Colorado v. McCracken
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether an easement, held in trust by a state agency, that allows public access to private land for small game hunting, precludes the landowners from building a…
Cases
Lochness Properties, Inc. v. City of Sheridan, Colorado
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the condemnation of private property to be conveyed to a private developer in order to generate increased tax revenues constitutes “public use” under the Colorado Constitution?…
San Juan County v. United States of America
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether environmental groups that claim no interest in property may intervene in Quiet Title Act litigation filed by San Juan County to determine whether it has an…
Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether an American Indian Tribe may enjoin a State from imposing a tax on the receipt of motor fuel by off-reservation distributors who sell motor fuel to…
United States v. Rapanos
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Clean Water Act authorizes federal jurisdiction over isolated wetlands, on privately owned land, that do not abut a body of open water but lie approximately…
Fair v. Rumsfeld
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether Congress may condition the receipt of federal funding upon the willingness of colleges and universities to permit military recruiters upon their campuses? Plaintiff: Forum for Academic…
Medellin v. Texas
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether President Bush exceeded his authority in ordering the State of Texas to comply with an international treaty and must Texas ignore the Constitution and adhere to…
Medellin v. Dretke
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should apply international law in such a manner as to accord foreign citizens greater access to the courts of the land than…
Dynalantic Corp. v. U.S. Department of Defense
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the use of racial preferences by the federal government violates the Equal Protection Component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.…
Friendly House v. Napolitano
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether a ballot initiative approved by the voters of Arizona (56 percent to 44 percent) to address voting and the receipt of benefits by illegal aliens violates…
Commissioner v. Banks & Commissioner v. Banaitis
Historical Case
Case Summary Whether, under Section 61(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 61(a), a taxpayer’s gross income from the proceeds of litigation includes the portion of his damages recovery…
Center For Native Ecosystems v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Fish and Wildlife Service may continue to list or delist a species based upon the threats present across only a “significant portion of [the species’]…
United States v. Alamosa County, Colorado
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal Voting Rights Act requires the creation of voting districts for the election of county commissioners so as to ensure that members of certain specific…
United States v. Blaine County, Montana
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal Voting Rights Act requires the creation of voting districts for the election of county commissioners so as to ensure that members of certain specific…
Eno v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Forest Service was substantially justified in pursuing MCRRA (Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act)? Plaintiff: Donald E. Eno Defendant: Kenneth L. Salazar, Secretary, U.S. Department of…
Sherman Motor Inn, Inc. v. Garfield
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether an Indian tribe has subject matter jurisdiction over civil litigation against a non-member arising from a slip-and-fall accident by a tribal member on non-Indian fee land…
Mann v. United States
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the BLM may cancel a valid geothermal lease for failure of the lessee to respond to a notice, which was sent by the BLM to the…
Dimitrov v. Norton
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether a federal regulatory agency may avoid observance of federal law and void small mining claims? Plaintiff: Julie Dimitrov and other members of the Kester Counts family…
Thrall v. Veneman
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Michigan Wilderness Act, which protects owners of private property near federal wilderness areas, prevents the U.S. Forest Service from denying owners the ability to use…
Adarand v. Peña
Historical Case
MSLF is proud to have litigated the landmark case for government race-based programs, which must comply with equal protection guarantees of the Constitution.
Glosemeyer v. United States
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether just compensation must be paid to property owners when a former railroad easement is converted to a recreational trail under the National Trails System Act, 16…