bill-of-attainder

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure I. DID THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT MISAPPLY HECK V. HUMPHREY. II. DOES THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT'S ERROR UNDERMINE THE BILL OF ATTAINDER PROHIBITION III…
25A502 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-03 Application bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits Question not identified.
25A452 Leda Health Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete bill-of-attainder commercial-speech constitutional-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment medical-testing Question not identified.
25-190 John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment 1. Whether the removal from a cemetery of an irreplaceable religious resource memorializing the dead, leaving behind an empty stone base, injures the …
24A587 TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General. District of Columbia 2024-12-16 Granted Amici (5) bill-of-attainder content-restriction first-amendment free-speech national-security social-media Question not identified.
24-5034 Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska Alaska 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of , Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for sexual offenders fo…
23-435 Minor Lee McNeil v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment apportionment bill-of-attainder constitutional-apportionment direct-tax direct-taxation due-process fifth-amendment legislative-powers property-rights Arkansas, and most if not all other States, lay and collect direct taxes based largely on disparate property evaluations; with each State taxing their…
22-7066 Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE DEFENDANT CAN BE FOUND GUILTY FOR A PAROLE VIOLATION AND A CRIMINAL VIOLATION FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IF IT IS ILLEGAL TO TRAN…
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a County/State judges have authority to preside over a case when He/ She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has…
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference 1. Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated? 2. Will a trial be fa…
19-8600 Marco E. Torres, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-06-04 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection media-campaign referendum I. Whether the successful media campaign and referendum culminating in affirmance of Mr. Torres' death sentences qualify as cruel and unusual punishme…
19-8186 Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU…
18-7220 Pashtoon Farooqi v. California California 2019-01-03 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional? …
18-585 Ernest J. Franceschi, Jr. v. Betty T. Yee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder driver-licenses due-process hearing-opportunity license-suspension occupational-licenses procedural-rights retrospective-legislation substantive-due-process tax-delinquencies tax-delinquency California in 2012 enacted a statutory scheme to suspend the driver and occupational licenses of the largest state income tax delinquents. Revenue & T…
18-5767 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-27 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/ Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus v…
18-230 Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing The District Court did not let me Re-establish my standing in the new lower court when they changed courts. The Appeals court and the District court …