state-legislation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7238 William Douglas Cope v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-05-19 Denied IFP abortion-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection reproductive-rights state-legislation Whether state laws criminalizing certain abortion-related acts violate constitutional protections of equal protection and due process rights
23-6782 R. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Child Protective Services, et al. West Virginia 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP adoption-rights child-abuse child-neglect child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process expedient-measures family-disintegration family-law grandparental-standing state-legislation Has disintegration of the traditional family leading to substantial increases in child neglect and abuse cases caused agencies dealing with these matt…
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
21-463 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (9) abortion abortion-law civil-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-review sovereign-immunity standing state-legislation Whether a State can insulate from federal-court review a law that prohibits the exercise of a constitutional right by delegating to the general public…
20-930 Karl Geppert v. Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights driver's-license due-process federal-law real-id-act social-security social-security-number state-law state-legislation state-privilege Where no federal law requires a citizen of the United States to obtain a social security number, may a State legislature, or its courts in applying th…
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…
19-372 William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative 'voids'
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen…
18-7289 Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation Should the people in the state of California be constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment in the presence of increasingly severe crimi…