| 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… |