Case Summary Issue: Whether the total ban by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the possession of functional firearms for self-defense on Corps-managed lands violates the Second Amendment? Plaintiffs:…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a federal district court may cancel federal oil and gas leases absent proof of irreparable injury? Plaintiff: Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club Defendants: The…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a state violates the Equal Protection Clause by amending its constitution to prohibit race and sex-based discrimination or preferential treatment in public-university admissions decisions? Plaintiffs: Coalition…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the burden of proof rests on the United States to justify its retention of personal property it seized after the conclusion of its criminal investigation? Plaintiff:…
Case Summary Issue: Whether an entity with purely economic interests that is affected adversely by agency action decision may challenge the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document upon which the…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal agencies can alter the scope of a property interest granted by Congress by redefining the scope of the grant or imposing a permitting requirement on…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal agencies can alter the scope of a property interest granted by Congress by redefining the scope of the grant or imposing a permitting requirement on…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a city violates the “one-person, one vote” principle of the Fourteenth Amendment when it creates city council districts that, while roughly equal in total population, are…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Public Use Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a taking that the government claims is for economic development, when the evidence shows it is actually…
Case Summary Issue: Whether Alaska may claim title to lands underlying non-navigable streams that were conveyed by the federal government into private ownership prior to Statehood? Plaintiff: Lacano Investments, LLC,…