Northwest Mining Association v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Secretary of the Interior may withdraw over 1,000,000 acres of public lands from entry and location under the General Mining Law without fully and correctly…
Cases
Rocky Mountain Recreation of Utah v. United States of America
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal government may revoke a long-term permit to use government land with impunity when the owner is in full compliance with all the terms and…
Rock Springs Grazing Association v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal agencies must comply with federal law and federal court orders? Plaintiff: Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA) Defendant: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, in his…
Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the 2006 Reauthorization of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s remedial power under the Enforcement Clauses of the Fourteenth…
Western Watersheds Project v. U.S. Forest Service
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by relying on a categorical exclusion established by Congress in reauthorizing grazing permits on land…
Knox v. California State Employees Association
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether a union may impose a fee for purely political purposes on nonmembers without giving those nonmembers an opportunity to object to the new fees? Plaintiff: Dianne…
United States v. Arizona
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the State of Arizona may act to protect its citizens and its economy by assisting the United States in enforcing federal immigration law? Plaintiff: United States…
PPL Montana, LLC v. State of Montana
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether a State may effectuate an uncompensated land-grab by claiming that a river is generally navigable as a whole without engaging in a section-by-section analysis of the…
Western Watersheds Project v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether an environmental group can prevent the use of federal lands in six States because of purported impacts to greater sage-grouse habitat? Plaintiff: Western Watersheds Project (WWP)…
Martinez v. Colorado
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether individuals have standing to seek—by applying the public trust doctrine to the atmosphere—judicially fashioned emissions caps on carbon emissions because those emissions allegedly contribute to harms…
Coalition To Defend Affirmative Action v. Brown
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether a decision by the citizens of a state, through the initiative process, to prohibit the state and its agencies and political subdivisions from engaging in any…
Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether Congress may compel the delisting of a species from the Endangered Species Act list? Plaintiff: Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater, Wildearth Guardians,…
Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Historical Case
Case Summary Whether the Commerce Clause, or any other provision of the United States Constitution, gives Congress the power to require individuals to purchase health insurance. Plaintiff: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona,…
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether a university’s use of race to grant admission violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection? Plaintiff: Abigail Noel Fisher Defendant: University of Texas at Austin and…
Liberty University v. Geithner
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Commerce Clause, or any other provision of the United States Constitution, gives Congress the power to require individuals to purchase health insurance? Plaintiff: Liberty University,…
Thomas More Law Center v. Obama
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Commerce Clause, or any other provision of the United States Constitution, gives Congress the power to require individuals to purchase health insurance? Plaintiff: Thomas More…
Mullikin v. Salazar
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal land management agencies may, by regulation, establish a scheme that results in the automatic forfeiture of valuable property rights? Plaintiff: Donald, Judith and Christopher Mullikin…
Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether public forest roads upon which logging trucks travel need a federal Clean Water Act (CWA) permit for the stormwater runoff that enters a culvert and is…
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Sebelius
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Commerce Clause, or any other provision of the United States Constitution, gives Congress the power to require individuals to purchase health insurance? Plaintiff: Commonwealth Of…
Bonidy v. United States Postal Service
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Second Amendment prohibits the Postal Service from denying the right to keep and bear arms on Post Office property? Plaintiffs: Tab Bonidy; National Association for…
American Electric Power, Inc. v. State of Connecticut
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether States and private parties have standing to seek judicially fashioned emissions caps on four private utility companies for their alleged contribution to harms claimed to arise…
In Re Montana Wilderness Association
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether all existing uses, including livestock grazing, oil and gas development, and commercial and private recreation, should continue within the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument? Plaintiff:…
Caboose Mining Company v. U.S. Forest Service
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether an owner of private property surrounded by National Forest lands has the right to improve an existing road to its property in order to access the…
Mishaga v. Monken
Historical Case
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Second Amendment prohibits a State from denying the right to keep and bear arms to nonresidents? Plaintiff: Ellen Mishaga Defendant: Jonathon E. Monken, Director of…