state-power
14 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-849 | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell | District of Columbia | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power | For over 1,000 years, Catholics have given an annual offering to the Pope called Peter's Pence. A parishoner claims he was misled during Mass by an in… |
| 25-5591 | Bruce Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure state-power | Question not identified. |
| 24-5617 | In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson | 2024-09-24 | Denied | IFP | bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power | Whether Kesean Wilson was denied Fourteenth Amendment equal protection and substantive due process rights when punished for bank robbery without ratio… | |
| 24-5167 | John Stancu v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Texas | 2024-07-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-power texas | Did the State of Texas Courts involved in this case wrongly denied Petitioner Stancu's Seventh Amendment right to the United States Constitution by ma… |
| 24-13 | Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (8) | commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power | May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States? |
| 23-119 | Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana | Indiana | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-criminal-distinction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process speeding-infraction speeding-infractions state-power | Whether a state may deprive a citizen of his right to due process and ignore this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) by treating … |
| 22-516 | R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. | Colorado | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Relisted (2) | adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power | Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process |
| 21-5708 | Rodney Dale Hood v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-17 | Denied | IFP | contract-law contractual-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings judgment judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-power | Whether the current Due Process standard for interpreting the obligations of parties in plea agreements is appropriate |
| 20-361 | James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power | Is the 'right to use the navigable waters of the United States' limited solely to uses involving interstate or foreign commerce? |
| 20-5471 | Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention liberty liberty-interest sexual-predator state-power | Should such disfavored persons, involuntarily civilly imprisoned as sexual violent predators, be deprived of fair notice and warning and continually r… |
| 19-7937 | Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. | California | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power | Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners' individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the associa… |
| 19-7849 | Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department | First Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power | What is Arbitrary power—restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause—if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used to … |
| 19-7673 | Tzedkiyah El Bey, fka James Richard Warren v. Willie Weaver, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights common-law-rights constitutional-rights due-process indigenous-status legislative-interference right-to-travel standing state-power travel | Does the de jure Al Maurikan/American National/Citizen have the right to travel on public highways? |
| 19-7497 | Richard Silvestri v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force | Should the United States Constitution be construed to prohibit Congress from enacting Laws that punish people for extcaterritorial conduct under the C… |