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24-1021 Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation Pennsylvania 2025-03-25 Granted Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm-of-state constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce sovereign-immunity state-agency Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to interstate sovereign immunity under the Federal Constitution
24-377 South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another
24A245 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Presumed Complete child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fraud parental-rights state-agency Whether a state child welfare agency can be held liable for constitutional violations when making placement decisions based on allegedly fraudulent re…
23-7092 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Dismissed IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency Can a state court prohibit a family's statutory right to communicate, visit, and reunify solely based on hearsay accusations?
23-735 Stuart J. Shicks v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-services civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agency jurisdictional-dispute legal-persecution prejudice pro-se psychological-persecution state-agency Whether psychological persecution, deprivation of constitutional rights and prejudices against pro se litigants is allowed in any court of law or gove…
23-620 Dominique Gerald Burns v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge procedural-due-process standing state-agency Whether the court of appeals erred in its ruling when it failed to protect the appellant's procedural due process
23-5610 Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-09-19 Denied IFP ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law Can a state agency make an unemployment determination that contradicts the federal Americans with Disabilities Act?
23-149 Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Louisiana's conditional waiver of sovereign immunity to allow suits against it to proceed only in Louisiana courts deprives federal courts of …
21-999 Joe Blessett v. Texas Office of the Attorney General, Galveston County Child Support Enforcement Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights clearfield-trust-doctrine commerce-clause contract-clause cooperate-federalism due-process sovereign-immunity state-agency title-iv-d Does the State Title IV-D Agency operate as a commercial enterprise for profit with the United States under Cooperative Federalism to be subjected to …
21-6163 Gerard M. Lynch v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs New York 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-adjudication confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence occupational-debarment state-agency worker-rights Does the routine use of uncorroborated hearsay evidence to adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing against healthcare workers violate due process?
21-6016 Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency Whether a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the functional equivalent of a search warrant
21-5876 Under Seal v. Virginia Board of Medicine Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abstention civil-rights comity constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-courts federalism state-agency younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing Constituti…
21-109 California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied 11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective date…
20-8150 Andres Cabezas v. Richard Corcoran, Florida Commissioner of Education Florida 2021-05-26 Denied IFP administrative-law due-process judicial-review procedural-error property-revocation property-rights remand state-agency Did the reviewing court of a state agency's determination to revoke property overstep its judicial authority in not granting the parties' desire to re…
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication Due-process-rights-of-healthcare-workers
20-7004 Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Massachusetts 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review standing stare-decisis state-agency Can the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny Petitioner judicial review of Respondent state agency's lack of probable cause disposition on a civil-rights …
20-664 Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida Florida 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation Does the Equal Protection Clause permit the State of Florida to discriminate against unincorporated small business owners that are unsuccessfully sued…
19-1431 David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm…
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-145 Vincent Mastanduno v. National Freight Industries, et al. North Carolina 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-rights due-process health-information informational-privacy privacy public-disclosure public-interest state-action state-agency state-disclosure transparency Does a person have a constitutional right to privacy over his personal health information; and where the State publishes a person's private health inf…
19-5253 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a Stay …
19-5214 Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against retaliation by a state agency
18-1446 Lettie Sexton, ex rel. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Kentucky 2019-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) beneficiary-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-benefits medicaid-program medical-coverage personal-liability standing state-agency statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(3) requires a state participating in the Medicaid program to provide a 'fair hearing' to a beneficiary when coverage of h…
18-1384 Joseph D. Bradley v. Alco Oil & Gas Company, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-959(b) diversion-of-funds exclusive-in-rem-jurisdiction federal-equity-receiver federal-freeze-order federal-receivership fund-diversion in-rem-jurisdiction in-rem-jurisdiction-28-usc-754 midlantic midlantic-decision notice-to-parties state-agency state-agency-regulation statutory-interpretation summary-proceedings Whether a State agency can divert defrauded investor funds subject to a federal court's exclusive in rem jurisdiction and freeze order, whether a fede…
18-1348 Orion Insurance Group, et al. v. Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious burden-shifting-test deference disadvantaged-business-enterprise discrimination-law federal-agency federal-agency-deference federal-program full-faith-and-credit minority-certification minority-group-membership state-agency state-agency-determination state-program vagueness Whether a federal agency should give full faith and credit or extreme deference to a state agency's prior determination of minority group membership
18-7768 Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure Kentucky 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to restr…
18-856 Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department Maryland 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland?
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…
18-332 Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah Utah 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection Whether the Utah State Supreme Court erred in affirming the Utah Court of Appeals in denying that a specific remedy exists for a citizen to challenge …
18-139 Thomas E. Freeman, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection exceeded-authority judicial-review prejudiced-rights procedural-rights state-action state-agency state-employee May a court deny due-process of law and equal justice under the law of a State employee, when it is suspected that a State agency may have prejudiced …
25A287 New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. New York Presumed Complete civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-law sovereign-immunity state-agency transit-authority Whether state-owned transit authorities are entitled to sovereign immunity from employment discrimination lawsuits under federal civil rights statutes