municipal-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-394 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-10-02 Denied building-codes constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-law religious-discrimination The question presented is whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United State…
23-112 Ian A. McElroy v. City of Corvallis, Oregon Oregon 2023-08-04 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review municipal-law municipal-ordinance statutory-interpretation Ian McElroy was secretly, unconstitutionally convicted July 26, 1999 on three separate criminal citations by a City of Corvallis Municipal Judge who l…
22-874 Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. v. Tawanda Hall, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process equitable-title foreclosure municipal-law property-rights surplus-proceeds takings takings-clause tax-delinquency tax-foreclosure Whether foreclosing on a home for the nonpayment of taxes constitutes a violation of the federal Takings Clause whenever the home is worth more than t…
22-427 William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine Maine 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of Am…
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 1. Whether a municipal law challenged under the Contracts Clause as impermissibly impairing private contracts is subject to variable scrutiny based on…
21-387 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2021-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure blight-citation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-law property-rights Did the subject, February 14th; 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to. the Plaintiff, violate many of the Plaintiffs important co…
21-5130 Michael Storey v. City of Alton, Illinois Illinois 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure development-regulation due-process land-use municipal-law property-rights takings zoning Can a city deny a resident use of his land without due process? Can city allow resident to develop his property then without any changes to its Offic…
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference 1. Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated? 2. Will a trial be fa…
20-1029 City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny Austin sign code provisions distinguish between on-premise and off-premise signs based solely on location. From this distinction—and unrelated to what…
20-359 Henrieta Pisztora, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-09-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process municipal-law notice notice-requirement property-rights real-property service-of-process tax-sale Whether Pennsylvania's Second Class City Treasurer's Sale and Collection Act (53 P.S. §27101, et seq) violates the 14th Amendment of the United States…
20-65 Walter Reinhaus v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Cincinnati Ohio 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process historic-preservation municipal-law zoning zoning-dispute 1. Did the court fail a constitutional right to due process when the City: failed to honor previous Historic Conservation Board (HCB) determinations; …
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 subject, February 14th, 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to the Plaintif…
20-14 Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc., et al. v. Village of Pomona, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing fair-housing-act free-exercise institutionalized-persons-act municipal-law property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa standing zoning-law When it enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc, et seq. , Congress created a cause of acti…
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 1. Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment perio…
19-286 Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. City of Cranston, Rhode Island Rhode Island 2019-09-04 Denied constitutional-rights contracts-clause municipal-law police-power public-purpose retirement-benefits takings-clause vested-rights When members of the Cranston Police and Fire Retirees Action Committee (hereinafter, "Petitioner retirees" and/or "CPRAC") retired, they were contract…