| 25-742 |
Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
courts-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice post-trial-process second-amendment statutory-authority |
1. In 2021, Congress added a new subsection to Article 67(c), Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. § 867(c). The new language incorporat… |
| 25-5821 |
Gregory Lee Rodvelt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment official-duties sixth-amendment statutory-authority |
1. Is a federal employee "engaged in. . . the performance of official duties"
to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 111 when there is no statutory… |
| 25-5530 |
Edmond George Parenteau v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
color-of-law constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure right-to-travel statutory-authority |
(1) . How is it possible, according to constitutionally protected rights, the United States, and States are not acting outside their statutory authori… |
| 25A228 |
United States v. Darby Development Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-agency fifth-amendment government-action regulatory-taking statutory-authority takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1373 |
Capital Cartridge, LLC v. J. Michael Issa, as Trustee of the HMT Liquidating Trust |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
avoidance-provisions bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-litigation creditors-committee derivative-standing judicial-interpretation statutory-authority |
Under the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions, whether a creditors' committee has "derivative standing" to bring suit on behalf of the estate, and … |
| 23-1341 |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Fasken Land and Minerals, Ltd., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
agency-review atomic-energy-act hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act statutory-authority |
1. Whether the Hobbs Act, 28 U.S.C. 2341 et seq., which authorizes a "party aggrieved" by an agency's "final order" to petition for review in a court … |
| 23-1300 |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-law agency-authority agency-review atomic-energy-act hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission spent-nuclear-fuel standing statutory-authority |
1. Whether the Hobbs Act, 28 U.S.C. 2341 et seq.,
which authorizes a "party aggrieved" by an agency's "final order" to petition for review in a court … |
| 23-1000 |
Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference benefit-coverage disability-discrimination enteral-nutrition medical-necessity medicare-act medicare-coverage organ-dysfunction prosthetic-devices secretary statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is the Secretary statutorily authorized, or entitled to deference, to deny benefit coverage for an entire group of benefits (here, enteral nutriti… |
| 23-6131 |
Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement |
I. Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the "Use of a Minor" sentencing enhan… |
| 23A427 |
Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-enforcement antitrust appellate-review ftc-act medical-practice statutory-authority |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7561 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority |
Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr… |
| 22-911 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
California |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-regulation agency-discretion chevron-deference civil-rights due-process judicial-review ministerial-duty prisoner-rights property-rights statutory-authority |
Did the California corrections agency exceed the bounds of its statutory authority when they wrote an administrative regulation without any sort of pr… |
| 22-815 |
Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court |
Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju… |
| 22-6597 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 22-6408 |
Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority |
Is the state of Michigan in the Absence of Statutory Authority.
See 18 U.S.C. 9 3584 (a)
Petitioner was Already subject to the state sentences.
Petiti… |
| 22-6265 |
Sachin Aji Bhaskar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cares-act constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment remote-sentencing statutory-authority structural-error |
What is required under the CARES Act for a remote sentencing to comport with a defendants Fifth Amendment right to due process under the constitution?… |
| 21-8238 |
James Seeley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-7709 |
David C. Morris v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization |
"NATURAL LIFE"
THAT DOES
A SENTENCE
OF
NOT
EXIST
IS
NOT
AUTHOR IZED
BY
AND
STATUTE,
WHICH
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNI SHMENT
CONSTITUTES
BECAUSE
WAS
ASSIGN… |
| 21-7696 |
In Re Stephen Harmon |
|
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights |
1.) (?)- The Ninith Circuit Court of Appeals "lost" the Subject Matter Jurisdiction "Authority" and "resulting in" the Court "lacking of Subject Matte… |
| 21-7619 |
Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release |
The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit… |
| 21A241 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law covid-19-pandemic healthcare-facilities medicare-and-medicaid statutory-authority vaccination-requirement |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6359 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority |
1. Whether magistrate judges exceed the scope of their statutory authority by issuing orders which have the practical effect of granting or refusing i… |
| 21-6344 |
Joseph J. Snyder v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-regulation amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis department-of-veterans-affairs disability-benefits disability-compensation presumptive-service-connection regulatory-creation service-connection statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Secretary of Veteran Affairs' imposition of a length of service requirement for the presumption of service connection for ALS is counte… |
| 21-5936 |
Allen Fong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-forfeiture in-personam-forfeiture jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-authority |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt any fact necessary to the imposition of a mandatory cr… |
| 21-481 |
Betty R. Shipley v. Helping Hands Therapy, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction notice-of-removal procedural-defect remand removal reply statutory-authority |
Whether the court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an order remanding a case to state court based on a procedural defect, when the plaintiff file… |
| 21-5387 |
Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment |
1. Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h), where Petitioner was not charged with nor engaged in "f… |
| 20-1738 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-15 |
GVR |
|
article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou… |
| 20-1209 |
In Re Raymond L. Rogers |
|
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. … |
| 20-685 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
GVR |
Amici (1) |
10-usc-2808 administrative-law appropriated-funds cause-of-action federal-funding military-construction national-emergencies-act section-2808 standing statutory-authority |
If the President declares "a national emergency in accordance with the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that requires use of the arme… |
| 20-666 |
Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3) |
byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards.
2. Whether the… |
| 20-162 |
Damon J. Claiborne v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-double-jeopardy administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process retroactive-enforcement retroactive-rule separation-decision separation-decisions statutory-authority |
1. Whether the Secretary violated departmental regulations that prohibited administrative double jeopardy by subjecting Claiborne, months before he ve… |
| 20-138 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transfer… |
| 19-7763 |
Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS EXCEED THE STATUTORY
AUTHORITY CONFERRED UPON THE AGENCY BY CONGRESS
IN 18 U.S.C. § 3585(a), WHEN IT COMMENCES A … |
| 19-7495 |
Abu Ala M. D. Badruddoza v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process employment equal-protection osha standing statutory-authority takings vaccination workplace-safety |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-715 |
Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Mazars USA, LLP, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-12-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-authority due-process executive-privilege legislative-purpose separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority subpoena subpoena-power |
Whether the Committee has the constitutional and statutory authority to issue this subpoena. |
| 19-6417 |
Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment |
1. If a trial court wishes to cumulate sentences, must it so order at the time and place that sentence is orally pronounced? See Grays v State, 291 S.… |
| 19-530 |
James Kerr Schlosser v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness |
1. Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense, if the evidence… |
| 19-454 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act agency-rulemaking conscience-exemption contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate healthcare-mandate nationwide-injunction religious-freedom-restoration-act standing statutory-authority |
1. Whether the agencies had statutory authority under the ACA and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., to expand t… |
| 19-5692 |
Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction |
Congress conshained orgivenflexibility
Has U.S.ofA'S
for U.S.A Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of
juicesurfd wtnts reac to be codanexa… |
| 19-5555 |
Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search |
Specifically, Chicago Police Department Badge No. JAA4 1A0eS, which was used to arrest the Petitioner was created and issued without any Statutory aut… |
| 18-1504 |
Bruce Giles v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-cases civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-appointment court-discretion due-process inherent-authority judicial-power legal-representation mallard-v-us-district-court standing statutory-authority |
In Mallard v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296 (1989), the Court held that 28 U.S.C. § 1915 does not provi… |
| 18-1423 |
Paul E. Cooper v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-867c article-i-authority court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces johnson-v-united-states judicial-review matter-of-fact matters-of-fact matters-of-law military-appeals-court-authority military-appellate-review military-law navy-marine-corps-court-of-criminal-appeals statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces exceeded its statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 867(c) when it took action with res… |
| 18-917 |
Michael S. Bent v. Pamela Talkin, Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights courthouse-procedures due-process police-booth police-powers probable-cause separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority |
Does the Chief of Police via his Police Booth Operation violate Bent's right to be secure in his papers and his right to Due Process by seizing, witho… |
| 18-5945 |
David Chiddo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts |
1. Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea?
2. Where a plea agreement provides that stipulated facts present an adequ… |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion to Dismiss the Petitioner's Appeal? |