Year
Issue Area
Court
2025
Jakeโs Fireworks v. CPSC
Question Presented
Whether judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act for CPSC notices of violation is unavailable until the agency further acts through formal enforcement.
2025
Lesh v. United States
Question Presented
Whether the Constitutionโs dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for โpetty offenses.โ
2024
McNutt v. U.S. Department of Justice
Question Presented
Whether a federal ban on at-home distilling of spiritsโeven for personal useโexceeds constitutional limits on the federal governmentโs powers.
2024
Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland
Question Presented
Whether the Corporate Transparency Act exceeds constitutional limits on the federal governmentโs powers.
2024
L.M. v. MiddleBorough
Question Presented
What legal standard is applicable to a studentโs untargeted ideological speech that promotes a viewpoint different from the schoolโs preferred viewpoint.
2024
TOMA, et al. v. FONTES et al.
Question Presented
Whether Arizona’s Prop 211, which requires multi-layer donor disclosure for issue advocacy, violates the First Amendment.
2024
Cooper v. U.S.
Question Presented
Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), which allows police officers to search people absent probable cause to arrest.
2024
Leachco Inc. v. CPSC
Question Presented
1. Does the for-cause restriction on the Presidentโs authority to remove the CPSCโs Commissioners violate the separation of powers? 2. Should Humphreyโs Executor v. United States be overruled? 3. For purposes of preliminary-injunctive relief, can a separation-of-powers violation cause irreparable harm or can separation-of-powers violations never cause irreparable harm?
2024
Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al.
Question Presented
Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which the agency has regulatory authority.
2024
Lackey v. Stinnie
Question Presented
Whether a plaintiff may be awarded attorney fees as a prevailing party under Section 1988 when a government defendant changes its policy and moots the case before adjudication on the merits.
2024
BB v. Capistrano Unified School District
Question Presented
Whether elementary school students possess First Amendment speech rights in public schools, and if so, to what extent.
Amicus Commentary
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Supreme Court should protect citizensโ rights to freely access U.S. waters
When Jim and Cliff Courtney sought to offer private boat transportation so customers could conveniently access their businesses โ including Stehekin Valley Ranch, with cabins and a lodge house in the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area โ the state of Washington denied their right to do so unless the Courtneys could prove the existing ferry…
SCOTUS has chance to clarify the muddy waters of takings jurisprudence in Cedar Point v. Hassid
From before the founding, the โfundamental maxims of a free government [have] seem[ed] to require, that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred.โ The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment exists to protect those sacred rights from unfettered state appropriation by requiring: first, that any taking of private property be…