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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A234 South Carolina, et al. v. John Doe, By His Next Friends and Parents, Jim Doe and Jane Doe Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Amici (1) equal-protection gender-affirming-care legislative-act medical-treatment sovereignty title-x Question not identified.
24-601 The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) environmental-regulation foreign-tort-claims international-comity judicial-jurisdiction sovereignty trade-promotion-agreement Over two thousand Peruvians allege harm from emissions of a metallurgical complex located in Peru, operated by a Peruvian corporation, and regulated b…
23-6595 In Re Reginal Lee Davis 2024-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indigenous-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-law sovereignty standing statutory-provisions takings Who is Uro Je Sami I An Amtvo Know umo MX Accuser , vs7 WoTMViT/vnow is A R^nr ora Prvviiuejcxee I AiqweeuuDHtAMs Are, tapic^eMOUs Hjouarcus awoScm…
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts 1. Conflict concerns the international sovereignty of the United States of America and sovereignty of all U.S. Courts effecting millions of homeowners…
21-5663 Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty 1. The declaration of Independence says that United States Citizens have the right, the duty, and the privilidge to alter, and abolish laws 'and to fo…
20-1735 Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (2) agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty Whether Congress has power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize cockfighting on the island of Puerto Rico.
20-503 Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied due-process foreign-citizen fourth-circuit-court internet-transactions personal-jurisdiction sovereignty website-operation The Court should grant certiorari to address whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution is violated when a foreign citizen is su…
20-5026 James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio…
19-8148 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sovereignty standing territorial-jurisdiction venue A "Case" is "a suit instituted according to the regular course of judicial procedure." Muskrat, 219 US at 356-7. It must be instituted lawfully to ari…
19-937 The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied appropriations-law implied-repeal indian-sovereignty indian-tribe interior-secretary land-trust regulatory-prohibition reservation-boundaries sovereignty statutory-authority treaty-rights 1. Whether the Secretary of the Interior exceeded his statutory authority by taking land located within the reservation boundaries of one Indian Tribe…
19-6921 Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness 1. Is the term "same transaction" unconstitutionally vague? 2. How would two incidents separated by four months constitute the "same transaction"? 3…
18-748 Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. Virginia 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation In this case the Petitioner officially proclaimed his true nationality by repatriating back to his newly reestablished nation state. Provisions of the…
18-5050 James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing I) Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of man government constructs know as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugat…