| 24-6597 |
Steven Matthew Boas v. Jason Graves, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights emergency-powers fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause |
Whether probable cause exists during a stay at home order when an officer observes a person exiting a grocery store and video records police activity,… |
| 24-642 |
Lamel Jeffery, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-scrutiny curfew-restrictions due-process emergency-powers fundamental-rights judicial-notice |
Whether the constitutionality of a mass curfew can be determined at the pleading stage without record evidence based solely on a government emergency … |
| 24-383 |
For Our Rights, Inc., et al. v. David Y. Ige |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers qualified-immunity state-law-restrictions |
Does a state governor enjoy qualified immunity when imposing COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines that allegedly violate citizens' clearly established c… |
| 23-89 |
Jennifer Reinoehl v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights covid-19 covid-emergency-powers due-process emergency-powers federal-civil-procedure individual-capacity-suit mootness mootness-doctrine standing state-official-immunity |
Whether a case involving COVID-19 emergency powers is moot |
| 22-7104 |
Sanfa Swaray Conteh v. Department of Commerce |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-orders public-health takings |
Whether the Shotdowns Period that happened from March 2020 to April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 22-586 |
Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation |
Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio… |
| 22-493 |
Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause |
Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity … |
| 22-438 |
Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause |
Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims |
| 22-250 |
Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing |
Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu… |
| 21-1469 |
Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo |
Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause? |
| 21-849 |
Slidewaters LLC v. Washington Department of Labor and Industries, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-powers executive-authority legislative-authority legislative-delegation nondelegation-doctrine police-power separation-of-powers state-governance state-of-emergency |
Does a state legislature's delegation of unlimited and inherently legislative police power to a state executive violate the separation-of-powers, even… |
| 21-6438 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing |
Is a class of convicted habitual felons that have completed their lawful maximum sentences entitled to immediate and unconditional release in order to… |
| 21-455 |
Mark's Engine Company No. 28 Restaurant, LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-review due-process emergency-powers first-amendment jacobson-precedent jacobson-v-massachusetts meaningful-review narrow-tailoring public-health public-health-crisis |
Whether the appellate court's decision improperly expands the holding set forth in Jacobson v. Massachusetts |
| 19-1283 |
James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order executive-powers liberty-deprivation liberty-rights property-rights public-health quarantine quarantine-restrictions standing |
Can the Governor legally deprive citizens of liberty and property rights and circumvent the statutory protections for quarantined individuals? |