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25-856 William King, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Amici (6) government-authorization monetary-rights pension-appropriation property-interest takings-clause vested-pension In 2014, Congress created a process for solvent, private pension plans to rewrite the binding agreements that govern their obligations to pay money to…
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-718 Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District Missouri 2025-12-18 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest When a state appellate court ignores the undisputed facts of an appeal and expressly decides an appeal on different, even opposite facts, does the res…
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal 1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion? 2. Whether a certified public-sch…
25-6304 John Henry Clemons, III v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied IFP constitutional-deprivation due-process first-amendment policy-implementation prisoner-rights property-interest 1) When considering the suppression of a prisoner's First Amendment right to freedom of expression and association by a prison policy, is it possible…
25A628 Operating Engineers Trust Fund of Washington, D.C., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-01 Application fifth-amendment government-program property-interest reinsurance-fund takings-clause trust-requirement Question not identified.
25-586 Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest 1. Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by terminatin…
25A507 William King, on Behalf of Himself and on Behalf of a Class of Others Similarly Situated, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-04 Application contractual-right fifth-amendment government-appropriation per-se-taking property-interest takings-clause Whether the Federal Circuit's new rule—that there is no per se taking under the Takings Clause when the plaintiff has a property interest in a contrac…
25-5583 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest I. Cause of Action as Property Right Under the Fourteenth Amendment Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges and receive…
25-193 Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect Under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n), third-party petitioners asserting an interest in property that has been forfeited to the federal government must file a veri…
25-5143 Mary Lynn Taylor v. Michigan, et al. Michigan 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contractual-obligation due-process economic-liberty employment-rights property-interest school-denial-period Did the implementation of Michigan's School Denial Period create an established property interest, and/or an economic liberty interest for Appellant, …
24-1121 Robert S. Carlborg v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure military-retirement property-interest stare-decisis 1. Whether petitioner was deprived of the property interest right in his military retirement under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when …
24A921 Principle Homecare, LLC, et al. v. James McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health Second Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Amici (1) contracts-clause home-healthcare-services just-compensation property-interest rational-basis-review takings-clause 1. Whether the challenged legislation, called the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program Amendment, which permanently extinguishes the contract…
24-625 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California 2024-12-06 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o…
24-286 Peter Bolos v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Relisted (2) deception federal-criminal-law mail-fraud property-interest statutory-interpretation transaction-scheme Does a scheme to induce a transaction through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitute a scheme to defraud under…
23-1200 Gregory Garmong v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-claims due-process federal-law fifth-amendment ninth-circuit private-right-of-action property-interest Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming dismissal of, and declaring frivolous, constitutional due process claims pursuant to an express private right o…
23-7208 Abiy Yifru v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights consular-discretion counsel due-process employment-contract immigration immigration-law property-interest takings takings-clause A consular officer issued a visa to an alien, without executing the application under oath as required by statute. Nevertheless, the officer exacted h…
23-920 Brian Bowen, II v. Adidas America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights due-process labor labor-market market-dominance ncaa-eligibility professional-athletics property-interest property-rights student-athlete Do elite student-athletes preparing for professional athletic careers have a business or property interest in their NCAA eligibility?
23-593 S. O. v. Jay Hartzell, President, University of Texas at Austin, et al. Texas 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings property-interest property-rights student-rights university-administration Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act…
23-592 K. E. v. Denise M. Trauth, President, Texas State University, et al. Texas 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings legal-rights property-interest property-rights university-administration Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act…
23-589 Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. Maryland 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law This case presents a question more egregious than Hodel v. Irving, 481 U.S. 704 (1987); whether the Maryland Orphans' Court for Montgomery County viol…
23-5867 Anita Bryant v. Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP beneficiary-standing civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process estate-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice probate probate-court property-interest standing tax-sale-notice Whether one trial court can assume jurisdiction of an estate property in the possession and jurisdiction of a separate trial probate court without a c…
23-425 Douglas F. Mann v. LSQ Funding Group, L.C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied bankruptcy-code creditor-rights creditors diminution-doctrine estate-benefit estate-property fraudulent-transfer preference-law property-interest trustee-recovery when a debtor defrauds a new creditor into making payment of an existing creditor's claims, whether the trustee seeking to avoid the fraudulent transf…
23-116 Rahim Caldwell v. Jason Anthony, et al. Rhode Island 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) academic-dishonesty administrative-procedure due-process institutional-policy procedural-due-process property-interest public-education student-rights trespass-notice 1. Whether affording no process, no process whatsoever satisfies the due process requirement where a protected property interest is involved, here a p…
22-1242 Jon McClelland v. Dr. Jack Chapman, M.D. Colorado 2023-06-27 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract due-process judicial-immunity property property-interest state-law 1. Is a Complaint a cognizable 'three-party ' Contract (simple or specialty, and ultimately of record, i.e. judgment), between the State and the pa…
22-554 Anna St. John v. Lisa Jones, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) class-action cy-pres fairness fairness-doctrine first-amendment forum-shopping property-interest rule-23 settlement-approval Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may approve a settlement as "fair, reasonable, and adequate" under Rule 23(e)(2) when it pays a substantial…
22-97 Owl Creek Asia I, L.P., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied collins-v-yellen conservatorship corporate-ownership federal-claims federal-housing-finance-agency government-action net-worth-sweep private-shareholders property-interest shareholders-rights takings takings-clause If the United States causes a company to transfer to the United States for the public benefit private shareholders' rights incident to their ownership…
21-1383 Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 "Due Process Clause," affords litigants the right to due process of law and the equal protection of the laws, …
21-860 Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity When State actors threaten to deprive individuals of liberty or property, the Fourteenth Amendment requires procedural protections that comport with m…
21-28 Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review 1. Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible, professor at a public university has a minimal property interest in a fair tenure review process under …
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-8041 Douglas E. Kampfer v. Richard Argotsinger, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process oath-of-office pro-se pro-se-plaintiff property-interest 1.) Is a OATH OF OFFICE a valid Contract under the Laws and Rules of this United States and the Constitution??? 2.) Does the taking of a OATH OF OFF…
20-1399 Andrew J. Capul, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied coerced-resignation due-process employment-termination loudermill municipal-employment pre-deprivation-process pre-deprivation-rights property-interest property-rights Whether a municipal employer's coerced resignation of an employee with a protected property interest in continued employment requires pre-deprivation …
20-907 SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conservatorship due-process federal-agency federal-statute foreclosure property-interest quiet-title separation-of-powers standing takings 1. Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation of powers and, if so, whether its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be set aside.…
20-710 John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings Does Grove have an interest in his property which is protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil rights claim and taking…
20-441 Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-06 Denied commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause 1. Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are …
20-203 LaDonna Degan, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Fifth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights dallas-pension-statute federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment legislative-amendment property-interest retirement-funds takings-clause Prior to 2017, retired Dallas police and firefighters had the right to withdraw the earned and accrued retirement funds deposited in their Deferred Re…
20-5266 Angela Rogers, et vir v. Caddo Parish School Board Louisiana 2020-08-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty-interest property-interest redress-of-grievances state-government-liability state-liability 1. Whether the U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1, Due Process, Equal Protection, Liberty Interest in employment and Property Interest in employment contracts…
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect Americans from being having their liberty and property interests stripped from them unless they are afford…
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in (1) Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the (2) Right to relief secured b…
19-6764 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause 1. Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5. Due Process Clause . compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statu…
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process set forth in Section 8-43-501, et seq. of the Colorado Revised Statutes deprives claimants of th…
19-6436 Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment The DEA relied exclusively on an internal agency precedent to declare that because private market actors on the Massachusetts medical board suspended …
19-5935 Rachel C. Brown v. Civil Service Commission Michigan 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals civil-rights civil-service civil-service-commission due-process hearing long-term-disability procedural-rights property-interest Is Petitioner, and All Others Similarly Situated, entitled to a hearing and due process in long-term disability (LTD) appeals? Subsidiary Questions: I…
19-5805 Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud 1. Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, th…
18-9840 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement 1. Whether a settlement agreement entered into by an inmate and a State, which incorporates the mandatory language of the Interstate Corrections Comp…
18-1544 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County Washington 2019-06-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte The Superior Court of Washington for Spokane County, initiated, sua sponte, and selfprosecuted an action against the Petitioners, who are professional…
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-9518 Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons…
18-9486 Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner Are prison disciplinary hearings considered "communicative acts," entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18-8416 Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) on the issue whether claims by prisoners challenging…
18-1179 John Mbawe v. Ferris State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied ada ada-section-504 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process individualized-assessment interactive-process property-interest property-liberty-interest rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1973 student-rights university-dismissal 1. The Americans with Disability Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), 29 U.S.C. §794 require …
18-7866 King Grant-Davis v. South Carolina Office of the Governor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process federal-statute procedural-rights property-interest rehabilitation-act vocational-rehabilitation Whether an individual with a disability (as that term is defined in 29. U.S.C. Section 705(20)) who has entered into an Individualized Plan for Employ…
18-1042 Frank Gonzalez v. City of Hialeah, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied city-charter city-employment civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment for-cause-removal probationary-employee procedural-due-process procedural-rights property-interest public-employment reemployment-list stigma 1. whether there is a federal common law standard to determine the existence of a property interest in city employment, without applying state laws, r…
18-7583 In Re Bill Herron 2019-01-28 Denied IFP adjudicatory-procedures administrative-procedure deprivation-of-property due-process judicial-review logan-v-zimmerman-brush-co mandamus missouri-administrative-procedure-act missouri-law property-interest property-rights Question 1: Where the District Court has repeatedly refused to address or adjudicate claims raised by a party, in this and other cases filed by Missou…
18-941 Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation By operation of law, when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy "estate" is created consisting of all of the debtor's property "wherever …
18-657 Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights Petitioner, a tenured civil servant, was terminated from his position following a positive drug test. Insisting he had never used illegal drugs and th…
18-646 Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C., et al. v. Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied admiralty admiralty-law comparative-fault maritime-law navigable-waters permit-compliance prejudgment-interest property-interest rivers-and-harbors-act takings tort-action Land-based decisions in the takings context mandate permit compliance as a threshold for a plaintiff to have a compensable property interest. For the …
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien Petitioner owns bonds issued by Respondent, the Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority ("HTA"). The bonds are secured by a lien on toll revenu…
18-493 Rose J. Spano v. The Florida Bar Florida 2018-10-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-disciplinary-proceedings constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process evidentiary-hearing liberty-interest property-interest Petitioner, Rose Spano, questions the constitutionality of the Florida Supreme Court's decision to deny the Petitioner a right to an evidentiary heari…
18-367 Mary E. Jacobi v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, et al. New York 2018-09-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment driver's-license due-process financial-hardship property-interest tax-collection tax-law The court below properly determined that Petitioner holds a substantial property interest in her driver license sufficient to warrant protection under…