Preliminary-injunction

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25A714 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-18 Application birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing Question not identified.
25A515 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-claims federal-court judicial-relief preliminary-injunction state-officials status-quo Question not identified.
25A457 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe …
25A265 Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-09-05 Presumed Complete asset-seizure due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction receivership securities-law Question not identified.
25A212 Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Application appellate-review constitutional-rights domain-transfer due-process judicial-procedure preliminary-injunction Question not identified.
25A96 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra Question not identified.
25A94 Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra Question not identified.
24A886 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-13 Presumed Complete Amici (1) birthright-citizenship nationwide-relief non-parties preliminary-injunction universal-injunction Question not identified.
24A885 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-13 Presumed Complete Amici (1) article-iii-standing birthright-citizenship executive-authority executive-order preliminary-injunction universal-injunction Question not identified.
24-873 Angela W. DeBose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response Waived jury-trial preliminary-injunction rule-12b6 rule-65 temporary-restraining-order vexatious-litigant (1) Whether the "with " and/or "without " notice rules of Rule 65 for a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order require a hearing? (2) …
24A348 YAPP USA Automotive Systems, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-14 Presumed Complete administrative-action agency-enforcement constitutional-injury due-process judicial-review preliminary-injunction 1. Is Applicant entitled to a preliminary injunction enjoining Respondents from proceeding with the underlying unconstitutional administrative action …
24-156 Leachco, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Amici (5) administrative-agency constitutional-law due-process preliminary-injunction presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers For over two years, Petitioner Leachco, Inc., has been subjected to an administrative proceeding by Respondent Consumer Product Safety Commission, an …
23-7186 Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice Seventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment in-camera-review judicial-system legal-proceeding meet-and-confer preliminary-injunction summary-judgment Whether permitted by Due process shall a ruling and proceeding take place without a "Meet and Confer"? Eventually causing abstract or ambiguous adjudi…
23A855 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may …
23-7041 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte Mr. Pye brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 and contemporaneously sought a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to restrain…
23-995 Nadine Gazzola, et al. v. Kathleen Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied 2nd-amendment bruen-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-standing due-process firearms-regulation free-speech preliminary-injunction regulatory-overburden second-amendment standing takings Did the Second Circuit err in the Winter analysis of Petitioners' request for preliminary injunctive relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 65, including (1.) w…
23A819 Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction Question not identified.
23-955 Robert M. Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-7703 civil-service equitable-powers interim-relief mixed-case preliminary-injunction pro-se-litigant whistleblower Petitioner prevailed in an adverse action appeal when MSPB ordered respondent to cancel his indefinite suspension. When respondent petitioned for revi…
23-950 Michael J. Lindell, et al. v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure civil-rights electronic-data fourth-amendment free-speech legal-precedent preliminary-injunction retaliation seizure warrant-particularity The extraordinary number of conclusions in the opinion below that conflict starkly with applicable precedents smacks of a judicial process that strain…
23-6562 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi…
23-702 Sander L. Esserman, in His Official Capacity as Future Claims Representative v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied asbestos-litigation bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-standard corporate-reorganization debtor-protection likelihood-of-success non-debtor-litigation organizational-restructuring preliminary-injunction subject-matter-jurisdiction First, may a sophisticated corporate defendant use an organizational reshuffling to devise bankruptcy jurisdiction for a nationwide preliminary injunc…
23-621 Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-08 Judgment Issued Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as opposed to merely predicting a likelihood of later succe…
23-579 Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65?
23A470 Idaho v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete Amici (5) abortion emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption medical-procedure preliminary-injunction state-law Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating a panel stay of a preliminary injunction that enjoins Idaho's Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortio…
23A469 Mike Moyle, Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-court gender-affirming-care legislative-standing preliminary-injunction state-law Question not identified.
23A439 Nancy Roe, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of A.R., et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion fape idea mootness preliminary-injunction standing Question not identified.
23A390 Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, to prevail "on the merits" under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as oppo…
23-367 Starbucks Corporation v. M. Kathleen McKinney, Regional Director of Region 15 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on Behalf of the National Labor Relations Board Sixth Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split federal-district-courts national-labor-relations-act national-labor-relations-board preliminary-injunction unfair-labor-practices Whether courts must evaluate the NLRB's requests for section 10(j) injunctions under the traditional, stringent four-factor test for preliminary injun…
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate 1. Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact …
23-236 Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Judgment Issued administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-deference article-iii-standing circuit-split fda-drug-approval judicial-review national-scope preliminary-injunction In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Danco's drug Mifeprex for termination of early pregnancy based on the agency's expert judgmen…
23-199 George Anibowei v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-client-privilege border-search cellphone-privacy cellphone-search circuit-conflict fourth-amendment preliminary-injunction warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures entitles petitioner to a preliminary injunction against additiona…
23-154 Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. v. Hunter Doster, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-17 GVR Relisted (3) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process military military-vaccination mootness mootness-doctrine munsingwear-doctrine preliminary-injunction religious-exemption standing vacatur Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
23A115 Eileen Mendez, Individually and as Legal Guardian of A. C., et al. v. David C. Banks, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete individuals-with-disabilities-education-act irreparable-harm pendency-placement preliminary-injunction special-education-funding stay-put-provision Question not identified.
23-60 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Feds for Medical Freedom, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 GVR Relisted (9) administrative-law civil-service-reform-act covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order federal-employee federal-employment mootness preliminary-injunction Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
22-773 Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a "prevailing party" elig…
22-699 Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court 1. Does a preliminary injunction issued by a district judge enjoining a state attorney general and nongovernmental organizations from filing public in…
22-5594 Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 Louisiana 2022-09-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-review mortgage-securities preliminary-injunction property-rights standing 1. Whether the trial court properly granted preliminary injunction in prohibition / restraining Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, As Trustee for A…
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 Question not identified.
21A831 Michael Banerian, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, et al. Michigan 2022-06-16 Presumed Complete congressional-apportionment fundamental-right-to-vote one-person-one-vote population-deviation preliminary-injunction three-judge-court Question not identified.
21-1351 Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate revie…
21-7172 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur Although "an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the trial court enters a permanent injunction " incorporating the sam…
21-1087 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Amici (1) congressional-districts equal-protection gerrymandering minority-representation preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 standing voting-rights-act Question not identified.
21-6835 Roland Ma v. Gallery Belltown Condominium Association Washington 2022-01-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process homeowners-association judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge preliminary-injunction property-rights recusal standing 1. Does the Homeowner Association has the jurisdiction to eject a homeowner from his own home, living there since July 12, 2011? 2. Does the trial co…
21-932 Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied Amici (7) congressional-oversight constitutional-law executive-privilege preliminary-injunction presidential-records-act records-request separation-of-powers Whether the Committee's records request violates the Constitution or laws of the United States entitling President Trump to a preliminary injunction p…
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 "[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten." Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 68 (2020). More…
21-660 Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response Waived counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law For at least a decade, the petitioner has been using the registered and now-incontestable trademark "Freelancer" in commerce with various goods and se…
21-588 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Dismissed Amici (20) abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
21-5816 Ronald Peden v. Democratic National Committee, et al. First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP civil-rights dismissal-on-merits due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-conduct media-filtering political-preference preliminary-injunction prudential-standing res-judicata standing 1. Are Federal judges at liberty to unilaterally issue rulings and orders based on personal political preferences, in addition to race and class bias,…
20-1802 Joyce Rowley v. City of New Bedford, Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied animal-welfare-act breeding captivity circuit-court-interpretation de-novo-review endangered-species harassment-exception preliminary-injunction usda-aza-substitution 1.A. Does the harassment exception only apply to members of endangered species in captivity for breeding to promulgate the selected species to meet th…
20-7830 Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent 1: Did the Seventh Circuit s decision put an unreasonable require ment and hieghtened burden of proof in establishing likelihood the merits at the p…
20-1346 Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine First Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-division-v-smith establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-discrimination jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions preliminary-injunction religious-liberty strict-scrutiny temporary-restraining-order (1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against houses of worship by restricting the …
20-815 Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED THE PETITIONERS' EMERGENCY MOTION WITOUT EVEN A HEARING OR ORAL ARGUMENT FOR DECLARATORY, EMERGENCY, AND PERMA…
19-1212 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Innovation Law Lab, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority border-policy due-process immigration-law non-refoulement notice-and-comment preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation This case concerns a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which applies to aliens who have n…
19-677 Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation 1. Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? 2. When, if ever, does a plaintiff who wins a preliminary …
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention How can a state court criminal defendant enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held in …
19-508 AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (6) administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th…
19-396 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel's ruling invites judicial review for Petition for Writ of Certiorari where the ruling conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-54 Karolyn Givens, et al. v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Amici (4) condemnation condemnation-proceeding eminent-domain federal-judicial-power judicial-power just-compensation natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction property-rights Through the Natural Gas Act ("NGA"), 15 U.S.C. § 717 et seq., Congress delegates the federal power of eminent domain to private pipeline companies to …
18-1580 Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California, initiated with a request for a preliminary injunction during the pendency of …
18-9769 Ishmael Wahid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing Whether the Court of Appeals ERRED WHEN not FOLLOWING THE CORRECT STANDARD FOR GRANTING C.O.A.
18-8812 James Barr v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing preliminary-injunction race racial-discrimination standing L e frQ( (cz'cI &rwit w 7 4 pe o~ Ae,:::~Werrmy / 4 e d7-4 fi0i aglg~-d /-;P/J ,k,54 ~ I - OF JIV z i ~d jo /1 pe,i-lmer~5 / I do Jci/7' t-7 CL…
18-8766 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-review bucklew-standard civil-rights due-process evidence lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction standing (1) Whether a district court, in deciding a motion for a preliminary injunction, is entitled to make factual findings based on evidence that, even if …
18-8635 Benny L. Willis v. Kenneth Ross, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing civil-rights due-process free-speech preliminary-injunction standing state-law Given the district court's dismissal of Plaintiff's complaint case no. 17-3299, was it constitutional for officials of the Illinois Department of Corr…
18-1206 Lynda Like, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC Third Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure condemnation eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction immediate-possession judicial-power land-condemnation natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction private-companies private-property-rights takings The Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. § 717f(h)) delegates to certain private companies the ordinary eminent domain power: that is, the power to bring a cond…
18-1174 Ian Goldenberg, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response Waived eminent-domain equity judicial-taking just-compensation just-compensation-clause natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction property-rights separation-of-powers takings The Court has long emphasized the strict construction of condemnation statutes, especially as against corporate delegatees of this sovereign power. By…
18-710 Caner Demirayak v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) accessibility alternate-accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act americans-with-disabilities-act-title-ii circuit-split due-process effective-accommodations fact-finding meaningful-access preliminary-injunction public-entity rule-52(a) supervisory-power tennessee-v-lane title-ii This case presents a split between the circuits and conflict with this Court's decision in Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U.S. 509 (2004), as to the fundament…
18-6892 Joseph C. Garcia v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts compounding-pharmacy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,access-to-courts,preliminary-inju execution-drug preliminary-injunction safety-violations standing 1. Whether the denial of the motion for preliminary injunction was improper where the State of Texas impeded a condemned prisoner from succeeding on a…
18-678 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Aiden Stockman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction standing transgender transgender-military-service transgender-policy Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide.
18-677 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Jane Doe 2, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction transgender transgender-military-service In 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a new policy concerning military service by transgender individuals. Under the Mattis policy, tra…
18-6756 John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt debt-imprisonment disgorgement due-process erisa erisa-case erisa-enforcement garnishment imprisonment judicial-review labor-secretary-powers preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly decided that parts of a $38 million judgment for "disgorgement" entered in 2015 against the Pet…
18-197 E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii Congress gave the Courts inherent powers to curtail vexatious litigants' abuse of the Court system by allowing the Courts to enact pre-filing orders b…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights that have been secured by the United States Constitution hav…