local-government
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-607 | Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause | Whether, as applied, Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it creates de facto respon… |
| 25A504 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense | Whether a local government's categorical ban on firearm possession in public parks violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense | |
| 25-337 | City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Pending | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law | 1. Whether the Constitution categorically denies a local government any capacity to invoke it against its State, without first determining—by refere… |
| 24-987 | Kingston Kohr, LLC v. City of Irvine, California | California | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Response Waived | demolition-permit due-process local-government ministerial-duty property-rights takings-clause | Whether property owners have due process rights to conduct self-demolition or if local government has sole authority, and whether leveraging a demolit… |
| 24-541 | Palm Beach Polo, Inc. v. Village of Wellington, Florida | Florida | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment code-enforcement due-process lien-foreclosure local-government municipal-code | Whether the Florida Local Government Code Enforcement Boards Act creates unconstitutional due process violations through vague and conflicting provisi… |
| 23-754 | Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment | Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully? | |
| 22-551 | Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons… |
| 21-7465 | Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa | Iowa | 2022-03-25 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process harassment local-government sheriff-liability standing takings | Whether a local government can demand money from an American citizen to avoid jail |
| 21-271 | Raymond Benitez v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-immunity civil-procedure fourth-circuit governmental-unit hospital-authority local-government private-hospitals statutory-interpretation | Can a multibillion-dollar 'hospital authority' that operates in multiple States in a manner indistinguishable from private hospitals be a 'local gover… |
| 20-804 | Houston Community College System v. David Buren Wilson | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-14 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (2) | censure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-speech local-government member-conduct standing | Does the First Amendment restrict the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member's speech? |
| 20-7 | George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut | Connecticut | 2020-07-13 | Denied | administrative-procedure administrative-remedies appeal-instructions blight-citation civil-procedure due-process fair-notice local-government municipal-law notice-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction | Should appeal instructions have been included with the blight citation? | |
| 19-758 | Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law | Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment period o… |
| 19-687 | League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Edwards Aquifer Authority, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights electoral-districts equal-protection franchise-elections local-government one-person-one-vote rational-basis-review salyer-ball-exception voting-rights | Whether the Salyer-Ball exception to the one-person, one-vote population equality requirement ought to apply to local government representatives chose… |
| 19-241 | UMB Bank, N.A., et al. v. Landmark Towers Association, Inc. | Colorado | 2019-08-23 | Denied | ad-valorem-property-tax ad-valorem-tax ad-valorem-taxes due-process infrastructure-taxing-district local-government municipal-bonds myles-salt property-tax public-finance special-benefit takings | Should the Court remove the cloud over local governments and the national public finance industry by overruling or clarifying Myles Salt to confirm th… | |
| 19-127 | Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | due-process due-process-clause emancipation local-government medical-providers minor-children parental-rights welfare-payments | Whether parents' Due Process Clause rights apply to local governments and medical providers ending parental rights, responsibilities or duties over th… |
| 18-1070 | Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-15 | GVR | employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership | Does a law enacted by a political subdivision of a state constitute 'State ... law' under section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act? | |
| 18-7285 | Brenda J. Burch v. Atlanta City Court, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights corruption due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct local-government state-courts state-government | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to equal protection and due process have been violated by alleged corruption and misconduct in the stat… |