municipal-ordinance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A896 Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Georgia 2026-02-06 Application constitutional-challenge land-use-restriction municipal-ordinance property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause Question not identified.
25A759 Abdullah Said Ali v. City of Portland, Oregon Oregon 2025-12-31 Application concealed-carry firearm-regulation historical-tradition loaded-weapon municipal-ordinance second-amendment Question not identified.
25-598 Vishara Video, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-expression municipal-ordinance police-powers secondary-effects zoning-restrictions 1. Where there have been substantial changes in the circumstances since a municipality enacted an ordinance under its police powers that impacts fre…
24-7299 Jerry L. Hoffman, Jr. v. Jose Delgado, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied IFP constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance prior-restraint public-forum 1. Whether there exists a circuit split on municipal recording bans violating the First Amendment? 2. Whether a Middle District Court can dismiss wit…
24-853 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2025-02-11 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liberties constitutional-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance Respondent Moscow, Idaho has an ordinance prohibiting "any notice, sign, announcement, or other advertising matter" in the public square without the p…
24-6214 Jessy A. Cambel v. City of Charleston, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation equal-protection municipal-ordinance native-landscaping property-rights religious-freedom 1. When a person's religion requires them to be a steward of the earth and protector of all of God's creations (i.e. where possible to preserve it and…
24-649 The Gun Range, LLC v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-12-16 Denied Response Waived commercial-speech constitutional-rights gun-shop-regulation municipal-ordinance second-amendment zoning-restrictions Whether prohibiting a business that provides Second Amendment-protected goods and services from operating in substantially all of a city's land areas—…
24A556 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2024-12-06 Presumed Complete content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance public-property viewpoint-discrimination Question not identified.
24A424 National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete charitable-services constitutional-rights fifth-circuit municipal-ordinance nonprofit-rights public-spaces Question not identified.
23-112 Ian A. McElroy v. City of Corvallis, Oregon Oregon 2023-08-04 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review municipal-law municipal-ordinance statutory-interpretation Ian McElroy was secretly, unconstitutionally convicted July 26, 1999 on three separate criminal citations by a City of Corvallis Municipal Judge who l…
22-7198 Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness 1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 …
22-317 Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law? 2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi…
21-664 Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation Do federal courts have legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or…
21-112 Juliet Erickson, et al. v. Nevada County, California California 2021-07-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights deed-restriction due-process exaction land-use municipal-ordinance permit-denial property-rights takings Does an exaction occur when a County, in violation of its own ordinances, refuse s to issue a building permit it previously approved for a single-fami…
20-336 Richard J. Kelly, et ux. v. Marjory Motiaytis Illinois 2020-09-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness municipal-ordinance vagueness Just laws and constitutional laws are the foundation of our legal system. We, the people, DEPEND on the United States Supreme Court for justice. (1) …
20-323 John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts First Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings 1. Did municipal denial of permission to rebuild a home effect a taking of private property, where an ex post facto ordinance prohibited all other eco…
19-7121 Jay F. Shachter v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-hearing administrative-hearings civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process employment-status judicial-independence municipal-ordinance municipal-ordinances state-supreme-court-split Whether, in the City of Chicago, the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions violates the due process requirements of the United States Consti…
19-398 LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r…
19-90 Lexington H-L Services, Inc., dba Lexington Herald Leader v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Sixth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights driveway-delivery first-amendment free-press free-speech municipal-ordinance news-distribution print-news time-place-manner time-place-manner-restriction Whether a municipal ordinance flatly prohibiting driveway delivery of a community newspaper but specifying alternative methods of hand delivery repres…
18-1070 Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-15 GVR employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act states that nothing in the Act "shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of ag…
18-193 John Cannici v. Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-context employment-law equal-protection government-procedure municipal-ordinance property-rights random-and-unauthorized state-procedure 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires a government agency to provide due process before depriving a citizen of his property where the deprivation…