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| Case Name | Year | Question Presented | Court | Issue Area | Attorneys | |
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 | Biden v. Nebraska & U.S. Department of Education v. Myra Brown | 2023 | Does the U.S. Constitution and our system of separated powers prohibit the Executive branch from unilaterally making major policy decisions of vast economic and political importance without Congress’s permission. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
 | Rainwaters v. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency | 2023 | Whether a statute that authorizes Tennessee wildlife officials to enter private land and surveil private parties without a warrant violates Article I, Section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution. | Court of Appeals of Tennessee Western Division at Jackson | Criminal Justice | |
 | Gonzalez v. Google LLC | 2023 | Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information content provider, or only limits the liability of interactive computer services when they engage in traditional editorial functions (such as deciding whether to display or withdraw) with regard to such information. | U.S. Supreme Court | Technology & Innovation | |
| Lucid Group v. Johnston et al. | 2023 | Whether economic protectionism is a legitimate state interest that is constitutionally sufficient to sustain economic regulation. | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas | Regulatory Reform | |
 | Villarreal v. City of Laredo | 2022 | Whether qualified immunity applies to law enforcement who imprisoned a journalist for asking a question? | Fifth Circuit | Free Expression | |
| Myra Brown v. U.S. Department of Education | 2022 | Does the U.S. Constitution and our system of separated powers prohibit the Executive branch from unilaterally making major policy decisions of vast economic and political importance without Congress’s permission. | Fifth Circuit | Regulatory Reform | |
| Biden v. Nebraska | 2022 | Does the U.S. Constitution and our system of separated powers prohibit the Executive branch from unilaterally making major policy decisions of vast economic and political importance without Congress’s permission. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Allstates Refractory Contractors v. Walsh et al. | 2022 | Whether Congress’s delegation of authority to a federal agency to make legislative policy choices of vast economic and political importance violates the Constitution. | Sixth Circuit | Regulatory Reform | |
| Nebraska v. Biden | 2022 | Does the U.S. Constitution and our system of separated powers prohibit the Executive branch from unilaterally making major policy decisions of vast economic and political importance without Congress’s permission. | Eighth Circuit | Regulatory Reform | |
 | West Virginia v. Switzer | 2022 | Whether the Hope Scholarship Act---which created an education savings account (ESA) program that allows parents and families to utilize the state portion of their children's education funding to pay for a variety of educational expenses, including private school tuition, tutoring, transportation, etc.---is unconstitutional. | West Virginia Supreme Court | Foundational Education | |
| File v. Brost | 2022 | Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
 | Tiwari v. Friedlander | 2022 | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation, such as certificate of need laws. | U.S. Supreme Court | Health Care | |
| Calcutt v. FDIC | 2022 | Whether the FDIC’s order is invalid because the FDIC’s structure violates the Constitution. | Sixth Circuit | Regulatory Reform | |
| SEC v. Cochran | 2022 | Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrative proceeding seeks to enjoin that proceeding, based on an alleged constitutional defect in the statutory provisions that govern the removal of the administrative law judge who will conduct the proceeding. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes v. San Jose Unified School District Board of Education | 2022 | Whether Pioneer FCA's First Amendment rights were violated when the San Jose school board singled out the on-campus student group for exclusion and heightened scrutiny based on its choice of leadership and religious beliefs. | Ninth Circuit | Free Expression | |
| United States v. Porat | 2022 | 1. Whether submitting false information to publishers of rankings such as U.S. News constitutes wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §1343. 2. Whether the wire fraud statute requires proof that the defendant sought to “obtain money or property.” 3. Whether the wire fraud statute requires convergence—meaning that the defendant’s deceit is directed at the person whose money or property he seeks to obtain.” | Third Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| McClinton v. United States | 2022 | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant’s sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted the defendant. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis | 2022 | Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent, contrary to the artist’s sincerely held religious beliefs, violates the First Amendment. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Axon v. FTC | 2022 | Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission’s structure, procedures, and existence by granting the courts of appeals jurisdiction to “affirm, enforce, modify, or set aside” the Commission’s cease-and-desist orders. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| American Society of Journalists and Authors v. Bonta | 2022 | (1) Is a law content-based when it imposes financial and regulatory burdens based on the function or purpose of speech? (2) Does a law that has the effect of depriving classes of speakers of their livelihood by subjecting them to more onerous taxes and regulations impose a First Amendment burden subject to judicial scrutiny? | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Sackett v. EPA | 2022 | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit set forth the proper test for determining whether wetlands are "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1362(7). | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Epic Games v. Apple | 2022 | California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”) must be applied in a manner consistent with the consumer welfare standard as required by previous decisions of the Ninth Circuit and California Supreme Court. | Ninth Circuit | Technology & Innovation | |
| Young Americans for Liberty at University of Alabama in Huntsville v. St. John IV | 2022 | Whether the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s policies that require students to share their views in a small “speech zone” and to obtain a permit to speak on campus three business days in advance violate the Alabama Constitution’s free speech clause and Alabama’s Campus Free Speech Act. | Alabama Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Kennedy v. Bremerton School District | 2022 | (1) Whether a public-school employee who says a brief, quiet prayer by himself while at school and visible to students is engaged in government speech that lacks any First Amendment protection; and (2) whether, assuming that such religious expression is private and protected by the free speech and free exercise clauses, the establishment clause nevertheless compels public schools to prohibit it. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
 | Atlanta Opera v. Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Union | 2022 | (1) Should the Board adhere to the independent-contractor standard in SuperShuttle DFW, Inc., 367 NLRB No. 75 (2019); (2) If not, what standard should replace it? Should the Board return to the standard in FedEx Home Delivery, 361 NLRB 610, 611 (2014), either in its entirety or with modifications? | National Labor Relations Board | Private Sector Labor & Employment | |
| Buffington v. McDonough | 2022 | (1) Whether the Chevron doctrine permits courts to defer to VA’s construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the pro-veteran canon of construction; (2) Whether Chevron should be overruled. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| McDonald v. Firth | 2022 | Does the First Amendment prohibit a state from compelling attorneys to join and fund a state bar association that engages in extensive political and ideological activities? Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Gaspar-Felipe v. United States | 2022 | (1) Whether the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant’s sentence on a charge of which a jury acquitted him, as the Michigan Supreme Court has held, or whether, instead, acquitted-conduct sentencing complies with the Fifth Amendment, as 12 federal courts of appeal and the Iowa Supreme Court have held; (2) Whether the Sixth Amendment’s right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant’s sentence on a charge of which a jury acquitted him. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Borgelt v. City of Austin | 2022 | Whether the anti-SLAPP provisions of the Texas Citizens Participation Act can be used to dismiss a case challenging public sector union release time brought under the gift clause prohibitions of the Texas Constitution. | Texas Court of Appeals | Free Expression | |
| SEC v. Novinger et al. | 2021 | Whether the SEC's policy of requiring gag clauses in settlement orders violates the First Amendment and whether the clauses are void as against public policy. | Fifth Circuit | Free Expression | |
| West Virginia et al. v. EPA et al. | 2021 | Whether, in 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), Congress unconstitutionally authorized the EPA to issue major legislative rules. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Concepcion v. United States | 2021 | Whether, when deciding if it should “impose a reduced sentence” on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Lent v. California Coastal Commission | 2021 | (1) Can a state administrative agency, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, permanently deprive a person of millions of dollars in fines using a summary hearing process that dispenses with the heightened procedural safeguards traditionally afforded those who face a significant deprivation of property? (2) Is a $4.185 million fine, assessed to punish homeowners for failing immediately to remove ordinary residential accessories located within an undeveloped public beach-access easement, unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment, as incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment? | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis | 2021 | Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent, contrary to the artist’s sincerely held religious beliefs, violates the First Amendment. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National | 2021 | Whether the Austin city code’s distinction between on-premise signs, which may be digitized, and off-premise signs, which may not, is a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under Reed v. Town of Gilbert. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| American Hospital Association v. Becerra | 2021 | (1) Whether deference under Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council permits the Department of Health and Human Services to set reimbursement rates based on acquisition cost and vary such rates by hospital group if it has not collected adequate hospital acquisition cost survey data; and (2) whether petitioners’ suit challenging HHS’s adjustments is precluded by 42 U.S.C. § 1395l(t)(12). | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Carson v. Makin | 2021 | Whether a state violates the religion clauses or equal protection clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an otherwise generally available student-aid program from choosing to use their aid to attend schools that provide religious, or “sectarian,” instruction. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Foundational Education | |
| Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation | 2021 | Whether the Secretary has permissibly included in a hospital's Medicare fraction all of the hospital's patient days of individuals who satisfy the requirements to be entitled to Medicare Part A benefits, regardless of whether Medicare paid the hospital for those particular days. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC | 2021 | 1. Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission’s structure, procedures, and existence[.] 2. Whether, on the merits, the structure of the Federal Trade Commission, including the dual-layer for-cause removal protections afforded its administrative law judges, is consistent with the Constitution. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Osby v. United States | 2021 | Whether basing a criminal defendant’s sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| ACLU v. United States | 2021 | (1) Whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, like other Article III courts, has jurisdiction to consider a motion asserting that the First Amendment provides a qualified public right of access to the court’s significant opinions, and whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from the denial of such a motion; and (2) whether the First Amendment provides a qualified right of public access to the FISC’s significant opinions. | U.S. Supreme Court | Technology & Innovation | |
| Kelley v. United States | 2021 | Whether a district court imposing a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act is prohibited from correcting an erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculation not related to the Fair Sentencing Act, as three circuits hold, or whether a resentencing court must correct a Guidelines error that has been made clear by intervening judicial interpretations, as four circuits hold. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Calcutt v. FDIC | 2021 | Whether the FDIC’s order is invalid because the FDIC’s structure violates Article II of the Constitution and, if so, what is the appropriate remedy for this constitutional violation. | Sixth Circuit | Regulatory Reform | |
| Gatewood v. United States | 2021 | (1) Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner’s procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner’s claim; and (2) whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner’s procedural default when the Supreme Court explicitly overrules one of its precedents. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Daves v. Dallas County | 2021 | Whether pre-determined, scheduled bail schemes that do not provide individualized bail determinations violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. | Fifth Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Curry v. United States | 2021 | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act’s “serious drug offense” definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of the illicit nature of the controlled substance. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. | 2021 | Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), which holds that public school officials may regulate speech that would materially and substantially disrupt the work and discipline of the school, applies to student speech that occurs off campus. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC | 2021 | Whether the Federal Trade Commission Act bars district court review of substantial constitutional claims during the pendency of an administrative proceeding. | Ninth Circuit | Regulatory Reform | |
| Ramirez v. Guadarrama | 2021 | Whether, in light of Taylor v. Riojas, the Fifth Circuit panel erred in granting qualified immunity to officers who tased a man they knew to be covered in gasoline causing him to catch fire and die. | Fifth Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Carson v. Makin | 2021 | Whether a state violates the religion clauses or equal protection clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an otherwise generally available student-aid program from choosing to use their aid to attend schools that provide religious, or “sectarian,” instruction. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Foundational Education | |
| Thompson v. Marietta Education Association | 2021 | (1) Whether the government violates the First Amendment when it designates a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on their behalf; and (2) whether Minnesota State Board for Community Colleges v. Knight should be limited to it's holding or overruled. | U.S. Supreme Court | Public Sector Workforce | |
| Terry v. United States | 2021 | Whether pre-August 3, 2010, crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a “covered offense” under Section 404 of the First Step Act. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Andrews v. New Jersey | 2021 | Whether the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being compelled to recall and truthfully disclose a memorized passcode, when communicating the passcode may lead to the discovery of incriminating evidence to be used against him in a criminal prosecution. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid | 2021 | Whether a California regulation that grants union organizers access to private agricultural property without compensating the landowner is a physical taking under the Fifth Amendment. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Butler v. Watson | 2021 | Whether the reduction of Mississippi's congressional districts from five to four in 2002 invalidates Section 273(3) of the state Constitution, which permits constitutional amendment via ballot initiative. | Mississippi Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| United States v. Arthrex, Inc. | 2020 | Whether administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are principal or inferior Officers; and, if they are principal officers, the court of appeals properly cured any appointments clause defect by severing the application of 5 U.S.C. § 7513(a) to those judges. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
 | New Hampshire v. Massachusetts | 2020 | Whether Massachusetts can tax New Hampshire citizens who work for Massachusetts companies but work remotely from New Hampshire. | U.S. Supreme Court | Fiscal | |
 | Cochran v. SEC | 2020 | Whether judicially created barriers to timely and meaningful Article III review of agency actions are inconsistent with the separation of powers and the text, structure, and history of the U.S. Constitution. | Fifth Circuit | Separation of Powers | |
| Hoever v. Carraway | 2020 | Whether Section 1997e of the Prison Litigation Reform Act bars recovery of punitive damages for violations of prisoners' First Amendment rights. | Eleventh Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project | 2020 | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the Federal Communications Commission orders under review, which, among other things, relaxed the agency’s cross-ownership restrictions to accommodate changed market conditions. | U.S. Supreme Court | Technology & Innovation | |
| United States v. Kousisis | 2020 | Whether breaches of contractual terms involving intangible interests are “money or property” within the meaning of the federal property fraud statutes sufficient to support criminal liability under a “basis of the bargain” theory. | Third Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Courtney v. Danner | 2020 | Whether the Ninth Circuit mistakenly applied the Commerce Clause as a limitation on citizens’ rights to use the navigable waters of the United States rather than incorporating those rights against the states through the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Jimmy Richardson, II, v. Twenty Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-One and 00/100 Dollars U.S. Currency | 2020 | Whether South Carolina’s civil asset forfeiture regime is facially unconstitutional. | South Carolina Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| 4 Good Government v. Davidson County Election Commission | 2020 | Whether the Nashville Taxpayer Protection Act will be placed on the ballot. Read more. | Davidson County Chancery Court of Tennessee | Separation of Powers | |
| Oklahoma v. Johnson & Johnson | 2020 | Whether the Oklahoma trial court’s expansion of the public nuisance doctrine and equitable abatement remedy to hold Johnson & Johnson liable for the opioid crisis violates the separation of powers. | Oklahoma Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Stein v. United States | 2020 | Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government’s knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged evidence during discovery indicating that the testimony was false. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC | 2020 | Whether Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, by authorizing “injunction[s],” also authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, the scope of the limits or requirements for such relief. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Technology & Innovation | |
| Gibson v. SEC | 2020 | Whether judicially-created barriers to timely and meaningful Article III review of agency actions are inconsistent with the separation of powers and the text, structure, and history of the U.S. Constitution. | U.S. Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski | 2020 | Whether a government’s post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government’s past, completed violation of a plaintiff’s constitutional right. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Collins v. Mnuchin | 2020 | Whether the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s structure violates the separation of powers; and whether the courts must set aside a final agency action that FHFA took when it was unconstitutionally structured and strike down the statutory provisions that make FHFA independent. | U.S. Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Mountaire Farms, Inc. v. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27 | 2020 | Whether the Contract Bar Doctrine is unconstitutional. | National Labor Relations Board | Private Sector Labor & Employment | |
| NAACP v. DeVos | 2020 | Whether a rule implemented by the Dept. of Education to apportion CARES Act funds between public and private schools is illegal. | District Court for D.C. | Foundational Education | |
| Fochtman v. Hendren Plastics, Inc. | 2020 | Whether participants in a voluntary drug-court program were employees under the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act. | Eighth Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Lawall v. Hobbs | 2020 | Whether the Second Chances Act is a valid ballot initiative. | Arizona Superior Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| CIC Services, LLC v. IRS | 2020 | Whether the Anti-Injunction Act’s bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawful regulatory mandates issued by administrative agencies that are not taxes. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Wikimedia v. NSA | 2020 | Whether NSA's mass surveillance of international internet communications is unconstitutional. | Fourth Circuit | Technology & Innovation | |
| Van Buren v. U.S. | 2020 | Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if he accesses the same information for an improper purpose. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Technology & Innovation | |
| Indian River County v. Dept. of Transportation | 2020 | Whether the court of appeals properly deferred to the agency’s informal views under Skidmore, without finding the statute ambiguous or applying (much less exhausting) traditional interpretive tools. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Philadelphia Community Bail Fund v. Arraignment Court Magistrates of the First Judicial District | 2020 | Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court should provide standards for setting bail and to reform the existing bail system. | Pennsylvania Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Fulton v. City of Philadelphia | 2020 | Whether Philadelphia may prohibit Catholic Social Services from participating in the city's foster child placement program because it refuses to violate its religious belief on same-sex couples. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| American Society of Journalists and Authors v. Becerra | 2020 | Whether California Assembly Bill 5 violates the First Amendment by treating speakers differently based on their identity and communicative activities. | Ninth Circuit | Free Expression | |
| Taylor v. Riojas | 2020 | Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Schires v. City of Peoria | 2020 | Whether the city's provision of financial support to firms violates the Arizona Constitution's Gift Clause. Read more. | Arizona Supreme Court | Cronyism | |
| Borden v. U.S. | 2020 | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. 924(e). | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Wisconsin Legislature v. Palm | 2020 | Whether the Wisconsin COVID-19 shutdown orders are lawful. Read more. | Wisconsin Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Rozenblit v. Lyles | 2020 | Whether the release-time provisions in the collective-bargaining agreement violate the New Jersey Constitution, statute, or public policy. | New Jersey Supreme Court | Public Sector Workforce | |
| U.S. v. Jackson | 2020 | Whether the First Step Act's charge-stacking prohibition applies and whether a sentence has been "imposed" if an appellate court vacates a district court's sentence and remands for resentencing. | Sixth Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| SEC v. Romeril | 2020 | Whether the SEC's policy of requiring gag clauses in settlement orders violates the First Amendment and whether the clauses are void as against public policy. | Second Circuit | Free Expression | |
| Jessop v. City of Fresno | 2020 | Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Fleming v. USDA | 2020 | What is the proper relief due from an adjudication by an unconstitutionally appointed ALJ? | D.C. Circuit | Separation of Powers | |
| Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski | 2020 | Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed violation of a plaintiff's constitutional right. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| CIC Services v. IRS | 2020 | Whether Due Process requires an exception from the Anti-Injunction Act for IRS regulations enforced with criminal sanction and without an alternative avenue for review. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Lucia v. SEC | 2020 | Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to hear claims of constitutional violations and ultra vires agency action while an administrative proceeding is ongoing. | Ninth Circuit | Separation of Powers | |
| Walker v. United States | 2020 | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. 924(e). | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Liu v. SEC | 2019 | Whether the SEC may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as 'equitable relief' for a securities law violation even though this Court has determined that such disgorgement is a penalty. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Seila Law LLC v. CFPB | 2019 | Whether the CFPB's structure violates the separation of powers and whether Humprey's Executor should be narrowed. | U.S. Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Maine Community Health Options v. United States | 2019 | Whether Congress may defund the risk corridor program created by the Affordable Care Act. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Health Care | |
| Baldwin v. United States | 2019 | Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its prior decision in Brand X, which grants deference to agency interpretations of statutes. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Separation of Powers | |
| Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue | 2019 | Does it violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously neutral student-aid program simply because the program affords students the choice of attending religious schools? | U.S. Supreme Court | Foundational Education | |
| HRDC v. Baxter County | 2019 | Whether inmates can obtain news and other information and make communications while incarcerated. | Eighth Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Donna Harper v. West Virginia AFL-CIO | 2019 | Whether West Virginia's right to work law is unconstitutional. Read more. | West Virginia Supreme Court | Private Sector Labor & Employment | |
| Baxter v. Harris | 2019 | Qualified immunity for law enforcement. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Jessop v. City of Fresno | 2019 | Qualified immunity for law enforcement. Read more. | Ninth Circuit | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Iancu v. Brunetti | 2019 | Does the government get to decide what language is “scandalous”? | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Prison Legal News vs Florida Dept. of Corrections | 2018 | First Amendment challenge to Florida Dept. of Corrections shutting down a magazine citing security reasons. | Eleventh Circuit | Free Expression | |
| Timbs v. Indiana | 2018 | Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is enforceable against the States. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| Frank v. Gaos | 2018 | Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause, and Rule 23(e)(2) require courts to reject proposed cy pres class action settlements that deprive class members of their legal remedies and compel speech approved of by class counsel, defendants, and the court without meaningful consent by class members. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Almighty Supreme Born Allah v. Milling | 2018 | Qualified immunity for law enforcement. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Criminal Justice Reform | |
| South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. | 2018 | Can states force out-of-state businesses to collect and remit sales tax. Read more. | U.S. Supreme Court | Regulatory Reform | |
| Delaware Strong Families v. Denn | 2016 | Whether a state's interest in “increas[ing] . . . information concerning those who support the candidates,” Buckley v. Valeo, permits it to condition a charity's publication of a nonpartisan voter education guide, which lists all candidates equally and makes no endorsements, upon the immediate and public disclosures of the names and addresses of individuals making unrelated donations over the previous four years. | U.S. Supreme Court | Free Expression | |
| Community Financial Services Association of America v. FDIC | 2014 | Whether "Operation Chokepoint" conducted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Department of Justice was unlawful. | District Court for D.C. | Regulatory Reform |