| 25-6124 |
Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause |
1. Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spend… |
| 25-535 |
Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III |
Arkansas |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power makes private conduct illegal absent a clear statement that Congress intended to do more… |
| 25A219 |
Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III |
Arkansas |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-rulemaking arbitration-agreements federal-arbitration-act long-term-care medicare-medicaid spending-clause |
This case presents exceptionally important questions about the correct interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act and Spending Clause legislation. … |
| 25-162 |
Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Granted |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause |
1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a… |
| 24A1179 |
Dewey Austin Barnett, II v. Brenda Short, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
individual-officials money-damages religious-freedom RLUIPA spending-clause state-law |
1. This case presents an important question that has divided the Circuit Courts about the scope of Congress' authority under the Spending Clause to im… |
| 24-1110 |
Saint Anthony Hospital v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-enforcement hospital-rights medicaid-law prompt-payment-rule section-1983 spending-clause |
In determining whether Saint Anthony Hospital has a right to sue to enforce the prompt payment rule, should the court of appeals have treated Wilder a… |
| 24-446 |
Roobina Zadoorian v. Gwinnett Technical College, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action contract-interpretation spending-clause statute-of-limitations title-vi |
1. Statute of Limitation of Title VI
11th Circuit Appeal Court dismissed Plaintiffs discrimination claims against Gwinnett Technical College et al., i… |
| 24-437 |
Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
abortion-regulation administrative-law federal-agency funding-condition spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
Title X funds cannot be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning. 42 U.S.C. § 300a6. And the Weldon Amendment prohibits any Fede… |
| 24A259 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy |
Question not identified. |
| 24A146 |
Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abortion-referral dobbs-decision federal-funding spending-clause title-x weldon-amendment |
(1) Whether HHS is violating the Constitution's Spending Clause by imposing a funding condition—abortion referrals—that this Court's precedent (Rust) … |
| 24-5038 |
Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause |
1. Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
gives rise to federal rights under § 1983?
2. Whether the Federal Nursin… |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 23A502 |
Department of Treasury, et al. v. West Virginia, By and Through Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-conditions federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause state-sovereignty tax-offset |
Question not identified. |
| 23A53 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
american-rescue-plan-act coercion-doctrine conditional-federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause tax-offset-provision |
Whether the offset provision of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund, 42 U.S.C. 802(c)(2)(A), which prohibits States from using fiscal recovery … |
| 22-880 |
Ohio v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
american-rescue-plan constitutional-limits covid-19 covid-relief federal-spending-clause intergovernmental-immunity jurisdictional-challenge spending-clause state-sovereignty state-standing tax-mandate |
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the American economy. In response, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which offered $195 billion i… |
| 22-679 |
NYC C.L.A.S.H., Inc., et al. v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority constitutional-avoidance due-process federalism fourth-amendment housing-regulation public-housing smoking-ban spending-clause |
1. Whether HUD lacks authority to adopt or enforce its smoking ban as a means to ensure "safe and habitable" public housing.
2. Whether the lower cou… |
| 22-534 |
Theresa Eagleson, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services v. St. Anthony Hospital, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 contract-enforcement managed-care medicaid private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-duty timely-payment |
1. Whether Spending Clause legislation, including Section u-2(f), can impliedly create private rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
2. Whether,… |
| 22-6003 |
Whistleblower 7107-16W v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights confidential-sources due-process informant irs-informant-award judicial-review open-courts open-courts-doctrine plausibility-standard spending-clause whistleblower whistleblower-anonymity |
Whether, contrary to the US Supreme Court's clear affirmation of the 'strict plausibility' pleading standard, the US Federal Courts nevertheless retai… |
| 21-1463 |
Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate |
1. Whether the Mandate violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because it is arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful?
2. Whether the Mandate is u… |
| 21-1431 |
Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Spending Clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983, and if so, what is the proper framework for deciding … |
| 21-1010 |
Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia, P.C. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
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affordable-care-act civil-rights discrimination-claim effective-communication intentional-discrimination nominal-damages rehabilitation-act spending-clause |
Whether a discrimination plaintiff who can prove a legal violation is entitled to an award of nominal damages under Spending Clause legislation. |
| 21-968 |
Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (4) |
actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix |
1. Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassm… |
| 21-806 |
Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries |
1. Whether, in light of compelling historical evidence to the contrary, the Court should reexamine its holding that Spending Clause legislation gives … |
| 21-377 |
Cherokee Nation, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Response WaivedRelisted (5) |
anti-commandeering child-welfare civil-rights equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act morton-v-mancari placement-preferences spending-clause state-commandeering tribal-rights |
In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA") to remedy the "alarmingly high percentage of Indian families [being] broken up by the … |
| 20-1811 |
Jackie Chagolla, Parent on Behalf of B. C. and P. C. v. Liz Vullo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-information false-information government-employees investigation-stage spending-clause |
Whether absolute immunity shields government employees who report false information/omit exculpatory information in the investigation stage as well as… |
| 20-795 |
New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne JAG funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements? |
| 20-6520 |
Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia |
1. Where Congress conditioned the Americans with Disabilities Act to the states ' receipt of funding under Title IV of the Social Security Act pursuan… |
| 19-1186 |
Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha… |
| 18-5977 |
Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor |
1 If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply?
Does The Federal G… |