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25-7141 Thomas Keller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-regulation controlled-substances-act criminal-liability intelligible-principle-test nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether the "intelligible principle" test remains the appropriate standard for evaluating delegations of legislative power when the resulting regulati…
25-1144 Daisey Trust, By and Through Its Trustee Eddie Haddad, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-04-02 Pending administrative-law appropriations-clause federal-housing-finance-agency nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, 601 U.S. 416 (2024) ("CFPB"), this Court u…
25-1126 Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck Seventh Circuit 2026-03-27 Pending false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam-relator scienter separation-of-powers treble-damages 1. Whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions are unconstitutional. 2. Whether a legal interpretation can be deemed so "objectively unreasonab…
25-1110 Cathy A. Harris v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-23 Pending adjudicatory-authority administrative-law merit-systems-protection-board presidential-removal-power removal-for-cause separation-of-powers 1. Whether Congress may provide by statute that members of the Merit Systems Protection Board—an adjudicatory body—"may be removed by the President on…
25-1103 U.S. Doge Service, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-20 Pending administrative-law executive-privilege freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandamus separation-of-powers The district court in this case entered a wide-ranging and intrusive discovery order against the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS) —a body within the Executive…
25-1079 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-12 Pending Amici (6) administrative-law article-i-violation intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers vesting-clause Whether Congress violated the Vesting Clause of Article I by giving an executive agency unbounded discretion to choose which private parties are entit…
25A999 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al. District of Columbia 2026-03-11 Application Amici (5) administrative-procedure-act equal-protection immigration-policy judicial-review-bar separation-of-powers temporary-protected-status Question not identified.
25-1053 Gregory Hanna v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-03-05 Pending Response Waived administrative-review-board energy-reorganization-act equitable-tolling judicial-review regulatory-ambiguity separation-of-powers 1. Whether the regulation provision in question under the Energy Reorganization Act is genuinely ambiguous in determining federal courts' case law and…
25A958 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-27 Application constitutional-limits-on-delegation FTC-approval-requirement horseracing-integrity-and-safety-act nondelegation-doctrine private-entity-delegation separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-6911 Gregory W. Pheasant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-law executive-power intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether § 1733(a) violates the nondelegation doctrine by giving the Executive near-unfettered power to define what conduct is subject to criminal puni…
25-1012 HMTX Industries, LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law major-questions-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-authority trade-act Whether USTR's streamlined authority under Section 307 to "modify" an existing tariff action confers on the agency essentially unlimited power to expa…
25-966 Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending administrative-law article-iii h-2a-visa-program immigration-law public-rights-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether Article III of the Constitution precludes Congress from assigning to the Secretary of Labor the initial adjudication of proceedings to collect…
25-832 Bonnie Michelle Smith v. Shirley Smith Georgia 2026-01-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law judicial-activism legislative-interpretation policy-making rule-of-law separation-of-powers 1) Does judicial activism violate the separation of powers? 2) Can the Court act as a super legislature that imposes its own policy preferences rathe…
25-6539 Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process executive-overreach frivolousness-standard judicial-review separation-of-powers 1. Whether federal courts can brand as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) a citizen's constitutional claims supported by official government …
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.…
25A748 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Application administrative-discretion agency-rulemaking hydrofluorocarbons legislative-power nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-761 Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-constraints medicare price-controls separation-of-powers The Inflation Reduction Act grants the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") unprecedented and unfettered authority to impose price contr…
25-752 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers 1. Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant? 2. Does…
25A741 Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Application administrative-adjudication article-three h-2a-visa labor-dispute private-rights separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-6363 Arturo Amaran v. Florida Florida 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fifth-amendment judicial-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Given the United States Supreme Court's now long standing and clear 5th Amendment jurisprudence, do Florida Courts have authority to expand, or oth…
25-6255 Aaron J. Thorpe v. United States District of Columbia 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-ii criminal-procedure executive-power final-conviction prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers In our constitutional system of separated powers, Article II vests the Executive Branch with the plenary authority to initiate and terminate criminal …
25A615 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act Question not identified.
25A539 Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act appropriations executive-discretion judicial-injunction nutrition-programs separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-540 Beyond Nuclear, Inc. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2025-11-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-licensing congressional-action judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Do the Administrative Procedure Act and the constitutional separation of powers doctrine prohibit an agency from issuing a license conditioned on Cong…
25A496 Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado Colorado 2025-10-30 Presumed Complete cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation Question not identified.
25A478 Todd Blanche, et al. v. Shira Perlmutter District of Columbia 2025-10-27 Presumed Complete executive-branch federal-vacancies-reform-act legislative-branch officer-classification presidential-removal separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-5964 Oladayo Oladokun v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied IFP agency-deference judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines ' commentary promulgated without notice-and-comment rulemaking retains binding authority after Loper Light Ente…
25-5937 Timothy Simms v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-review habeas-corpus judicial-prerogative legislative-limitation separation-of-powers I. Whether the Habeas Corpus provisions of the AEDPA, constitute a legislative usurpation of the Judicial prerogative to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus…
25-5926 Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-representation separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred barring a condemned inmate from filing pro se while represented elsewhere in violation of the federal right of a…
25A451 Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied constitutional-violation due-process execution-date executive-power judicial-function separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred barring a condemned inmate from filing pro se while represented elsewhere in violation of the federal right of a…
25-5854 Dmt MacTruong v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizen-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-standing declaratory-judgment due-process separation-of-powers 1. Does Appellant-Petitioner, a U.S. citizen, living in one State of the Union, have standing to commence a civil action for a declaratory order/opini…
25-5799 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2025-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process non-existent-offense res-judicata separation-of-powers 1. Under Arkansas law, Mr. Burgie had a right to have his illegal sentences corrected but the Arkansas state courts denied his petition and post-convi…
25-388 Adam Pajer, et al. v. Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived ada-interpretation congressional-intent disability-discrimination judicial-usurpation separation-of-powers statutory-construction (1) Whether a judicial conclusion that no set of facts can plausibly exist to plead under the ADA that an employer regards an employee as presently di…
25-373 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of issuing affirmances without opinion under Rule 36 in Merit Systems Protection Board cases unconstitutiona…
25-367 Todd M. Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, et al. v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-governance executive-authority federal-courts removal-power separation-of-powers This Court in Humphrey's Executor sustained restrictions on the removal of Commissioners of the 1935 Federal Trade Commission, and it has since reaffi…
25-319 Gwynne A. Wilcox v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-17 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law federal-courts nlrb removal-power separation-of-powers 1. May Congress constitutionally limit removal of members of the National Labor Relations Board to cases of "neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.…
25-312 Cathy Harris v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-17 Pending administrative-law for-cause-removal merit-systems-protection-board presidential-authority removal-power separation-of-powers 1. Whether Congress may provide by statute that members of the Merit Systems Protection Board—an adjudicatory body that does not make policy—"may be r…
25A264 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete Amici (4) administrative-agency article-ii executive-power federal-trade-commission presidential-removal separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-226 Easton Murray v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Response Waived agent-principal-doctrine constitutional-violation oath-of-office prosecutorial-immunity public-trust separation-of-powers 1. IS A PROSECUTOR, AS A TRUSTEE OF THE PUBLIC TRUST, AND CHARGED WITH THE DUTY TO UPHOLD THE LAW, IMMUNE FROM LIABILITY WHEN THEY BREAK THE LAW THEY …
25A227 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Global Health Council, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-27 Dismissed administrative-procedure-act executive-power impoundment separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Question not identified.
25-5449 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error 1. Whether a federal judge who is not properly designated under 28 U.S.C. §§ 291-296 may lawfully preside over a criminal case and its post-conviction…
25-175 In Re Andy Desty 2025-08-13 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power separation-of-powers 1. Has the authority and ruling of the Supreme Court case between Holmberg v. Holmberg, 588 N.W.2d 720 (Minn. 1999), to stop Corporation 's child supp…
25A144 Stephen K. Bannon v. United States District of Columbia 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete congressional-subpoena criminal-statute executive-privilege mens-rea separation-of-powers willful-conduct Whether the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 to require only intentional conduct, rather than knowledge of unlawfulness,…
25A86 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions: 1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System…
25-84 Owolabi Salis v. Jorge Dopico, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process separation-of-powers state-immunity The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution provides that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." This is e…
25-5166 Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may refuse to enter judgment following the unrebutted filing of a dispositive appellate brief and summary judgm…
25A77 Everglades College, Inc. v. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-settlement due-process intervention separation-of-powers student-loans Question not identified.
25-60 James Greiner v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Response Waived congressional-voting constitutional-rights political-representation punitive-damages separation-of-powers two-party-system 1) Harmful Inflation: a) Is there a difference between "economic derived inflation" and "purposefully reckless derived inflation", with the first bei…
25-62 Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction procedural-due-process separation-of-powers ultra-vires 1. When a judge ignores or removes the requirements for a mandatory hearing as set forth in the language of a statute, and thus violates the separatio…
25-21 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-law constitutional-challenge first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers student-loans 1. Can federal courts, consistent with the Consti tution, assume legislative authority by creating fed eral common law on judicial immunity, filing re…
24A1257 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-20 Presumed Complete federal-education-power general-welfare-clause higher-education-act separation-of-powers student-loan-bankruptcy tenth-amendment Is federal power over education constitutional?
24A1255 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-20 Presumed Complete federal-education-power general-welfare-clause higher-education-act separation-of-powers student-loan-bankruptcy tenth-amendment Is federal power over education constitutional?
24-1272 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations first-amendment-retaliation judicial-immunity self-representation separation-of-powers sixth-amendment-rights 1. First Amendment Retaliation: Did the lower courts, including District Judge Mark R. Hor- nak and the Third Circuit in its August 8, 2024, judgme…
24-1254 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2025-06-09 Denied constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (IC…
24A1203 Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. First Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24A1153 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. D.V.D., et al. First Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Amici (3) due-process-claims executive-authority foreign-policy immigration-removal separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-1200 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-law judicial-dicta legislative-history miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers student-loan 1. Separation of Powers and Miscarriage of Justice: Does a federal judge's reliance on non-binding judicial dicta from United Student Aid Funds v. Esp…
24A1106 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-16 Dismissed Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act executive-order federal-workforce injunction reduction-in-force separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-7085 Howard Jefferson Atkins v. Guy Bousch, Warden Tennessee 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process juvenile-jurisdiction legislative-intent separation-of-powers state-courts Did the Tennessee Supreme Court violate the Separation of Powers doctrine (United States Constitution Amendment XIV §1) and United States Supreme Cour…
24-6931 Ohio, ex rel. David E. Feathers v. Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Portage County, et al. Ohio 2025-04-04 Denied IFP custodial-supervision due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus WHETHER THE USE OF A SHAM LEGAL PROCESS TO PROCESS FRAUDULENT APPEALS BY THE ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A WR…
24-6890 Earl Emanuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-integrity due-process judicial-rule jury-practices separation-of-powers 1. Did the Florida Supreme Court deny this petitioner's 14th amendment right to due process of law when it refused to recognize justice Gorsuch's sub …
24A910 Department of Education, et al. v. California, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Amici (1) administrative-discretion district-court-jurisdiction executive-power federal-grants judicial-review separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-6848 Derek Steven Trumbull v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity rule-of-lenity separation-of-powers statutory-construction Do the separation of powers and the canons of statutory construction, most fundamentally the rule of lenity, permit the judiciary to defer to an agenc…
24-6750 Troy Rambaransingh v. Bank of America National Association, Individually and as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank, et al. Florida 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review constitutional-jurisdiction due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-transparency separation-of-powers The United States Constitution vests the "judicial power " in Article III courts. Florida 's Constitution has similar language, however, it proceeds t…
24-943 Fares Jeries Rabadi v. Drug Enforcement Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied administrative-law article-ii dea-judges removal-power separation-of-powers take-care-clause Whether the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA")'s Administrative Law Judges ("ALJs") are unconstitutionally insulated from removal in violation of…
24-6622 John Bradley v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause article-two constitutional-interpretation federal-judiciary judicial-designation separation-of-powers 1. Under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, principal federal officers, including United States District and Circuit Judges, must be nominated…
24A790 Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel District of Columbia 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (4) agency-independence article-ii constitutional-structure executive-removal prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-6536 Craig Bassett v. Florida Florida 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1. Did Justice Gorsuch's dissenting opinion in Cunningham v. Florida establish a new precedent that requires retroactive application, or is it a remin…
24-835 Seth Healey v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Vermont 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure child-protection civil-rights constitutional-review due-process separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Vermont Superior Court, Washington Unit, Civil Division ("Trial Court") has a responsibility to determine the constitutionality of the …
24-6405 Sidney Joseph v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process federal-enforcement property-seizure restitution separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the phrase "all other available and reasonable means" in 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A)(ii) to m…
24A738 Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. aka Halkbank v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution executive-power foreign-sovereign-instrumentality international-law separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
24-767 Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Sixth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference nlrb-review presidential-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. The National Labor Relations Board's interpretations of the National Labor Relations Act are entitled to deference if they are "reasonably defens…
24A696 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete administrative-agency appropriations-clause consumer-protection dodd-frank funding-structure separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-6266 Jody Lee Miles v. Maryland Maryland 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-proceedings defendant-rights executive-clemency judicial-review separation-of-powers Does the doctrine of the separation of powers as derived from the text and structure of the Constitution of the United States allow for an act of mock…
24-701 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-12-31 Denied attorney-general executive-authority organic-act prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers territorial-law 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Guam violated the Guam Organic Act's designation of the Attorney General of Guam as the "Chief Legal Officer of the Go…
24-602 Daniel Graff v. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, aka Brighthouse Financial Life Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-interpretation separation-of-powers state-law-deference statutory-construction 1. Whether a Federal Court, in disregard of state law and of rules in decisions made by the highest court in a state, can interpret a statute such tha…
24-593 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights legal-malpractice separation-of-powers treason Can this Court, consistently with its obligations to uphold and to enforce the Constitution, trade the constitutionally guaranteed rights of millions …
24-472 National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. v. Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law constitutional-law legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine private-corporation separation-of-powers Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act grants legislative power to a private corporation, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, In…
24-5836 Steven Hadley Hassan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-authority due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1) The U.S. Constitution, through Article One, grants Congress the authority to make or change federal laws. This includes the creation of criminal st…
24-465 Texas, et al. v. Jerry Black, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-24 GVR Relisted (3) administrative-law constitutional-authority federal-trade-commission legislative-delegation private-rulemaking separation-of-powers In 2020, Congress enacted the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) to, for the first time, federally regulate the horseracing industry. 15 U.S.…
24A382 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete attorney-general government-corruption legal-representation organic-act separation-of-powers territorial-government Question not identified.
24-433 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-17 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the private-nondelegation doctrine.
24-432 William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-law bill-of-rights constitutional-rights judicial-review separation-of-powers student-loans Can this Court, consistently with its obligations to uphold and to enforce the Constitution, trade the constitutionally guaranteed rights of millions …
24A316 Jeffrey B. Clark v. D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel District of Columbia 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete article-ii-immunity bar-disciplinary-proceeding federal-officer-removal separation-of-powers supremacy-clause take-care-clause Question not identified.
24-368 Levi Rudder v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied article-v constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review separation-of-powers unenumerated-powers (This is believed to be a case of first impression, according to Mr. Rudder's extensive research there has never been a challenge that has raised a ci…
24A303 Arbor Global Strategies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-325 Mark B. Gibson v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. New York 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers A. Does the driver license restoration regime established in New York violate Petitioner's right to due process of law because DMV, although given leg…
24-5579 John F. Kodenkandeth v. UPMC Health Plan, Inc., dba UPMC for Life, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion removal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers Q1) Whether, the 3rd circuit court of Appeal and district court of Western Pennsylvania, erred by Arbitrary, Capricious abuse of discretion by deliber…
24-265 Heidi Stirrup, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Visitors for the Air Force Academy, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law advisory-board-independence injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers Petitioners were appointed to the Boards of Visitors of the three United States military academies. These Boards are advisory groups subject to the Fe…
24-239 Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University District of Columbia 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is, The United States Supreme Court uses its own understandin…
24-185 National Collegiate Master Student Loan Trust, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-enforcement constitutional-removal consumer-financial-protection securitization-trusts separation-of-powers 1. When should an enforcement action that is initiated by an agency head unconstitutionally insulated from removal be dismissed to remedy that separat…
24-156 Leachco, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Amici (5) administrative-agency constitutional-law due-process preliminary-injunction presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers For over two years, Petitioner Leachco, Inc., has been subjected to an administrative proceeding by Respondent Consumer Product Safety Commission, an …
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant 1. Litigiousness or Numerosity of Litigations Alone is Insufficient to Support the Determination that a Self-Represented Party is a Vexatious Litigant…
24-5215 Patrick Wayne Baker v. Texas Texas 2024-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process executive-power judicial-branch judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation texas-government unconstitutional WHETHER TEX. GOV'T CODE 508.283(b)(c) VIOLATES DUE PROCESS AND SHOULD BE DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL? WHETHER THE TEXAS LEGISLATIVE BRANCH IS AUTHORIZE…
24-42 Scott Meide v. Pulse Evolution Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-assignment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing unbiased-judiciary I Has F.R.Civ. P. I been abrogated by judicial fiat? II Should the Rules Concerning Unpublished Opinions Be Rewritfen and/or Modified? Do We Have a…
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o…
24-3 City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, City Council v. Rama, Inc., dba Discount Liquor Tennessee 2024-07-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-function alcohol-license constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legislative-body separation-of-powers Whether the action of the Tennes see Court of Appeals ordering a legislative body performing an administrative function violated separation of powers …
23-1323 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (3) administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-structure article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-law executive-power executive-removal humphreys-executor presidential-authority separation-of-powers Whether the for-cause restriction on the President's authority to remove Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission violates the separati…
23-7651 Gregory Scott Van Huisen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process non-delegation separation-of-powers Question not identified.
23-7639 Louis C. Bouie v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Pennsylvania 2024-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP drug-treatment-program due-process ex-post-facto executive-branch judicial-review sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers stare-decisis statutory-construction Did the Pennsylvania High Court unconstitutionally permit the statutory construct at 61 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105 to grant the executive branch carte blanche s…
23-7489 In Re Tonya Knowles 2024-05-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collective-defense due-process free-speech international-organization military-agreement nato-alliance separation-of-powers sovereign-rights standing treaty-clause Question not identified.
23-7441 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation This court determined many times throughout history, legislative history is not law, and it is wrong to use legislative history as law and as a means …
23-7346 Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes 1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a retired judge preside over the case without an appoin…
23-7318 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Question not identified.
23-1162 Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Amici (11)Response Waived civil-rights coleman-precedent due-process election-law elections judicial-review legislative-process legislative-standing separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification In Pennsylvania, 27 state legislators, attempting to guard their duty to determine the manner of federal elections, have been denied standing due to t…
23-7183 In Re Joshua George Nowland 2024-04-10 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason Question not identified.
23-1053 Cletus Woodrow Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-state agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-challenge jurisdictional-dispute kelo non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers takings Whether this Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge to the constitutional authority of an agency was properly filed in district court, or whether an agency…
23-1014 Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of …
23-6906 Thomas Thornton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review separation-of-powers standing VJhi| (j<q fyf lowCour-tS K*oV-tbllduouotf Suprw tyjd fKiho^ .oM Oi/erloo^iK)fi fte dfcislo/k and LjQ\i£> ; J J
23-949 In Re David Erlanson, Sr. 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi…
23A745 Donald J. Trump v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-12 Granted Amici (10) criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy impeachment-clause official-acts presidential-immunity separation-of-powers L Whether the doctrine of absolute presidential immunity includes immunity from criminal prosecution for a President's official acts, i.e., those perf…
23-828 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam, et al. Guam 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-opinion article-iv-court federal-courts guam judicial-authority justiciability organic-act separation-of-powers The question presented is whether the Supreme Court of Guam's advisory opinion constitutes a permissible exercise of the "judicial authority" that Con…
23-755 Andrew S. Clyde, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. v. William McFarland, in His Official Capacity as Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-12 Denied congressional-immunity congressional-rules constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations judicial-review jurisdiction legislative-immunity legislative-procedure separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause twenty-seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Speech or Debate Clause creates a jurisdictional bar to judicial consideration of whether internal congressional rules or practices vio…
23-6462 Arthur Harris v. New Rez, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent separation-of-powers standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-742 Milan Kiser, et al. v. Chris Langer Ninth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-injury public-accommodation separation-of-powers standing tester-standing On March 27, 2023, this Court granted the petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the case, Acheson Hotels, L…
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity 1) The "Sec. 8. Affirmatively Advancing Civil Rights ... to prevent and address discrimination and advance equity for all" clause of the 2/16/2023 Pre…
23-6247 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ai-governance civil-rights constitutional-transfer due-process executive-order executive-power impeachment presidential-election presidential-power separation-of-powers transfer-of-power white-house-authority Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate employee, Donald Trump, transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executiv…
23-6246 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power impeachment impeachment-power presidential-election presidential-transition separation-of-powers 1. Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate employee, Donald Trump, transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Execu…
23-600 Dan Robert, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived adverse-effects armed-forces constitutional-rights covid-19-vaccine experimental-injection experimental-medical-treatment judicial-review medical-coercion military-service separation-of-powers vaccine-mandate 1. Whether the unlawful implementation of the harmful Covid vaccine mandate in the Armed Services properly evades judicial review based on repeal of t…
23A485 Cletus Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied constitutional-challenge jurisdiction-stripping land-condemnation legislative-power non-delegation separation-of-powers Whether Landowners are likely to prevail on jurisdiction over this structural Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge in light of this Court's unanimous 9-0…
23-478 David Harris v. American Accounting Association, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights delegation due-process judicial-power magistrate-judges pro-se-appeal pro-se-appeals separation-of-powers standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals may, with regard to a case before it and all motions in respect thereof, delegate to an unauthorized staff…
23-5865 Jason Dix v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte I. May an appellate court, consistent with due process, relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide th…
23-5798 Edgar Eugene Oliver v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Florida 2023-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review offender-review separation-of-powers state-agency-power supreme-court-authority DOES THE FLORIDA COMMISSION ON OFFENDER REVIEW, HAS THE FREEDOM TO DISOBEY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE…
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts 1.) IN LIGHT OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S ASSERTIONS IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPERS" NO. 80, IS IT THE OBLIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE …
23-259 Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as six circuits hav…
23-237 Winfred Wairimu Wamai, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Adam Titus Wamai, et al. v. Industrial Bank of Korea Second Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure embassy-bombing foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-litigation judgment-enforcement separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation u.s.-resident-plaintiffs 1. Whether the choice of a U.S. forum by U.S.-resident plaintiffs is entitled to "less deference" under the doctrine of forum non conveniens , rathe…
23-223 Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte 1. Whether the triumvirate overstepped their authority when they decided (sua sponte) to invoke, incite, insurrect, or for the lack of a better desc…
23-5532 Basil Warren Lewis, Jr. v. Phil Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5480 Jesus C. More v. Florida Florida 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure competency-hearing due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar procedural-rules remedies separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.) IN LIGHT OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON 'S ASSERTED SEPARATION OF POWERS PRINCIPLES IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPES " NO. 78 AND 81, IS TRIAL PROCEDURAL JURISDI…
23A190 Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete congressional-discipline justiciability member-pay separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment Question not identified.
23-5373 Ronald Barnett v. Florida Florida 2023-08-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers sexual-predator statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL AND FLORIDA SUPREME COURT VIOLATED THE LAWS GOVERNING THE SEPARATION OF POWER BY CREATING AN UNWRITTEN EX P…
23-5354 D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo Pennsylvania 2023-08-15 Denied IFP chief-clerk clerk-authority court-administration eastern-district-of-pennsylvania judicial-authority judicial-duties judicial-ethics legal-procedure procedural-irregularity separation-of-powers supreme-court 1. Is It Lawful For A Chief Clerk Of The Supreme Court Of The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania To Act And Perform Judicial Duties As A Judge Such As S…
23A94 Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber Third Circuit 2023-08-01 Presumed Complete bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Question not identified.
23A88 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete fcc-authority nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising separation-of-powers taxing-power universal-service-fund Question not identified.
23-69 PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied executive-power judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers standard-of-review statutory-delegation tariff-regulation trade-expansion-act 1. Whether separation of powers principles require courts to resolve ambiguity in statutory limits on delegations of vast legislative power to the Exe…
23-5138 Martin Ramos-Urias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure claim-processing immigration-removal in-absentia-removal judicial-review notice-to-appear separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place If the government serves an initial notice document that does not include the "time and place" of proceedings, followed by an additional document cont…
23-5051 Andrew Valles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-law due-process federal-review first-amendment habeas-corpus separation-of-powers standing state-court-adjudication 1. Daes the resont of 28 u.s.c.31ais (bl4) - a safety-valve created by congress - succomb entirely to and find defeat in 8191slg) -a seeming deterent …
22-1233 Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, P.C. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Second Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb civil-investigative-demand consumer-financial-protection consumer-financial-protection-bureau funding-structure independent-agency separation-of-powers Whether the Consumer Financial Protection Agency's funding structure—which imposes no meaningful constraints on the authority of the President or CFPB…
22-7773 Belkis Soca-Fernandez, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP check-and-balance civil-rights conspiracy-statute constitutional-protection due-process interstate-commerce judicial-administration judicial-review law-of-the-case legal-inconsistency sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers I. Will jurists of reason find debatable the application of a double standard of law, by the Government's arguing of two opposite interpretations of t…
22-1186 Citizens for Constitutional Integrity, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived agency-rulemaking cloture-rule congressional-review-act due-process equal-protection executive-power legislative-power legislative-rule separation-of-powers voting-thresholds 1. Whether the Congressional Review Act, which incorporates the Cloture Rule, 5 U.S.C. 801(b)(2), violates the separation of powers by creating a one-…
22-7697 Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-06-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Constitution and/or the …
22-7646 Derek Pelker v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers Mr. Pelker alleged the Federal Governments impermissible collusion within the prosecution of the Commonwealth.of Pennsylvania for the same misconduct …
22-7616 Milton Mendoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-proceedings separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place ultra-vires Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr…
22-1126 In Re Dorothy M. Hartman 2023-05-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering government-overreach intellectual-property judicial-misconduct patent-rights separation-of-powers 1) Should Judges of Appellate Courts have the right to ignore, manipulate, or even destroy evidence in cases pending before them in support of the Fed…
22-7526 Charles Edward Krupalla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release The United States Sentencing Commission recommends imposing a long list of "standard" conditions of supervised release. Standard Condition 12 reads: …
22-1046 Thomas J. Kelly v. University of Florida Board of Trustees, et al. Florida 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition presumption-of-innocence public-records separation-of-powers Whether when considering a petition for a writ of mandamus regarding a public records request, can a state civil, not criminal, circuit trial court ju…
22-969 City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response Waived agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights 1. Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's "and other purposes" clause to inv…
22-926 U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Amici (1) article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers The lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require it to …
22-903 Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers 1. Whether a person can be treated equally under the law when a judge is changing the law? 2. Whether it is a normal judicial function for a judge wh…
22-838 Integrity Advance, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tenth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause appropriations-clause consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process judicial-review lucia-v-sec separation-of-powers 1. When this Court in Lucia v. SEC , 138 S. Ct. 2044 (2018) instructed that an agency must hold a "new hearing" before a new and properly appointed of…
22-6830 Michael Joseph Loukas v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) due-process evidence-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion medication-warning-labels prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sixth-circuit-review 1. Was the Sixth Circuit decision based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Evidance presented in the state court proceedi…
22-780 Scott Meide, et al. v. Noah Centineo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review brief-requirements civil-rights court-obligations due-process judicial-discretion judicial-independence judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law separation-of-powers 1. Do we have a government of laws and not of men? 2. Must a deciding panel in a court of appeals address all of the issues raised in the opening bri…
22-764 Hrair Kaladjian v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment freedom-support-act injunctive-relief presidential-waiver separation-of-powers standing 1. Whether the President's violation of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act is actionable by a private citizen under the Fifth Amendment Equal Prot…
22-730 Michael Rop, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied acting-director acting-officials appointments-clause constitutional-limits executive-power federal-housing-finance-agency presidential-powers principal-officer senate-confirmation separation-of-powers In August 2009, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency resigned. The Senate did not confirm a successor for over four years. In the meanti…
22-6689 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency federal-deposit-insurance-corporation foia-request freedom-of-information-act insurance-coverage separation-of-powers Are the separation of powers violated by the sweeping construction of FDIC insurance as a substantive jurisdictional element in eight federal courts o…
22-6648 Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture 1. "The Maine State Supreme Court has issued an edict in Saunders v. Tisher that conflicts with and usurps Maine Revised Statute Title 34-B § 3861 and…
22-6626 Jonathan Jefferson Ferris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
22-682 Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction Article I of the United States Constitution provides all legislative Powers therein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Do Art…
22-663 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-regulation consumer-financial-protection consumer-protection due-process financial-regulation removal-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Rule should be vacated because it was promulgated by Director Cordray while shielded from removal by President Trump under a statutory …
22-6510 Daniel Marmolejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
22-6380 Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation 1.) Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion? (a) The C…
22-6338 Lucas Michael McNulty-Snodgrass v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congressional-intent contraband drug-possession federal-preemption federalism jurisdictional-conflict Question not identified. separation-of-powers state-sovereignty 1.) "Since methamphetamine and fentanyl, i.e., illicit drugs et al., are considered "contraband," and contraband is not 'considered a proper article o…
22-547 Randall E. Rollins v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law executive-action federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-policy judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers treason 1. Did the court below err in not considering the overriding emergency issue that the United States of America is currently being invaded by illegal…
22-6246 Antonio Osorio-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
22-448 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-14 Judgment Issued Amici (30)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-funding constitutional-law consumer-financial-protection-bureau judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-funding statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 12 U.S.C. 5497, v…
22-425 Robin Carnahan, Administrator of the General Services Administration v. Carolyn Maloney, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (7) 5-usc-2954 article-iii-standing civil-procedure congress-members congressional-oversight disclosure-request executive-agency information-disclosure separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether individual Members of Congress have Article III standing to sue an executive agency to compel it to disclose information that the Members have…
22-380 Raland J. Brunson v. Alma S. Adams, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-maxim jurisdiction-conflict national-security national-security-breach object-principle-of-justice presidential-removal separation-of-powers standing A serious conflict exists between decisions rendered from along with this Court and lower appeal courts, constitutional provisions and statutes, in de…
22-5879 Eugene Thurman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to…
22-5823 Edward Simmons v. James LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution executive-power legislative-power separation-of-powers standing Question not identified.
22-5805 Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS v. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 200…
22-5768 Issa Battle v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation 1) What is the Supreme Court's interpretation of the "knowingly" element required under 18 U.S.C. §924(a)(2) in felon in possession of a firearm cases…
22-5680 Wigberto Viera v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-sting due-process judicial-authority mandatory-minimum reverse-sting sentencing-manipulation separation-of-powers stash-house Whether this Court should recognize the defense of sentencing manipulation, in accordance with the majority of Courts of Appeals, and rule that senten…
22-269 Dawn Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response Waived appointments-clause article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law federal-courts federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-decision judicial-review separation-of-powers Is the application of Fed. R. App P. 2, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case at hand Unconstitutional and violates …
22-274 Steven Donziger v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) appointments-clause criminal-contempt criminal-procedure executive-power federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure interbranch-appointments judicial-power separation-of-powers special-prosecutor In Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S.A., 481 U.S. 787 (1987), this Court endorsed the practice of appointing private lawyers to try cri…
22-270 Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Should the word "established," as used in FACA, be construed in accord with its "plain" meaning (as the Eleventh Circuit held) or should be it constru…
22-5640 Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States Sentencing Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act guideline-commentary judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers u.s-sentencing-commission I. WHETHER THE SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984 COMMANDS CONGRESSIONAL INTENT, THAT WHEN THE U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION VIOLATES THE NOTICE AND COMMENT R…
22-244 Stephen A. Tanner v. Idaho Department of Fish and Game, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response Waived executive-branch fourth-amendment game-check-stations roadblocks separation-of-powers wildlife-management Whether the Director and Officers of the State of Idaho Department of Fish and Game violate the Separation of Powers doctrine when implementing roadbl…
22-5344 In Re Eric McCray 2022-08-11 Denied IFP administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law executive-authority separation-of-powers take-care-clause Whether this Court should use its Power to Grant Writ of Habeas Corpus to a Moorish-American Sovereign Man Who has no other available forum to raise h…
22-5276 Daniel Naftalovich v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Four, et al. California 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-statutory-scheme domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process emotional-calm ex-parte-restraining fundamental-rights prior-restraint-on-speech separation-of-powers void-for-vagueness A - Primary questions presented 1) Is California 's Domestic Violence Prevention Act (DVPA) a criminal statutory scheme where it results as a matter …
22-5227 In Re Eric Krieg 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights national-security separation-of-powers standing 1) Should the Supreme Court grant a Writ of Mandamus to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's writ of Mandamus (itself to Compel th…
22-5148 Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process equal-protection legal-claims separation-of-powers standing Shalde a Correctionsl Ageny be Alawed to ndopt And enforce the law ss Department les,enit the res sholl contrawne thestrict lette of te IAw I's it A …
22-5108 Zachery Keesee v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-statute arkansas-supreme-court capital-murder conviction due-process first-impression nonjurisdictional-argument separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court violated due process by affirming Keesee's capital-murder conviction based on a nonjurisdictional argument that …
22-5096 Theodore Luczak v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-13 Denied IFP citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-system legal-procedure legislative-overreach separation-of-powers state-attorney state-attorney-general WHETHER A STATE'S ATTORNEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ENACT LEGISLATION ON THEIR OWN THAT WOULD VIOLATE THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF EACH …
22-5098 Arthur Torlucci v. California California 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-5101 Sonya Owens v. Reliance Partners, LLC District of Columbia 2022-07-13 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process federalism personal-rights property-rights separation-of-powers stay-at-home-orders supremacy-clause (1) Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States ' Legislatures? (2) Are…
21-1605 Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C. v. Charles M. Forman, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied article-iii bankruptcy-code disgorgement non-core-proceedings separation-of-powers stern-v-marshall Question not identified.
21-1592 Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers 1. Whether Congress, in crafting 42 U.S.C. § 1230a7b(b) and related provisions, violated Article I, § 1 of the United States Constitution by improperl…
21-8239 Lawrence L. Crawford, aka Johah Gabriel, aka Jahjah T. Tishbite v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure sanctions separation-of-powers spoliation standing (1) DOES THE FILING SUBMITTED BY THE PETITIONE (S ) UNDER CASE 20-7073 FILED BEFORE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT SERVES AS A FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENT TO AN INFORMA…
21-8143 Marcus Branch v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers WAS THE "DOUBLE JEOPARDY ' CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN I WAS SENTENCED THREE TIMES FOR THE EXACT SAME OFFENSE I'M HERE FOR NOW PURSUANT TO USCS CONSTITUTION,…
21-8066 Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS V. DAYIS , 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 20…
21-7979 Robert Allen Stanford, aka Sir Allen Stanford, aka Allen Stanford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-transmission jurisdictional-element miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers wire-fraud (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, as properly interpreted, can be used to charge, prosecute and punish, a wire communication…
21-7980 Perry Singo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-independence political-influence political-interference separation-of-powers state-constitution ARE THE ATTACKS ON THE JUDICIARY AND THE EFFORTS OF POLITICIANS TO CHANGE THE JUDICIARY SO IT WILL DO THINGS THE POLITICIANS WANT IT TO DO DENYING …
21-7935 Jason K. Feister v. Florida Florida 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers THE ISSUE BEING PRESENTED IS WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS.
21-7890 Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech legislative-procedure legislative-process legislative-rules representative-rights separation-of-powers standing voting-rights Whether the eight rules of the IL 102nd General Assembly cited in this case violate and nullify Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr's, right to have his el…
21-1441 Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sixth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers 1. What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution th…
21-1389 Jeremy Bates v. Donald J. Trump, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-28 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing attorney-general citizen-taxpayer-suit civil-rights derivative-standing due-process executive-power presidential-misconduct separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States. 2. Whether, in light of 28 U.S.C. § 516, thi…
21-7578 Calvin Latimer v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process executive-privilege separation-of-powers standing tax-returns Question not identified.
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the "Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives . . . prescr…
21-1239 Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati…
21-7327 Tina Carol Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers 1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog…
21-7275 David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-03-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-presentation judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-error separation-of-powers state-court-system a. WHERE A DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAILS TO EXERCISE DISCRETION IN THE DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE, CAN CONTINUED AND MOUNTING EVIDENCE BE PRESENTED TO THE DI…
21-1148 SB Building Associates Limited Partnership v. Bunce Atkinson, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-property constitutional-limitations due-process judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers I. May Congress consistent with Separation of Powers principles deny Article III courts of the power to review an Article I court's decision allowing …
21-1139 Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC Federal Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers May a federal appellate court, consistent with the Administrative Procedure Act and the principles of separation of powers embedded within that Act, r…
21-1036 Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers 1. Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021), and r…
21-1015 Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection issue-preclusion judicial-power separation-of-powers sua-sponte ultra-vires The Fifth Circuit vastly departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and sanctioned the same by the lower court. Both the lowe…
21-932 Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied Amici (7) congressional-oversight constitutional-law executive-privilege preliminary-injunction presidential-records-act records-request separation-of-powers Whether the Committee's records request violates the Constitution or laws of the United States entitling President Trump to a preliminary injunction p…
21-875 Harry Barnett v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-power local-rule local-rules procedural-authority separation-of-powers Whether a district judge has the power to enact a local rule that contravenes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-842 Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards 1. May allegations made in support of the claim that a case should proceed as a class action be struck from a pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Civ…
21-852 Christopher D. Lischewski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust constitutional-principle criminal-antitrust criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial per-se-rule reasonable-doubt separation-of-powers sherman-act The Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, prohibits any contract or combination "in restraint of trade or commerce." This Court has long held that Congress inte…
21-849 Slidewaters LLC v. Washington Department of Labor and Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response Waived emergency-powers executive-authority legislative-authority legislative-delegation nondelegation-doctrine police-power separation-of-powers state-governance state-of-emergency Does a state legislature's delegation of unlimited and inherently legislative police power to a state executive violate the separation of powers, even…
21-6365 Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congress-executive congressional-oversight due-process executive-branch judicial-authority judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation 1. Does a judge have the authority to deem the interests of Congress and the Executive Branch to be vexatious? 2. How severely ill are judges in Amer…
21-6312 Manuel Melgar-Diaz and Joaquin Benito-Mendoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law congressional-delegation constitutional-authority constitutional-law executive-power government-branches legislative-delegation legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether Congress can delegate its authority to another branch of government consistent with the Constitution by merely providing an "intelligible prin…
21-721 Transpacific Steel LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Amici (2) delegation-of-legislative-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng national-security presidential-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-regulation 1. Whether the President acted outside of the scope of the statutory authority Congress granted under section 232 by doubling the tariff on steel impo…
21-6170 Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers Whether Appellant presented a justiciable issue, where the choice of the Virginia Governor and the State Health Commissioner, failed to represent "a r…
21-6136 Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute, as three …
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment protect an individual's right to express lawful speech free from state action and deliberate ind…
21-5946 Corelanius Phillips v. Andrea Culclager, Warden Arkansas 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel separation-of-powers sixth-amendment structural-defect subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether criminal defendants denied Due Process of Law entitle them to remedy where (1) The trial court empanelled an illegally constituted jury in vio…
21-5877 Brian J. Neary v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law age-discrimination article-1 employment-discrimination executive-order federal-excepted-service federal-hiring-authority legislative-authority pathways-program separation-of-powers Has the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal government breached the 'Separation of Powers' Principle by issuing Presidential Executive Order #13562? …
21-5779 Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson Florida 2021-09-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight legal-fraud separation-of-powers 1. Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution? 2. When fraud and attorney misconduct is present is the court r…
21-421 Damian R. Nastri v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-governance board-quorum civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process separation-of-powers standing Can the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (hereafter MSPB, or Board); make decisions; solicit, hire, promote, transfer, reassign, or fire staff; sel…
21-5683 Jerome McBride v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy criminal-procedure due-process federalism habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief separation-of-powers standing Did the State-Division and the Federal-Division unconstitutional-Convert adopt depriving/ .This question is inlight. is the Petitioner beina Subject …
21-400 Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether it violates the separation of powers for executive branch officials to keep a person in civil detention on the basis of factual findings th…
21-395 Kevin Owen McCarthy, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity as Speaker of the House, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) congressional-powers constitutional-law constitutional-review judicial-review legislative-procedure legislative-process pandemic-governance proxy-voting separation-of-powers speech-and-debate-clause speech-or-debate-clause In May 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to allow Members to cast floor votes by proxy. The unprecedented resolution permits…
21-5616 Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing Wv€_ <Vex>eXo.\ oc^Wo-Oe-d .v^dvCA CXxT\ £oC cx*\ (X\\e.0^d \V ncA 'cOV- vVcV, \V\.?_ \Ze_'T ^ SVcAe.~X1-^ \o ^jr-V£>X^- C3 VW* W>g_ cc\^e_ vOGx^>AA…
21-5532 Guy Harvey Spruhan, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-relief retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers 1. Is the limitation in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10, which prohibits proportional sentence reductions for defendants who have previously received variances or d…
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process A) Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process when he was denied Reinstatement in 2012, without …
21-5369 Michael Alexander Rivera v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process executive-power pardon separation-of-powers standing Question not identified.
21-204 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response Waived bivens-claim constitutional-authority due-process first-amendment frivolous judicial-immunity removal separation-of-powers sua-sponte-dismissal Whether a District Court Judge runs afoul of due process by a sua sponte dismissal of Petitioner's Complaint without "hearing" argument and then deemi…
21-5359 In Re Ellis Keyes 2021-08-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflicts-of-interest constitutional-checks-and-balances nobility open-and-honest-government separation-of-powers standing Under what authority is license to practice law IF not WE THE PEOPLE and does the constitution prohibit the Judicial Branch from creating abridgments …
21-5311 Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho Idaho 2021-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation *1. 0oes A PisTfaicrF C.jp&'kT A#*®' p&^ef\ &*tcL/o/? RicpT *To Avi e?^o<ef^ o£-0lo5u5pes)^ a/J pefts/'sTMt E/ilfiwceirtert& **3{t O&e.'b a Di^TricT"…
21-86 Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (9) administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers After petitioner acquired an essentially insolvent competitor, it found itself subjected to the review of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), rather t…
21-5114 Mario Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied IFP aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da…
20-8466 Paul Anthony Ashby v. United States District of Columbia 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-liability constitutional-limitations criminal-law dc-charter district-of-columbia inherent-power judicial-power legislative-authority pinkerton-doctrine separation-of-powers As both the United States and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals recognized in this case, the Pinkerton doctrine of co-conspirator liability is…
20-1758 RD Legal Funding, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cfpb-enforcement cfpb-structure constitutional-structure enforcement-action jurisdiction ratification seila-law separation-of-powers standing Respondent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau brought an enforcement action against Petitioners RD Legal Funding Partners, LP, et al., while, as Sei…
20-1738 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives District of Columbia 2021-06-15 GVR article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou…
20-1708 Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing? Is it a violation of separation of pow…
20-1705 Renovo Services, LLC, et al. v. George Badeen, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied amount-in-controversy class-action-fairness-act district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federalism-separation-of-powers removal-statute rules-enabling-act separation-of-powers statutory-deadline statutory-deadlines This appeal presents important questions not yet settled by this Court related to federalism and the separation of powers. Specifically, the case pres…
20-8268 Duprece Jett v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing separation-of-powers Whether testimony identifying Agent Guy's identifying Def. Dyprece Jett, as one of the two robbers under the Open Door doctrine was harmless error alt…
20-8210 Anthony A. Patel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-authority executive-power judicial-authority judicial-independence martial-law presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court-justices 1. Can the Executive Branch of U.S. Government impose martial law upon all courts in America so that judges follow the law? 2. If federal judges do n…
20-1673 Ashley Nettles v. Midland Funding LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury fair-debt-collection-practices-act procedural-rights separation-of-powers spokeo-v-robins 1. Whether, under Spokeo, it is sufficient for standing simply to allege a violation of the procedural rights created by the Fair Debt Collection Prac…
20-8183 Themba Bernard Sanganza v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution-supremacy constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism governmental-branches judicial-review legislative-precedence separation-of-powers state-sovereignty 1. Does the Constitution takes precedence before an other form of legislation? 2. Are the branches of the Government of the United States of America …
20-1654 Sonos, Inc. v. Implicit, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause article-ii constitutional-law inferior-officers principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.
20-1631 Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Implicit, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-appointment officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic…
20-1630 Susan Chen v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-interpretation legislative-power pro-se-representation separation-of-powers The Courts "have power to say what the law is, not what it should be." Obsergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (Roberts, J., joined by Scalia and T…
20-8069 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-review jurisdiction legal-nullity procedural-authority separation-of-powers standing supreme-court Whether The Illinois Supreme Court Order Denying Review Is Null And Void For Want Of Authority?
20-8050 Jennifer Van Bergen, aka Gwendolyn Stone v. Scott Koppel Florida 2021-05-18 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection indigent medical-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigant separation-of-powers 1. Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the …
20-1595 Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under which the Morgovskys were convicted; if so, whether those regulations and th…
20-1530 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (4) administrative-law clean-air-act congressional-authority congressional-power energy-policy environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation epa-authority federalism separation-of-powers In 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), an ancillary provision of the Clean Air Act, did Congress constitutionally authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to is…
20-1537 Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response Waived congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation 1. Is the Truth-in-Lending-Act, passed by Congress into law, to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts.
20-1423 Robert Grundstein v. Vermont Board of Bar Examiners Vermont 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived bar-admission character-and-fitness civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights separation-of-powers What Levels of Due Process are Required for Bar Admission? Can A State Impose a Five Year Maximum Between Date Applicant Graduates from Law School an…
20-7639 Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers 1.) Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial…
20-7618 Krystal Alexander-Jasmin v. Santa Monica Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-witness governmental-immunity judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in its dissent from well-established Constitutional and case law authored by its own court, and law authore…
20-1326 Rebecca A. Moriello v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-rule-making due-process federal-regulations non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine notice separation-of-powers vagueness 1) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38 and 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.390 are inconsistent with the separation of powers doctrine? 2) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38…
20-1329 Macarieto I. Trayvilla, et al. v. Japan Airlines, et al. New York 2021-03-23 Denied Response Waived act-of-state-doctrine airlines federal-preemption foreign-relations judicial-review passport-entry separation-of-powers sovereign-state statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the State Appellate Court's order that invalidates and defies the "act of state" of the Philippines (act of state of the Philippines allowi…
20-1269 Amanda Kay Renfroe, et al. v. Robert Denver Parker, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-doctrine qualified-immunity separation-of-powers standing I. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY VIOLATES THE SEPARATION OF POWERS, IS REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND IS VOID. II. IS A FACTUAL REASONABLENESS FOR A JURY TO…
20-1261 Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto 1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of…
20-7427 Leefatinie Tirosh Cole v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 34-U.S.C.-§-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Whether this Court should revisit nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-7407 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments appointments-clause arthrex-decision article-i constitutional-review patent-appeal secretary-of-commerce separation-of-powers trademark-judges Whether the 2002 Intellectual Property High Technology Technical Amendments Act be repealed - the enrolled bill was missing the section that made the …
20-7387 Vaughn Lewis v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp…
20-7324 Malcolm Elbray Traywicks, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general controlled-substances-act delegation-of-power due-process prosecutorial-discretion scheduling-authority separation-of-powers Does the Congressional delegation of power to the Attorney General permitting scheduling of substances under the Controlled Substance Act violate due …
20-1220 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.
20-1195 Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing 1) Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the o…
20-1165 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied 35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more t…
20-1145 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-22 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction 1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the …
20-1133 Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdic…
20-1112 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis 1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the …
20-7124 George Skylar Cloud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence evidence-admission federal-charges federal-criminal-law firearm-discharge guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers Did the district court error when it allowed the government to introduce into evidence the Petitioner's guilty plea, in a separate pending matter, to …
20-1085 Scott Erik Stafne v. Thomas S. Zilly, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 article-iii civil-rights due-process good-behaviour-tenure judicial-independence judicial-tenure jurisdictional-challenge separation-of-powers standing Whether the challenge that a jurist is not an Article III judge because she or he does not have "good behaviour" tenure is a jurisdictional one which …
20-6857 Luis Pina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether, in light of Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), the immigration court issuing orders of removal against each petitioner lacked juris…
20-934 Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction Whether, in creating the required evidentiary record de novo rather than merely reviewing the agency Record below, the Court of Appeals for the Federa…
20-6809 Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-907 SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conservatorship due-process federal-agency federal-statute foreclosure property-interest quiet-title separation-of-powers standing takings 1. Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation of powers and, if so, whether its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be set aside.…
20-853 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-28 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic…
20-850 Big Time Vapes, Incorporated, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Amici (2) administrative-discretion administrative-law constitutional-limits executive-authority executive-power legislative-authority legislative-delegation non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers tobacco-control-act tobacco-product-regulation Whether Petitioners have stated a claim that § 387a(b) grants excessive policymaking discretion to the executive branch to determine which tobacco pro…
20-803 Morgan Joseph Langan v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived article-iv constitutional-interpretation due-process federalism judicial-sovereignty legislative-act property-rights republican-government separation-of-powers takings vested-rights Does the State of Arizona possess the transcen dental sovereignty to take away petitioner 's vested rights in private property by a mere legislative a…
20-796 City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation In 2006, Congress enacted the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant ("Byrne JAG") statute, requiring the Department of Justice to provide gra…
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing The questions presented are 1. Does Rooker-Feldman* doctrine bar Petitioner's 42 USC 1983 US District Court claim where Petitioner pled a facial as o…
20-774 Georgianna Parisi v. Dayton Bar Association Certified Grievance Committee, et al. Ohio 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent open-records separation-of-powers state-constitution state-legislature state-separation-of-powers The Ohio Supreme Court (hereinafter referred to as OSC) violated both the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions by utilizing Superintendence Rules 44-47 which s…
20-6345 Thomas Reid DeCarlo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-constitution judicial-review legislative-acts legislative-process separation-of-powers Question not identified.
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2020-11-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj I. Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional creating a lack of jurisdiction over petitioners court-martial therefore, making unl…
20-6320 Dianne Michele Carter v. Thomas Pellicane, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-warrant civil-procedure constitution constitutional-supremacy due-process fourth-amendment religious-establishment separation-of-powers service-of-process standing superior-law If the courts are to regard the Constitution and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, is it the Constitution, and not …
20-6303 Lamar Whatley v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im…
20-579 Zimmian Tabb v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh…
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process I. Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due procedd by failing to treat relators Jwith fundam ental fairness …
20-423 LaQuanda Gilmore Garrott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied charge-bargain judicial-review maximum-sentence plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers Whether a district judge violates the separation of powers by rejecting a plea agreement containing a "charge bargain"—a guilty plea to one or more co…
20-414 Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections 1. Whether the severance and invalidation of administrative patent judges' tenure protections is consistent with congressional intent. 2. Whether inv…
20-408 Fredman Bros. Furniture Company, Inc. v. Bedgear, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-09-29 Dismissed Relisted (2) administrative-officers administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-law principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.
20-5654 Aaron Jose Acuna-Duenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether, in light of Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), the immigration court issuing orders of removal against each petitioner lacked juris…
20-298 El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Pending appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds In January 2019, during a government shutdown, President Trump formally requested from Congress $5.7 billion in appropriations for a wall along the So…
20-276 Christopher M. Gibson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Amici (7) administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause constitutional-challenge dodd-frank free-enterprise-fund jurisdictional-review lucia-v-sec sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission separation-of-powers Whether Congress has implicitly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate separation-of-powers challenges to the authority of SEC…
20-273 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-02 Dismissed administrative-law administrative-patent-judges agency-adjudication appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states-patent-and-trademark-office 1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the United States Patent and Tra…
20-233 Hmong 2, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived breach-of-promise civil-procedure constitutional-law exception judicial-review justiciability non-justiciable political-question political-question-doctrine separation-of-powers standing treaty-interpretation 1. Whether the Court should establish a breach of promise exception to the non-justiciable political question rule? 2. Whether the Court should estab…
20-211 Barry Rosen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived airspace-system civil-procedure due-process injury-in-fact national-airspace-system pro-se-litigant public-use-airport separation-of-powers standing statutory-rights Federally-certificated Pro Se pilot, and aircraft owner, domiciled at a federally-funded airport, was denied standing by both the District Court and N…
20-168 Paul W. Nusbaum, Jr. v. Marsha R. Nusbaum, et al. Maryland 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived agency-determination arrearages child-support federal-regulations judicial-review public-assistance separation-of-powers spousal-support 1. Whether, where the obligee of child support payments is not receiving, and has not received, public assistance, the federal and state governments h…
20-153 Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied 10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress 1. Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D Cooperative-Federalism 42 U.S.C 654(3) contactors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th a…
20-138 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation 1. Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transfer…
20-5275 Marco Manuel Torres v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-oath due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review presidential-power presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court treaty-rights 1. Whether, the President (Donald Trump), with the consent of the Senate has conspired with the 9 Supreme Judexes to not execute the laws of the Unite…
20-111 Walter N. Strand, III v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied administrative-law board-discretion civilian-oversight due-process judicial-review military-records separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether the Secretary of the Navy, is "acting through" the Board for Correction of Naval Records as required by statute when…
20-102 Christopher Hadsell v. Barry Baskin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction rooker-doctrine separation-of-powers state-court-judgments state-courts Congress has the sole power to govern the federal courts' original and review jurisdiction of state-court judgments. Does Rooker's usurpation of Congr…
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, in conflict with the holdings of the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, the Antiquities Act applies to ocea…
20-92 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.
20-5207 William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. When the Legislation oasses enactments pertaining to all its citizens does not the (14th.Amendment ) Equal Protection apply to all it's citizens ? …
20-5178 Jimmy Fernetus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers 1. Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum …
20-35 Joshua E. Frankel v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-courts feres-doctrine fourth-circuit incident-to-service insurance-law military-tort separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying an unduly restrictive "situs and status test" for the determination of whether the acts at issue were "in…
20-5 Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied Amici (5) article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been "completely nullified," Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)?
20-5004 Michael Joseph Zeroni v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-USC-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i…
19-1458 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-06 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congress due-process executive-review independence judicial-remedy patent separation-of-powers severance tenure tenure-protection The Appointments Clause requires principal officers to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, but permits inferior o…
19-1451 Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers While Sanofi's appeal was pending before the Federal Circuit, the court decided Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2019),…
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB (the "Agency ") and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution mandated by this Court 1 against repudi…
19-1369 TRUMPF, Inc. v. CSI Worldwide, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-303 bankruptcy-law-11-usc-303 bankruptcy-standing congress-authority congressional-authority court-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy judicial-estoppel judicial-overreach judicial-usurpation jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements separation-of-powers standing standing-requirements Whether it is unconstitutional and impermissible for a court to usurp Congress' authority by reducing the strict standing and jurisdictional requireme…
19-8645 Joe Cephus Ross v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the separation-of-powers doctrine because the statute allows a prosecutor to unilaterally se…
19-8626 In Re Thomas Reid DeCarlo 2020-06-05 Denied IFP checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-accountability congressional-authority constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers supreme-court-authority 1) Do Citizens who have been injured by an Act of Congress that has been enacted in Violation of the Commands of the Constitution have a Right to be a…
19-1312 Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation 1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test…
19-1310 Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation of exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl…
19-8474 Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation i. DOES A DISTRICT COURTS INABILITY TO DEPART BELOW A MANDATORY MINIMUM UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), FOR ANY FACTOR OTHER THAN DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL A…
19-8422 Todd Lee Glenn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-8381 Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-8350 Christopher R. Desmond v. Delaware Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-clause appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-law delaware-judges judicial-qualifications judicial-selection separation-of-powers standing state-judicial-appointments state-judiciary WHETHER ALL DELAWARE JUDGES ARE APPOINTED IN VIOLATION OF THE APPOINTMENT CLAUSE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTIO…
19-8281 Luqman Abdullah v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-04-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment delayed-notification federalism fourth-amendment new-jersey patriot-act separation-of-powers sneak-and-peek surveillance-procedure tenth-amendment Whether the enhanced surveillance procedure, under Section 213 of the U.S. Patriot Act, 18 U.S.C , §3301 (Commonly known as "Sneak and Peek " or the "…
19-8243 Jonathan Melvin LeDeux v. Jeannette Louise Anthony, as an Individual and in her Official Capacity as Trustee of The Emmett and Aralee Charlton Trust, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-vitiation judicial-error noerr-pennington-doctrine probate probate-clause separation-of-powers 1. Can Juridically created rules such as, The Probate Clause and the Noerr Pennington Doctrine, ect. Interfere with due process without also violating…
19-8238 Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson Florida 2020-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-override due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-procedure legal-conspiracy separation-of-powers 1. Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution? 2. When fraud and attorney misconduct is present is the court r…
19-1207 Geoffrey M. Young v. Denise G. Clayton, Chief Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals Kentucky 2020-04-10 Denied ballot-access ballot-challenge due-process election-law federalism judicial-review kentucky-supreme-court original-jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing state-constitution state-constitution-interpretation statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Supreme Court of Kentucky may nullify Kentucky's ballot challenge statute, Kentucky Revised Statute ("KRS ") 118.176, and violate Secti…
19-8169 Jorge Madero-Gil v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether, in light of Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), the immigration court issuing orders of removal against each petitioner lacked juris…
19-8148 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sovereignty standing territorial-jurisdiction venue A "Case" is "a suit instituted according to the regular course of judicial procedure." Muskrat, 219 US at 356-7. It must be instituted lawfully to ari…
19-1177 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-1-section-1 article-i-section-1 constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine presidential-discretion presidential-powers section-232 separation-of-powers tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Is section 232 facially unconstitutional on the ground that it lacks any boundaries that confine the President's discretion to impose tariffs on impor…
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause 1. Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judic…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings 1. Whether it is Sedition that Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty…
19-1137 Tennessee, By and Through the Tennessee General Assembly, et al. v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coerce-state-pay-federal-program commandeer-state-funds commandeering constitutional-coercion federal-commandeering federal-government federal-program legislative-standing medicaid-funding separation-of-powers standing state-funds state-legislature state-sovereignty 1. Whether both chambers of a state legislature, acting together, have institutional standing to sue the federal government when the federal governmen…
19-1115 American Bankers Association v. National Credit Union Administration District of Columbia 2020-03-11 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law agency-authority agency-discretion chevron-deference delegation-of-authority local-community regulatory-definition separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation When a statute expressly directs an agency to define a statutory term, does the delegation expand the scope of the agency's authority at Chevron step …
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason 1. Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case specif…
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-03 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ? Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible …
19-1077 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-liability color-of-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers Are the circuit judges of the Third Circuit acting in violation of the US Constitution by providing different due process to citizens similarly situat…
19-7821 Juan Alberto Cantu-Siguero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-court immigration-court-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether, in light of Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), the immigration court issuing orders of removal against each petitioner lacked juris…
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1. "Was Petitioner 's conviction a result of a procedure, §17.1-293.1 that violates 1st Amendment U.S. Constitutional Civil Rights to access correct …
19-7535 Norman Eugene Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-U.S.C.-20913(d) 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-law executive-branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation (1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i…
19-975 Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law border-wall constitutional-challenge homeland-security immigration-law immigration-reform non-delegation-doctrine Presentment-Clause separation-of-powers Whether IIRIRA § 102(c)—which grants the Secretary of Homeland Security unfettered discretion to waive all federal, and related state, local, and trib…
19-7397 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania 2020-01-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings Here in these United States of America where we have all pledged "...justice for all", is this Honorable High Court's supervisory authority called for…
19-7381 Percy Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
19-7207 Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv…
19-7157 Mother v. Lorain County Children Services Ohio 2020-01-03 Denied IFP abuse-neglect administrative-law child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law federalism jurisdiction parental-rights separation-of-powers d;1 U» C»«n^s VioloAt p&^wta ru^WH % c ,4 r r Vv /-\loc>Si PovW"
19-823 Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS Ohio 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement I. Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parti…
19-7052 Jose Alexander Callejas Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether, in light of Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), the immigration court issuing orders of removal against each petitioner lacked juris…
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause 1. Based upon the claims and supporting evidence presented in Petitioner's state post-conviction habeas corpus petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Co…
19-715 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Mazars USA, LLP, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-05 Judgment Issued Amici (1) civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-authority due-process executive-privilege legislative-purpose separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority subpoena subpoena-power Whether the Committee has the constitutional and statutory authority to issue this subpoena.
19-6822 Guy Cozzi v. American Stock Exchange, et al. New York 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law article-8-a due-process equal-protection judicial-review rb-89 separation-of-powers stare-decisis workers-compensation 1. Were the Workers ' Compensation Board (WCB) rulings denying my Article 8-A claim and RB-89 rehearing request, arbitrary, capricious and an abuse o…
19-705 John F. Sharpe v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion federal-claims military-pay separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treasury-disbursements I. Whether the acts of officials of the De partments of Defense and of the Navy are bound by statute and regulation. II. Whether a court may find va…
19-6661 Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation A. IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION-OF-POWERS , WHICH PROHIBITS WJUDTGIAL ENCROACHMENT ON THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF CONGRESS TO MAKE LAWS, VIOLATED, WHEN…
19-635 Donald J. Trump v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of the County of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response Waived article-2 article-ii article-two constitutional-law criminal-investigation executive-power grand-jury-subpoena immunity president presidential-immunity separation-of-powers subpoena supremacy-clause The District Attorney for the County of New York is conducting a criminal investigation that, by his own admission, targets the President of the Unite…
19-6626 Allen Dodson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-507 Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 GVR Relisted (7) circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1) Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles; and 2) Whether a…
19-6143 Christopher Scott v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution-framing constitutional-law due-process exoneration judicial-review original-intent separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation DID THE FRAMER! Si OF THE CONSTITUTION BELIEVE THAT THE DOCUMENT'S POWER WOULD "EXONERATE?! [A] MAN ?
19-432 All American Check Cashing, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fifth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-defect consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process enforcement-action meaningful-relief seila-law separation-of-powers standing unconstitutional-agency 1. Whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the separation of powers. 2. Whether a successful separation-of-powers …
19-6083 Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro California 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining "abuse" (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitu…
19-6097 Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied IFP administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional? Is the Virginia Parole Board Manual that mandates the use of …
19-422 Patrick J. Collins, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-30 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law agency-independence agency-structure congressional-appropriations constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-housing-finance-agency independent-agency presidential-removal separation-of-powers standing In 2008, Congress created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)—an "independent" agency with sweeping authority over the housing finance system. 1…
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts …
19-324 Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of "prosecution history disclaimer" i…
19-5850 Yurie Yamano v. Hawaii State Judiciary, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-rules due-process judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity rules-of-court separation-of-powers standing stare-decisis 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following questions for which the five judges on the State of Hawaii Supreme Court bench are exhibiting and c…
19-5714 Dianne Michele Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings 1. If the courts are to regard the Constitution and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, is it the Constitution, and n…
19-5643 Raymont Wright v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal inherent-power inherent-power-of-courts judicial-integrity jury-deadlock mistrials prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers trial-court-discretion trial-court-power Whether a trial court possesses inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following serial mistrials for jury deadlock or whether the exe…
19-5622 Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing 1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory …
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Question One: Whether the district Court and the 5 th Circvit was correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance …
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders I. When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explan…
19-5380 In Re Charles L. Cox 2019-07-30 Denied IFP community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.12§5(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness? Where the term 'deferred adjud…
19-5345 Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to …
19-61 Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Title 28, section 516, of the United States Code, vests the authority to litigate on behalf of the United States in the Department of Justice, under t…
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court? Is there, within the phrase "The Supreme Court and al…
19-5053 Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1) Whethe tn heen o Conion in context with his intent at sentenciny, is a violatiken of the Separation of powers doctrine, in the United States Consti…
19-5047 Cathy L. Toole v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-courts judicial-independence separation-of-powers standing onU8soilb today? are any of thegustices in the totalof nine gustices located at ther suprem Lourt Of The Unitedstates honest? lo thegustices employed …
19-17 Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker California 2019-07-01 Denied civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the DVPA's severable residual clause definition of "abuse" unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad? 2. Is the "abuse" definition in conflict …
19-7 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2019-06-28 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-governance constitutional-law constitutional-structure consumer-financial-protection-bureau executive-authority independent-agency separation-of-powers single-director Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, vi…
18A1361 Raymont Wright v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete first-impression indictment-dismissal judicial-power mistrials prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers Whether trial courts have inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following multiple mistrials for deadlocked juries (not whether court…
18A1305 Carolyn Barnes v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-13 Granted constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine government-sovereignty judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers Question not identified.
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…
18-1514 United States v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-06 Judgment Issued Amici (1) appointments appointments-clause constitutional-law officers-of-the-united-states promesa public-officers puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-government territorial-officers The question presented is whether members of the Board are "Officers of the United States" within the meaning of the Appointments Clause of the U.S. C…
18-1496 Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of All Title III Debtors Other Than COFINA v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-31 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause article-ii article-iv constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight financial-oversight-and-management-board financial-oversight-board oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-clause territorial-governance Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.
18-9456 Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c I. When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an imper…
18-1475 Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-28 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation de-facto-officer-doctrine meaningful-relief ongoing-injury principal-officers separation-of-powers standing Does the de facto officer doctrine allow courts to deny meaningful relief to successful separation-of-powers challengers who are suffering ongoing inj…
18-9351 Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process of law guarantees? Can 42 U.S.0 Sect. 1983 be used to resolve the con…
18-9218 Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands provides for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 48 U.S.C. § 1612, and for the appointment of judg…
18-9154 Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG…
18-9101 Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
18-1334 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (2) appointments-clause article-iv constitutional-law exceptional-importance federal-government-structure federal-officers financial-oversight-and-management-board merits-review oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers supreme-court territorial-government Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.
18-1322 The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, et al. v. New York City Police Department, et al. New York 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived animal-cruelty establishment-clause executive-branch free-exercise judicial-branch legislative-branch mandamus separation-of-powers standing writ-of-mandamus 1. Can the New York State Judicial Branch refuse to issue a writ of mandamus when the executive branch defies the legislative branch; 2. Can the New …
18-1317 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (3) article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 1. Did the Court of International Trade erroneously conclude that Algonquin controls the outcome of this action by failing to distinguish this facial …
18-8671 Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document…
18-8672 Jack Holden v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud 1. When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do cour…
18-1240 Phil Kerpen, et al. v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) accountability articles-i-and-ii congressional-delegation constitutional-accountability constitutional-authority core-federal-power delegation federal-power federal-property federal-statute government-accountability guarantee-clause inherently-federal interstate-compact separation-of-powers 1. Is power exercised by a government agency over federal property, pursuant to federal statute, properly considered "federal power" for purposes of A…
18-1231 Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. New York 2019-03-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." (fE ftl?. (fli) ! Attorney for …
18-1189 Mitch Carmichael, President of the West Virginia Senate, et al. v. West Virginia, ex rel. Margaret L. Workman West Virginia 2019-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process federalism guarantee-clause impeachment-process judicial-cognizability justiciability political-question-doctrine republican-form-of-government separation-of-powers state-impeachment-proceedings state-judiciary 1) Whether Guarantee Clause claims are judicially cognizable? 2) Whether a state judiciary's intrusion into the impeachment process represents so gra…
18-1177 Bradford G. Peters, as Executor of the Estate of Andrew J. McKelvey, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied administrative-law fair-notice internal-revenue-code judicial-gap-filling phantom-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-law-exceptionalism tax-regulation treasury-delegation treasury-regulations Whether, or under what circumstances, the Judiciary may enforce an ambiguous provision of the Internal Revenue Code by filling a statutory gap, when C…
18-1174 Ian Goldenberg, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response Waived eminent-domain equity judicial-taking just-compensation just-compensation-clause natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction property-rights separation-of-powers takings The Court has long emphasized the strict construction of condemnation statutes, especially as against corporate delegatees of this sovereign power. By…
18-8308 Leonard Burton Jones v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congressional-privileges constitutional-boundaries constitutional-law due-process in-personam judicial-immunity judicial-mechanics judicial-review privileges-and-restrictions prosecutorial-immunity separation-of-powers ultra-vires What is the Jurisprudence of the intra vires constitutional bounderies within the applied mechanics of exercising the judicial law of prosecutorial ab…
18-8286 Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists…
18-1141 Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine New Hampshire 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction. Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in failing to find that the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medic…
18-8265 Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti…
18-1123 Southern Trust Metals, Inc., et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived bank-of-america-v-city-of-miami commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission dura-pharmaceuticals-v-broudo foreseeability industry-ban judicial-injunction lifetime-industry-ban loss-causation proximate-cause reliance separation-of-powers The Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA") limits restitution in enforcement actions to "losses proximately caused" by a violation of the CEA and CFTC regulat…
18-1117 Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied administrative-framework administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process hearing-officer judicial-review lucia-v-sec procedural-validity ryder-v-united-states separation-of-powers structural-constitutional-objections timely-challenge In Lucia v. SEC, this Court held that administrative law judges of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission are "Officers of the United St…
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
18-7874 Richard Booze v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection separation-of-powers standing takings Question not identified.
18-7827 Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti…
18-7753 Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review rules-of-construction separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did MN Supreme Court violate Separation of Powers? Did MN Supreme Court's interpretation of Minn.Stat. § 590 and Minn.R.Crim.P. 27.03 unconstitutiona…
18-7686 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-prohibition national-importance separation-of-powers standing 1. Are the issues Presented important and beyond the fucticular Facts and Parties involved ? a. Does there exist a Conflict between Courts of appeals…
18-7654 Steven Fausnaught v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process in-camera-review judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct medical-records mental-capacity recusal separation-of-powers standing Whether the district court is required, in an effort to preserve the integrity of the judicial system generally, and Petitioner's Due Process Rights, …
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 1. Whether PRIIA § 207 violates due process and the separation of powers by permitting regulatory authority to be exercised by a for-profit government…
18-962 In Re Joseph M. Arpaio 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (1) criminal-appeal department-of-justice due-process federal-courts prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers special-prosecutor young-v-united-states Where the Department of Justice has appeared in a criminal appeal on behalf of the United States, and indicated that it intends to represent the Unite…
18-7471 Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a "willful" violation of the Arms Export Control Act (""AECA"), 22 U.S.C. § 2778, requires proof that the defendant was aware of the export…
18-917 Michael S. Bent v. Pamela Talkin, Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights courthouse-procedures due-process police-booth police-powers probable-cause separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority Does the Chief of Police via his Police Booth Operation violate Bent's right to be secure in his papers and his right to Due Process by seizing, witho…
18-907 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant Vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by the courts to "punish" Kinney to the detriment of the environment. Punishment occurs even though Kinn…
18-906 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant The vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by state and federal courts to "punish" Kinney. Similar types of punishment have been imposed on lis…
18-908 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower The vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by state and federal courts to "punish" Kinney. Similar types of punishment have been imposed on lis…
18-7317 Willie Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-intent due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Appellate Court's reading of 18 U.S.C.§ 3231 in relation to 18 U.S.C.§ 3179(a) exceeds Judicial power Whether a Court's interpretation of…
18-846 David Allen Anderton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la…
18-7115 Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction This Court's Article III inferiors are in turmoil over the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s phrase "inadequate or ineffective." Congress has not defin…
18-7080 Yusufu Danmola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution? Are The People Prohibited Liberty Of Usage of the Uniform Commercial Co…
18-7033 Michael Casey Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP congress district-court federal-indian-law indian-country judicial-restoration land-relinquishment land-rights native-american-lands native-americans reservation-status separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treaty-rights Whether or Not a District Court Judge Can Restor Lands That By TREATY Were Relinquished By Indians to the United States All Claims and Rights They Pos…
18-7003 Jose Jesus Ramirez v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights congress constitutional-law due-process federal-courts impeachment separation-of-powers standing PeTitione to be impeached with four contictions in lightof the facts festified that only two Convictions Would be alloved for inmpeachant and in light…
18-6852 Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Relisted (7)IFP 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d)…
18-6817 Michael Albert Focia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Where is the second and fifth amendments to apply the statutory scheme of 18 USC § 922 (a)(1)(A) and 18 USC § 922(b) to a Non-Federal Firearm Licensee…
18-6617 James L. Rudzavice v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review separation-of-powers standing supreme-law (1) How Can a CONSTITUTIONAL challenge be frivolous? (2) Did the Appellate Court for the Fifth Circuit Intentionally violate their oath of office to …
18-589 Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Martin Jonathan Batalla Vidal, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-05 Judgment Issued Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion daca-policy deferred-action due-process executive-action executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-law judicial-review separation-of-powers standing 1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable. 2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.
18-6502 Chris Jonathon Epperson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process executive-power foreign-affairs foreign-policy national-security political-question separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Executive Orders: JohnF. Kennedy Theadore Roosevell Richard Nixon Ronald Reaqun ioth Amendment ForeanPolicy UKraine -Indonesia 2ndAmendmenl France - G…
18-561 Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Amici (1) 15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers I. Is a delegation of Congressional power an "agency order" or "agency action" such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that c…
18-6478 In Re Inzel Gaitor 2018-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-status judicial-review legislative-repeal public-contracts public-service separation-of-powers standing state-agency state-government statutory-construction statutory-provision If legislatures of a "Esitate'iRepeal" members, employees, and expenses of 9 [sate-created agency;can the agencymembers,employees, andexpenses legisla…
18-522 Michael Ishee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio Governmental regulation of First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech and expression, draws close constitutional scrutiny since these righ…
18-497 Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Have the Courts' refusal to recuse and noncompliance with criminal/civil statutes, Case Law and their Code of Conduct and the Rule of Law - resulted i…
18-6283 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards fifth-amendment grand-jury individual-rights liberty prosecutorial-interference prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers structural-error structural-protections Whether the indictment in this case should have been dismissed because the structural protections of the grand jury designed to safeguard individual r…
18-434 Dawn Mosby v. Matthew G. Parilla New York 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-practice civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion Judicial-review Legislative-authority legislative-intent notice-of-appeal separation-of-powers timeliness-of-appeal Whether the Appellate Division, Second Department, part of the New York State Judiciary, violated the State Constitution's separation of powers doctri…
18-6199 Marco M. Torres v. Frances M. Perrone, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists of…
18-406 Aaron J. Schock v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine immunity legislative-immunity non-justiciability pendent-appellate-jurisdiction rulemaking-clause separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause I. May a member of the Legislative Branch immediately appeal from the denial of his motion to dismiss an indictment on the ground that it violates the…
18-378 Merck & Co., Inc., et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure damages equitable-defense jury-verdict legal-relief patent separation-of-powers seventh-amendment unclean-hands Whether the equitable defense of unclean hands precludes legal relief in the form of damages.
18-6054 In Re Michael Boone 2018-09-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe…
18-6019 John Randall Quintero v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice parole separation-of-powers standing Is a state director over a division prevented by the U.S. Constitution from assigning the duties legislative mandate of NRS 176.156 to the judicial br…
18-6018 In Re Gary Ivan Terry 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion…
18-306 Steven M. Larrabee v. United States Armed Forces 2018-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) active-duty civil-rights civilian-status court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-status separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Constitution permits the court-martial of a retired military servicemember. 2. Whether, if so, the Constitution limits the jurisdictio…
18-5976 In Re Jaame Amun Re El 2018-09-14 Denied IFP administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis Qustin.Is t ueditat's duty toterret a ta? Question. Are Banking statutes appropriate for alleged banking violations? Can a Federal prisoner seek rel…
18-309 Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-11 GVR CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers 1. Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 …
18-307 State National Bank of Big Spring, et al. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-10 Denied Amici (4) appropriations-clause bureau-of-consumer-financial-protection civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-structure dodd-frank due-process executive-authority independent-agency power-of-the-purse removal-power removal-restrictions separation-of-powers 1. Whether Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act violates the Constitution's separation of powers by creating the B…
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-5893 Dan Wayne Streetman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-precedent booker-v-united-states child-pornography gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-commission sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity separation-of-powers 1. In the post-Booker world of non-mandatory guidelines, is it an abuse of discretion to refuse to reject a guideline on policy grounds where the guid…
18-286 Abhijit Prasad v. Will Lightbourne, et al. California 2018-09-05 Denied administrative-hearing child-abuse-reporting child-welfare due-process employment equal-protection family-privacy fundamental-rights privacy-rights reputation reputation-harm separation-of-powers In 2010, Petitioner Abhijit Prasad was investigated by Defendants' California child welfare agency, who told Prasad he was reported to the Child Abuse…
18-5858 Lance Edward Gloor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated where Congress expressed its clear intent to respect stat…
18-5788 James Everett Dutschke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment 1-Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as…
18-5740 In Re Mark Clark 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process relief separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether U.S.S.G. Amendment (790), a retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, calls into serious question the Seventh Circuit …
18-206 Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross Almost 80 years ago, in Yearsley u. W. A. Ross Const. Co., 309 U.S. 18, 21-22 (1940), under seemingly innocuous facts, this Court created a defense to…
18-5442 Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts -CAPITAL CASE- REQUEST TO CERTIFY CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b): How is Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) (2012) "Hearsa…
18-5257 Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-07-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso…
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure 1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion …
18-5106 Shirley A. Stewart v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-transfer due-process procedural-error rule-12-dismissal separation-of-powers standing transfer u-s-attorney-conduct venue-transfer Did the District Court committed clear error by transferring the matter to Eastern District of Virginia U.S. District Court without informing Petition…
18-5050 James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing I) Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of man government constructs know as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugat…
18-6 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al. Oklahoma 2018-06-29 Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-sovereignty due-process federal-power federalism federalism-principles government-structure legal-remedy separation-of-powers state-jurisdiction state-sovereignty union Whether civil governments shall be restored to each of the several indestructible States of this indestructible union of American States, and sovereig…