| 25-900 |
Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
|
admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft |
1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso… |
| 25-543 |
Thomas John Styczinski, et al. v. Grace Arnold, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-three constitutional-avoidance dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation judicial-power state-law |
1. Whether a federal court exceeds its "judicial power" under Article III and Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood when the federal court unilaterally imposes… |
| 22-679 |
NYC C.L.A.S.H., Inc., et al. v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority constitutional-avoidance due-process federalism fourth-amendment housing-regulation public-housing smoking-ban spending-clause |
1. Whether HUD lacks authority to adopt or enforce its smoking ban as a means to ensure "safe and habitable" public housing.
2. Whether the lower cou… |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word "established," as used in FACA, be construed in accord with its "plain" meaning (as the Eleventh Circuit held) or should be it constru… |
| 21-5179 |
Stanford R. Coleman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-avoidance court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-state-conflict judicial-review legal-interpretation standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court is required to consider the doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance in any case involving either validity or extension of Almendarez-T… |
| 19-983 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S. Ct. 2218 (2015), that laws restricting speech on the basis of its function or purpo… |
| 19-484 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether, notwithstanding FECA's express bar on prohibiting the disclosure of any investigation, and its careful constraints on the FEC's disclosure po… |