| 25-832 |
Bonnie Michelle Smith v. Shirley Smith |
Georgia |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
|
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 |
Pending |
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 |
Pending |
Amici (3) |
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 |
Pending |
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 |
Pending |
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 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act |
Whether the Vaccine Act's delegation of power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services violates the separation of powers and presentment clause o… |
| 25A539 |
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act appropriations executive-discretion judicial-injunction nutrition-programs separation-of-powers |
Whether the Executive Branch may be compelled by a federal court to reallocate congressionally appropriated funds across federal nutrition programs du… |
| 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 |
Application |
|
cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation |
Whether the separation of powers doctrine precludes a county coroner from delegating or allowing testimony about the cause and manner of an unattended… |
| 25A478 |
Todd Blanche, et al. v. Shira Perlmutter |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-27 |
Application |
|
executive-branch federal-vacancies-reform-act legislative-branch officer-classification presidential-removal separation-of-powers |
Whether the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights are executive or legislative branch officers for purposes of presidential removal authori… |
| 25-5964 |
Oladayo Oladokun v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
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… |
| 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 |
Whether the separation of powers and due process are violated when a state executive officer, who also holds exclusive clemency power, is authorized t… |
| 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… |
| 25-5854 |
Dmt MacTruong v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Dismissed |
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… |
| 25-312 |
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… |
| 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.… |
| 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 |
Whether the President possesses the constitutional authority to remove a Federal Trade Commission commissioner at will without cause, notwithstanding … |
| 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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act executive-power impoundment separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits non-governmental organizations to challenge executive branch policy decisions through ultra vires cla… |
| 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 criminal statute 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires more than mere intentional conduct to prove the mens rea element of 'willfully' when a congressio… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Rehearing |
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… |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court's actions constitute a violation of First Amendment retaliation, Sixth Amendment right to self-representation, and separation … |
| 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 |
Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final … |
| 24A1203 |
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court exceeded its Article III jurisdiction by enjoining the Executive Branch's internal workforce management decisions at the De… |
| 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 |
Whether a federal judge's reliance on non-binding judicial dicta and legislative history constitutes a miscarriage of justice in student loan bankrupt… |
| 24A1106 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure-act executive-order federal-workforce injunction reduction-in-force separation-of-powers |
Whether the President possesses constitutional and statutory authority to implement a reduction in force and reorganization of the federal workforce t… |
| 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 by granting concurrent jurisdiction to state circuit courts over juvenile de… |
| 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 by the Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio warrants the issuance of a writ of mandamus, prohibition, or… |
| 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 |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights by refusing to recognize precedent on jury practices and p… |
| 24A910 |
Department of Education, et al. v. California, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-discretion district-court-jurisdiction executive-power federal-grants judicial-review separation-of-powers |
Whether a federal district court exceeds its jurisdictional authority by compelling the Executive Branch to reinstate and fund federal grants that hav… |
| 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 |
Whether district appellate courts in Florida can constitutionally restrict the Florida Supreme Court's jurisdiction through per curiam affirmances (PC… |
| 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's Administrative Law Judges are unconstitutionally insulated from removal in violation of the Take Care Cl… |
| 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 |
Does it violate the Appointments Clause for a Circuit Judge to be appointed to sit continuously as a District Judge by another Circuit Judge? |
| 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 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (4) |
agency-independence article-ii constitutional-structure executive-removal prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers |
Whether the President's Article II powers categorically preclude statutory tenure protections for the head of an independent investigative agency with… |
| 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 |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's jury instructions and sentencing practices violate the Sixth Amendment and due process rights, and can such consti… |
| 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 |
Whether the Vermont Superior Court has a responsibility to determine the constitutionality of the child abuse substantiation procedure under separatio… |
| 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 |
Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of 'all other available and reasonable means' in 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A)(ii) violate statutory interpretatio… |
| 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 |
Whether a foreign state-owned bank can be criminally prosecuted in U.S. courts despite claims of sovereign immunity under international and common law |
| 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 |
Does this Court's deferential standard of review for NLRB interpretations of the NLRA survive Loper Bright? |
| 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 |
Whether the Dodd-Frank Act's funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitutio… |
| 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 allow for an act of mock clemency in which a member of the executive branch interferes with ongoing cour… |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court of Guam violated the Guam Organic Act by ruling that the Governor can appoint Special Assistant Attorneys General and preven… |
| 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 |
Whether a Federal Court can interpret a state statute in a manner that extinguishes constitutional rights or upsets the separation of powers without a… |
| 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 |
Whether the Court can uphold constitutional rights in student loan bankruptcy matters while addressing potential separation of powers concerns |
| 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 unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to a private corporation |
| 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 |
Does the U.S. Constitution authorize Congress to transfer lawmaking authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission? |
| 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 |
Whether Congress unconstitutionally delegated legislative authority to a private entity in the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) |
| 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 |
Whether the Organic Act of Guam limits the Attorney General's discretion to withdraw legal representation from government agencies under potential con… |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court can constitutionally preserve separation of powers and individual rights in student loan bankruptcy matters |
| 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 doctrine of separation of power… |
| 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 |
Whether the federal government's exercise of unenumerated powers violates Article V of the U.S. Constitution and infringes upon individual rights thro… |
| 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 |
Whether the federal-officer removal statute permits a former federal officer to remove a state bar disciplinary proceeding to federal court based on i… |
| 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 |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act prohibits a Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel from both instituting and deciding the merits of an inter par… |
| 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 |
Whether New York's driver license restoration regime violates due process by allowing the DMV to write, administer, and adjudicate its own rules witho… |
| 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 |
Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court of Western Pennsylvania erred through arbitrary and capricious abuse of discretion in hand… |
| 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 |
Whether the President may remove at will presidentially appointed members of independent advisory Boards and suspend their operations despite statutor… |
| 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 |
Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of… |
| 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 |
Whether enforcement actions initiated by an unconstitutionally-appointed agency head should be dismissed and whether passive securitization vehicles q… |
| 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 |
Does the for-cause restriction on the President's removal of CPSC Commissioners violate the separation of powers, and can such a violation constitute … |
| 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 |
Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute unconstitutionally violates due process and separation of powers by restricting pro se litigants' ac… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Has F.R.Civ. P. been abrogated by judicial fiat? |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER… |
| 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 Tennessee Court of Appeals ordering a legislative body performing an administrative function violated separation of powers w… |
| 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 |
Whether the Separation of Powers Doctrine under the U.S. Constitution permits Congress to delegate legislative authority to the Executive Branch witho… |
| 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 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether Chief Justice John Roberts is allowed to remove 'Liberty' from the Supreme Court's motto |
| 23-7441 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the use of legislative history as law, despite this Court's precedents that it is not law, is a separation of powers offense |
| 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 |
Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute? |
| 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 |
Whether state legislators have standing to challenge executive actions that nullify their votes on specific legislation |
| 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 |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 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 |
Whether the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed on its property in Washington D.C.? |
| 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 |
Why are lower courts not following Supreme Court rulings and overlooking decisions and laws? |
| 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 |
Dismissed |
Amici (10) |
criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy impeachment-clause official-acts presidential-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether a former President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for official acts taken during his presidency and whether the Impeachment Ju… |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court of Guam's advisory opinion constitutes a permissible exercise of the 'judicial authority' that Congress has vested in that c… |
| 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 |
Whether the Speech or Debate Clause creates a jurisdictional bar to judicial consideration of whether internal congressional rules or practices violat… |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court's decision against the petitioner is unconstitutional and a violation of the United States Constitution |
| 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 |
Whether a 'tester' has Article III standing under Title 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
| 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 |
Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional? |
| 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 |
Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executive Order? |
| 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… |
| 23-600 |
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 |
Whether the unlawful implementation of the harmful Covid vaccine mandate in the Armed Services properly evades judicial review |
| 23A485 |
Cletus Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge jurisdiction-stripping land-condemnation legislative-power non-delegation separation-of-powers |
Whether the Non-Delegation Doctrine prohibits Congress from delegating legislative powers to an executive agency without an intelligible principle, pa… |
| 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 delegate judicial power to staff attorneys |
| 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 |
Whether an appellate court may relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide the issue sua sponte, and t… |
| 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 have 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 |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court is obligated to resolve a dispute between Florida citizens and the state judiciary regarding the legislature's authorit… |
| 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, or instead must pro… |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
whether-the-triumvirate-overstepped-their-authority |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
Whether Congress may impose fines on individual members enforced through salary reduction for violations of House rules enacted without an intervening… |
| 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 |
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 sign… |
| 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 |
Whether the collateral order doctrine permits immediate appellate review of district court rulings denying motions to dismiss based on the non-cogniza… |
| 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 |
Whether the Communications Act's delegation of revenue-raising authority to the Federal Communications Commission to collect and administer the Univer… |
| 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 |
Whether separation of powers principles require courts to resolve ambiguity in statutory limits on delegations of legislative power to the Executive |
| 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 |
Whether the government must comply with 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G) by providing a single notice document containing all required information, including … |
| 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 |
Does the resort of 28 U.S.C. 2415(e) - a safety valve created by Congress - succumb entirely to and find defeat in 8 U.S.C. 1182(a) - a seeming inhere… |
| 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 violates the Appropriations Clause |
| 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 |
Will jurists of reason find debatable the application of a double standard of law, by the Government's arguing of two opposite interpretations of the … |
| 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 |
Whether the Congressional Review Act violates the separation of powers |
| 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 |
Whether Act 84, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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)(Q), 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 |
Should Judges of Appellate Courts have the right to ignore, manipulate, or even destroy evidence in cases pending before them in support of the Federa… |
| 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 |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 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 a state civil trial court judge can adjudicate criminal guilt without notice, hearing, or charges against the petitioner |
| 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 |
Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's 'and other purposes' clause to invest… |
| 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 |
Does the lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require i… |
| 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 |
Whether a judge can change the law while presiding over a case they were recused from |
| 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 |
Whether the Lucia 'new hearing' remedy requires an actual new hearing or only a cold review of the record |
| 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 |
Was the Sixth Circuit decision based on an unreasonable determination of the facts |
| 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 |
Do we have a government of laws and not of men? |
| 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 |
Whether the President's violation of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act is actionable by a private citizen under the Fifth Amendment Equal Protect… |
| 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 |
Whether the challenged decisions of the 'Acting' FHFA Director should be vacated because the Constitution does not permit the President to designate a… |
| 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 |
Whether the FDIC's denial of FOIA coverage for theft, robbery or embezzlement of the Byline Bank violates the separation of powers doctrine |
| 22-6648 |
Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Separation-of-powers |
| 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 |
Do Article III Courts have the power to judicially rewrite laws? |
| 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 |
Whether the CFPB rule prohibiting certain preauthorized bank account withdrawals should be vacated |
| 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 |
Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion? |
| 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 |
Whether the United States Department of Justice and Federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute illicit drug possession crimes committed solely with… |
| 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 |
Whether the court erred in not considering the emergency issue of illegal alien invasion and the government's failure to stop it |
| 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 |
Whether the trial court has jurisdiction to try the merits of this case involving a serious national security breach and the possible removal of a sit… |
| 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 in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 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 |
whether-the-house-of-representatives-has-standing-to-bring-a-civil-action-against-the-executive-branch |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court's facial abrogation of 28 U.S.C. § 1264(a) is unconstitutional |
| 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 the Court should recognize the defense of sentencing manipulation |
| 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 unconstitutional and violates the appointment provision under Art. II, § 2, cl. 2 of the United States Constitu… |
| 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 |
Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 42(a)(2) authorizes judicial appointments of inferior executive officers |
| 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' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly? |
| 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 |
Whether the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 commands congressional intent when the U.S. Sentencing Commission violates the notice and comment requiremen… |
| 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 |
| 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 the federal government's actions violated the Appointments Clause and the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 22-5227 |
In Re Eric Krieg |
|
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights national-security separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the government's surveillance program |
| 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 |
Whether the Florida Department of Corrections is allowed to choose not to enforce the law as the Department sees fit, in violation of the Separation o… |
| 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 |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court violated due process |
| 22-5096 |
Theodore Luczak v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-13 |
Dismissed |
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 can enact legislation that violates state and federal constitutional rights |
| 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 |
Whether the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires that administrative law judges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission be app… |
| 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 |
Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States' Legislatures? |
| 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 |
whether-a-non-article-iii-bankruptcy-court-judge-can-exercise-judicial-power |
| 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 |
Whether Congress violated Article I, § 1 by improperly vesting the Department of Health and Human Services with discretion to determine criminalized a… |
| 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 |
Does the filing submitted by the petitioner(s) serve as a functional equivalent to an informal brief? |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
Whether the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, can be used to charge, prosecute and punish a 'purely intrastate' 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 due… |
| 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 |
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 |
What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that … |
| 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 |
Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States |
| 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 |
Whether the court has the authority to subpoena the President's tax returns |
| 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 .. . prescri… |
| 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 |
Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment program… |
| 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 |
Where a district attorney fails to exercise discretion in the decision not to prosecute, can continued and mounting evidence be presented to the distr… |
| 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 |
Whether Congress may consistent with Separation of Powers principles deny Article III courts the power to review an Article I court's decision allowin… |
| 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 |
Whether a federal appellate court may reverse an administrative agency's decision on a factual ground not addressed by the agency, without a remand to… |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for further proceedings in light of Arthrex |
| 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 |
Whether the lower courts acted ultra vires and the judgments below are void |
| 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 |
Whether class allegations can be struck under FRCP 12(f) |
| 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… |
| 21-852 |
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 |
Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional principle that every element of an offense must be su… |
| 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 |
Does a judge have the authority to deem the interests of Congress and the Executive Branch to be vexatious? |
| 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 |
Whether the President exceeded statutory authority under section-232 |
| 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 the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request |
| 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 |
| 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 Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex… |
| 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 |
| 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 breached the Separation-of-Powers principle? |
| 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 |
Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution? |
| 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 make decisions, solicit, hire, promote, transfer, reassign, or fire staff, select, refer, refuse, adjudica… |
| 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-Nutsion unconstitutionally convict, deprive, or breach the Effective Executive (Maryland Statute/U.S. Constitut… |
| 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 |
Whether the executive branch can keep a person in civil detention despite an Article III court's release order |
| 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 |
Does the Speech and Debate Clause foreclose judicial review of the constitutionality of the proxy voting resolution? |
| 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 |
Whether the court below erred in allowing the petitioner to bring a claim for a writ of mandamus |
| 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 |
Is the limitation in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 consistent with the statutory directive to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process |
| 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 |
Whether the United States Constitution justifies and executes the President's actions as reasonable and necessary when granting a pardon is never a si… |
| 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 violates due process by sua sponte dismissing a complaint as frivolous without a hearing |
| 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 |
Does a State have standing to exclude Judiciary Candidates from Election in violation of constitutional-checks-and-balances,conflicts-of-interest,sepa… |
| 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 |
Does a District Court Judge have the power and/or right to ignore an order of suspension of all persistent felony enhancements? |
| 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 |
Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's structure… |
| 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 |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals unlawfully usurped the role of the legislature in violation of the separation-of-powers principles |
| 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 |
Whether ratification is an appropriate remedy for the violation identified in Seila Law |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether a district court can extend the mandatory statutory deadline to file a motion for remand under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) without violating the const… |
| 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 the application of 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) violates the Separation of Powers doctrine and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 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 |
Can the Executive Branch impose martial law on courts? |
| 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 |
Whether a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is sufficient for Article III standing, or if additional injury must be alleged |
| 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 |
Does the Constitution take precedence over other forms of legislation? |
| 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 administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 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 |
Whether RCW 4.08.050 deprives a minor's constitutional right to counsel and effective representation as well as his right to access the courts |
| 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 |
Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the 5th… |
| 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 Supreme Court Orders Denying Review are Null and Void For Want of Authority? |
| 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 |
Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under the Arms Export Control Act, and whether those regulations and the Act violate … |
| 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 |
Did Congress constitutionally authorize the EPA to issue significant rules without limits under the Clean Air Act? |
| 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 |
Whether the [Act] passed by Congress is to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts, or whether the lower court was correct in relegating the… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial ord… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38 and 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.390 are inconsistent with the separation-of-powers-doctrine |
| 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 |
Whether the State Appellate Court's order invalidating the 'act of state' of the Philippines violates the act-of-state-doctrine and separation-of-powe… |
| 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 |
Qualified-immunity-violates-separation-of-powers |
| 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 |
Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 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 Federal Circuit erred in holding that the appointment of administrative patent judges by the Secretary of Commerce violates the Appointmen… |
| 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 |
Whether the commentary can add conspiracy and other inchoate offenses not included in the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' |
| 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 Substances 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 |
Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the outc… |
| 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 |
Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it nor applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more tha… |
| 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 |
Whether Justice Barrett must accept and grant this Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus |
| 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 |
Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdictio… |
| 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 |
Whether Justice Barrett must enforce the Supreme Court's stare decisis precedents prohibiting repudiation of government-issued patent grants |
| 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 the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue removal orders, violating separation of powers and due process |
| 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 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exceeded its statutory jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 144 |
| 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 |
Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation of powers and whether its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be set aside |
| 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… |
| 20-853 |
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 administrative patent judges are principal officers or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 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 transcendental sovereignty to take away petitioner's vested rights in private property by a mere legislative act… |
| 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 |
Do the three substantive conditions the DOJ has imposed on Byrne JAG program eligibility exceed its authority under the statute? |
| 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 |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled? |
| 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 |
Whether the Ohio Supreme Court violated the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions by applying Superintendence Rules 44-47 to records that are not 'court documen… |
| 20-6345 |
Thomas Reid DeCarlo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether Congress can override the Federal Constitution |
| 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 |
Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional |
| 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 |
Whether the separation of powers clause allows the legislature to limit the scope of judicial discretion in sentencing by deeming certain aggravating … |
| 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 |
Whether the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature governs the case |
| 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 |
Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 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 based solely on the judge's view … |
| 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 |
Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due process |
| 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 |
Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 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 the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process |
| 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 |
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appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds |
Whether the Executive Branch's expenditure of $2.5 billion on border-wall construction violates the CAA and thus the Appropriations Clause |
| 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 |
Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should establish a breach of promise exception to the non-justiciable political question rule? |
| 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 |
Whether a federally certificated Pilot demonstrated injury-in-fact |
| 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 |
Whether the federal and state governments have a direct interest in how child support payments are applied when the obligee is not receiving public as… |
| 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 |
Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D 42 U.S.C 654(3) contractors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th amendment protections unde… |
| 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 |
Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transferrin… |
| 20-5275 |
Marco Manuel Torres v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-oath due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review presidential-power presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court treaty-rights |
Whether the President (Donald Trump) and the elected 9 Supreme Court Justices, with the consent of the Senate, have conspired to not faithfully execut… |
| 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 |
Whether the Secretary of the Navy is 'acting through' the Board for Correction of Naval Records as required by statute when he reweighs evidence and s… |
| 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 |
Whether Rooker's usurpation of Congress' power to expand this Court's jurisdiction to include exclusive jurisdiction for appellate review of state-cou… |
| 20-97 |
Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (7) |
antiquities-act ecosystem-protection federal-land marine-conservation national-marine-sanctuaries-act national-monuments presidential-power regulatory-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether the Antiquities Act applies to ocean areas beyond U.S. sovereignty where the federal government has limited regulatory authority |
| 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 |
Whether the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause applies to all citizens when the government enacts legislation |
| 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 |
| 20-5178 |
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 |
Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum man… |
| 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 |
Whether the nondelegation doctrine should be revisited |
| 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 |
Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy is consistent with congressional intent, where Congress has long considered tenure protections essentia… |
| 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 |
Whether a court can refuse to entertain a constitutional, separation-of-powers challenge based on an intervening change of law on the grounds of forfe… |
| 19-8707 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Dismissed |
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 and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants |
| 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 void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 19-8626 |
In Re Thomas Reid DeCarlo |
|
2020-06-05 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether Congress and the Executive Branch have exceeded their constitutional authority and violated the system of checks and balances |
| 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 |
Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's 'Unfettered Discretion' standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' 'Rational Basis Test' s… |
| 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 by 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 |
Does a district court's inability to depart below a mandatory minimum under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), for any factor other than defendant's substantial ass… |
| 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-delaware-judges-appointed-unconstitutionally |
| 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 is presumptively unconstitutional |
| 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 |
Can Juridically created rules such as, The Probate Clause and the Noerr Pennington Doctrine, ect. Interfere with due process without also violating th… |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court of Kentucky may nullify Kentucky's ballot challenge statute, Kentucky Revised Statute ('KRS') 118.176, and violate Sections … |
| 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 |
Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution? |
| 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 the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process |
| 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 |
Was the Federal court without jurisdiction because the cause did not constitute a Case, the court exceeded its authority, or venue? |
| 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 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause |
Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judiciary,… |
| 19-8029 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty to the Queen of Englan… |
| 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 |
Whether both chambers of a state legislature have institutional standing to sue the federal government |
| 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 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute… |
| 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… |
| 19-7864 |
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? |
| 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 the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation of powers and due process |
| 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 |
Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process |
| 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 |
Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstituti… |
| 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 ITRIRA § 102(c) violates the separation-of-powers, the non-delegation-doctrine, and the Presentment-Clause |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 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 Court violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3A1.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directive… |
| 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 |
Did Lorain County Children Services violate Parents' rights? |
| 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 |
Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parties … |
| 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 the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process |
| 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 |
Has the external influence of state judicial election politics upon the state judiciary come to represent a constitutionally intolerable risk of bias … |
| 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 |
Were the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) rulings denying my Article 8-A claim and RB-89 rehearing request arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of disc… |
| 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 |
Whether the acts of officials of the Departments of Defense and of the Navy are bound by statute and regulation |
| 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 |
Whether this subpoena violates Article II and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution |
| 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 |
Is the principle of separation-of-powers, which prohibits judicial encroachment on the exclusive power of Congress to make laws, violated, when a cour… |
| 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 |
Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles |
| 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 framers 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 |
Whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the 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 |
Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining 'abuse' (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitutio… |
| 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 |
Whether FHFA's structure violates the separation-of-powers |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should resolve the issues of treason and anarchism by state judges |
| 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 |
Is the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature superior? |
| 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… |
| 19-206 |
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 |
When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanati… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court and the 5th circuit were correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance of trial couns… |
| 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 |
Whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory minimum cases violates the Fif… |
| 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 42.1285(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness? |
| 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 |
Whether a district court's usurpation of the Attorney General's power to appoint a private attorney to represent the interests of the United States—ov… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the judge's extra language in the judgment of conviction, in context with his conduct at sentencing, is a violation of the Separation of Power… |
| 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 |
Whether federal judges employed in the federal courts are required to obey federal laws and the Constitution |
| 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 |
Whether the DVPA's residual clause definition of 'abuse' is unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad |
| 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 a federal trial court has inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice after multiple mistrials resulting from deadlocked juries |
| 18A1305 |
Carolyn Barnes v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine government-sovereignty judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits Congress from delegating legislative authority in a manner that unconstitutionally expands judicia… |
| 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 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to challenge the DOE's final ac… |
| 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 |
Whether the members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico are 'Officers of the United States' within the meaning of the Appo… |
| 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 |
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 impermis… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Can non-Article III judges serve indefinitely? |
| 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 |
Whether the circuit court erred in failing to correct a defective jury instruction |
| 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 |
Whether the subject of peremptory challenges are valid under the Separation of Powers, Due Process, and the Supremacy Clause |
| 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 |
Can the New York State Judicial Branch refuse to issue a writ of mandamus when the executive branch defies the legislative branch? |
| 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 |
Whether section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to the President, violating separation of powers |
| 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 |
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 courts … |
| 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 |
Whether the delegation of federal power to an unaccountable interstate compact violates the separation of powers and the Guarantee Clause |
| 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 |
Issue being raised |
| 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 |
Whether Guarantee Clause claims are judicially cognizable? |
| 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 the judiciary may enforce an ambiguous provision of the Internal Revenue Code by filling a statutory gap when Congress delegated gap-filling r… |
| 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 |
Whether a judicially-conferred right of possession to a pipeline company before judgment and without compensation in a Natural Gas Act taking improper… |
| 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 boundaries within the applied mechanics of exercising the judicial law of prosecutorial ab… |
| 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 for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr… |
| 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 |
Whether Article 3, section 2, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists of … |
| 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 may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app… |
| 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 |
Whether foreseeability and reliance alone, without any proof of loss causation, satisfy § 13a-1(d)(8)(A)'s proximate cause requirement, in contraventi… |
| 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 |
Whether petitioners who timely challenge the constitutional validity of the administrative framework, including the appointment of the officer adjudic… |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 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 to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the issues presented are important and beyond the particular facts and parties involved, whether there exists a conflict between courts of app… |
| 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 to undertake an In Camera review of District Court Judge Edwin Kosik's medical records to determine the onset o… |
| 18-976 |
Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-provision due-process government-corporation industry-regulation regulatory-authority rulemaking rulemaking-power self-interested-actor separation-of-powers |
Whether PRIIA § 207 violates due process and the separation of powers by permitting regulatory authority to be exercised by a for-profit government co… |
| 18-962 |
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 |
Whether a 'willful' violation of the Arms Export Control Act requires proof of defendant's awareness of export licensing requirements |
| 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's Police Booth Operation violate the right to be secure in papers and due process? |
| 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 |
Whether the vexatious litigant laws are being used to punish and compel the silence of a property owner in violation of their constitutional rights |
| 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 |
Whether vexatious-litigant laws are being used to punish an attorney who was not a party, pro se plaintiff who ultimately prevailed, defendant, or 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 |
Will this Court stop these ongoing violations of both state and federal law? |
| 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. 2 overrides Congressional intent? |
| 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 |
Whether the fact that the § 2255 remedy failed to test and determine one of two Ineffective Assistance of Trial Counsel issues satisfies the phrase 'i… |
| 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? |
| 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 a district court judge can restore lands relinquished by treaty to Native Americans |
| 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 |
Whether the federal court erred in denying petitioner's constitutional challenge to the impeachment process |
| 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) violates the constitutional no… |
| 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 |
Whether the court's instructions to the jury violated the Separation of Powers doctrine |
| 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 |
How can a constitutional challenge be frivolous? |
| 18-589 |
Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Martin Jonathan Batalla Vidal, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
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 |
Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable |
| 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 |
Whether the President has the authority to unilaterally revoke a prior President's executive order regarding foreign policy and national security matt… |
| 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 |
Is a delegation of Congressional power an 'agency order' or 'agency action' such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that chal… |
| 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 |
When legislatures of a state repeal members, employees, and expenses of a state-created agency, can the agency members, employees, and expenses remain… |
| 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 |
Whether a statute proscribing the mere possession of child pornography is facially unconstitutional if it contains no element of scienter |
| 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 non-compliance with criminal/civil statutes, case law and their code of conduct and the rule of law resulted in… |
| 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, violated the New York State Constitution's separation of powers doctrine by permitting a late appea… |
| 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 the Florida Supreme Court erred in its interpretation of Article 3, Section 1 and 2 of the U.S. Constitution regarding the judicial power to d… |
| 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 |
Whether a member of the Legislative Branch may immediately appeal the denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment on Rulemaking Clause grounds |
| 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 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether the legislative mandate of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-1,135 violates the separation of powers doctrine by requiring the judicial branch to conduct a… |
| 18-6018 |
In Re Gary Ivan Terry |
|
2018-09-18 |
Dismissed |
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 |
Whether the Constitution permits the court-martial of a retired military servicemember |
| 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 |
Is it a judge's/administration's duty to interpret a statute? |
| 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 |
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 U.S… |
| 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 |
Whether the CFPB violates separation-of-powers |
| 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… |
| 18-286 |
Abhijit Prasad v. Will Lightbourne, et al. |
California |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
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administrative-hearing child-abuse-reporting child-welfare due-process employment equal-protection family-privacy fundamental-rights privacy-rights reputation reputation-harm separation-of-powers |
Does CANRA's post-deprivation hearing scheme violate due process? |
| 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 |
Whether a district court can refuse to apply a sentencing guideline on policy grounds where the guideline is not based on the Sentencing Commission's … |
| 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? |
| 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 |
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 a… |
| 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 the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute |
| 18-206 |
Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
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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 |
Whether the Yearsley defense is a jurisdictional defense or an affirmative defense, and whether it applies to violations of federal law or only state … |
| 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 |
Whether Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) violates the Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights of defendants, whether a state court can force a defendant … |
| 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 |
Whether the Florida Commission on Offender Review (formerly the Florida Parole Commission) unconstitutionally operates under Florida Senate and House … |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement |
| 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 commit clear error by transferring the case without informing the petitioner or allowing an opportunity to object? |
| 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 |
Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of-man government constructs known as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugated… |
| 18-6 |
Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
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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… |