territorial-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-701 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-12-31 Denied attorney-general executive-authority organic-act prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court of Guam violated the Guam Organic Act by ruling that the Governor can appoint Special Assistant Attorneys General and preven…
24-328 Joseph Marion Rywelski v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-footing-doctrine federal-jurisdiction governmental-regulation second-amendment territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court will resolve disputes regarding governmental regulation of citizens' Second Amendment rights across municipal, state, federa…
23-7210 Marqese Lynn Payne v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP civil-jurisdiction civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-civil-rights-act indian-law reservation-boundaries self-governance statutory-interpretation territorial-law Did Congress pass the Organic Act of May 2, 1890, for State laws in Oklahoma, or did Congress pass the Territory Certain general laws of Arkansas (C. …
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 …
20-1180 Territory of American Samoa v. National Marine Fisheries Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied administrative-law american-samoa constitutional-law deeds-of-cession federal-law federal-obligations large-vessel-prohibited-area maritime-regulation territorial-law territory-of-american-samoa Whether the Deeds of Cession establish binding and enforceable obligations on the United States
19-304 Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. Virgin Islands 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to …