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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-169 Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response Waived advisory-opinion alternative-ruling appellate-review dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court retains power to issue an alternative decision on the merits after dismissing a case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,…
23-7580 Joseph Moraga v. Texas Texas 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment advisory-opinion contemporaneous-to-arrest custodial-arrest fourth-amendment possession probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of luggage stored in a motel closet was valid as incident to arrest
23-828 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam, et al. Guam 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-opinion article-iv-court federal-courts guam judicial-authority justiciability organic-act separation-of-powers Whether the Supreme Court of Guam's advisory opinion constitutes a permissible exercise of the 'judicial authority' that Congress has vested in that c…
22-7099 Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment Whether lower federal courts may transpose a prima facie §1983 claim into a constitutional challenge not presented by the plaintiff's complaint