| 25-6528 |
Victor Shelton v. Department of Justice |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-discretion civil-rights-act department-of-justice federal-financial-assistance judicial-review nondiscretionary-duty |
1. Does the U.S. Department of Justice have a nondiscretionary duty to investigate civil rights complaints submitted by complainants who allege discri… |
| 25-5638 |
Okechukwu Amadi v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner Okechukwu Amadi's motion to compel the Department of Justice ("DOJ") to investigate allegati… |
| 24-6109 |
Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization |
What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application, and what is the … |
| 24-5655 |
Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board |
Puerto Rico |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver |
Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction |
| 23A1115 |
Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-testimony department-of-justice federal-jurisdiction safety-threat supreme-court-review witness-protection |
Whether the Attorney General's discretionary authority under 18 U.S.C. § 3521 to provide witness protection can be compelled by the Supreme Court when… |
| 22-1152 |
Najam Azmat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-535 criminal-activity criminal-liability department-of-justice equal-justice immunity misprision-of-felony official-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the Department of Justice have an obligation to charge prosecutors and Federal Agents for criminal activity during investigations or prosecutions… |
| 22-7328 |
Carroll Wayne Haynes v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consent-decree department-of-justice due-process federal-court prosecution |
Whether the U.S. Department of Justice and the federal court violated the Consent Decree by taking further steps in the prosecution under Art. 5(b), S… |
| 21-1487 |
Brian Bilodeau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appropriations appropriations-rider controlled-substances-act department-of-justice federal-prosecution medical-marijuana standing state-law |
Whether and under what circumstances the rider prohibits the DOJ from spending federal funds to prosecute criminal defendants for medical marijuana-re… |
| 21-1364 |
Mordechai Korf, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure department-of-justice filter-team government-attorneys judicial-review search search-and-seizure work-product-protection |
Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client-privilege |
| 21-5802 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brooklyn-savings-bank compassionate-release contractual-principle department-of-justice first-step-act plea-agreement public-interest statutory-right statutory-waiver |
Does the rule of United States v. Mezzanatto preclude application of the contractual principle expressed in Brooklyn Savings Bank v. O'Neil? |
| 21-93 |
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such … |
| 20-989 |
City of Newark, New Jersey v. Fraternal Order of Police, Newark Lodge No. 12 |
New Jersey |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process equal-protection municipal-authority police-oversight racial-discrimination |
Does a state supreme court violate the Equal Protection Clause by reading state statutes to preclude its largest city from protecting Black citizens f… |
| 20-666 |
Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3) |
byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards |
| 19-6089 |
Joseph Signore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 19-61 |
Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether a district court's usurpation of the Attorney General's power to appoint a private attorney to represent the interests of the United States—ov… |
| 18-1110 |
Cecil Daughtrey, et ux. v. Luis E. Rivera |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
army-corps-of-engineers bankruptcy-code-conversion bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-trustee-duties chapter-11-conversion debtor-interests department-of-interior department-of-justice due-process environmental-protection environmental-protection-agency government-agencies national-defense property-dispute property-rights trustee-actions us-government water-resource water-rights |
Denial of Chapter 11 conversion to hide unique global drinking water and energy resource |
| 18-962 |
In Re Joseph M. Arpaio |
|
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appeal department-of-justice due-process federal-courts prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers special-prosecutor young-v-united-states |
Where the Department of Justice has appeared in a criminal appeal on behalf of the United States, and indicated that it intends to represent the Unite… |