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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1277 Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2025-06-16 Denied administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish state-based administrative procedures violates the Constitution and the Help America Vote A…
24-1017 Jonathan Lindsey, Michigan State Senator, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-amendment elections-clause federal-elections legislative-power state-legislature Whether Article III standing exists for individual state legislators to challenge state executive usurpations of delegated powers under the Elections …
23-5214 Cody J. Key v. Florida Florida 2023-07-26 Denied IFP codification constitutional-provisions due-process federal-judicial-canon judicial-canon legislative-power notice rule-of-law rule-of-strict-construction state-legislature statutory-interpretation Whether the due process/notice requirements of a federal judicial canon (rule of strict construction) can be abrogated by a state legislature by codif…
22-362 Matt Huffman, President of the Ohio Senate, et al. v. Meryl Neiman, et al. Ohio 2022-10-18 GVR Relisted (2) congressional-elections congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-review ohio-supreme-court proportional-representation redistricting state-constitution state-legislature Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature's power to regulate congressional el…
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the 'Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives .. . prescri…
21-474 In Re Wisconsin Legislature 2021-09-28 Denied article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute challe…
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deferring to the state court's ruling that Mr. Rodriguez was not prejudiced by his counsel switching sides in the s…
20-974 Emil Svrcina, et al. v. Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer of the State of Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process election-contest election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment hawaii-supreme-court state-legislature vote-by-mail Did the Hawaii Supreme Court violate due process by dismissing a complaint with prejudice?
20-799 L. Lin Wood, Jr. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing state-legislature vote-dilution voting-rights Whether a voter has standing to challenge state action based on vote dilution
20-774 Georgianna Parisi v. Dayton Bar Association Certified Grievance Committee, et al. Ohio 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent open-records separation-of-powers state-constitution state-legislature state-separation-of-powers Whether the Ohio Supreme Court violated the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions by applying Superintendence Rules 44-47 to records that are not 'court documen…
19-1427 William Price Tedards, Jr., et al. v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) election-date election-writ executive-authority executive-power legislative-power senate-vacancy seventeenth-amendment state-executive state-legislature temporary-appointment Does A.R.S. § 16-222 conflict with the Seventeenth Amendment's requirement that state executives 'shall issue writs of election' and limit state legis…
19-1137 Tennessee, By and Through the Tennessee General Assembly, et al. v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coerce-state-pay-federal-program commandeer-state-funds commandeering constitutional-coercion federal-commandeering federal-government federal-program legislative-standing medicaid-funding separation-of-powers standing state-funds state-legislature state-sovereignty Whether both chambers of a state legislature have institutional standing to sue the federal government
19-7678 Tzedkiyah El Bey, fka James Richard Warren v. Doughtery County State Court, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights de-jure-citizen due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions judicial-officer organic-constitution standing state-legislature statutory-ordinance takings Can the De Jure American citizen be punished by fine or imprisonment for exercising a Constitutional right?
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…