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25-456 Capital Health Regional Medical Center, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2025-10-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process economic-burden government-regulation physical-taking property-rights This case presents two important questions concerning protection of private property rights under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments. These questions…
24-803 Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission Texas 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) citizen-communication first-amendment free-speech government-regulation lobbying-restrictions political-speech The question presented is whether —and if so, under what circumstances —the First Amendment permits the government to require ordinary citizens to reg…
24A670 Pierre Kory, MD, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied covid-19 first-amendment government-regulation medical-speech physician-speech strict-scrutiny According to the district court and the Ninth Circuit, all speech between a doctor and a patient is unprotected by the First Amendment because it is a…
24-487 James G. Collins v. Monterey County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied economic-deprivation government-regulation lucas-doctrine penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking Does a taking analyzed under Lucas v. S.C. Coastal Council require that the affected property be left with no value even if the regulation in question…
23-5272 Grace Woodham v. Helen Hanks, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. New Hampshire 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Question not identified.
23-5160 Scott Eric Houston v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-regulation social-media 00 rii.q+ri C/vjp+ ComplifiH 4Kp Lnn'ic;,nnn ^upriomP C C\t/f>+ nprlpr 9
22-1149 Pacific Carlton Development Corp., et al. v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, dba Empire State Development Corporation New York 2023-05-26 Denied certificate-of-occupancy certificates-of-occupancy due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation government-seizure property-rights takings Are government-issued attributes of private property (e.g., certificates of occupancy, building permits, business permits) entitled to constitutional …
22-1095 Community Housing Improvement Program, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Amici (12) affordable-housing civil-rights due-process government-regulation housing-law physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking rent-control takings New York's Rent Stabilization Law (RSL) is the nation's most stringent rental housing regulation, governing one million New York City apartments. It a…
22-1048 Joseph E. Blackburn, Jr., et ux. v. Dare County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Whether a governmental regulation prohibiting all physical access to a landowner's property is a "per se" taking under the Fifth Amendment of the Unit…
22-842 National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo Second Circuit 2023-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (41)Response RequestedRelisted (7) 1st-amendment civil-rights corporate-social-responsibility first-amendment free-speech government-intimidation government-regulation regulatory-coercion second-amendment viewpoint-discrimination Bantam Books v. Sullivan held that a state commission with no formal regulatory power violated the First Amendment when it "deliberately set out to ac…
22-6143 Blake Sandlain v. C. Maruka, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Question not identified.
22-135 Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu…
22-5315 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2022-08-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof censorship clear-and-present-danger constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation statutory-vagueness -QuESTID nI I.) CoMsfifuTlO/vlAL IavJ To-\a1 it SfftTi/tfeS,, ElRST AM0\lDM0\tT AMD STATUTORY V/AfcUENlESS : Because ; First fcMDMQvT freedoms meed Me…
21-7963 Steven Strong Bear Stevenson v. California California 2022-05-24 Denied IFP civil-rights content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation public-forum viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
21-7511 Kevin E. Herriott v. Charles Burton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech government-regulation judicial-review WHETHER THE SOUTH CAROLINA APPELLATE COURT RULES 2-05 (a)(4) FRG. VIOLATE CONTINUE A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTAL OBJECTIVE?
21-7108 Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-02-14 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint Question not identified.
21-1120 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing 1. Whether ever-changing and ongoing governmentissued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions. 2. Whether…
21-5464 Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation individual-liberty second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court acknowledged that the Second Amendment protects a pre-existing fundamental right to armed self-defense w…
20-893 Duane Ronald Belanus v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Montana 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived compelled-speech content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation private-entities public-forum Question not identified.
20-6008 Brian Evans v. Kaiali'i Kahele Hawaii 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities 1. During an Objection to an Election, if a candidate is duly served and fails to Answer the Complaint or otherwise appear, is he in Default and shou…
20-306 Robert Olan and Theodore Huber v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Amici (2) conversion criminal-procedure dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-regulation insider-trading personal-benefit property-rights securities-law 1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" or a "thing of value" belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator su…
19-1175 John Fritz, et ux. v. Washoe County, Nevada Nevada 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived economic-impact economic-impairment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-regulation loretto-v-teleprompter physical-invasion physical-taking property-rights regulatory-takings takings To constitute a taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, must a physical invasion also destroy or substantially impair an owner's economicall…
19-1091 Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety 1. Whether a governme nt may ban expressive conduc t without first trying to advance its interests using less speech -restrictive measures , as the …
19-6432 Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2019-10-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority The Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution provides that the government may not infringe upon a person's protectable liberty interest wi…
19-439 CTIA - The Wireless Association v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (6) commercial-speech compelled-disclosure compelled-speech consumer-protection disclosure-requirements first-amendment government-regulation intermediate-scrutiny zauderer zauderer-standard In Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of Supreme Court of Ohio, 471 U.S. 626 (1985), this Court held that, although government regulation of c…
18-9605 Don Ferguson v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities Whether A Great Public Importance Exists Of Florida Courts' Denied Pro Se Petitioner's Representing Himself At Jury Trial, Of His (7th) Amendment Cons…
18-9582 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-conditions federal-preemption federalism government-regulation labor-law labor-relations labor-rights national-labor-relations-act statutory-interpretation workplace-governance Are "terms and conditions of employment and working conditions" as defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to free peo…
18-1502 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company Sixth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment If a company's manufactured and marketed product, such as Eli Lilly's Zyprexa is cited by the US Government Quack (called a medical doctor?) as the mi…
18-1192 The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing Since 2011, the federal courts have repeatedly considered whether forcing religious objectors to provide health plans that include contraceptive cover…
18-7931 Michael Keith Henley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure compelled-speech content-neutrality due-process fraudulent-plea-agreement free-speech government-regulation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice private-property public-forum standing 1). Whether, the United States Appeal Court and District Court incorrectly decide the facts? (YES) What Facts? Qa))Whether the U.S Appeal Court and D…
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether judges may make findings of fact at the pleading stage in dismissing claims for "failure to state a claim." Whether the District Court erred …