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Administrative law cases
Agency power, judicial review, rulemaking, enforcement, and statutory authority cases.
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25-1325Oklahoma, et al., Petitioners v. United States, et al.
Whether the Act’s delegation of law-enforcement and rulemaking power to the private Authority violates the Constitution’s private non-delegation doctr...
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25-579Department of the Air Force, et al., Petitioners v. Prutehi Guahan
1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t...
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25-1144Daisey Trust, By and Through Its Trustee Eddie Haddad, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al.
1. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, 601 U.S. 416 (2024) (“CFPB”), this Court u...
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25-1370Samreen Farid Riaz, Petitioner v. Dental Board of California
1. Did the Supreme court of California in error, abuse discretion and show bias denying Petition (S293171) on Dec 10 25 and left unresolved conflicted...
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25-7650William Peterman, Jr., Petitioner v. The Maple Press Company
1. Whether the authority of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 serves the unknown class; enforceable c? by demonstration of no difference to protected class...
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25-1403Lina Noland, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Trade Commission
1. Whether, after AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Federal Trade Commission may preserve an ex parte S...
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25-7519Fousseini Tounkara, Petitioner v. James Macy, Director, Office of Worker's Compensation Programs, et al.
1. Whether a reviewing court may uphold an Administrative Law Judge's adverse credibility determination in a Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensatio...
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25-7384Sualeh Kamal Ashraf, Petitioner v. Drug Enforcement Administration
1. Whether, after Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450 (2022), the Controlled Substances Act permits the Drug Enforcement Administration to revoke a ph...
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25-7612Diana Zuniga Kammunkun, Petitioner v. Department of Defense
1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process permits an agency official to materially revise investigative findings after the investigati...
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25-1230Google LLC, Petitioner v. VirtaMove, Corp., et al.
1. Whether the PTO retains statutory authority to deny institution based on the “settled expectations” factor, where discretion is committed to the PT...
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25-1423Mark Geraghty Wonders, Petitioner v. Office of the Army General Counsel
1. Did the Agency violate the law by disregarding a judge ’ s order and release only one of two legal reviews to the Petitioner in a security clearanc...
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Recent decisions
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25-406Federal Communications Commission, et al., Petitioners v. AT&T, Inc.
Are provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 that govern the Federal Communications Commission’s assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeiture...
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25-466Ongkaruck Sripetch, Petitioner v. Securities and Exchange Commission
May the SEC seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm?
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25-332Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Petitioners v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, et al.
This case examines whether the President has the authority to fire a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner at will, despite federal laws that on...
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21-972Buffington v. McDonough
This case is about a veteran whose disability compensation stopped when he returned to active duty and who later sought to restart those benefits afte...
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21-379Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
This case challenges the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health plans cover certain preventive services without cost-sharing when those service...
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20-979Patel v. Garland
This case is about whether federal courts can review an immigration agency’s factual finding that a noncitizen is ineligible to seek lawful permanent ...
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20-7622Denezpi v. United States
This case asked whether the federal government violated the Double Jeopardy Clause by prosecuting Merle Denezpi in federal court after he had already ...
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20-827United States v. Zubaydah
This case was about whether Abu Zubaydah could obtain testimony from former CIA contractors for use in a Polish investigation into his alleged mistrea...
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20-297TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez
This case asked whether people may recover damages in federal court under the Fair Credit Reporting Act when a credit reporting agency incorrectly lab...
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19-7Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
This case arose when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tried to enforce an investigative demand against Seila Law, and Seila Law argued that th...
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19-547United States Fish and Wildlife Ser v. v. Sierra Club, Inc.
This case asked whether draft biological opinions prepared by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service during consultat...
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19-422Collins v. Yellen
This case arose from shareholders’ challenge to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s handling of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while they were in federal...
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19-402Baldwin v. United States
This case asks whether a federal agency can adopt a new interpretation of an ambiguous statute that overrides an earlier interpretation by a federal c...
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19-296Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
This case challenges the ATF’s rule treating bump stocks as machineguns under federal law, which effectively bans them. The petition asks how courts s...
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19-199Salinas v. Railroad Retirement Bd.
This case asked whether a federal court can review the Railroad Retirement Board’s refusal to reopen an earlier denial of disability benefits. Manfred...
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19-1442Carr v. Saul
This case asked whether people seeking Social Security disability benefits can challenge the constitutional appointment of the administrative law judg...
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19-1231FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project
This case was about the FCC’s decision to repeal or loosen several long-standing media ownership rules that limited common ownership of newspapers, ra...
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19-123Fulton v. Philadelphia
Philadelphia stopped working with Catholic Social Services in its foster-care program because the agency, for religious reasons, would not certify sam...
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19-1155Garland v. Ming Dai
This immigration case concerned whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly treated Ming Dai’s asylum testimony as automatically credible and true because the i...
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17-1484Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Petitioner v. Allina Health Services, et al.
1. WHETHER 42 U.S.C. §1395hh(a)(2) or §1395hh(a)(4) REQUIRED THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO CONDUCT NOTICE-AND-COMMENT RULEMAKING BEFO...
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17-1606Smith v. Berryhill
This case asked whether a Social Security disability claimant can go to federal court after the Social Security Appeals Council refuses to review the ...
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18-1432Nasrallah v. Barr
This case asked whether federal appeals courts may review the facts behind an immigration agency’s denial of protection under the Convention Against T...
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17-801In Re United States
The case grew out of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s decision to end DACA. The Supreme Court addressed whether lower courts could forc...
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18-1023Maine Community Health Options v. United States
This case was about whether the federal government had to pay health insurers money they were owed under the Affordable Care Act’s temporary Risk Corr...
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18-801Peter v. NantKwest, Inc.
This case asked whether a patent applicant who sues the Patent and Trademark Office in federal district court after losing before the agency must also...
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18-966Department of Commerce v. New York
This case concerned the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. States and local governments challenged the ...
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18-406Aaron J. Schock, Petitioner v. United States
Whether the Constitution's Rulemaking Clause and Speech and Debate Clause protect him from criminal charges based on internal House communications?
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20-1530West Virginia v. EPA
This case examines whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by manda...
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21-1271Moore v. Harper
North Carolina legislators argued the Elections Clause gives state legislatures exclusive authority over rules for congressional elections. The Court ...
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22-451Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Commercial fishing companies challenged a federal rule requiring them to help fund onboard monitoring, using the case to attack Chevron deference. The...
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22-1008Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Court addressed Florida and Texas laws regulating social media platforms but remanded both cases for further analysis. The Court provided guidance...
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19-835Valero Energy Corp. v. Envtl. Prot. Agency
This case involves a dispute between Valero Energy Corporation and the Environmental Protection Agency regarding environmental regulations. The Suprem...
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19-7867Mims v. Ill. Health & Family Servs.
This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by an individual seeking review of a decision by the Supreme Court of Illinois regarding ...
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22-714Calcutt v. FDIC
The Supreme Court ruled that when a federal agency makes a legal error, an appeals court must send the case back to the agency rather than reviewing t...
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19-819Procopio v. Wilkie
Whether the “pro-veteran canon”—which requires that “interpretive doubt [be] resolved in the veteran’s favor,” Brown v. Gardner, 513 U.S. 115, 118 (19...
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23-719Trump v. Anderson
The Court unanimously reversed Colorado's decision excluding Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. It held that states ma...
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22-1219Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce
This case challenged a federal regulation requiring herring fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors, but ultimately served as the vehicle for the Supreme...
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22-506Biden v. Nebraska
The Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create websites celebrating same-sex marriages when doin...
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22-666Situ Kamu Wilkinson, Petitioner v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General
The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have the jurisdiction to review an immigration agency's determination that a noncitizen's removal would no...
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23-1300Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al., Petitioners v. Texas, et al.
The Supreme Court ruled that only parties who formally intervened in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing proceedings can challenge its final...
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23-753City and County of San Francisco, California, Petitioner v. Environmental Protection Agency
The Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act does not authorize the EPA to include generic "end-result" provisions in wastewater discharge permits...
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24-354Federal Communications Commission, et al., Petitioners v. Consumers' Research, et al.
The Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not violate the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the FCC to collect contributions for the Universal Ser...
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23-583Amina Bouarfa, Petitioner v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.
The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review the Department of Homeland Security's decision to revoke a previously approved...
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23-1038Food and Drug Administration, Petitioner v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al.
The Supreme Court ruled that the FDA did not act arbitrarily or capriciously when it denied applications to market flavored e-cigarette products, find...
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23-975Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al., Petitioners v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al.
This case addressed whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to evaluate environmental impacts, such as upstream oil dr...
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23-1226McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., Petitioner v. McKesson Corporation, et al.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Hobbs Act does not require federal district courts to automatically accept the Federal Communication Commission's leg...
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23-1229Environmental Protection Agency, Petitioner v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al.
This case concerns the proper venue for small oil refineries to challenge the EPA's denial of their hardship exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standa...
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23-1067Oklahoma, et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.
This case addresses whether challenges to the EPA's rejection of state air quality plans must be heard exclusively in the D.C. Circuit Court or in reg...
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23A349Ohio, et al., Applicants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency's "Good Neighbor Plan," which aimed to reduce ozone pollution crossing state...
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Dismissed
2 casesDocket
25-7100Andrew Dale Faris, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protection Board
Whether the Due Process Clause permits a federal agency and the Merit Systems Protection Board to enforce a last-chance agreement as a?
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25-6745Linda Sun, Petitioner v. D.C. Office of Employee Appeals, et al.
from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
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