nondelegation-doctrine

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25A865 Thomas Keller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application attorney-general-regulation congressional-delegation controlled-substances criminal-liability intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine Question not identified.
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.
25-250 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Amici (1) executive-orders international-emergency-economic-powers-act nondelegation-doctrine presidential-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority 1. Whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Pub. L. No. 95-223, Tit. II, 91 Stat. 1626, authorizes the tariffs imposed by Pres…
24A1064 Robert Mayfield, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act exempt-status fair-labor-standards-act legislative-vesting-clause minimum-salary-requirements nondelegation-doctrine Whether the Department of Labor exceeded its statutory authority under the Fair Labor Standards Act by imposing minimum salary requirements as a condi…
24-429 Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 GVR Relisted (3) administrative-law federal-trade-commission horseracing-regulation nondelegation-doctrine private-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 violate the private nondelegation doctrine
24-422 Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-authority contribution-rates nondelegation-doctrine telecommunications-act universal-service Whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the FCC to determine universal service contribution rates
24-354 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-delegation nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether Congress and the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine in establishing and administering the Universal Service Fund through a private admini…
23-743 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) administrative-law constitutional-law federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine
23-456 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (6) administrative-law constitutional-law fcc-authority federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine
23A88 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete fcc-authority nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising separation-of-powers taxing-power universal-service-fund Whether the Communications Act's delegation of revenue-raising authority to the Federal Communications Commission to collect and administer the Univer…
22-969 City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response Waived agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's 'and other purposes' clause to invest…
22-859 Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-09 Judgment Issued Amici (36)Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedin…
22-543 Altagracia Sanchez, et al. v. District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2022-12-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law due-process economic-liberty individual-rights judicial-deference nondelegation-doctrine occupational-licensing regulatory-authority Does the Due Process Clause require complete and total judicial deference to these regulations?
22-6002 Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are 'grievously' ambiguous
21-1124 National Postal Policy Council, et al. v. Postal Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied administrative-agency congressional-delegation congressional-power nondelegation-doctrine postal-accountability-and-enhancement-act postal-rate-setting regulatory-commission statutory-requirements Whether the nondelegation doctrine should be disallow Congress from transferring to a federal agency the power to rewrite the postal rate-setting syst…
21-6738 Kadeem Willingham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a 924(c)-sentences 924c-sentences district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act nondelegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sub-delegation whether-us-sentencing-guidelines-1b1-13-binds-district-court
21-849 Slidewaters LLC v. Washington Department of Labor and Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response Waived emergency-powers executive-authority legislative-authority legislative-delegation nondelegation-doctrine police-power separation-of-powers state-governance state-of-emergency Does a state legislature's delegation of unlimited and inherently legislative police power to a state executive violate the separation-of-powers, even…
21-378 Texas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (5) anti-commandeering anticommandeering child-custody child-custody-proceedings commerce-clause equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act indian-commerce-clause nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine Whether Congress has the power under the Indian Commerce Clause or otherwise to enact laws governing state child-custody proceedings merely because th…
21-379 Texas, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (9) administrative-law affordable-care-act agency-rule medicaid-rates nondelegation-doctrine private-entity rulemaking-authority statute-of-limitations Whether an agency rule delegating rulemaking authority to a private entity violates the nondelegation doctrine
21-80 Outdoor Amusement Business Association, Inc., et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied administrative-law clear-statement-rule h-2b-visa immigration-law labor-certification legislative-rulemaking nondelegation-doctrine Whether Congress impliedly authorized the Secretary of Labor to promulgate legislative rules for the admission of H-2B workers and adjudicate H-2B lab…
20-7427 Leefatinie Tirosh Cole v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 34-U.S.C.-§-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Whether this Court should revisit nondelegation-doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34-U.S.C.-§-20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-5004 Michael Joseph Zeroni v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-USC-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the nondelegation doctrine should be revisited
19-8422 Todd Lee Glenn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-8381 Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-1177 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-1-section-1 article-i-section-1 constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine presidential-discretion presidential-powers section-232 separation-of-powers tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Is section 232 facially unconstitutional on the ground that it lacks any boundaries that confine the President's discretion to impose tariffs on impor…
19-8079 Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t…
19-7535 Norman Eugene Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-U.S.C.-20913(d) 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-law executive-branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstituti…
19-7494 Ricky Lynn Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-limits executive-branch gundy gundy-precedent legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstituti…
19-6626 Allen Dodson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
18-7471 Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a 'willful' violation of the Arms Export Control Act requires proof of defendant's awareness of export licensing requirements
18-6852 Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Relisted (7)IFP 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) violates the constitutional no…