sovereignty

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A234 South Carolina, et al. v. John Doe, By His Next Friends and Parents, Jim Doe and Jane Doe Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete Amici (1) equal-protection gender-affirming-care legislative-act medical-treatment sovereignty title-x Whether a state law regulating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors violates constitutional equal protection principles or federal anti-discr…
24-601 The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) environmental-regulation foreign-tort-claims international-comity judicial-jurisdiction sovereignty trade-promotion-agreement Did the Eighth Circuit err in denying dismissal based on international comity and in interpreting the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement as requiring…
23-6595 In Re Reginal Lee Davis 2024-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indigenous-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-law sovereignty standing statutory-provisions takings Who is 'Uncle Sam'?
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts Which court resolves an irreconcilable conflict of jurisdiction between the federal courts and state courts?
21-5663 Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty Whether United States citizens have the right, duty, and privilege to alter, abolish, and form a new government
20-1735 Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (2) agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty Whether Congress has power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize cockfighting on the island of Puerto Rico
20-503 Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied due-process foreign-citizen fourth-circuit-court internet-transactions personal-jurisdiction sovereignty website-operation Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a foreign citizen is subjected to personal jurisdiction based on operation of a website and minor inte…
20-5026 James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction Does the power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations include the prosecution of a volunteer missionary who engages in noncommercial illicit sexual…
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?
19-937 The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied appropriations-law implied-repeal indian-sovereignty indian-tribe interior-secretary land-trust regulatory-prohibition reservation-boundaries sovereignty statutory-authority treaty-rights Whether the Secretary of the Interior exceeded his statutory authority
19-6921 Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness Is the legal definition of the term 'same transaction' unconstitutionally vague?
18-748 Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. Virginia 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation Do the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia have the jurisdiction to recognize the authority of the Petitioner's re-established nation state?
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…