contracts-clause

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25-366 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim.
25-265 Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-09-09 Denied Response Waived contracts-clause eviction-moratorium lucas-test penn-central-test property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether an eviction moratorium is a physical taking or appropriation of property? 2. Whether Petitioner's challenge to the District's eviction mor…
24A1223 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim contracts-clause federal-court-jurisdiction section-1983 sixth-circuit statutory-remedy Question not identified.
24-1141 Patricia Iten, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Howard Iten v. County of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law contract-impairment contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium foreseeability ninth-circuit Whether a party is barred from stating a claim for relief for violation of the Contracts Clause merely because the party could have foreseen the enact…
24A921 Principle Homecare, LLC, et al. v. James McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health Second Circuit 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) contracts-clause home-healthcare-services just-compensation property-interest rational-basis-review takings-clause 1. Whether the challenged legislation, called the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program Amendment, which permanently extinguishes the contract…
22-5948 Brett W. Cormier v. Florida Florida 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE ART. I, SECT. 10 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN IT IMPAIRED THE OBLIGATION OF PETITIONER'S CONTRACTS BY CHARG…
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1, "An Act Concerning Police Accountability," violates the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10, of the United St…
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…
21-1565 State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al. North Carolina 2022-06-15 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim…
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment 1) Does a United States.Court of Appeals have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1291 to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the Di…
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1292(a)(1) that has been fully briefed and pending in the United States Court of …
21-788 Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc., dba Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium due-process eviction-moratorium judicial-scrutiny lease-impairment municipal-law takings 1. Whether a municipal law challenged under the Contracts Clause as impermissibly impairing private contracts is subject to variable scrutiny based on…
21-5259 James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied IFP class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct 1. The State may not selectively deny its protective services to certain minorities without violating the Equal Protection Clause. Petitioner's wife a…
20-1245 Pedro Vasquez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-03-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel contract-obligations contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fee-advancement impairment indigent-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court impaired the obligation of a contract in contravention of Article I, sec. 10, cl. 1 of the U.S. Co…
20-7148 Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings Question not identified.
19-286 Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. City of Cranston, Rhode Island Rhode Island 2019-09-04 Denied constitutional-rights contracts-clause municipal-law police-power public-purpose retirement-benefits takings-clause vested-rights When members of the Cranston Police and Fire Retirees Action Committee (hereinafter, "Petitioner retirees" and/or "CPRAC") retired, they were contract…
18-7315 James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination L. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WITN OBLINK AGENC ___ MS. TENNTE ROWEN, DENTED P TONER HIS DUE PROCESS OF LAV On [UTIONAL RIGHTS AY R NG TO ALLOW HIM AN I…
18-7042 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent What is the proper application, if any, of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to P…