spending-clause

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25-6124 Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause 1. Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spend…
25-535 Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III Arkansas 2025-11-03 Denied Amici (5) administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation 1. Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power makes private conduct illegal absent a clear statement that Congress intended to do more…
25A219 Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III Arkansas 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete agency-rulemaking arbitration-agreements federal-arbitration-act long-term-care medicare-medicaid spending-clause Whether a federal agency's rule prohibiting pre-dispute arbitration agreements in long-term care facilities as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid fu…
25-162 Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-11 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause 1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a…
24-1110 Saint Anthony Hospital v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-enforcement hospital-rights medicaid-law prompt-payment-rule section-1983 spending-clause In determining whether Saint Anthony Hospital has a right to sue to enforce the prompt payment rule, should the court of appeals have treated Wilder a…
24-446 Roobina Zadoorian v. Gwinnett Technical College, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action contract-interpretation spending-clause statute-of-limitations title-vi Does the U.S. Supreme Court characterize Title VI and other Spending Clause Statutes as 'Contract' or 'Personal Injury', and what is the appropriate s…
24-437 Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-18 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (2) abortion-regulation administrative-law federal-agency funding-condition spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether a federal agency can impose funding conditions on states under the Spending Clause when the underlying statute is ambiguous
24A259 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy Whether the Spending Clause permits Congress to impose conditions on federal grants that restrict a state's ability to modify its tax policy through a…
24A146 Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete abortion-referral dobbs-decision federal-funding spending-clause title-x weldon-amendment Whether the federal government may condition Title X family planning funds on a state health agency's willingness to refer for abortions despite statu…
24-5038 Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) gives rise to federal rights under § 1983?
23-1197 Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Granted CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionali…
23A502 Department of Treasury, et al. v. West Virginia, By and Through Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete congressional-conditions federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause state-sovereignty tax-offset Whether the offset provision in the American Rescue Plan Act violates the Spending Clause by imposing an unconstitutionally ambiguous condition on fed…
23A53 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Presumed Complete american-rescue-plan-act coercion-doctrine conditional-federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause tax-offset-provision Whether the offset provision of the American Rescue Plan Act's Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund, which restricts States from using federal funds…
22-880 Ohio v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Amici (3) american-rescue-plan constitutional-limits covid-19 covid-relief federal-spending-clause intergovernmental-immunity jurisdictional-challenge spending-clause state-sovereignty state-standing tax-mandate Do courts have jurisdiction over the States' constitutional challenges to the Tax Mandate?
22-679 NYC C.L.A.S.H., Inc., et al. v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived agency-authority constitutional-avoidance due-process federalism fourth-amendment housing-regulation public-housing smoking-ban spending-clause Whether HUD lacks authority to adopt or enforce its smoking ban as a means to ensure 'safe and habitable' public housing
22-534 Theresa Eagleson, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services v. St. Anthony Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 contract-enforcement managed-care medicaid private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-duty timely-payment Whether Spending Clause legislation, including Section u-2(f), can impliedly create private rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
22-6003 Whistleblower 7107-16W v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-sources due-process informant irs-informant-award judicial-review open-courts open-courts-doctrine plausibility-standard spending-clause whistleblower whistleblower-anonymity Whether the federal courts retain discretion to deny consideration of relevant facts, evidence, and legal issues when reviewing the anonymity and conf…
21-1463 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate Whether the CMS vaccine mandate for healthcare workers violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Spending Clause, the anti-commandeering doctrine…
21-1431 Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-11 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983
21-1010 Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia, P.C. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied affordable-care-act civil-rights discrimination-claim effective-communication intentional-discrimination nominal-damages rehabilitation-act spending-clause Whether a discrimination plaintiff who can prove a legal violation is entitled to an award of nominal damages under Spending Clause legislation
21-968 Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe Fourth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (4) actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassment…
21-806 Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased Seventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under Section 1983
21-377 Cherokee Nation, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued Response WaivedRelisted (5) anti-commandeering child-welfare civil-rights equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act morton-v-mancari placement-preferences spending-clause state-commandeering tribal-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in invalidating ICWA provisions as impermissibly commandeering states
20-1811 Jackie Chagolla, Parent on Behalf of B. C. and P. C. v. Liz Vullo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-information false-information government-employees investigation-stage spending-clause Whether absolute immunity shields government employees
20-795 New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements?
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia Where Congress conditioned the ADA to states' receipt of funding, must a Title II plaintiff demonstrate a 14th Amendment violation under U.S. v. Georg…
19-1186 Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination that a…
18-5977 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply?