| 24-1074 |
Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law agency-order federal-preemption judicial-review regulatory-interpretation wholesale-tariff |
Whether the preemptive effect of a federal agency's order is an issue for courts to decide and cannot be controlled by the agency's opinion, or lack o… |
| 24A397 |
Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-action consumer-product-safety final-agency-action judicial-review regulatory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-349 |
San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law clean-water-act environmental-law mining-permit regulatory-interpretation water-pollution |
(1) Did the Arizona Supreme Court err by determining that 40 C.F.R § 122.29(b)'s new source analysis is satisfied by merely finding a "material connec… |
| 23-1195 |
Brad Johnson v. PennyMac Loan Services, LLC |
North Carolina |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chevron-doctrine due-process force-placed-insurance property-rights regulatory-interpretation servicer-prohibitions statutory-construction takings-clause |
1. Within the context of its de novo review, in interpreting the regulatory language and meaning of 12 C.F.R. § 1024.37(b) (Basis for charging borrowe… |
| 23-6855 |
William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing |
In recent years, this Court and commentators alike have expressed increasing alarm over the unbridled deference afforded to agency bureaucrats' interp… |
| 23-6746 |
Alexander Isaiah Perez v. Sandra Hijar, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion civil-rights due-process judicial-review notice-and-comment procedural-due-process regulatory-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6500 |
Jimmy Lee Smart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-conflict criminal-sentencing federal-agencies judicial-deference kisor-standard regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-693 |
Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations |
The question presented is whether district courts may, under Skidmore, give deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations w… |
| 23-551 |
GMS Mine Repair v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law auer-deference chevron-deference chevron-doctrine circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure judicial-review regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
In Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) ("Kisor"), this Court sought to limit Auer deference and provided specific guidance for courts to interpret… |
| 22-1219 |
Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-power chevron chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management magnuson-stevens-act marine-fisheries regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
The Magnus on-Stevens Act ("MSA") governs fishery management in federal waters. It states that, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, the Na… |
| 22-1118 |
Cody Adams, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process federal-employees federal-employment hazardous-duty-pay proximity-exposure regulatory-interpretation statutory-entitlement statutory-interpretation virulent-biologicals |
Under the regulation requiring hazardous duty pay for federal employees who work "with or in close proximity to" virulent biologicals, are federal emp… |
| 22-262 |
Berkley V. Walker v. BOKF, National Association, dba Bank of Albuquerque, N.A. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12-cfr-7.4001 administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review national-bank-act overdraft-fees regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
When an account holder at Respondent BOKF, N.A. ("the Bank") overdraws their account and the Bank covers the shortfall by extending its own money, the… |
| 22-120 |
Suntree Pharmacy, et al. v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference administrative-law controlled-substances dea dea-registration deference legitimate-medical-purpose medical-purpose prescription prescription-filling regulatory-interpretation |
Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) and knowingly fills a prescription for a controlled substanc… |
| 22-90 |
NGL Supply Wholesale, L.L.C. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference chevron-deference federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review precedent-analysis regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in deferring to FERC's "interpretation of its own precedent" in the absence of a reasoned explanation for departing from the … |
| 22-54 |
William A. Goddard v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference irs-regulations kisor-v-wilkie partnership-audits partnership-election regulatory-interpretation tax-interpretation tax-procedure tefra tefra-audit |
Whether a court can give deference to an agency's regulatory interpretation without considering the limitations on agency deference set out in this Co… |
| 21-984 |
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., et al. v. Michael J. Hewitt |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
000 each year is entitled to overtime pay because daily-rate-compensation executive-duties fair-labor-standards-act highly-compensated-employee highly-compensated-employees overtime-exemption overtime-pay regulatory-exemption regulatory-interpretation salary-basis |
Whether a supervisor making over $200,000 each year is entitled to overtime pay because the standalone regulatory exemption set forth in 29 C.F.R. §54… |
| 21-642 |
Jehu Hand v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-liability disclosure-requirements hype regulatory-interpretation resale-of-shares rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-law stock-fraud stock-price-crash total-mix-of-information |
Can criminal liability under Securities Exchange Act Rule 10b-5 lie when the "total mix" of information includes a warning that the public disclosure … |
| 21-528 |
Willie H. Goffney, Jr., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review medicare medicare-claims regulatory-deference regulatory-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the regulatory deference test set forth in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Kisor v. Wilkie, --- U.S. ---, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019), s… |
| 21-465 |
James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the term "relevant official service department records" in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s "reconsideration" provision encompasses all records that … |
| 21-5186 |
Mihran Melkonyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1.)
Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in
conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 20-914 |
TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
construction-safety construction-site controlling-entity crane-operation crane-operator ground-conditions osha osha-regulation regulatory-interpretation tort-liability |
Whether 29 C.F.R. §1926.1402(b), for which OSHA expressly assigned responsibility to controlling entities, also imposes a duty on crane operators. |
| 20-6178 |
William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization |
Question not identified. |
| 20-563 |
Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC |
Texas |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption |
Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su… |
| 19-815 |
Lisa M. Phoenix v. Regions Bank |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
|
applicant-definition circuit-conflict consumer-financial-protection-bureau credit-discrimination discrimination equal-credit-opportunity-act federal-reserve-board federal-reserve-system guarantors regulatory-interpretation |
Whether the regulations issued by the Board and the CFPB permissibly construe the "applicants" protected from discrimination by ECOA to encompass guar… |
| 19-6018 |
Joey Little v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise |
Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-295 |
Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction |
Whether, in light of this Court's decisions in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), the court of appeals… |
| 19-271 |
Catherine Stouffer, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Texas |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference federal-agency-deference federal-highway-administration federal-preemption federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations railroad-safety regulatory-interpretation state-federal-agreement state-law-claims state-railroad-agreement state-railroad-agreements warning-time |
Should this Court grant, vacate, and remand because the court below did not interpret 49 C.F.R. 234.225 in the manner that Kisor requires?
Should FRA… |
| 18-1381 |
Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by following FCC commentary to hold that an "'incidental [fax] advertisement' 'does not convert the entire communication int… |
| 18-15 |
James L. Kisor v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33) |
administrative-law agency-deference ambiguous-regulation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review regulatory-interpretation retroactive-benefits statutory-interpretation substantive-canons veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Court should overrule Auer and Seminole Rock.
2. Alternatively, whether Auer deference should yield to a substantive canon of construc… |