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act reimbursement special-education Whether a parent seeking reimbursement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act must overcome a rebuttable presumption of full reimbursem…
25-719 Stanley Battat, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending administrative-procedure initial-determination irc-section-6751 managerial-approval tax-assessment tax-penalty Is a formal written communication from the IRS informing a taxpayer that penalties have been determined to apply and that solicits payment of those pe…
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed?
25-680 Bernard T. Swift, Jr., et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) administrative-procedure internal-revenue-code penalty-assessment statutory-construction supervisory-approval tax-law When must an IRS employee secure written supervisory approval for a penalty assessment to be valid?
25-6088 Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Pending IFP administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether an alien wrongly subject to an expedited removal meets the requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) by showing he was misled by the form and would n…
25-5962 Ismael Adan Ortiz-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-27 Pending IFP administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether an alien wrongly subject to expedited removal due to mischaracterization of prior conviction meets statutory requirements for challenging remo…
25-300 William A. Goddard, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure bad-faith evidentiary-hearing irs-summons law-firm-records tax-law Whether a law firm can be denied the opportunity to challenge an IRS summons for law firm trust account records based solely on an IRS declaration, an…
25-5529 Billy Torain v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process federal-injunction race-discrimination Whether a state civil rights agency violates the Due Process Clause when it assures a complainant that a race claim is part of the charge, misleads th…
25-5320 Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction law-enforcement mental-health Question not identified.
25-144 Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered post-filing government developments to refuse a trademark application and whether Section 2(a)'s pro…
25-82 Malcolm Wade Pipes v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-retirement inactive-duty-training military-law military-reservist statutory-interpretation Whether a military reservist on ordered remedial fitness training without pay and points, who suffered injury, was on inactive duty training status wi…
25A77 Everglades College, Inc. v. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-settlement due-process intervention separation-of-powers student-loans Whether the Ninth Circuit's 'formal legal prejudice' rule improperly restricts intervenors' appellate rights in agency settlements and violates princi…
24-7447 Gilbert Aguirre v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure chevron-deference fraud-upon-court judicial-review rule-60-motion veterans-preference Is a Rule 60 Motion for Fraud upon the Court sufficient basis for judicial intervention and review on its merits?
24-1217 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action federal-indian-law judicial-jurisdiction rule-60 tribal-recognition Whether the Rule 60 motion should be granted due to alleged lack of jurisdiction and agency misconduct in tribal recognition proceedings
24-930 Arturo S. Lopez, Sr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure civil-rights codified-federal-regulations due-process federal-employee-rights injunctive-relief Whether a federal employee can file a complaint after proving unawareness of discriminatory action and asserting estoppel under 29 C.F.R. 1614.105(a)(…
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…
24-835 Seth Healey v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Vermont 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure child-protection civil-rights constitutional-review due-process separation-of-powers Whether the Vermont Superior Court has a responsibility to determine the constitutionality of the child abuse substantiation procedure under separatio…
24A727 John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-delay retroactive-guidance sec-interpretation statutory-guidance whistleblower-award Whether a government agency can intentionally delay issuing a legally required decision to circumvent past agency representations and precedents
24A730 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure civil-service-reform due-process federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-protection Whether the procedural missteps and jurisdictional errors in the Merit Systems Protection Board and Federal Circuit proceedings constitute a violation…
24-599 United States, ex rel. Gregor Lesnik, et al. v. ISM VUZEM, d.o.o., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied administrative-procedure false-claims-act government-obligation immigration-law statutory-interpretation visa-fraud Whether knowingly applying impermissibly for the less expensive B1 visas, rather than alternative petition-based visas, was knowingly and improperly '…
24-547 Maria E. Smith v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-discretion citizenship-petition due-process immigration-law record-inspection Did the agency violate Mrs. Smith's due process rights by requiring that she rebut what it asserted was derogatory information but summarizing that in…
24-522 Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States District of Columbia 2024-11-07 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo…
24-508 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process false-statements first-amendment performance-appraisal workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Amendment due process clause and First Amendment Petition Clause are violated by false performance appraisals and administrative pro…
24-468 Jo Spence v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure liberal-pleading-standard pro-se-pleading rule-12b6 veterans-affairs whistleblower-protection Whether the Supreme Court's ruling on the liberal pleading standard for pro se attorneys was premature and inconsistent with precedent, and whether th…
24-443 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure federal-circuit filing-date mandamus merit-systems-protection-board office-of-special-counsel Whether the Federal Circuit erred in failing to recognize the correct filing date and must correct case procedures related to MSPB and OSC proceedings
24-413 Department of Education, et al. v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-11 Granted Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure borrower-defense default-proceedings education-act group-resolution student-loans Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Education Act does not permit the assessment of borrower defenses to repayment before default, …
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…
24-401 Ashok Kumar Cheejati, et al. v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied administrative-procedure agency-action immigration-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation withholding-claims Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) precludes judicial review of unlawful withholding claims and whether a statutory deadline is required to state a …
24A332 Martin Akerman v. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Federal Circuit 2024-10-07 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure civil-service due-process first-amendment judicial-review petition-rights Whether the First Amendment and due process rights of a petitioner are violated when a federal appellate court clerk improperly recharacterizes legal …
24-5705 Norris Hicks v. Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied IFP administrative-procedure constitutional-minimum due-process judicial-review liberty-interest parole-guidelines Whether the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles can arbitrarily refuse to follow its own rules and guidelines without violating due process rights
24-339 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure court-fee-waiver federal-employee-rights government-accountability userra-rights whistleblower-protection Does the whistleblower protection provisions of USERRA require waiver of court fees for federal employees engaged in protected whistleblowing activiti…
24-239 Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University District of Columbia 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of…
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
24-5383 Samuel James Kent v. Darryl LaCounte, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure contract-law federal-procurement indian-self-determination-act statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protections Did the Ninth Circuit err in construing a statutory provision to exempt self-determination contracts from whistleblower protections?
24-179 Eric Katz v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination material-fact reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the court erred in upholding the ruling that there was no genuine issue of material fact with regard to Mr. Katz's claims of DOJ violations of…
24-5250 Terry Antonio Lee v. Kevin Patterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-grievance prison-conditions Question not identified.
24-5201 Rebecca Wu v. California State Teacher's Retirement System California 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review due-process employee-classification equal-protection erisa fiduciary-duty public-retirement-systems retirement-system Is the California State Teachers Retirement System required to review and correct contributions and credits based on employee misclassification?
24-5181 Dale Williamson v. University of Louisville Sixth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-compliance ada-title-ii administrative-procedure disability-accommodation disability-discrimination procedural-remedy title-ii-claim transcript-correction tuition-fees venue-transfer Question not identified.
24-5177 Margaret M. Reed v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure agency-policy civil-rights due-process federal-code-of-ethics federal-ethics personnel-actions retaliation whistleblower-protection Whistleblower-protection-act
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?
24A67 Allison Cole-Kelly v. Malia Cohen, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure benefit-claims certiorari-extension joint-petition ninth-circuit state-controller Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' consolidated claims challenging the California State Controller's admin…
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 …
24A13 Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, an Oregon non-profit corporation v. Shane Jeffries, in His Official Capacity as Ochoco National Forest Supervisor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure biodiversity-protection environmental-impact environmental-law forest-management national-forest Whether federal environmental regulations governing national forest management adequately protect biodiversity and require comprehensive environmental…
23-1362 Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act appointments-clause article-iii due-process freedom-of-information-act privacy-act sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection Is it appropriate for courts to sua sponte dismiss actions for want of subject matter jurisdiction despite Congress' intent to allow enforcement of es…
23-1368 Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. Puerto Rico 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights Due-process-violation
23-1348 In Re Charles Simon 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation Whether the Three Judge Panel's order denied and rubber-stamped the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ignor…
23-1315 Maxwell Jones v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious conflict-of-interest dfas-denial forged-documents judicial-immunity military-pay military-records records-correction wrongful-discharge Whether the military pay and records correction case involves issues of wrongful discharge, forged documents, and conflict of interest
23-1277 PPI Enterprises, LLC v. Town of Windham, New Hampshire New Hampshire 2024-06-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process final-decision government-action land-development land-use permit-denial property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine takings Are two final denials of development applications sufficient to ripen a regulatory takings claim, where the government asserts that it might grant a t…
23A998 Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure cms-rulemaking medical-products medicare-appeals notice-and-comment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a medical products manufacturer without direct access to Medicare appeals can challenge agency rulemaking that effectively denies reimbursemen…
23-7299 In Re Devon Armond Gayles 2024-04-24 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights deportation due-process immigration-law nationality-and-status non-citizen-status original-jurisdiction supreme-court-review treaties Question not identified
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?
23A899 Manoranjan Rao v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process enforcement-action sec-investigation whistleblower-award Whether the SEC's denial of a whistleblower award based on claimed non-reliance on the whistleblower's tip violates due process when the agency refuse…
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
23-1059 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-petition administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act due-process environmental-protection-agency epa-action petition-for-review standing statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether Williams could have petitioned for review using non-record rebuttal evidence within 60 days of EPA's initial action
23-927 National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof copyright-royalty copyright-royalty-board first-amendment rate-setting religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act webcasting Whether approving noncommercial rates that favor NPR's secular speech over religious speech violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) or t…
23-929 Hugo Abisai Monsalvo Velazquez v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure deadline-calculation immigration-law post-decision-motion removal-proceedings voluntary-departure When a noncitizen's voluntary-departure period ends on a weekend or public holiday, is a motion to reopen filed the next business day sufficient to av…
23-6773 Rita R. Smith v. Mount Sinai Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidence-suppression labor-relations termination termination-dispute workplace-policies workplace-retaliation Why was I not allowed to submit proof of where & when job assignment
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?
23-6584 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
23-6533 James O. Bradley v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-power access-to-courts administrative-appeal administrative-procedure administrative-remedy civil-rights conspiracy corrections-department due-process incarcerated-rights judicial-review Whether the North Carolina Court of Appeals erred in taking no action on the Petitioners' appeal
23A581 Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-adjudication appointments-clause equitable-tolling judicial-review time-limit Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26(b) categorically precludes equitable tolling of non-jurisdictional time limits for seeking judicial rev…
23A507 Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-discretion evidentiary-standards fair-notice marketing-denial regulatory-review Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits a federal agency to change its evidentiary standards for regulatory approval without providing fair n…
23-493 Gail Goldberg, et vir v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Seventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process iRS-proceedings mailing-requirements notice-requirements statutory-notice statutory-requirements tax Has the ruling of the Seventh Circuit rendered mandatory statutory notice requirements not relevant, with a consequence being that the protections pro…
23-459 Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder…
23A343 David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-10-17 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-regulation notice-requirement statutory-interpretation veterans-claims veterans-disability-benefits Whether the Department of Veterans Affairs must provide individualized notice tailored to a veteran's specific claim, accounting for information previ…
23-382 Phyllis Carr v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure irs-audit tax-complaints tax-dispute-resolution tax-procedure tax-refund taxpayer-advocate-service taxpayer-bill-of-rights Does the closing of an IRS audit following complaints of violation of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights allow the IRS to pay a refund?
23-5778 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5704 Gregory D. Jones v. Dustin Bayler Seventh Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the District of Columbia's ban on the possession of stun guns violates the Second Amendment
23-5610 Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-09-19 Denied IFP ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law Can a state agency make an unemployment determination that contradicts the federal Americans with Disabilities Act?
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…
23-261 Henry L. Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana 2023-09-18 Denied administrative-agency administrative-procedure axon-enterprise-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review lawyer-discipline meaningful-judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct sec-v-cochran Did Louisiana ODC violate Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran principles by having a single deputy assume all prosecutorial and adjudicatory rol…
23-182 James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immunity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution
23-5448 Charles Belssner v. Westgate Las Vegas Hotel, LLC, et al. Nevada 2023-08-25 Denied IFP address-verification administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-notification notice notice-to-appear service-of-process standing Isn't the appellant entitled to notice to appear?
23-5402 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5-usc-2302 administrative-procedure constitutional-violation department-of-veteran-affairs executive-leadership federal-law human-resources management prohibited-personnel-practices veterans-affairs Does the Department of Veteran Affairs-Human Resources, Executive Leadership, Management and or Staff reserve the right to violate the law regarding P…
23-5382 Julie A. Graham v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges due-process employee-suspension employment employment-law hearing-requirements Whether an employer's indefinite suspension of an employee without a pre-suspension hearing violates the employee's due process rights
23-126 Joe Blessett v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes public-private social-security-act title-iv Is there a distinction between the Public and Private in applying a federal government-funded Public Service, Title IV of the Social Security Act (Act…
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
23-113 Michael G. Pohl v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act What is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record under 10 U.S.C. § 1552 or 28 U.S.C. § 1491?
23-116 Rahim Caldwell v. Jason Anthony, et al. Rhode Island 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) academic-dishonesty administrative-procedure due-process institutional-policy procedural-due-process property-interest public-education student-rights trespass-notice Whether affording no process, no process whatsoever satisfies the due process requirement where a protected property interest is involved, here a publ…
23-5286 Frederick Dwight Green v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure cell-phones civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gang-violence legal-materials prison-access prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Does this Court consider widespread staff shortages in Georgia prisons that have led to prisoners being severely attacked by 'affiliated gang offender…
23-5182 In Re Richard Charles Lussy 2023-07-24 Dismissed IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-writ due-process evidence-code forfeiture non-delegation-doctrine public-office sovereign-immunity standing to compel his standing due to unavailability: 'forfeiture of public office for wrong doing.' From: Incompetent Abraham Skinner's(IAS'S) Appellee Team …
23-5175 In Re Gregory Albert Darst 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures appellate-dismissal civil-procedure docket-manipulation judicial-immunity mandamus procedural-due-process recusal standing Did Clerk Smith or staff attorney dismiss appeal 22-10918 without involvement of judicial officers?
23-5138 Martin Ramos-Urias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure claim-processing immigration-removal in-absentia-removal judicial-review notice-to-appear separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place Whether the government must comply with 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G) by providing a single notice document containing all required information, including …
22-1248 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied administrative-procedure constitutional executive-order greenhouse-gas procedural-injury regulatory social-cost sovereign-interests standing standing-doctrine statutory Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficient t…
22-7821 Joseph W. Peeples, lll v. United States District Court for the Western District of New York Second Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure document-authentication due-process equal-protection evidence-verification federal-agency legal-process original-copy standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
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…
22-1178 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
22-7550 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…
22-7441 Colette Claire Savage v. Mark Savage Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-corruption judicial-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Are motions to dismiss used administratively to hastily dispose of meritorious and government corruption cases especially targeting pro se litigants?
22-7324 Byron R. Fisher v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disability-claims due-process judicial-review military-service standing veterans-benefits Did the lower court violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by not addressing the crimes committed by the Respondent?
22-1001 NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent-construction patent-preamble patent-validity Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the PTAB's decision on preamble construction impermissibly shifts the burden to invalidate a patent from t…
22-7170 Reginald L. Wilson v. Jamie Bullard, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP administrative-procedure case-manager civil-rights disciplinary-infraction due-process negligence omissions record-checking retaliation standing Whether the plaintiff's case manager, the defendant, Amanda Edwards' recommendation was based on a non-existent disciplinary infraction?
22-7095 Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende…
22-7062 Ricardo Noble v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discretion-abuse due-process equal-protection prison-classification retaliation standing Whether it is unconstitutional for judges and prison staff to allow their personal prejudices to interfere with their ability to do their job
22-7043 Jean Montgomery v. Scialla Associates Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment federal-courts government-employment Did the court err in its rulings on the representation of the petitioner, the timeliness of the case, the erroneous removal of the petitioner, and the…
22-7006 Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's grievance procedure claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Ac…
22-6962 Antonio Rosas-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule enforcement-action executive-branch immigration-law immigration-removal legislative-rule notice-to-appear statutory-requirement statutory-requirements Whether a statutory requirement for initiation of an enforcement action is a claim-processing rule or constrains the government's statutory license
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
22-789 Town of Southold, New York v. Rossana Rosado, New York State Secretary of State, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act burden-of-proof coastal-zone-management coastal-zone-management-act deference dredge-spoil-disposal environmental-policy environmental-protection federal-consistency national-environmental-policy standing Whether the EPA's designation of a permanent dredge spoil disposal site was consistent with the Town of Southold's enforceable coastal management poli…
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…
22-6631 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…
22-616 Turlock Irrigation District, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-06 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure certification-request clean-water-act federal-environmental-law federal-jurisdiction one-year-rule pro-forma-letters section-401 waiver Whether a State can avoid waiving its one-year period of time in which to act on a request for certification under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act
22-570 Richard Y. Kim v. Hawaii Office of Elections, et al. Hawaii 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process election-certification election-regulations elections federal-rules judicial-discretion state-rules state-sovereignty voting-machines If this honorable US Supreme Court determines that the Elections Office of Hawaii (EOH) failed to follow State Rules and Regulations and due process, …
22-6322 Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. First Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law Is the constitution the law of the land?
22-6033 Daniel A. Schillinger v. Josh Kiley, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied IFP allow complaint amendment and exclude witnesses violates a prisoner's due p administrative-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process institutional-safety prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings witness witness-testimony Whether the DOC prison failed to provide the petitioner with a copy of the video tape of the assault, whether the petitioner was denied the opportunit…
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
22-351 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing Whether the Lower Courts' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States Appea…
22-355 Kathy Lynn Carter v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence merit-system privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure telework-agreement unexcused-leave Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
22-5765 Ryanne Parker, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, N. P. v. West Carroll Special School District Sixth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights damages disabilities-education-act exhaustion-of-remedies rehabilitation-act remedies statutory-interpretation Whether the HCPA commands an exhaustion of such in a suit, brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, that seeks da…
22-5770 Julian Okeayainneh v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-remedies attestation-requirement civil-action disclosure-requirements foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review records-disclosure Whether the records provided to the petitioner through the FOIA process sufficiently complied with the FOIA's disclosure requirements and whether thos…
22-203 Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology Federal Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended IPR-estoppel under 35-USC-315(e)(2) to all grounds that reasonably-could-have-been-raised in the peti…
22-162 Tariq B. Alabbassi v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-time-limit burden-of-proof circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeo-complaint employment-discrimination federal-regulations statute-of-limitations When does the 45-day time limit start under 29 C.F.R. § 1614.105(a)(1)?
22-5296 Ryan T. Carleton v. Maine Maine 2022-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-documents civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel internal-communications prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial staff-communications Does Carleton's public defender have a history of incompetence or misconduct?
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…
22-5063 Michael A. Tulipat v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment military-discharge military-justice rule-42b standing Does Rule 42(b) of the Rules of the Court of Federal Claims, 'Failure to Prosecute' overrule the 7th Amendment?
21-8242 Michael David Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure agency-response civil-rights due-process face-act foia free-exercise freedom-of-information-act injunctive-relief judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether a Trial Court may not exercise its powers against a candidate for office to stifle free-speech
21-1577 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy Fourth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit When a person requests records from a federal agency under the FOIA, may the agency redact the requester's own name?
21-1527 CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark Whether the PTO violated the AIA by delegating the Director's responsibility to the PTAB
21-1495 Jimmy Baldea v. City of New York License Division of the NYPD New York 2022-05-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry due-process handgun-regulation law-enforcement licensing-rights police-officer police-powers qualified-immunity Is License Division empowered to deny an unrestricted concealed carry license to a qualified police officer, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 926B (2017), wh…
21-8003 Loretta Jean Alford v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-judge administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process hearing hearing-request merit-systems-protection-board standing witness witness-testimony Did the Merit Systems Protection Board violate Petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, hearing, witness, administrative-procedure
21-7949 John D. Horton v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation Did the courts below improperly construe the notice requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.11(e)(1)?
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…
21-1417 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?
21-1365 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…
21-7627 Gwendolyn Hearn v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hostile-environment hostile-work-environment management-misconduct retaliation workplace-harassment Why didn't VMF Manager Suzanne Peters investigate the complaint letter subjected, 'Hostile Environment' for September 23, 2016, dated September 25, 20…
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…
21-7553 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits
21-7421 Linda Jolly v. Carmelita White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights disclosure disclosure-laws due-process federal-government federal-law no-fear-act retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Why did the United States Federal Government allow Federal UNAX Law (IRM 10.5.5) and Retaliation Laws to be broken through the 'No Fear Act?
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights Whether a veteran's statutory rights under Title 38 are upheld by a state corrections department under the Supremacy Clause
21-7209 Juan Alfonso Nuno-Velasco v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada Nevada 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights consular-agreement discretionary-decision due-process foreign-national-rights foreign-nationals immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge standing treaty-interpretation Whether the Consular Agreement between the United States and a foreign country provides access to foreign nationals with certain exceptions?
21-1139 Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC Federal Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers Whether a federal appellate court may reverse an administrative agency's decision on a factual ground not addressed by the agency, without a remand to…
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?
21-7027 Raul Mendez v. Ada County, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection-clause frcp-12(b)(6) mandatory-services motion-to-dismiss pro-se property-tax-lien standing Is a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) a ruling on a question of law? If so, is this Motion inappropriate when applied to Pro se complaints?
21-6840 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure criminal-fraud due-process fair-warning false-attestations fraud h2-guest-worker power-of-attorney regulatory-violation Was defendant deprived of due-process, fair-warning, power-of-attorney, false-attestations
21-6678 Raul Mendez v. City of Boise, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP 1983-statute 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure due-process mandatory-billing municipal-liability pleading-standard pro-se property-tax-roll utility-services Can local government entities take adverse actions against its citizens without Due Process for not using the provided utility services?
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 …
21-6483 Robert A. McNeil v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process irs judicial-review passport-revocation standing tax tax-law Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen…
21-819 Baxter Corporation Englewood v. Becton, Dickinson and Company Federal Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act expert-testimony inter-partes-review ordinary-remand-rule patent patent-challenge prior-art remand-rule statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of allowing IPR petitioners to rely on evidence other than patents and printed publications to fill in gaps in …
21-799 Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) protects employees from retaliation occurring after the provisio…
21-6421 Shirlene Bailey v. Suffolk Public Schools, et al. Virginia 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights doctor-patient-relationship due-process employment employment-rights medical-evidence physician-abandonment workers-compensation Question not identified
21-6330 S. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure child-welfare civil-rights custody-requirements department-of-children-services due-process family-law judicial-procedure judicial-review Whether the requirements for placing children in foster care were properly followed in this case, including whether background checks were conducted o…
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…
21-563 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
21-5949 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
21-522 Michael Simko v. United States Steel Corporation Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-action civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination retaliation retaliation-claim title-vii Whether a claim of unlawful retaliation for filing an EEOC charge can be addressed in a civil action without a second formal administrative charge
21-5888 Wes Joseph Pertgen v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2021-10-05 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing disciplinary-proceedings due-process due-process-violation evidence-disclosure habeas-corpus liberty-interest nevada Does Due Process and Liberty Interest exist when Nevada's Disciplinary Proceedings violate Due Process?
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?
21-5850 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination Whether this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary to Federal law and DVA Policy & Procedure
21-5763 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Downtown Eugene, Inc. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied IFP administrative-procedure appellate-review board-of-immigration-appeals civil-procedure due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge service-of-notice service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing Petitioner's appeal on jurisdictional grounds due to lack of service on adverse parties when Pe…
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…
21-5473 Jameson Rosado v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-service retaliation Whether Jamie was ordered for the FFD to ultimately have him removed from federal service in retaliation for pursuing prior EEO activity
21-5376 Samuel Roy Abram v. David Leu, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies prison-litigation-reform-act standing Was petitioner required to request consideration of an unwritten grievance, for a valid reason under PLRA?
21-5168 Darrell Demetrius Cross v. Kecia Davidson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure attorney-general civil-procedure civil-rights detainer-warrant due-process federal-district-court inmate-rights prisoner-rights standing voluntary-protective-custody Whether a U.S. federal district court judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals can allow a voluntary protective custody inmate to be placed on cond…
21-38 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling
20-8465 Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not…
20-1776 Owen Marlon Alexander v. Breaking Ground, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied administrative-procedure agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process guardianship immigration-law intervention public-charge rule-making standing Whether States with interests should be permitted Question not identified
20-1726 Roy J. Meidinger v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure contract contractual-relationship federal-claims-court iRS-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-relief-and-healthcare-act-of-2006 tax-whistleblower whistleblower whistleblower-claims What are the jurisdiction and limitations of the Tax Court and Federal Claims Court over whistleblower contracts and administrative procedures under 2…
20-1714 William Joseph Mooney, et ux. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure article-iii courts-of-the-united-states due-process federal-register iRS-collection legal-notice real-party-of-interest standing substantive-regulations united-states united-states-of-america Who has Standing against the Mooneys as the Plaintiff and being the as the Real Party of Interest in the 'Courts of the United States' arising under A…
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
20-1583 Jeffrey Olson v. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue Minnesota 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure appeal commissioner-order commissioner's-order due-process mail-notice ordinary-mail procedural-due-process tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-procedure Whether issuance of a Commissioner's order by ordinary mail meets constitutional requirements of procedural due process
20-7969 Refugio Agustin-Pineda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a 'notice to appear' that fails to specify the hearing's time and…
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?
20-1497 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?
20-1458 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…
20-7770 In Re Sakima Iban Salih El Bey 2021-04-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act article-4-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-conduct privileges-and-immunities state-law-interpretation state-trust Does the Constitution of Arkansas make provision to deny a person that is exempt from a 'driver's license' in Arkansas who is in compliance with state…
20-7777 Paul Smith v. Teri Kennedy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower courts denied the petitioner's request for a hearing to challenge the governm…
20-7741 Wen Dong Zhao v. Department of State Second Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights department-of-state due-process embassy-communication federal-investigation freedom-of-information government-misconduct intellectual-property judicial-review letter-disposition standing Denial-of-access-to-letters
20-7562 Kamme O v. Texas A&M University and System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-rights gender-bias legal-representation standing whistleblower-protection workplace-discrimination Are employment-rights-for-everyone-or-just-lawyers?
20-7532 Noel Turner v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP administrative-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights cost-of-suit due-process equal-protection evading-review prevailing-party Due-process-violation
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication Due-process-rights-of-healthcare-workers
20-1249 Gary Victor Dubin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Hawaii 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion license-revocation professional-licensing state-constitution Is it a violation of (1) Equal Protection, (2) Due Process and/or (3) Freedom of Speech
20-1230 In Re Reginald L. Sydnor 2021-03-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law-judge administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act constitutional-appointment due-process lucia-v-sec mandamus merit-systems-protection-board standing united-states-constitution Does petitioner's repeated timely requests for his appropriate ALJ due process hearing before a constitutionally appointed board ALJ, although all wer…
20-1194 Arthur Lopez v. Corona Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing Whether the petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the respondents' denial of their request to participate in a public forum based on th…
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…
20-7103 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-02-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing Whether the petitioner retains the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and whether this is denied in violation of the Equal Pro…
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
20-7004 Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Massachusetts 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review standing stare-decisis state-agency Can the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny Petitioner judicial review of Respondent state agency's lack of probable cause disposition on a civil-rights …
20-1031 Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional
20-1013 Clarence J. Simon v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied administrative-procedure benefits-disqualification collateral-estoppel compensation-benefits lhwca-section-33(g) longshore-worker longshore-workers-compensation maritime-law settlement-authority third-party-settlement Is a longshore worker permanently disqualified from receiving any benefits from his employer due to a tentative third-party settlement?
20-962 United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-21 Dismissed administrative-procedure administrative-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment 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
20-931 Wynship W. Hillier v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure agency-declaration agency-records civil-rights classified-records judicial-review privacy-act summary-judgment terrorism Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a Privacy Act suit to compel notice of records existence based on agency declaration
20-934 Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exceeded its statutory jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 144
20-915 Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-08 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure circuit-court-precedent civil-procedure copyright-law copyright-office copyright-registration ninth-circuit publication-standard registration-requirements standing statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit err in its interpretation of 17 U.S.C. § 411 regarding referral to the Copyright Office?
20-905 Independent School District No. 283 v. E. M. D. H. ex rel. L. H. and S. D. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-complaint administrative-procedure continuing-violation-doctrine education-law federal-circuit-split individuals-with-disabilities-education-act negative-consequences statutory-time-limit Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the two-year statutory time limit to file an administrative complaint under the Individuals with …
20-6667 Ronald Douglas v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights communications-act constitutional-challenge due-process eminent-domain government-owned-stations human-rights-violations jurisdiction property-rights takings Whether the district court had exclusive jurisdiction over the in rem eminent domain action
20-6587 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health Whether the petitioner should be released from federal custody due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the petitioner's underlying medical conditions
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…
20-737 B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether the Board has authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness that is not 'only on the basis of prior art consisting of paten…
20-726 In Re Stephanie Michael 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of competent …
20-607 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure board-of-trustees california-government-code claim-presentation contractor due-process government-claim government-claims government-code public-agency statute-of-limitations Does the local Public Agency have a right to refuse to assign a Board of Trustees and to assign a Contractor who is not directly employed by the Agenc…
20-608 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure california-department-of-industrial-relations employment-dispute evidence-transfer federal-court government-code retaliation state-court transfer-of-record unlawful-termination Does the Opposing Party the Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to refuse to transfer the record …
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?
20-449 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
20-364 Thomas Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Federal Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure article-iii-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-circuit inventor-correction inventorship jurisdiction patent patent-law standing uspto-procedure Whether the USITC, district court, and Federal Circuit lacked Article III jurisdiction over the patent inventorship dispute
20-352 The Paine College v. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied accreditation administrative-procedure common-law common-law-due-process conflict-of-interest decision-making-body due-process federal-law higher-education procedural-rights quorum Whether a college's right of common law due process is violated in its accreditation removal proceeding when one-half of the members of the decision-m…
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…
20-5444 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…
20-184 Jamel Ellerbee v. Annett Holdings, Inc., dba TMC Transportation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 29-cfr-1987-110-b 49-usc-31105 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act commercial-motor-vehicle due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction transportation Whether statutory construction of 49 U.S.C. § 31105 conflicts with judicial review, 29 C.F.R. § 1987.110(b), of the Administrative Procedure Act?
20-5331 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation Whether District and Appellant Courts can deny a citizen's 14th Amendment guarantees of due process, confrontation, and equal protection in a 15 U.S.C…
20-5340 Tanveer S. Majid v. Central Intelligence Agency Fourth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-procedure agency-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-courts harassment-claim judicial-dismissal standing Are the Federal Courts abusing their dismissal powers?
20-5236 In Re Russell Rope 2020-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ government-relief legal-remedy standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings writ-of-mandamus Whether the Law Extends to All Citizens & Corporations in Modern Times?
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
20-7 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-remedies appeal-instructions blight-citation civil-procedure due-process fair-notice local-government municipal-law notice-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction Should appeal instructions have been included with the blight citation?
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
19-1469 Eric Hasbrouck v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2020-07-08 Denied abuse administrative-procedure bar-admission bar-exam due-process fraud judicial-review nevada-state-bar state-bar-practices Does Petitioner have the right to judicial review of the practices of the Nevada State Bar, regarding the administering and grading of the bar exam, a…
19-8854 In Re Reginald Stanly Strother 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law government-benefits standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion for family monthly support
19-1425 Palm Valley Health Care, Inc. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fifth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-process delay due-process fundamental-unfairness homebound-status medicare medicare-appeals overpayment overpayment-determination provider-rights statistical-sampling Whether an administrative process that is fraught with delay and fundamental unfairness and that clearly violates the provider's constitutional Due Pr…
19-8673 Antuan Burress-El v. John Born, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction corporate-malfeasance due-process motor-vehicle-law motor-vehicle-registration standing surety-bond surety-bonds takings Whether the petitioner has a constitutional right to be exempt from vehicle registration and licensing requirements, and to be compensated for alleged…
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)
19-1194 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…
19-8157 Brian Richardson v. Joshua Moore Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies when the petitioner was denied the…
19-8163 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-04-02 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention Whether the petitioner's prolonged immigration detention without a bond hearing violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-1164 Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2020-03-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation Does the Workers' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating schedul…
19-8010 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hiring-process job-referral performance-review pre-qualification prequalification termination Whether Appellant was discriminated against in the initial prequalification process?
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…
19-7643 In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard 2020-02-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-procedure article-iv compulsory-process constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest privileges-and-immunities witness-testimony Did the State of Florida violate Petitioner's protected rights
19-7538 Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Minnesota 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute medicaid medicaid-coverage medical-assistance medicare state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the applicable language requires or allows removal of Victoria from Medicaid breast cancer treatment coverage
19-7443 Charles Milton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the government's actions violated the petitioner's civil rights
19-929 Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process internal-revenue-code irs judicial-review standing tax tax-law Whether the IRS and lower Courts application of IRC 6214(b) and IRC 6402 violate the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment
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 …
19-886 Israel K. Negash, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure discovery-rights due-process government-data judicial-review regulatory-enforcement snap-benefits standing statistical-analysis summary-judgment Should SNAP retailers accused of trafficking be permitted to conduct discovery on judicial review under 7 U.S.C. §2023 prior to summary judgment?
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
19-829 Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure burden-of-proof due-process evidence inter-partes-review patent patent-challenge patent-law reply reply-evidence Did the Patent and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board violate 35-USC-312(a)(3) and 35-USC-316(a)(8)
19-7111 Robert W. Johnson v. Kevin S. Portnoy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection insurance rico standing statutory-interpretation texas-department-of-insurance Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment in the handling of his insurance claims against the…
19-777 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st…
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…
19-6764 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5, Due Process Clause, compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statutory…
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…
19-6714 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…
19-621 Thomas F. Sweeney v. Merit Systems Protection Board Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure adverse-personnel-action agency-decision-making air-traffic-control civil-rights due-process employment-law federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board mspb personnel-action termination Is a final decision to terminate the training of a FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist — In Training employee by FAA management a reduction in grade or…
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process deprives claimants of their statutorily-created property interest without due process
19-6434 Lawrence T. Tyler v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act adverse-determination agency bureau-of-prisons civil-rights due-process human-trafficking national-origin-discrimination privacy-act record-accuracy standing Whether the challenged records used to make an adverse determination against me are indeed inaccurate and/or incomplete as a matter of this U.S. Supre…
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…
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner received adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medical Center, including whether treatment, monitoring, and diag…
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…
19-5680 Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech goldberg-hearing hearsay housing-authority housing-choice-voucher reasonable-accommodation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction violence-threat Whether a Vancouver Housing Authority Hearings Officer without original subject matter jurisdiction is ultra vires and failed to provide a Goldberg pr…
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…
19-5526 Frances W. Lake v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure appeals civil-rights compassionate-release disability due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-prisoner financial-hardship first-step-act government-benefits medical-expenses sentence-reduction Whether the VA pension was properly denied after medical expenses were incurred, despite the widow's disability and financial hardship
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…
19-154 Zafer Construction Company v. Army Corps of Engineers Federal Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied administrative-procedure bid-mistake bid-mistakes bid-verification cfr-14.407-3 contract-law drawing-errors government-contracts hollerbach-v-united-states judicial-precedent precedent reliance-on-drawings sulzer-bingham-pumps-v-lockheed Whether the government can reap the benefit of a contractor's mistaken bid caused by incorrect government drawings
19-133 Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury?
19-5335 Patrick Brunette v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process effective-date lay-testimony material-evidence medical-evidence medical-records prescribed-bedrest reconsideration reopening-claims service-connected-disabilities veterans-affairs veterans-affairs-regulations veterans-claims Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38-C.F.R.-Section-3.156(c)
19-5235 James P. Arlotta v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-07-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review board-for-correction-of-naval-records civil-rights due-process judicial-review medical-records military-justice naval-discharge procedural-due-process procedural-errors ucmj How the alleged 'behavioral problems' of this petitioner are of no comparison to those, (and the way the U.S. Navy handled the 'situation(s)',) of U.S…
19-57 Donald Dewees v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines international-tax international-taxation streamlined-filing-compliance-procedures tax-assessment tax-collection tax-compliance tax-convention tax-penalties Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due-process?
18A1367 McLeod Health, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure consent-decree eeoc-enforcement employment-discrimination judicial-review settlement-negotiations Whether an employer can be compelled to engage in settlement negotiations with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission despite ongoing litigation
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
18-9718 Antoanet Iotova v. Gary Farmer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-agency jurisdiction passport standing takings Whether the Department of State's denial of a passport application violates the petitioner's constitutional rights
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…
18-9593 Faye Beatrice Hayes v. Terri Gorman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination internal-complaint retaliation title-vii Whether excluding internal complaints for the plaintiff's retaliation claim on the ground that the claim was administratively barred because it was no…
18-1517 Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act civil-rights first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law material-support national-security overbreadth political-advocacy standing terrorism tier-iii-terrorist-organization Whether independent, non-violent political advocacy constitutes material support for terrorism under the Immigration and Nationality Act
18-1512 Michael McClain, et al. v. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, et al. California 2019-06-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process escheat private-property property-rights standing statutory-scheme takings-clause Does a State violate the Due Process Clause and trigger a right to just compensation under the Takings Clause when it permanently escheats private pro…
18-1509 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim Ninth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct
18-9246 Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-8905 Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to asset seizures by state and local governments
18-1274 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2019-04-04 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion Whether the USPTO abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every requirement of Title 35 by insisting on extra-statutory requirem…
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?
18-8488 Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for wrongful imprisonment despite evidence that the conduct violation was later …
18-8478 Sheila Halousek v. Yuba County Animal Care Services California 2019-03-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement privacy property-rights property-seizure redress seizure Violation of due process rights, seizure of private property
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
18-1192 The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing Whether RFRA requires the government to exempt religious objectors from providing health plans that include contraceptive coverage
18-1163 Richard Hutchings, et al. v. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois Illinois 2019-03-07 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment notice property-rights public-use quasi-judicial takings utility-siting Lack of notice to affected landowners for power line siting proceedings violating due process
18-8175 Wessley J. Gunchick v. Bank of America, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure contract-law due-process employment-contract employment-dispute erisa erisa-standards legal-precedent standing Question not identified
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?
18-7866 King Grant-Davis v. South Carolina Office of the Governor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process federal-statute procedural-rights property-interest rehabilitation-act vocational-rehabilitation Whether an individual with a disability has a protected liberty or property interest in vocational rehabilitation services
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…
18-7762 Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison reg…
18-7763 Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial
18-7685 Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. Porter County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-compliance county-treasurer due-process indiana-statute property-tax standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr.'s property tax payments submitted to the Porter County, Indiana Treasurer in 2011 and 2012 were properly and l…
18-999 Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review
18-7583 In Re Bill Herron 2019-01-28 Dismissed IFP adjudicatory-procedures administrative-procedure deprivation-of-property due-process judicial-review logan-v-zimmerman-brush-co mandamus missouri-administrative-procedure-act missouri-law property-interest property-rights Where the District Court has repeatedly refused to address or adjudicate claims raised by a party, in this and other cases filed by Missouri Prisoner'…
18-7598 Carol J. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings Whether the petitioner's convictions should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of due process
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding…
18-7237 Dione C. Saunders v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights disability due-process government-misconduct social-security standing Why did Nancy A. Berryhill ignore and discourteous available evidence from petitioner and refuse to consider their opinion?
18-852 Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 GVR administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements Whether an inmate who demands an alternative method of execution must plead facts detailing the procedure by which his proposed alternative method of …
18-7225 Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Florida 2019-01-03 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional?
18-7136 Mark Hanna v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process incarceration incarceration-rights insurance-requirement motor-vehicle-law retaliation standing vehicle-registration Whether La. RS32:863 of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law is unconstitutional for due process of law
18-7159 Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson Whether reasonable tourists would find the district court's resolution of petitioner's due process claim debatable or wrong with respect to extending …
18-7041 Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2018-12-17 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by …
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when PECO issued shut-off notices to the petitioner for failing to provide access to…
18-722 Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission District of Columbia 2018-12-06 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect…
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…
18-589 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
18-548 Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure agency-action federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas-act religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act standing Whether RFRA claims must be exhausted through administrative procedures before being asserted in court
18-6453 Celestine G. Thompson v. Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech immigration retaliation standing whistleblower Were DHS-ICE officials in Plan to Criminalize Appellants
18-6425 Michael Louis Beattie v. L. Romero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-remedies admissions civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-procedure-summary-judgment-uncontroverted-fa exhaustion-of-remedies fact-admission moving-party non-moving-party prison-grievance prison-grievances procedural-default summary-judgment uncontroverted-facts When, during Summary Judgment proceedings, a non-moving party asserts a fact - or set of facts - and the moving party doesn't dispute the fact, is the…
18-513 Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority Colorado 2018-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act class-of-one due-process equal-protection exhaustion-doctrine material-facts property-rights Can a governmental agency initiating litigation be relieved of its obligation to prove the elements of its claim against a 'class of one', even when t…
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)
18-439 Peter Janangelo v. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Ninth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure federal-agency federal-agency-discretion foia-exemptions foia-request freedom-of-information-act glomar-response in-camera-review information-disclosure judicial-discretion national-security vaughn-index Whether the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration can invoke the 'Glomar Response' to deny a FOIA request, and under what circumstances th…
18-6223 Martin Jonassen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-procedure cell-conditions civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process facility-design habeas-corpus inmate-safety prison-conditions prison-overcrowding standing Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal without a hearing and denial of petitioner's requests for injunctive and dec…
18-413 David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue Arizona 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration Whether a non-federal recipient agency can purport to act under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) and the Privacy Act while ignoring due process
18-6109 Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service Ninth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a
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?
18-332 Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah Utah 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection Whether the Utah State Supreme Court erred in affirming the Utah Court of Appeals in denying that a specific remedy exists for a citizen to challenge …
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…
18-5825 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
18-222 EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings Whether the PTAB erred in applying the Texas-Digital claim construction standard rather than the Phillips standard
18-196 Francis Supeno, et al. v. Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Vermont 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-penalty administrative-procedure appeal-rights civil-procedure due-process environmental-regulations fourth-amendment notice penalties property-access property-rights regulatory-criteria regulatory-enforcement Whether the assessment of a penalty, in a proceeding entirely separate from and subsequent to a hearing on the underlying merits, constitutes a denial…
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…
18-137 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…
18-139 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 …
18-5290 Ronald Long v. George Robinson, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure corrections due-process parole presentence-report standing state-law Did the N.J. State Parole deny Petitioner Due Process by conducting a parole hearing without having a mandatory presentence report?
18-5219 Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicted with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on the issue of whether the plaintiff sub…
18-5192 Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services Ohio 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection in the denial of disability financial assistance by the Ohio Department of Job and …
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
18-5013 Gina Brasher Langley v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure claims-process due-process equal-protection federal-tax government-response interest marital-tax-liabilities solicitor-general standing tax-refund tax-transcripts Whether the IRS has unlawfully denied the petitioner's tax refund claim, falsified tax transcripts, and improperly recorded marital tax liabilities