No. 19-8254

Samuel Dowell v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-04-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings
Latest Conference: 2020-05-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal
property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through
The Commerce Clause simply because that item at some
point in history travelled in the stream of commerce?

2) Can Congres.s deny rights to minors that have been
clearly established by the Supreme Court of the United
States concerning privacy in connrction with intimate
relationships and procreation?

3) Can Congress enact statutes that chill and forbid
Islamic Americans the same Constitional rights enjoyed
by other American cultures, thus, prohibiting long
established Muslim Religious tenets and traditions?

4) Is pedophila a religious choice protected by the
First Amendment, a sexual orientation protected by the
Fourteenth Amendment, or a mental defect °f ones birth?
And if it is a mental defect, is criminalizing it
and jailing mentally ill victims for decades cruel
and unusual punishment under the Eigth Amendment?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can Congress regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eternity through the Commerce Clause simply because that item at some point in history travelled in the stream of commerce?

Docket Entries

2020-05-18
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2020.
2020-04-16
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-10-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 14, 2020)

Attorneys

Samuel Dowell
Samuel Dowell — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent