Mar-a-Lago raid litigation

Mar-a-Lago raid litigation included an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court filed by Donald Trump on October 4. The application cites 69 precedents in favor of overruling the Eleventh Circuit decision that stayed a good district court ruling:

Arguments made

• that the Eleventh Circuit lacked jurisdiction to stay the special master order concerning review of classified documents
• that the district court did not abuse its authority to allow the special master to review the classified documents

Trump's emergency application concludes:

“

The Eleventh Circuit lacked jurisdiction to review the Special Master Order, which authorized the review of all materials seized from President Trump’s residence, including documents bearing classification markings. Moreover, entry of the Special Master Order was not in any event an abuse of discretion. Accordingly, President Trump respectfully requests the Court vacate the Eleventh Circuit’s September 21, 2022, Stay Order as to the authority of the Special Master to review documents bearing classification markings.

”

Precedents cited

A total of 69 decisions are cited in Trump's application, 36 of which are federal appellate decisions and only about 33 of which are Supreme Court decisions (2 o which are repeatedly cited) and 8 are 11th Circuit decisions (2 of which are repeatedly cited). A few are abortion-related decisions:

• Abelesz v. Erste Grp. Bank AG, 695 F.3d 655 (7th Cir. 2012)
• Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651 (1977)
• Al Odah v. United States, 559 F.3d 539 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (repeatedly cited)
• Alabama v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng’rs, 424 F.3d 1117 (11th Cir. 2005) (repeatedly cited)
• Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009)
• Baltimore Contractors v. Bodinger, 348 U.S. 176 (1955)
• Bogard v. Wright, 159 F.3d 1060 (7th Cir. 1998)
• Bogosian v. Woloohojian Realty Corp., 923 F.2d 898 (1st Cir. 1991)
• BP P.L.C. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, 141 S. Ct. 1532 (2021)
• Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886 (1961)
• Carpenter v. Mohawk Indus., Inc., 541 F.3d 1048 (11th Cir. 2008)
• Carson v. Am. Brands, Inc., 450 U.S. 79 (1981)
• Certain Named & Unnamed Non-Citizen Child. & Their Parents v. Texas, 448 U.S. 1327 (1980)
• Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997)
• Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949)
• Coleman v. Paccar, Inc., 424 U.S. 1301 (1976)
• Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C. v. Stidham, 640 F.3d 1140 (10th Cir. 2011) (repeatedly cited)
• Deckert v. Indep. Shares Corp., 311 U.S. 282 (1940)
• Dep’t of Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988)
• Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc., 511 U.S. 863 (1994)
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord, 449 U.S. 368 (1981)
• Gardner v. Westinghouse Broad. Co., 437 U.S. 478 (1978)
• Gary W. v. Louisiana, 601 F.2d 240 (5th Cir. 1979)
• Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134 (2012)
• Grilli v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 78 F.3d 1533 (11th Cir.1996)
• Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp., 485 U.S. 271 (1988)
• Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250 (2006)
• Hollingsworth v. Perry, 558 U.S. 183 (2010)
• I.A.M. Nat. Pension Fund Benefit Plan A v. Cooper Indus., Inc., 789 F.2d 21 (D.C. Cir. 1986)
• In re Deepwater Horizon, 793 F.3d 479 (5th Cir. 2015)
• Int’l Prod. Corp. v. Koons, 325 F.2d 403 (2d Cir. 1963)
• Jones v. Clinton, 72 F.3d 1354 (8th Cir. 1996)
• Jones v. Fransen, 857 F.3d 843 (11th Cir. 2017)
• Jud. Watch, Inc. v. Nat’l Archives & Recs. Admin., 845 F. Supp. 2d 288 (D.D.C. 2012) (Obama-appointed judge ruled against a claim that "to declare audiotapes created by former President William Jefferson Clinton and historian Taylor Branch during the Clinton administration to be “Presidential records” under the Presidential Records Act (“PRA”), 44 U.S.C. § 2203(f), and to order defendant “to assume custody and control” of them and deposit them in the Clinton Presidential Library.")
• King v. Cessna Aircraft Co., 562 F.3d 1374 (11th Cir. 2009)
• Koehler v. Bank of Bermuda Ltd., 101 F.3d 863 (2d Cir. 1996)
• La Buy v. Howes Leather Co., 352 U.S. 249 (1957)
• Lyons v. PNC Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, 26 F.4th 180 (4th Cir. 2022) (repeatedly cited)
• Macri v. U.S. ex. rel. John H. Maxwell & Co., 353 F.2d 804 (9th Cir. 1965)
• McFarlin v. Conseco Servs., LLC, 381 F.3d 1251 (11th Cir. 2004)
• Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 1702 (2017)
• Mohawk Indus., Inc. v. Carpenter, 558 U.S. 100 (2009) (repeatedly cited)
• Moore v. City of Wynnewood, 57 F.3d 924 (10th Cir. 1995)
• Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
• Myers v. Hertz Corp., 624 F.3d 537 (2d Cir. 2010)
• Nat’l Org. for the Reform of Marijuana Laws v. Mullen, 828 F.2d 536 (9th Cir. 1987)
• Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418 (2009)
• O’Hanlon v. Uber Techs., Inc., 990 F.3d 757 (3d Cir. 2021)
• Pickett v. Texas Tech Univ. Health Scis. Ctr., 37 F.4th 1013 (5th Cir. 2022)
• Police Ass’n of New Orleans ex rel. Cannatella v. New Orleans, 100 F.3d 1159 (5th Cir. 1996)
• Price v. Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 389 F.3d 192 (D.C. Cir. 2004)
• Puente Arizona v. Arpaio, 821 F.3d 1098 (9th Cir. 2016)
• Reid v. Doe Run Res. Corp., 701 F.3d 840 (8th Cir. 2012) (repeatedly cited)
• Reynolds v. McInnes, 380 F.3d 1303, fn. 3 (11th Cir. 2004)
• Rux v. Republic of Sudan, 461 F.3d 461 (4th Cir. 2006)
• Shakman v. Clerk of Cook Cnty., 994 F.3d 832 (7th Cir. 2021)
• Smith v. Barry, 502 U.S. 244 (1992)
• Swint v. Chambers Cnty. Comm’n, 514 U.S. 35 (1995) (repeatedly cited)
• Switz. Cheese Ass’n, Inc. v. E. Horne’s Mkt., Inc., 385 U.S. 23 (1966)
• Thompson v. Enomoto, 815 F.2d 1323 (9th Cir. 1987)
• Thornburgh v. Am. Coll. of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986)
• Trump v. United States of America, No. 9:22cv-81294-AMC at ECF No. 64, 2022 WL 4015755 (S.D. Fla. Sept. 5, 2022)
• Trump v. United States, No. 22-13005, 2022 WL 4366684 (11th Cir. Sept. 21, 2022) (repeatedly cited)
• United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
• United States v. North, 910 F.2d 843 (D.C. Cir. 1990) (Courts “do not countenance” politicized prosecutions)
• United States v. Samueli, 582 F.3d 988 (9th Cir. 2009)
• Vt. Agency of Nat. Res. V. U.S. ex rel. Stevens, 529 U.S. 765 (2000)
• W. Airlines, Inc. v. Int’l Bhd. of Teamsters, 480 U.S. 1301
• Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, 13 F.4th 434 (5th Cir. 2021)
• Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Calhoun, 516 U.S. 199 (1996)

8 decisions most relied on

Only two are Supreme Court precedents:

• Al Odah v. United States, 559 F.3d 539 (D.C. Cir. 2009)
• Alabama v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng’rs, 424 F.3d 1117 (11th Cir. 2005)
• Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C. v. Stidham, 640 F.3d 1140 (10th Cir. 2011)
• Lyons v. PNC Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, 26 F.4th 180 (4th Cir. 2022)
• Mohawk Indus. v. Carpenter, 558 U.S. 100 (2009)
• Reid v. Doe Run Res. Corp., 701 F.3d 840 (8th Cir. 2012)
• Swint v. Chambers Cnty. Comm’n, 514 U.S. 35 (1995) (Supreme Court reversing Eleventh Circuit for ruling beyond its jurisdiction)
• Trump v. United States, No. 22-13005, 2022 WL 4366684 (11th Cir. Sept. 21, 2022)

Statutes cited

• U.S. Const., Art. II, § 2
• 18 U.S.C. § 793(e)
• 28 U.S.C. § 1291
• 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (and subparts)
• 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a) (and subparts)
• 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b)
• 44 U.S.C. § 2201 (and a subpart)
• 44 U.S.C. § 2203(b)
• 44 U.S.C. § 2203(f)(1)
• 44 U.S.C. § 2205(3)
• 50 U.S.C. § 3161
• 50 U.S.C. § 3163