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25-966 Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending administrative-law article-iii h-2a-visa-program immigration-law public-rights-doctrine separation-of-powers Whether Article III of the Constitution precludes Congress from assigning to the Secretary of Labor the initial adjudication of proceedings to collect…
25-888 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing 1. Should this Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing? 2. If there is a municipal-taxpayer ex…
25A842 Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-6646 Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while dismissing unrebutted record evidence as "unpersuasive, " without pro…
25-830 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response Waived article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness Article III confines federal courts to live cases or controversies. When claims become moot on appeal, this Court has long required vacatur —not a mer…
25-6536 C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP article-iii due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-review report-recommendation substantial-rights I. Motion for Affirmance of the Law of the Case on Prior Appeal in 4th Cir. App. Case No. 21-1470. II. The instant appeal contains novel questions of…
25-6420 In Re Ryan D. Mumme 2025-12-23 Denied IFP article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction federal-court government-liability judicial-power sovereign-immunity 1. Whether the applicant has a right to the relief he demands; 2. If he has a right, and that right has been violated, whether the laws of his countr…
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction 1. Should the district court have held an evidentiary hearing to address Petitioners' allegations that pieces of paper purporting to be summonses lack…
25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages 1. Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information, specificall…
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal—requiring federal courts to conduct mandatory Sprint analysis before invoking Younger abstention—u…
25-602 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay 1. Whether a federal court of appeals violates Due Process and exceeds its jurisdiction under Article III by denying an emergency stay request without…
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proc…
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Granted Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25-556 William Loginov v. Sheridan Memorial Hospital, aka Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied article-iii diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts rules-of-decision-act state-law-interpretation Whether Article III, the Rules of Decision Act, and the Erie doctrine mandate that federal courts sitting in diversity must certify novel state law qu…
25A492 Robert L. Walker v. Brett Michael Waronicki, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Presumed Complete article-iii constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-overreach rooker-feldman-doctrine Question not identified.
25A352 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete article-iii concrete-harm jurisdiction privacy-rights standing statutory-damages Question not identified.
25-334 Satyasheel S. Korpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response Waived article-iii driving-while-intoxicated jury-trial probation-conditions second-amendment-rights sixth-amendment 1. Does the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, guarantee a defendant charged with Driving While Intoxicated the…
25-5611 Daquan Carey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States …
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25A86 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions: 1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System…
25-5148 Jose Antonio Cossio, Jr. v. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP air-force-court article-iii due-process mandamus supreme-court-precedent van-buren-decision WHETHER MANDAMUS SHOULD ISSUE AGAINST THE AIR FORCE WHEN ITS COURT DISREGARDED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN VAN BUREN 593 U.S. 374 (2021) IN VIOLAT…
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
24-1281 Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-adjudication article-iii non-article-iii-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr…
24-1280 Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-adjudication article-iii non-jury-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr…
24A1203 Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. First Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-1218 Phillip Alig, et al. v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived article-iii certification class-action federal-rule-civil-procedure injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack a…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing circuit courts, but contrary to the D.C. Circuit below, this Court's decision in U.S. Parole Commission v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 (1980), remains good…
24-7056 Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied IFP article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity As applied in petitioner's case, are the applications of judicial and prosecutorial immunities consistent and compliant with Art. III. Sec. 2. "The ju…
24-6997 Eric Ellis v. Cargill Meat Solutions, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP article-III mootness rule-68 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tender 1. Whether a random mailing of a check (unconditional tender) that is not linked to a rule 68 offer a judgment rob a plaintiff of his article III stan…
24-1053 In Re Sara Ann Edmondson 2025-04-07 Denied Relisted (2) article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court will exercise the power enumerated and entitled in Insurance Company v. Comstock to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit t…
24-982 ExxonMobil Corporation, et al. v. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii citizen-suit clean-air-act environmental-litigation redressability traceability 1. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit has held, a plaintiff in a CAA citizen suit may satisfy Article III's traceability requirement merely by showing that…
24-6375 In Re John E. Drummond 2025-01-23 Denied IFP article-iii constitutional-violation habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-habeas-corpus If, after carefully weighing all the reasons for accepting a state court's judgment, an Article III habeas court is convinced that a prisoner's custod…
24-750 Martha Adams, et al. v. Angelo Rescigno, Sr., as Executor of the Estate of Cheryl B. Canfield, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action evidentiary-analysis settlement-certification transunion-ramirez 1. Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 as amended in 2018 permit courts to apply a policy favoring settlement in place of a rigorous evidentiary a…
24-6268 Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment Does a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case, who does not consent to a non-Art-III court trial and who asks, based on his Seventh Amendment rights, …
24A673 Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete article-iii congressional-power due-process sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-712 Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy A century ago, many courts declined to enforce arbitration agreements, concerned that arbitration as a non-judicial process could bypass essential jud…
24-654 David Lesh v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution's dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for "petty offenses."
24-645 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Amici (3) article-iii cheney-standard declaratory-judgment mandamus redressability standing (1) When plaintiffs have established their ongoing injuries are traceable to defendants' policies and practices, does Article III require a particul…
24-6083 Joshua Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution jury-trial misdemeanor sixth-amendment Whether Article III 's guarantee of the right to a jury trial for "all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment," and the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of…
24A426 Garry David Gallardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete article-iii constitutional-courts criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction state-courts Question not identified.
24-439 Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas Federal Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response Waived article-iii constitutional-authority impeachment-process judicial-removal mental-health-evaluation patent-appeals 1. Whether the Federal Circuit in removing a duly appointed Article III judge from judicial duties for her refusal to submit to a mental health evalu…
24-408 Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of law, under Article III of the United States Constitutio…
24-5594 Seldrick Carpenter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release IL Historical documents show that the Framers would have understood the jury right to apply to forfeitures of recognizance, a proceeding similar to re…
24-308 Vishrut Amin, et ux. v. Carla R. Pepperman, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Judge for Lake County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-iii constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity remote-hearing Petitioners were unlawfully prevented from physically appearing in to court against their will by Judge Carla R Pepperman (Pepperman). Petitioners wer…
24-304 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii certification class-action federal-court injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury.
24A149 The Estate of Isabella "Bella" Herndon, et al. v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete article-iii cafa circuit-conflict diversity-jurisdiction jurisdiction minimal-diversity Question not identified.
24-114 Zebra Technologies Corporation v. Intellectual Tech LLC Federal Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii complex-contracts exclusionary-rights exclusive-licensee federal-circuit licensing-rights patent-infringement patent-standing standing Whether a party has Article III standing to assert a claim for patent infringement against an accused infringer who has the ability to obtain a licens…
23-1362 Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act appointments-clause article-iii due-process freedom-of-information-act privacy-act sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection Is it appropriate for courts to contend with this Court or Congress established law through sua sponte invocation of affirmative defenses and dismiss …
23-1327 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez 1. Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind,…
23-1307 RAC Acceptance East, LLC v. Shannon McBurnie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement article-iii article-iii-standing claim-for-relief federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus mitsubishi-motors public-injunction severability standing viking-river In Viking River Cruises v. Moriana , this Court held that state law cannot obstruct enforcement of agreements for individualized arbitration by combin…
23-1216 Moliere Dimanche, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-constitution civil-consent-jurisdiction civil-procedure election-interference federal-magistrate-act federal-magistrates-act judicial-conflict-of-interest magistrate-judge thompson-v-clark void-conviction writ-of-prohibition 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the Writ of Prohibition was frivolous? 2. Does the Federal Magistrate's Act contempl…
23-1175 Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Second Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-court-power brokerage-account clawback-funds customer-net-equity madoff-fraud net-equity net-investment-method securities-law sipa sipc-trustee statutory-interpretation 1. Does an Article III Court have the power to reject the statutory definition of "net equity" as set forth in 15 U.S.C. Section 78aaa et seq. by empl…
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…
23-7228 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights-damages due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-rights Whether under Article III Sect. 2. The judicial Power extends to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under the Constitution, Laws of the United St…
23-7165 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-…
23-7140 Paul Wright v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedures-act article-i article-iii court-of-appeals-for-the-federal-circuit court-of-appeals-for-veterans-claims delegated-powers veterans-judicial-review-act Whether an aggrieved veteran's right to judicial review of the Article I veteran-benefit administrative process, pursuant to the first sentence of 38 …
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…
23-983 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship 1. Does the "state wherein they reside" provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdict…
23-924 John Anthony Castro v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived arizona-ballot article-iii article-iii-standing ballot-access campaign-expenses hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-amend presidential-candidate standing Arizona ballot-placed Republican Presidential Candidate, whose direct and current competition for votes evidenced by thousands of dollars in Arizona-s…
23-6734 C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration Fourth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay substantial-rights 1. Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of ap…
23-833 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (7) article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule For two centuries, this Court has maintained the "time of-filing" rule: "jurisdiction depending on the condition of the party is governed by that cond…
23-827 Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp Ninth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-standing chapter-11 chapter-eleven creditor creditor-rights injury-in-fact standing trustee If a bankruptcy plan proposes to pay creditors in full with interest, does a creditor who alleges that a bankruptcy court order will delay its receipt…
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS -ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE FOR ADII.WHE…
23-811 Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior District of Columbia 2024-01-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase (1) Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/Issue preclusion applies when Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) a quasi-judicial federal adminis…
23-742 Milan Kiser, et al. v. Chris Langer Ninth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-injury public-accommodation separation-of-powers standing tester-standing On March 27, 2023, this Court granted the petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the case, Acheson Hotels, L…
23-729 Roee Kiviti, et ux. v. Naveen Prasad Bhatt Fourth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three-courts bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction case-or-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether bankruptcy courts are bound by the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III of the Constitution.
23-539 Raymond De Botton v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii case-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process good-behavior judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-review standing Under our legal system, courts determine the relevant facts of a case before applying the law. These functions have long been understood as crucial to…
23-6051 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii cares-act case-or-controversy drug-conspiracy home-confinement prison-term supervised-release DOES A PRISONER SERVING A -36 MONTH PRISON TERM FOR REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE CONCURRENT WITH HIS 360 MONTH PRISON TERM FOR A DRUG CONSPIRACY…
23-478 David Harris v. American Accounting Association, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights delegation due-process judicial-power magistrate-judges pro-se-appeal pro-se-appeals separation-of-powers standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals may, with regard to a case before it and all motions in respect thereof, delegate to an unauthorized staff…
23-405 Kristy Ross v. Federal Trade Commission Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied arguable-basis article-iii civil-procedure frcp-60(b)(4) jurisdictional-challenge rule-60(b)(4) rule-60(b)(6) subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent void 1. Whether a judgment lacking in subject matter jurisdiction under Article III of the U.S. Constitution is "void" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur…
23-399 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2023-10-17 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act article-iii circuit-disqualification civil-rights civil-rights-claims constitutional-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality mandamus mandamus-relief standing May a U.S. circuit concede its [dis]qualification to adjudicate matters naming the Petitioner; after the majority of its judges in regular active serv…
23-315 VirnetX Inc. v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act article-iii commissioner-for-patents director-review federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-time-limit This petition concerns the Federal Circuit's construction of two important statutes: the America Invents Act ("AIA") and the Federal Vacancies Reform …
23-5595 Ronnie R. Rolland, Sr. v. Aurora Retirement, LLC, dba Cherry Creek Retirement Village, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process protected-activity punitive-damages standing summary-judgment title-vii QUESTION ONE: WHETHER AN APPEALS COURT MAY CONSTITUTIONALLY IN ERROR RETAIN AUTHORITY OVER SUMMARY JUDGMENT ACTIONS THAT INCLUDES MOOT EXCLUDED HEARS…
23-182 James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution 1. ) Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immun ity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution or is pre cluded by the U.S. Const., Art. Ill, Sec. 2…
23-39 Haseeb Abdullah v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights due-process establishment-clause fiduciary-duty first-amendment free-speech ideological-viewpoint standing Does a beneficiary of a public retirement fund have standing to bring a First Amendment facial challenge to a state statute that requires funds to div…
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel approving the settlement …
22-1032 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied article-iii civil-procedure due-process duty-to-defend federal-jurisdiction first-amendment insurance-contract pro-se tax-exempt tax-exempt-corporation 1) Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Circuit) correctly determined the jurisdictional power of the federal court over …
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the court-created "futility" doctrine, which allows a United States court to decide a case removed from state court even though it lacks jurisdi…
22-926 U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Amici (1) article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers The lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require it to …
22-920 ViSalus, Inc. v. Lori Wakefield, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process marketing-communications standing statutory-damages tcpa-violation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether, in light of TransUnion , receipt of a phone call after opting in to receive marketing communications is a "concrete injury in fact" sufficien…
22-682 Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction Article I of the United States Constitution provides all legislative Powers therein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Do Art…
22-6589 In Re Moses Jackson 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-review due-process federal-question judicial-power jurisdiction standing state-court-discretion supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-657 In Re Roger Towers, et ux. 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-133 28-usc-44 5th-amendment article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction due-process judicial-distribution judicial-referral magistrates-act In context of the refusal of Congress to create additional Article III Judgeships: 1. Does the distribution of Article III judgeships pursuant to 28 …
22-655 Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing district-court-order federal-enforcement final-judgment government-agreement judgment-amendment standing tribal-reserved-rights tribal-rights water-rights 1. Whether landowners, whose water use was exempted from federal enforcement under a decades old final judgment decreeing tribal reserved water rights…
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 …
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust 1. Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust. 2. Whether a revoca…
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response Waived 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court …
22-5972 William Marion Patterson, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three civil-procedure civil-rights decision-making-process due-process judicial-oversight non-delegation pro-se-appeals staff-attorney-program standing 1. Whether the Staff Attorney Program in the Eleventh Circuit and the Middle District of Florida violate the non-delegation principles of Article III …
22-5937 Prince Jones v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-power due-process government-accountability judicial-jurisdiction standing statutory-jurisdiction 1. Can D.C. Superior Court Judges exercise statutory jurisdiction under the color of Article III judicial power when Article III does not provide a st…
22-385 Roger David Towers v. Mike Hamasaki Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-review due-process habeas judicial-referral magistrate-assignment standing void-for-vagueness 1. In light of CAED district judge 's admission that they are "wholly unable to handle civil matters and the district court 's order assigning this…
22-5886 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-chapter-5 article-iii balzac-v-porto-rico court-jurisdiction district-court judicial-power mookini-v-united-states statutory-interpretation territorial-court United States Supreme Court in two cases: Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1921) and Mookini v. United States, 303 U.S. 201 (1938) made it clear th…
22-305 Kevin O'Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied 1983 article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights free-speech section-1983 standing state-action voting 1.) Whether citizens have standing to sue private persons engaged in state action for relief under § 1983 for deprivations of their right to vote for …
22-5708 David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent LACK OF STANDING IS A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT PANEL. LACK OF POWER TO DECREE IS ALSO A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT. THE PANEL DECISION CO…
22-278 City of Ocala, Florida v. Art Rojas, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Relisted (6) article-iii civil-rights establishment-clause free-speech observer-standing psychic-injury religious-event religious-expression standing Is psychic or emotional offense allegedly caused by observation of religious messages an injury sufficient to confer standing under Article III of the…
22-257 Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Sixth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act I. Although the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication and other fundamental constitutional rights must be voluntary, the Sixth C…
22-250 Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu…
22-5494 Michael Dale Talley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three due-process judicial-review judicial-supervision non-delegation pro-se pro-se-appeals rule-making-authority staff-attorney staff-attorneys 1. Whether the Staff Attorney Programs in the lower courts violate non-delegation principles of Article III duties to non-Article III decision makers…
22-172 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus microsoft-v-baker voluntary-dismissal Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o…
22-5254 William Paul Burch v. Mark X. Mullen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii bankruptcy-judge constitutional-violation federal-rules in-forma-pauperis sanction-fees unconstitutional-order vexatious-litigant There are no vexatious litigant rules or statutes currently in effect in Federal law, only in state statutes. Therefore, can a non-Article III bankrup…
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child (1) against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Const…
22-5040 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does a criminal defendant have the right to an Attorney Immediaetely once criminal charges are presented in an Indicment? 2. If criminal defendan…
21-1605 Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C. v. Charles M. Forman, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied article-iii bankruptcy-code disgorgement non-core-proceedings separation-of-powers stern-v-marshall Question not identified.
21-1327 Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated Federal Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three-standing inter-partes-review license-agreement medimmune patent-challenge patent-validity qualcomm-dispute standing This case presents the same question as Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., No. 21-746 (U.S.) ("Apple I"), in which the Court recently called for the views o…
21-1242 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent (1) This Court and several Circuit Courts of Appeals have held that federal courts should not reach the merits of a case, including issues such as sov…
21-1191 Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal "counts as a 'strike' within…
21-1153 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitral-awards article-iii chapter-1 chapter-2 district-courts federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitral-awards new-york-convention secondary-jurisdiction separability-doctrine 1. Whether Article III of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") requires U.S. distr…
21-1148 SB Building Associates Limited Partnership v. Bunce Atkinson, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-property constitutional-limitations due-process judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers I. May Congress consistent with Separation of Powers principles deny Article III courts of the power to review an Article I court's decision allowing …
21-6729 David Schied v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-accountability criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties judicial-immunity judicial-oaths standing whistleblower 1. Are U.S. Courts and the SUPREME COURT really operating as "ARTICLE III" they operating under the CONSTITUTION, or under the U.S. are the UNITED NAT…
21-6728 David Schied v. U-Haul International, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-oath criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties government-accountability judicial-immunity judicial-oaths whistleblower 1. Are U.S. Courts and the SUPREME COURT really operating as "ARTICLE III" they operating under the CONSTITUTION, or under the U.S. are the UNITED NAT…
21-746 Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated Federal Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inter-partes-review license-agreement patent patent-challenge patent-validity standing takings Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents.
21-6338 Danquan A. Fanning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-authority article-iv-court constitutional-authority court-judgment criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-usurpation territorial-court WHETHER the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT being a Article IV Territorial Court illegally usurped Article III, Constitutional Authority and illegally e…
21-6139 Yency Nuñez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation Petitioner Yency Nuñez and the government agree that, although the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act makes proof of jurisdictional facts indispensable…
21-505 Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. Fund Liquidation Holdings LLC, as Assignee and Successor-in-Interest to FrontPoint Asian Event Driven Fund L.P., et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction-creation legal-standing new-plaintiff plaintiff-addition rule-17 standing Whether a district court lacking Article III jurisdiction can create such jurisdiction by adding a new plaintiff via Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1…
21-474 In Re Wisconsin Legislature 2021-09-28 Denied article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature (1) Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute ch…
21-5749 Krishna Mote v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure injury-in-fact jurisdiction standing (1) Whereas can a Court of Appeals implicate a statement by the Middle District Court on assumption to rectify the Statement? (2) Whereas does the fi…
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules with their decision to render unappeal…
21-334 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-09-01 Denied article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing Federal marijuana laws are constitutional because marijuana is not a fundamental right. Judicial review of these criminal laws has been rational basis…
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli…
20-1714 William Joseph Mooney, et ux. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure article-iii courts-of-the-united-states due-process federal-register iRS-collection legal-notice real-party-of-interest standing substantive-regulations united-states united-states-of-america Question 1. Who has Standing against the Mooneys as the Plaintiff and being the as the Real Party of Interest in the "Courts of the United States " ar…
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction DID THE TRIAL COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO PROCEED AND ENTER JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW? WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT HAD POSSESSED JURIDICTION IN ABSENCE …
20-7747 Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing 1. Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people? 2. Do Americans still have the inherent and un…
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), prohibiting federal courts from granting a writ of habeas c…
20-7483 Luis Andres Medel-Guadalupe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii delegation-of-authority inpatient-treatment outpatient-treatment probation-officer supervised-release 1. Does a district court's delegation of authority to a probation officer to determine whether a person on supervised release undergoes inpatient trea…
20-1183 Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland, Inc., et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied article-iii article-three-standing civil-action civil-rights constitutional-injury havens-realty mission-alignment organizational-standing resource-diversion standing In a civil action arising under a Federal question, can an organization that does not claim membership or representational standing, attain first part…
20-1085 Scott Erik Stafne v. Thomas S. Zilly, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 article-iii civil-rights due-process good-behaviour-tenure judicial-independence judicial-tenure jurisdictional-challenge separation-of-powers standing Whether the challenge that a jurist is not an Article III judge because she or he does not have "good behaviour" tenure is a jurisdictional one which …
20-1026 Eagle Trust Fund v. United States Postal Service, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act article-iii executive-action judicial-review non-apa-review postal-reorganization-act usps-rules In two landmark suits against prior Postmasters General, this Court set bedrock principles of judicial review of executive action in equity. Kendall v…
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable a…
20-717 Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing 1. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit? 2. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III procedural standi…
20-521 Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review party-presentation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-district-court 1. Did any Petitioner/Plaintiffs named in the three complaints filed with the District Court allege sufficient personal concrete and particularized ha…
20-446 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts collateral-claims federal-courts jurisdictional-issue military-courts military-law military-prisoners Should military-specific collateral claims raised by military prisoners still subject to military law be adjudicated in the specialized, experienced A…
20-404 In Re John Masiz 2020-09-28 Denied 5th-amendment article-ii article-iii civil-rights consent-decree due-process fifth-amendment securities-law sua-sponte This matter concerns the constitutional limits on the authority of the federal court to exercise, sua sponte, in the absence of a case or controversy …
20-330 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-14 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar…
20-318 Equal Means Equal, et al. v. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States First Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1-usc-106b article-iii article-v constitution equal-rights-amendment standing 1. Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is now the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because three-fourths of the States have ratified it…
20-212 Teresita A. Canuto v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii causal-connection civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ftca ftca-claims jurisdiction standing standing-doctrine summary-judgment 1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and the District Court erred when it affirm the motion for summary affirmance and motion to dismiss of appellee G…
20-14 Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc., et al. v. Village of Pomona, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing fair-housing-act free-exercise institutionalized-persons-act municipal-law property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa standing zoning-law When it enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc, et seq. , Congress created a cause of acti…
20-5 Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied Amici (5) article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been "completely nullified," Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)?
19-8889 Hector Guagua-Alarcon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied IFP article-iii article-three due-process executive-branch executive-power federal-jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction I. The parties to a case cannot manufacture federal subject-matter jurisdiction by stipulation. Nonetheless, the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46…
19-1411 Barry L. Rupert, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for Stanford Receivership Estate, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction non-receivership-entities ponzi-scheme receivership receivership-estate settlement settlement-bar standing third-party-claims Petitioners were investors who lost their investment in the Stanford International Bank Ponzi scheme. Petitioners brought suit in state court against …
19-1402 Antonio Jubis Zacarias, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction article-iii-standing bar-orders circuit-conflict civil-procedure investor-claims receivership receivership-estate standing standing-doctrine Whether a district court in a receivership action has Article III jurisdiction to bar investor claims for individual injuries when the receiver lacks …
19-8777 In Re Garvester Bracken 2020-06-22 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction WHETHER IN ABSENCE OF DEFENDANT AND DEFENSE COUNSEL HAVING NOT BEEN PERSONALLY PRESENT DURING ANY STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS DID THE TRIAL COURT H…
19-1371 Roger Dean Waldner v. Bradley R. Hartke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-admissions judicial-power jurisdictional-error rule-60(b)(4) standing void-judgment 1. Is a district court's exercise of Article III judicial power over a non-controversy a rare instance of jurisdictional error that renders its judgme…
19-8654 Richard Senese, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent panel-rule stare-decisis I. Rather than applying this Court's precedents, the Eleventh Circuit held that its "prior panel rule" precluded it from reaching appellant's argument…
19-1152 ISL Loan Trust, et al. v. Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-authority constitutional-authority debtor-creditor-relationship equitable-mootness non-debtor-claims non-debtor-releases nonconsensual-release restructuring restructuring-debtor-creditor stern-v-marshall I. Whether a bankruptcy court has authority, under Article III of the Constitution and this Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. 462 (2011)…
19-1012 General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete…
19-7381 Percy Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
19-841 United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), this Court upheld 26 U.S.C. 5000A, a provision of the Affordable Care…
19-777 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur 1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to …
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 …
19-647 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing certainly-impending chain-of-events constitutional-challenge eleventh-circuit future-injury speculative speculative-harm speculative-injury standing standing-article-iii substantial-likelihood supreme-court 1) Does the Eleventh Circuit's "substantial likelihood" test for Article III standing relating to future injuries comport with this Court's "certainly…
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2? Is the judicial remedial structure create…
19-6398 Aretha Townsend v. National Labor Relations Board Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act article-iii case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights compliance contempt due-process frivolous judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-jurisdiction standing 1. Whether "District Judge " [Leigh Martin May] violated "Petitioner — Townsends "rights of Due Process > when failing to allow [her] (case action — …
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction (1) Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are "final" under 28 U.S.C. §1291. (2) Whether personal jurisdiction's minimum contact…
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act In Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, this Court held that a plaintiff does not automatically satisfy Article III's "injury-in-fact requirement whenever a statut…
19-6268 Isabel Yero Grimon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three-courts burden-of-proof federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-validity judicial-precedent limited-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that federal jurisdiction is conclusively established whenever an indictment alleges a federal crime?
19-6085 Frank Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement 1. This Court's jurisdictional-sequencing decisions establish that a federal court may resolve a case on any non-merits question. This Court holds tha…
19-6065 Emilio Fusco v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct article-iii article-three constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power sentencing standing WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER ACQUITTED CONDUCT SENTENCING UNDERMINES DUE PR…
19-340 Carey D. Ebert v. John Paul DeJoria, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting article-iii article-iii-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee breach-of-fiduciary-duty corporate-debt debtor-corporation fiduciary-duty judicial-proceedings standing trustee unpaid-debt Whether a bankruptcy trustee who proved at trial, without objection, that defendants' tortious conduct (breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetti…
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Appellate count committed a manifest of Constitutional error by failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article il subsecti…
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court? Is there, within the phrase "The Supreme Court and al…
19-42 North Carolina Utilities Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-07-05 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing federal-agency-orders federal-energy-regulatory-commission natural-gas-act parens-patriae procedural-rights quasi-sovereign-interests standing state-litigant state-standing If a court of appeals finds a State litigant failed to demonstrate injury-in-fact that is traceable to the challenged action and redressable by the co…
18-1592 Allstate Insurance Company v. Daniel Rivera, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure defamation fair-credit-reporting-act fcra federal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction trial-court-discretion The question presented is whether a federal court may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state-law claims when it determines after trial that a p…
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights (including rights guaranteed by: U.S. Constitution's …
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif 1. Whether Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is…
18-1497 In Re Minor L. McNeil 2019-05-31 Denied administrative-commission article-iii article-iii-judicial-issue article-iv article-iv-court due-process hayburns-case judicial-proceeding jury-trial mandamus war-crime Whether Mandamus shall issue to an Article IV Court to close its judicial side, and open an Administrative Commission to supervise a jury trial procee…
18-9491 William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ISSUE OF WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S CORRECTLY CONCLUDED THAT HIS ROs…
18-9218 Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands provides for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 48 U.S.C. § 1612, and for the appointment of judg…
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9141 Matthew James Griffin v. Unknown Gregoline, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing QUESTION #1: Whether the District Court erred in granting Defendants summary judgment on the disputed material facts of this case? QUESTION #2: Wheth…
18-9103 Milton Thomas, Sr. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1334 article-iii bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction congressional-intent district-court-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer non-core-proceeding non-core-proceedings stem-v-marshall stern-v-marshall 1) Can the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals deny the Act of Congress conferring original and exclusive jurisdiction on the District Court of all civil pro…
18-8610 Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article…
18-1190 DoctorDirectory.com, LLC, et al. v. Davis Neurology, P.A. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1446 article-iii federal-court jurisdictional-timing notice-of-removal other-paper removal removal-statute second-removal spokeo-v-robins standing state-court statutory-interpretation thirty-day-deadline Whether the thirty-day deadline for filing a notice of second removal from a state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(3) can begin and expire in fe…
18-8229 Sam Chinn, aka Sam Chinn, III v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-iii-violation civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-rule-8 habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification magistrate-judge-process plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60b-motion WHETHER THE DENIAL OF A RULE 60(b) MOTION, BY THE DISTRICT COURT, AND THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE COURT OF APPEALS, WAS A ABUS…
18-1052 Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur…
18-974 Mar-Bow Value Partners, LLC v. McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Services US LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied access-to-records article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy-conflicts bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-fiduciary bankruptcy-integrity bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-standing integrity-of-process judicial-review pecuniary-interest persons-aggrieved standing Respondent McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Services US LLC ("McKinsey") was employed to assist debtors in a bankruptcy reorganization. Petitioner a…
18-960 Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc. v. BMO Harris Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1367 arbitration arbitration-agreement article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-court supplemental-jurisdiction third-party third-party-complaint 1. Whether a plaintiff loses their right to have all claims that form part of the same case or controversy under Article III of the United States Cons…
18-880 SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing 1. Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology …
18-834 Farzana Sheikh, et vir v. San Joaquin General Hospital Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure magistrate magistrate-referral standing A federal court's "obligation" to hear and decide a case that implicates Constitutional and Civil Rights is "virtually unflagging". Parallel state-cou…
18-7115 Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction This Court's Article III inferiors are in turmoil over the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s phrase "inadequate or ineffective." Congress has not defin…
18-7046 Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-regulations article-iii article-iii-courts article-iv congress due-process notice-and-comment possessions rule-making territories territories-and-possessions united-states-possessions united-states-territories 1. Is Congress required to establish Article III courts in the United States Territories and Possessions? 2. Under the APA, and its definition of "ru…
18-750 JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. Federal Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of…
18-6632 In Re Danny Howell 2018-11-08 Denied IFP adverse-consequences article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing I. DOES A COURT OF APPBALS ABURE ITS DISERETON IN REPUSING TO PARMIT DO 3O PRELLLIDES HABEAS PETTTIONER BROM BVER RAGBIV ING ANY ADUUDICATION OF HIS C…
18-505 In Re United States, et al. 2018-10-18 Denied administrative-procedure-act article-iii civil-procedure-standing civil-rights climate-change due-process environmental-advocacy justiciability public-trust-doctrine standing 1. Whether this suit is justiciable under Article III. 2. Whether this suit should be dismissed for failure to comply with the requirements of the Ad…
18-6304 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment article-iii confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 self-incrimination sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Defendant's rights under Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution for the trial of his crimes by jury in the State where t…
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-270 Damian Phillips v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture civil-procedure due-process evidence lujan-test procedural-standing standing summary-judgment third-party-evidence Whether a claimant in a civil forfeiture proceeding has established sufficient Article III standing to withstand summary judgment and proceed to trial…
18-267 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-31 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights congressional-intent due-process federal-election-commission-v-akins federal-question federal-statute informational-injury injury-in-fact judicial-review munsingwear-doctrine munsingwear-vacatur privacy public-disclosure standing standing-injury-in-fact statutory-interpretation 1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to …
18-5800 Brent F. Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-jurisdiction article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure heckler-v-chaney mootness mootness-doctrine standing standing-article-iii-constitution Whether the District Court lacks jurisdiction under under. Article III of theConstitution. Case or Constroversy clause, in light of Heckler v. Chane…
18-5702 Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction The parties to a case cannot manufacture federal subject-matter jurisdiction by stipulation. Nonetheless, the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.…
18-225 Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even…
18-182 AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived actual-controversy article-iii declaratory-judgment drug-exclusivity fda-approval generic-drugs patent-invalidity pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-patents standing In the context of patent cases involving pharmaceutical products, does the "actual controversy" requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C.…
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure 1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion …