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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A795 Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement police-power property-damage takings-clause Question not identified.
24-755 Mollie Slaybaugh, et vir v. Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Amici (1) fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation police-power property-rights takings-clause "Does a common law privilege to access property categorically absolve the government's duty of just compensation for property it physically destroys?"
24-716 Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power 1. Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective? 2. Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Pol…
23-1363 Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (4) constitutional-law eminent-domain government-action just-compensation police-power property-rights public-use takings-clause When the government acquires private property for a public use, the Takings Clause requires the government to provide the owner with "just compensatio…
23-988 Justin Holder v. Jeffrey Young, et al. Maryland 2024-03-11 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment fifth-amendment in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction land-transfer merger-doctrine municipal-power police-power property-rights subdivision-ordinance taking takings The Town of Keedysville, Maryland's (the "Town') Subdivision Ordinance defines a "subdivision," wherein that definition, in its pertinent part, exclud…
22-7276 Antonio Demond Baker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits felon-in-possession police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation L. Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? I. Whet…
22-601 Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) commerce-clause federal-energy-regulatory-commission incumbent-utilities police-power public-utilities state-regulation transmission-lines utility-regulation Whether, consistent with the Commerce Clause, States may exercise their core police power to regulate public utilities by recognizing a preference for…
22-6423 Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms police-power Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act?
22-6420 Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act?
22-493 Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity …
22-5876 Surprise Emmanuel Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-authority felon-in-possession felon-possession national-federation-v-sebelius police-power statutory-interpretation substantial-effect Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act?
21-8060 Darrell Cordell Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits federal-power felon-in-possession firearms-regulation police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act?
21-849 Slidewaters LLC v. Washington Department of Labor and Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response Waived emergency-powers executive-authority legislative-authority legislative-delegation nondelegation-doctrine police-power separation-of-powers state-governance state-of-emergency Does a state legislature's delegation of unlimited and inherently legislative police power to a state executive violate the separation of powers, even…
21-5821 In Re Eduardo Pineda 2021-09-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-regulation police-power strict-scrutiny Does the constitutional right to "liberty" as contained in the due process clause still mean freedom from physical restraint by government police powe…
20-6538 Gabriel Schmitt v. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts First Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment police-power public-health public-health-emergency service-of-process standing substitute-service 1. May a state governor close the state house of that state's congressional body to the public, in addition to all of his offices, such that there is …
19-1123 Leo Lech, et al. v. Chief John A. Jackson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Amici (3) 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation police-power property-rights takings Using explosives and a battering ram attached to an armored personnel carrier, the Greenwood Village Police Department intentionally destroyed Petitio…
19-7754 Erik Leonardus Peeters v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits non-commercial-conduct non-economic-conduct police-power united-states-v-al-maliki united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison Does 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c)'s regulation of noncommercial, non-economic conduct of American citizens outside the United States exceed Congress's Foreign …
19-7486 Michael Lindsay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2423c commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-regulation foreign-commerce foreign-commerce-clause non-commercial-conduct police-power united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison This Court has well-settled that the Commerce Clause gives Congress no general police power over non-commercial, non-economic conduct. See United Stat…
19-286 Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. City of Cranston, Rhode Island Rhode Island 2019-09-04 Denied constitutional-rights contracts-clause municipal-law police-power public-purpose retirement-benefits takings-clause vested-rights When members of the Cranston Police and Fire Retirees Action Committee (hereinafter, "Petitioner retirees" and/or "CPRAC") retired, they were contract…
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is THERE A "CONFLIT BF LAW" WHEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MADE LAWS THAT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VIOLATED THE STATUTORY PROHIBITIONS SET-FORTH IN ARTICLE 1 …
18-8059 Christopher David Simmons v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power second-amendment In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States; does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18…
18-7602 Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess…
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…
18-562 Elizabeth Haring Coomes v. Maryland Insurance Administration Maryland 2018-10-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-362-b-4 bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process insurance-licensing police-power regulatory-action regulatory-power Whether 11 U.S.C. 362(b)(4), the police and regulatory power exception to the automatic stay of bankruptcy, applies to a Debtor's appeal of a final re…
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 (…
18-5882 Daniel Vela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess…
18-5879 Emory Dickson Eneh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States; and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess…