executive-authority

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25-367 Todd M. Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, et al. v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-governance executive-authority federal-courts removal-power separation-of-powers This Court in Humphrey's Executor sustained restrictions on the removal of Commissioners of the 1935 Federal Trade Commission, and it has since reaffi…
24A885 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-13 Presumed Complete Amici (1) article-iii-standing birthright-citizenship executive-authority executive-order preliminary-injunction universal-injunction Whether district courts may issue universal preliminary injunctions that enjoin enforcement of an Executive Order as to non-parties and States lacking…
24-701 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-12-31 Denied attorney-general executive-authority organic-act prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court of Guam violated the Guam Organic Act by ruling that the Governor can appoint Special Assistant Attorneys General and preven…
23-140 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. OI European Group B.V., et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine derecognition executive-authority executive-recognition foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act pdvsa property-attachment state-instrumentality Whether a court may assess the FSIA immunity of a 'foreign state' and its instrumentalities from jurisdiction, and the immunity of their property from…
22-667 Chen Bing v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-authority free-speech genocide-determination human-rights-violations international-law judicial-review standing Whether there is sufficient evidence of genocide, crimes against humanity and forced labor in Xinjiang, China, and whether the Secretary of State has …
22-5344 In Re Eric McCray 2022-08-11 Denied IFP administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law executive-authority separation-of-powers take-care-clause Whether the federal government's actions violated the Appointments Clause and the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution
21-1441 Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sixth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that …
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…
21-5116 In Re Jordan Powell 2021-07-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disaster-relief due-process economic-injury-disaster-loan executive-authority national-security presidential-powers small-business small-business-administration standing Did the United States Small Business Administration fail to complete its statutory duty by arbitrarily avoiding the issuance of an Economic Injury Dis…
20-8436 Michael T. Hughes v. Kim Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection executive-authority standing Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Northern District of Illinois dismissed their claims with prejudice and denied t…
20-8210 Anthony A. Patel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-authority executive-power judicial-authority judicial-independence martial-law presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court-justices Can the Executive Branch impose martial law on courts?
20-1595 Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under the Arms Export Control Act, and whether those regulations and the Act violate …
20-850 Big Time Vapes, Incorporated, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Amici (2) administrative-discretion administrative-law constitutional-limits executive-authority executive-power legislative-authority legislative-delegation non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers tobacco-control-act tobacco-product-regulation Whether Petitioners have stated a claim that § 387a(b) grants excessive policymaking discretion to the executive branch to determine which tobacco pro…
19-1427 William Price Tedards, Jr., et al. v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) election-date election-writ executive-authority executive-power legislative-power senate-vacancy seventeenth-amendment state-executive state-legislature temporary-appointment Does A.R.S. § 16-222 conflict with the Seventeenth Amendment's requirement that state executives 'shall issue writs of election' and limit state legis…
19-8163 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-04-02 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention Whether the petitioner's prolonged immigration detention without a bond hearing violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-7381 Percy Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
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