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25-700 Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority Petitioners owned a lot with a slowly failing 1937 bulkhead onshore of the shoreline along Hood Canal, Washington state. Hundreds of properties along …
24A613 Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines Fifth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete first-amendment licensing professional-regulation speech-restriction state-authority veterinary-medicine Question not identified.
24-5958 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-authority 1. Why am I Petitioning The U.S. Supreme Court? 2. Why I didn't exhaust state court remedies? 3. Why I didn't file in The U.S.District Court? 4. Wh…
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority 1. Jurisdiction Over Habeas Corpus Decisions from the Federal Circuit: Does jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions originating within the administr…
23-696 Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2023-12-28 Dismissed Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority The Supreme Court of Colorado held that states possess authority, regardless of the lack of congressional authorization, to determine that a president…
23-581 Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson Tennessee 2023-11-30 Denied child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child "A. T."?
23-258 Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (1) business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power When determining whether a state insurance statute preempts a federal law of general application under the McCarran Ferguson Act, are the three statut…
22-7117 Noel Macapagal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation The government convicted petitioner-defendant Noel Macapagal of violating 18 U.S.C. §2422(b). As the government invoked it to convict Macapagal, this …
22-401 Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management Does ANILCA, which sought to preserve the State's traditional police powers over wildlife, grant federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state l…
22-5363 Rodney Flucas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority Was the Jury Erroncously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a "Motivating Purpose" for Transportation of Person…
21-1443 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services Sixth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act 1. The Eleventh Amendment requires the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, to be acting on the author…
21-1296 City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation When trains block traffic at road intersections, they impose numerous safety risks. Oklahoma enacted a statute prohibiting trains from stopping where …
21-451 Oklahoma v. Shawn Thomas Jones Oklahoma 2021-09-23 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (4) civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-prosecution state-authority tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. …
21-5059 Gregory A. Austin v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights divorce-industry due-process family-law free-speech marriage-licensing standing state-authority takings My case challenges the authority and practices of California's divorce industry, and hence, collectivism in general, by virtue of posing the question,…
20-7588 Anthony Sharif Gay v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority inalienable-rights law-enforcement mandamus standing state-authority Whether a Court's knowing review of, and ruling on, a petition for writ of mandamus, that was neither authored nor delivered by the Petitioner, consti…
20-5332 William David Bush v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code, openly declares supremacy in codified authority to the articles and rights guaranteed in law b…
20-47 Lebamoff Enterprises, Inc., et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) commerce-clause direct-to-consumer-shipping interstate-commerce liquor-regulation nondiscrimination-principle state-authority state-liquor-law twenty-first-amendment Whether a state liquor law that allows in-state retailers to ship wine directly to consumers but prohibits out-of-state retailers from doing so, is in…
19-6989 George Calvin Belt v. Florida Florida 2019-12-18 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits QUESTION 1. A. How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (hereinafter referred to as DOR CSP) can enf…
19-6654 Tremaine Bernard Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-extradition due-process federal-authority federalism government-action interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute legal-procedure reasons-for-granting-writ state-authority statement-of-case statutory-provisions uniform-criminal-extradition-act uniform-law Where NO Cece IW ELS! OF AUIWocitY What is the coorsé of ACHON When dhe unilorm criminal exdradean ACY IS violated, betwee al Government And state?
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 …
19-6038 Clayton Paul Bateman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights color-of-law colorable-authority congressional-authority due-process forum-challenge forum-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing procedural-due-process standing state-authority state-sovereignty 1. What standing does a person have before a forum of a non-sovereign State, with no act of the United States Congress delineating jurisdictional auth…
19-257 California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even …
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is THERE A "CONFLIT BF LAW" WHEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MADE LAWS THAT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VIOLATED THE STATUTORY PROHIBITIONS SET-FORTH IN ARTICLE 1 …
18-1545 Tracy Guerin v. Mickey Fowler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment pension-transfer property-rights public-pensions retrospective-application state-authority state-immunity statutory-benefits takings takings-clause 1. If a State's statutorily created pension system allows government employees to transfer their accumulated pension contributions into a different pe…
18-8138 Joseph Hughes v. Dan Schnurr, Warden Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied IFP acquittal acquittal-implications civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process second-prosecution sex-offender-management sexual-offender sexual-offender-registration state-authority How can the State of Kansas manage me as a sexual offender when I was found acquitted of rape by a jury? Furthermore, the State of Kansas wasn't able …
18-1099 Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund Montana 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation Montana law authorizes workers compensation insurers to "doctor shop" by compelling repetitive medical examinations without demonstrating good cause. …
18-7837 Marlon Blacher v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing state-authority statutory-provisions 1. Is it not true that "STATE OF CALIFORNIA" and all of its instruments are bound to the Matters declared via Article V, clause a, Constitution of the…
18-6668 Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. Virginia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury?
18-555 Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever…