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25-763 PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment 1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand this case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did …
25-6159 In Re Mohamed Nguida 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-action constitutional-remedy due-process judicial-abdication mandamus ultra-vires 1. Judicial Abdication and Due Process Whetherthe Eleventh Circuit 's 100-day (and ongoing) failure to rule on an emergency mandamus petition —where …
25-579 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending administrative-procedure-act agency-action cooperative-federalism environmental-review hazardous-waste resource-conservation-recovery-act 1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t…
25A570 Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether a federal agency's adverse employment action constitutes unlawful retaliation under Title VII when an employee has engaged in protected EEO ac…
25A564 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether a federal court retains jurisdiction to review a case when an agency unilaterally ceases allegedly unlawful conduct to evade judicial review
25A393 Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete administrative-secrecy agency-action foia glomar-response public-scrutiny records-search Whether an agency can issue a 'Glomar response' to a FOIA request without conducting any search for potentially releasable records
25A374 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete agency-action environmental-impact nepa permit-renewal rcra standing Whether a federal agency's submission of a permit renewal application under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requires a separate Nati…
25-5541 Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using summary procedures fo…
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
24-1102 Citizens for Constitutional Integrity v. Census Bureau, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-24 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-action congressional-apportionment mandamus-act voting-rights Whether the Administrative Procedure Act and Mandamus Act provide procedural rights to challenge the Secretary of Commerce's apportionment report unde…
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the SEC v. Chenery Corp. rule to Black Lung Benefits Act cases, contrary to other circuit court interpretati…
24-693 Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-penalties judicial-review regulatory-compliance Whether judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act for agency notices of violation is unavailable until the agency takes formal enforcemen…
24A397 Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-action consumer-product-safety final-agency-action judicial-review regulatory-interpretation Whether a Notice of Non-Compliance from an administrative agency constitutes a 'final agency action' subject to judicial review under the Administrati…
24-450 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure Whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr…
24-446 Roobina Zadoorian v. Gwinnett Technical College, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action contract-interpretation spending-clause statute-of-limitations title-vi Does the U.S. Supreme Court characterize Title VI and other Spending Clause Statutes as 'Contract' or 'Personal Injury', and what is the appropriate s…
24-412 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 …
24-5703 Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-action discrimination-claims judicial-review procedural-due-process whistleblower-protection Whether the district court improperly dismissed a pro se plaintiff's administrative law claims challenging the International Holocaust Remembrance All…
24-300 Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Shane Jeffries, in His Official Capacity as Ochoco National Forest Supervisor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-action deliberative-materials judicial-review record-review Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits an agency to categorically and unilaterally exclude deliberative materials from the administrative re…
24-5520 Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether the USCIS misinterpreted 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) in denying a spousal visa petition based on alleged marriage fraud
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?
24A98 Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-action environmental-law epa-regulation natural-resources statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in issuing a final agency action that improperly regulates natural resour…
23-1352 Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-27 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action
23-7815 Jesus M. Romero, Sr. v. BronxCare HealthCare System, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-action child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-1312 Interim Storage Partners, LLC v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-action hobbs-act jurisdictional-limitations nuclear-regulation nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing ultra-vires Whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's exercise of authority to issue a license to a private party to temporarily possess spent nuclear fuel at a…
23-1161 Children’s Health Defense, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response Waived agency-action article-iii case-or-controversy constitutional-standing injury-in-fact resource-diversion standing vaccine-safety Whether a Constitutionally cognizable case or controversy exists under Article III
23-1125 Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Third Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied Relisted (3) administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious electronic-nicotine-delivery-system electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fda-regulation menthol-flavoring premarket-tobacco-application premarket-tobacco-product-application retroactive-rulemaking retroactive-standard Whether the FDA's creation of a new, heightened standard for evaluating already-pending PMTAs for certain ENDS products was arbitrary and capricious
23-1069 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C…
23-870 Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26(b) precludes equitable tolling of 49 U.S.C. § 5127(a)'s ordinary and nonjurisdictional deadline to peti…
23A731 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action capacity-auctions ferc judicial-review state-subsidies Whether a federal agency's deadlocked vote constitutes final agency action subject to judicial review and, if so, how courts should evaluate and resol…
23-6372 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination retaliation security-clearance Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1698
23-418 Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing Can the 'injury in fact' element of standing be established by an evidentiary showing of increased consumer prices?
23A350 Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA's regulatory action impermissibly exceeds its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act or violates principles of administrative law
23-5680 Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award Whether Judicial Discretion dissolves in the presence of Direct Evidence, Statutory, and/or Procedural requirements
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…
23-235 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-medication administrative-law agency-action article-iii-standing civil-procedure fda fda-regulations mifepristone preliminary-relief standing Whether respondents have Article III standing to challenge FDA's 2016 and 2021 actions
23-115 Fathi Elltaif Saad Elldakli, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action citizenship-and-immigration-services final-agency-action immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings status-adjustment Whether a status-adjustment decision by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services constitutes final agency action within the meaning of t…
22-7488 Alex Adams v. Lorie Davis, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to the seizure of their bank account and property without due proc…
22-1008 Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Eighth Circuit 2023-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (15) administrative-procedure-act adverse-effect adversely-affected agency-action agency-rule circuit-split legal-wrong standing statute-of-limitations When do APA claims first accrue under 28 U.S.C. §2401(a)
22-7143 Xunxian Liu v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action agency-policy civil-rights due-process employment-rights federal-employment notice performance-improvement performance-improvement-plan procedural-rights Whether the DHHS violated Petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, and employment-rights by issuing a performance-improvement-plan and removing Petitio…
22-703 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Environmental Defense Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action coastal-zone-management-act environmental-assessment final-agency-action oil-and-gas oil-and-gas-permits well-stimulation-treatments Whether a programmatic environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact constitute 'final agency action'
22-584 Children’s Health Defense, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response Waived agency-action article-iii case-or-controversy constitutional-standing injury resource-diversion risk-of-injury standing third-party third-party-injury Whether a Constitutionally cognizable case or controversy exists under Article III
22-565 USP Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious judicial-review national-security section-232 tariff-authority trade-expansion-act Did the Federal Circuit err in holding that the Secretary's 'final agency action' which determined that imports of steel 'threaten to impair the natio…
22-560 Nathan Mowery v. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response Waived agency-action anti-discrimination due-process executive-deference judicial-review national-security security-clearance stare-decisis Whether this Court's decision in Dep't of the Navy v. Egan precludes any and all judicial review of agency actions involving employees with security c…
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…
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Proced…
21-1526 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action
21-7949 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)?
21-1446 Simin Nouritajer, et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied administrative-law agency-action immigrant-petition immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether considering the strong presumption of jurisdiction to review agency action repeatedly recognized by this Court, 8 U.S.C. §1155 and 8 U.S.C. §1…
21-7797 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…
21-7372 Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation Second Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion discrimination-laws failure-to-act judicial-review mandamus petition-for-review standing unreasonable-withholding Can a petitioner file a petition for review of an agency action for a failure to act, relying on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)
21-7369 Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Whether the acting Leon Vhs Corl in Cape v. United States, 556 U.S. 255, 268, 129 S.Ct. 2155, 173 L.Ed.2d 1208 (2008), trial court's robbery under 18 …
21-915 Hugh McKinney v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army District of Columbia 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious civilian-board deference judicial-review military-records standard-of-review Whether a civilian board's administrative decisions concerning the correction of military records pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 1552(a)(1) are properly revi…
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 …
21-589 Said Rum v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process factfinding-procedures fbar-penalties reporting-requirements standard-of-review willfulness Are courts to apply de novo review of agency actions when the inadequacy of the factfinding procedures is due to a procedural due-process violation
21-348 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-09-03 Denied Amici (7) administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in narrowly construing an express preemption clause by applying a presumption against preemption
20-7948 Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 15 Supreme Court justices are the last line of defense for religious freedom and the free exercise thereof?
20-1535 Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence
20-7760 John Worthington v. Office of National Drug Control Policy, et al. District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure docket-management final-agency-action level-playing-field local-rule-7b official-capacity summons-and-complaint tort-claim tort-claims trial-court-arguments Whether the trial court erred by failing to apply local rule 7(b)
20-1437 Optimum Services, Inc. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Federal Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action bid-protest contract-disputes-act court-of-federal-claims government-contracting judicial-review standard-of-review termination-for-convenience Is an agency's termination for convenience of a contract for voluntary corrective action in response to the filing of a post-award bid protest in the …
20-1195 Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the outc…
20-1190 Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery?
20-1113 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…
20-818 Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim Whether the United States has waived sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedures Act to exercise subject matter jurisdiction over Claim 201…
20-6170 Justin David Brown v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance did-the-court-err-by-not-holding-a-hearing
20-241 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor District of Columbia 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action attorney-client-privilege circuit-court-review foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review rule-60 summary-judgment Whether district court and circuit court review of agency action under FOIA must comport with the APA
19-1238 Lisa L. Watson v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response Waived adverse-action adverse-employment-action agency-action civil-rights comparator comparator-evidence discriminatory-termination due-process employment hipaa-compliance performance-improvement-plan prima-facie-case Question not identified
19-1166 Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action
19-1090 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing, sua sponte, the complaint seeking judicial review of agency action under the Administrative Proce…
19-7017 Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings WHEY Wo dipatiwvZrv3unnmMe gv Bus iv Ess
19-636 Estate of Earnest Lee Boyland, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-18 Denied Response Waived agency-action civil-rights claims-framework discrimination due-process equal-protection racial-classification racial-discrimination standing strict-scrutiny Is it a denial of Equal Protection for the USDA and Epiq to afford women and Hispanic claimants access to a remedial claims framework, but bar Black m…
19-547 United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. v. Sierra Club, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-28 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) agency-action agency-discretion deliberative-process-privilege document-disclosure draft-documents endangered-species-act freedom-of-information-act interagency-consultation Whether Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act protects against compelled disclosure a federal agency's draft documents prepared as part of a f…
19-464 Veterans Contracting Group, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judic administrative-law agency-action civil-procedure due-process government-contracts judicial-review service-disabled-veterans small-business small-business-set-aside standing statutory-compliance va-procurement veterans-affairs veterans-contracts Whether agency action based on an earlier, unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judicial correction based on an individual employee's alleged l…
19-5509 Charles Randall Harrison v. Raul Maldonado District of Columbia 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review pro-se pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-denial Did the District Court violate Harrison's Due Process by sua Sponte denying his Pro-Se Complaint without serving the defendants or giving judicial rev…
18-9709 Angie Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious due-process judicial-review legal-accountability obstruction-of-justice standard-of-review When Justices obstruct the law and legal proceedings by not adhering to the legal standards of review, who will hold them accountable?
18A1280 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-review Whether a state agency's denial of an employment-related claim constitutes a violation of an individual's constitutional due process rights
18-1493 Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-05-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act Whether a U.S. court of appeals can decline to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent on user fees, and instead apply its own test
18A1222 Hotze Health & Wellness Center, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action judicial-review regulatory-compliance standing Whether a private party may seek judicial review of an agency's regulatory action under the Administrative Procedure Act without demonstrating individ…
18-1469 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Casa de Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion deferred-action dhs-policy executive-discretion immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review policy-rescission standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-790 Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation Whether Congress' use of the words 'will' and 'until' in a provision of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 1993 requires the Corps…
18-743 White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions Where a statute directs an agency to carry out and pay for a federal project for public benefit without granting express authority to regulate private…
18-588 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-05 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-561 Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Amici (1) 15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Is a delegation of Congressional power an 'agency order' or 'agency action' such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that chal…
18-557 Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing Whether a district court may order discovery outside the administrative record to probe the mental processes of an agency decisionmaker when there is …
18-555 Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever…
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
18-512 Lee Simmons v. Paul Daniel Smith, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the National Park Service, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency-deference administrative-law agency-action agency-discretion chevron-deference due-process judicial-review property-rights statutory-interpretation takings wild-and-scenic-rivers-act Whether an agency can advance an interpretation of a statute for the first time in litigation and demand deference under Chevron
18-388 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?
18-131 Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen…
18-5277 Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 Whether the Executive Office of the President is required to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved petitioner under Title 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 …