necessary-and-proper-clause
13 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6124 | Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause | 1. Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spend… |
| 25-5644 | Derrick Murphy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-limits federal-authority missouri-v-holland necessary-and-proper-clause state-prerogatives treaty-power | In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional as applied §229, criminal provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act.(See Bond … |
| 25-5412 | Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause controlled-substances federal-preemption marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause tax-deduction | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 280E—which denies ordinary and necessary business deductions to enterprises trafficking in Schedule I controlled substances—may co… |
| 24-5090 | Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff… |
| 23-7378 | Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause | 1) If the Congressional command of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 24(a)(5) requires that certain submissions MUST BE INCLUDED with a motion, is a… |
| 22-1057 | Standing Akimbo, Inc., et al. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause summary-judgment tax-code | 1. Should Gonzales v. Raich be overruled, i.e., whether the CSA as supplemented by the half-in, half-out regime is in excess of Congress' powers under… |
| 22-6332 | In Re James Vandivere | 2022-12-19 | Denied | IFP | adam-walsh-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se-petition | 1. Is Petitioner entitled to immediate Requested Relief when the originating party offers no claim(s) of De facto injury, presents no "Case " or "Co… | |
| 22-5306 | Micky Rife v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | article-i article-i-powers congress congressional-power constitution constitutional-interpretation criminal-penalties necessary-and-proper-clause treaty treaty-enforcement | Does the Necessary and Proper Clause contained within Article I of the Constitution provide an independent basis for Congress to create criminal penal… |
| 21-7599 | Neil Timothy Aho v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment | Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code ("Section 2252" or the "Statute") forming the gravamen of the charges in the Indictment l… |
| 21-7050 | Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-03 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review necessary-and-proper-clause rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supreme-court-discretion | 1. At oral argument, did the three Justices at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit say that this case has "profound legal and Constitutiona… |
| 19-256 | Yuzef Abramov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-powers counsel-of-choice due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause necessary-and-proper necessary-and-proper-clause sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation treaty-power | I. Whether it is constitutional to extend 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c) to noncommercial conduct allegedly committed by a foreign citizen and resident against o… |
| 18-9575 | In Re Phillip Love | 2019-06-06 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation | 1. Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union? … | |
| 18-7485 | Marcus Noel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power | 1. When the United States prosecutes a foreign national for kidnapping a United States citizen in a foreign country, must the government prove that th… |