| 25-763 |
PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand
this case to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did … |
| 25-6159 |
In Re Mohamed Nguida |
|
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-action constitutional-remedy due-process judicial-abdication mandamus ultra-vires |
1. Judicial Abdication and Due Process
Whetherthe Eleventh Circuit 's 100-day (and ongoing) failure to rule on an
emergency mandamus petition —where … |
| 25-579 |
Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-action cooperative-federalism environmental-review hazardous-waste resource-conservation-recovery-act |
1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t… |
| 25A570 |
Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 25A564 |
Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation |
Whether a "voluntary cessation of offensive conduct will only moot litigation if it is clear that the defendant has not changed course simply to depri… |
| 25A393 |
Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-secrecy agency-action foia glomar-response public-scrutiny records-search |
Does FOIA allow agencies to assert Glomar responses to a FOIA request? Second, if FOIA allows Glomar responses, must agencies actually search for resp… |
| 25A374 |
Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-action environmental-impact nepa permit-renewal rcra standing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5541 |
Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal |
1. Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using the summary proced… |
| 25A90 |
Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-action appellate-exhaustion civil-rights color-of-law jury-trial seventh-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1217 |
Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure agency-action federal-indian-law judicial-jurisdiction rule-60 tribal-recognition |
This case concerns yet another agency overreach involving the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act ("List Act"), and whether the statute has jud… |
| 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 |
To apportion U.S. House of Representatives seats, the 14th Amendment, Section 2 (the Reduction Clause), and 2 U.S.C 6 require an additional procedure … |
| 24-784 |
Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the rule from SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80, 93 (1943), which requires courts to evaluate agency action … |
| 24-693 |
Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-penalties judicial-review regulatory-compliance |
Through a series of Notices of Non-Compliance and related communications, Respondent Consumer Product Safety Commission determined (a) that Petitioner… |
| 24A397 |
Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-action consumer-product-safety final-agency-action judicial-review regulatory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-450 |
Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure |
whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr… |
| 24-446 |
Roobina Zadoorian v. Gwinnett Technical College, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action contract-interpretation spending-clause statute-of-limitations title-vi |
1. Statute of Limitation of Title VI
11th Circuit Appeal Court dismissed Plaintiffs discrimination claims against Gwinnett Technical College et al., i… |
| 24-412 |
George Kralik v. New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development, et al. |
New York |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action due-process statutory-interpretation tenant-rights |
1. Should an administrative agency's refusal to act on a tenant's succession application for many years and its failure to give the tenant a hearing o… |
| 24-401 |
Ashok Kumar Cheejati, et al. v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure agency-action immigration-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation withholding-claims |
1. Whether there is clear and convincing evidence that Congress intended 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) to preclude judicial review of unlawful withhold… |
| 24-5703 |
Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-action discrimination-claims judicial-review procedural-due-process whistleblower-protection |
In 2016, Petitioner Mark Bochra, a Christian Coptic suffered various forms of discrimination with retaliation including (assault, battery, and threate… |
| 24-300 |
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Shane Jeffries, in His Official Capacity as Ochoco National Forest Supervisor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-action deliberative-materials judicial-review record-review |
The Administrative Procedure Act provides that courts "shall review the whole record" in adjudicating agency action. 5 U.S.C. § 706. Lower courts are … |
| 24-5520 |
Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
1)Whether the USCIS misinterpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) is the permissible interpretation of the statute.
2)Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) required t… |
| 24-5161 |
Genuine Truth Banner v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review prisoner-rights standing |
(1) Whether a claim is barred for failure to exhaust administrative remedies within prior circuits precedent and when from exhaustion?
(2) Whether th… |
| 24A98 |
Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-action environmental-law epa-regulation natural-resources statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1352 |
Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
1. Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action.
2. Whether the… |
| 23-7815 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr. v. BronxCare HealthCare System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-action child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-1312 |
Interim Storage Partners, LLC v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-law agency-action hobbs-act jurisdictional-limitations nuclear-regulation nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing ultra-vires |
1. Whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's exercise of authority to issue a license to a private party to temporarily possess spent nuclear fuel a… |
| 23-1161 |
Children’s Health Defense, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action article-iii case-or-controversy constitutional-standing injury-in-fact resource-diversion standing vaccine-safety |
Whether a Constitutionally cognizable case or controversy exists under Article III when agency action causes substantial resource diversion of an orga… |
| 23-1125 |
Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious electronic-nicotine-delivery-system electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fda-regulation menthol-flavoring premarket-tobacco-application premarket-tobacco-product-application retroactive-rulemaking retroactive-standard |
1. Whether the Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") creation of a new, heightened standard for evaluating already-pending premarket tobacco product … |
| 23-1069 |
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity |
Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C… |
| 23-870 |
Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
When an aggrieved party petitions for judicial review of the Department of Transportation's final action under the Hazardous Materials Transportation … |
| 23A731 |
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-action capacity-auctions ferc judicial-review state-subsidies |
When an agency deadlocks over a decision, and Congress tells courts that a deadlock is agency action that is reviewable in court, should a court faced… |
| 23-6372 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination retaliation security-clearance |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1698 (DC-3443-18-0288-1-1) which was about DIA's Admin Judge's Failure to Postpone C… |
| 23-418 |
Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing |
Can the "injury in fact" element of standing, as to a consumer group challenging a federal agency action, be established by an evidentiary showing tha… |
| 23A350 |
Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5680 |
Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any … |
| 23-256 |
Suleiman Abdu Ibrahim v. Department of the Interior |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-employee-rights federal-employees summary-judgment title-vii |
Federal employees ' rights are determined under
statues which require that 'all personnel actions
effecting employees or applicants for employment. … |
| 23-235 |
Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-medication administrative-law agency-action article-iii-standing civil-procedure fda fda-regulations mifepristone preliminary-relief standing |
1. Whether respondents have Article III standing to challenge FDA's 2016 and 2021 actions.
2. Whether FDA's 2016 and 2021 actions were arbitrary and … |
| 23-115 |
Fathi Elltaif Saad Elldakli, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-action citizenship-and-immigration-services final-agency-action immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings status-adjustment |
Whether a status-adjustment decision by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services constitutes final agency action within the meaning of t… |
| 22-7488 |
Alex Adams v. Lorie Davis, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
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| 22-1008 |
Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15) |
administrative-procedure-act adverse-effect adversely-affected agency-action agency-rule circuit-split legal-wrong standing statute-of-limitations |
Petitioner Corner Post, Inc. is a convenience store and truck stop in North Dakota that first opened for business in 2018. In 2021, Corner Post sued t… |
| 22-7143 |
Xunxian Liu v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action agency-policy civil-rights due-process employment-rights federal-employment notice performance-improvement performance-improvement-plan procedural-rights |
There are many federal questions, stated Agencies ' violations chronologically as follows:
A. DHHS ' violations
1.5/21/2015. Responsible Management … |
| 22-703 |
American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Environmental Defense Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action coastal-zone-management-act environmental-assessment final-agency-action oil-and-gas oil-and-gas-permits well-stimulation-treatments |
1. Whether a programmatic environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact regarding the hypothetical future approval of permits for oil … |
| 22-584 |
Children’s Health Defense, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action article-iii case-or-controversy constitutional-standing injury resource-diversion risk-of-injury standing third-party third-party-injury |
1. Whether a Constitutionally cognizable case or controversy exists under Article III when agency action is a substantial factor in the actions of an … |
| 22-565 |
USP Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious judicial-review national-security section-232 tariff-authority trade-expansion-act |
1. Did the Federal Circuit err in holding that the
Secretary's "final agency action" which determined that
imports of steel "threaten to impair the na… |
| 22-560 |
Nathan Mowery v. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action anti-discrimination due-process executive-deference judicial-review national-security security-clearance stare-decisis |
1. Whether this Court's decision in Dep't of the Navy v. Egan precludes any and all judicial review of agency actions involving employees with securit… |
| 22-355 |
Kathy Lynn Carter v. Department of Defense |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure agency-action cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence merit-system privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure telework-agreement unexcused-leave |
Under due process under first Amendment, fourth Amendment and four amendments under the constitution can they reject petitioner procedure affidavit de… |
| 22-185 |
Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award |
1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro… |
| 21-1526 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether the ordinary summary judgment
standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action,
as held by the First, Fifth, Ninth, and District of C… |
| 21-7949 |
John D. Horton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the courts below improperly construe the "notice " to the debtor
requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.1 1(e)(1)
when th… |
| 21-1446 |
Simin Nouritajer, et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action immigrant-petition immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether considering the strong presumption of
jurisdiction to review agency action repeatedly recognized
by this Court, 8 U.S.C. §1155 and 8 U.S.C. §1… |
| 21-7797 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7372 |
Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion discrimination-laws failure-to-act judicial-review mandamus petition-for-review standing unreasonable-withholding |
1) The 2nd and DC Circuits refuse to accept a petition for review for a
failure to act. They will only accept it as a writ of mandamus,
treating it as… |
| 21-7369 |
Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
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| 21-915 |
Hugh McKinney v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious civilian-board deference judicial-review military-records standard-of-review |
Whether a civilian board's administrative decisions concerning the correction of military records pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 1552(a)(1) are properly revi… |
| 21-858 |
Classic Cab Company v. District of Columbia Department of For-Hire Vehicles |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-review appeals-process due-process hearing-process independent-adjudication judicial-review sham-hearing |
I. Is the use of a sham hearing process where the
agency subject to an appeals process has the authority
to overturn the determination of an independe… |
| 21-589 |
Said Rum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process factfinding-procedures fbar-penalties reporting-requirements standard-of-review willfulness |
This Court established the standards of review for agency actions in Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe, 401 U.S. 402 (1971). Courts are limit… |
| 21-348 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. In Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, this Court held that courts should "not invoke any presumption against pre-emption" when a "s… |
| 20-7948 |
Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1535 |
Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson |
First Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act |
1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
| 20-7760 |
John Worthington v. Office of National Drug Control Policy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure docket-management final-agency-action level-playing-field local-rule-7b official-capacity summons-and-complaint tort-claim tort-claims trial-court-arguments |
1. Whether the trial court erred by failing to apply local rule 7(b), the local "docket management tool", to keep a "level playing field."
2. Whether… |
| 20-1437 |
Optimum Services, Inc. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action bid-protest contract-disputes-act court-of-federal-claims government-contracting judicial-review standard-of-review termination-for-convenience |
I. Is an agency's termination for convenience of a contract for voluntary
corrective action in response to the filing of a post-award bid protest in t… |
| 20-1195 |
Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing |
1) Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the o… |
| 20-1190 |
Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error |
Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery? |
| 20-1113 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic… |
| 20-818 |
Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim |
Airbnb —a prominent tech company —did not report to the defendant IRS its 2017 payments of $4 billion to its USA hosts, and I informed the IRS Whistle… |
| 20-6170 |
Justin David Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance |
Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at… |
| 20-241 |
Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action attorney-client-privilege circuit-court-review foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review rule-60 summary-judgment |
To oppose release under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") of two emails, an agency asserted FOIA Exemption 4 based on the attorney-client privil… |
| 19-1238 |
Lisa L. Watson v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-action adverse-employment-action agency-action civil-rights comparator comparator-evidence discriminatory-termination due-process employment hipaa-compliance performance-improvement-plan prima-facie-case |
Where is the initial performance upon which grounds the agency fired me for this employer's adverse action after my alleged failure of the so called i… |
| 19-1166 |
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
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administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action challenging a federal agency's compliance with… |
| 19-1090 |
In Re Bahig F. Bishay |
|
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Against the backdrop of this Court's most recent guidance set forth in Weyerhaeuser Co., — where the Court held, to wit: "The Administrative Procedure… |
| 19-7017 |
Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. NH4 NO LIABILI7Y INSUNANCE ON BUSiNESSGS
2. WNY IS A CALiFONIA AUOWED TO STRING Ou7 Er CASE. AND NUMEnOUS EXNENSES - DECIDE (ONENHAT THAY PRo-SEL … |
| 19-636 |
Estate of Earnest Lee Boyland, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action civil-rights claims-framework discrimination due-process equal-protection racial-classification racial-discrimination standing strict-scrutiny |
Is it a denial of Equal Protection for the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA" or "the Department") and Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutio… |
| 19-547 |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. v. Sierra Club, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
agency-action agency-discretion deliberative-process-privilege document-disclosure draft-documents endangered-species-act freedom-of-information-act interagency-consultation |
Whether Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(5) (2012), by incorporating the deliberative process privilege, protects agains… |
| 19-464 |
Veterans Contracting Group, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
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unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judic administrative-law agency-action civil-procedure due-process government-contracts judicial-review service-disabled-veterans small-business small-business-set-aside standing statutory-compliance va-procurement veterans-affairs veterans-contracts |
Whether agency action based on an earlier, unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judicial correction based on an individual employee's alleged l… |
| 19-5509 |
Charles Randall Harrison v. Raul Maldonado |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review pro-se pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-denial |
(1) Did the District Court violate Harrison's Due Process by sua Sponte denying his Pro-Se Complaint without serving the defendants or giving judicial… |
| 18-9709 |
Angie Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious due-process judicial-review legal-accountability obstruction-of-justice standard-of-review |
How is justice being served when the standard of review is not adhered to? When there is abuse of discretion?
The Question is: When Justices obstruct… |
| 18A1280 |
Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-review |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1493 |
Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act |
I. Whether a U.S. court of a ppeals can explicitly decline
to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent requiring a
voluntary act and a "special benefit" fo… |
| 18A1222 |
Hotze Health & Wellness Center, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action judicial-review regulatory-compliance standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1469 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Casa de Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion deferred-action dhs-policy executive-discretion immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review policy-rescission standing |
1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable.
2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful. |
| 18-790 |
Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation |
The Clean Water Act authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits for the discharge of certain pollutants into "navigable waters," whic… |
| 18-743 |
White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions |
1. Where a statute directs an agency to carry out
and pay for a federal project for public benefit
without granting express authority to regulate
priv… |
| 18-588 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing |
1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable.
2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful. |
| 18-561 |
Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
I. Is a delegation of Congressional power an "agency
order" or "agency action" such that a party wishing
to challenge that delegation must file that c… |
| 18-557 |
Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing |
Whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq., a district court may order disc… |
| 18-555 |
Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands |
Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever… |
| 18-548 |
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure agency-action federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas-act religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act standing |
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)
protects the free exercise of religion by prohibiting the
government from substantially burdening a perso… |
| 18-512 |
Lee Simmons v. Paul Daniel Smith, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the National Park Service, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency-deference administrative-law agency-action agency-discretion chevron-deference due-process judicial-review property-rights statutory-interpretation takings wild-and-scenic-rivers-act |
1. Whether an agency can advance an interpretation of a statute for the first time in litigation and then demand deference for its view under Chevron.… |
| 18-388 |
Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence |
In Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U.S. 150 (1999), this Court held that The United States Patent Office must support rejection with substantial evidence. See… |
| 18-131 |
Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement |
Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen… |
| 18-5277 |
Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-19 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 |
Whether the Executive Office of the President is required, as an agency of the Federal Government to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved… |