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25-763 PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment 1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand this case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did …
25-5248 In Re Quay Phipps 2025-07-31 Denied IFP article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including habeas corpus, due to the government's lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Article I, S…
25-120 Mark Gustafson, Individually and as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of James Robert ("J.R.") Gustafson, et al. v. Springfield, Inc., dba Springfield Armory, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-07-31 Denied federalism gun-manufacturers interstate-commerce legislative-action state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Where Congress in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), Pet.App.2 76a-287a (15 U.S.C. §§ 7901−7903 ), commanded judges to dismiss cer…
25-5150 David Robinson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP congressional-taxing-power constitutional-provisions nfa-registration second-amendment short-barreled-rifle tenth-amendment 1. Whether federal criminal punishment of the possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle violates the Second Amendment. 2. Whether federal cr…
24A1255 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-20 Presumed Complete federal-education-power general-welfare-clause higher-education-act separation-of-powers student-loan-bankruptcy tenth-amendment Is federal power over education constitutional?
24-7216 Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-powers constitutional-violations ninth-amendment sovereign-rights standing-doctrine tenth-amendment 1. Do the People, as sovereign under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, have an unalienable right to sue Congress for systemic cons…
24-7134 In Re Kesean Wilson 2025-05-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights detainment dual-sovereignty equal-protection interstate-commerce tenth-amendment DOES THE DUAL SOVEREIGNTY RULE, AS APPLIED TO CONDUCT THAT SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECTS INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND THE POWER TO COIN MONEY, CONFLICT WITH THE TE…
24-1100 Ashu Joshi v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment 1. Whether the federal prosecution of Petitioner for sexual exploitation of a minor under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251(a), 2423(a), and 2252A(a)(2) is unconstitu…
24-6868 In Re James Eric Mansfield 2025-03-27 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act evidentiary-law federal-court habeas-corpus state-sovereignty tenth-amendment 1. Whether a federal court violates the Tenth Amendment by commandeering state evidentiary law and adding a heightened provision for the admissibility…
24-6401 Rachel Robertson v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-242 bivens-doctrine constitutional-rights executive-orders presidential-immunity tenth-amendment The questions presented are as follows: 1. Whether the President of the United States can be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 242 for using the power of h…
24-796 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-review standing state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Under Missouri law, state officials cannot use state resources to enforce certain federal laws. In response to a suit filed by the Federal Government …
24-778 Billie Smith, et al. v. Tara Medina, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied constitutional-conditions judicial-review permit-requirements property-rights state-sovereignty tenth-amendment 1. Whether the Federal Judges violate the Tenth Amendment by obliterating, rewriting, and changing the meaning of Colorado law removing from the text …
24-605 Jason Dee Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response Waived criminal-statute federalism police-powers sex-trafficking states-rights tenth-amendment Whether The Government's Application Of A Federal Criminal Statute For Sex Trafficking To The Purely Local Crime Of Prostitution Is An Invasion Of The…
24A476 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-law legislative-findings standing state-resources tenth-amendment Whether the United States has standing to enjoin a Missouri statute that is enforced only by private parties (and only against local state political e…
24-516 Kathrine Ann Detwiler, Gary Robert Krum, and Elaine M. Barnhart v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-06 Denied Response Waived cdc-recommendations federal-funding public-health-regulation school-board-authority state-sovereignty tenth-amendment In Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997), this Court held unconstitutional a federal law obligating State officials to implement a federal regu…
24-5781 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-law summary-judgment tenth-amendment 1. Whether The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in essentially holding in conflict with The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that a violation of …
23-7535 Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness Whether A COA Should Issue Because Jurists Of Reason Could Debate Or Agree That Congress Could Did Not Authorize Federal Enforcement Of § 1591 To Pure…
23A34 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Presumed Complete commandeering-states federal-preemption horseracing-integrity-and-safety-act private-entity-delegation tenth-amendment Question not identified.
22-7739 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process firearms-statute jurisdiction speedy-trial standing tenth-amendment witness-impeachment 1. Is 18.U.S.C. § 922(g) constitutional and was Tenth Amendment jurisdiction maintained for firearms alleged in this case? 2. Was this a violation of…
22-7698 Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance Did the Court exceed its authority in not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the Statutory Maximum? Is the United State…
22-7403 Anthony Carl Eccarius v. Mendocino County Social Services Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP 10th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equity federalism judicial-review legal-standing power-in-equity standing tenth-amendment 1) Shall the People exclude a single citizen's 10th Amendment power in equity?
22-661 David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment In accord with the Tenth Amendment, how is it determined whether a power is reserved to the people or to the State? Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amend…
22-579 Jeanie Bisconte v. Sandia National Laboratories, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits employment-discrimination enclave-clause federal-enclave federal-jurisdiction federal-property jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope tenth-amendment u.s-constitution Whether this Court should limit the reach of federal enclave jurisdiction in an employment discrimination case in which Petitioner and the individual …
22-352 Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Amici (1) american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation In response to the pandemic-related economic downturn, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4. AR…
21-8008 In Re James Martin Graham 2022-06-01 Denied IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federalism fifth-amendment habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Did the complaint/information or indictment fail to charge an ONE: offense againse the laws ofthe United States, because no jurisdiction has been ced…
21-1463 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate 1. Whether the Mandate violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because it is arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful? 2. Whether the Mandate is u…
21-7599 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code ("Section 2252" or the "Statute") forming the gravamen of the charges in the Indictment l…
21-7329 Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied IFP certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig…
21-1206 John H. Page v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States District of Columbia 2022-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights congress congressional-representation constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process ministerial-duty presidential-powers representation standing state-representation tenth-amendment The Question: Can a federal court dismiss a case based on lack of jurisdiction over relief that wasn't requested, despite it being empowered to order …
21-1207 Joel D. Klenck v. Liberty University, et al. Florida 2022-03-03 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-capricious 21-1206" arbitrary-capricious-standard congressional-representation constitutional-rights district-of-columbia final-judgments historic-preservation international-treaties judicial-review ministerial-duty state-court-review state-courts state-representation tenth-amendment terrorism terrorism-context Whether a federal court can dismiss a case for lac 1. Whether and to what degree does this Court have the ability to review final judgments of state courts when the case involves international treaties…
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…
21-376 Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (5) 10th-amendment anticommandeering article-iii-standing equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act placement-preferences recordkeeping standing tenth-amendment 1. Whether various provisions of ICWA —namely, the minimum standards of Section 1912(a), (d), (e), and (f); the placement-preference provisions of Sec…
21-5244 Burudi Jarade Faison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-jurisprudence congressional-power constitutional-interpretation federal-sentencing firearm-possession overrule precedent scarborough-v-us tenth-amendment us-v-lopez If the current precedent case law for commerce jurisprudence, i.e, U.S. Lopez 514 US 549, conflicts with another currently applied case decision, i.e,…
20-1659 50509 Marine LLC, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived chicago-title corporate-dissolution erisa erisa-interpretation federal-common-law stare-decisis state-corporate-law tenth-amendment Whether under Chicago Title & Tr. Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp., 302 U.S. 120 (1937) and the Tenth Amendment to the United States Con…
20-7663 Andre Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int…
20-7301 Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment Petitioner was convicted under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871, sections of the National Firearms Act that impose criminal penalties of up to 10 years' …
20-6885 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment 1. Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appeal…
20-846 Club One Casino, Inc., dba Club One Casino, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act federal-enclave federal-trust-acquisition indian-commerce-clause indian-reorganization-act land-transfer state-sovereignty tenth-amendment tribal-jurisdiction A Nevada gambling corporation donated a parcel of private California land to the United States to hold in trust for an Indian tribe for an off-reserva…
20-795 New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne JAG funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements?
20-5622 Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH…
20-5332 William David Bush v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code, openly declares supremacy in codified authority to the articles and rights guaranteed in law b…
19-1297 James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. Texas 2020-05-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen…
19-8281 Luqman Abdullah v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-04-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment delayed-notification federalism fourth-amendment new-jersey patriot-act separation-of-powers sneak-and-peek surveillance-procedure tenth-amendment Whether the enhanced surveillance procedure, under Section 213 of the U.S. Patriot Act, 18 U.S.C , §3301 (Commonly known as "Sneak and Peek " or the "…
19-7233 Jameice Nash v. James Kenney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Article III-right civil-rights due-process federalism Heck-doctrine Prison Litigation Reform Act prison-litigation-reform-act prosecutorial-immunity Racially-tainted procedural-violations Sovereign state-police powers sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations Tenth Amendment-principles Tenth Amendment-rights tenth-amendment i. Procedurally, did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights and Tenth Amendment rights by adhering to procedures/ su…
19-6980 John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas Kansas 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers Whether this courts holding against the individual mandate sanction in NFIB v. Sebelious 567 U S 519, 132, S. Ct. 2566, 183, L Ed 2d 450 (2012) on the…
19-6436 Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment The DEA relied exclusively on an internal agency precedent to declare that because private market actors on the Massachusetts medical board suspended …
19-377 Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment 1. Whether the district and appellate courts claiming jurisdiction under ERISA over a private inter vivos trust creates conflict between Article VI of…
18-9246 Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson Timbs v State of Indi…
18-8823 Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure 1) dose petitioner who have lived in the U.S. for period of 14 years with proof of education and clear record of any criminal or misdemeanor charges d…
18-1200 Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment This case involves the granting of summary judgment as a matter of Florida law by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida …
18-1106 Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment Section 401 of the Clean Water Act requires an applicant for an interstate natural gas pipeline project to obtain "a certification from the State in w…
18-1018 Andrew Bennett, et al. v. Jefferson County, Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived article-ii article-iii-review bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness federalism municipal-utilities plan-of-adjustment ratemaking-authority sewer-user-rates standing takings tenth-amendment 1. May the doctrine of equitable mootness bar an appeal to an Article III Judg e of a Plan of Adjustment providing for ratemaking enforcement authorit…
18-7737 Tyshawn Simmons v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Question not identified.
18-735 Maricopa County, Arizona v. Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Relisted (7) 10th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contempt-powers county-authority-under-state-law federal-courts federalism federalism-limits-on-federal-courts final-policymaker guarantee-clause mcmillian-precedent rizzo-v-goode sovereign-prerogatives tenth-amendment In the Ninth Circuit, the precepts of federalism often count for very little. They are, at most, but minor hurdles to be vaulted over by federal court…
18-684 Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui…
18-6499 Dominique Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-agents federal-government fourth-amendment home-arrest standing tenth-amendment warrantless-search Just 6, 2004 by The United States of America's Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents took within the jurisdiction of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania…
18-5858 Lance Edward Gloor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated where Congress expressed its clear intent to respect stat…
24A294 In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson Presumed Complete bail-pending-appeal bank-robbery equal-protection federal-crime habeas-corpus tenth-amendment Question not identified.