constitutional-structure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-337 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law Whether the Constitution categorically denies a local government any capacity to invoke it against its State, without first determining its status wit…
24-904 Alpine Securities Corporation v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2025-02-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law constitutional-structure finra-enforcement non-delegation-doctrine prosecutorial-discretion securities-regulation Whether an enforcement proceeding by a constitutionally illegitimate actor constitutes irreparable injury and whether FINRA's structure violates const…
24A790 Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel District of Columbia 2025-02-18 Presumed Complete Amici (4) agency-independence article-ii constitutional-structure executive-removal prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers Whether the President's Article II powers categorically preclude statutory tenure protections for the head of an independent investigative agency with…
24-13 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (8) commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States?
21-1454 The Ohio Adjutant General's Department, et al. v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-17 Judgment Issued Amici (7) civil-service-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-structure federal-agency-regulation federal-executive-agency federal-labor-relations-authority labor-practices militia-clause state-militias Does the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 empower the Federal Labor Relations Authority to regulate the labor practices of state militias?
21-290 Joseph Chapo, et al. v. Jefferson County Plan Commission Indiana 2021-08-27 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-oath constitutional-structure de-facto-officer due-process injunction jurisdiction standing state-law vacant-office Whether the de facto officer doctrine can be applied to individuals claiming to hold a vacant office of a political subdivision
20-1758 RD Legal Funding, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cfpb-enforcement cfpb-structure constitutional-structure enforcement-action jurisdiction ratification seila-law separation-of-powers standing Whether ratification is an appropriate remedy for the violation identified in Seila Law
19-7 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2019-06-28 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-governance constitutional-law constitutional-structure consumer-financial-protection-bureau executive-authority independent-agency separation-of-powers single-director Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, vi…
18-307 State National Bank of Big Spring, et al. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-10 Denied Amici (4) appropriations-clause bureau-of-consumer-financial-protection civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-structure dodd-frank due-process executive-authority independent-agency power-of-the-purse removal-power removal-restrictions separation-of-powers Whether the CFPB violates separation-of-powers