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Kenneth Matsumura v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, Division Five, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of California, No. S287041 · judgment November 13, 2024


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Question presented

United States Constitution Article III. Section 1. Judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court. Section 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; ... to Controversies between two or more states; -between a State and citizens of another States; And the Commerce Clause of the Constitution prohibits states from interfering with traditional rights accorded Indian Tribes from benefits associated with the automatic right of a physician licensed in any state to provide medical care to any members of a federally-recognized Indian Tribe. When an action of a state regulatory body results in depriving citizens of another state or a sovereign indigenous state of a lifesaving medical therapy, does the United States Supreme Court and the federal government have the right to intervene? If the lifesaving medical therapy blocked will result in loss of hundreds of billion dollars the federal government could have saved in Medicare expenditure, does the United States Supreme Court and the federal government have the right to intervene?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Kenneth Matsumura

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jul 08 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Feb 11 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 22, 2026)