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25A748 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Application administrative-discretion agency-rulemaking hydrofluorocarbons legislative-power nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-1017 Jonathan Lindsey, Michigan State Senator, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-amendment elections-clause federal-elections legislative-power state-legislature The Elections Clause expressly requires federal election regulation by the States, namely that "[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections …
24-786 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-01-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-interpretation elections-clause electors-clause judicial-review legislative-power state-election-law The Elections and Electors Clauses of the U.S. Constitution vest the power to set federal election rules in the legislature of each state. Exercising …
24-472 National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. v. Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law constitutional-law legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine private-corporation separation-of-powers Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act grants legislative power to a private corporation, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, In…
23-7835 Yueseyuan Cruel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment birth-certificate-citizenship citizenship-status civil-privileges-immunities civil-rights congress-legislation consent-governance constitution-rights-citizenship constitutional-jurisdiction legislative-power personal-jurisdiction Whether the United States and the Several States are Artificial Persons. Whether the 14th Amendment created Artificial Persons as citizens of the Uni…
23-7056 Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration 1. Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S…
23A648 Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete attorney-general-authority commerce-clause delegation-doctrine legislative-power sex-offender-registration sorna Question not identified.
23-6285 Kenneth Paiva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause .
23A485 Cletus Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied constitutional-challenge jurisdiction-stripping land-condemnation legislative-power non-delegation separation-of-powers Whether Landowners are likely to prevail on jurisdiction over this structural Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge in light of this Court's unanimous 9-0…
23-5214 Cody J. Key v. Florida Florida 2023-07-26 Denied IFP codification constitutional-provisions due-process federal-judicial-canon judicial-canon legislative-power notice rule-of-law rule-of-strict-construction state-legislature statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS/NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF A FEDERAL JUDICIAL CANON (RULE OF STRICT CONSTRUCTION) CAN BE ABROGATED BY A STATE LEGISLATURE BY CODIF…
23-69 PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied executive-power judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers standard-of-review statutory-delegation tariff-regulation trade-expansion-act 1. Whether separation of powers principles require courts to resolve ambiguity in statutory limits on delegations of vast legislative power to the Exe…
22-1186 Citizens for Constitutional Integrity, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived agency-rulemaking cloture-rule congressional-review-act due-process equal-protection executive-power legislative-power legislative-rule separation-of-powers voting-thresholds 1. Whether the Congressional Review Act, which incorporates the Cloture Rule, 5 U.S.C. 801(b)(2), violates the separation of powers by creating a one-…
22-682 Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction Article I of the United States Constitution provides all legislative Powers therein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Do Art…
22-6469 In Re Kenneth Crawford, Jr. 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitution constitutional-limits due-process enumerated-powers federal-government jurisdictional-elements legislative-power legislative-powers territorial-jurisdiction 1. Does the Constitution for the United States of America limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature? Do the enumeration of…
22-5823 Edward Simmons v. James LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution executive-power legislative-power separation-of-powers standing Question not identified.
22-5592 Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Substantive and Procedure Due process of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments as required on all Courts to establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction …
21-1441 Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sixth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers 1. What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution th…
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the "Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives . . . prescr…
21-6865 Justin Odell Langford v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP commission-statute constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure emergency-legislation fraud-upon-the-court judicial-power judicial-time-bars legislative-override legislative-power procedural-constraints state-supreme-court statutory-revision Me 5eperotion gP Pouje.f daotr/s) e. xt not isP, .1) YW VVvCs Coort um/ke-if Were eves- a.-ViMe a. <\oci^e co,v\ turtle lata* and or p<lS5 rh as an '…
21-966 New York, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied 10th-amendment 16th-amendment article-1-section-8 constitutional-limits federal-taxation federalism-principles legislative-power sovereign-authority state-sovereignty state-taxes tax-deduction tax-policy Whether Congress's imposition of a $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction violates Article I, Section 8 and the Tenth and Sixteenth Amendments of the Unite…
21-6512 Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w…
21-6312 Manuel Melgar-Diaz and Joaquin Benito-Mendoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law congressional-delegation constitutional-authority constitutional-law executive-power government-branches legislative-delegation legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether Congress can delegate its authority to another branch of government consistent with the Constitution by merely providing an "intelligible prin…
21-585 Kari Leanne Riggin v. North Dakota North Dakota 2021-10-21 Denied business business-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment executive-orders legislative-power pandemic-response takings Whether Kari Riggin's federal constitutional rights to conduct business, engage in employment, and earn a living were denied by the state governor's e…
20-1630 Susan Chen v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-interpretation legislative-power pro-se-representation separation-of-powers The Courts "have power to say what the law is, not what it should be." Obsergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (Roberts, J., joined by Scalia and T…
20-6809 Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-574 Jake Corman, et al. v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-deadlines election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause intervention judicial-interpretation legislative-power mail-in-ballots presidential-electors Just last year, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consistent with the authority vested in it by the United States Constitution, enacted a statute una…
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 1. Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum …
19-1427 William Price Tedards, Jr., et al. v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) election-date election-writ executive-authority executive-power legislative-power senate-vacancy seventeenth-amendment state-executive state-legislature temporary-appointment Both the Ninth Circuit and Seventh Circuit have struggled to reconcile the text of Section 2 of the Seventeenth Amendment with this Court's order summ…
19-1310 Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation of exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl…
19-1233 Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied bar-admission civil-rights delegation-of-power due-process federal-court federal-courts first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-conscience judicial-branch judicial-delegation legislative-power standing 1. Whether Congress may delegate, to the Judicial Branch, the power to enact federal-court bar admission requirements that Congress lacks the power to…
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-03 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ? Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible …
19-5157 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-8 circuit-court-jurisdiction constitutional-amendment due-process enrolled-bill-rule enumerated-powers expansion-of-legislative-power house-concurrent-resolution-219 legislative-power standing stare-decisis 1) Usss-ues concerning Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America: a) Can Congress pass legislation that broadens and …
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court? Is there, within the phrase "The Supreme Court and al…
18-1317 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (3) article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 1. Did the Court of International Trade erroneously conclude that Algonquin controls the outcome of this action by failing to distinguish this facial …