regulatory-authority

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-762 Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC…
24-1060 Leticia T. Moreno, et al. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. California 2025-04-08 Denied alien-registration confidentiality federal-preemption immigration-law regulatory-authority standing Whether a state may create a private cause of action allowing a non-aggrieved, non-governmental entity to regulate federal practitioners
24-489 Gulf Coast Racing, L.L.C., et al. v. Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 GVR Relisted (3) administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-separation-of-powers industry-regulation non-delegation-doctrine regulatory-authority Whether Congress can empower a private nonprofit entity to regulate an entire industry through rulemaking and enforcement without proper constitutiona…
24A287 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al. v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law congressional-delegation federal-regulation horseracing-integrity regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's regulatory framework exceeds congressional delegation of authority under the Horseracing Inte…
23-975 Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (38)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which …
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?
22-320 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied 18-usc-666 circuit-court-interpretation federal-program-fraud intentional-misapplication kelly-v-united-states property-deprivation prosecutorial-scope regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that prosecutions for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A) under a theory of intentional misapplication …
20-1676 Public Watchdogs v. Southern California Edison Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process hobbs-act nrc-licensees nuclear-power nuclear-waste price-anderson-act regulatory-authority state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Hobbs Act deprives a federal district court of subject matter jurisdiction over state law and Price-Anderson Act claims asserted by a priv…
20-5914 Clifton Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower courts erred in determining that the scheme involved in this case did not affect 'interstate commerce' as required by the Hobbs Act
20-97 Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-30 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (7) antiquities-act ecosystem-protection federal-land marine-conservation national-marine-sanctuaries-act national-monuments presidential-power regulatory-authority separation-of-powers Whether the Antiquities Act applies to ocean areas beyond U.S. sovereignty where the federal government has limited regulatory authority
19-1053 Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-care-act contraception contraceptive-coverage federal-regulation health-insurance health-plans regulatory-authority regulatory-requirement religious-exemption religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra standing Whether the federal government lawfully exempted religious objectors from the regulatory requirement to provide health plans that include contraceptiv…
19-782 Vahan Kelerchian v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Does the 'right to control' constitute 'property' for purposes of wire and mail fraud?
19-643 John Hurry, et al. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process finra immunity law-enforcement-powers private-corporation regulatory-authority securities-industry securities-regulation state-action state-actor tort-immunity Whether FINRA, an ostensibly private corporation invested with vast powers to regulate the securities industry, is absolutely immune from any claims a…
19-502 Richard Baatz, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied certificate-of-public-convenience due-process eminent-domain federal-energy-regulatory-commission land-use natural-gas-act property-rights regulatory-authority takings Whether the Natural Gas Act requires the holder of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to obtain by easement, contract, or eminent domai…
19-5830 William H. Danielson v. New York New York 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct regulatory-authority standing waiver-of-appeal Should judicial misconduct survive a waiver of appeal and guilty plea?
18-976 Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-provision due-process government-corporation industry-regulation regulatory-authority rulemaking rulemaking-power self-interested-actor separation-of-powers Whether PRIIA § 207 violates due process and the separation of powers by permitting regulatory authority to be exercised by a for-profit government co…
18-970 Thomas Mitchell, et al. v. Tulalip Tribes of Washington Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) allotment declaratory-judgment jurisdictional-challenge non-indian-fee-land regulatory-authority sovereign-immunity treaty treaty-rights tribal-authority tribal-taxation Does sovereign immunity bar the federal courts' consideration of a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Respondent Tribes can exercise reg…
18-743 White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions Where a statute directs an agency to carry out and pay for a federal project for public benefit without granting express authority to regulate private…