delegation-of-power

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A615 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act Whether the Vaccine Act's delegation of power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services violates the separation of powers and presentment clause o…
24-420 Bill H. Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-15 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-law constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-trade-commission private-enforcement rulemaking-authority Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act unlawfully delegates enforcement and rulemaking power to a private corporation
23-819 Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (5) administrative-law article-i commerce-clause constitutional-limits delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power major-questions-doctrine osha statutory-interpretation workplace-safety Whether Congress's delegation of authority to write 'reasonably necessary or appropriate' workplace-safety standards violates Article I of the U.S. Co…
23-432 Oman Fasteners, LLC v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied chevron-deference delegation-of-power judicial-deference national-security presidential-tariffs procedural-requirements statutory-interpretation tariffs trade-expansion-act Must a federal court defer to the President's interpretation of the Trade Expansion Act's procedural requirements for imposing tariffs unless the Pres…
21-1592 Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers Whether Congress violated Article I, § 1 by improperly vesting the Department of Health and Human Services with discretion to determine criminalized a…
20-7324 Malcolm Elbray Traywicks, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general controlled-substances-act delegation-of-power due-process prosecutorial-discretion scheduling-authority separation-of-powers Does the Congressional delegation of power to the Attorney General permitting scheduling of substances under the Controlled Substances Act violate due…
19-1233 Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied bar-admission civil-rights delegation-of-power due-process federal-court federal-courts first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-conscience judicial-branch judicial-delegation legislative-power standing Whether Congress may delegate power to the Judicial Branch to enact federal-court bar-admission requirements
19-1177 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-1-section-1 article-i-section-1 constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine presidential-discretion presidential-powers section-232 separation-of-powers tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Is section 232 facially unconstitutional on the ground that it lacks any boundaries that confine the President's discretion to impose tariffs on impor…
18-1317 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (3) article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Whether section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to the President, violating separation of powers
18-561 Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Amici (1) 15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Is a delegation of Congressional power an 'agency order' or 'agency action' such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that chal…
18-161 Detroit International Bridge Company, Inc., et al. v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-07 Dismissed civil-rights due-process international-agreements separation-of-powers standing ' non-delegation' compact-clause congress-power constitutional-delegation constitutional-limits delegation-of-power executive-agency foreign-power intelligible-principle state-compact state-foreign-power Whether Congress may delegate to an Executive Agency the duty the Constitution expressly assigns to Congress to decide whether to Consent' to an 'Agre…