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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6441 | Kamlesh Banga v. Lawrence R. Lustig | Second Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | IFP | article-three judicial-recommendation magistrate-judge objection-standard procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court violates 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) and Article III when it adopts a magistrate judge's recommendation through complete judicia… |
| 25A741 | Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC | Third Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | administrative-adjudication article-three h-2a-visa labor-dispute private-rights separation-of-powers | Whether administrative adjudication of H-2A visa program labor disputes involving private rights violates Article III's separation of powers requireme… | |
| 25-569 | Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus | 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… |
| 25-543 | Thomas John Styczinski, et al. v. Grace Arnold, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response Waived | article-three constitutional-avoidance dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation judicial-power state-law | Whether a federal court exceeds its Article III judicial power by unilaterally imposing a constitutional avoidance narrowing construction on a state l… |
| 25-406 | Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Granted | administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment | Whether the Communications Act provisions governing FCC monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Amendment and Article III | |
| 25-373 | Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation | Federal Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers | Whether the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmances without opinion in Merit Systems Protection Board cases violate separation of powers and due process… |
| 25-5450 | John Todd Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-three due-process federal-appellate-judge judicial-designation jurisdiction post-conviction-motion | Whether a federal appellate judge who was never properly designated under 28 U.S.C. § 294 may lawfully adjudicate a post-conviction 28 U.S.C. § 2255 m… |
| 25-5449 | John Todd Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error | Whether a federal judge elevated to an appellate court can lawfully preside over district court proceedings without proper statutory designation |
| 24-957 | William Stenger v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Amici (1) | article-three circuit-conflict coram-nobis jurisdictional-inquiry restitution-order statutory-jurisdiction | Whether a court exercising 'hypothetical statutory jurisdiction' exceeds its power under Article III and whether a district court may issue a writ of … |
| 24-552 | Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-18 | Denied | Response Waived | article-three due-process fifth-amendment intervention legal-standing sanctions | Whether the 7th Circuit violated Article III and the 5th Amendment by allowing JPMorgan Chase to intervene in a closed case without legal standing and… |
| 24-5881 | Deshon Aaron Atkins v. David Holbrook, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-three dispositive-order exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-jurisdiction | Whether the Central District of California's practice of allowing magistrate judges to issue orders with dispositive effects on habeas petitioners' ri… |
| 24-5611 | Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power non-precedential-decisions | Whether federal courts of appeals exceed Article III judicial power by issuing non-precedential decisions and whether non-precedential orders without … |
| 24-98 | Norman Abood, et al. v. James P. Carroll, Chapter 7 Trustee | Third Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | article-iii-courts article-three bankruptcy bankruptcy-court congress-power constitutional-authority judicial-council jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Whether the Virgin Islands Bankruptcy Court is lawfully constituted under Article III, § 1 of the United States Constitution | |
| 23A535 | Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-appeal article-three corporate-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's 'state wherein they reside' clause limits federal courts' diversity jurisdiction over corporate parties based on th… | |
| 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… |
| 22-250 | 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… |
| 21-8167 | Xue Jie He, et al. v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-1251 article-three civil-procedure constitution federal-jurisdiction original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty supreme-court | Whether this Court has original jurisdiction over this action and personal jurisdiction over the parties pursuant to Article II Section 2. of the Cons… |
| 21-1311 | Rinaldo Pierno v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC | Second Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-courts article-three circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-power judicial-precedent non-precedential-decisions precedent | Whether the proliferation of 'non-precedential' appellate court decisions violates Article III of the U.S. Constitution |
| 20-8477 | Stephen Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release | Whether the Second Circuit wrongly dismissed petitioner's appeal prematurely as moot before allowing him the opportunity to show that his appeal meets… |
| 20-1270 | Scott Erik Stafne v. Bank of New York Mellon | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response Waived | article-three boundary-lines federalism judicial-power real-property res senior-judges state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Federalism structure of government prevented the District Court from assuming subject-matter jurisdiction over a real property res for pur… |
| 20-405 | City of Miami Gardens, Florida v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Amici (2) | alabama-legislative-black-caucus article-three circuit-conflict civil-rights discovery due-process standing sua-sponte summary-judgment | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's sua sponte dismissal of the case on standing grounds without providing the plaintiff an opportunity for discovery and e… |
| 20-220 | VBS Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | actual-injury article-three circuit-split civil-rights due-process false-advertising lanham-act standing uniform-application | Whether a plaintiff in a false-advertising case must demonstrate 'actual injury' to state a claim under the Lanham Act |
| 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? |
| 19-8654 | 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 |
| 19-6065 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-960 | 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… |
| 18-5702 | 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… |