constitutional-limitations

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-576 Stephen Buyer v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-limitations criminal-prosecution insider-trading prosecutorial-discretion stock-exchange venue The question presented is whether a stock trading on an exchange whose physical headquarters is located in Manhattan suffices to establish venue in th…
23-348 Kristen H. Colindres, et al. v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-limitations consular-nonreviewability due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing Whether the doctrine of consular nonreviewability insulates from judicial review a consular decision
23-344 Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Amici (5) civil-rights class-certification constitutional-limitations due-process federal-court injunction injunctive-relief judicial-scope ninth-circuit nonparties nonparty-impact standing Whether, in the absence of class certification, a federal court is precluded from entering an injunction that extends to nonparties without a specific…
23-123 Ezekial Flatten, et al. v. Bruce Smith, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response Waived cannabis-commerce civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-limitations due-process federal-legislative-jurisdiction gonzales-v-raich property-rights rico rico-claims state-property-rights Should this Court reverse Shulman v. Kaplan and restore property rights in cannabis to a status equal to other property rights protectable under RICO?
21-8220 Mary Alice Nelson-Rogers v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-limitations damages federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction internal-revenue-code moot-controversies mootness standing Question not identified
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…
21-925 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-limitations due-process fraud government-fraud government-overreach standing statutory-interpretation tax-regulations Whether the US government can circumvent constitutional limitations and defraud ~320 million American citizens
20-8466 Paul Anthony Ashby v. United States District of Columbia 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-liability constitutional-limitations criminal-law dc-charter district-of-columbia inherent-power judicial-power legislative-authority pinkerton-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals unlawfully usurped the role of the legislature in violation of the separation-of-powers principles
19-1308 Bernard Morello, et al. v. Seaway Crude Pipeline Company, LLC Texas 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limitations contract contract-circumvention contract-clause due-process eminent-domain highest-and-best-use judicial-authority judicial-review just-compensation legislative-limitations property-rights takings Whether eminent domain can be used as mere pretext to rewrite the parties' own prior bargains, or otherwise circumvent existing obligations in a previ…
19-8410 Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution supersedes the statutory requirement of exhausting state remedies before filing a federal habea…
19-594 Mahmoud Thiam v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response Waived american-constitutional-limitations american-court constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process foreign-statute official-act predicate-offense predicate-prosecution vagueness-doctrine Where a foreign statute is used as a predicate for prosecution in an American court, must that statute be construed in accordance with American consti…
19-5943 In Re Nathan Wayne Smith 2019-09-16 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act congressional-power constitutional-convention constitutional-limitations federal-criminal-statutes habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether the federal criminal statutes charged are unconstitutional
19-313 Neringa Venckiene v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection Whether the Seventh Circuit has correctly construed the 'political offense' exception to extradition by limiting the term only to offenses committed i…
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh…
18-9192 Michael Balice v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment constitutional-limitations due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment tax tax-lien trial-by-jury Whether the grant of summary judgment was erroneous and improper due to factual disputes between the litigants