state-power

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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…