constitutional-power
13 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6314 | Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law | 1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei… |
| 24-7433 | Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether the "affecting commerce" element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at … |
| 24-6691 | Jose Miguel Rosario-Rojas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction exclusive-economic-zone high-seas international-law maritime-law | Whether Congress's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas" authorizes the United Stat… |
| 24-5159 | Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status | I. Whether Congress' authority to "define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas," U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the "Felonies Clause"), i… |
| 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… |
| 20-1735 | Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty | Whether Congress has power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize cockfighting on the island of Puerto Rico. |
| 20-8066 | James Hill v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | The federal government has committed petitioner James Hill to prison for a term of years based on testimony he briefly possessed a handgun on the fron… |
| 20-7663 | Andre Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment | Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int… |
| 20-6420 | Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6084 | Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle | (1.)Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the U.S.A. by implication given… |
| 18-1088 | Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association | Federal Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test | For over 70 years, the Court has used a common law patent eligibility test that deviates from the language and plain meaning of the patent eligibility… |
| 18-7667 | Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure article-3 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-power due-process federal-courts judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the U.S. 5' Or. Court of Appeals has so far departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding in light of; 14Jllams v. Taylo… |
| 18-717 | PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | (a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… |