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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?