civil-penalties
14 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A747 | Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Presumed Complete | civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial against the states in civil proceedings involving substant… | |
| 24-693 | Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-penalties judicial-review regulatory-compliance | Whether judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act for agency notices of violation is unavailable until the agency takes formal enforcemen… |
| 24-589 | Allco Renewable Energy Limited, et al. v. Agency of Natural Resources, et al. | Vermont | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-enforcement civil-penalties public-utility-commission renewable-energy seventh-amendment site-preparation | Whether statutory provisions empowering the Vermont Public Utility Commission to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seekin… |
| 23-329 | Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-penalties criminal-history due-process fourteenth-amendment housing-ordinance landlord-tenant property-rights public-housing tenant-screening | Does Seattle's restriction on private owners' right to exclude potentially dangerous tenants from their property violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Du… |
| 23-252 | United States, ex rel. Michelle Calderon v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review causation civil-penalties civil-procedure due-process false-claims-act materiality summary-judgment | Did the Appellate Panel erroneously uphold the granting of summary judgment in favor of Respondent in finding no evidence of causation for a jury to c… |
| 22-859 | Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (36)Relisted (2) | administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment | Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedin… |
| 22-447 | Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California | California | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Amici (4) | civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law | Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law and False Advertising Law |
| 22-177 | Monica Toth v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (5) | bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts | Whether civil penalties imposed under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5) that are avowedly deterrent and noncompensatory are subject to the Eighth Amendment's Exc… |
| 21-591 | Donald J. Fowler v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-penalties civil-penalty civil-procedure constitutional-limits disgorgement excessive-penalties private-agreement sec-enforcement statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction | Where 28 U.S.C. § 2462 permits tolling of 5-year statute of limitations by private agreement |
| 20-210 | Jing Shu Zheng v. Christina Ellis, et vir | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-penalties civil-rights due-process false-claims-act promissory-fraud section-8-housing treble-damages | Whether the number of FCA civil penalties is based upon the number of overpayments received by a Section 8 landlord or whether they are based upon the… |
| 19-997 | Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower | Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W… |
| 19-878 | Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Third Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations | Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to 'obey the law' injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. … | |
| 18-1511 | Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) permit cumulative fines for technical violations of 21 U.S.C. § 842(a)(5)? |
| 18-8754 | Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska | Alaska | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop | Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered |