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25-6588 Derek Skellchock v. Laurie K. Dean, Judge, 8th Judicial District Court, Larimer County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending IFP civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Veterans Judicial Review Act (VJRA) Pub. Law 100-687 (1988) pursuant to Article I § 8 of the Constitution,…
25-828 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there…
25A804 Duane A. Fairfax v. Tracey N. Martinez Virginia 2026-01-12 Application contempt-enforcement federal-preemption spousal-support supremacy-clause va-disability veterans-benefits 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and 38 U.S.C. § 5301(a) prohibit a state court from enforcing spousal support through contempt, garnishment, or equiva…
25A802 Henry L. Klein, et al. v. Lewis Title Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2026-01-12 Application federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson state-law supremacy-clause title-insurance [1] Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err by counting Christopher Columbus Day against Applicants in computing the 14-day deadline for filing a Request …
25-781 Donald Wenger v. James T. Warren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending article-i-section-8 federal-preemption individual-liability subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformed-services-act veterans-judicial-review-act 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) Pub. Law 97-252 (1982) pursuant to Article I §…
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-12-03 Pending confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote…
25A490 Kimberly Hanley, et al. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Pennsylvania 2025-10-29 Application administrative-law advanced-metering due-process federal-preemption privacy-rights utility-regulation Whether state administrative utility policy decisions can conflict with federal statutes governing advanced metering infrastructure and raise constitu…
25A464 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-23 Application federal-contractors federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage voluntary-work-program Whether a state law requiring federal contractors to pay state minimum wage to federal detainees in a voluntary work program violates intergovernmenta…
25-503 Matthew D. McMaster v. Arthur McCracken, et al. Georgia 2025-10-23 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-code federal-preemption lease-termination residential-lease state-court-ruling 1. Whether the Bankruptcy Clause of the United States Constitution and 11 U.S.C. § 365(e)(1) preempt a state court ruling that a residential lease and…
25-500 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-10-22 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption marital-settlement state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
25-419 Shelby County, Iowa, et al. v. William Couser, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Amici (4) circuit-conflict federal-preemption interstate-pipeline pipeline-safety-act safety-standard state-local-regulation Whether a state or local law regulating the location or routing of an interstate pipeline is a preempted "safety standard" under the Pipeline Safety A…
25-242 City of Houston, Texas v. The Commons of Lake Houston, Ltd. Texas 2025-09-02 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption flood-management local-government-regulations national-flood-insurance-program property-takings texas-constitution Whether federal laws establishing and implementing the NFIP, when operating as intended, conflict with and thus preempt Article I, Section 17 of the T…
25-5412 Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause controlled-substances federal-preemption marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause tax-deduction Whether 26 U.S.C. § 280E—which denies ordinary and necessary business deductions to enterprises trafficking in Schedule I controlled substances—may co…
25-180 John Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC, et al. Louisiana 2025-08-14 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) americans-with-disabilities-act federal-preemption healthcare-discrimination public-health-emergency rehabilitation-act state-procedural-law Whether a state procedural law that immunizes a healthcare provider from liability during a public health emergency may override a federal substantive…
25A181 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-08-13 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement military-disability state-court-enforcement supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether federal law preempts state court enforcement of a marital settlement agreement that requires a veteran to dispossess federally protected disab…
25A152 Justin Saadein-Morales v. Westridge Swim & Racquet Club, INC. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay federal-preemption property-jurisdiction state-court-orders Whether federal bankruptcy law preempts state court possession orders that conflict with the automatic stay and federal courts' exclusive jurisdiction…
25-5187 Shantell Lewis v. Hernan Castro, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-tribunal civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-immunity veterans-benefits 1. Does State Judges have Jurisdiction over Veterans Benefits? 2. Does Absolute Immunity Apply when a judge has acted criminally under color of state…
24-1313 Jeremy N. Miller v. Casi A. Miller, et al. Tennessee 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-general-notice federal-preemption state-jurisdiction va-authority veterans-benefits Whether a state court can preclude a litigant from arguing federal law preemption on appeal due to failure to notify the state attorney general during…
24-1260 Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-10 Granted Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights Whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots cast by federal election day to be received by election officials af…
24-1160 William R. Lott v. Maria V. Lott Virginia 2025-05-13 Denied disability-pay divorce-proceedings federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
24-1074 Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law agency-order federal-preemption judicial-review regulatory-interpretation wholesale-tariff Whether the preemptive effect of a federal agency's order is an issue for courts to decide and cannot be controlled by the agency's opinion, or lack o…
24-1072 Raizel Blumberger v. Ian B. Tilley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response Waived attorney-general-removal federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption health-center-liability public-health-service statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant who disagrees with the Attorney General's state-court filing may remove the action to federal district court without a statutory b…
24-1060 Leticia T. Moreno, et al. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. California 2025-04-08 Denied alien-registration confidentiality federal-preemption immigration-law regulatory-authority standing Whether a state may create a private cause of action allowing a non-aggrieved, non-governmental entity to regulate federal practitioners
24-1001 Cotter Corporation, et al. v. Nikki Steiner Mazzocchio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-20 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) atomic-energy-act federal-preemption nuclear-safety price-anderson-act standard-of-care tort-liability Whether federal nuclear safety regulations preempt state tort standards of care in public liability actions
24-952 South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. Arizona 2025-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-preemption indian-law non-indian-ownership statutory-interpretation tax-preemption trust-land Whether 25 U.S.C. § 5108 expressly preempts state and local taxation of permanent improvements on trust land when the improvement's owner is a non-Ind…
24-924 Winston Tyler Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-26 Granted Amici (17)Relisted (2) boyle-doctrine federal-preemption government-contractor military-activities state-law-negligence tort-claims Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a go…
24-834 Evgeny Pistrak v. Kseniia Golubeva Washington 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption immigration-law maintenance-obligations spousal-support state-court supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and federal immigration law preempt a state court from imposing maintenance obligations solely because a spouse lacks wor…
24-828 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2025-02-04 Denied Response Waived congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state prosecution of a criminal defendant for killing a postal worker when Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1114 to …
24-817 Edward Lasseville v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived alien-registration federal-preemption homeland-security immigration-law national-security state-regulation Whether federal preemption bars California's Immigration Consultants Act from regulating practitioners and others assisting in alien registration
24A745 American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete airline-regulation consumer-protection federal-preemption interstate-commerce marketing-claims pricing-practices Whether federal preemption principles bar state-level consumer protection claims challenging airline pricing and marketing practices
24A716 Clarence Cocroft, et al. v. Chris Graham, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete advertising-ban central-hudson commercial-speech federal-preemption first-amendment medical-marijuana Whether the First Amendment permits a state to impose a categorical ban on commercial speech by state-licensed medical marijuana businesses based sole…
24-652 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 GVR Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law federal-preemption holocaust-art-restitution international-law nazi-looted-art sovereign-immunity Whether a California statutory choice-of-law requirement mandating California substantive law in Holocaust artwork recovery cases should result in a G…
24-606 Christine A. Arakelian v. Ashley Pollard, et al. Virginia 2024-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Did the Prince William County Circuit Court and Supreme Court of Virginia err in dismissing Petitioner's case by violating her 14th Amendment rights a…
24-568 Michael J. Bost, et al. v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-21 Judgment Issued Amici (29)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii-standing election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-preemption state-regulations Whether federal candidates have Article III standing to challenge state election time, place, and manner regulations
24-5811 In Re Jeremy Edwards 2024-10-23 Denied IFP amendment-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-preemption liberty-interest state-jurisdiction Why did the state of Louisiana violate the 13th and 14th Amendments and Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution?
24-5808 Cyrus Hazari v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-23 Denied IFP ada-accommodation disability-discrimination federal-preemption judicial-standard legal-remedy pro-se-litigant Whether a federal judge can set a uniform national standard for ADA accommodation and preempt state court rules, and whether California courts systema…
24-303 Julian Javier Pimienta Dominguez v. Maria del Carmen Rendon Quijada Arizona 2024-09-17 Denied Response Waived domicile-requirements federal-preemption immigration-law nonimmigrant-visa territorial-jurisdiction visa-status Whether federal law precludes the holder of a TD nonimmigrant visa from establishing domicile in Arizona
24A227 Treniss J. Evans v. Supreme Court of New York, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-30 Presumed Complete campaign-finance constitutional-interpretation election-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion supremacy-clause Whether a state prosecutor can bring a state-level prosecution that effectively creates a localized interpretation of federal election law in potentia…
24-118 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Alan McClain, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Amici (1) 340b-drug-pricing-program administrative-enforcement administrative-law contract-pharmacies contract-pharmacy drug-pricing federal-preemption federal-regulation healthcare-policy state-preemption state-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits and this Court—that a State may strip manufacturers of th…
23-1076 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption health-care healthcare-law labor-act medical-emergency patient-stabilization preemption reproductive-rights state-law Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts state law in the narrow circumstance where terminating a pregnancy is required to stabi…
23-1066 Continuing Care Risk Retention Group, Inc. v. Jacob Benson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-rights civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-preemption insurance-business insurance-regulation liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act preemption risk-retention-groups statutory-interpretation Can Arizona's anti-arbitration garnishment statute reverse preempt the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 as to divest foreign risk retention groups…
23-999 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
23-952 Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-03-01 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law and …
23-947 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-03-01 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change environmental-law federal-preemption greenhouse-gas greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions standing state-law state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse…
23-919 Kristin DiCroce v. McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived buckman-ruling buckman-v-plaintiffs-legal-committee circuit-court-interpretation federal-food-drug-cosmetic-act federal-preemption implied-preemption medtronic-precedent medtronic-v-lohr state-law-causes-of-action state-law-claims statutory-interpretation Whether state law claims based on violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act are impliedly preempted
23-785 PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie Fourth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Amici (4) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court civil-contempt debt-collection discharge-injunction federal-preemption preemption state-law-claims uniform-federal-law Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law claims premised on alleged efforts to collect a debt in violation of the bankruptcy court's discharge i…
23-787 Sierra Nevada Transportation, Inc. v. Nevada Transportation Authority Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-U.S.C.-1985 dormant-Commerce-Clause federal-licensing federal-preemption interstate-commerce public-necessity state-regulation transportation-services Does a federally-licensed limousine company state a valid claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 against state regulators for violating the…
23-788 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the…
23-730 Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. New York 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii Does federal law preempt New York's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral impar…
23A607 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete Amici (1) border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state from using tort law to restrain federal Border Patrol agents from carrying out their federally authoriz…
23-6380 Noel Austin v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2023-12-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law supreme-court-review Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the 14th Amendment should be addressed
23-698 City of Pasadena, Texas v. Crown Castle Fiber, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response Waived equitable-action equity federal-preemption local-regulation network-infrastructure public-rights-of-way standing state-local-regulation telecommunications-act Whether 47 U.S.C. §253 allows a private party to sue a State or local government in equity to preempt a duly enacted State or local regulation
23-669 Massachusetts Coastal Railroad LLC, et al. v. Chad Marsh Massachusetts 2023-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) conflict-preemption economic-regulation federal-preemption field-preemption iccta-preemption interstate-commerce massachusetts-prevailing-wage-act rail-transportation railroad-regulation state-wage-law Whether the ICCTA preempts Massachusetts' prevailing wage act for railroad maintenance workers
23-605 Erich M. Martin v. Raina L. Martin Nevada 2023-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) collateral-estoppel due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-convenience preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
23A470 Idaho v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete Amici (5) abortion emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption medical-procedure preliminary-injunction state-law Whether a state may enforce a law restricting certain medical procedures related to abortion when such law conflicts with federal emergency medical tr…
23A364 BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. Louisiana 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete coastal-erosion environmental-liability federal-preemption land-use oil-and-gas state-law Whether state courts can impose environmental remediation liability on oil and gas companies for coastal land erosion under Louisiana state law withou…
23-368 Huntington Ingalls Incorporated v. Lynn Barrosse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-remedy federal-preemption longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act maritime-employee navigable-waters preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim workers-compensation Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly held that an injured maritime employee who has a workers' compensation remedy under the Longshore and Harbor Worke…
23-275 Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied 42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes?
23A260 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement-agreement military-retirement-pay supremacy-clause uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act veterans-disability-benefits Whether state courts may enforce a marital settlement agreement or divorce decree that requires a veteran to waive or assign federal disability benefi…
23-258 Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (1) business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power Whether the three statutory factors set forth in the first clause of § 1012(b) are the only proper factors to consider when determining whether a stat…
23-207 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) engine-manufacturers federal-law federal-preemption national-meat ninth-circuit preemption product-standards sales-ban sales-bans state-standards tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products
23-163 Blue Flame Medical LLC v. Chain Bridge Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption federal-reserve fedwire-funds-service field-preemption interbank-payment regulation-j state-law-claims uniform-commercial-code wire-transfer Whether petitioner's state-law claims challenging the unauthorized wire transfer of over $456 million from its account are preempted by the Federal Re…
23-143 Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association v. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Minnesota 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived california-standards california-waiver clean-air-act environmental-law federal-preemption maintenance-plans national-ambient-air-quality-standards nonattainment-areas state-regulation vehicle-emission-standards vehicle-emissions Whether Minnesota qualifies to adopt California's vehicle emission standards under the Clean Air Act
23-5134 Kenan Allen v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-supremacy discrimination due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the U.S. Constitution must be addressed
23-41 Ann Marie Borges, et al. v. County of Mendocino, California Ninth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived cannabis-property-rights commerce-clause constitutional-amendments due-process federal-preemption federalism gonzales-v-raich property-rights stare-decisis state-sovereignty Whether the Supreme Court should revisit Gonzales v. Raich to reverse the irrebuttable presumption that all cannabis is part of interstate commerce
23A34 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Presumed Complete commandeering-states federal-preemption horseracing-integrity-and-safety-act private-entity-delegation tenth-amendment Whether Congress violates the non-delegation doctrine and the Tenth Amendment by delegating the creation and enforcement of federal regulations to a p…
22-1180 Shire U.S., Inc., et al. v. Mark Blackburn Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Amici (1) drug-labeling fda-preapproval FDA-regulations federal-preemption pliva-v-mensing preemption prescription-drugs state-law-claim state-law-claims unilateral-change unilateral-label-changes Whether a state-law claim is preempted if it places a duty on a drug manufacturer to unilaterally change FDA-approved language that appears in the Hig…
22-7667 In Re Rajni Shaw 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process federal-preemption standing supremacy-clause Does Stafife b24.03.1,b0%1), la4.132. corey more power than the United States _ tonstitdion?
22-1094 Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li Georgia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption Whether Georgia law has been pre-empted by the FFCCSOA
22-1089 Ray James Foster v. Deborah Lynn Foster Michigan 2023-05-09 Denied 38-usc-5301 collateral-estoppel disability-benefits disability-law federal-preemption judicial-convenience res-judicata state-court-doctrine veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
22-1069 Benefit Strategies West, Inc., et al. v. Roger Naumann, et al. Arizona 2023-05-04 Denied civil-procedure erisa-jurisdiction erisa-plan-administration erisa-preemption erisa-statutory-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption participant-claims plan-administration state-court-jurisdiction trustee-rights Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals violated ERISA's exclusive federal jurisdiction and preemption doctrine by asserting state law and state-court ju…
22-1006 Prime Insurance Company v. Darnell Wright Seventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-preemption financial-responsibility interstate-transportation intrastate-journey motor-carriers statutory-interpretation transportation Whether a trip of an empty truck between two locations in the same state qualifies as 'transportation of property ... between a place in a State and .…
22-7302 Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz Colorado 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Where a state court can contradict a federal agency's final and conclusive decision on veterans' disability benefits
22-715 Chevron USA, Inc., et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure federal-officer-removal federal-preemption national-emergency oil-production statutory-interpretation war-powers wwii Whether a private entity is 'acting under' a federal officer for purposes of removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 when federal officials, through orders and…
22-699 Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court Does a preliminary injunction enjoining public interest lawsuits constitute an unlawful prior restraint on First Amendment petition rights?
22-698 Andrew Cohen, et al. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law cellphone-radiation civil-procedure fcc-regulations federal-preemption federal-regulations health-and-safety preemption radiation-safety state-health-law telecommunications-law Are state health and safety laws impliedly preempted, under a theory, by the FCC's procedural guidelines for reporting how much radiation a cellphone …
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action 'alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact' when the complaint contains no such allegati…
22-6338 Lucas Michael McNulty-Snodgrass v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congressional-intent contraband drug-possession federal-preemption federalism jurisdictional-conflict Question not identified. separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Whether the United States Department of Justice and Federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute illicit drug possession crimes committed solely with…
22-6248 Paul Tay v. Michelle Diane Tilley Nichols, et al. Oklahoma 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-commandeering anti-commandeering-doctrine controlled-substances-act election-activities federal-preemption indian-treaties marijuana marijuana-regulation state-jurisdiction treaty-law Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt State consent to use, possession, cultivation, processing, transportation, and sale of marijuana and any of…
22-523 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-conflict climate-change climate-change-litigation federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal federal-preemption greenhouse-gas-emissions jurisdictional-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation transboundary-pollution Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442 precludes removal by federal officers and persons acting under them unless the rem…
22-471 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws relating to the subject matters expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state law…
22-472 Association des Éleveurs de Cananards et D'oies du Quebéc, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (2) dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption impossibility-preemption ingredient-preemption ingredient-requirements poultry-products poultry-products-inspection-act state-regulation usda-approval usda-regulation Whether a State may avoid express ingredient preemption under the Poultry Products Inspection Act by banning the sale of poultry products based on the…
22-401 Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management Does ANILCA grant federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state law regulating how people hunt?
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
22-5798 Gregory K. Parsons v. Connie K. Copeland Parsons, et al. Texas 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP apportionment-claims disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption judicial-review military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction takings veterans-benefits Whether a state court can override a VA decision denying an apportionment of a veteran's disability benefits
22-5755 Ervin Carter v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution constitutional-protection court-transfer federal-preemption judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court state-law transfer Whether this Honorable United States Supreme Court 'must' investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by one of the petitioning party(ies) to the l…
22-156 David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble Is California's anti-SLAPP law constitutional?
22-78 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law
21-8004 Kofi Adomako Ohene Kyei v. Oregon Division of Child Support Oregon 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federal-preemption injunction interstate-commerce judicial-injunction license-suspension Whether the State's administrative order violated the licensee's federal constitutional rights
21-1447 Estate of Gabriel Miranda, Jr., et al. v. Navistar, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived emergency-exit federal-preemption legislative-history legislative-intent motor-vehicle-safety school-bus-safety state-law statutory-interpretation Does FMVSS 217 preempt state law safety requirements?
21-1388 Best Payphones, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of New York, et al. New York 2022-04-27 Denied Response Waived federal-communications-commission federal-preemption payphone-service payphone-services preemption public-service-commission state-regulation state-requirements tariff-compliance telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-1996 Is the finding of the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Thi…
21-1368 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. PJM Interconnection, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arising-under-jurisdiction civil-rights federal-preemption federal-regulatory-agency filed-rate-doctrine substantial-federal-question supremacy-clause tariff-regulation well-pleaded-complaint-rule Do state-law claims that allegedly conflict with federally filed tariffs involve a substantial federal question; or does the filed-rate doctrine merel…
21-7678 Robert Elton v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to inv…
21-1346 Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, et al. v. Central Maine Power Company Maine 2022-04-12 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law civil-procedure federal-aviation-administration federal-preemption judicial-review no-hazard-determination regulatory-determination state-law Whether the issuance of a non-binding 'No Hazard Determination' by the Federal Aviation Administration preempts the application of state law, despite …
21-1298 Leonard Albrecht, et al. v. Riverside County, California, et al. California 2022-03-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived federal-preemption indian-lands indian-reorganization-act leasehold-interest reservation-rights state-taxation tax-preemption tribal-sovereignty Whether federal regulations governing the leasing of Indian lands preempt state and local governments from taxing the leasehold interest conveyed by t…
21-1245 O'Donnell & Sons, Inc. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. New York 2022-03-15 Denied exemption federal-credit-union federal-credit-union-act federal-preemption mortgage-recording mortgage-recording-tax preemption state-tax statutory-interpretation taxation Whether the Federal Credit Union Act prohibits the imposition of a state tax on the recording of federal credit union mortgages
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights Whether a veteran's statutory rights under Title 38 are upheld by a state corrections department under the Supremacy Clause
21-7017 Kenneth Lynn Funkhouser v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-01 Denied IFP federal-preemption habeas-corpus habeas-jurisprudence indian-lands jurisdictional-challenge mcbratney-draper-rule public-law-83-280 retroactivity-jurisprudence subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Does Oklahoma's 1906 Federal Enabling Act preempt the State from exercising jurisdiction over 'Indian lands'—despite race—thus rendering petitioner's …
21-6971 Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether federal laws 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state laws regarding military veterans' disability income or assets
21-895 John Rodrigues, Jr. v. County of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied civil-rights due-process federal-preemption firearms firearms-law law-enforcement leosa preemption qualified-retired-officer statutory-interpretation Does LEOSA (18 U.S.C. Sec. 966C) preempt State firearms laws that prohibit the transport, carrying and possession of firearms by a Qualified Retired L…
21-6596 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause tenth-amendment veterans-benefits veterans-disability Whether the state court had jurisdiction over the federal claims
21-867 Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. v. Jessica T. Badilla, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights combatant-activities due-process federal-preemption federal-tort-claims-act military military-operations preemption statutory-interpretation tort-claims Whether state-law tort claims that arise out of the uniquely federal sphere of the military's combat operations are preempted by the interests embodie…
21-702 Shahen Minassian v. Seda Galstian Aghaian, et al. California 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived equitable-remedy executive-orders executive-power federal-preemption illegal-contract international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-trade-sanctions iran-sanctions iranian-transactions-and-sanctions-regulations national-security Whether a state court may fashion an equitable remedy for enforcement of an illegal contract for services concerning blocked property prohibited by in…
21-279 Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. v. Mark Boughton Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied dormant-commerce-clause due-process extraterritorial-effect extraterritorial-regulation federal-preemption indian-commerce private-business-data private-data state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether Connecticut impermissibly regulates or controls conduct beyond the boundaries of the State in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause
21-194 California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (3) federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law Whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempts a state law that effectively precludes motor carriers from using independent ow…
21-5330 Laura Marie Scott v. Nandan Patel, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption michigan-v-long monroe-v-pape standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax trustee-liquidation Does enjoining both courts in contradictory reliance on faux removal of a 100% exempt parcel (11 U.S.C.) revested in Petitioner before removal from th…
21-111 NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia, ex rel. Mark R. Herring, Attorney General Virginia 2021-07-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process federal-preemption individual-relief litigation-exception non-signatory standing state-attorney-general Whether a state attorney general who is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement may bring claims that are covered by the agreement and seek indivi…
21-5195 M. T. Q. v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-07-26 Denied IFP child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-benefits state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of veterans' disability benefits as income for purposes of calculating child support obligations, despite…
21-61 CHS-Glenwell Inc., et al. v. Ohio Department of Medicaid Ohio 2021-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process federal-preemption federal-regulation judicial-deference judicial-review medicaid-agency medicare state-medicaid Is a state Medicaid agency entitled to deference in judicial review of the agency's interpretation of an unambiguous, inapplicable federal Medicare re…
21-44 Kevin Lee Boutte v. Yvonne Renea Boutte Louisiana 2021-07-13 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption federal-statute military-benefits military-powers res-judicata supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-rights Does Congress' enumerated Military Powers exercised pursuant to the Supremacy Clause bar a state court from raising res-judicata to a post-judgment ch…
20-1744 Google, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, et al. California 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure federal-preemption labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlra-jurisdiction penalties preemption state-law-claims statutory-preemption Whether the National Labor Relations Act preempts a state-law claim for penalties based on the same conduct that formed the basis of relief under the …
20-8298 Henry Frederick Ramey, Jr. v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County, et al. California 2021-06-14 Denied IFP cdc-declaration cdc-eviction-moratorium civil-procedure due-process eviction-moratorium federal-preemption jurisdiction nationwide-importance unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandamus Did the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, err in an issue of nationwide importance, and refused to grant a Writ of …
20-1521 Yann Iannucci v. Macomb County Friend of the Court Michigan 2021-04-30 Denied child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of a non-retired, disabled veteran's disability benefits as income for child support purposes
20-1502 Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law Whether 49 U.S.C. § 44092(b) preempts 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claims
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan 2021-04-28 Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits Congress's-military-powers-preempt-state-law-on-veterans-benefits
20-1483 Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC New York 2021-04-22 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims
20-1425 C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. v. Allen Miller Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law-negligence due-process federal-preemption motor-carrier safety-regulation statutory-interpretation transportation transportation-law Whether a common-law negligence claim against a freight broker is preempted under the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act
20-1332 Eric D. Speidell, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied cannabis-legality civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-law-investigation federal-preemption isr-summons standing state-legalization supremacy-clause warrant-requirement Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act?
20-1329 Macarieto I. Trayvilla, et al. v. Japan Airlines, et al. New York 2021-03-23 Denied Response Waived act-of-state-doctrine airlines federal-preemption foreign-relations judicial-review passport-entry separation-of-powers sovereign-state statute-of-limitations Whether the State Appellate Court's order invalidating the 'act of state' of the Philippines violates the act-of-state-doctrine and separation-of-powe…
20-1264 Fusion IV Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dba Axia Pharmaceutical, et al. v. Anne Sodergren Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response Waived commerce-clause compounding-quality-act drug-quality-and-security-act drug-regulation fdca-preemption federal-outsourcing-facilities federal-oversight federal-preemption outsourcing-facilities state-licensing state-licensing-requirements Whether 21 U.S.C. §353b preempts California state law licensing requirements
20-7432 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th…
20-1133 Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdictio…
20-1069 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. A. Y., et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (4) civil-liability drug-labeling fda-regulation federal-preemption impossibility-preemption off-label-use preemption state-tort-law Whether federal law preempts state-law claims that a manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings relating to the off-label use of their products,…
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California 2021-01-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-635 Soo Line Railroad Company, dba Canadian Pacific v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act jurisdiction preemption rail-corporation state-law termination-act Whether the court of appeals erroneously held that the exemption provision of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (49 U.S.C. § 11321(a)…
20-495 Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship Whether the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement applies to federal statutory claims
20-5869 Michael Robert Everett v. Florida Florida 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law Whether reclassification of a criminal offense from one degree to another violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
20-324 Peter J. Barclay v. Oregon Department of Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied constitutional-sovereignty federal-preemption judicial-accountability judicial-immunity stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-injunction statutory-injunctions supervisory-powers Will this Court exercise its supervisory powers against lower court judgments which expressly hold the stare decisis of this Court 'irrelevant' and wh…
20-5637 Limmia Page v. New York New York 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes …
20-267 Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein New Hampshire 2020-09-02 Denied Relisted (2) child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively gran…
20-178 Anne Prafada v. Mesa Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-to-defraud due-process educational-law equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech standing supplemental-jurisdiction Whether fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy-to-defraud are preempted
20-166 Michael Scott Anglesey, et al. v. Allied Professionals Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-clause arbitration-clauses consumer-protection federal-preemption insurance-contract liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act risk-retention-group state-insurance-regulation state-law Whether the federal Liability Risk Retention Act preempts state laws prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in insurance contracts issued by risk r…
20-109 Scott Schwab, Secretary of State of Kansas v. Steven Wayne Fish, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) citizenship-requirement constitutional-law election-law federal-preemption national-voter-registration-act voter-registration voting-rights Whether the United States Constitution prohibits Kansas from requiring applicants to provide proof of United States citizenship when registering to vo…
20-70 Jagan Mahadevan v. Prem Bikkina California 2020-07-24 Denied civil-rights defamation due-process federal-preemption first-amendment free-speech public-concern public-interest research-misconduct scientific-integrity standing Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme for research misconduct preempted state law defamation claims
20-17 Wade Robertson v. Richard A. Honn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1963 civil-procedure constitutional-challenge federal-judgment-registration federal-preemption fraud-on-court judgment-registration registration-court rendering-court state-proceeding void-judgment younger-abstention Whether a registration court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963, has the power to amend or annul the judgment of the rendering court so registered
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-1298 Rogers County Board of Tax Roll Corrections, et al. v. Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. Oklahoma 2020-05-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) ad-valorem-tax bracker-balancing-test federal-preemption government-interests indian-gaming-regulatory-act non-indian-entity non-indian-property state-taxation tribal-sovereignty Whether a generally applicable state ad valorem tax, as assessed against personal property owned by a non-Indian, out-of-state corporate entity and le…
19-1285 Andrea Lea, Arkansas State Auditor v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied contract-law escheatment federal-preemption property-rights savings-bonds takings-clause treasury-regulations us-savings-bonds Whether the federal statute, regulations, and contractual provisions governing the transfer and redemption of United States Savings Bonds preempt the …
19-1279 Jake LaTurner, Kansas State Treasurer v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied abandoned-property bond-ownership bond-redemption due-process escheat escheat-power federal-law federal-preemption preemption redemption savings-bonds state-sovereignty treasury-regulations Whether States may redeem abandoned U.S. savings bonds
19-1215 Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona Arizona 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding?
19-8075 S. Patrick Mendel v. UBER Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust federal-authority-transportation federal-preemption interstate-commerce intrastate-rates intrastate-routes intrastate-services passenger-transportation public-safety regulatory-conflict transportation-network-companies Whether private contracts, with the aid of the States, designed to defeat federal transportation and antitrust laws should be enjoined
19-7774 Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing Is the 7th Circuit's decision appropriate for this Court's review, and if so why must this Court hear and decide this?
19-1031 Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cultural-exchange federal-preemption federal-regulations foreign-policy immigration labor-laws state-regulation Whether federal law preempts the application of state and local labor laws to the terms and conditions of participation in the federal au pair program
19-7623 Sinyo Silkeutsabay, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-regulation civil-rights controlled-substances court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-preemption federal-response medical-marijuana state-law state-legalization washington-marijuana-laws washington-state-law Did the Courts below err in their analysis of Washington State law governing growing and selling medical marijuana?
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-830 Effex Capital, LLC, et al. v. National Futures Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response Waived commodities-exchange-act federal-agency federal-preemption implied-conflict-preemption implied-preemption national-futures-association obstacle-preemption regulatory-obstacle self-regulatory-organization state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims Whether the Seventh Circuit wrongly expanded the doctrine of implied conflict preemption
19-6989 George Calvin Belt v. Florida Florida 2019-12-18 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (DOR CSP) can enforce Fla. Stat. § 443.051 that became esta…
19-752 Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether state statutes can provide the 'relevant rule of decision' in an ERISA § 502(a) action when the state statutes create an adjudicatory procedur…
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution?
19-6886 Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law?
19-711 Missouri, ex rel. Darrin Lamasa v. Michael Wright, Associate Circuit Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit, Warren County, Missouri Missouri 2019-12-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption marbury-v-madison medical-marijuana rational-basis-review statutory-interpretation Whether Missouri's medical marijuana law is preempted by the federal statute
19-550 Kimberly Watso, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference child-services civil-rights federal-preemption indian-child-welfare-act parental-custody state-agency-rules tribal-jurisdiction tribal-rights Whether the lower court improperly deferred to the Indian Child Services Department Manual over state agency rules and interpretations of the Indian C…
19-532 United States v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (14) anti-commandeering civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law information-sharing intergovernmental-immunity preemption sb-54 state-enforcement state-law Whether provisions of California law that prohibit state law-enforcement officials from providing federal immigration authorities with release dates a…
19-6246 Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether state law interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Statute 18 USCS § 2113
19-386 Monroe County Commission v. A.A. Nettles, Sr. Properties Limited, et al. Alabama 2019-09-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interim-trail-use interim-use national-trails-system-act rail-line-abandonment railroad-abandonment railroad-right-of-way surface-transportation-board trail-conversion Whether federal law preempts state law on railroad right-of-way abandonment
19-352 Robin Brindle, et al. v. Delta Airlines, Inc., et al. Rhode Island 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) airline-deregulation airline-deregulation-act civil-procedure federal-law federal-preemption labor-law local-wage-regulation preemption state-regulation state-wage-regulation transportation transportation-law wage-regulation Whether the preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 exempts airlines from state and local wage regulation
19-339 Eugene J. Sonnier, II v. Catholic Foundation of The Diocese of Lafayette, et al. Louisiana 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) armed-forces congressional-intent dis-internment federal-law federal-preemption military-benefits military-remains preemption remains-disposition service-member-rights state-statute Whether Louisiana's dis-internment statute is preempted by federal law and conflicts with congressional intent regarding the rights of members of the …
19-314 Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin California 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law?
19-271 Catherine Stouffer, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference federal-agency-deference federal-highway-administration federal-preemption federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations railroad-safety regulatory-interpretation state-federal-agreement state-law-claims state-railroad-agreement state-railroad-agreements warning-time Should FRA regulations be interpreted in concert with FHWA regulations to enforce safety standards in 'State-railroad agreements,' rather than 'suppla…
19-259 Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. California 2019-08-28 Denied berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?
19-129 Neil Feinberg, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-policy drug-trafficking federal-preemption federalism interstate-commerce irs-tax-code marijuana-legalization preemption state-legalization state-rights tax-law Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the Controlled Substances Act superseded and preempted Colorado marijuana laws?
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh…
18-1565 Matt A. Rogers v. SWEPI LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-provision arbitration-validity contract-formation contract-validity delegation-of-arbitrability federal-law federal-preemption first-options-standard prima-paint-doctrine severability severability-doctrine state-law Whether the severability doctrine applies to determine arbitrability in the absence of clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties delegated that…
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio…
18-9582 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-conditions federal-preemption federalism government-regulation labor-law labor-relations labor-rights national-labor-relations-act statutory-interpretation workplace-governance Are 'terms and conditions of employment and working conditions' as defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to free peo…
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act?
18A1247 The Depot, Inc, et al. v. Caring for Montanans, Inc., fka Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Presumed Complete employee-benefits erisa federal-preemption health-benefit-plan insurance-regulation ninth-circuit Whether an ERISA health benefit plan can be challenged under state law when it is governed by federal preemption standards
18-9090 Virginia Howard v. San Diego County Counsel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption homestead homestead-exemption lis-pendens mechanic-liens municipal-liability property-recording real-property supremacy-clause supremacy-of-federal-law title-42 title-42-section-1983 Are the Recorders failure omissions to register, record, docket or index documents (regarding real property) make offices, counties, parish, and munic…
18-1302 Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 and…
18-8671 Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document…
18-1246 BNSF Railway Company, et al. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, et al. Montana 2019-03-26 Dismissed Amici (2) bad-faith bad-faith-claims federal-framework federal-preemption fela fela-preemption litigation-conduct railroad-liability self-insured-employer state-law-liability Whether FELA preempts bad-faith claims under Montana law that seek to impose state-law liability based on the litigation conduct of a self-insured emp…
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-1140 Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims
18-1106 Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment May a federal court preempt a state's administrative-review-process by substituting a federal-finality-standard for a state-finality-standard
18-1097 SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (2) airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation Is a state law exempt from the Dormant Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce or because Congress has pas…
18-1094 Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading Whether a shipper's notice asserting a rail carrier's liability for damage to specifically identified cargo and demanding a determinable amount of mon…
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause
18-1039 Jeremy Levin, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Second Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied anti-terrorism-law asset-attachment correspondent-banking electronic-fund-transfer federal-preemption new-york-ucc preemption terrorism-risk-insurance-act Are blocked EFTs, originating with Iran, transferred into the U.S. by agents of Iran, and used to benefit its financial interests, immune from recover…
18-979 Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause Whether a state statute prohibiting any and all motorized mining in state-designated zones on federal land is categorically preempted under the Suprem…
18-7451 Shane Cox v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-right-to-present-defense federal-preemption federal-prosecution firearms-regulation kansas-law second-amendment short-barreled-rifles silencers state-rights Did the district court deny Mr. Cox his due process right to present a defense when it precluded Mr. Cox from arguing to the jury that his reliance on…
18-838 Scott Kaseburg, et al. v. Port of Seattle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied civil-procedure federal-interest federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption federal-statute grable-type-jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title railroad-easement state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction trails-act Whether Grable-type subject matter jurisdiction exists where (A) it is undisputed that the Plaintiffs' state law cause of action for quiet title does …
18-828 Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations Whether the separate accrual rule should apply to commissions earned by insurance agents and collected monthly by the insurance company, compelling ac…
18-783 John M. Barone v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption foreclosure-fraud national-bank-act national-banks property-rights state-courts Whether the National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. 1 et seq. restrictions on states, federal preemption and exclusive federal regulation vie for exclusive feder…
18-769 Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris whether the principles enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny require a federal court to abstain from deciding a federal preemption question
18-7041 Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2018-12-17 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by …
18-7032 Reginald L. Lomax v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state statute criminalizing possession of 'counterfeit' controlled substances qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career C…
18-660 Kenneth J. Taggart v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied carpenter-v-longan due-process federal-home-loan-mortgage-corporation federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-removal freddie-mac mortgage note property-rights real-estate security-interest standing state-court-action Has the authority of the Freddie Mac to remove state court actions to federal court been extinguished?
18-629 Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. California 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation Does the Clean Air Act withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of state regulations?
18-519 Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings Ohio 2018-10-19 Denied agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits Whether veterans disability compensation may lawfully be included as a source of income in determining spousal support in a non-community property sta…
18-499 Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. Iowa 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci…
18-464 Hatfield Enterprizes, Inc., et al. v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived carrier-classification carrier-control federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes preempts the Federal Aviation Administration Authori…
18-469 MacMillan-Piper, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act- federal-lease-contract-provisions federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation unemployment-compensation-taxes Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes preempts the Federal Aviation Administration Authori…
18-449 Pharmavite LLC v. Noah Bradach Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived class-action class-certification class-members federal-preemption federal-statute individual-inquiry preemption state-law-claims supremacy-clause Is it a violation of the Supremacy Clause for a federal court to certify a class that includes class members asserting state law claims that are expre…
18-389 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui…
18-212 Bank of America, N.A. v. Donald M. Lusnak Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Amici (1) escrow-accounts federal-banking-powers federal-preemption mortgage-escrow mortgage-lending mortgage-loan-escrow national-bank national-bank-act occ-regulations office-of-the-comptroller-of-the-currency preemption real-estate-lending state-banking-law state-banking-laws Whether the National Bank Act preempts state laws regulating national bank loan terms, such as California's law requiring payment of interest on mortg…
18-206 Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross Whether the Yearsley defense is a jurisdictional defense or an affirmative defense, and whether it applies to violations of federal law or only state …
18-181 Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck Ohio 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure comity constitutional-hierarchy due-process federal-court-judgment federal-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-enforcement state-court-intervention state-court-jurisdiction state-court-order supremacy-clause writ-of-execution Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state court from enjoining the enforcement of a federal court judgment
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention?
18A1006 BNSF Railway Company, et al. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, et al. Montana Presumed Complete civil-procedure discovery-violations federal-preemption interstate-commerce railroad-litigation state-court-sanctions Whether a state court can impose sanctions on a federal railroad for alleged discovery violations in a state court proceeding involving federal preemp…
24A441 Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC Georgia Presumed Complete federal-preemption financial-responsibility insurance-coverage interstate-commerce motor-carrier tort-claims Whether federal regulations governing motor carrier financial responsibility limits preempt state law tort claims and determine the scope of insurance…