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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal government may seize private property without paying just compensation and whether the federal government may ignore reversionary property interests of landowners in its operation…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the United States may defeat the purpose of a mining patent by claiming an ownership interest in the structures that are reasonable and incident to mining…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to possess functional firearms in tents within state parks? Plaintiff: Al Baker Defendant: Allen Biaggi, Director of the…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a non-Indian should be subject to the jurisdiction of a tribal court to which the U.S. Constitution does not apply for alleged tortious conduct occurring within…
Case Summary Issue: In April 2013, nine separate petitions for writ of certiorari were filed; in October 2013, the Supreme Court granted six petitions, but limited the question presented to “Whether EPA permissibly determined…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities or Due Process Clauses?…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the listing or delisting of a species may be limited to only those portions of the species’ range in which the species requires protection? Plaintiff: WildEarth…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the United States of America must respect the property rights of owners of property as to which the United States possesses an easement? Plaintiff: Anne George…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may delist a species when previously established recovery standards have been met? Plaintiff: Defenders of Wildlife; Natural Resources Defense Council;…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal land management agencies may change their longstanding policies by executing “sweetheart” settlement agreements with environmental groups? Plaintiff: Minard Run Oil Company; Pennsylvania Independent Oil and…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal government may seize private property without paying just compensation? Plaintiff: Marvin M. Brandt; Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust Defendant: United States of America Case…
Case Summary Issue: Whether Montana may set water quality standards that unduly burden coal-bed methane production by requiring that produced water be purer than necessary to protect existing beneficial uses…
Case Summary Issue: Whether principles of federalism limit a federal court’s authority to control a state’s educational funding system? Plaintiff: Thomas Horne, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of…