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25-888 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing Should the Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing, and if such an exception exists, must a mun…
25A842 Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Application appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court's exercise of jurisdiction violated Article III of the Constitution by improperly adjudicating a case without proper subjec…
25-6646 Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while dismissing unrebutted record evidence as 'unpersuasive,' without provi…
25-830 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness Whether a court of appeals may issue binding merits precedent on constitutional claims after those claims have become moot during appeal, and whether …
25-6536 C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP article-iii due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-review report-recommendation substantial-rights Whether a magistrate's report and recommendation on dispositive matters without Article III judicial officer review violates a party's substantial due…
25-6420 In Re Ryan D. Mumme 2025-12-23 Pending IFP article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction federal-court government-liability judicial-power sovereign-immunity Whether the sovereign United States can be sued without explicit consent and whether Article III jurisdiction is impacted by governmental party status
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction Whether 12 U.S.C. §3410(d) and (e) unconstitutionally restrict judicial review and appeal rights in financial record disclosure cases
25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information when the statut…
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal requires mandatory Sprint analysis before Younger abstention and resolves circuit conflicts regarding…
25-602 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay Whether a federal court of appeals violates Due Process and exceeds its jurisdiction under Article III by denying an emergency stay request without ac…
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case now a ripe Article III constitutional case ready to proceed to discovery and jury trial as an 18 USC …
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Granted Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25-556 William Loginov v. Sheridan Memorial Hospital, aka Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied article-iii diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts rules-of-decision-act state-law-interpretation Whether Article III, the Rules of Decision Act, and the Erie doctrine mandate that federal courts sitting in diversity must certify novel state law qu…
25A492 Robert L. Walker v. Brett Michael Waronicki, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Application article-iii constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-overreach rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals judges exceeded their judicial authority and violated due process by issuing conflicting opinions that p…
25A352 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete article-iii concrete-harm jurisdiction privacy-rights standing statutory-damages Whether a federal court may exercise Article III jurisdiction over a state law privacy claim where the plaintiff alleges a statutory violation but can…
25-334 Satyasheel S. Korpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response Waived article-iii driving-while-intoxicated jury-trial probation-conditions second-amendment-rights sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution guarantee a defendant charged with Driving While Intoxicated the rig…
25-5611 Daquan Carey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States …
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25A86 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit Systems Protection Board cases unconstitutionally violate Article III judicial…
25-5148 Jose Antonio Cossio, Jr. v. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP air-force-court article-iii due-process mandamus supreme-court-precedent van-buren-decision Whether mandamus should issue against the Air Force when its court disregarded the Supreme Court's decision in Van Buren in violation of the Due Proce…
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
24-1281 Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-adjudication article-iii non-article-iii-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr…
24-1280 Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-adjudication article-iii non-jury-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr…
24A1203 Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. First Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court exceeded its Article III jurisdiction by enjoining the Executive Branch's internal workforce management decisions at the De…
24-1218 Phillip Alig, et al. v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived article-iii certification class-action federal-rule-civil-procedure injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack a…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing Whether named plaintiffs in a class action retain standing to appeal a district court's denial of class certification when the named plaintiffs' claim…
24-7056 Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied IFP article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity Whether judicial and prosecutorial immunities are consistent with Article III judicial power and constitutional due process
24-6997 Eric Ellis v. Cargill Meat Solutions, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP article-III mootness rule-68 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tender Whether a random mailing of a check (unconditional tender) that is not linked to a Rule 68 offer can rob a plaintiff of Article III standing effective…
24-1053 In Re Sara Ann Edmondson 2025-04-07 Denied Relisted (2) article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will exercise its power to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit to reinstate Article III claims and direct investig…
24-982 ExxonMobil Corporation, et al. v. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii citizen-suit clean-air-act environmental-litigation redressability traceability Whether a plaintiff in a Clean Air Act citizen suit may satisfy Article III's traceability requirement by showing potential injuries and whether civil…
24-6375 In Re John E. Drummond 2025-01-23 Denied IFP article-iii constitutional-violation habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether an Article III habeas court must grant relief when convinced a state court's judgment violates the Constitution despite AEDPA deference
24-750 Martha Adams, et al. v. Angelo Rescigno, Sr., as Executor of the Estate of Cheryl B. Canfield, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action evidentiary-analysis settlement-certification transunion-ramirez Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 as amended in 2018 permit courts to apply a policy favoring settlement in place of a rigorous evidentiary anal…
24-6268 Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment Whether a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case loses Seventh Amendment rights to a jury trial by not objecting to a bankruptcy Plan, and whether suc…
24A673 Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete article-iii congressional-power due-process sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff can establish Article III standing to challenge long-standing congressional actions through generalized grievances about constitut…
24-712 Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy Whether the Supreme Court can relinquish Article III duties by deferring to arbitrators when enforcing arbitration awards
24-654 David Lesh v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution's dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for 'petty offenses'
24-645 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Amici (3) article-iii cheney-standard declaratory-judgment mandamus redressability standing When plaintiffs have established ongoing injuries traceable to defendants' policies, does Article III require a particularized factual determination o…
24-6083 Joshua Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution jury-trial misdemeanor sixth-amendment Whether Article III and the Sixth Amendment guarantee a jury trial for petty misdemeanors
24A426 Garry David Gallardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete article-iii constitutional-courts criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction state-courts Whether Article III of the Constitution limits Congress's power to confer criminal jurisdiction on federal courts within a state's judicial system
24-439 Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas Federal Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response Waived article-iii constitutional-authority impeachment-process judicial-removal mental-health-evaluation patent-appeals Whether the Federal Circuit improperly removed an Article III judge from judicial duties and undermined patent appeals adjudication by mandating a men…
24-408 Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent Did the Second Circuit correctly apply standing requirements under Article III and recent Supreme Court precedents for a Section 16(b) Securities Exch…
24-5594 Seldrick Carpenter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Sixth Amendment and Article III create a jury right for federal supervised release revocation proceedings when new crimes are alleged
24-308 Vishrut Amin, et ux. v. Carla R. Pepperman, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Judge for Lake County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-iii constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity remote-hearing Whether a judge's unilateral order for remote court appearance violates constitutional rights under the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments and qualifies fo…
24-304 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii certification class-action federal-court injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury
24A149 The Estate of Isabella "Bella" Herndon, et al. v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete article-iii cafa circuit-conflict diversity-jurisdiction jurisdiction minimal-diversity Whether the Class Action Fairness Act and Article III require a plaintiff invoking federal diversity jurisdiction to specifically identify the name an…
24-114 Zebra Technologies Corporation v. Intellectual Tech LLC Federal Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii complex-contracts exclusionary-rights exclusive-licensee federal-circuit licensing-rights patent-infringement patent-standing standing patent-infringement
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…
23-1327 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind, and not degree, to a ha…
23-1307 RAC Acceptance East, LLC v. Shannon McBurnie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement article-iii article-iii-standing claim-for-relief federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus mitsubishi-motors public-injunction severability standing viking-river Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits courts to refuse to sever and compel arbitration of individualized and divisible components of a claim mer…
23-1216 Moliere Dimanche, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-constitution civil-consent-jurisdiction civil-procedure election-interference federal-magistrate-act federal-magistrates-act judicial-conflict-of-interest magistrate-judge thompson-v-clark void-conviction writ-of-prohibition Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the Writ of Prohibition was frivolous?
23-1175 Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Second Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-court-power brokerage-account clawback-funds customer-net-equity madoff-fraud net-equity net-investment-method securities-law sipa sipc-trustee statutory-interpretation statutory-definition-of-net-equity
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
23-7228 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights-damages due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-rights Whether Article III jurisdiction extends to cases arising under the Constitution and federal law
23-7165 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-rig…
23-7140 Paul Wright v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedures-act article-i article-iii court-of-appeals-for-the-federal-circuit court-of-appeals-for-veterans-claims delegated-powers veterans-judicial-review-act Whether an aggrieved veteran's right to judicial review of the Article I veteran-benefit administrative process is independent of review of decisions …
23-998 Melanie Jerusalem v. Louisiana Department of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process election-law electronic-voting federal-elections standing voting-rights Did the Fifth Circuit err in ruling a registered Louisiana voter for a federal election sustained insufficient injury in fact under Article III of the…
23-983 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship Does the 'state wherein they reside' provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdiction…
23-924 John Anthony Castro v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived arizona-ballot article-iii article-iii-standing ballot-access campaign-expenses hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-amend presidential-candidate standing Does an Arizona ballot-placed Republican Presidential Candidate lack Article III standing if a lower court determines he is not 'genuinely' competing …
23-6734 C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration Fourth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay substantial-rights Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of appea…
23-833 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (7) article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule Does amending or supplementing a complaint to include new factual developments absolve the government of its burden to prove mootness?
23-827 Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp Ninth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-standing chapter-11 chapter-eleven creditor creditor-rights injury-in-fact standing trustee Whether a creditor has Article III standing to challenge a bankruptcy court order awarding a bonus to the former Chapter 11 trustee when the creditor …
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-811 Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior District of Columbia 2024-01-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/issue-preclusion applies when Merit-Systems-Protection-Board-has-resolved-an-issue
23-742 Milan Kiser, et al. v. Chris Langer Ninth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-injury public-accommodation separation-of-powers standing tester-standing Whether a 'tester' has Article III standing under Title 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act
23-729 Roee Kiviti, et ux. v. Naveen Prasad Bhatt Fourth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three-courts bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction case-or-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether bankruptcy courts are bound by the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III of the Constitution
23-539 Raymond De Botton v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii case-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process good-behavior judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-review standing Whether Article III courts are required to apply the law to the facts of a dispute
23-6051 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii cares-act case-or-controversy drug-conspiracy home-confinement prison-term supervised-release Does a prisoner serving a 36-month prison term for revocation of supervised release concurrent with his 360-month prison term for a drug conspiracy me…
23-478 David Harris v. American Accounting Association, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights delegation due-process judicial-power magistrate-judges pro-se-appeal pro-se-appeals separation-of-powers standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals may delegate judicial power to staff attorneys
23-405 Kristy Ross v. Federal Trade Commission Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied arguable-basis article-iii civil-procedure frcp-60(b)(4) jurisdictional-challenge rule-60(b)(4) rule-60(b)(6) subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent void Whether a judgment lacking in subject matter jurisdiction under Article III is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) even with an arguable basis for jurisdiction
23-399 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2023-10-17 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act article-iii circuit-disqualification civil-rights civil-rights-claims constitutional-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality mandamus mandamus-relief standing Whether a U.S. circuit court may concede its disqualification to adjudicate a matter and then refuse to transfer the action to another qualified circu…
23-315 VirnetX Inc. v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act article-iii commissioner-for-patents director-review federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-time-limit Whether the Federal Circuit erred in upholding joinder of a party under 35 U.S.C. §315(c), where the joined party did not 'properly file[ ] a petition…
23-5595 Ronnie R. Rolland, Sr. v. Aurora Retirement, LLC, dba Cherry Creek Retirement Village, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process protected-activity punitive-damages standing summary-judgment title-vii whether-appeals-court-retain-authority-over-moot-claims
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
23-39 Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights due-process establishment-clause fiduciary-duty first-amendment free-speech ideological-viewpoint standing Does a beneficiary have standing for a First Amendment challenge to a state statute requiring divestment from companies boycotting Israel?
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in approving the settlement of Trustee's and petitioner ex-wife's dispute
22-1032 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied article-iii civil-procedure due-process duty-to-defend federal-jurisdiction first-amendment insurance-contract pro-se tax-exempt tax-exempt-corporation Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Circuit) correctly determined the jurisdictional power of the federal court over Ins…
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the court-created 'futility' doctrine repugnant to Article III?
22-926 U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Amici (1) article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers Does the lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require i…
22-920 ViSalus, Inc. v. Lori Wakefield, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process marketing-communications standing statutory-damages tcpa-violation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether receipt of a phone call after opting in to receive marketing communications is a 'concrete injury in fact' sufficient to confer Article III st…
22-682 Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction Do Article III Courts have the power to judicially rewrite laws?
22-6589 In Re Moses Jackson 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-review due-process federal-question judicial-power jurisdiction standing state-court-discretion supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the judicial power of the United States under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution extends to the issues raised in this case
22-657 In Re Roger Towers, et ux. 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-133 28-usc-44 5th-amendment article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction due-process judicial-distribution judicial-referral magistrates-act Does the distribution of Article III judgeships satisfy the Due Process Clause and/or Article III?
22-655 Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing district-court-order federal-enforcement final-judgment government-agreement judgment-amendment standing tribal-reserved-rights tribal-rights water-rights Whether landowners have standing to appeal a district court order approving a government agreement to amend a final judgment decreeing tribal reserved…
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
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response Waived 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court Whe…
22-5972 William Marion Patterson, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three civil-procedure civil-rights decision-making-process due-process judicial-oversight non-delegation pro-se-appeals staff-attorney-program standing Whether the Staff Attorney Program in the Eleventh Circuit and the Middle District of Florida violate the non-delegation principles of Article III dut…
22-5937 Prince Jones v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-power due-process government-accountability judicial-jurisdiction standing statutory-jurisdiction Can D.C. Superior Court Judges exercise Statutory Jurisdiction under the color of Article III judicial Power, when Article III does not provide a Stat…
22-385 Roger David Towers v. Mike Hamasaki Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-review due-process habeas judicial-referral magistrate-assignment standing void-for-vagueness Whether the referral to a magistrate was lawful given the district judge's admission of being 'wholly unable to handle civil matters
22-5886 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-chapter-5 article-iii balzac-v-porto-rico court-jurisdiction district-court judicial-power mookini-v-united-states statutory-interpretation territorial-court Whether the lower courts have correctly interpreted Sections 81-131 of Title 28 U.S.C. Chapter 5 - DISTRICT COURTS in light of the Supreme Court's rul…
22-305 Kevin O'Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied 1983 article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights free-speech section-1983 standing state-action voting Whether citizens have standing to sue private persons engaged in state action for relief under § 1983 for deprivations of their right to vote for pres…
22-5708 David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent Lack-of-standing-is-a-jurisdictional-defect
22-278 City of Ocala, Florida v. Art Rojas, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Relisted (6) article-iii civil-rights establishment-clause free-speech observer-standing psychic-injury religious-event religious-expression standing Is psychic or emotional offense allegedly caused by observation of religious messages an injury sufficient to confer standing under Article III of the…
22-257 Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Sixth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act Whether the voluntariness of the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and co…
22-250 Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu…
22-5494 Michael Dale Talley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three due-process judicial-review judicial-supervision non-delegation pro-se pro-se-appeals rule-making-authority staff-attorney staff-attorneys Whether the Staff Attorney Programs in the lower courts violate non-delegation principles of Article III duties to non-Article III decision makers; ex…
22-172 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus microsoft-v-baker voluntary-dismissal Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o…
22-5254 William Paul Burch v. Mark X. Mullen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii bankruptcy-judge constitutional-violation federal-rules in-forma-pauperis sanction-fees unconstitutional-order vexatious-litigant Whether a non-Article III bankruptcy judge can write and enforce their own law on vexatious litigants that violates the constitution
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut…
22-5040 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Right-to-counsel
21-1605 Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C. v. Charles M. Forman, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied article-iii bankruptcy-code disgorgement non-core-proceedings separation-of-powers stern-v-marshall whether-a-non-article-iii-bankruptcy-court-judge-can-exercise-judicial-power
21-1327 Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated Federal Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three-standing inter-partes-review license-agreement medimmune patent-challenge patent-validity qualcomm-dispute standing Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents
21-1242 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent Should the Supreme Court require the Eleventh Circuit to follow Supreme Court precedent and resolve challenges to Article III standing before resolvin…
21-1191 Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal 'counts as a 'strike' within…
21-1153 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitral-awards article-iii chapter-1 chapter-2 district-courts federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitral-awards new-york-convention secondary-jurisdiction separability-doctrine Whether Article III of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards requires U.S. district courts to implement the pro…
21-1148 SB Building Associates Limited Partnership v. Bunce Atkinson, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-property constitutional-limitations due-process judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers Whether Congress may consistent with Separation of Powers principles deny Article III courts the power to review an Article I court's decision allowin…
21-6728 David Schied v. U-Haul International, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-oath criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties government-accountability judicial-immunity judicial-oaths whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the U.S. Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-6729 David Schied v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-accountability criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties judicial-immunity judicial-oaths standing whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-6338 Danquan A. Fanning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-authority article-iv-court constitutional-authority court-judgment criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-usurpation territorial-court Whether the United States District Court, as an Article IV Territorial Court, illegally usurped Article III Constitutional Authority and illegally ent…
21-746 Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated Federal Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inter-partes-review license-agreement patent patent-challenge patent-validity standing takings Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents
21-6139 Yency Nuñez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation Whether proof of jurisdictional facts is an element of an MDLEA offense
21-505 Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. Fund Liquidation Holdings LLC, as Assignee and Successor-in-Interest to FrontPoint Asian Event Driven Fund L.P., et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction-creation legal-standing new-plaintiff plaintiff-addition rule-17 standing Whether a district court lacking Article III jurisdiction can create such jurisdiction by adding a new plaintiff via Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1…
21-474 In Re Wisconsin Legislature 2021-09-28 Denied article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute challe…
21-5749 Krishna Mote v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure injury-in-fact jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the test for standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules
21-334 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-09-01 Denied article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing Whether 'liberty' in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power?
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued
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…
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction Whether the trial court had jurisdiction to proceed and enter judgment without the defendant and defense counsel being personally present during any s…
20-7747 Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people?
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is unconstitutional
20-7483 Luis Andres Medel-Guadalupe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii delegation-of-authority inpatient-treatment outpatient-treatment probation-officer supervised-release Does a district court's delegation of authority to a probation officer to determine whether a person on supervised release undergoes inpatient treatme…
20-1183 Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland, Inc., et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied article-iii article-three-standing civil-action civil-rights constitutional-injury havens-realty mission-alignment organizational-standing resource-diversion standing Can an organization that does not claim membership or representational standing, attain first party standing sufficient to satisfy the concrete and di…
20-1085 Scott Erik Stafne v. Thomas S. Zilly, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 article-iii civil-rights due-process good-behaviour-tenure judicial-independence judicial-tenure jurisdictional-challenge separation-of-powers standing Whether the challenge that a jurist is not an Article III judge because she or he does not have 'good behaviour' tenure is a jurisdictional one which …
20-1026 Eagle Trust Fund v. United States Postal Service, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act article-iii executive-action judicial-review non-apa-review postal-reorganization-act usps-rules Whether the Postal Reorganization Act impliedly bars non-APA review, including claims of USPS conduct or failure to follow its own rules
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable
20-717 Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit?
20-521 Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review party-presentation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-district-court Did any named in the three complaints filed with the District Court allege sufficient personal concrete and particularized harm therein to assert Arti…
20-446 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts collateral-claims federal-courts jurisdictional-issue military-courts military-law military-prisoners Should military-specific collateral claims raised by military prisoners still subject to military law be adjudicated in the specialized, experienced A…
20-404 In Re John Masiz 2020-09-28 Denied 5th-amendment article-ii article-iii civil-rights consent-decree due-process fifth-amendment securities-law sua-sponte Whether the federal court exceeded its Article III authority by initiating a sua sponte investigation into a defendant's compliance with a consent dec…
20-330 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-14 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar…
20-318 Equal Means Equal, et al. v. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States First Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1-usc-106b article-iii article-v constitution equal-rights-amendment standing Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is now the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because three-fourths of the States have ratified it?
20-212 Teresita A. Canuto v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii causal-connection civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ftca ftca-claims jurisdiction standing standing-doctrine summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case due to federal defendants' non-compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
20-14 Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc., et al. v. Village of Pomona, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing fair-housing-act free-exercise institutionalized-persons-act municipal-law property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa standing zoning-law Whether an owner of real property has Article III standing to challenge a municipality's zoning law that prohibits the owner's proposed religious land…
20-5 Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied Amici (5) article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been 'completely nullified,' Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)?
19-8889 Hector Guagua-Alarcon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied IFP article-iii article-three due-process executive-branch executive-power federal-jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that jurisdiction exists?
19-1411 Barry L. Rupert, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for Stanford Receivership Estate, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction non-receivership-entities ponzi-scheme receivership receivership-estate settlement settlement-bar standing third-party-claims Whether Article III standing limits receivers to bringing claims that are coextensive with the receivership estate and precludes receivers from bringi…
19-1402 Antonio Jubis Zacarias, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction article-iii-standing bar-orders circuit-conflict civil-procedure investor-claims receivership receivership-estate standing standing-doctrine Whether a district court in a receivership action has Article III jurisdiction to bar investor claims for individual injuries when the receiver lacks …
19-8777 In Re Garvester Bracken 2020-06-22 Dismissed IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction whether-the-trial-court-had-jurisdiction
19-1371 Roger Dean Waldner v. Bradley R. Hartke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-admissions judicial-power jurisdictional-error rule-60(b)(4) standing void-judgment Is a district court's exercise of Article III judicial power over a non-controversy a rare instance of jurisdictional error that renders its judgment …
19-8654 Richard Senese, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent panel-rule stare-decisis Question not identified
19-1152 ISL Loan Trust, et al. v. Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-authority constitutional-authority debtor-creditor-relationship equitable-mootness non-debtor-claims non-debtor-releases nonconsensual-release restructuring restructuring-debtor-creditor stern-v-marshall Whether a bankruptcy court has authority to enter final judgment releasing without consent a non-debtor's claims against other non-debtors
19-1012 General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete…
19-7381 Percy Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
19-841 United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation Whether the individual and state plaintiffs (respondents here) possess Article III standing to challenge the constitutionality of Section 5000A
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…
19-677 Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients?
19-647 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing certainly-impending chain-of-events constitutional-challenge eleventh-circuit future-injury speculative speculative-harm speculative-injury standing standing-article-iii substantial-likelihood supreme-court Does the Eleventh Circuit's 'substantial likelihood' test for Article III standing relating to future injuries comport with this Court's 'certainly im…
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2?
19-6398 Aretha Townsend v. National Labor Relations Board Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act article-iii case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights compliance contempt due-process frivolous judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-jurisdiction standing Whether District Judge violated Petitioner's due-process rights
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §1291
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a bare violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act constitutes concrete injury for purposes of Article III standing
19-6268 Isabel Yero Grimon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three-courts burden-of-proof federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-validity judicial-precedent limited-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that federal jurisdiction is conclusively established whenever an indictment alleges a federal crime?
19-6085 Frank Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement Must a federal court resolve standing issues before resolving other dispositive, non-merits questions?
19-6065 Emilio Fusco v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct article-iii article-three constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power sentencing standing Whether petitioner raised substantial showing of denial of constitutional right on the issue of whether acquitted conduct sentencing undermines due pr…
19-340 Carey D. Ebert v. John Paul DeJoria, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting article-iii article-iii-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee breach-of-fiduciary-duty corporate-debt debtor-corporation fiduciary-duty judicial-proceedings standing trustee unpaid-debt Whether a bankruptcy trustee who proved at trial, without objection, that defendants' tortious conduct (breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetti…
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court committed a Manifest error by Failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article III, subsection 2, and 38 U.S.C.…
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court?
19-42 North Carolina Utilities Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-07-05 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing federal-agency-orders federal-energy-regulatory-commission natural-gas-act parens-patriae procedural-rights quasi-sovereign-interests standing state-litigant state-standing Whether a state litigant has standing to challenge FERC orders under Massachusetts v. EPA when a federal statute provides the state procedural rights …
18-1592 Allstate Insurance Company v. Daniel Rivera, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure defamation fair-credit-reporting-act fcra federal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction trial-court-discretion Whether a federal court may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state-law claims when it determines after trial that a plaintiff lacks standing to…
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif Whether Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is requ…
18-1497 In Re Minor L. McNeil 2019-05-31 Denied administrative-commission article-iii article-iii-judicial-issue article-iv article-iv-court due-process hayburns-case judicial-proceeding jury-trial mandamus war-crime Whether Mandamus shall issue to an Article IV Court to close its judicial side, and open an Administrative Commission to supervise a jury trial procee…
18-9491 William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing Whether petitioner raised substantial showing of denial of constitutional right
18-9218 Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands Can non-Article III judges serve indefinitely?
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9141 Matthew James Griffin v. Unknown Gregoline, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Did the court of appeals err in holding that the petitioners lacked Article III standing to challenge the government's action?
18-9103 Milton Thomas, Sr. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1334 article-iii bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction congressional-intent district-court-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer non-core-proceeding non-core-proceedings stem-v-marshall stern-v-marshall Can the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals deny the Act of Congress conferring original and exclusive jurisdiction on the District Court of all civil procee…
18-8610 Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article…
18-1190 DoctorDirectory.com, LLC, et al. v. Davis Neurology, P.A. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1446 article-iii federal-court jurisdictional-timing notice-of-removal other-paper removal removal-statute second-removal spokeo-v-robins standing state-court statutory-interpretation thirty-day-deadline Whether the thirty-day deadline for filing a notice of second removal from a state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(3) can begin and expire in fe…
18-8229 Sam Chinn, aka Sam Chinn, III v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-iii-violation civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-rule-8 habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification magistrate-judge-process plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60b-motion Whether the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion when the motion was about a judge violating 28 U.S.C. § 455
18-1052 Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur
18-974 Mar-Bow Value Partners, LLC v. McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Services US LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied access-to-records article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy-conflicts bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-fiduciary bankruptcy-integrity bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-standing integrity-of-process judicial-review pecuniary-interest persons-aggrieved standing Whether Article III federal courts may apply the 'persons aggrieved' pecuniary-interest test to preclude judicial review of orders entered by an Artic…
18-960 Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc. v. BMO Harris Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1367 arbitration arbitration-agreement article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-court supplemental-jurisdiction third-party third-party-complaint Whether a plaintiff loses their right to have all claims that form part of the same case or controversy under Article III of the United States Constit…
18-880 SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology to …
18-834 Farzana Sheikh, et vir v. San Joaquin General Hospital Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure magistrate magistrate-referral standing Whether Local Rule 302 (c) (21) of Eastern District of California conforms with 28 U.S.C. § 636 and conforms with Article III Jurisprudence?
18-7115 Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the fact that the § 2255 remedy failed to test and determine one of two Ineffective Assistance of Trial Counsel issues satisfies the phrase 'i…
18-7046 Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-regulations article-iii article-iii-courts article-iv congress due-process notice-and-comment possessions rule-making territories territories-and-possessions united-states-possessions united-states-territories Is Congress required to establish Article III courts in the United States Territories and Possessions?
18-750 JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. Federal Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of…
18-6632 In Re Danny Howell 2018-11-08 Dismissed IFP adverse-consequences article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Does the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in refusing to permit consideration of a vital intervening legal development when petitioner's prior ha…
18-505 In Re United States, et al. 2018-10-18 Dismissed administrative-procedure-act article-iii civil-procedure-standing civil-rights climate-change due-process environmental-advocacy justiciability public-trust-doctrine standing Whether this suit is justiciable under Article III
18-6304 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment article-iii confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 self-incrimination sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Defendant's rights under Article III, Section 2, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment were violated when the Defendant is induced to enter a p…
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-270 Damian Phillips v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture civil-procedure due-process evidence lujan-test procedural-standing standing summary-judgment third-party-evidence Whether a claimant in a civil forfeiture proceeding has established sufficient Article III standing to withstand summary judgment and proceed to trial
18-267 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-31 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights congressional-intent due-process federal-election-commission-v-akins federal-question federal-statute informational-injury injury-in-fact judicial-review munsingwear-doctrine munsingwear-vacatur privacy public-disclosure standing standing-injury-in-fact statutory-interpretation 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…
18-5800 Brent F. Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-jurisdiction article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure heckler-v-chaney mootness mootness-doctrine standing standing-article-iii-constitution Whether the District Court lacks jurisdiction under Article III of the Constitution, Case or Controversy clause, in light of Heckler v. Chaney
18-225 Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even…
18-5702 Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that…
18-182 AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived actual-controversy article-iii declaratory-judgment drug-exclusivity fda-approval generic-drugs patent-invalidity pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-patents standing Whether the 'actual controversy' requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act requires a party seeking to introduce a generic drug product to file an a…
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement