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24-6043 Patrick Michael Hackett v. Iowa Iowa 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission misdemeanor-appeal public-safety sovereign-immunity Whether a simple misdemeanor involving an allegedly defective cement mixer warrants Supreme Court review to address potential public safety issues and…
24-5805 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP administrative-law class-action public-safety standing statutory-warning texas-dps Whether Petitioner and similarly situated class members lack standing to challenge Statutory Warning DIC-24 Department of Public Safety forms promulga…
24-407 Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of…
23-196 Jade Mound, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied budgetary-considerations circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability latent-danger public-safety warning-duty Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act shields the federal government from liability when it fails to warn the pu…
22-7657 Annecia M. Fort v. Department of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 49-usc-31105 coercion-prohibition drive-time-limits electronic-logging-devices internal-reporting motor-carrier motor-carrier-regulations public-safety public-safety-reporting staa whistleblower-protection Is disclosing public safety concerns to your management (internal reporting) a protected activity?
22-835 Bradley Hester v. Matthew Gentry Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Amici (3) bail-practices civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit pretrial-liberty public-safety standing Whether the Due Process Clause protects a fundamental right to pretrial liberty
22-718 Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards Louisiana 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (2) civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold insanity acquittees w…
22-6533 Dustin Naida v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process gun-control public-safety Whether the state's ban on assault weapons violates the Second Amendment
22-6429 Robert McKenna v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable under 18 USC §…
22-5820 S. Patrick Mendel v. Liane Randolph, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights congressional-preemption criminal-conduct due-process federal-courts federal-enforcement preemption pro-se-petition public-safety transportation transportation-law Does this pro se case, alleging fatal systemic failures resulting in the continuing preventable murder of innocent citizens, where literally the lives…
21-1296 City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation Whether state laws affecting railroads are preempted under the ICCTA must consider all relevant federal railroad statutes, not just the ICCTA
21-1058 Oklahoma v. Marquise Petey White Oklahoma 2022-02-01 GVR Relisted (2) criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process equal-protection indian-country non-indian-defendants public-safety state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty Whether a State has authority to prosecute nonIndians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country
21-6135 Jesus Ramirez-Barrera v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail community-danger criminal-procedure detention district-court-review due-process extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion public-safety relief-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether the district court erred in deciding that petitioner has not shown extraordinary and compelling reasons and that he was a danger to the commun…
21-337 George Berka v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived climate-change climate-emergency due-process energy-policy environmental-impact environmental-regulation grid-reliability infrastructure-renewal nuclear-power public-safety regulatory-oversight Should the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant be returned to service?
21-175 P. Z. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-08-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment heller mcdonald public-safety scrutiny-level second-amendment What is the proper level of scrutiny for the Second Amendment right to possess firearms in the home?
20-8076 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing Whether the district court and appeals court abused their discretion in concluding that the defendant would be a danger to the community
20-7743 William Milliron v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process gun-control legislative-authority public-safety Whether the state's law prohibiting the sale of assault weapons violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms
20-7385 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety Does the risk of death or serious bodily injury to a pedestrian on a median constitute a significant government interest?
20-753 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect…
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
19-8457 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Alice Neece Mine, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process gun-control legislative-authority public-safety Whether the state's law prohibiting the sale of assault weapons violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms
19-8075 S. Patrick Mendel v. UBER Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust federal-authority-transportation federal-preemption interstate-commerce intrastate-rates intrastate-routes intrastate-services passenger-transportation public-safety regulatory-conflict transportation-network-companies Whether private contracts, with the aid of the States, designed to defeat federal transportation and antitrust laws should be enjoined
19-7137 Patrick Randell McIntosh v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-commitment civil-rights commitment confinement constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process mental-health personality-disorder procedural-safeguards public-safety standing Whether the inmate's narcissistic personality disorder and alleged dangerousness due to exogenous factors justify his continued confinement since Nove…
19-6891 Ahmad Khan Rahimi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2332a attempted-use attempted-use-of-weapon-of-mass-destruction criminal-law criminal-statute-interpretation detonation explosive-device explosives federal-criminal-code possession-of-weapon public-safety statutory-construction statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-law weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons Whether a defendant's attempted 'use' of a weapon of mass destruction includes conduct besides detonation
19-6522 William Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-11-07 Denied IFP blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search Was the Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers' mandatory blood draw constitutional under the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by Missouri v. McNee…
19-529 Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger What analytical framework applies to the state-created danger doctrine?
19-6067 Francisco Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the…
19-5752 Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas Texas 2019-08-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deterring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long sentences run afoul of the 8th Amen…
19-114 Douglas F. Ciolek v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry justifiable-need permit-requirement permit-restriction public-carry public-safety second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether the legislative requirement of 'justifiable need' for a permit to carry a handgun in public violates the Second Amendment
19-27 Mark Cheeseman v. Joseph Polillo, Chief of Police, City of Glassboro, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2019-07-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-permitting due-process handgun-permit justifiable-need public-safety right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-protection standing takings Whether States can limit the ability to bear handguns outside the home to only those found to have a sufficiently heightened 'need' for self-protectio…
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound Whether the Fourth Amendment can be violated by the government's mere continued detention of property even though its full-blown seizure satisfied the…
18-9131 Ryan Canfield v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both?
18-1288 Jean Coulter v. ADT Security Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection contract contract-interpretation contract-renewal contractual-limitations contractual-period due-process fraud fraud-in-inducement implied-contract public-safety statute-of-limitations Did ADT Security Services commit fraud in inducement, and is it applicable for renewals or later implied contracts?
18-7807 Christopher Young v. Michael M. Kraus, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals-court civil-rights due-process hrcp-rule-4 indigent-rights insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct no-fault-claim public-interest public-safety standing standing-issue state-court-jurisdiction summons-order Whether the lower Court had Standings to hear and Dismiss a No-Fault claim issue, under abuse of HRCP Rule 4
18-964 Father John Gallagher v. Diocese of Palm Beach, Inc. Florida 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (2) church-doctrine civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech legal-immunity public-safety religious-speech standing Whether the priest is barred by the First Amendment from bringing a defamation action against a church
18-499 Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. Iowa 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci…
18-280 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-06 Judgment Issued Amici (46)Relisted (4) 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-rights handgun handgun-transport handgun-transportation licensed-firearms public-safety right-to-travel second-amendment transport Whether the City's ban on transporting a licensed, locked, and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with the…
24A412 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-violation emergency-response hurricane-impact municipal-liability natural-disaster public-safety Whether a municipality can be held liable for constitutional violations arising from a natural disaster response when emergency conditions create chal…