standing-doctrine

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24-7463 Mark Christian Wroblewski v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure executive-discretion mandamus-petition prosecutorial-discretion rule-48-dismissal standing-doctrine Whether a district judge has authority to deny a government motion to dismiss with prejudice and whether a criminal defendant has standing to challeng…
24-7216 Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-powers constitutional-violations ninth-amendment sovereign-rights standing-doctrine tenth-amendment Do the People have an unalienable right to sue Congress for systemic constitutional violations without a particularized injury when such actions excee…
24-1108 Lisa McCarthy, et al. v. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived antitrust-suit due-process jurisdictional-discovery libor-rate sherman-act standing-doctrine Whether Petitioners were denied their constitutional right to a 'hearing' and opportunity for oral argument under the Due Process Clause, whether Peti…
24A501 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing-doctrine vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted standing doctrine and due process requirements in post-enforcement constitutional challenges to state…
24A492 Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State, et al. Arkansas 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete abortion-rights election-law initiative-petition signature-verification standing-doctrine state-constitutional-amendment Whether a legal voter has standing to challenge the Arkansas Secretary of State's decision to reject signatures on a proposed state constitutional ame…
24-426 Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split on the proper approach to determining Article III standing in class action lawsuits
24-408 Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent Did the Second Circuit correctly apply standing requirements under Article III and recent Supreme Court precedents for a Section 16(b) Securities Exch…
24-293 Mohammed Jibril, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y. J. and O. J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law dhs-trip due-process injunctive-relief standing-doctrine terrorist-screening-dataset Must plaintiffs establish standing to challenge the DHS TRIP redress process based on the likelihood of repetition of past harm, and must courts defer…
23-1331 William Christopher Schroeder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution Do U.S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 2, and U.S. CONST. art. I, § 2, require that each Member of the House of Representatives be elected from constituencies c…
23-1280 Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Amici (15)Relisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process gender-identity parental-rights school-district-policy school-policy standing standing-doctrine student-privacy Do parents have standing to challenge a school district policy that usurps parental decision-making authority over a child's gender identity and keeps…
23-1017 Marc Thielman, et al. v. Lavonne Griffin-Valade, Oregon Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-security ballot-trafficking chain-of-custody election-integrity election-process public-confidence signature-verification standing-doctrine vote-by-mail voter-confidence voter-rolls Do Petitioners have standing to challenge Oregon's vote-by-mail election system due to the loss of their freedom caused by Oregon's confidence-destroy…
23-1009 Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation Whether a federal agency can defeat a plaintiff's standing by adding non-statutory factors to benefit distributions that are purportedly race neutral
23-921 Mark Jerome Johnson Blount v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment enforcement-deterrence pre-enforcement-action pre-enforcement-challenge reasonable-fear-of-enforcement second-amendment standing standing-doctrine Does Petitioner have standing to challenge a law that infringes his constitutional rights to keep and bear arms?
23-630 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine Whether the First Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's decision conflicts with this Court's precedent holding that 'persons who are personally…
23-627 Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania 'mask mandate' moot?
23-601 John and Jane Parents 1, et al. v. Montgomery County Board of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gender-transition injunctive-relief parental-rights policy public-school school-policy standing standing-doctrine When a public school, by policy, expressly targets parents to deceive them about how the school will treat their minor children, do parents have stand…
23-5937 In Re John Lenard Taylor 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review standing standing-doctrine supremacy-clause Does Article VI's Supremacy Clause assure the 'privilege of habeas corpus shall not be suspended' or abrogated by any judicial machination?
23A207 Rita C. Simpson-Vlach, et al. v. Michigan Department of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete free-appropriate-public-education IDEA mootness special-education standing-doctrine systemic-violations Whether parents of students with disabilities have Article III standing to bring a putative class action alleging systemic violations of the Individua…
22-1248 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied administrative-procedure constitutional executive-order greenhouse-gas procedural-injury regulatory social-cost sovereign-interests standing standing-doctrine statutory Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficient t…
22-7800 Mac Truong v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech intellectual-property pro-se-litigation standing standing-doctrine Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating his copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights?
22-964 Kenneth Allen Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge corruption default-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-corruption standing standing-doctrine ultra-vires uncac Are 'Pruitt-type' complaints of corrupt acts by ultra vires actors a special species of complaints that enable a lower hurdle standing?
22-6787 Mike Webb v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing standing-doctrine substantive-due-process Whether denial of in forma pauperis application violates due-process, equal-protection, or privileges-of-citizens
22-65 Michael Van Cleve v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process resource-diversion standing standing-doctrine statistical-information statistical-policy three-judge-panel Is the current standing doctrine in conflict with the historical method of interpreting the Constitution?
21-1511 Joy Garner, Individually and on Behalf of The Control Group, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights control-group due-process fifth-amendment government-action mandatory-vaccination scientific-evidence scientific-method standing standing-doctrine vaccine-mandate Do the threatened members of the Control Group have standing to sue the President for systematically destroying their evidence and violating the panop…
21-7788 Karen Marie Isaacson v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP barrier civil-rights constitutional-interpretation economic-barrier federal-regulation intra-state-activity northeastern-florida-chapter precedential-standing standing standing-doctrine Does enforcement of a federal regulation penalizing an intra-state activity constitute a barrier as per Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated…
21-1378 Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response Waived compulsory-process due-process extradition-treaty pretrial-restraints right-to-counsel sovereign-immunity standing standing-doctrine Whether individuals have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty
21-1278 Judy Wright v. May 27, 2011 Order, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied civil-procedure coram-non-judice diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question in-rem-complaint judicial-bias judicial-neutrality standing standing-doctrine state-court-judgment Does a petitioner require proof of harm to have standing to challenge a judgment by a judge with an appearance of undermined neutrality?
21-1017 Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine Did the Tenth Circuit err?
21-574 Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agency-rulemaking bennett-v-spear environmental-impact nepa notice-and-comment procedural-finality standing standing-doctrine Whether the final NEPA procedures promulgated by federal agencies fail the two-pronged test in Bennett v. Spear for finality under the Administrative …
21-428 Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-21 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized
21-300 In Re Joy Garner, et al. 2021-08-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-crisis due-process medical-experiment national-security public-health scientific-control-group standing standing-doctrine vaccine-injury vaccine-mandates Whether the district court committed clear and indisputable error by dismissing this national security case on standing grounds despite the petitioner…
21-72 Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an 'adverse effect…
20-1774 Shaun Allahyari v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7403 contract-defenses federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure standing standing-doctrine tax-debtor tax-liens third-party-creditor third-party-lienholder united-states-v-rodgers Whether the United States has standing to enforce a tax debtor's contract defenses against a third party senior lienholder
20-1698 Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-…
20-1503 Robert C. Laity v. Kamala D. Harris District of Columbia 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 12th-amendment article-ii constitutional-eligibility executive-office judicial-review natural-born-citizen quo-warranto standing standing-doctrine usurpation Can a Constitutionally barred individual remain in office if he/she does not meet a constitutionally mandated criteria for being in said office?
20-1126 Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants Massachusetts 2021-02-17 Denied 35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M…
20-816 In Re Coreco Ja'Qan Pearson, et al. 2020-12-15 Dismissed Response Waived due-process election-fraud electoral-college equal-protection fraud illegality presidential-election section-1983 standing standing-doctrine Do presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election?
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint?
20-212 Teresita A. Canuto v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii causal-connection civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ftca ftca-claims jurisdiction standing standing-doctrine summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case due to federal defendants' non-compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-8873 Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife apply to a motion filed by a defendant in a criminal case?
19-1402 Antonio Jubis Zacarias, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction article-iii-standing bar-orders circuit-conflict civil-procedure investor-claims receivership receivership-estate standing standing-doctrine Whether a district court in a receivership action has Article III jurisdiction to bar investor claims for individual injuries when the receiver lacks …
19-1376 Algignis, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2020-06-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-state agency-jurisdiction catch-22 civil-rights environmental-law innovation innovation-barriers judicial-review private-enterprise regulatory-capture regulatory-risk standing standing-doctrine Do small, relatively unknown groups have standing to try to solve their own local environmental problems that the government has failed to solve?
19-7612 Sha'Ron A. Sims v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-securitization property-rights securitization standing standing-doctrine Are the laws of standing applied in a manner which violate the homeowner's 14th Amendment's right, under the Federal Constitution, to be equally prote…
19-805 Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car
19-310 Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement claims under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act
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…
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was the Third Circuit's failure to address the Surface Transportation Board's jurisdiction a clear error?
18-393 Aura Moody v. National Football League Second Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower courts properly followed statutory and constitutional requirements in dismissing the complaint
18-123 In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing