agency-guidance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6965 Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on post-conduct agency guidance lacking statutory authority?
23-6421 Remberto Rivera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary …
22-1111 Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Third Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Relisted (3) agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable
22-270 Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Should the word 'established' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly?
21-1604 Robin G. Thornton, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived agency-guidance consumer-protection federal-meat-inspection-act federalism food-labeling labeling-regulations meat-inspection-act preemption Can the beef packing industry and United States of Agriculture override the clearly stated Congressional purpose of enacting the Federal Meat Inspecti…
19-295 Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. First Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction Whether the court of appeals improperly afforded Auer deference to a federal agency's informal interpretation of a regulation
18-1144 Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board