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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A496 Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado Colorado 2025-10-30 Application cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation Question not identified.
25A478 Todd Blanche, et al. v. Shira Perlmutter District of Columbia 2025-10-27 Application executive-branch federal-vacancies-reform-act legislative-branch officer-classification presidential-removal separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25A269 Department of State, et al. v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-08 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion congressional-appropriations executive-branch funding-restrictions judicial-review Question not identified.
24-1216 In Re Micron Technology, Inc., et al. 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived civil-discovery district-court executive-branch national-security protective-order technical-documentation Does a district court clearly and indisputably err in ordering production of sensitive technical docu-mentation without applying the standards set for…
23-7639 Louis C. Bouie v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Pennsylvania 2024-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP drug-treatment-program due-process ex-post-facto executive-branch judicial-review sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers stare-decisis statutory-construction Did the Pennsylvania High Court unconstitutionally permit the statutory construct at 61 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105 to grant the executive branch carte blanche s…
23-903 David E. Stone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act bundled-mortgages executive-branch executive-branch-discretion income-tax internal-revenue-code mortgage-taxation sovereign-immunity tax-collection Whether the Commissioner, as an arm of the executive branch, has absolute discretion and sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedure Act to …
23-5775 Suvad Dardagan v. Charles Truitt, Warden Illinois 2023-10-12 Denied IFP affirmation charging-instrument executive-branch fourth-amendment judicial-determination oath probable-cause warrant warrant-requirement I. The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitu tion, apt of being jurisdictional in and of itself, requires Warrants issued upon probable cau…
22-1209 PDVSA U.S. Litigation Trust, et al. v. LUKOIL Pan Americas LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure executive-branch foreign-government judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the application of the political question doctrine deprives a court of subject matter jurisdiction. 2. Whether a lack of subject matter ju…
22-6962 Antonio Rosas-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule enforcement-action executive-branch immigration-law immigration-removal legislative-rule notice-to-appear statutory-requirement statutory-requirements In order to initiate immigration removal proceedings under 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a), the government must serve a single notice to appear (NTA) containing al…
22-244 Stephen A. Tanner v. Idaho Department of Fish and Game, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response Waived executive-branch fourth-amendment game-check-stations roadblocks separation-of-powers wildlife-management Whether the Director and Officers of the State of Idaho Department of Fish and Game violate the Separation of Powers doctrine when implementing roadbl…
21-7823 Robert L. Allum v. Montana Montana 2022-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation QUESTION I Whether or not a 46 year history, of a state court of last resort, through judicial fiat, violating the due process rights of the Fourteen…
21-1248 Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived congressional-action constitution executive-branch federal-courts indian-treaty-rights issue-preclusion 1. Whether the federal courts have the constitutional authority to unilaterally abrogate all rights guaranteed to an Indian tribe under a treaty with …
21-6365 Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congress-executive congressional-oversight due-process executive-branch judicial-authority judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation 1. Does a judge have the authority to deem the interests of Congress and the Executive Branch to be vexatious? 2. How severely ill are judges in Amer…
21-6266 Mary Aragon, aka Mary Delgado, and German Ramirez-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP acting-attorney-general appointments-clause constitutional-law due-process executive-branch principal-officer senate-confirmation united-states-attorney Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' claim under Article II's Appointments Clause — namely, that Whitaker's unconstitutional appointmen…
21-400 Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether it violates the separation of powers for executive branch officials to keep a person in civil detention on the basis of factual findings th…
21-5441 Brandon Mark Bjerknes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment article-1-section-3 constitutional-construction double-jeopardy executive-branch federal-government federal-lawmaking judicial-minimalism senate-representation state-representation (1) Under Article I, section 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, does the Senate, through its constitutional construction, link the State G…
20-1738 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives District of Columbia 2021-06-15 GVR article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou…
20-1657 Minor Lee McNeil v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process executive-branch federal-jurisdiction federal-power trading-with-enemy-act trading-with-the-enemy-act treason war-powers Whether the use of the federal War power via the amended (TWEA), to establish federal jurisdictions inside the Union States is an act of Treason? Whe…
20-7427 Leefatinie Tirosh Cole v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 34-U.S.C.-§-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Whether this Court should revisit nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-6809 Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-298 El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Pending appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds In January 2019, during a government shutdown, President Trump formally requested from Congress $5.7 billion in appropriations for a wall along the So…
20-5178 Jimmy Fernetus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers 1. Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum …
20-5004 Michael Joseph Zeroni v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-USC-20913(d) constitutional-law Executive-Branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i…
19-8918 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of person's property once it no longera serves a government purpose in the prosecu…
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…
19-8422 Todd Lee Glenn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-8381 Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-7535 Norman Eugene Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-U.S.C.-20913(d) 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-law executive-branch Gundy legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation (1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i…
19-7494 Ricky Lynn Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) constitutional-limits executive-branch gundy gundy-precedent legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation (1) Whether this Court should revisit its broad nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) i…
19-6626 Allen Dodson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-185 Kalev Mutond, et al. v. Darryl Lewis District of Columbia 2019-08-12 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure common-law-immunity conduct-based-immunity diplomatic-immunity executive-branch executive-branch-position executive-branch-views foreign-official-immunity foreign-officials personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit personal-capacity-suits samantar-v-yousuf torture-victim-protection-act Respondent Darryl Lewis, an American citizen and security contractor, was arrested and detained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on groun…
19-55 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act article-i article-i-court caaf executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts military-jurisdiction uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Can the Executive Branch divest an Article I military court of appeals of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ brought under the All Writs Act, 28 …
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 …
18A1205 James W. Richards, IV v. Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete article-i-courts executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
18-1322 The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, et al. v. New York City Police Department, et al. New York 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived animal-cruelty establishment-clause executive-branch free-exercise judicial-branch legislative-branch mandamus separation-of-powers standing writ-of-mandamus 1. Can the New York State Judicial Branch refuse to issue a writ of mandamus when the executive branch defies the legislative branch; 2. Can the New …
18-966 Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (52)Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-decision agency-decision-making census discovery executive-branch standing 1. Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census …
18-557 Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing Whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq., a district court may order disc…
18-5992 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 commutation criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing executive-branch executive-commutation judicial-branch judicial-discretion judicial-executive-branch-interaction mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines Does Butler's Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentence Initially Imposed By The Judicial Branch And Later Commuted By The Executive Branch Bar Him From Se…