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25-6124 Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spending…
25-535 Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III Arkansas 2025-11-03 Denied Amici (5) administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the Spending Clause can make private conduct illegal absent a clear congressional intent beyond federal fundin…
25-481 Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-funding informed-consent liberty-interest medical-treatment state-action Whether a State's obligation under federally funded programs to obtain legally effective informed consent for unapproved medical treatments creates an…
25-183 Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending CVSGRelisted (3) educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment
24-1221 Susan Neese, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied administrative-law article-iii-standing federal-funding healthcare-discrimination mootness summary-vacatur Should the Court summarily vacate the court of appeals' judgment under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., and remand with instructions to dismiss the…
24-1087 David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response Waived disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a 'no state action' defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa…
24-516 Kathrine Ann Detwiler, Gary Robert Krum, and Elaine M. Barnhart v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-06 Denied Response Waived cdc-recommendations federal-funding public-health-regulation school-board-authority state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Is it constitutionally permissible for a local school board to implement CDC health recommendations as mandatory rules using federal funding condition…
24-5511 Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Second Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix Does fraudulent tailoring of sexual assault case outcomes and failure to protect student privacy constitute deliberate indifference under Title IX?
24A146 Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete abortion-referral dobbs-decision federal-funding spending-clause title-x weldon-amendment Whether the federal government may condition Title X family planning funds on a state health agency's willingness to refer for abortions despite statu…
24-44 West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority?
24-5005 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority best-interest best-interests burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge due-process family-law federal-funding state-sovereignty How can a state enact 'best interest' laws in family courts when it has abandoned jurisdiction and sovereignty by accepting federal grant funding?
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional?
23-253 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Northern Arapaho Tribe Tenth Circuit 2023-09-15 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) contract-support-costs federal-funding health-care-services indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-sovereignty Whether IHS must pay 'contract support costs' not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect…
23-250 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. San Carlos Apache Tribe Ninth Circuit 2023-09-15 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) contract-support-costs federal-funding federal-health-care indian-health-service indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-contracts tribal-sovereignty Whether IHS must pay 'contract support costs' not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect…
22-7304 Gricely Rosa v. Lawrence Housing Authority, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-policy americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-rights fair-housing-amendments-act federal-funding housing-discrimination justiciability public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Is a public housing agency required to alter its policies and procedures to accommodate the handicapped under the Fair Housing Amendments Act and the …
21-1506 Christine M. Owen v. Liberty University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-funding institutional-accountability public-private title-ix Whether students at private colleges and universities are entitled to the same contractual, due-process, constitutional-rights, title-ix, equal-protec…
21-1105 Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services Tenth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense Whether a state is immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment in an action under the Rehabilitation Act when the cause of action is based on the st…
21-19 Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C…
20-6604 Mark T. Grant v. City of Roanoke, Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract due-process federal-funding federal-spending-clause housing monell-doctrine private-cause-of-action property-rights regulations takings Question 1: When the HUD-City contract was voided, why wasn't the subsequent City-Citizen contract voided with cause?
20-795 New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements?
20-685 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 GVR Amici (1) 10-usc-2808 administrative-law appropriated-funds cause-of-action federal-funding military-construction national-emergencies-act section-2808 standing statutory-authority Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Secretary's compliance with Section 2808 in reprioritizing appropriated …
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
20-219 Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (4) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-law civil-rights civil-rights-act compensatory-damages emotional-distress federal-funding rehabilitation-act title-vi Whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI and the statutes that incorporate its remedies include compensation for emotional distress
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether Davis's 'vulnerability' prong requires plaintiffs to prove additional, post-notice sexual harassment to state a claim for damages under Title …
19-1036 Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c)
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)…
19-879 Heon Seok Lee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law contractor-payment court-jurisdiction federal-funding federal-funds federal-jurisdiction municipal-jurisdiction municipality-customer sub-award sub-vendor sub-vendor-status whether federal court has jurisdiction to determine that (1) a municipality is a customer of its sub-vendor, and (2) a municipality sub-awards federal…
19-6490 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Kentucky Kentucky 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review capta capta-compliance child-abuse-reporting civil-immunity civil-rights criminal-liability due-process federal-funding immunity immunity-statute kentucky-law misdemeanor-prosecution Whether Kentucky's prosecution of individuals who report suspected child abuse violates the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) i…
19-6443 Amro A. Elansari v. University of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-funding informed-consent research-ethics research-experiments standing Was summary dismissal appropriate?
19-509 Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights damages-liability deliberate-indifference due-process educational-discrimination educational-opportunities federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-on-student-harassment title-ix Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment
19-177 Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-08 Judgment Issued Amici (6) civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the First Amendment bars enforcement of Congress's directive that respondents 'have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex traffick…
19-166 Matthew J. Rosenwasser v. Fordham University, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-funding statute-of-limitations title-ix university university-liability Whether a federally-funded university's consistent, deliberate, and intentional denial of a Title IX investigation tolls the statute of limitations fo…
18-9702 Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va…
18-8845 Abel Revill Ochoa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-funding funding habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-standard statutory-interpretation Whether, in light of Ayestas v. Davis, 138 S. Ct. 1080 (2018), a court applies an overly burdensome standard for funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) whe…
18-8716 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services What services are owed to all veterans by states that accept federal funding under the US Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)?
18-1115 Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura Whether petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1983 are barred by claim preclusion and res judicata despite lack of no…
18-7865 Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida Florida 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order Whether the district court erred in finding that Seminole County was not responsible for maintaining the sidewalk under the ADA and Florida law
18-847 BNSF Railway Company v. Juanita Nye, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey Nye Oklahoma 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-funding federal-rail-safety-act grade-crossing preemption state-tort-claim tort-claim warning-devices When the project documents and authenticating testimony demonstrate that federal funds participated in a state-wide project to install warning devices…
18-7201 Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund…