judicial-scrutiny

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-787 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (3) constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers A jet engine mechanic brought a civil rights lawsuit after a Massachusetts County denied him a permit to perform plumbing on the home he was building.…
25-6111 Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fisa-warrant fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny 1. Constitutional Validity of FISA Warrants Obtained Through Systematic Perjury and Evidence Fabrication Whether this nation will tolerate FISA warra…
25A25 Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts must apply a broad, expansive definition of religious belief under Title VII that allows for the coexistence of secular and rel…
24-7468 Donald Perry v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Massachusetts 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-transfer fdic-transfer judicial-scrutiny mortgage-assignment operation-of-law stare-decisis Whether the FDIC's transfer of Washington Mutual Bank to JPMorgan Chase constituted an 'operation of law' immunizing the transaction from judicial scr…
24-1114 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate Whether a State may avoid judicial review of a statute categorically prohibiting religious accommodations by rescinding an emergency rule while contin…
24-503 Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo Whether mere hypothetical assertions and judicial common sense are sufficient to impose asymmetrical restrictions on political speech without evidence…
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact vac…
21-788 Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc., dba Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium due-process eviction-moratorium judicial-scrutiny lease-impairment municipal-law takings Whether a municipal law challenged under the Contracts Clause as impermissibly impairing private contracts is subject to variable scrutiny based on th…
21-6345 Jeremy Schenck v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP benign-information evidence-description judicial-scrutiny legal-review paragraph-structure probable-cause scrutiny search-warrant vulgar-slang warrant-application Whether allegations in a warrant application are entitled to lesser scrutiny when the district court concludes they are essential to the probable caus…
20-1053 Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny
18-1002 Cynthia Davis, et al. v. Valsamis, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law carnival-cruise-lines carnival-cruise-lines-v-shute contract-interpretation cruise-line-liability fundamental-fairness judicial-scrutiny limitation-of-liability majestic-the maritime-law notice-requirement passenger-ticket passenger-tickets pre-suit-notice the-majestic ticket-limitation whether-cruise-ship-passenger-ticket-fairly-communicated-pre-suit-notice-requirement
18-826 Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson Pennsylvania 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived church-autonomy first-amendment hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc intra-church-disputes intra-church-litigation jones-v-wolf judicial-scrutiny leadership-succession neutral-principles religious-dispute serbian-eastern-orthodox-diocese-v-milivojevich Whether this Court should clarify Jones v. Wolf and Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., given the doctrinal uncertainty and unpredictability reflected in incon…
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When does a criminal defendant's right to be released from jail after posting bond implicate a fundamental right of liberty?