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Weih Steve Chang v. United States, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 24-5005 · judgment July 2, 2024


Certiorari denied · January 13, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether, the racist discrimination sanctioned in Korematsu v. United States. 323 U.S. 214 (1944) continues to be a viable legal doctrine under which the government can subject its citizens to searches, seizures and prosecutions on the basis of their race or country of origin^

  2. Whether, when a counterintelligence operation of a U.S. government national security program (the “China Initiative”) has seized and continues to hold a U.S. citizen’s personal properties without pressing charges, the citizen meets the case and controversy requirement in an Article III court, even when the U.S. government has terminated the national security program.

  3. Whether Korematsu v. United States. 323 U.S. 214 (1944) or Trump v. United States. 603 U.S. __ (2024) gives the Executive Branch absolute or presumptive immunity to conduct racial profiling with a national security program with or without Congressional approval.

  4. Whether the Equal Protection Clause remains applicable to “Transplanting American Citizens” of a specific racial origin from a nation against which the U.S. government has an ongoing declared, undeclared, direct, or proxy conflict of existential urgency.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Weih Steve Chang

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 13 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 18 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
  3. Dec 13 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent United States, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Sep 30 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 13, 2024)