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24-1262 RDFS, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-authority certificate-issuance judicial-review natural-gas-act statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may defer to FERC on the threshold question of FERC's authority to issue blanket certificates without determining the legal…
24-422 Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-authority contribution-rates nondelegation-doctrine telecommunications-act universal-service Whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the FCC to determine universal service contribution rates
24-257 Harley Marine Services, Incorporated v. Conrad Shipyard, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived agency-authority appellate-review clearly-erroneous contract-interpretation corporate-liability fifth-circuit-ruling Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review by affirming a trial court's ruling without evidentiary support for a…
24A197 Talen Montana, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulati…
24A179 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Clean Air Act permits the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants without explicit congressional authorizati…
24A116 Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power-industry epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulations that substantially i…
24A102 Valley Health System, LLC, dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority chevron-deference judicial-review nlrb-decision statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises overturning Chevron deference should apply to National Labor Relations Board a…
24A96 National Rural Electric Cooperative v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-overreach agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that substantially transform the electric power g…
24A97 National Mining Association and America's Power v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulations greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Whether the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations exceed the agency's statutory authority in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
23-1300 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-authority agency-review atomic-energy-act hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing statutory-authority Whether the Hobbs Act allows nonparties to obtain review of claims asserting that an agency order exceeds the agency's statutory authority
23-1053 Cletus Woodrow Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-state agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-challenge jurisdictional-dispute kelo non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers takings Whether this Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge to the constitutional authority of an agency was properly filed in district court, or whether an agency…
23A766 Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-02-22 Presumed Complete administrative-agency agency-authority jurisdictional-interpretation patent-review statutory-construction statutory-deadline Whether a statutory deadline imposed by Congress on an administrative agency is jurisdictional or merely hortatory, and the extent to which an agency …
23-620 Dominique Gerald Burns v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge procedural-due-process standing state-agency Whether the court of appeals erred in its ruling when it failed to protect the appellant's procedural due process
23A384 United States Steel Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-rulemaking interstate-pollution Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating a new rule regulating interstate ozone pollution that imposes…
23A351 American Forest & Paper Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act emissions-standards epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that impose stringent…
23-5202 Aaron Abadi, et al. v. Transportation Security Administration District of Columbia 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-authority air-carrier-access-act congressional-intent covid-19 health-regulations major-questions-doctrine pandemic-response statutory-interpretation transportation-security tsa-authority Did TSA have the authority to mandate nationwide restrictions and mandates with regards to health-related issues
23-22 Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-06 Denied administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
22-969 City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response Waived agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's 'and other purposes' clause to invest…
22-679 NYC C.L.A.S.H., Inc., et al. v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived agency-authority constitutional-avoidance due-process federalism fourth-amendment housing-regulation public-housing smoking-ban spending-clause Whether HUD lacks authority to adopt or enforce its smoking ban as a means to ensure 'safe and habitable' public housing
22-258 Wayne B. Holstad, et al. v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review statute-of-limitations takings Whether a statute of limitations is a due process requirement, and if so, what statute of limitations is applicable to this case?
22-33 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-12 Denied administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation Is a pandemic-related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
22-25 Roy Lynn McCutchen, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Amici (2) agency-authority agency-rulemaking fifth-amendment government-power legislative-delegation legislative-rulemaking personal-property physical-taking property-rights redressability takings-clause Does a delegation of general legislative rulemaking authority to an agency constitute an inherent restraint on title to any personal property that cou…
21-1316 In Re Darru Hsu 2022-04-01 Denied agency-authority chevron-deference class-action constitutional-rights federal-arbitration-act finra finra-arbitration fraud investment-advisers-act judicial-review Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) contradicts the Investment Advisers Act (IAA) when fraud is inside an investment contract, and whether inves…
21-82 Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department Does the SEC have independent authority to interpret and enforce the Bank Secrecy Act?
20-1778 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the 'hazardous a…
20-1531 The North American Coal Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-authority carbon-dioxide-emissions carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan environmental-regulation epa epa-regulation generation-shifting power-plants Whether 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) grants the EPA authority to impose industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes
19-8648 Vernon Wayne McNeal v. Fleming, C/O, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-penalties agency-authority civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction regulatory-compliance standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-strikes Question not identified
19-1310 Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation by exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl…
19-1212 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)
19-1115 American Bankers Association v. National Credit Union Administration District of Columbia 2020-03-11 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law agency-authority agency-discretion chevron-deference delegation-of-authority local-community regulatory-definition separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation When a statute expressly directs an agency to define a statutory term, does the delegation expand the scope of the agency's authority at Chevron step …
19-6725 Richard A. Wellbeloved-Stone v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 19-usc-1509 agency-authority agency-procedure civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding customs-summons exclusionary-rule federal-law federal-policy ice non-customs-information Whether information having nothing to do with customs, obtained by an agency pursuant to a customs summons under 19 U.S.C. § 1509, should be suppresse…
19-6018 Joey Little v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent…
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…
18-131 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…
18-139 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 …