political-question-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1331 William Christopher Schroeder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution Representation in the House is not determined by population. U.S. Census Bureau Apportionment Tables show the gap between the states with the largest …
22-1209 PDVSA U.S. Litigation Trust, et al. v. LUKOIL Pan Americas LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure executive-branch foreign-government judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the application of the political question doctrine deprives a court of subject matter jurisdiction. 2. Whether a lack of subject matter ju…
21-1294 David H. Penny v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits first-amendment free-speech impeachment impeachment-power justiciability legislative-standing political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a citizen constituent of a duly elected President have the possibility of filing a complaint with standing, subject matter jurisdiction, and just…
21-1048 Cesar Caballero, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response Waived equal-protection first-amendment native-american-land-rights native-american-lands political-question-doctrine quiet-title right-to-access-courts sovereign-immunity 1. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error in barring/blocking a Native American tribe from pursuing in rem / qui…
20-233 Hmong 2, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived breach-of-promise civil-procedure constitutional-law exception judicial-review justiciability non-justiciable political-question political-question-doctrine separation-of-powers standing treaty-interpretation 1. Whether the Court should establish a breach of promise exception to the non-justiciable political question rule? 2. Whether the Court should estab…
18-1189 Mitch Carmichael, President of the West Virginia Senate, et al. v. West Virginia, ex rel. Margaret L. Workman West Virginia 2019-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process federalism guarantee-clause impeachment-process judicial-cognizability justiciability political-question-doctrine republican-form-of-government separation-of-powers state-impeachment-proceedings state-judiciary 1) Whether Guarantee Clause claims are judicially cognizable? 2) Whether a state judiciary's intrusion into the impeachment process represents so gra…
18-978 Josephenie Robertson v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,first-amendment,sixth equal-protection first-amendment political-question-doctrine sixth-amendment standing Whether the Petitioner was deprived of an independent, neutral, and impartial tribunal in violation of the First and Sixth Amendments under the Equal …
18-950 LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort The question presented is whether, and if so under what circumstances, the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions brought by…
18-317 Alan Metzgar, et al. v. KBR, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) baker-v-carr civil-procedure damages-suit direct-control judicial-justiciability justiciability military-contractor military-contractors political-question-doctrine private-defendant state-law-tort Whether, and under what circumstances, a state-law tort suit for damages against a private defendant that does not satisfy any of the factors identifi…