| 24-1200 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-law judicial-dicta legislative-history miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers student-loan |
1. Separation of Powers and Miscarriage of Justice: Does a federal judge's reliance on non-binding judicial dicta from United Student Aid Funds v. Esp… |
| 23-1289 |
Machele L. Goetz v. Victor Felix Weber, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-348 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 chapter-7 legislative-history legislative-intent post-petition-interests statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the language in 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(1) creates a bifurcation of interests in the assets of a bankruptcy estate into pre-petition (i.e., "as … |
| 23-7643 |
Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism |
Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-7441 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
This court determined many times throughout history, legislative history is not law, and it is wrong to use legislative history as law and as a means … |
| 23-6003 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-history reconstruction-era removal-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Should an important federal law from the Reconstruction Era—
the removal act for criminal cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1)—be given
its original public m… |
| 23-371 |
D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon |
I. 28 U.S.C. § 1259(3) states that this Court may review "[c]ases in which the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces granted a petition for review." D… |
| 23-4 |
John Thomas Minemyer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-code irs-penalties legislative-history legislative-intent penalty-assessment statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-code tax-court |
Does the legislative history and intent combined with the Tax Court Judicial history, the internal revenue manual instructions, and the Supreme Courts… |
| 21-1453 |
Joe A. Lynch v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
administrative-law legislative-history pro-claimant pro-veteran-canon standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation va-claims veterans-benefits |
Are the many millions of disabled veterans, their survivors and dependents entitled to have the VA meet a higher threshold of proof to deny their clai… |
| 21-1447 |
Estate of Gabriel Miranda, Jr., et al. v. Navistar, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-exit federal-preemption legislative-history legislative-intent motor-vehicle-safety school-bus-safety state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 217 ("FMVSS 217") prohibit a greater level of safety by statutorily making it physically impossible for… |
| 21-1429 |
Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory text and First Amendment
permit FACEA's protections from violence at a "place
of religious worship" to apply only to places reli… |
| 21-93 |
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power |
A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Depart from the Accepted and Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings to Su… |
| 20-6596 |
Kevin S. Abney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 19-1116 |
LinkedIn Corporation v. hiQ Labs, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bot-technology circuit-conflict computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act computer-trespass data-harvesting legislative-history personal-data public-websites statutory-interpretation technical-barriers unauthorized-access website-scraping |
Whether a company that deploys anonymous computer "bots" to circumvent technical barriers and harvest millions of individuals' personal data from comp… |
| 19-7950 |
Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon… |
| 19-413 |
Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa |
Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an "advertisement" as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the… |
| 18-1331 |
William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial |
1. The scope of the authority of the United States Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records ("Naval Board") to remove an unjust summary court-mart… |
| 18-1038 |
Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company, an Illinois Nonprofit Mutual Insurance Corporation v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
affordable-care-act appropriations appropriations-riders government-contracts government-obligations legislative-history money-mandating-statute retroactive-abrogation retroactive-application risk-corridors |
Whether a temporary cap on appropriations availability from certain specified funding sources may be construed, based on its legislative history, to a… |
| 18-1023 |
Maine Community Health Options v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
appropriations-act appropriations-rider cardinal-rule implied-repeal legislative-history legislative-intent reciprocal-commitments retroactivity statutory-obligation statutory-payment-obligation |
1. Given the "cardinal rule" disfavoring implied repeals—which applies with "especial force" to appropriations acts and requires that repeal not be fo… |
| 18-7071 |
Chad Preston Brewer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammuni… |
| 18-6073 |
Tramain Deon Price v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute (… |
| 18-5795 |
Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to establish that the bright line "Blockburger" double jeopardy test accepted in Dixon is the one a… |
| 18-132 |
Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
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appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Activ… |