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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 Following the Executive Order of January 20, 2025, Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Nea…
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 1. Do the People, as sovereign under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, have an unalienable right to sue Congress for systemic cons…
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 an oral argument under the Due Process Clause of the Fif…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 The determination of whether a named plaintiff in a class action has Article III standing to bring claims on behalf of others has been addressed by …
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 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of law, under Article III of the United States Constitutio…
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 The lower courts endorsed the agency defendants' assertion that all seven Jibril family members lacked standing to sue for injunctive relief challengi…
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 Representation in the House is not determined by population. U.S. Census Bureau Apportionment Tables show the gap between the states with the largest …
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 When a school district adopts an explicit policy to usurp parental decision-making authority over a major health-related decision—and to conceal this …
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 Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S…
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, in a pre-enforcement action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act, have to allege that he has already violated the law or "will …
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 Recently, Justice Thomas remarked how, despite the clear constitutional prohibition against racial classifications, government actors continue to "go …
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 1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania "mask mandate" moot when the restriction is capable of repetition yet so short in duration tha…
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 Like a multitude of other school districts across the nation, the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Education ( "MCBE" ) has recently adopted a policy …
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 1) Does Article VI's Supremacy Clause assure the 'privelege of habeas corpus shall not be suspended" or abrogated by any judicial machination? 2) Doe…
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 Question not identified.
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 1. Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficien…
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, Dmt MacTruong, a male U.S. citizen living in New Jersey, have standing to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of…
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 For Judicial efficiency to place Questions Presented in context, see Pruitt's Complaint [01/19/2021] ROA.8-47, para 83-84. Pruitt squarely addressed …
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 1. Whether it constitutes a violation of rights to procedural due process, where a Trial Court, and later a Circuit Court, have "erect[ed] a novel pru…
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 In August 2020, I brought a challenge to the government's application of the 1997 Office of Management and Budget race categories to the 2020 U.S. Cen…
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 Without a control group to establish a cause-and-effect relationship, 'science' is not science; it is guesswork. True science requires control groups.…
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 1. Whether under this Court's precedent in United States v. Rauscher supra, 119 U.S. 407, 430 (1886), individuals have standing to assert violations o…
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 1. For Petitioner to have standing to be heard on her claim that a "judgment" by a judge with an undenied appearance of undermined neutrality, must Pe…
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 This lawsuit challenges publicly-acknowledged government mass-surveillance programs that over the past 20 years have (1) intercepted, copied, and sear…
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 This Court has held that a plaintiff may challenge the constitutionality of a burden on speech by alleging that it objectively deters people from exer…
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 1) The National Policy Act ("NEPA") , 42 U.S.C. § 4331 et seq. (2012) mandates that all federal agencies consider environmental impacts before acting.…
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 1. Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized, is inconsistent with …
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 1. On a Rule 12(b) dismissal motion, did the District Court commit clear and indisputable error by abruptly dismissing this national security case on …
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 1. (a) Whether the United States of America, as a junior lienholder on a tax debtor's property, has standing to sue to enforce the tax debtor's contra…
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 The U.S. Constitution requires that a President and Vice-President of the United States be a "Natural Born Citizen" of the United States pursuant to A…
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 Denied Response Waived due-process election-fraud electoral-college equal-protection fraud illegality presidential-election section-1983 standing standing-doctrine A. Do presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of their …
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 This Court has recognized three immutables: 1. Appellate courts are limited to reviewing the trial court record for errors of law and do not decide is…
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? WHETHER THE PLAINTIFF HAS STANDING ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME …
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 1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and the District Court erred when it affirm the motion for summary affirmance and motion to dismiss of appellee G…
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 1. Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992), that a litigant have suffered an "actual or imminent" injury apply t…
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 This case is not really about standing; it is about whether a small, relatively unknown group of Americans will be allowed to try to solve their own l…
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 "Procedural due process imposes constraints on governmental decisions which deprive individuals of "liberty" or "property" interests within the meanin…
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 (1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh…
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 1. In September 2014, did a relief driver of a rental vehicle, driving with permission of the lessee, although contractually unauthorized, have standi…
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 (i.e., false association) claims under § 43(a) of …
18-1531 South Carolina v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to ch…
18-805 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 it clear error for the Third Circuit to fail to address the issue of whether the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") had the jurisdiction to rend…
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 DISTRICT COURTS DISMISSAL OF THE COMPLAINT AND THE CIRCUIT COURT'S AFFIRMATION OF SAME DEMONSTRATED THE FAILURE OF THE COURTS TO PROPERLY …
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 1. In a case challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of legislative districts, may a district judge, sitting alone, decide a motion to …