bill-of-attainder
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6206 | Brett Talmadge v. Alaska | Alaska | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure | Did the Alaska Supreme Court misapply Heck v. Humphrey and violate the Bill of Attainder prohibition in a decision of national importance? |
| 25A502 | Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits | Whether the Veterans' Judicial Review Act precludes federal district courts from hearing constitutional challenges to federal statutes governing veter… | |
| 25A452 | Leda Health Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | bill-of-attainder commercial-speech constitutional-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment medical-testing | Whether a state statute regulating medical testing constitutes an unconstitutional content-based restriction on commercial speech and a bill of attain… | |
| 25-190 | John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment | Whether the removal of an irreplaceable religious resource from a cemetery injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant and whether symboli… |
| 24A587 | TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General. | District of Columbia | 2024-12-16 | Presumed Complete | Amici (5) | bill-of-attainder content-restriction first-amendment free-speech national-security social-media | Whether a content-based restriction on a social media platform constitutes a violation of the First Amendment's free speech protections when enacted w… |
| 24-5034 | Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska | Alaska | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional | Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for sexual offenders for pa… |
| 23-435 | Minor Lee McNeil v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 5th-amendment apportionment bill-of-attainder constitutional-apportionment direct-tax direct-taxation due-process fifth-amendment legislative-powers property-rights | Whether a State can lay a direct tax that is vested in Congress, or operates differently from the apportioned direct tax defined in the Constitution? |
| 22-7066 | Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant can be found guilty for a parole violation and a criminal violation for illegal possession of a firearm if it is illegal to tran… |
| 20-1567 | Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction | Does a county/state judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest? | |
| 20-1543 | Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference | Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated? |
| 19-8600 | Marco E. Torres, Jr. v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-06-04 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection media-campaign referendum | Whether the successful media campaign and referendum culminating in affirmance of Mr. Torres' death sentences qualify as cruel-and-unusual-punishment |
| 19-8186 | Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault | Whether defendant is not guilty due to lack of rape and murder cover-up, resulting in an irrational conviction from due process violations and an unfa… |
| 18-7220 | Pashtoon Farooqi v. California | California | 2019-01-03 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness | Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional? |
| 18-585 | Ernest J. Franceschi, Jr. v. Betty T. Yee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder driver-licenses due-process hearing-opportunity license-suspension occupational-licenses procedural-rights retrospective-legislation substantive-due-process tax-delinquencies tax-delinquency | Does the suspension of state issued occupational and driver licenses without a hearing opportunity, based upon tax delinquencies that pre date enactme… |
| 18-5767 | Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. | Arizona | 2018-08-27 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity | Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus vi… |
| 18-230 | Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in a civil RICO paternity fraud lawsuit involving f… |