| 25-700 |
Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority |
Petitioners owned a lot with a slowly failing 1937 bulkhead onshore of the shoreline along Hood Canal, Washington state. Hundreds of properties along … |
| 24A613 |
Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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first-amendment licensing professional-regulation speech-restriction state-authority veterinary-medicine |
Whether a state law regulating professional conduct that incidentally restricts speech is subject to heightened First Amendment scrutiny or permissibl… |
| 24-5958 |
In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster |
|
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-authority |
Whether the state of Louisiana violated the petitioner's 13th and 14th Amendment rights through alleged constitutional deprivations |
| 23-7127 |
Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority |
Jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions from the federal circuit |
| 23-696 |
Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-12-28 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority |
Whether the President falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 23-581 |
Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson |
Tennessee |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
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child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority |
Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child 'A. T.'? |
| 23-258 |
Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power |
Whether the three statutory factors set forth in the first clause of § 1012(b) are the only proper factors to consider when determining whether a stat… |
| 22-7117 |
Noel Macapagal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) exceeds Congress's commerce-clause-authority by reaching in-person enticement of a real or fictive minor that is arranged o… |
| 22-401 |
Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management |
Does ANILCA grant federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state law regulating how people hunt? |
| 22-5363 |
Rodney Flucas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority |
Was the Jury Erroneously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a 'Motivating Purpose' for Transportation of Person… |
| 21-1443 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act |
Whether the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, can use the defense of sovereign immunity |
| 21-1296 |
City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
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federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether state laws affecting railroads are preempted under the ICCTA must consider all relevant federal railroad statutes, not just the ICCTA |
| 21-451 |
Oklahoma v. Shawn Thomas Jones |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-23 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-prosecution state-authority tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-5059 |
Gregory A. Austin v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights divorce-industry due-process family-law free-speech marriage-licensing standing state-authority takings |
Who, in reality, owns the marriage— The State, or its individual United States citizens who freely associate and reside within it? |
| 20-7588 |
Anthony Sharif Gay v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority inalienable-rights law-enforcement mandamus standing state-authority |
Whether a Court's knowing review of, and ruling on, a petition for writ of mandamus, that was neither authored nor delivered by the Petitioners, const… |
| 20-5332 |
William David Bush v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment |
Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code declares supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, under what circumstances does Article X not appl… |
| 20-47 |
Lebamoff Enterprises, Inc., et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
commerce-clause direct-to-consumer-shipping interstate-commerce liquor-regulation nondiscrimination-principle state-authority state-liquor-law twenty-first-amendment |
Whether a state liquor law that allows in-state retailers to ship wine directly to consumers but prohibits out-of-state retailers from doing so, is in… |
| 19-6989 |
George Calvin Belt v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits |
How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (DOR CSP) can enforce Fla. Stat. § 443.051 that became esta… |
| 19-6654 |
Tremaine Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-extradition due-process federal-authority federalism government-action interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute legal-procedure reasons-for-granting-writ state-authority statement-of-case statutory-provisions uniform-criminal-extradition-act uniform-law |
Where does federal authority end and state authority begin when the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act is violated? |
| 19-6436 |
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment |
Are federal agencies exempt from complying with the Tenth Amendment such that they can deem State law 'irrelevant' and violate the individual rights o… |
| 19-6038 |
Clayton Paul Bateman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights color-of-law colorable-authority congressional-authority due-process forum-challenge forum-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing procedural-due-process standing state-authority state-sovereignty |
Whether a person has standing before a non-sovereign state forum with no act of the U.S. Congress delineating jurisdictional authority over such perso… |
| 19-257 |
California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality |
Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even … |
| 18-9847 |
Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause |
Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh… |
| 18-1545 |
Tracy Guerin v. Mickey Fowler, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment pension-transfer property-rights public-pensions retrospective-application state-authority state-immunity statutory-benefits takings takings-clause |
Whether employees have a constitutional right to a particular method for calculating interest on their accumulated pension contributions when transfer… |
| 18-8138 |
Joseph Hughes v. Dan Schnurr, Warden |
Kansas |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal acquittal-implications civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process second-prosecution sex-offender-management sexual-offender sexual-offender-registration state-authority |
How can the State of Kansas manage me as a sexual offender when I was found acquitted of rape by a jury? |
| 18-1099 |
Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund |
Montana |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation |
Unreasonable medical examinations in workers' compensation system violate Fourth Amendment, exceed 'Grand Bargain' limits, and improperly condition be… |
| 18-7837 |
Marlon Blacher v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. |
California |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitution due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing state-authority statutory-provisions |
Is the writ true that the Constitution and all of its instruments are bound to the matters declared via Article IV, clause 3, Constitution of the Unit… |
| 18-6668 |
Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. |
Virginia |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation |
Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury? |
| 18-555 |
Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands |
Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever… |