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24-7130 Ken Smith v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied IFP circuit-precedent constitutional-standing judicial-review pre-challenge ripeness statutory-challenge 1: Whether the Second Circuit's decisions conflict with every other decision the Second Circuit has previously addressed concerning the ripeness to a…
24-908 Fane Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Amici (4) economic-use land-use-restrictions lucas-doctrine property-rights regulatory-taking ripeness 1. Whether a claim that a local ordinance effected a regulatory taking upon enactment remains unripe until the landowner asks the local government for…
24-282 Minnesota RFL Republican Farmer Labor Caucus, et al. v. Mary Moriarty, in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment ripeness Whether there are additional ripeness or imminence requirements under the Ex parte Young exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity in actions for decla…
24-134 Lemon Bay Cove, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived army-corps-of-engineers economic-viability finality just-compensation lucas-doctrine lucas-v-south-carolina permitting property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness takings-clause The question presented is whether a regulatory takings claim seeking just compensation under Lucas may be defeated by the mere possibility that a perm…
23-1045 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) or whether a property owner is required to submit development-restrictions due-process exhaustion final-decision land-use land-use-permit property-rights regulatory-taking ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Whether a takings claim is ripe when a city makes a final decision under existing ordinances denying a land use permit, or whether a property owner is…
23-941 In Re First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. 2024-02-28 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech investigatory-demand pre-litigation-challenge ripeness section-1983 standing state-official Whether a section 1983 suit to enjoin an unlawful investigatory demand by a state official is ripe only after a state court has enforced the demand.
23A524 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness Question not identified.
23-468 Matthew Haney, as Trustee of the Gooseberry Island Trust v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-property-rights due-process government-permit judicial-review prudential-ripeness ripeness standing takings takings-claim variance variance-request Can the government evade adjudication of constitutional takings claims on prudential ripeness grounds—after it has twice definitively denied necessary…
22-1224 Randy Ralston, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coastal-development due-process government-action land-use-regulation pleading-standards property-rights ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Randy Ralston and Linda Mendiola (Ralstons) wish to build a retirement home on their residentially zoned land in San Mateo County, California. However…
22-7753 Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings When a juvenile is charged by Juvenile Information with First Degree Murder pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1(a), 1151 & 1153, and the government files a …
22-5708 David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent LACK OF STANDING IS A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT PANEL. LACK OF POWER TO DECREE IS ALSO A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT. THE PANEL DECISION CO…
21-1222 Joel David Joseph v. American General Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied california-constitution diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine judicial-procedure ninth-circuit oral-argument res-judicata ripeness 1. Does this court's decision in Erie Railroad v Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), require the United states Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to con…
21-439 Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition 1. Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate p…
21-5522 Meghan Kelly v. Donald J. Trump Delaware 2021-08-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure establishment-clause executive-order free-exercise-of-religion government-religion mootness religious-freedom-restoration-act ripeness service-of-process standing substitution-of-parties I. Whether failure to serve anyone my Delaware Supreme Court Brief, after the Defendant, President Trump, was removed from office was fatal error, giv…
20-1598 Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rachael S. Rollins, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights facial-overbreadth first-amendment free-speech newsgathering ripeness secret-recording speech-suppression standing Whether the First Circuit erred in holding— 1. in direct conflict with the Illinois Supreme Court and in conflict with four other circuit courts of ap…
20-6808 Thomas Traficante v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and Congress' intent to provide a streamlined scheme of sentencing re…
20-5874 Jerry Lard v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-10-01 Denied IFP categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver 1. Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of person…
19-8032 Vaughn Harris v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ ripeness standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions 1. Whether a pretrial prison staff may violate §parelrial Jvisoners M edierl eivil yights Wy oyeler Yo chuse AIM annecesstry Jyjuries b y delap dill c…
19-1057 Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called "community caretaking" where the alleged danger to the co…
19-7586 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT?
18-1531 South Carolina v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to ch…
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation In Summers v. Earth Island Institute, 555 U.S. 488 (2009), this Court held that a "vague desire to return . . . without any description of concrete pl…
18A1198 Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation federal-claims property-rights ripeness state-court-remedies takings-clause Whether the Court should reconsider the portion of Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 194-96 (1985), requi…
18-294 Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-07 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) due-process final-determination ripeness state-court-procedures subdivision subdivision-approval taking-claims takings takings-clause williamson-county Whether taking and due process claims arising from a subdivision disapproval ripen under Williamson County Regional Planning Commission et al. v. Hami…
18-197 E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii Congress gave the Courts inherent powers to curtail vexatious litigants' abuse of the Court system by allowing the Courts to enact pre-filing orders b…