| 25-1140 |
Mark Andrew Bauersachs v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-04-01 |
Pending |
|
coinage-power declaratory-relief equal-protection-clause injunctive-relief nondelegation-doctrine rational-basis-test |
In 12 U.S.C. § 225a, Congress commands the Federal Reserve to achieve stable prices using a legislative rule. The legislative rule eliminates price in… |
| 25-787 |
John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers |
A jet engine mechanic brought a civil rights lawsuit after a Massachusetts County denied him a permit to perform plumbing on the home he was building.… |
| 24-840 |
Andrew Sablan Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation federal-legislation rational-basis-test territorial-clause territorial-rights us-cnmi-covenant |
Is the application of federal legislation to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the US-CNMI Covenant properly evaluated by means o… |
| 22-843 |
J. P. Bryan, et al. v. Eleazar R. Cano, County Judge |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process government-action judicial-review public-health public-health-emergency rational-basis-test standing takings |
1. Is the rational basis test used by the Panel to ratify
respondent's COVID-19 orders closing petitioners' hotel
and removing its guests overly defer… |
| 22-545 |
Sage Lewis, et al. v. Akron Board of Zoning Appeals |
Ohio |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process emergency-shelter liberty-interest property-rights rational-basis rational-basis-test zoning zoning-code |
When a person wants to exercise the deeply and objectively rooted right to use liberty and property for the non-economic purpose of saving lives, does… |
| 18-1145 |
Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process |
1. Under Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970), the Dormant Commerce Clause is violated whenever the burden imposed on interstate commerce "… |