| 25-6770 |
Heath W. Gray v. Pennsylvania Department of State |
Pennsylvania |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
first-amendment government-redress suffrage supreme-court-certiorari taxation-without-representation voting-rights |
Would this Honorable High Court, please REMAND this suffrage rights appeal to the Pennyslvania Supreme Court to adjudicate my "No Taxation Without Rep… |
| 25-916 |
OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights |
Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re… |
| 25-904 |
La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights |
Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh… |
| 25-836 |
Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights |
This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res… |
| 25-713 |
George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights |
Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 25A674 |
Arizona, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
ballot-collection election-law election-procedures ninth-circuit voter-registration voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25A602 |
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas voting assistance laws in a manner that potentially restricts minority voters' access to electo… |
| 25A605 |
OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas Senate Bill 1 in a manner that potentially infringes on voting rights and electoral access |
| 25A556 |
La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights |
Whether the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection Clause prohibit Texas from enacting voter assistance restrictions that disproportionately burden mi… |
| 25-5872 |
Ramon Jackson v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights election-law national-voter-registration-act secretary-of-state voter-registration voting-rights |
1. Did the Michigan Secretary of State violate the Plaintiff Constitutional or Statutory voting rights by registering the Plaintiff to vote without th… |
| 25-253 |
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Pending |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights |
Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti… |
| 25-147 |
Michael J. Polelle v. Cord Byrd, Florida Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
closed-primary election-law equal-protection first-amendment political-association voting-rights |
1. Does the Petitioner have standing to sue the Florida Secretary of State in his official capacity as chief election officer of the state for any vio… |
| 24-1277 |
Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al. |
Alaska |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights |
Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish state-based administrative procedures violates the Constitution and the Help America Vote A… |
| 24-1260 |
Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Granted |
Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights |
Whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots cast by federal election day to be received by election officials af… |
| 24-1102 |
Citizens for Constitutional Integrity v. Census Bureau, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-action congressional-apportionment mandamus-act voting-rights |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act and Mandamus Act provide procedural rights to challenge the Secretary of Commerce's apportionment report unde… |
| 24-560 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights |
Does Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement scheme violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 24A407 |
Susan Beals, Commissioner, et al. v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (7) |
ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law immigrant-voting voter-registration voting-rights |
Whether Virginia's election laws governing voter registration and ballot access unconstitutionally burden immigrant and minority voters' fundamental r… |
| 24A408 |
Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (5) |
ballot-access candidate-eligibility constitutional-interpretation election-law state-supreme-court voting-rights |
Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state election law regarding ballot access and candidate eligibility violates federal constitutional… |
| 24A277 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights |
Whether Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement law violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when it perma… |
| 24A231 |
OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
Whether a local district attorney can be sued under Ex Parte Young for prospective injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of state electi… |
| 24-160 |
Juan Dalmau Ramirez v. Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-design constitutional-rights first-amendment freedom-of-association puerto-rico-status voting-rights |
Whether the 2024 Puerto Rico Plebiscite ballot violates constitutional rights by omitting a 'Commonwealth' voting option |
| 24A164 |
Republican National Committee, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
ballot-drop-box constitutional-challenge election-law election-procedures state-regulation voting-rights |
Whether state election laws governing ballot drop box procedures and accessibility violate constitutional protections of voting rights |
| 24-5257 |
Miguel Aguilar, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-apportionment minority-representation redistricting voting-rights |
Whether a state's legislative apportionment scheme violates constitutional equal protection principles by potentially diluting minority voting power |
| 24A46 |
Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights |
Whether the Materiality Provision of federal voting rights law prohibits excluding mail ballots due to immaterial paperwork errors beyond voter regist… |
| 23-1369 |
John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights |
Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First … |
| 23A1136 |
Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State v. Montana Democratic Party, et al. |
Montana |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
election-law elections-clause judicial-review legislative-authority state-constitution voting-rights |
Whether a state supreme court impermissibly interferes with a state legislature's election law authority when applying judicial scrutiny to election r… |
| 23A1142 |
Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. |
Louisiana |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights |
Whether Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause by constituting an unconstitutional racial gerrymander |
| 23-7710 |
William Anderson v. L'Oreal Snell, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ballot-access ballot-access-laws civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment signature-challenge voter-disenfranchisement voting-rights |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate Petitioner's Constitutional Rights by affirming the Lower Court's order Removing Petitioner's Name from the… |
| 23-7645 |
Antrell Teen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing voting-rights |
Whether the standards used by the Ninth Circuit in the Brouwer v. Raffensperger case violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23A992 |
David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights |
Whether a county board of commissioners' voting procedures and redistricting decisions violate constitutional protections of equal representation and … |
| 23-1172 |
Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off… |
| 23-998 |
Melanie Jerusalem v. Louisiana Department of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process election-law electronic-voting federal-elections standing voting-rights |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in ruling a registered Louisiana voter for a federal election sustained insufficient injury in fact under Article III of the… |
| 23-990 |
George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights |
Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte… |
| 23-6816 |
Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights |
Whether the Circuit Court for Alleghany County, Maryland should have given the pro se petitioner an opportunity to challenge the removal of his compla… |
| 23A764 |
Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot… |
| 23-890 |
In Re Batia Zareh |
|
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection
23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext |
Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) are unconstitutional |
| 23A523 |
Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights discrimination lulac minority-representation naacp voting-rights |
Whether local civil rights organizations have standing to challenge voting restrictions that potentially discriminate against minority voters |
| 23-612 |
Joseph Daniel Cascino, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
age-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights |
Does Texas's restriction of no-excuse mail-in voting to individuals aged '65 years or older on election day' violate the Twenty-Sixth Amendment? |
| 23A519 |
Raul Mendez v. Ada Community Libraries Board of Trustees, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se voting-rights |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se civil rights complaint by failing to address First Amendment, voting rights, and Equal Protect… |
| 23-590 |
Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights |
Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 23A476 |
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights |
Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether… |
| 23A452 |
Ben Toma, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discovery judicial-review legislative-immunity legislative-privilege state-legislators voting-rights |
Whether state legislators can invoke legislative privilege to shield their deliberative processes and communications from discovery in voting rights l… |
| 23-523 |
Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County v. Lynna Monell, Clerk, Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, et al. |
California |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access candidate-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny equal-protection freedom-of-association political-association term-limits voting-rights |
Does a term limit that bans incumbents from ever running for reelection merit heightened scrutiny? |
| 23-500 |
James Gimenez v. Franklin County, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
at-large-elections constitutional-law constitutional-scrutiny election-systems equal-protection gerrymandering racial-polarization redistricting voting-rights |
Whether the Washington Voting Rights Act is subject to strict scrutiny |
| 23-5989 |
In Re Kevin McKenna |
|
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-history civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court voting-rights |
Should this Court find that the First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with a person's right to vote or 'adel vsti o liberally ares… |
| 23-5386 |
Bryant Matthew Parker v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-review reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case voting-rights |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Plaintiff's Yoakum County Protest Voting Restrictions Act was unconstitutional, … |
| 23-5308 |
James Renwick Manship v. Susan Beals, Commissioner |
Virginia |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights election-integrity electronic-voting first-amendment free-speech grand-jury petition petition-rights voting-machines voting-rights |
QUESTIONS PRESENTED RELATED TO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF HONEST VOTE (FREE SPEECH) & PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES TO A GRAND JURY |
| 23-96 |
Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority contempt-sanction county-boards-of-elections dominion-voting dominion-voting-systems election-board election-law election-procedures pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-rights |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in holding Petitioners, County Board of Elections, in contempt for conducting an inspection of voting machines … |
| 23-59 |
Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights |
Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election |
| 23-49 |
In Re Betty Ayers, et al. |
|
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-conflict due-process election-integrity federal-law hava-compliance standing state-law treason voting voting-rights |
Whether the Tennessee State Supreme Court's decision conflicts with other State Supreme Courts and denies Petitioners' right of suffrage and to redres… |
| 23-5093 |
German Alexis Arjona v. California |
California |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court voting-rights |
Whether a specific limitation on the right to vote violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-7886 |
Ramon Jackson v. Mike Duggan, Mayor of the City of Detroit, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
bond-issuance civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection headlee-amendment municipal-bonds municipal-finance voting-rights |
Did the defendant(s) violate the plaintiff voting rights which are protected by the Headlee Amendment and Michigan Constitution 1963, Article 9, Secti… |
| 22-1088 |
John T. Morris v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights |
Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitution t… |
| 22-7191 |
Terrence Hammock v. Gail Watts, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights equal-protection racial-discrimination redistricting standing voting-rights |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in upholding the state's congressional map as constitutional despite evidence of racial gerrymandering |
| 22-6082 |
In Re George W. Buford, III |
|
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
adjudication civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-crisis due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions voting-rights |
Question not identified |
| 22-420 |
In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras |
|
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights |
Whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers while requiring Independent candidates to obtain consent from four… |
| 22-412 |
Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (17) |
civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights |
Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte… |
| 22-414 |
Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights |
Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution? |
| 21-1596 |
Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Press Robinson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-rights gingles-preconditions preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 voting-rights |
Whether the district court erred in its application of the Gingles preconditions and in ordering a racial gerrymander as a remedy |
| 21-7890 |
Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech legislative-procedure legislative-process legislative-rules representative-rights separation-of-powers standing voting-rights |
Whether the eight rules of the IL 102nd General Assembly cited in this case violate and nullify Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr's. right to have his el… |
| 21-1271 |
Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. |
North Carolina |
2022-03-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (74)Relisted (3) |
constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights |
Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the 'Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives .. . prescri… |
| 21-1068 |
Lion Raisins, Inc., et al. v. Karen Ross |
California |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
agricultural-cooperative bloc-voting electoral-influence government-objectives government-power jurisprudence private-association rational-basis-review voter-apportionment voting-rights |
Whether this Court's voting rights jurisprudence permits the government to empower a private association (here, an agricultural cooperative) to cast a… |
| 21-718 |
Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, et al. v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights decolonization disenfranchisement due-process insular-cases self-governance territories-clause voting-rights |
Whether Petitioners have standing to challenge the constitutionality of PROMESA |
| 21-6057 |
Eugene Korte v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing voting-rights |
Question not identified |
| 20-8012 |
Jack Vo v. California |
California |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review a case of public importance that was denied consideration by the lower courts |
| 20-1510 |
Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a 'packed' Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election? |
| 20-1244 |
Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights |
Whether Indiana violates the Twenty-Sixth Amendment by giving voters age 65 and older the right to cast an absentee ballot by mail while requiring oth… |
| 20-7263 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Yee |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
equal-protection first-amendment gerrymandering redistricting standing voting-rights |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the constitutionality of Michigan's congressional districtin… |
| 20-1100 |
Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights |
Do the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment prohibit California's winner-take-all system for appointing presidential electors? |
| 20-887 |
In Re L. Lin Wood, Jr. |
|
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process election-law elections equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the vote-dilution |
| 20-809 |
Kelli Ward v. Constance Jackson, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
ballot-inspection civil-rights due-process election electoral-college electoral-count-act fourteenth-amendment presidential-electors standing state-courts voting-rights |
Does the Electoral Count Act impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determination of disputes over presidential electors? |
| 20-799 |
L. Lin Wood, Jr. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
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due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing state-legislature vote-dilution voting-rights |
Whether a voter has standing to challenge state action based on vote dilution |
| 20-6105 |
Gabriel Oliver v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 20-463 |
Robert A. Heghmann v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
candidate-rights civil-rights congressional-elections congressional-primaries democratic-party election-law political-parties racial-discrimination standing voter-standing voting-rights |
Does a voter have standing to challenge racial discrimination by the Democratic Party in Congressional Primary Elections? |
| 20-109 |
Scott Schwab, Secretary of State of Kansas v. Steven Wayne Fish, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
citizenship-requirement constitutional-law election-law federal-preemption national-voter-registration-act voter-registration voting-rights |
Whether the United States Constitution prohibits Kansas from requiring applicants to provide proof of United States citizenship when registering to vo… |
| 19-1399 |
Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-security election-standing equal-protection maladministration rule-12b1 rule-12b6 standing voting-rights voting-system |
Do the plaintiffs have standing to challenge their county's unfair voting system? |
| 19-1389 |
Texas Democratic Party, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Granted |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
age-discrimination constitutional-amendment constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-ballot mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voter-access voting-rights |
Does Texas's limitation of the right to cast a no-excuse mail-in ballot to only voters who are '65 years of age or older on election day' violate the … |
| 19-1257 |
Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12) |
15th-amendment ballot-collection discriminatory-burden disparate-impact election-integrity election-law fifteenth-amendment out-of-precinct-policy precinct-voting provisional-ballots section-2 voter-suppression voting-rights voting-rights-act |
Does Arizona's out-of-precinct policy violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act? |
| 19-1258 |
Arizona Republican Party, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Judgment Issued |
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ballot-harvesting election-law equal-opportunity precinct-voting racial-discrimination racial-minorities voter-fraud voter-participation voting-practices voting-rights voting-rights-act-section-2 |
Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act compels states to authorize voting practices used disproportionately by racial minorities |
| 19-1219 |
Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. |
Washington |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat… |
| 19-8232 |
William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights |
Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from se… |
| 19-1199 |
Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act |
Whether the California Voting Rights Act violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8113 |
Johnny R. Andoe v. Joe Biden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms government-restrictions individual-rights natural-born-citizens personal-liberty second-amendment voting-rights |
Is it constitutional to discriminate between natural-born U.S. persons? |
| 19-7795 |
Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-974 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law election-law first-amendment free-speech strict-scrutiny subject-matter-restriction subject-matter-restrictions voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment and strict scrutiny apply to subject matter restrictions on ballot initiatives |
| 19-7158 |
Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination |
Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote |
| 19-827 |
Territory of Guam, et al. v. Arnold Davis |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
15th-amendment fifteenth-amendment guam native-inhabitants plebiscite political-status self-determination voting-rights |
Whether the Fifteenth Amendment permits Guam to invite only 'native inhabitants of Guam' to participate in a potential political-status plebiscite tha… |
| 19-754 |
Estate of Norman Robert Knight, Jr., Deceased, et al. v. Beatrice E. Whitten, as a Special Administrator, et al. |
South Carolina |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-common-law judicial-qualification one-person-one-vote probate probate-court service-of-process standing voting-rights |
Whether lower courts erred by acting on a petition filed and served without summons as required |
| 19-687 |
League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Edwards Aquifer Authority, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights electoral-districts equal-protection franchise-elections local-government one-person-one-vote rational-basis-review salyer-ball-exception voting-rights |
Whether the Salyer-Ball exception to the one-person, one-vote population equality requirement ought to apply to local government representatives chose… |
| 19-474 |
Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood, et al. |
Washington |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agenda-setting ballot ballot-access civil-rights first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process injunction sanctuary-city standing voting voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initia… |
| 19-465 |
Peter B. Chiafalo, Levi Jennet Guerra, and Esther Virginia John v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-10-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-discretion constitutional-rights due-process electoral-college first-amendment presidential-election presidential-electors standing state-law voting voting-rights |
Whether a State can legally enforce how a presidential elector casts his or her ballot and penalize an elector for exercising constitutional discretio… |
| 19-275 |
Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights |
Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to 'equal and universal suffrage'? |
| 18-9826 |
In Re Ellis Keyes |
|
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access bar-association bar-exam civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-candidates licensing open-government right-to-work standing state-licensing voting-rights |
Under what authority is license to practice law or not? |
| 18A1288 |
Steve Chabot, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-challenge district-court election-law gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights |
Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate |
| 18A1255 |
Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights |
Whether partisan gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by intentionally dilutin… |
| 18A1242 |
Larry Householder, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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congressional-districts election-law gerrymandering judicial-review redistricting voting-rights |
Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate |
| 18-1470 |
Jim Feehan v. Rick Marcone, et al. |
Connecticut |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
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bush-v-gore constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection equal-protection-clause retroactive-standard right-to-vote voting-rights |
Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred in disregarding the equal protection principles applied in Bush v. Gore and requiring proof of intentional… |
| 18-9168 |
Melissa Owens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the defendant's criminal history score and sentencing range under the United States Sentencing Guideli… |
| 18-8335 |
Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion |
| 18-7729 |
Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights |
Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr… |
| 18-7244 |
Vidal Licea Morales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 18-7225 |
Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights |
Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional? |
| 18-6603 |
David Johnson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of Indiana's Voter ID law under the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-409 |
Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights |
Whether the Electoral College clause (1787) has violated the Comity clause (1787) and three subsequent amendments, the First (1789), the Fifth (1789) … |
| 18-6108 |
Sontay T. Smotherman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process election-integrity jury-selection records-inspection standing voting-rights |
Whether a defendant has an unqualified right to inspect voter selection records in order to aid in the preparation of a constitutional claim |
| 18-379 |
Ellis Keyes v. Edison G. Banks, II |
Kentucky |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bill-of-rights bona-fides civil-rights due-process elections free-speech good-faith literacy-test voting-rights |
Whether a state's right-to-work law can subject a candidate to a mandatory literacy test as a condition of ballot access, abridging voting rights |
| 18-341 |
Billie Faye Keyes, et al. v. Philip Gunn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-disenfranchisement civil-rights due-process election-integrity election-interference equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-misconduct standing voting voting-rights |
If state legislators intentionally discard ballots to swing an election, may the disenfranchised voters bring suit in federal court to enforce the gua… |
| 18-123 |
In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. |
|
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights |
Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing |
| 18-5325 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights |
Whether a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing on a prisoner's collateral attack claims |