| 25A748 |
RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-29 |
Application |
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administrative-discretion agency-rulemaking hydrofluorocarbons legislative-power nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Question not identified. |
| 25-762 |
Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency |
Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC… |
| 25-761 |
Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-constraints medicare price-controls separation-of-powers |
The Inflation Reduction Act grants the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") unprecedented and unfettered authority to impose price contr… |
| 25A219 |
Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III |
Arkansas |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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agency-rulemaking arbitration-agreements federal-arbitration-act long-term-care medicare-medicaid spending-clause |
This case presents exceptionally important questions about the correct interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act and Spending Clause legislation. … |
| 23-1217 |
Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2). |
| 23A779 |
Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-law agency-rulemaking arbitrary-capricious electronic-nicotine fda-regulation marketing-application |
Question not identified. |
| 23-799 |
Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems ends-products fda-regulation marketing-authorization reliance-interests youth-access |
Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev… |
| 23-135 |
Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), which bars judicial review of "[t]he determination ... whether to institute an inter partes review," applies even when no … |
| 22-1186 |
Citizens for Constitutional Integrity, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-rulemaking cloture-rule congressional-review-act due-process equal-protection executive-power legislative-power legislative-rule separation-of-powers voting-thresholds |
1. Whether the Congressional Review Act, which
incorporates the Cloture Rule, 5 U.S.C. 801(b)(2),
violates the separation of powers by creating a one-… |
| 22-1175 |
Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) (App., infra, 19a-54a), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)… |
| 22-1158 |
Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
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administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process |
Does agency rulemaking itself, like the STA Redress Process, constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110, therefore stripping the district court … |
| 22-25 |
Roy Lynn McCutchen, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-authority agency-rulemaking fifth-amendment government-power legislative-delegation legislative-rulemaking personal-property physical-taking property-rights redressability takings-clause |
For purposes of the Fifth Amendment's Taking Clause, does a delegation of general legislative rulemaking authority to an agency constitute an inherent… |
| 21-1441 |
Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers |
1. What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution th… |
| 21-888 |
Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin… |
| 21-574 |
Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agency-rulemaking bennett-v-spear environmental-impact nepa notice-and-comment procedural-finality standing standing-doctrine |
1) The National Policy Act ("NEPA") , 42 U.S.C. § 4331 et seq. (2012) mandates that all federal agencies consider environmental impacts before acting.… |
| 21-118 |
Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying … |
| 20-1662 |
William B. Trescott v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference agency-rulemaking chevron-deference due-process interstate-commerce professional-judgment |
Is it Constitutional for a court to defer to a person lacking professional experience under Chevron, U.S. A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Counci… |
| 20-1486 |
Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking disproportionate-share-hospital disproportionate-share-hospital-payments due-process logical-outgrowth medicare medicare-payments notice-and-comment |
1) Whether agencies must accurately include key facts and data in notices of proposed rulemaking in order to satisfy the requirements of fair notice a… |
| 20-454 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
abortion abortion-referrals administrative-law agency-rulemaking family-planning rust-v-sullivan statutory-interpretation title-x |
1. Whether the rule falls within the agency's statutory authority.
2. Whether the rule is the product of reasoned decisionmaking. |
| 20-449 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Granted |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act judicial-review notice-and-comment public-charge standing |
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., an alien is "inadmissible" if, "in the opinion of the [Secretary of Homeland Securit… |
| 19-454 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act agency-rulemaking conscience-exemption contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate healthcare-mandate nationwide-injunction religious-freedom-restoration-act standing statutory-authority |
1. Whether the agencies had statutory authority under the ACA and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., to expand t… |
| 19-23 |
Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company v. Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-regulations agency-rulemaking black-lung-benefits-act burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidentiary-standards regulatory-amendment standing |
Does requiring a wrongly-named Responsible
Operator to issue benefits to a Claimant with normal
pulmonary function and normal arterial blood gas
testi… |
| 18-722 |
Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion |
Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review
under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal
Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect… |