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25A904 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California California 2026-02-10 Application article-vi constitutional-rights first-amendment oaths-of-office police-officer supremacy-clause Question not identified.
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-6588 Derek Skellchock v. Laurie K. Dean, Judge, 8th Judicial District Court, Larimer County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending IFP civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Veterans Judicial Review Act (VJRA) Pub. Law 100-687 (1988) pursuant to Article I § 8 of the Constitution,…
25-6586 M. G. J. v. Oregon Department of Human Services, et al. Oregon 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process indian-child-welfare-act state-law supremacy-clause tribal-adoption 1. This Court recently explained that, "In the usual course, state courts apply state law when placing children in foster or adoptive homes," however …
25-828 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there…
25A804 Duane A. Fairfax v. Tracey N. Martinez Virginia 2026-01-12 Application contempt-enforcement federal-preemption spousal-support supremacy-clause va-disability veterans-benefits 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and 38 U.S.C. § 5301(a) prohibit a state court from enforcing spousal support through contempt, garnishment, or equiva…
25A802 Henry L. Klein, et al. v. Lewis Title Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2026-01-12 Application federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson state-law supremacy-clause title-insurance [1] Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err by counting Christopher Columbus Day against Applicants in computing the 14-day deadline for filing a Request …
25-6537 David T. Everett v. Sarah E. Tharrett, as Successor Trustee of the Roxine Poznich Revocable Trust Kansas 2026-01-09 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-error meaningful-hearing supremacy-clause trust-law I. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is satisfied when state courts at three successive levels either ignore or refuse to rule on…
25-786 Julia Minkowski v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2026-01-06 Pending ada-compliance constitutional-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process supremacy-clause 1. Does a systemic structural defect in due process in California courts eliminate court access, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and full parti…
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S…
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-12-03 Pending confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote…
25A624 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2025-11-26 Application employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state laws that conflict with Title VII's religious accommodation requirements
25-6256 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-11-26 Pending IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause In Artis v. District of Columbia, 138 S. Ct. 594 (2018), this Court held that states may not dismiss 28 U.S.C. § 1332 claims denied supplemental jur…
25A612 Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. Texas 2025-11-24 Application internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act Whether the Wiretap Act preempts state procedural laws and jurisdictional doctrines under the Supremacy Clause when a privacy invasion claim involves …
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether, as applied, Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it creates de facto respon…
25-6133 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-17 Denied IFP clemency constitutional-law due-process federal-rights post-conviction supremacy-clause 1. Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of a…
25A549 In Re Henry L. Klein Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application business-qualification debt-collection debt-purchaser henson-v-santander special-purpose-vehicle supremacy-clause Whether the Supreme Court will enforce the Henson v. Santander ruling as the supreme law of the land regarding debt ownership and collection rights un…
25-500 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-10-22 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption marital-settlement state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
25-5915 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2 California 2025-10-20 Dismissed IFP due-process federal-constitution jurisdiction land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law 1. Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 as to the Supremacy Clause of Federal Constitution in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws on L…
25-5805 Will Earnest Young, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether Iowa Code § 814.7 violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
25-5783 Tanya Spurbeck v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Nevada 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-rights due-process federal-claims indigent-litigants legal-representation supremacy-clause As of April 26, 2024, there is required federal funding, signed by the Nevada Attorney General, to promise required legal representation to indigent a…
25-5745 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-09-27 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rules due-process mitigating-evidence postconviction-litigation supremacy-clause 1. Has Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of postconviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of retroa…
25-307 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-09-16 Denied due-process foreign-will international-comity judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause testamentary-rights "Comity " entails "the recognition which one nation allows within its territory to the ... judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both t…
25-258 Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Michigan 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio ISSUE I. ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS VOID AB INITIO REQUIRING RETROSPECTIVE TREATMENT OF OPINIONS AFFECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS? ISSUE II. DO MICHIGA…
25-5559 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2025-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law vexatious-litigant 1. Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 as to the Supremacy Clause of Federal Constitution in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws on…
25-236 In Re Justin Jeffrey Saadein-Morales 2025-08-28 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether the forcible seizure and alteration of a VA-backed home, while federal bankruptcy and appellate proceedings were pending, violated the Supr…
25-196 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 attorney-discipline reciprocal-discipline state-court-jurisdiction statutory-immunity supremacy-clause Under California 's State Bar Act as authoritively interpreted by California 's appellate courts, the State Bar, the California Supreme Court, and the…
25A181 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-08-13 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement military-disability state-court-enforcement supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether federal law preempts state court enforcement of a marital settlement agreement that requires a veteran to dispossess federally protected disab…
25-140 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.…
25-136 Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. Texas 2025-08-05 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation 1. Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in…
25-5245 Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii "Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil P…
25-5177 Aaron Edward Meier v. Aaron Williams, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-ethics supremacy-clause 1. Does a state judge's refusal to follow federal law and a prosecutor's claim under oath that "the Republic is dead" violate due process and the Supr…
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup…
25-5166 Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may refuse to enter judgment following the unrebutted filing of a dispositive appellate brief and summary judgm…
25-5094 Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al. Texas 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court 1- Whether the state 's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court 's final judgment to dism…
25-15 Bellevue School District No. 405 v. C. S. A., a Minor, By and Through His Guardians B. W. A. and P. E. S. Washington 2025-07-03 Denied Response Waived federal-law ferpa gonzaga school-district state-pra supremacy-clause Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273 (2002) notes Congress's intent to avoid multiple judicial interpretations of the Family Education Rights and Privac…
24A1230 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-enforcement collateral-estoppel contract-severability federal-arbitration-act issue-preclusion supremacy-clause Whether the doctrine of issue preclusion impermissibly bars enforcement of an arbitration agreement under the Federal Arbitration Act when a prior jud…
24-7377 Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to review a potential violation of the Supremacy Clause by the District Court of New Jersey
24A1184 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline civil-rights-lawsuit ex-parte-young state-bar-act supremacy-clause williams-decision Whether the California State Bar Act violates the Supremacy Clause by immunizing defendants from federal civil rights lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. §1983 i…
24-7207 In Re Willie C. Simpson 2025-05-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights filing-fee habeas-corpus state-custody supremacy-clause suspension-clause Whether the state's suspension of habeas corpus privileges by imposing a $1,800 filing bar fee violates the U.S. Constitution's Suspension Clause and …
24-1160 William R. Lott v. Maria V. Lott Virginia 2025-05-13 Denied disability-pay divorce-proceedings federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
24-1115 Reuben D. Walker, et al. v. Andrea Lynn Chasteen, as Clerk for the Circuit Court of Will County and as a Representative of All Clerks of the Circuit Courts of All Counties in Illinois, et al. Illinois 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-deference state-immunity supremacy-clause takings-clause May state courts ignore the Supremacy and Takings Clauses of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by this Court based on arguably contrary provisions …
24-1103 Caleb D. Glick v. American Bar Association Fifth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived antitrust-statutes constitutional-law contract-interpretation stare-decisis state-immunity supremacy-clause Whether the U.S. Constitution and Texas Constitution constitute binding contracts between parties, and whether an unenumurated immunity exists to anti…
24-6970 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-authority constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction manifest-injustice supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the Supremacy Clause justifies a stay once the trial court had been provected and whether a state court of last resort maintains a constitutio…
24-6937 Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana Montana 2025-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether the initial Court violated Article VI, Cl. 3 of the United States Constitution by denying Petitioner's statutory right of abatement and the U.…
24-6860 Mitchell S. Sanderson v. Kari Agotness, Judge, District Court of North Dakota, Northeast Judicial District Five North Dakota 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct oath-of-office supremacy-clause Whether a County District Judge can systematically ignore or violate multiple legal standards and constitutional protections
24-1015 John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may serve …
24-6762 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity custody-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause Whether Virginia State, County, and City Courts are Unconstitutional based on the 1971 Virginia Constitution, U.S. Supremacy Clause, and Due Process C…
24-6547 Mitchell S. Sanderson v. Janne Myrdal, et al. North Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied IFP due-process judicial-oath jurisdiction rules-of-court service-of-process supremacy-clause Whether the Rules of Court must be followed by the Court and whether judges can violate their oath of office, due process, and the Supremacy Clause
24-6534 Keith Robert Lugo v. California California 2025-02-10 Denied IFP administrative-law chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Enterprises ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine constitutes mandatory authority for California correction…
24-834 Evgeny Pistrak v. Kseniia Golubeva Washington 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption immigration-law maintenance-obligations spousal-support state-court supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and federal immigration law preempt a state court from imposing maintenance obligations solely because a spouse lacks wor…
24-828 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2025-02-04 Denied Response Waived congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state prosecution of a criminal defendant for killing a postal worker when Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1114 to …
24A725 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause Whether a state court's child custody and support proceedings violate a parent's fundamental liberty interest in child-rearing when the proceedings al…
24-744 Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. Iowa 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-quality statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection clauses apply to administrative law and statutory interpretation in healthcare quali…
24-606 Christine A. Arakelian v. Ashley Pollard, et al. Virginia 2024-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Did the Prince William County Circuit Court and Supreme Court of Virginia err in dismissing Petitioner's case by violating her 14th Amendment rights a…
24-5946 James B. Crosby v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-proceedings heck-bar injunction supremacy-clause younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention can be ignored when federal proceedings began before state proceedings and an injunction should be granted to prevent arres…
24-405 Indiana, ex rel. Deborah Walton v. Superior Court 6 of Indiana, Hamilton County, et al. Indiana 2024-10-10 Denied Response Waived dodd-frank foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-servicing respa state-law supremacy-clause Whether State Laws are bound by Dodd Frank Regulation X section 1024.41(f)(1) when pending RESPA complaints show foreclosure is preempted by the Supre…
24A316 Jeffrey B. Clark v. D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel District of Columbia 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete article-ii-immunity bar-disciplinary-proceeding federal-officer-removal separation-of-powers supremacy-clause take-care-clause Whether the federal-officer removal statute permits a former federal officer to remove a state bar disciplinary proceeding to federal court based on i…
24-362 Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G. W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement-proviso negligent-act sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause wrong-house-raid Whether the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and the FTCA's exception bar tort claims for negligent federal law enforcement actions during a wrong-hous…
24A227 Treniss J. Evans v. Supreme Court of New York, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-30 Presumed Complete campaign-finance constitutional-interpretation election-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion supremacy-clause Whether a state prosecutor can bring a state-level prosecution that effectively creates a localized interpretation of federal election law in potentia…
24A74 Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G.W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete discretionary-function federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-warrant supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act can immunize federal law enforcement from liabili…
24A65 Tina Peters v. Daniel P. Rubinstein, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete election-records federal-immunity fourteenth-amendment privileges-or-immunities state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether a state official can claim immunity from state prosecution for actions taken in good faith to preserve federal election records under federal …
23-1319 B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as applied when it contradicts the …
23-7517 Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii Hawaii 2024-05-21 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process licensing-scheme second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause Whether the Bruen test determines when a State's criminal prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license violates the Second Amendment?
23A1029 Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension federal-officer-removal immunity-defense official-duties state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether the federal-officer removal statute permits a former federal officer to remove a state criminal prosecution to federal court for adjudication …
23-7422 Charles Talley, et al. v. Housing Authority of Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eviction-procedure hud-regulations preemption-doctrine standing supremacy-clause void-order Did the court's violate the Preemption Doctrine of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution in their failure to rule on disabled Appellant's 'MOT…
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment …
23-7228 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights-damages due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-rights Whether Article III jurisdiction extends to cases arising under the Constitution and federal law
23-1109 Dietmar Hanke, et al. v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2024-04-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process intervention-right notice notice-requirement prop207-prohibition property-taking standing summary-judgment supremacy-clause takings Do the Intervenors have an absolute right to intervene as a separate, bona fide Party in the State's action to take common lands of their HOA pursuant…
23-1014 Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of …
23A814 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete arizona-v-united-states federal-immigration-authority immigration-preemption removal-power state-border-enforcement supremacy-clause Whether a state law criminalizing unauthorized border entry and mandating removal of noncitizens is preempted by federal immigration law under the Sup…
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny Petitioner's right to due process of law pursuant to the 14th Amendment
23-6728 In Re Kimberlee Pitawanakwat 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction general-crimes-act indian-rights major-crimes-act stare-decisis supremacy-clause treaty-interpretation treaty-of-fort-laramie Does it violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to subject Indians to stand federal trial…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own rules of criminal procedure retroactively by applying a new rule to Petitioner's post-conviction proceedings
23-824 United States v. David L. Miller Tenth Circuit 2024-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations-clause bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee fraudulent-transfer section-544 sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause tax Whether a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a debtor's tax payment to the United States under Section 544(b) when no actual creditor could have obtained re…
23-6467 Fairly W. Earls v. Salam Syed, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law genuine-issues-of-dispute jury-function rule-of-orderliness summary-judgment supremacy-clause Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals committed errors of constitutional law by failing to follow the Supremacy Clause and the Rule of Orderlin…
23-745 In Re Henry L. Klein 2024-01-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-review attorney-discipline attorney-regulation axon-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure louisiana-supreme-court sec-v-cochran supremacy-clause Did the Louisiana Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause by denying Petitioner's request to enforce Axon v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran as the supreme …
23A607 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete Amici (1) border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state from using tort law to restrain federal Border Patrol agents from carrying out their federally authoriz…
23-6160 Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause Racial-discrimination-in-grand-jury-selection
23-518 In Re Henry Klein 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation filed-rate-doctrine group-life-precedent group-life-vs-royal-drug insurance-regulation louisiana-insurance-code risk-spreading state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-insurance Did the Louisiana district court violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution
23-5937 In Re John Lenard Taylor 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review standing standing-doctrine supremacy-clause Does Article VI's Supremacy Clause assure the 'privilege of habeas corpus shall not be suspended' or abrogated by any judicial machination?
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
23A260 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement-agreement military-retirement-pay supremacy-clause uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act veterans-disability-benefits Whether state courts may enforce a marital settlement agreement or divorce decree that requires a veteran to waive or assign federal disability benefi…
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
23-5407 Corey A. Askew v. Paul Bailey, Sheriff, Berrien County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a meaningful question presented I cannot generate the question presented or ident indigenous-rights international-law self-determination supremacy-clause treaty-obligations united-nations Are the self-determination clauses in the United Nations treaties and customary rules of international law to which the United States are a party bind…
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j…
23-5233 Randall Lamont Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals standard-of-review supremacy-clause supreme-court-standard Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals failed to apply this Court's standard for insufficiency of evidence as described in Jackson v. Virginia…
23-5104 Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang Montana 2023-07-13 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the US Supreme Court's definition of 'prevailing party'?
22-1237 Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. Massachusetts 2023-06-23 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts Mass. R. Civ. P. 23
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
22-7667 In Re Rajni Shaw 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process federal-preemption standing supremacy-clause Does Stafife b24.03.1,b0%1), la4.132. corey more power than the United States _ tonstitdion?
22-7572 Tyrone Doutherd v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-discrimination civil-rights due-process preemption supremacy-clause workers-compensation Do the federal civil rights and anti-discrimination statutes expressly or impliedly pre-empt state workers' compensation laws?
22-1092 Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy-Clause, federal-laws, final-pretrial-judgment, qualified-immunity, summary-judgment
22-7396 Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1…
22-7302 Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz Colorado 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Where a state court can contradict a federal agency's final and conclusive decision on veterans' disability benefits
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4) all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Question not identified
22-876 Daniel L. Pohle v. Michael Pence, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process international-treaty presidential-powers supremacy-clause treaty-violation united-nations-convention Whether the President is bound by the Supremacy Clause to seek injunction against a state governor violating the CISG
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property?
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the verdict form agreed upon by the jury failure to specify 'GUILTY' as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of Guilt?
22-673 Robert G. Hicks v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Kentucky 2023-01-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment default-judgment due-process eminent-domain jurisdictional-statute non-residents service-of-process supremacy-clause Does a failure to cite jurisdiction and service of process statutes in a default judgment violate due process?
22-5965 Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause Was the petitioner's federal rights violated when Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. 534 U.S. 506, 122 S. Ct. 992 (2002) held that a plaintiff does not need …
22-5910 In Re Mark Lewis 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance can render a judgment of co…
22-5585 Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the state agency can require future social-security recipients to prematurely apply for reduced ben…
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14th Amendment imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut…
22-5101 Sonya Owens v. Reliance Partners, LLC District of Columbia 2022-07-13 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process federalism personal-rights property-rights separation-of-powers stay-at-home-orders supremacy-clause Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States' Legislatures?
22-3 Save Coral Bay, Inc. v. Albert Bryan, Jr., Governor of the Virgin Islands, et al. Virgin Islands 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived coastal-zone-management environmental-protection federal-duty federal-territorial-power judicial-review public-review statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-law trust-obligation When a territory enacts a law that contravenes a duty imposed by federal law, must the territory's judiciary look beyond whether the law was properly …
21-7807 In Re Rafael Cezar Danam 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment jury-trial mandamus-writ redress-of-grievances supremacy-clause Writ of Mandamus to Correct Constitutional Violations
21-1368 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. PJM Interconnection, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arising-under-jurisdiction civil-rights federal-preemption federal-regulatory-agency filed-rate-doctrine substantial-federal-question supremacy-clause tariff-regulation well-pleaded-complaint-rule Do state-law claims that allegedly conflict with federally filed tariffs involve a substantial federal question; or does the filed-rate doctrine merel…
21-7424 Ismael Ruiz v. Wyoming Wyoming 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federalism state-sovereignty supremacy-clause unconstitutional Can a State within the United States choose which federal laws and Constitutional provisions it wants to honor and which ones it does not want to comp…
21-7392 Jeffery Neil Brantley v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process federal-habeas-corpus financial-records habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review state-constitutional-rights supremacy-clause Does the Supremacy Clause preempt the states from creating a constitutional right of privacy that grants individuals a legitimate expectation of priva…
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights Whether a veteran's statutory rights under Title 38 are upheld by a state corrections department under the Supremacy Clause
21-6971 Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether federal laws 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state laws regarding military veterans' disability income or assets
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant has incompetent representation, as it does when there is a physical absence of counsel at tri…
21-6596 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause tenth-amendment veterans-benefits veterans-disability Whether the state court had jurisdiction over the federal claims
21-6385 Edward J. Dostal v. Basin Electric Power Cooperative, et al. South Dakota 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-timeline court-procedure due-process federal-court-precedent filing-deadline motion-dismissal public-utility-regulation sherman-act state-court-precedent supremacy-clause Whether the South Dakota Supreme Court's dismissal order violated the Petitioners' due process and supremacy clause rights
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii Whether a state governor's order mandating that private healthcare employers, on penalty of revocation of their business licenses, terminate their hea…
21-693 Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act Whether a state administrative agency lacking federal jurisdiction can be assigned authority of a state court of record
21-620 Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies
21-530 Thomas C. Donald v. James P. Kimberley, et ux. Alabama 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived boundary-lines due-process federal-land-patent land-patent land-survey property-law public-land real-property-law supremacy-clause title-43-usc-752 Is it a violation of Title 43 U.S.C. § 752 for the location of the boundary of a Section of land to be changed from the location according to the 'Off…
21-5866 Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing court's decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence
21-5695 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process federal-exemption prisoners-rights state-seizure stimulus-payments supremacy-clause Whether states' seizure of prisoners' stimulus payments violate the federal exemption statutes within the CARES Act and the Supremacy Clause of the Un…
21-405 Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance Massachusetts 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law Whether assessing a tax but withholding notice of information fundamental and necessary for understanding the tax unless the taxpayer first executes a…
21-404 United States v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (1) contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers is barred by intergovernmental-immunity or authorized b…
21-279 Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. v. Mark Boughton Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied dormant-commerce-clause due-process extraterritorial-effect extraterritorial-regulation federal-preemption indian-commerce private-business-data private-data state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether Connecticut impermissibly regulates or controls conduct beyond the boundaries of the State in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause
21-5464 Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation individual-liberty second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause Whether the Second Amendment's command that 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed' permits government to prohibit any…
21-240 KWS Inc., a Member of the Thiele Group v. Eric Scalla Pennsylvania 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment federal-removal federal-rights federal-statutory-right federal-supremacy procedural-prerequisites state-court-procedure state-procedure supremacy-clause Whether a state court may require a federal-court litigant that has exercised its federal statutory right of removal following the state court's entry…
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act confer jurisdiction upon a federal court to assimilate and alter the elements of an unconstitutional state statute to…
21-5264 In Re Melvin Dinkins 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the 'usages and principles' of 28 USC 3730(b)(2) allow a person to bring a civil action for the United States Government, and whether this is …
21-5237 Taurice Leonard Brown v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review jury-selection merits-decision sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether the Florida courts are refusing to consider Sixth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by not treating such claims as decisio…
21-5195 M. T. Q. v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-07-26 Denied IFP child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-benefits state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of veterans' disability benefits as income for purposes of calculating child support obligations, despite…
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial-officers-acting-beyond-judicial-capacities
21-44 Kevin Lee Boutte v. Yvonne Renea Boutte Louisiana 2021-07-13 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption federal-statute military-benefits military-powers res-judicata supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-rights Does Congress' enumerated Military Powers exercised pursuant to the Supremacy Clause bar a state court from raising res-judicata to a post-judgment ch…
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause Whether the Connecticut Department of Correction violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments by denying the plaintiff and his infirm mother visits wi…
20-1525 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied equal-protection equitable-tolling non-judicial-foreclosure respa statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause Whether the lack of a defense for federal mitigation wrongdoing by lenders in non-judicial state courts violates the Equal Protection Clause and Supre…
20-1521 Yann Iannucci v. Macomb County Friend of the Court Michigan 2021-04-30 Denied child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of a non-retired, disabled veteran's disability benefits as income for child support purposes
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan 2021-04-28 Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits Congress's-military-powers-preempt-state-law-on-veterans-benefits
20-1473 Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden Georgia 2021-04-20 Denied due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers Did the State of Georgia deny Petitioner equal-protection, due-process by dismissing his divorce complaint for lack of subject-matter-jurisdiction, wh…
20-1332 Eric D. Speidell, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied cannabis-legality civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-law-investigation federal-preemption isr-summons standing state-legalization supremacy-clause warrant-requirement Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act?
20-1300 Emilio Torres Luque, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived cross-border-residency double-taxation international-tax-law ninth-circuit reciprocity residency revenue-procedure supremacy-clause tax-treaty treaty-interpretation Is the US-Mexico tax treaty being applied correctly to dual residents?
20-1268 Michael Suarez v. Alf J. Aanonsen Florida 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-court-conflict appellate-court-decision business-nexus federal-question foreign-corrupt-practices-act national-importance supremacy-clause Is the opinion rendered by the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida in conflict with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Supremacy Clause?
20-1262 MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government Kentucky 2021-03-11 Denied batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause Whether the constitutional principles underlying Batson require trial courts to craft a meaningful remedy when a violation occurs
20-7309 Phillip Maldonado v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause Does the federal constitution's supremacy clause mandate state courts to apply the Strickland test for ineffective assistance of counsel claims on dir…
20-1071 West Virginia, ex rel. June Yurish, et al. v. Laura V. Faircloth, Judge, Circuit Court of West Virginia, 23rd Judicial Circuit, et al. West Virginia 2021-02-05 Denied 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process joint-representation sixth-amendment standing supremacy-clause Whether a state precedent violates the Supremacy Clause and the 6th Amendment
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California 2021-01-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida
20-663 Peter R. Culpepper v. Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Tennessee 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act grounds-for-vacating notice-requirement preemption state-arbitration-law state-law-preemption supremacy-clause time-limitation Whether a state arbitration law that provides a stricter mandate than Congress intended is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and the Supremacy …
20-645 Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (13) 16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law Does Colorado's state-legal cannabis sales violate the Controlled Substances Act?
20-527 Kevin Guskiewicz, in His Official Capacity as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, et al. v. DTH Media Corporation, et al. North Carolina 2020-10-20 Denied Amici (2) disciplinary-records discretion education-records educational-privacy ferpa public-records sexual-assault sexual-assault-disciplinary-records supremacy-clause Does the Supremacy Clause permit a state public-records law to override the discretion that FERPA grants universities over the disclosure of sexual-as…
20-6005 Victor Brancaccio v. Florida Florida 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5801 James Rogers v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5815 In Re Seth John Wilcox 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federalism fundamental-rights grand-jury hurtado-v-california supremacy-clause Can a state create and enforce contrary law that deprives its citizens of their fundamental rights, guaranteed by the United States Constitution?
20-267 Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein New Hampshire 2020-09-02 Denied Relisted (2) child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively gran…
20-5485 Maurice Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5486 Spencer E. Miles v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5416 Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5305 Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether federal pension funds are exempt from child support garnishment
20-108 Paul Poupart v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1983 civil-rights due-process first-amendment state-conviction supremacy-clause Whether the standards in Heck v. Humphrey should continue to apply to state convictions which are deemed unconstitutional
20-5027 Christopher Allred v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process preemption privileges-and-immunities supremacy-clause vagueness Whether the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment protects the fundamental rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights against state infr…
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-1384 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Corrinne Hudson Ohio 2020-06-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-law hipaa hipaa-compliance involuntary-consent litigation-procedure medical-authorization medical-authorizations personal-injury-claim supremacy-clause Whether federal courts violate HIPAA by compelling plaintiffs to execute involuntary and non-compliant medical authorizations upon penalty of dismissa…
19-8541 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles South Dakota 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-filing fed-r-app-p-4c1 federal-regulations first-amendment fourteenth-amendment inmate-filing inmates-rights supremacy-clause Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulations …
19-1270 Steven D. Fodge, et al. v. Trustmark National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response Waived active-duty confession-of-judgment due-process foreclosure military-personnel military-protection mortgage-foreclosure servicemembers-civil-relief-act supremacy-clause Does Louisiana's law allowing banks to use 'confession of judgment' clauses to seize and sell the homes of military personnel on active duty without a…
19-1182 Smith Land Company, et al. v. Shawn A. Herhold, et al. Ohio 2020-03-30 Denied clean-water-act corps-of-engineers-permit due-process isolated-wetlands nonpoint-source notice-and-hearing standing supremacy-clause wetlands Whether a state can enforce a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to fill isolated intrastate wetlands
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judiciary,…
19-7966 Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb Ninth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the courts violated the 14th Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection clauses?
19-1112 Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the…
19-1018 Dana Gallop v. Adult Correctional Institutions, et al. Rhode Island 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-death-statute civil-rights constitutional-law political-disenfranchisement prisoner-rights racial-discrimination supremacy-clause unconstitutional Does Rhode Island's Civil Death Statute violate the Supremacy Clause and 42 U.S.C. 1983 by denying a prisoner the right to file a civil claim, where t…
19-7509 In Re Lawrence E. Mattison 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act) allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal proc…
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler Did Montgomery v. Louisiana announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supremacy Clause applies to…
19-7263 Praveen Kevin Khurana v. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Idaho 2020-01-13 Denied IFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-11-usc-362 civil-procedure due-process fraudulent-transfer governmental-unit medicaid-recovery probate property-rights property-tax property-transfer real-estate real-estate-transfer supremacy-clause voidable Whether pre-petition probate charges/claims by a governmental unit against a real property of a debtor are treated the same as property tax charges, r…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin…
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…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a state…
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause Has the external influence of state judicial election politics upon the state judiciary come to represent a constitutionally intolerable risk of bias …
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution?
19-6726 In Re Billie Byrd 2019-11-22 Denied IFP aedpa-filing-limitations aedpa-limitations constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-treaties subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties-with-indians treaty-supremacy-clause Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions in tr…
19-635 Donald J. Trump v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of the County of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response Waived article-2 article-ii article-two constitutional-law criminal-investigation executive-power grand-jury-subpoena immunity president presidential-immunity separation-of-powers subpoena supremacy-clause Whether this subpoena violates Article II and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution
19-6526 In Re David Paul Worthington 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-1151-1153 aedpa aedpa-limitations article-1 article-6 criminal-procedure indian-law indian-treaties state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaties-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions-in-treat…
19-6304 Martin Nava Lara v. Texas Texas 2019-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two coun…
19-482 ASAP Copy and Print, et al. v. Canon Solutions America, Inc. California 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights-act-of-1866 due-process judicial-immunity law-of-the-case recusal recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California's common law concept of 'law of the case' may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § …
19-6246 Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether state law interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Statute 18 USCS § 2113
19-6240 John Lee Norris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction judicial-standing plea-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether the United States Court's for the Eighth circuit has failed to adhere to the accepted and usual course of Judicial proceedings
19-6044 Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC Massachusetts 2019-09-24 Denied IFP anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment Does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B)(vi) (IRC §42) restriction …
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause Whether the actions taken by law enforcement, including arrest and detention without a judicial determination of probable cause, violate the petitione…
19-5903 Martin Ogden v. Digital Intelligence Systems Arizona 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-claims federal-law judicial-authority judicial-review nullity state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether a state court's refusal to adjudicate a federal claim under federal law, while entertaining similar state law claims, violates the Supremacy C…
19-5846 Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas Texas 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell 2019-08-23 Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions in tr…
19-160 Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court can authorize a pro tem judge to exercise judicial power consistent with the Supremacy Claus…
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute that is void on its face?
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh…
18-1575 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-25 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-state-relations judicial-duty property-tax real-property standing state-government supremacy-clause takings treason Whether the Supremacy Clause will be given its controlling effect in this extraordinary instance?
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio…
18-1441 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. Kentucky 2019-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause Whether the First Amendment requires state courts to dismiss suits immediately upon a showing that the claim turns upon the interpretation or applicat…
18-9101 Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Whether the subject of peremptory challenges are valid under the Separation of Powers, Due Process, and the Supremacy Clause
18-9090 Virginia Howard v. San Diego County Counsel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption homestead homestead-exemption lis-pendens mechanic-liens municipal-liability property-recording real-property supremacy-clause supremacy-of-federal-law title-42 title-42-section-1983 Are the Recorders failure omissions to register, record, docket or index documents (regarding real property) make offices, counties, parish, and munic…
18-8921 Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court What is a reasonable time period for trial counsel to be required to become aware of recent precedence before he/she may be deemed ineffective for fai…
18-8899 Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit…
18-1302 Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 and…
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies protections to children who suffer prenatal injury
18-8422 Johnny M. Young v. Alabama Alabama 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-law standing state-courts supremacy-clause Whether denial of in forma pauperis by the Alabama Supreme Court is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court precedent on federal rights of ac…
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Question not identified
18-8013 Paul Pieczynski v. Wells Fargo and Company, N.A. Third Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedures due-process federal-jurisdiction land-patent supremacy-clause takings time treaty-law update weather If one is entitled to update a land patent, is there a time of day, time of year, season, weather event, or anything that would bar the update?
18-7785 David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz New Mexico 2019-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause Whether any court can deprive Constitutional rights and violate the Supremacy Clause, and use RICO racketeering acts to stop legal court filings
18-1011 Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. Texas 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act Whether an arbitration agreement must in fact be part of a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce" to be within the coverage of Section …
18-7633 Michael Lynn Heard v. Scott Solomon, et al. Arkansas 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause title-42-usc-1983 Whether Section 16-123-105 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution by denying this Co…
18-7643 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State to death-sentence…
18-979 Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause Whether a state statute prohibiting any and all motorized mining in state-designated zones on federal land is categorically preempted under the Suprem…
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal
18-7226 Omar Blanco v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process retroactivity supremacy-clause Did Hall v. Florida announce a substantive rule of constitutional law?
18-7041 Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2018-12-17 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by …
18-6843 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2018-11-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-593 StarLink Logistics, Inc. v. ACC, LLC, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-06 Denied Relisted (2) clean-water-act effluent-limits navigable-waters npdes-permit point-source point-source-pollution preemption supremacy-clause Whether a state law that authorizes a polluter to discharge covered pollutants from a point source into the navigable waters of the United States with…
18-449 Pharmavite LLC v. Noah Bradach Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived class-action class-certification class-members federal-preemption federal-statute individual-inquiry preemption state-law-claims supremacy-clause Is it a violation of the Supremacy Clause for a federal court to certify a class that includes class members asserting state law claims that are expre…
18-6221 Raymond P. Vinnie v. Bruce R. Henry, et al. Massachusetts 2018-10-04 Dismissed IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court litigation-privilege standing state-immunity supremacy-clause whether-private-attorneys-conspiring-with-clerk-of-court-for-favorable-judgment-violates-supremacy-clause
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption issues being raised
18-312 David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard Tennessee 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,…
18-291 Gul Jaisinghani v. Anil Sharma, et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud constitutional-rights due-process duplicative-damages fair-trial joint-venture substantive-due-process supremacy-clause witness-exclusion Whether a state court's enforcement of an agreement to violate federal banking law violates the Supremacy Clause, whether the state court's exclusion …
18-5903 Rufus Jones v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-407 42-usc-423 5th-amendment constitutional-supremacy discrimination-protection due-process equality-act federal-jurisdiction garnishment judicial-conduct judicial-oath jurisdiction social-security social-security-benefits supremacy-clause title-ii Does Social Security claimants have the right to receive all back payments free from garnishments or attachments?
18-5641 Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief…
18-205 Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. California 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes…
18-181 Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck Ohio 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure comity constitutional-hierarchy due-process federal-court-judgment federal-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-enforcement state-court-intervention state-court-jurisdiction state-court-order supremacy-clause writ-of-execution Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state court from enjoining the enforcement of a federal court judgment
18-153 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-03 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law cost-allocation energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-ratemaking ferc-refund-policy holding-company-cost-allocation preemption rate-making ratemaking refund regulatory-policy state-ratemaking supremacy-clause Given the text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari, the issue being raised is: May FERC deny a refund authorized by FPA Section 206(b) based o…
18-136 Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County Texas 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home …
18-5402 Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis…
18-5065 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule for Hurst errors contravenes the Eighth Amendment
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendmen…
18-5124 Norberto Pietri v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether the Florida Supreme Court's retroactivity analysis for Hurst violations violates due process, the Eighth Amendment, and the Equal Protection C…
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-…
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?