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25-963 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship vaccine-mandate 1. Whether an employer faces a per se Title VII undue hardship if granting an otherwise federally required religious accommodation would conflict with…
25A904 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California California 2026-02-10 Application article-vi constitutional-rights first-amendment oaths-of-office police-officer supremacy-clause Question not identified.
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-6588 Derek Skellchock v. Laurie K. Dean, Judge, 8th Judicial District Court, Larimer County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending IFP civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Veterans Judicial Review Act (VJRA) Pub. Law 100-687 (1988) pursuant to Article I § 8 of the Constitution,…
25-6586 M. G. J. v. Oregon Department of Human Services, et al. Oregon 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process indian-child-welfare-act state-law supremacy-clause tribal-adoption 1. This Court recently explained that, "In the usual course, state courts apply state law when placing children in foster or adoptive homes," however …
25-828 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Amici (1) federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there…
25A804 Duane A. Fairfax v. Tracey N. Martinez Virginia 2026-01-12 Application contempt-enforcement federal-preemption spousal-support supremacy-clause va-disability veterans-benefits 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and 38 U.S.C. § 5301(a) prohibit a state court from enforcing spousal support through contempt, garnishment, or equiva…
25A802 Henry L. Klein, et al. v. Lewis Title Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2026-01-12 Application federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson state-law supremacy-clause title-insurance [1] Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err by counting Christopher Columbus Day against Applicants in computing the 14-day deadline for filing a Request …
25-6537 David T. Everett v. Sarah E. Tharrett, as Successor Trustee of the Roxine Poznich Revocable Trust Kansas 2026-01-09 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-error meaningful-hearing supremacy-clause trust-law I. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is satisfied when state courts at three successive levels either ignore or refuse to rule on…
25-786 Julia Minkowski v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2026-01-06 Pending ada-compliance constitutional-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process supremacy-clause 1. Does a systemic structural defect in due process in California courts eliminate court access, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and full parti…
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S…
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-12-03 Pending confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote…
25A624 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2025-11-26 Application employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii (1) whether the Supremacy Clause allows states to bypass Title VII's accommodations requirement; and (2) whether employers can avoid Title VII religio…
25-6256 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-11-26 Pending IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause In Artis v. District of Columbia, 138 S. Ct. 594 (2018), this Court held that states may not dismiss 28 U.S.C. § 1332 claims denied supplemental jur…
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether, as applied, Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it creates de facto respon…
25A612 Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. Texas 2025-11-24 Application internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act Whether the Texas court may decline jurisdiction over nonresident defendants who committed wrongs by virtual means against a Texas resident in violati…
25-6133 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-17 Denied IFP clemency constitutional-law due-process federal-rights post-conviction supremacy-clause 1. Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of a…
25A549 In Re Henry L. Klein Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application business-qualification debt-collection debt-purchaser henson-v-santander special-purpose-vehicle supremacy-clause IS HENSON V. SANTANDER ENTITLED TO BE ENFORCED AS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND ON THE SPECIFIC TENET THAT "...IT'S NOT DEBT COLLECTION IF YOU OWN IT...…
25-500 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-10-22 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption marital-settlement state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
25-5915 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2 California 2025-10-20 Dismissed IFP due-process federal-constitution jurisdiction land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law 1. Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 as to the Supremacy Clause of Federal Constitution in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws on L…
25-5805 Will Earnest Young, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether Iowa Code § 814.7 violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
25-5783 Tanya Spurbeck v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Nevada 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-rights due-process federal-claims indigent-litigants legal-representation supremacy-clause As of April 26, 2024, there is required federal funding, signed by the Nevada Attorney General, to promise required legal representation to indigent a…
25-5745 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-09-27 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rules due-process mitigating-evidence postconviction-litigation supremacy-clause 1. Has Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of postconviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of retroa…
25-307 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-09-16 Denied due-process foreign-will international-comity judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause testamentary-rights "Comity " entails "the recognition which one nation allows within its territory to the ... judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both t…
25-258 Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Michigan 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio ISSUE I. ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS VOID AB INITIO REQUIRING RETROSPECTIVE TREATMENT OF OPINIONS AFFECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS? ISSUE II. DO MICHIGA…
25-5559 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2025-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law vexatious-litigant 1. Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 as to the Supremacy Clause of Federal Constitution in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws on…
25-236 In Re Justin Jeffrey Saadein-Morales 2025-08-28 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether the forcible seizure and alteration of a VA-backed home, while federal bankruptcy and appellate proceedings were pending, violated the Supr…
25-196 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 attorney-discipline reciprocal-discipline state-court-jurisdiction statutory-immunity supremacy-clause Under California 's State Bar Act as authoritively interpreted by California 's appellate courts, the State Bar, the California Supreme Court, and the…
25A181 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-08-13 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement military-disability state-court-enforcement supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Question not identified.
25-136 Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. Texas 2025-08-05 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation 1. Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in…
25-140 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.…
25-5245 Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii "Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil P…
25-5177 Aaron Edward Meier v. Aaron Williams, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-ethics supremacy-clause 1. Does a state judge's refusal to follow federal law and a prosecutor's claim under oath that "the Republic is dead" violate due process and the Supr…
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup…
25-5166 Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may refuse to enter judgment following the unrebutted filing of a dispositive appellate brief and summary judgm…
25-5094 Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al. Texas 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court 1- Whether the state 's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court 's final judgment to dism…
25-15 Bellevue School District No. 405 v. C. S. A., a Minor, By and Through His Guardians B. W. A. and P. E. S. Washington 2025-07-03 Denied Response Waived federal-law ferpa gonzaga school-district state-pra supremacy-clause Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273 (2002) notes Congress's intent to avoid multiple judicial interpretations of the Family Education Rights and Privac…
24A1230 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-enforcement collateral-estoppel contract-severability federal-arbitration-act issue-preclusion supremacy-clause (1) Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides the equitable estoppel to enforce arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.…
24-7377 Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit should review the case that it was the party to the violation of the Supremacy Clause of the …
24A1184 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline civil-rights-lawsuit ex-parte-young state-bar-act supremacy-clause williams-decision 1. Given that California's State Bar Act, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §6000 et seq. ("State Bar Act") immunizes the Ex Parte Young defendants in respect of…
24-7207 In Re Willie C. Simpson 2025-05-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights filing-fee habeas-corpus state-custody supremacy-clause suspension-clause Question not identified.
24-1160 William R. Lott v. Maria V. Lott Virginia 2025-05-13 Denied disability-pay divorce-proceedings federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
24-1115 Reuben D. Walker, et al. v. Andrea Lynn Chasteen, as Clerk for the Circuit Court of Will County and as a Representative of All Clerks of the Circuit Courts of All Counties in Illinois, et al. Illinois 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-deference state-immunity supremacy-clause takings-clause In January of 2025, the Illinois Supreme Court in Walker v. Chasteen, 2025 IL 130288, based exclusively on a state immunity statute, held that courts …
24-1103 Caleb D. Glick v. American Bar Association Fifth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived antitrust-statutes constitutional-law contract-interpretation stare-decisis state-immunity supremacy-clause 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution, and the laws derived from it, and the Texas Constitution, and the laws derived from it, are binding contracts betwee…
24-6970 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-authority constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction manifest-injustice supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the Supremacy Clause justifies a stay once the trial court had been protected harp actice that the Competent federal CoA purel had exercised p…
24-6937 Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana Montana 2025-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment supremacy-clause 1. Whether the initial Court erred in holding that the Flathead County Commission's display on public property and the Guarantee Clause in the free ex…
24-6860 Mitchell S. Sanderson v. Kari Agotness, Judge, District Court of North Dakota, Northeast Judicial District Five North Dakota 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct oath-of-office supremacy-clause Whether a County District Judge can ignore/violate the Rules of Court ? Weather a County District Judge can ignore/violate Judicial Canons ? Weather…
24-1015 John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may se…
24-6762 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity custody-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause 1) Whether or not all Virginia State, County, and City Courts are Unconstitutional and/or Illegitimate with respect to the 1971 Constitution of Virgin…
24-6547 Mitchell S. Sanderson v. Janne Myrdal, et al. North Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied IFP due-process judicial-oath jurisdiction rules-of-court service-of-process supremacy-clause Whether the Rules of Court must be followed by the Court. The Walsh District Court violated Rules of Court on the 21-day default judgment. ND Supreme …
24-6534 Keith Robert Lugo v. California California 2025-02-10 Denied IFP administrative-law chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection supremacy-clause THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THIS HIGH COURT'S RECENT RULING OVERTURNING THE CHEVRON DOCTRINE, AS ANNOUNCED IN LOPER LIGHT ENTERPRISES V. RAIMONDO, NO. 22-…
24-834 Evgeny Pistrak v. Kseniia Golubeva Washington 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption immigration-law maintenance-obligations spousal-support state-court supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and federal immigration law preempt a state court from imposing maintenance obligations solely because a spouse lacks …
24-828 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2025-02-04 Denied Response Waived congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution preempted the State of Missouri from the prosecution of a criminal defendant for the ki…
24A725 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause Whether or not Defendant shall receive a fair and impartial de novo Trial/Appeal in any Virginia State, County, or City Court? Whether or not the 197…
24-744 Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. Iowa 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-quality statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause This case explicitly presents important questions, over which, Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals, state high, and intermediate courts are openl…
24-606 Christine A. Arakelian v. Ashley Pollard, et al. Virginia 2024-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption state-court-procedure supremacy-clause 1. Did the Prince William County Circuit Court err as a matter of federal, constitutional law when it did not grant the Petitioner's motion for partia…
24-5946 James B. Crosby v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-proceedings heck-bar injunction supremacy-clause younger-abstention Can the Younger abstention be ignored when it is clear that federal proceedings began before State and should an injunction have been/be granted to pr…
24-405 Indiana, ex rel. Deborah Walton v. Superior Court 6 of Indiana, Hamilton County, et al. Indiana 2024-10-10 Denied Response Waived dodd-frank foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-servicing respa state-law supremacy-clause Whether State Laws are bound by Dodd Frank Regulation X section 1024.41(f)(1), which prohibits servicers from taking the first step to initiate forecl…
24A316 Jeffrey B. Clark v. D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel District of Columbia 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete article-ii-immunity bar-disciplinary-proceeding federal-officer-removal separation-of-powers supremacy-clause take-care-clause Question not identified.
24-362 Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G. W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement-proviso negligent-act sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause wrong-house-raid 1. Whether the Constitution's Supremacy Clause bars claims under the FTCA—a federal statute enacted by Congress—when the negligent or wrongful acts of…
24A227 Treniss J. Evans v. Supreme Court of New York, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-30 Presumed Complete campaign-finance constitutional-interpretation election-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion supremacy-clause Question not identified.
24A74 Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G.W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete discretionary-function federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-warrant supremacy-clause First, does the FTCA's discretionary function exception immunize the United States from liability for torts committed by its law enforcement officers …
24A65 Tina Peters v. Daniel P. Rubinstein, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete election-records federal-immunity fourteenth-amendment privileges-or-immunities state-prosecution supremacy-clause 1. Whether issues related to a claim to immunity from state prosecution under the Supremacy Clause and the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Four…
23-1319 B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause 1. Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as- applied when it contradicts …
23-7517 Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii Hawaii 2024-05-21 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process licensing-scheme second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause Whether the Bruen test determines when a State's criminal prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license violates the Second Amendment?
23A1029 Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension federal-officer-removal immunity-defense official-duties state-prosecution supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-7422 Charles Talley, et al. v. Housing Authority of Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eviction-procedure hud-regulations preemption-doctrine standing supremacy-clause void-order 1. Did the court's violate the Preemption Doctrine of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, in their failure to rule on disable Appellant's "…
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause 1) Whether or not the Circuit Court of Fairfax County (hereafter "FCCC ") Trial Court, the Court of Appeals of Virginia (hereafter "COAV '), and the S…
23-7228 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights-damages due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-rights Whether under Article III Sect. 2. The judicial Power extends to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under the Constitution, Laws of the United St…
23-1109 Dietmar Hanke, et al. v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2024-04-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process intervention-right notice notice-requirement prop207-prohibition property-taking standing summary-judgment supremacy-clause takings 1. Do the Intervenors have an absolute right to intervene as a separate, bona fide Party in the State's action to take common lands of their HOA pursu…
23-1014 Diyonne L. McGraw v. Khanh-Lien Banko, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process qualified-immunity separation-of-powers state-officials supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Separation of Powers doctrine preclude the federal judiciary from relying upon the federal common law defense of …
23A814 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete arizona-v-united-states federal-immigration-authority immigration-preemption removal-power state-border-enforcement supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-6728 In Re Kimberlee Pitawanakwat 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction general-crimes-act indian-rights major-crimes-act stare-decisis supremacy-clause treaty-interpretation treaty-of-fort-laramie Does it violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to subject Indians to stand federal trial…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-824 United States v. David L. Miller Tenth Circuit 2024-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations-clause bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee fraudulent-transfer section-544 sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause tax Whether a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a debtor's tax payment to the United States under Section 544(b) when no actual creditor could have obtained re…
23-6467 Fairly W. Earls v. Salam Syed, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law genuine-issues-of-dispute jury-function rule-of-orderliness summary-judgment supremacy-clause ISSUE 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals committed error's of Constitution Law by failing to follow the Supremacy Clause of the Federal…
23-745 In Re Henry L. Klein 2024-01-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-review attorney-discipline attorney-regulation axon-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure louisiana-supreme-court sec-v-cochran supremacy-clause Q-l: Did the Louisiana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by DENYING Petitioner's Request to enforce Axon v . FTC and SEC v. Co…
23A607 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete Amici (1) border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-6160 Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause 1. Is Consistent with the Supremacy Clause, may a state refuse to follow this Court's holdings and permit indictment for a capital crime by a grand ju…
23-518 In Re Henry Klein 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation filed-rate-doctrine group-life-precedent group-life-vs-royal-drug insurance-regulation louisiana-insurance-code risk-spreading state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-insurance Did the Louisiana district court violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution by giving higher deference to the Louisiana Insurance …
23-5937 In Re John Lenard Taylor 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review standing standing-doctrine supremacy-clause 1) Does Article VI's Supremacy Clause assure the 'privelege of habeas corpus shall not be suspended" or abrogated by any judicial machination? 2) Doe…
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure a) Whether or not the Court of Appeals of Virginia ("COAV ") impeded the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia ("SCV ") and/or the …
23A260 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement-agreement military-retirement-pay supremacy-clause uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act veterans-disability-benefits Question not identified.
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
23-5407 Corey A. Askew v. Paul Bailey, Sheriff, Berrien County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a meaningful question presented I cannot generate the question presented or ident indigenous-rights international-law self-determination supremacy-clause treaty-obligations united-nations 1. Are the Self-determination Clauses of the United Nations treaties and customary rules of international law to which the United States is a party up…
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardsh…
23-5233 Randall Lamont Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals standard-of-review supremacy-clause supreme-court-standard (1) Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals failed to apply this Court's standard for insufficiency of evidence as described in Jackson v. Virg…
23-5104 Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang Montana 2023-07-13 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the definition of "prevailing party" as decided by the US Su…
22-1237 Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. Massachusetts 2023-06-23 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. ("FAA"), pursuant to Article VI of the United States Constitution ("Supremacy Clause"), …
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause 1. Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to furnish requested discovery, refusing ev…
22-7667 In Re Rajni Shaw 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process federal-preemption standing supremacy-clause The uni sta consto is e supr w of the andhe j 2 stdng eqen AndThacJu the ci o dn under color of law. Becuse 3od the 1th Amendment bors the state fm…
22-7572 Tyrone Doutherd v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-discrimination civil-rights due-process preemption supremacy-clause workers-compensation Do the federal civil rights and anti-discrimination statutes expressly pre-empt state workers' compensation laws? Do the federal civil rights and ant…
22-1092 Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii 1. Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy Clause, federal laws and this Court's on-the merits-based final pretrial judgment prece…
22-7396 Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1…
22-7302 Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz Colorado 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. Where the federal agency with "exclusive jurisdiction" over "all questions of law and fact" concerning a dependent's claim for a portion of a veter…
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4) all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. The conspiracy theory of personal jurisdiction ("CTPJ") is nebulous and has no consensus in State and Federal courts. Does the theory satisfy the…
22-876 Daniel L. Pohle v. Michael Pence, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process international-treaty presidential-powers supremacy-clause treaty-violation united-nations-convention 1. Whether the President of the United States is bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to seek injunction against a Governor…
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens against takings of property without due process. Due process includes, at a minimum, personal jurisdiction,…
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the "verdict form " agreed upon by the jury failure to specify I. "GUILTY " as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of G…
22-673 Robert G. Hicks v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Kentucky 2023-01-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment default-judgment due-process eminent-domain jurisdictional-statute non-residents service-of-process supremacy-clause In an eminent domain proceeding in state court involving non-residents, does a failure to cite in any pleadings preceding essentially a default judgme…
22-5965 Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a (Rule 91a) Dismissal of Baseless Cause of Action, became effective March 1, 2013, and suppose to be similar to Feder…
22-5910 In Re Mark Lewis 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority - and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance - can render a judgmen…
22-5585 Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE STATE AGENCY CAN REQUIRE THAT FUTURE SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS PREMATURELY APPLY FOR REDUCED…
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14% Amendment, imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child (1) against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Const…
22-5101 Sonya Owens v. Reliance Partners, LLC District of Columbia 2022-07-13 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process federalism personal-rights property-rights separation-of-powers stay-at-home-orders supremacy-clause (1) Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States ' Legislatures? (2) Are…
22-3 Save Coral Bay, Inc. v. Albert Bryan, Jr., Governor of the Virgin Islands, et al. Virgin Islands 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived coastal-zone-management environmental-protection federal-duty federal-territorial-power judicial-review public-review statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-law trust-obligation When a territory enacts a law that contravenes a duty imposed by federal law, must the territory's judiciary look beyond whether the law was properly …
21-7807 In Re Rafael Cezar Danam 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment jury-trial mandamus-writ redress-of-grievances supremacy-clause 1.) Application pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 22, United States Constitution Article III, Sections 1 and 2, Applicant as Petitioner seeks interventio…
21-1368 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. PJM Interconnection, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arising-under-jurisdiction civil-rights federal-preemption federal-regulatory-agency filed-rate-doctrine substantial-federal-question supremacy-clause tariff-regulation well-pleaded-complaint-rule In this case, Petitioner asks the Court to resolve lower-court confusion arising from the intersection of two Court-created principles: the "substanti…
21-7424 Ismael Ruiz v. Wyoming Wyoming 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federalism state-sovereignty supremacy-clause unconstitutional Can a State within the United States choose which federal laws and Constitutional provisions it wants to honor and which ones it does not want to comp…
21-7392 Jeffery Neil Brantley v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process federal-habeas-corpus financial-records habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review state-constitutional-rights supremacy-clause DOES THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE PREEMPT THE STATES FROM CREATING A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF PRIVACY THAT GRANTS WITHIN THE STATE INDIVIDUALS, LEGITIMATE EXPE…
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights 1. Whéthér a veteran and his family are entitled to a policy by the Missouri Department of Corrections upholding statutory rights created under Title …
21-6971 Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights Weather federal law(s) 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state law(s) regarding military veterans ' disability income or asse…
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant who has incompetent representation, that is established under prevailing Sixth Amendment stan…
21-6596 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause tenth-amendment veterans-benefits veterans-disability 1. Whether Superior Court State of Arizona, Maricopa County, without authority, lacked jurisdiction of subject matter, and personal jurisdiction to he…
21-6385 Edward J. Dostal v. Basin Electric Power Cooperative, et al. South Dakota 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-timeline court-procedure due-process federal-court-precedent filing-deadline motion-dismissal public-utility-regulation sherman-act state-court-precedent supremacy-clause The South Dakota Supreme Court dismissal order used the motion for appeal filing fee payment date rather than the actual filing date causing the Petit…
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii "[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten." Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 68 (2020). More…
21-693 Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act 1. When there is undisputed evidence that a non-court state administrative agency lacks jurisdiction under federal law, whether the Ninth Circuit can …
21-620 Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention The question presented is whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies when a state has indicated it will disregard the Supremacy Clause of the Con…
21-530 Thomas C. Donald v. James P. Kimberley, et ux. Alabama 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived boundary-lines due-process federal-land-patent land-patent land-survey property-law public-land real-property-law supremacy-clause title-43-usc-752 When the United States conveys ownership of public land to a person, it does so with a land patent in which the conveyed land is described by the Sect…
21-5866 Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing courts decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence, not presented for review in prisone…
21-5695 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process federal-exemption prisoners-rights state-seizure stimulus-payments supremacy-clause whether states seizure op prisoners * stimulus payments violate the federal exemption STATUTES WITHIN THE CARES ACT AND THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE OF THE UN…
21-405 Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance Massachusetts 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law This case concerns, as far as Petitioner can determine, the first law in American history that restricts taxpayers' speech about a tax. It also concer…
21-404 United States v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (1) contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers who perform services at a specified federal facility is…
21-279 Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. v. Mark Boughton Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied dormant-commerce-clause due-process extraterritorial-effect extraterritorial-regulation federal-preemption indian-commerce private-business-data private-data state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether Connecticut impermissibly regulates or controls conduct beyond the boundaries of the State in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause when…
21-5464 Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation individual-liberty second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court acknowledged that the Second Amendment protects a pre-existing fundamental right to armed self-defense w…
21-240 KWS Inc., a Member of the Thiele Group v. Eric Scalla Pennsylvania 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment federal-removal federal-rights federal-statutory-right federal-supremacy procedural-prerequisites state-court-procedure state-procedure supremacy-clause Whether a state court may require a federal-court litigant that has exercised its federal statutory right of removal following the state court's entry…
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut…
21-5264 In Re Melvin Dinkins 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause What are the "usages and principles" of law, in this case 28 USC 3730 (b)(1) - when legislature proclaims "A person may bring a civil action for the p…
21-5237 Taurice Leonard Brown v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review jury-selection merits-decision sixth-amendment supremacy-clause WHETHER FLORIDA COURTS ARE REFUSING TO CONSIDER SIXTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS IN VIOLATION OF THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE BY NOT TREATING RUSSELL V. UNITED STATES, …
21-5195 M. T. Q. v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-07-26 Denied IFP child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-benefits state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. In Rose v. Rose , 481 U.S. 619, 641-642 (1987), Justice Scalia stated in his concurring opinion: "I am not persuaded that if the Administrator [now…
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial officers acting clearly/substantially beyond their judicial capacities fraudulently legislating/extrapolating law deliberately fraudulently m…
21-44 Kevin Lee Boutte v. Yvonne Renea Boutte Louisiana 2021-07-13 Denied disability-pay federal-preemption federal-statute military-benefits military-powers res-judicata supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-rights The Supreme Court of Louisiana denied Petitioner's appeal on purely state law grounds of estoppel and res judicata in affirming a Court of Appeals' op…
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS ,DENYING THE PLAINTIFF AND HIS INFIRM MOTHER DENIED VISIT…
20-1525 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied equal-protection equitable-tolling non-judicial-foreclosure respa statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause Does the fact that there is "no defense for Federal Mitigation wrongdoing by lenders in non-judicial State court " while such defense naturally exists…
20-1521 Yann Iannucci v. Macomb County Friend of the Court Michigan 2021-04-30 Denied child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. In Rose v. Rose, 481 U.S. 619, 641-642 (1987), Justice Scalia stated in his concurring opinion: "I am not persuaded that if the Administrator [now…
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan 2021-04-28 Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits 1. Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits. Howell v. Howell, 137 S. Ct. 1400, 1404, 1…
20-1473 Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden Georgia 2021-04-20 Denied due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers For purposes of the disposition of Petitioner's constitutional rights (including those with respect to custody of and visitation with his minor childr…
20-1332 Eric D. Speidell, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied cannabis-legality civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-law-investigation federal-preemption isr-summons standing state-legalization supremacy-clause warrant-requirement 1. Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act? 2. Did Congress, under …
20-1300 Emilio Torres Luque, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived cross-border-residency double-taxation international-tax-law ninth-circuit reciprocity residency revenue-procedure supremacy-clause tax-treaty treaty-interpretation This is a case of first impression. There are no similar cases that either party or the Court's own research could find. The Supremacy Clause of Artic…
20-1268 Michael Suarez v. Alf J. Aanonsen Florida 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-court-conflict appellate-court-decision business-nexus federal-question foreign-corrupt-practices-act national-importance supremacy-clause 1. IS THE OPINION REND ERED BY THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA IN ALF J. AANOSEN, APPELLANT v MICHAEL A. SUAREZ ETC. APPELLEE , (CASE NO…
20-1262 MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government Kentucky 2021-03-11 Denied batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause This Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment prohibited litig…
20-7309 Phillip Maldonado v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause I. DOES THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION'S ARTICLE VI, CLAUSE 2 SUPREMACY CLAUSE PRESCRIBE A RULE OF DECISION UNDER INTERPRETATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT PER …
20-1071 West Virginia, ex rel. June Yurish, et al. v. Laura V. Faircloth, Judge, Circuit Court of West Virginia, 23rd Judicial Circuit, et al. West Virginia 2021-02-05 Denied 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process joint-representation sixth-amendment standing supremacy-clause Whether a state precedent which uses a state rule of procedure to disregard its own test for balancing the Constitutional interests implicated by a pr…
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California 2021-01-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall because the Supremacy Clause, as held in Montgom…
20-663 Peter R. Culpepper v. Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Tennessee 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act grounds-for-vacating notice-requirement preemption state-arbitration-law state-law-preemption supremacy-clause time-limitation Whether a state arbitration law that provides a stricter mandate than Congress intended is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and the Supremacy …
20-645 Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (13) 16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law The Petitioners allegedly operate a Colorado state legal cannabis dispensary and sold cannabis in accordance with state law. The IRS claims that altho…
20-527 Kevin Guskiewicz, in His Official Capacity as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, et al. v. DTH Media Corporation, et al. North Carolina 2020-10-20 Denied Amici (2) disciplinary-records discretion education-records educational-privacy ferpa public-records sexual-assault sexual-assault-disciplinary-records supremacy-clause Does the Supremacy Clause permit a state public-records law to override the discretion that FERPA grants universities over the disclosure of sexual as…
20-6005 Victor Brancaccio v. Florida Florida 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5801 James Rogers v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5815 In Re Seth John Wilcox 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federalism fundamental-rights grand-jury hurtado-v-california supremacy-clause I. CAN A STATE CREATE AND ENFORCE CONTRARY LAW, THAT DEPRIVES ITS CITIZENS OF THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION? …
20-267 Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein New Hampshire 2020-09-02 Denied Relisted (2) child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act 1. Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively g…
20-5486 Spencer E. Miles v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5485 Maurice Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5416 Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5305 Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. Whether the statutes 29 UCS Section 1001 et seq., ERISA insulated Petitioner 's federal pension funds in a account which is not taxable exempt from…
20-108 Paul Poupart v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1983 civil-rights due-process first-amendment state-conviction supremacy-clause Whether the standards in Heck v. Humphrey, should continue to apply to state convictions which are deemed unconstitutional and whether the invalidatio…
20-5027 Christopher Allred v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process preemption privileges-and-immunities supremacy-clause vagueness Is it tre that, "All pusons born or naturalized in the United states, and of the state wherein thay reside? And if so... And, becanse of t Supremacy …
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-1384 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Corrinne Hudson Ohio 2020-06-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-law hipaa hipaa-compliance involuntary-consent litigation-procedure medical-authorization medical-authorizations personal-injury-claim supremacy-clause The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, 42 U.S.C. § 1320d-2; 45 C.F.R. pts. 160 & 164, requires any medical authoriza…
19-8541 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles South Dakota 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-filing fed-r-app-p-4c1 federal-regulations first-amendment fourteenth-amendment inmate-filing inmates-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulatio…
19-1270 Steven D. Fodge, et al. v. Trustmark National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response Waived active-duty confession-of-judgment due-process foreclosure military-personnel military-protection mortgage-foreclosure servicemembers-civil-relief-act supremacy-clause Louisiana law allows banks to use "confession of judgment" clauses embedded in mortgage documents to seize and sell the homes of military personnel wh…
19-1182 Smith Land Company, et al. v. Shawn A. Herhold, et al. Ohio 2020-03-30 Denied clean-water-act corps-of-engineers-permit due-process isolated-wetlands nonpoint-source notice-and-hearing standing supremacy-clause wetlands 1. Whether a state, which lacked stand-alone jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1344(g), at the time 0.014 of an acre was overfilled, c…
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause 1. Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judic…
19-7966 Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb Ninth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause 1) whether the Courts violated U.s. Const. Amend,14 clauses on Due Process and Equal Protection? 2) Whether the courts violated U.s. Const. Amend. 5 …
19-1112 Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the…
19-1018 Dana Gallop v. Adult Correctional Institutions, et al. Rhode Island 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-death-statute civil-rights constitutional-law political-disenfranchisement prisoner-rights racial-discrimination supremacy-clause unconstitutional Does Rhode Island's Civil Death Statute, G.L. 1956 § 13-6-1, violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, where it is derived from …
19-7509 In Re Lawrence E. Mattison 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act") allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal pro…
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre…
19-7263 Praveen Kevin Khurana v. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Idaho 2020-01-13 Denied IFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-11-usc-362 civil-procedure due-process fraudulent-transfer governmental-unit medicaid-recovery probate property-rights property-tax property-transfer real-estate real-estate-transfer supremacy-clause voidable 1) Whether pre-petition probate charges/claims by a governmental unit against a real property of a debtor are treated the same as property tax charges…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Q1. What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affe…
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…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause 1. Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a st…
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause 1. Based upon the claims and supporting evidence presented in Petitioner's state post-conviction habeas corpus petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Co…
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution? Does the…
19-6726 In Re Billie Byrd 2019-11-22 Denied IFP aedpa-filing-limitations aedpa-limitations constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-treaties subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties-with-indians treaty-supremacy-clause (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions i…
19-635 Donald J. Trump v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of the County of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response Waived article-2 article-ii article-two constitutional-law criminal-investigation executive-power grand-jury-subpoena immunity president presidential-immunity separation-of-powers subpoena supremacy-clause The District Attorney for the County of New York is conducting a criminal investigation that, by his own admission, targets the President of the Unite…
19-6526 In Re David Paul Worthington 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-1151-1153 aedpa aedpa-limitations article-1 article-6 criminal-procedure indian-law indian-treaties state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaties-with-indians (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions …
19-6304 Martin Nava Lara v. Texas Texas 2019-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights 1. Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two…
19-482 ASAP Copy and Print, et al. v. Canon Solutions America, Inc. California 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights-act-of-1866 due-process judicial-immunity law-of-the-case recusal recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California's common law concept of "law of the case" may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C.…
19-6246 Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether state law that interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Stat18 USCS § 2113, that was intended to ue comp…
19-6240 John Lee Norris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction judicial-standing plea-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether the United States Court's for the Eighth circuit has failed to to adhere to the accepted and usual course of Judicial proceedings established …
19-6044 Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC Massachusetts 2019-09-24 Denied IFP anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment I. As applied, does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land Subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B) (vi) ("IRC …
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause D IF A pOLCEMAN ARRESt A SUSpECT, WiPhOUT A WARRANT, takES you off, put you in jail, wilhout A mitgistentE ApprouAl, thEN you're FOOKEN tO A PIEST APP…
19-5903 Martin Ogden v. Digital Intelligence Systems Arizona 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-claims federal-law judicial-authority judicial-review nullity state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause 1. Like any other state or federal court, both state courts of record for this case (specifically, the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County and …
19-5846 Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas Texas 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure Whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution once he grants an Order on motion for New T…
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell 2019-08-23 Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions i…
19-160 Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court in order to ensure "maximum efficiency" of Washington courts pursuant to Wash. Rev. Code 2.5…
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha…
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 …
18-1575 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-25 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-state-relations judicial-duty property-tax real-property standing state-government supremacy-clause takings treason Whether the Supremacy Clause will be given its controlling effect in this extraordinary instance? Whether judges of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma hav…
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Petitioner is a lawyer licensed by the State of New York and duly authorized to practice before the U.S Department of Homeland Security pursuant to th…
18-1441 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. Kentucky 2019-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, the First Amendment requires state courts, despite their own procedures, to dismiss suits immediately upon a show…
18-9101 Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
18-9090 Virginia Howard v. San Diego County Counsel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption homestead homestead-exemption lis-pendens mechanic-liens municipal-liability property-recording real-property supremacy-clause supremacy-of-federal-law title-42 title-42-section-1983 Question #1 Are the Recorders failure omissions to register, record, docket or index documents regarding real property) make offices, counties, paris…
18-8921 Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court WHAT IS A REASONABLE TIME PERIOD FOR TRIAL COUNSEL TO BE REQUIRED TO BECOME AWARE OF RECENT PRECEDENCE,BEFORE HE/ SHE MAY DEEMED INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILI…
18-8899 Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Article VI, §2) require the Judge(s) (both State & Federal) within STATE OF CALIFORNIA (as well as an o…
18-1302 Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 …
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause 1. Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution when it denies the protections…
18-8422 Johnny M. Young v. Alabama Alabama 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-law standing state-courts supremacy-clause WHETHER DENIAL OF IN FORMA PAUPERIS BY THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT ON FEDERAL RIGHTS OF ACCESS TO THE COURTS? THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION …
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d…
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as codified by County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991), may law enforcemen…
18-8013 Paul Pieczynski v. Wells Fargo and Company, N.A. Third Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedures due-process federal-jurisdiction land-patent supremacy-clause takings time treaty-law update weather If one is entitled to update a land patent, is there a time of day, time of year, season, weather event, or anything that would bar the update? Did t…
18-7785 David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz New Mexico 2019-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause Whether any court can deprive Constitutional 1st 2nd 4th 5th 8th 13th and 10 Amendment rights and violate the Supremacy Clause Constitution Article VI…
18-1011 Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. Texas 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act The Texas Supreme Court has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has preemptive effect over incompatible state law when the parties have agreed the …
18-7643 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. …
18-7633 Michael Lynn Heard v. Scott Solomon, et al. Arkansas 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause title-42-usc-1983 (u ct So C \ r&c VO\O€.S * C\s 0~—AkNf, USSCbcS&r\ Qo *c: \cxc -o1l4\*t UC\4 4\t. CCt CAXLfr cQ \Jaes. kcrnsaS O4 H ArYansas Wes Ca\ Qcteckise cj
18-979 Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause In California Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co., 480 U.S. 572 (1987), this Court considered the question whether states might assert permitting autho…
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 This case presents issues related to the failure of the 330th Family District Court, Dallas County, Texas, to observe federal jurisdiction during a re…
18-7226 Omar Blanco v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Did Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), announce a substantive rule of constitutional law? 2. May a state court hold that a substantive rule…
18-7041 Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2018-12-17 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by …
18-6843 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2018-11-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retro activity decision, which lim its the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury de termi…
18-593 StarLink Logistics, Inc. v. ACC, LLC, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-06 Denied Relisted (2) clean-water-act effluent-limits navigable-waters npdes-permit point-source point-source-pollution preemption supremacy-clause Whether a state law that authorizes a polluter to discharge covered pollutants from a point source into the navigable waters of the United States with…
18-449 Pharmavite LLC v. Noah Bradach Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived class-action class-certification class-members federal-preemption federal-statute individual-inquiry preemption state-law-claims supremacy-clause 1. Is it a violation of the Supremacy Clause, U.S. ConsT. art. VI, cl. 2, for a federal court to certify a class that includes class members asserting…
18-6221 Raymond P. Vinnie v. Bruce R. Henry, et al. Massachusetts 2018-10-04 Dismissed IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court litigation-privilege standing state-immunity supremacy-clause 1) Whether as a matter of first impression, are 5-private attorneys who fraudulently conspired with a Clerk of Court in a lawsuit for the sole purpose…
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption Judicial 15-16 District Court failure to comply with 28 U.S.C.636 16-17 claims ignored by the District Court.17-18 State Probationary Split Sentence…
18-312 David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard Tennessee 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,…
18-291 Gul Jaisinghani v. Anil Sharma, et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud constitutional-rights due-process duplicative-damages fair-trial joint-venture substantive-due-process supremacy-clause witness-exclusion 1. Given that a conspiracy to commit bank fraud is clearly illegal under federal law, as highlighted in the recent Manafort case, does a state's enfor…
18-5903 Rufus Jones v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-407 42-usc-423 5th-amendment constitutional-supremacy discrimination-protection due-process equality-act federal-jurisdiction garnishment judicial-conduct judicial-oath jurisdiction social-security social-security-benefits supremacy-clause title-ii Does Social Security claimants, pursuant to Title 11 42 USC 423 entitled to be paid all back payments, free from garnishments or attachments by the Co…
18-5641 Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause 1. Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking rel…
18-205 Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. California 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes…
18-181 Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck Ohio 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure comity constitutional-hierarchy due-process federal-court-judgment federal-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-enforcement state-court-intervention state-court-jurisdiction state-court-order supremacy-clause writ-of-execution Does the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2, preclude a state court from issuing an order preventing the enforcement of a judg…
18-153 Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-03 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law cost-allocation energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-ratemaking ferc-refund-policy holding-company-cost-allocation preemption rate-making ratemaking refund regulatory-policy state-ratemaking supremacy-clause 1. Given this Court's holdings that the Federal Power Act ("FPA") preempts inconsistent state ratemaking and requires state agencies to treat cost all…
18-136 Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County Texas 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home …
18-5402 Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de…
18-5065 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule, which deems Hurst errors harmless in every case in which the defendant's pre-Hurst …
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst …
18-5124 Norberto Pietri v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de…
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-…
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o…
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d…