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25-776 Youth 71Five Ministries v. Charlene Williams, Individually and as Director of Oregon Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment government-action grant-funding religious-autonomy For years, Petitioner Youth 71Five Ministries received grant funds from Oregon's Youth Community Investment Grants program. One year, 71Five even had …
25-6348 Mounir Mrabet v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Can 4L. G&vermen4 <^o iw+o mu ZCclo^J Accent om4 m j consent -4han ase -iKd' cxaatnst m v^^rr^n
25-284 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Amici (7) book-censorship first-amendment free-speech government-action library-access viewpoint-discrimination Whether book-removal decisions by government officials in a county library are subject to scrutiny under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
25A228 United States v. Darby Development Company, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-agency fifth-amendment government-action regulatory-taking statutory-authority takings-clause Whether an administrative agency's unauthorized regulatory action that exceeds its statutory authority can constitute a compensable taking under the F…
24-1236 Louis Farrakhan, et al. v. Anti-Defamation League, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-III-standing first-amendment government-action quasi-governmental-actor representational-standing Whether the Second Circuit erred in its interpretation of representational standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and First Amendment protections against qua…
24-1095 Chelsea Koetter v. Manistee County Treasurer, et al. Michigan 2025-04-21 Rehearing Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) constitutional-law due-process government-action just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Does the government violate the Due Process or Takings Clause by denying just compensation to property owners who miss a narrow and premature window t…
24-844 Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial …
24-755 Mollie Slaybaugh, et vir v. Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Amici (1) fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation police-power property-rights takings-clause Does a common law privilege to access property categorically absolve the government's duty of just compensation for property it physically destroys?
24-291 Apache Stronghold v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Amici (15)Relisted (18) free-exercise-clause government-action native-american-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site Whether the government 'substantially burdens' religious exercise under RFRA, or must satisfy heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, when…
23-1363 Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (4) constitutional-law eminent-domain government-action just-compensation police-power property-rights public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause applies when the government takes property for a compelling public use pursuant to its police power
23-1277 PPI Enterprises, LLC v. Town of Windham, New Hampshire New Hampshire 2024-06-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process final-decision government-action land-development land-use permit-denial property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine takings Are two final denials of development applications sufficient to ripen a regulatory takings claim, where the government asserts that it might grant a t…
23A1080 Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Presumed Complete civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment freedom-of-expression government-action Whether the First Amendment protects an individual's right to challenge government actions that allegedly infringe upon fundamental freedoms of expres…
23-7201 Wayne Phillip Vance v. Glen Engstrom, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-welfare compensation due-process government-action individual-rights liberty property standing takings Does the U.S. government have the right to place citizens and other people in hellish circumstances or conditions without regard for their wealth, saf…
23A753 United States v. Ideker Farms, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete endangered-species fifth-amendment flood-control government-action missouri-river takings-clause Whether the government's implementation of flood control and environmental protection measures constitutes a compensable taking under the Fifth Amendm…
23-626 Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action sec-enforcement settlement settlement-agreement standing unconstitutional-conditions Whether a party's acceptance of a benefit prevents that party from contending that the government violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine in…
23-169 CraneVeyor Corp. v. City of Rancho Cucamonga, California Ninth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied due-process economic-impact government-action investment-backed-expectations lucas-v-south-carolina penn-central property-rights regulatory-takings takings zoning-regulation Should this Court overrule or reconsider Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York?
23-5106 John B. Freitas v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2023-07-14 Denied IFP constitutional-protection due-process equity equity-theft fifth-amendment government-action homeowner-rights just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires just compensation when the government improperly denies a homeowner the ability to use thei…
23-5033 Rick John Morales, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-diligence expert-witness government-action speedy-trial trial-procedure trial-scheduling witness-appearance Whether sending an email asking if there is a 'better' date for an expert witness qualifies as the Government's requirement to act with 'due diligence…
22-1224 Randy Ralston, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coastal-development due-process government-action land-use-regulation pleading-standards property-rights ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Is a takings claim ripe when the government establishes a mandatory process requiring property owners to ask whether any development on their land is …
22-7581 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-records chilling-effect court-precedent due-process government-action grand-jury legal-relief legal-rights penalization procedural-limitation prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution Whether a person is precluded from doing what the law plainly allows them to do, as the government pursues a course of action to penalize a person's r…
22-1100 Palani Karupaiyan v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-action property-rights section-1982 standing takings writ-of-mandamus Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address the national importance of the issues raised, the conflict with prior Supreme Court rulin…
22-7390 Robert James Turner, aka Robert James Branham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action jurisdictional-dispute legal-review ninth-circuit stipulation Whether the district court's jurisdiction over the case was legally defeated by the defendant's stipulation regarding the location of the offense, and…
22-843 J. P. Bryan, et al. v. Eleazar R. Cano, County Judge Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process government-action judicial-review public-health public-health-emergency rational-basis-test standing takings Is the rational-basis-test used to ratify COVID-19-orders closing a hotel overly-deferential?
22-6567 Pedro Benitez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure government-action judicial-review standing What is the proper standard for determining whether a petitioner has standing to challenge a government action under the Administrative Procedure Act?
22-650 Orlando Bar Group, LLC, et al. v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Florida 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation property-rights public-nuisance state-of-emergency takings During a state of emergency, are there constitutional safeguards that prohibit the government from denying property owners substantially all economica…
22-6523 Alfonzo Johnlouis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment government-action government-actor mail-carrier postal-service search-and-seizure standing unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches warrantless-search Is the warrantless search of a First Class sealed mail Priority package by a United States Postal Service mail carrier during the course and scope of …
22-609 Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid multi-pronged test for determining government action in relation to electronic communication service providers compo…
22-6367 Randall Bernard Allen v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-action individual-rights rule-of-law standing takings Where government, state and city administrations are regulators, can The Rule of Law, and U.S.Constitutional rights be abandoned for those administrat…
22-493 Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity …
22-5721 Sealed Appellant v. United States First Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4245 constitutional-rights due-process government-action involuntary-transfer liberty-interest mental-health mental-health-detention statutory-procedure vitek-v-jones Whether the government violated petitioner's constitutional due process rights by involuntarily transferring him to, and holding him in, a secure ment…
22-253 Christine Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. California 2022-09-19 Denied civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing government-action guardianship judicial-procedure property-rights settlement settlement-binding Whether government can deprive real properties from parties without due process
22-97 Owl Creek Asia I, L.P., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied collins-v-yellen conservatorship corporate-ownership federal-claims federal-housing-finance-agency government-action net-worth-sweep private-shareholders property-interest shareholders-rights takings takings-clause Whether private shareholders have a direct, personal interest in challenging a taking of their rights incident to share ownership
22-5097 Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the …
21-8202 Eric Watkins v. Officer Shields, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-search due-process fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause property-rights search-and-seizure takings territorial-jurisdiction warrant-authority Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-1532 Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action government-speech public-forum speech-restriction standing viewpoint-discrimination Whether a forum and scrutiny analysis are required when considering First Amendment infringement claims involving the government barring citizen speec…
21-1511 Joy Garner, Individually and on Behalf of The Control Group, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights control-group due-process fifth-amendment government-action mandatory-vaccination scientific-evidence scientific-method standing standing-doctrine vaccine-mandate Do the threatened members of the Control Group have standing to sue the President for systematically destroying their evidence and violating the panop…
21-7747 Michael G. Peters v. Kenneth M. Hoyt, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Dismissed IFP citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation corporate-cover-up due-process evidence-suppression free-speech government-action legal-dispute petition-clause standing takings Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances, including the right to file lawsuit…
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal 'hate speech' and that, therefore, th…
21-6626 Ronald Dean Ehinger v. Michigan Michigan 2021-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech government-action standing takings Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions
21-854 Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination Does the Executive Order violate the substantive due process rights of New York City public-school teachers whose sole employer is the DOE by preventi…
21-6302 Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation How long Person From Guatemala Central America Denied Motion to withdraw Guilty Plea and Vacated the Sentenced
21-148 California Restaurant Association, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-law due-process government-action jacobson-v-massachusetts property-rights public-health rational-basis takings takings-clause Is due process satisfied, consistent with the decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), where a public health department acts based o…
20-1751 Susan Fischer, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment government-action public-employee standing union-dues union-speech waiver waiver-doctrine Whether governments and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment rights to seize p…
20-7684 Richard S. Glenn, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action judicial-review legal-precedent standing Whether the court applied the wrong standard of proof for a member of the public to establish standing to challenge a government action
20-7593 Fernando Clarke v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute Whether the government's own action in uploading a file containing child pornography from the defendant's folder on a peer-to-peer network to the gove…
20-7335 Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment…
20-1203 Moose Jooce, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2021-03-03 Denied Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act agency agency-law appointments-clause due-process government-action ratification ratification-doctrine rulemaking-authority standing Whether a government official has the power to validate the unauthorized actions of other officials is presumptively determined by the law of agency, …
20-889 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing chilled-speech civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action standing Whether the Third Circuit violated clearly established precedent, in conflict with other Circuits, in denying Article III standing by considering the …
20-806 Mary Swartzlander v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived accrual erosion flooding flooding-event government-action government-taking land-erosion limitations-period property-rights statute-of-limitations takings When does a taking claim accrue against the government based on erosion caused by government action, where the erosion for many years was present only…
20-768 Gerardo Serrano v. United States Customs and Border Protection, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Amici (1) appropriate-case civil-forfeiture due-process federal-law government-action legal-detention post-seizure-hearing split-in-circuits vehicle-seizure Does due process require a prompt post-seizure hearing for civil forfeiture?
20-5823 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights contempt-trial double-jeopardy due-process government-action habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pretrial-proceedings Whether a pretrial petitioner may challenge his custody as in violation of the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties, and whether this pretrial saf…
19-1252 Callan Campbell, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Amici (2) final-decision government-action property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings statute-of-limitations takings tucker-act Does the Tucker Act's statute of limitations for a regulatory takings claim accrue when the Government makes a final decision, or when the plaintiffs …
19-986 Mary Lou Vosburgh, et al. v. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied civil-rights due-process government-action liberty-interest mandamus name-clearing procedural-rights reputation reputation-harm When a government actor deprives an individual of his liberty interest in his reputation, is a state court proceeding in the nature of mandamus to com…
19-948 Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-01-29 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?
19-6930 Richard Knider Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process government-action rehabilitation-act standing transcript Whether the government's denial of a disability accommodation violates the Rehabilitation Act and the Due Process Clause
19-6786 Carol Johnene Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's decision affirming the district cou…
19-6654 Tremaine Bernard Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-extradition due-process federal-authority federalism government-action interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute legal-procedure reasons-for-granting-writ state-authority statement-of-case statutory-provisions uniform-criminal-extradition-act uniform-law Where does federal authority end and state authority begin when the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act is violated?
19-383 Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action political-affiliation political-discrimination taxation Can the United States Federal Government single out citizens and demand taxation and then deprive the citizens of Constitutional Equal Protections bec…
19-258 Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment deed-dispute due-process fifth-amendment government-action government-taking just-compensation land-ownership property-rights remand takings takings-clause title-claim unsalable-property Whether the Government can claim title to privately owned land and actively work to make that property unsaleable, without triggering the Fifth Amendm…
18-9814 Robert Wazney v. Sharon Wazney Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-action jurisdiction standing takings Has the government's action violated the petitioner's constitutional rights?
18A1328 Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation land-ownership property-rights taking Whether the Government's unfounded assertions of title to private land that render it unsaleable and valueless constitute a taking of property without…
18-1502 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company Sixth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment If a company's manufactured and marketed product is cited by the US Government as a 'miracle drug' to restore a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment r…
18-1417 Yankton County, South Dakota v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response Waived accrual-suspension accrual-suspension-rule fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-taking government-action gradual-physical-process inverse-condemnation property-rights stabilization-doctrine takings takings-clause united-states-v-dickinson When a taking arises from a gradual physical process, may the claimant postpone filing suit until the situation stabilizes?
18-1373 Gene Rechtzigel v. City of Apple Valley, Minnesota Minnesota 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain government-action liberty property property-rights standing takings trial-by-jury Did the Government deprive Petitioner of Liberty, without Due Process of Law?
18-1112 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Bethlehem Area School District Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived article-v bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech government-action religion religious-discrimination takings taxation taxation-dispute Was Kanofsky denied Due Process, as required in Article V of the Bill of Rights?
18-7592 Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a letter of recommendation violates the Constitution by denying the Petitioner's right to …
18-963 Terrence Hill v. City of Jackson, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) demolition demolition-notice due-process government-action government-policy municipal-liability notice opportunity-for-hearing parratt-v-taylor procedural-fairness property-rights Does due process require the City of Jackson and Jackson County to provide notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case?
18-7026 Bryan Coats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts government-action jurisdiction jurisdiction-filing legal-procedure order-denying-rehearing petition-for-rehearing rehearing standing takings timeliness united-states Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
18-359 St. Bernard Parish, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Amici (2) catastrophic-flooding categorical-exemption causation constitutional-taking due-process flood-control flood-damage government-action government-inaction government-liability property-rights takings takings-clause takings-liability When a government project foreseeably causes catastrophic flooding of private property, is the Government categorically exempt from takings liability …