states-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-605 Jason Dee Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response Waived criminal-statute federalism police-powers sex-trafficking states-rights tenth-amendment Whether the government's application of a federal criminal statute for sex trafficking to purely local prostitution violates states' traditional polic…
24-248 David John Thistle v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-v-amendment constitutional-rights due-process election-law federal-officers states-rights Will the Supreme Court allow alleged unconstitutional actions by federal and state officials that potentially violate constitutional rights and electi…
21-7527 Kieron Derek Penigar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-01 Dismissed IFP 13th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-access interstate-travel reproductive-rights slavery state-restrictions states-rights Whether the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows slavery in the Confederate states?
20-5932 In Re Maurice Johnson 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights What branch of law authorized the states to apply abolished slaves labels (Negro, Black, Colored or African-American) to any African descent after 186…
18-5858 Lance Edward Gloor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated?