Limited Government
Szajer v. City of Los Angeles, et al. (2011)
Whether the Los Angeles Police Department conducted an illegal search at a gun shop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Tuaua v. United States (2015)
Whether individuals born in United States territories, but not in the fifty states, are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.
American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency (2007)
Whether the National Security Agency (NSA) Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) of data mining and warrantless interception of international telephone and email communications of persons within the United States violates the free speech and free association clauses of the First Amendment, privacy rights guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment, Administrative Procedures Act (APA), Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and exceeds Executive authority under Article II of the United States Constitution.
Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association (2015)
Whether a federal agency must engage in notice-and-comment rulemaking before it can significantly alter an interpretive rule that articulates an interpretation of an agency regulation.
Sissel v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (2014)
Whether the individual mandate clause in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which requires health insurance coverage or a shared responsibility payment, violates the Commerce and Origination Clauses.
Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs (2009)
Whether a particular symbolic congressional resolution strips Hawaii of its sovereign authority to sell, exchange, or transfer any state-owned land unless and until it reaches a political settlement with native Hawaiians about the status of that land.
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)
Whether the Commerce Clause or the Taxing and Spending Clause grants the federal government the power to tax or fine individuals who abstain from purchasing health insurance, and whether the federal government violates the Spending Clause or principles of federalism by using leverage against the states to expand state-run Medicaid programs.
Montana Shooting Sports Association v. Holder (2013)
Whether the intrastate manufacture and sale of firearms is beyond the scope of Congresss power to regulate interstate commerce, including federal manufacturing and licensing requirements.
Bond v. United States (2014)
On the question of justiciability, whether a person indicted for violating a federal statute has standing to challenge the law on grounds that Congress exceeded its powers under the Constitution, intruding upon the sovereignty and authority of the states in violation of the 10th Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled on this issue in the first Bond case in 2011.On the question of the merits of the case, whether a federal statute, enacted by Congress to implement an international treaty, can be used to charge American citizens with what otherwise would be purely local crimes. In other words, whether the president, in exercising his power to make treaties with the consent of the Senate, can increase Congresss enumerated powers to legislate on domestic matters. The Court ruled on this issue in the second Bond case in 2014.
