| 25-6457 |
Elijah Behringer v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-mandates jacobson-precedent jury-trial rational-basis-review sixth-amendment substantive-due-process |
Whether the Supreme Court's Jacobson v. Massachusetts precedent allows automatic dismissal of COVID-19 mandate lawsuits without jury trial, and whethe… |
| 25-765 |
Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-scrutiny fundamental-rights government-mandate judicial-review medical-treatment rational-basis-review |
Does Jacobson v. Massachusetts limit judicial review of government-mandated medical treatments to rational basis review or require heightened scrutiny… |
| 25-752 |
Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers |
Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant and uphold a… |
| 24-670 |
Bowers Development, LLC v. Oneida County Industrial Development Agency, et al. |
New York |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
eminent-domain judicial-review private-to-private-transfer property-rights public-use-clause rational-basis-review |
Does the Public Use Clause require more than minimal rational-basis review when the government takes private property for transfer to a specifically i… |
| 24-269 |
Lydia Olson, et al. v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge failure-to-state-claim hypothetical-facts judicial-review pleading-standard rational-basis-review |
Whether a court may dismiss for failure to state a claim a constitutional challenge to a law subject to rational-basis review based on hypothetical fa… |
| 23-1122 |
Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (45)Relisted (2) |
adults-access constitutional-rights content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech protected-speech rational-basis rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
Whether the court of appeals erred as a matter of law in applying rational-basis review to a law burdening adults' access to protected speech, instead… |
| 23A602 |
Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bodily-autonomy covid-vaccine-mandate due-process fourteenth-amendment jacobson-precedent rational-basis-review |
Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Jacobson v. Massachusetts remains valid for evaluating vaccine mandates in light of subsequent due process ju… |
| 23-492 |
Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. Russell Coleman, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (14) |
due-process equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medical-treatment parental-rights rational-basis-review sex-classification transgender transgender-rights |
Whether the Kentucky treatment ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors should be subject to heightened scrutiny under the Due Process… |
| 22-42 |
Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation? |
| 21-1068 |
Lion Raisins, Inc., et al. v. Karen Ross |
California |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
agricultural-cooperative bloc-voting electoral-influence government-objectives government-power jurisprudence private-association rational-basis-review voter-apportionment voting-rights |
Whether this Court's voting rights jurisprudence permits the government to empower a private association (here, an agricultural cooperative) to cast a… |
| 21-5974 |
Eduviges Ayala-Bello and Walter Velez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-policy alienage alienage-classification citizenship-distinction due-process equal-protection immigration rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
Whether agency policies that distinguish on the basis of citizenship automatically receive rational-basis-review |
| 19-711 |
Missouri, ex rel. Darrin Lamasa v. Michael Wright, Associate Circuit Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit, Warren County, Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption marbury-v-madison medical-marijuana rational-basis-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Missouri's medical marijuana law is preempted by the federal statute |
| 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… |
| 19-328 |
David Brennan v. White County, Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alcohol-regulation civil-rights due-process governmental-purpose highway-system local-option-law private-clubs rational-basis-review social-science-evidence substantive-due-process |
Is Arkansas' local option law rationally related to controlling alcohol's ill effects? |
| 18-9759 |
Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant |
Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus fa… |
| 18-709 |
Maria Bentley, et al. v. Victoria Vooys, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law cost-bond due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause judicial-procedure non-resident-plaintiff privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause rational-basis-review security-bond virgin-islands |
Whether a statute requiring a non-resident plaintiff to post a security bond for costs violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause or the Equal Prot… |