legislative-branch

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A496 Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado Colorado 2025-10-30 Application cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation Whether the separation of powers doctrine precludes a county coroner from delegating or allowing testimony about the cause and manner of an unattended…
25A478 Todd Blanche, et al. v. Shira Perlmutter District of Columbia 2025-10-27 Application executive-branch federal-vacancies-reform-act legislative-branch officer-classification presidential-removal separation-of-powers Whether the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights are executive or legislative branch officers for purposes of presidential removal authori…
20-5178 Jimmy Fernetus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum man…
18-1322 The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, et al. v. New York City Police Department, et al. New York 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived animal-cruelty establishment-clause executive-branch free-exercise judicial-branch legislative-branch mandamus separation-of-powers standing writ-of-mandamus Can the New York State Judicial Branch refuse to issue a writ of mandamus when the executive branch defies the legislative branch?