discriminatory-purpose
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5938 | Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-5052 | Veronica Aquino-Dolores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7475 | Samuel Mateo-Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7476 | Arturo Alexis Ordonez-Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-review legislative-intent racist-statute | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-6601 | Gabriela Bautista-Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5548 | Gustavo Lazcano-Neria v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-statute statutory-interpretation | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5026 | Claudio Alvarez Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 constitutional-law discriminatory-effect discriminatory-purpose equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Whether the illegal re-entry statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1326, violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment because the law was enacted with… |
| 23-7026 | Pedro Valencia-Ayala v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-5502 | Juan Antonio Hernandez-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Whether a law originally enacted with a discriminatory purpose can be cured of an equal protection violation by subsequent amendments or reenactments … |
| 23-5275 | Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act | Does 8 U.S.C. § 1326 violate the equal-protection guarantee of the Fifth-Amendment? |
| 22-6934 | Jack V. Smalley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis discrimination discriminatory-purpose due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenge voir-dire | Does a comparative-juror analysis on a Batson claim depend on the reasons a party actually gave for exercising a peremptory challenge, or does it exte… |
| 21-7475 | Edward James Rose v. Arizona | Arizona | 2022-03-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-inquiry discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-speculation jury-selection peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion | Whether a court can use its own speculation to supplant facts necessary to make findings at each step of the Batson inquiry |
| 21-5649 | Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding | When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro… |
| 19-1081 | Arlene Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-reach interstate-commerce legislative-intent nonresident-discrimination presumption-of-no-extraterritorial-intent | Whether a local ordinance that discriminates against interstate commerce, and was enacted for a discriminatory purpose, must additionally discriminate… | |
| 19-136 | Saban Rent-A-Car LLC, et al. v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. | Arizona | 2019-07-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | arizona-supreme-court maricopa-county nonresident-taxation rental-car-industry tax-discrimination car-rental-tax commerce-regulation discriminatory-design discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce nonresident-burden nonresident-discrimination state-taxation tax-discrimination tax-incidence | Whether a car-rental tax designed to foist a disproportionate share of the tax's burden onto nonresidents is nonetheless immune from dormant Commerce … |