| 24-920 |
Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-law first-amendment heightened-scrutiny professional-conduct speech-regulation veterinary-medicine |
(1) Whether professional conduct regulations that incidentally burden speech are subject to heightened First Amendment scrutiny.
(2) Assuming heighte… |
| 24-631 |
Magni Hamso, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid v. M. H., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medicaid-coverage ninth-circuit sex-reassignment |
1. Whether a policy declining coverage for sexreassignment surgeries violates the Equal Protection Clause; and
2. Whether clearly established law as … |
| 23-996 |
Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
bodily-autonomy civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process heightened-scrutiny jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-treatment public-health vaccine-mandate |
Whether Jacobson v. Massachusetts , 197 U.S. 11 (1905) , when read in light of this Court's later acknowledgment that the right to refuse treatment is… |
| 23-492 |
Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. Russell Coleman, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (14) |
due-process equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medical-treatment parental-rights rational-basis-review sex-classification transgender transgender-rights |
In 2023, the Kentucky Legislature enacted a blanket ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the trea… |
| 23-466 |
L. W., By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, Samantha Williams and Brian Williams, et al. v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (14) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection gender-affirming-care heightened-scrutiny medical-autonomy medical-care parental-rights transgender transgender-rights |
1. Whether Tennessee's SB1, which categorically
bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender
adolescents, triggers heightened scrutiny and likely
… |
| 21-6586 |
Mark James Martinez v. California |
California |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense |
Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the constitutiona… |
| 20-1466 |
Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity |
1. Whether placing the burden of proof on the plaintiffs regarding the reasonableness and necessity of a legislation that impaired a public contract c… |
| 20-903 |
First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity |
When governmental regulations upon commercial speech are based upon either the identity of the speaker or the content of the message, does the "height… |
| 19-8463 |
Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti… |
| 19-5003 |
Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release |
1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum.
2. Whe… |
| 18-766 |
Teresa Bierman, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
exclusive-representation expressive-association first-amendment government-speech heightened-scrutiny individual-rights mandatory-expressive-association mandatory-representation public-employees rational-basis |
The State of Minnesota compels individuals who are not public employees, namely individual Medicaid providers, to accept an exclusive representative f… |
| 18-50 |
Linda Carty v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
brady-violation brady-violations capital-case capital-murder constitutional-error constitutional-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process habeas-review heightened-scrutiny strickland-standard strickland-violation |
1. Whether the Constitution requires a court on habeas review in a capital case to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional… |