Petition for Writ of Certiorari — Tiange Huang, et al., Petitioners v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al.
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Supreme Court, U.S.
FILED
DEC 3 0 2022
OFFICE OF THE CLERK
No.
3fn tlje Supreme Court of tlje fHmteb States
TIANGE HUANG, et. al.,
Petitioners,
v.
NGOC BACH PHAN; VINH CHE; KHANH CHE,
Respondents,
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
Tiange Huang
Lead Petitioner
2602 Orchard Creek Ln
Katy, TX 77494-2994
(202) 866-8558
huangtiange@hotmail.com
Qiuyuan Huang
huangqiuyuan@gmail.com
Jing Lin
2602 Orchard Creek Ln
Katy, TX 77494-2994
(267) 283-5450
linjing.org@hotmail.com
Petitioners
Twenty-sixth day of December, MMXXII
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QUESTIONS PRESENTED
1.
Article I of the United States
Constitution provides all legislative Powers therein
granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United
States. Do Article III Courts have the power to
judicially rewrite laws to conform with a judge’s
views?
2.
The Third Branch is without legislative
power, (insert citations here) In Lujan v. Defenders of
Wildlife, 504 U.S. 565 (1992), this Court failed to
consider the provisions stated in Article I of the
United States Constitution, and de facto amended a
congressional enactment without examination of its
constitutionality. Should this Court overrule Lujan
and TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 141 S. Ct. 1682
(2021) and hold that the Constitution and Acts of
Congress shall be construed as written absent
ambiguity?
Can a non-attorney incompetent adult
3.
person represent another incompetent person before
United States Courts?
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PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING
Petitioners, and plaintiff-appellants below, are
Tiange Huang, Qiuyuan Huang, and Jing Lin.
Respondents, and defendant-appellees below,
are Ngoc Bach Phan, Vinh Che, and Dr. Khanh Che,
M.D.
RELATED PROCEEDINGS
United States District Court (E.D. Pa.):
Qiuyuan Huang; Jing Lin; and Tiange Huang v.
Ngoc Bach Phan; Vinh Che; and Khanh Che,
No. 21-cv-0057-PD (May 26, 2021) (order
granting motion to dismiss)
United States Court of Appeals (3rd Cir.):
Qiuyuan Huang; Jing Lin; and Tiange Huang v.
Ngoc Bach Phan; Vinh Che; and Khanh Che,
No. 21-2040 (July 14, 2022) (opinion)
Qiuyuan Huang; Jing Lin; and Tiange Huang v.
Ngoc Bach Phan; Vinh Che; and Khanh Che,
No. 21-2040 (Oct. 4, 2022) (sur petition for
rehearing, en banc rehearing denied)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Questions Presented..................................................
1
Parties to the Proceeding..........................................
n
Related Proceedings..................................................
n
Table of Authorities ....... ............................................
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Opinions Below...........................................................
1
Jurisdiction..................................................................
1
Rule 29.4(b) Statement.............................................
1
Statutory Provisions Involved................................
1
Introduction................................................................
13
Statement of the Case...............................................
16
A.
History of Respondents’ Violations.........
17
B.
Respondents’ Response to This Lawsuit;
Pertinent Evidence.....................................
18
Lower Court Rulings..................................
19
Reasons for Granting the Petition..........................
21
C.
I.
This Court should grant certiorari
to consider overruling
Lujan and TransUnion...............................
A.
B.
22
Lujan and TransUnion were
greviously wrong.................................
24
Lujan and TransUnion have
spawned significant negative
consequences........................................
32
IV
C.
Lujan and TransUnion have
generated no legitimate reliance
interests ............................................
41
II. This Court should grant certiorari
to consider can incompetent persons
represent another incompetent person
in U.S. Courts..........................................
43
Conclusion.............................................................
45
Appendix
Appendix A
Opinion [Not Precedential], United
States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit, Qiuyuan Huang; Jing Lin; and
Tiange Huang v. Ngoc Bach Phan; Vinh
Che; and Khanh Che,
No. 21-2040 (July 14, 2022)....................... App-1
Appendix B
Sur Petition for Rehearing [en banc
rehearing denied], United States Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
Qiuyuan Huang; Jing Lin; and Tiange
Huang v. Ngoc Bach PhanX Vinh Che;
and Khanh Che,
No. 21-2040 (Oct. 4, 2022).......................... App-8
V
Appendix C
Order, United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
Qiuyuan Huang; Jing Lin; and Tiange
Huang v. Ngoc Bach Phan; Vinh Che;
and Khanh Che,
No. 21-cv-00057 (May 26, 2021)................ App-10
Appendix D
Pertinent Sections From 24 C.F.R. Part 35,
Subpart A — Disclosure of Known LeadBased Paint and/or
Lead-Based Paint
Hazards Upon Sale or Lease of Residential
Property
App-17
24 C.F.R. § 35.80
24 C.F.R. § 35.82
24 C.F.R. § 35.84
24 C.F.R. § 35.86
24 C.F.R. § 35.88
24 C.F.R. § 35.90
24 C.F.R. § 35.92
24 C.F.R. § 35.94
24 C.F.R. § 35.96
App-17
App-17
App-18
App-18
App-23
App-25
App-25
App-30
App-30
VI
Appendix E
Pertinent Sections From 40 C.F.R. Part
745, Subpart F — Disclosure of Known
Lead-Based Paint and/or Lead-Based Paint
Hazards Upon Sale or Lease of Residential
Property .......................
App-32
40 C.F.R. § 745.100
40 C.F.R. § 745.101
40 C.F.R. § 745.102
40 C.F.R. § 745.103
40 C.F.R. § 745.107
40 C.F.R. § 745.110
40 C.F.R. § 745.113
40 C.F.R. § 745.115
40 C.F.R. § 745.118
App-32
App-32
App-33
App-33
App-38
App-40
App-40
App-44
App-45
Appendix F
The Definitions of Words Pertinent to the
inftant Cafe from Samuel Johnfon’s A
Dictionary of the Englifh Language,
1755 edition
App-47
Case.............
Controversy
Equity..........
Executive....
Judicial.......
Legislative ...
Power..... ....
Welfare......
App-47
App-50
App-51
App-51
App-52
App-52
App-52
App-56
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Cases
Anderson v. Wilson,
289 U.S. 20 (1933)......................................
27
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc.,
570 U.S. 1 (2013)..........
24, 26, 29, 33, 35
Beardstown v. Virginia,
76 Ill. 34 (Ill. 1875)......
35
BellAtl. Corp. v. Twombly,
550 U.S. 544 (2007)......
14, 15
Betts v. Brady
316 U.S. 455 (1942)......
41
Carlton et al. v. Matthews,
103 Fla. 301 (Fla. 1931)
26
Chuengv. Youth Orchestra Found. Of Buffalo, Inc.,
43
906 F.2d 59 (CA2 1990)..............
Cicenia v. La Gay
357 U.S. 504 (1958).......... ............
41
City of Fort Worth v. Rylie,
602 S.W.3d 459 (Tex. 2020)........
25
Cohn v. Kingsley,
5 Idaho 416, 49 P. 985 (Id. 1897)
24, 33
Crooker v. California
357 U.S. 433 (1958)......................
41
Denn v. Reid,
10 Pet. 524 (1836).........................
26
Vlll
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,
597 U.S.___(2022).............................................
41
Dodd v. United States,
545 U.S. 353, 359 (2005)..................................
29
Doggett v. Florida Railroad,
99 U.S. 72 (1878)................................................
26
Ex parte Siebold,
100 U.S. 371 (1879).............. ............................
41
Ferguson v. Wilcox,
28 S.W.2d 526 (Tex. 1930)...............................
25
Franchise Tax Bd. of Calif, v. Hyatt (Hyatt III),
139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019).....
22, 23
Gardner v. Parson,
874 F.2d 131 (CA3 1989)
43
Gideon v. Wainwright,
372 U.S. 335 (1963).........
41
Hart v. Jordan,
14 Cal.2d 288 (Cal. 1939)
24
Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Union Planters
Bank, N.A.,
530 U.S. 1 (2000).............
29
Hills v. Chicago,
60 Ill. 86 (Ill. 1871).........
35
In re Matthews,
333 So. 3d 422 (La. 2022)
24, 33
King v. Burwell,
576 U.S. 473 (2015).......
27
IX
Knick v. Twp. of Scott,
139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019)
23
Lake County v. Rollins,
130 U.S. 662 (1889) ....
25, 35
Leonard v. Wiseman,
31 Md. 201 (Md. 1869)
35
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife,
504 U.S. 565 (1992)............ 14, 21, 24, 27, 28, 31
Marbury v. Madison,
1 Cranch 137 (1803)...........
29, 31, 41
McGovern v. Mitchell,
78 Conn. 536 (Conn. 1906) .
24
McNeil v. United States,
508 U.S. 106 (1993)............
29
Meeker v. Kercher,
782 F.2d 153 (CA10 1986) ..
43
Miranda v. Arizona,
384 U.S. 436 (1966)............
41
Montgomery v. Louisiana,
577 U.S. 190 (2016)............
41
Moore et Ux. v. Love,
171 Tenn. 682 (Tenn. 1937)
26
M. P. Management, L.P. v. Williams,
594 Pa. 439 (Pa. 2007).................
31
Newell v. People,
7 N.Y. 9 (N.Y. 1852).....................
35
X
Nicol v. Ames,
173 U.S. 509 (1899)....................................
34
Osei-Afriyie v. Med. College of Pennsylvania,
937 F.2d 876 (CA3 1991).....
43
Penhallow v. Doane’s,
3 Dali. 54 (1795)....................
43
People v. Potter,
47 N.Y. 375 (N.Y. 1872).......
35
Ramos v. Louisiana,
140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020)..........
23
Roe v. Wade
410 U.S. 113 (1973)..............
41
Sinclair Refining Co. v. Atkinson
370 U.S. 195 (1962)..............
14
Steele v. Thurston
2020 Ark. 320 (Ark. 2020)....
24, 33
Sveen v. Melin
138 S. Ct. 1815 (2018)...........
34
The Mayor v. Cooper
73 U.S. 247 (1867)..................
34
The People v. Purdy
2 Hill, 31, 36 (N.Y. 1841).....
35, 42
TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez
141 S. Ct. 1682 (2021).........
21, 24
United States v. Fisher
6 U.S. 358 (1805)
14, 35, 42
XI
Vanhorne v. Dorrance
2 U.S. 304 (1795)..........................
27
Yates v. United States
574 U.S. 528 (2015).....................
29
Zuni Public School District No. 89 v.
Department of Education
550 U.S. 81 (2007)........... ............
14, 15
Constitutional Provisions, Statutes and Rules
Preamble, U.S.Const. .
13
U.S.Const. Art. I, § 1 ..
13
U.S.Const. Art. I, § 8 ..
1-3, 13, 27, 28, 34, 36, 37
U.S.Const. Art. Ill, § 1
13
U.S.Const. Art. Ill, § 2
3-4, 25, 26, 27, 30
U.S.Const. Art. IV, § 4
32
U.S.Const. Amend. I..
31
U.S.Const. Amend. II .
31
Toxic Substances Control Act,
15 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq.........
... 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
15U.S.C. § 2619.................
9-13, 17, 19, 20, 37
15 U.S.C. § 2689.................
9
28 U.S.C. § 1254.................
1
28 U.S.C. § 1654.................
43
Rules Enabling Act,
28 U.S.C. §§ 2071-2077 .........
30
Xll
Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act,
42 U.S.C. § 4851, et seq...................... 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
42 U.S.C. § 4851a...............................
37
42 U.S.C. § 4852d...............................
5-8, 16, 18, 43
24 C.F.R. Pt. 35, Sbpt. A...................
........... 13, 17
40 C.F.R. Pt. 745, Sbpt. F ,................
.............13, 17
S.Ct.R. 10..............................................
21
Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 17......................
43
Other Authorities
Committee on Commerce on S. 3148,
S. Rept. 94-698 (Mar. 16, 1976)
28, 30, 40, 42
Cooley, A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations
Which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the
States of the American Union (2d ed.)
(1871)
35
Gulson, Mahaffey, et al,. Contribution of tissue lead
to blood lead in adult female subjects based on
stable lead isotope methods, J. Lab. Clin. Med.,
125(6), 703-712. (June 1, 1998)......................... 38
Johnson’s Dictionary, (1755)...................................... 32
Liu, Early Health Risk Factors for Violence:
Conceptualization, Review of the Evidence, and
Implications, Aggress. Violent Behav., 16(1), 6373 https://doi.Org/10.1016/j.avb.2010.12.003
(2010)
39
Xlll
National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Report to Congress on Workers’
Home Contamination Study Conducted Under
The Workers’ Family Protection Act (29 U.S.C.
671a), DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 95-123
(Sept. 1995)
38
Nevin, Understanding international crime trends: the
legacy of preschool lead exposure, Environ. Res.
104(3), 315-336 (Apr. 23, 2007)....................... 39
Potula, & Kaye, The impact of menopause and
lifestyle factors on blood and bone lead levels
among female former smelter workers: the
Bunker Hill Study. Am. J. Ind. Med., 49(3),
143-152. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.20262
(Feb. 8, 2006)............................... ......... ..............
38
Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the
United States, (5th ed.)
(1905).....................................................................
35
Taylor, Opeskin et al., The relationship between
atmospheric lead emissions and aggressive crime:
an ecological study, Environ. Health 15, 23,
https://doi.org/10.1186/sl2940-016-0122-3
(Feb. 16, 2016)....................................................... 39
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Toxicological Profile for Lead (update), Public
Health Service Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry
(Aug. 2020)
38
XIV
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, American Healthy Homes Survey
II, Lead Findings, Office of Lead Hazard
Control and Healthy Homes
(Oct. 29, 2021)....................................................... 40
Weyermann, & Brenner, Factors affecting bone
demineralization and blood lead levels of
postmenopausal women-a population-based
study from Germany, Environ. Res., 76(1),
19—25. https://doi.org/10.1006/enrs.1997.3780
(1998)...................................................................... 38
OPINIONS BELOW
The Third Circuit’s opinion is reproduced in
the Appendix at App.1-7. The Eastern District of
Pennsylvania’s order is reproduced in the Appendix
at App.10-16.
JURISDICTION
The Third Circuit’s judgment was entered July
14, 2022. The Third Circuit denied rehearing on
October 4, 2022. App.8-9. This Court has jurisdiction
under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1).
RULE 29.4(b) STATEMENT
Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29.4(b), 28
U.S.C. § 2406(a) may apply and service has been
made on the Solicitor General of the United States,
950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC
20530-0001.
STATUTORY PROVISIONS INVOLVED
The pertinent constitutional provisions involved
are first, § 8 of Article I of the United States
Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and
collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to
pay the Debts an provide for the common
2
Defence and general Welfare of the United
States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall
be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United
States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,
and among the several States, and with the
Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,
and uniform Laws on the subject of
Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and
of foreign Coin, and fix the standard of Weights
a
nd Measures;
To
provide
for
the
Punishment
of
counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of
the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful
Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors
and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the
supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies
committed on the high Seas, and Offences
against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and
Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures
on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no
Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a
longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
3
To make Rules for the Government and
Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to
execute the Laws of the Union, suppress
Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and
disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such
Part of them as may be employed in the Service
of the United States, reserving to the States
the Appointment of the Officers,
respectively,
and the Authority of training the Militia
according to the discipline prescribed by
Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases
whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten
Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular
States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become
the seat of the Government of the United States,
and to exercise like Authority over all Places
purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of
the State in which the Same shall be, for the
Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock
yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into Execution the
foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by
this Constitution in the Government of the
United States, or in any Department or Officer
thereof.
U.S.Const. Art. I, § 8.
And finally, § 2 of Article III of the United States
Constitution:
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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 all Cases affecting Ambassadors,
other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all
Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—
to Controversies to which the United States
shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two
or more States;—between a State and Citizens of
another State,—between Citizens of different
States,—between Citizens of the same State
claiming Lands under Grants of different States,
and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and
foreign States, Citizens or subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other
public Ministers and Consuls, and those in
which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court
shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other
Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court
shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law
and Fact, with such Exceptions,
and under
such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of
Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial
shall be held in the State where the said Crimes
shall have been committed;
but when not
committed within any state, the Trial shall be at
such Place or Places as the Congress may by
Law have directed.
U.S.Const. Art. Ill, § 2.
5
The first statutory provision pertinent to this
case is § 1018 of Title X of the Residential LeadBased Paint Hazards Reduction Act of 1992:
(a) Lead Disclosure in Purchase and Sale or
Lease of Target Housing, —
(1) Lead-based paint hazards. Not later than 2
years after the date of enactment of this Act, the
secretary and the Administrator of the
Environmental
Protection
Agency
shall
promulgate regulations under this section for
the disclosure of lead-based paint hazards in
target housing which is offered for sale or lease.
The regulations shall require that, before the
purchaser or lessee is obligated under any
contract to purchase or lease the housing, the
seller or lessor shall —
(A) provide the purchaser or lessee with a
lead hazard information pamphlet, as proscribed
by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under section 406 of the Toxic
Substances Control Act;
(B) disclose to the purchaser or lessee the
presence of any known lead-based paint, or any
known lead-based paint hazards, in such
housing and provide to the purchaser or lessee
any lead hazard evaluation report available to
the seller or lessor; and
(C) permit the purchaser a 10-day period
(unless the parties mutually agree upon a
different period of time) to conduct a risk
assessment or inspection for the presence of
lead-based paint hazards.
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(2) Contract
for
purchase
and
sale.
Regulations promulgated under this section
shall provide that every contract or the purchase
and sale of any interest in target housing shall
contain a Lead Warning Statement and a
statement signed by the purchaser that the
purchaser has —
(A) read the Lead Warning Statement
and understands its contents;
(B) Received a lead hazard information
pamphlet; and
(C) Had a 10-day opportunity (unless the
parties mutually agreed upon a different period
of time) before coming obliged under the contract
to purchase the housing to conduct a risk
assessment or inspection for the presence of
lead-based paint hazards.
(3) Contents of lead warning statement. The
Lead Warning Statement shall contain the
following text printed in large type on a separate
sheet of paper attached to the contract:
“Every purchaser of any interest in
residential real property on which a residential
dwelling was built prior to 1978 is notified that
such property may present exposure to lead from
lead-based paint that may place young children
at risk of developing lead poisoning. Lead
poisoning in young children may produce
permanent neurological damage, including
learning disabilities,
reduced
intelligence
quotient, behavioral problems, and impaired
memory. Lead poisoning may also poses a
particular risk to pregnant women. The seller of
any interest in residential real property is
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required to provide the buyer with any
information on lead-based paint hazards from
risk assessments or inspections in the seller’s
possession and notify the buyer of any known
lead-based paint hazards. A risk assessment or
inspection for possible lead-based paint hazards
is recommended prior to purchase.”.
(4) Compliance Assurance. Whenever a seller
or lessor has entered into a contract with an
agent for the purpose of selling or leasing a unit
of target housing, the regulations promulgated
under this section shall require the agent, on
behalf of the seller or lessor, to ensure
compliance with the requirements of this section.
(5) Promulgation. A suit may be brought
against the secretary of Housing and Urban
Development and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency under section
20 of the Toxic Substances Control Act to compel
promulgation of the regulations required under
this section and the Federal district court shall
have jurisdiction to order such promulgation.
(b) Penalties for Violations. —
(1) Monetary penalty. Any person who
knowingly violates the provisions of this section
shall be subject to civil money penalties in
accordance with the provisions of section 102 of
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C.
3545).
(2) Action by Secretary. The Secretary is
authorized to take such lawful action as may be
necessary to enjoin any violation of this section.
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(3) Civil liability. Any person who knowingly
violates the provisions of this section shall be
jointly and severally liable to the purchaser or
lessee in an amount equal to 3 times the amount
of damages incurred by such individual.
(4) Costs. In any civil action brought for
damages pursuant to paragraph (3), the
appropriate court may aware court costs to the
party commencing such action, together with
reasonable attorney fees and any expert witness
fess, if that party prevails.
(5) Prohibited act. It shall be a prohibited act
under section 409 of the Toxic Substances
Control Act for any person to fail or refuse to
comply with a provision of this section or with
any rule or order issued under this section. For
purposes of enforcing this section under the
Toxic Substances Control Act, the penalty for
each violation applicable under section 16 of that
Act shall not be more than $10,000.
(c) Validity of Contracts and Liens. Nothing in
this section shall affect the validity or
enforceability of any sale or contract for the
purchase and sale or lease of any interest in
residential real property or any loan, loan
agreement, mortgage, or lien made or arising in
connection with a mortgage loan, nor shall
anything in this section create a defect in title.
(d) Effective Date. The regulations under this
section shall take effect 3 years after the date of
the enactment of this title.
42 U.S.C. § 4852d.
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Second, § 409 of the Toxic Substances Control
Act:
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or
refuse to comply with a provision of this
subchapter or with any rule or order issued
under this subchapter.
15 U.S.C. § 2689.
And finally, § 20 of the Toxic Substances Control
Act:
(a) In general
Except as provided in subsection (b), any person
may commence a civil action—
(1) against any person (including (A) the
United States, and (B) any other governmental
instrumentality or agency to the extent
permitted by the eleventh amendment to the
Constitution) who is alleged to be in violation of
this chapter or any rule promulgated
under section 2603, 2604, or 2605 of this title, or
subchapter II or IV, or order issued
under section 2603 or 2604 of this title or
subchapter II or IV to restrain such violation, or
(2) against the Administrator to compel the
Administrator to perform any act or duty under
this chapter which is not discretionary.
Any civil action under paragraph (1) shall be
brought in the United States district court for
the district in which the alleged violation
occurred or in which the defendant resides or in
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which the defendant's principal place of business
is located. Any action brought under paragraph
(2) shall be brought in the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia, or the United
States district court for the judicial district in
which the plaintiff is domiciled. The district
courts of the United States shall have
jurisdiction over suits brought under this section,
without regard to the amount in controversy or
the citizenship of the parties. In any civil action
under this subsection process ma!y be served on a
defendant in any judicial district in which the
defendant resides or may be found and
subpoenas for witnesses may be served in any
judicial district.
(b) Limitation
No civil action may be commenced—
(1) under subsection (a)(1) to restrain a
violation of this chapter or rule or order under
this chapter—
(A) before the expiration of 60 days after
the plaintiff has given notice of such violation (i)
to the Administrator, and (ii) to the person who
is alleged to have committed such violation, or
(B) if the Administrator has commenced
and is diligently prosecuting a proceeding for the
issuance of an order under section 2615(a)(2) of
this title to require compliance with this chapter
or with such rule or order or if the Attorney
General has commenced and is diligently
prosecuting a civil action in a court of the United
States to require compliance with this chapter or
with such rule or order, but if such proceeding or
civil action is commenced after the giving of
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notice, any person giving such notice may
intervene as a matter of right in such proceeding
or action;
(2) under subsection (a)(2) before the
expiration of 60 days after the plaintiff has given
notice to the Administrator of the alleged failure
of the Administrator to perform an act or duty
which is the basis for such action or, in the case
of an action under such subsection for the failure
of the Administrator to file an action
under section 2606 of this title, before the
expiration of ten days after such notification,
except that no prior notification shall be
required in the case of a civil action brought to
compel a decision by the Administrator pursuant
to section 2617(f)(3)(B) of this title; or
(3) in the case of a civil action brought to
compel a decision by the Administrator pursuant
to section 2617(f)(3)(B) of this title, after the date
that is 60 days after the deadline specified
in section 2617(f)(3)(B) of this title.
Notice under this subsection shall be given in
such manner as the Administrator shall
prescribe by rule.
(c) General
(1) In any action under this section, the
Administrator, if not a party, may intervene as a
matter of right.
(2) The court, in issuing any final order in any
action brought pursuant to subsection (a), may
award costs of suit and reasonable fees for
attorneys and expert witnesses if the court
determines that such an award is appropriate.
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Any court, in issuing its decision in an action
brought to review such an order, may award
costs of suit and reasonable fees for attorneys if
the court determines that such an award is
appropriate.
(3) Nothing in this section shall restrict any
right which any person (or class of persons) may
have under any statute or common law to seek
enforcement of this chapter or any rule or order
under this chapter or to seek any other relief.
(d) Consolidation
When two or more civil actions brought under
subsection (a) involving the same defendant and
the same issues or violations are pending in two
or more judicial districts, such pending actions,
upon application of such defendants to such
actions which is made to a court in which any
such action is brought, may, if such court in its
discretion so decides, be consolidated for trial by
order (issued after giving all parties reasonable
notice and opportunity to be heard) of such court
and tried in(1) any district which is selected by such
defendant and in which one of such actions is
pending,
(2) a district which is agreed upon by
stipulation between all the parties to such
actions and in which one of such actions is
pending, or
(3) a district which is selected by the court
and in which one of such actions is pending.
The court issuing such an order shall give
prompt notification of the order to the other
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courts in which the civil actions consolidated
under the order are pending.
15U.S.C. § 2619.
The regulations pertinent to this case 24 C.F.R.
Pt. 35, Sbpt. A, and 40 C.F.R. Pt. 745, Sbpt. F, may
be found respectively in Appendix D at App. 17-31,
and E at App.32-46, to this petition.
INTRODUCTION
“We the People of the United States, in Order to
form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.” Preamble, United States
Constitution.
The legislative Power is vested in Congress.
U.S.Const. Art. I, § 1. Congress has the Power to
provide for through legislation, the general Welfare
of the United States, and through further necessary
and proper legislation to ensure theretofore
legislation providing for the general Welfare of the
United States be executed. Ibid, § 8.
“The judicial Power of the United States, shall
be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior
Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain
and establish.” U.S. Const. Art. Ill, § 1. “The judicial
Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity,
arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the
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United States[;]—to Controversies ...
Citizens of different states[.]” Ibid, § 2.
between
“Where a law is plain and unambiguous,” as
Justice Washington recognized, “whether it be
expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature
should be intended to mean what they have plainly
expressed, and consequently no room is left for
construction.” United States v. Fisher, 6 U.S. 358,
399—400 (1805). Justice Black in Sinclair Refining
Co. v. Atkinson, 370 U.S. 195, 203 (1962) pronounced
the Court “cannot ignore the plain import of a
congressional enactment,-particularly one which, as
we have repeatedly said, was deliberately drafted in
the broadest of terms in order to avoid danger that it
would be narrowed by judicial construction.” This
stance remains standing to this day, with Justice
Scalia and Justice Stevens affirming such stance
respectively recently in Zuni Public School District
No. 89 v. Department of Education, 550 U.S. 81, 108
(2007) (Scalia, J., dissenting, with Robert, Thomas,
and Souter, JJ., joined) and Bell Atl. Corp. v.
Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 596 (2007) (Stevens J„
dissent)
Yet Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 565
(1992) invalidated a statute (largely identical to one
pertinent statute in this instant case), effectively
exercising legislative Powers,
Without first
examining the constitutional authorities of Congress,
this Court refused to enforce and take the pertinent
congressional enactment in Lujan as is, rather
constructed upon said enactment despite its lack of
ambiguity. Despite this Justice Scalia’s stance in
Lujan, Justice Scalia continued to uphold the correct
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standard aforementioned, holding when a statute is
without ambiguity, construction by the courts is
prohibited. Zuni, 550 U.S. 81, 108 (2007). Lujan and
TransUnion theretofore create a double standard for
reviews by this Court and courts inferior theretofore.
When Article III an institution wish to dismiss a
party in a civil action petitioning said Article III
institution to construct a statute in a manner
inconsistent with a statute in a case .or controversy
reviewed, the institution will rely on the relevant
caselaw of this Court to support its decision.
However, when an Article III institution does not
want to hear a case and wants to act inconsistent
with a congressional enactment, they will freely do
so by constructing the statute, and departing so far
resultant a pertinent congressional enactment
judicially rewritten and amended. And they will do
so whilst citing Lujan, TransUnion, and/or Bell Atl.
Corp. as authoritative support. Such results in the
frequent distribution of publick injustice. To ensure
the proper distribution of publick justice, there shall
be only one standard, and only with a uniform
standard can ensure consistent distribution of
publick justice to the people.
Previous rulings rendered by inferior courts in
the instant case ignored and jettisoned the plain
import of a congressional enactment. Despite the
plain language and the lack of ambiguity, the inferior
courts nevertheless ruled Petitioners were without
standing to bring suit. Such effectively rendering the
inferior courts distributing injustice. United States
Courts are not venues for the distribution of publick
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injustice. This Court must stop and end the courts’
distribution of publick injustice.
Respondents violated the Residential LeadBased Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. Why is it
important to restrain the Respondents and other
violators from further violating the 1992 Act?
Because the effect of lead exposure and ingestion is
widespread in society. Lead negatively impacts the
general Welfare of the United States. Continuing to
violate said act will directly cause more citizens to be
exposed to lead. As a direct result, victims will cause
more violent criminal incidents due to the exposure
to said chemical, aforementioned, negatively impact
the general Welfare. Post. 38—40. Furthermore, lead
can kill. Failure of the courts to issue injunctions will
create an atmosphere which will encourage violators
to continue violate such important law and commit
unlawful acts. Such behavior of the inferior courts
has set a very dangerous precedence into motion.
This Court should grant certiorari.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Petitioners filed this action in 2020. Until this
litigation, Respondents lease and continue to lease
over a dozen residential dwellings (“subject
Properties”) subject to the Residential Lead-Based
Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (RLBPHRA), 42
U.S.C. § 4851 et seq. Violation of the RLBPHRA is a
violation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA),
15 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq., pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §
4852d(b)(5). Respondents in their Motion to Dismiss
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conceded to the violations. Nevertheless, the inferior
courts failed to acknowledge such infamous
violations. Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 2619, Petitioner
Tiange Huang issued a Notice of Violations to all
Respondents and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on October
18, 2020, with a courtesy copy to the Attorney
General of the United States. Petitioners filed the
original Complaint on January 5, 2021.
A.
History of Respondents’ Violations
Upon discovery of and in light of the
Respondents’ violation of the RLBPHRA, Petitioner
Tiange Huang initiated an investigation into
Respondents’ violations. (The investigation remains
ongoing. Petitioner Tiange Huang determined
existing available violative history and evidence of
unlawful acts are sufficient to bring action.) Per his
investigation, Tiange Huang discovered that
Respondents actively engaged in and participated in
active concert leasing of over a dozen dwellings
located in Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia
Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Tiange Huang discovered Respondents violated the
RLBPHRA dating back to at least 2014 through
present. Respondents failed to comply with the rules
promulgated pursuant to the RLBPHRA.
The
RLBPHRA
and
its
implementing
regulations, found at 24 C.F.R. Pt. 35, Sbpt. A, and
40 C.F.R. Pt. 745, Sbpt. F, require, inter alia, lessors
and agents to disclose and include when a new lease
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is entered into for residential dwellings constructed
prior to 1978: 1) any known information concerning
lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards; 2)
any records or reports available to the lessors
pertaining to lead-based paint and lead-based paint
hazards; 3) a lead hazard information pamphlet
approved by the EPA; 4) a lead warning statement
containing specific language prescribed by 42 U.S.C.
§ 4852d; 5) a statement disclosing the presence of
known lead-based paint and lead-based paint
hazards or a statement disclosing lack of knowledge
of said information; 6) a list of any records or reports
pertaining to lead-based paint and lead-based paint
hazards that have been provided to the lessee or a
statement indicating the lack of such; 7) a statement
by the tenant affirming receipt of the information
heretofore; and 8) the signatures of the lessors and
agents attesting and certifying to the accuracy and
completeness of their required disclosures, and
signatures of the lessees attesting to their receipt of
the required disclosures, along with the dates of all
parties’ signatures.
In short, in order to satisfy the requirements of
the RLBPHRA, all 8 strict elements of disclosure
activities must be fulfilled, otherwise would be an
unlawful act. Respondents violated the RLBPHRA.
Ante at 17.
B.
Respondents’ Response to This Lawsuit;
Pertinent Evidence
In January 2021, Petitioners sued respondents
Ngoc Bach Phan, Vinh Che, and Khanh Che in the
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Eastern District of Pennsylvania for violations of the
RLBPHRA and TSCA. Respondents soon moved to
dismiss the case. CA3.App’x (JA) 28.
Respondents moved to dismiss on the grounds of
res judicata, Rooker-Feldman (the former and latter
collectively based on a void judgment from a
jurisdiction deficient state tribunal. See JA.28—
34; 100—109), and failure to state a claim.
Respondents conceded to violations of the RLBPHRA
and TSCA in the process, stating “[the subject
property] was built before 1978. In fact, Mr. Ngoc
disclosed this fact to Mr. Huang in the Residential
Lease.” JA.28. (Errors in original). Respondents also
submitted evidence to prove and support their
unlawful acts and violations. See JA.52. While prima
facie appears to be in compliance, the implementing
regulations of the RLBPHRA requires the disclosure
of information and reports material to lead-based
paint or lead-based paint hazards. Disclosure of
exclusively the year built is immaterial to the
RLBPHRA. Such exclusivity resulted in an unlawful
act and violation of the RLBPHRA. A violation of the
RLBPHRA is a violation of the TSCA. Wherefore,
inter alia, 15. U.S.C. § 2619 is invoked as a cause of
action among the causes.
C. Lower Court Rulings
In May 2020, the district court entered judgment
for Respondents. Inter alia, 15. U.S.C. § 2619 was
one of out of the many basis for cause of action. 15
U.S.C. § 2619(a)(1).
The district court held
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Petitioners were without standing for pertinent parts
arising under section 2619.
The district court held “[Petitioners] are thus
foreclosed from obtaining the relief sough under the
TSCA, as they no longer live at [Respondents’]
property” App.14, despite § 20 of the TSCA, 15 U.S.C.
§ 2619 plainly states “any person may commence a
civil action” except in cases 60-day advance notice
was not given to the violators and the Administrator
of EPA. Ibid, (emphasis added)
Regarding the RLBPHRA, the district court first
held Petitioners Tiange Huang and Jing Lin were
without standing under the RLBPHRA. The district
court held the only damages covered by the
RLBPHRA are physical injuries, resultant in the
district court judicially amended the RLBPHRA,
narrowing the scope of “damages” otherwise broad
scope by the statute’s nature. No part of the
RLBPHRA legislative text restricts violators’
liabilities to physical injuries. The district court
finally held that Petitioners failed to plead any
factual allegations.1 It is worth noting the Complaint
filed is similar to those filed by the Department of
Justice filed in similar cases involving the same
issues with different defendants.
1 It is impossible for courts to determine whether an allegation
is factual or not at the pleadings stage. Such determination is
only possible at trial. An allegation may be true, but a court
may render it “not factual,” or an allegation may be false, but it
appears factual. (True=factual. False^factual.) Either produces
injustice to litigants. Resultant too much power overly prone to
abuse by bad judges. Such practice permits judges to act at
heart’s content, rather than judge the merits.
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The Third Circuit affirmed. Although the Third
Circuit held the district court incorrectly held
Petitioners Tiange Huang and Jing Lin had standing
under the RLBPHRA (see n.l at App.5), otherwise
nevertheless a mere recitation of the district court’s
intellectually bankrupt findings. The Third Circuit
denied en banc rehearing.
REASONS FOR GRANTING THE PETITION
The Court should hear this case for three
independent reasons.
Firft, Lujan and TransUnion should be overruled.
Lujan’s core holding—a citizen-suit provision would
authorize Congress to transfer from the President to
the courts the Chief Executive’s executive powers—is
plainly wrong. Lujan at 577. See also TransUnion v.
(2021), (slip op., at 13). It
Ramirez, 594 U.S.
satisfies all criteria that this Court considers when
overruling precedents. Only this Court can overrule
its own precedent, and whether to overrule Lujan
and TransUnion is “an important question of federal
law that has not been, but should be, settled by this
Court.” S.Ct.R. 10(c). That question was not raised
prior to this litigation. This case is the ideal vehicle
for this Court to reconsider Lujan, given the identical
citizen-suit provision present in this case and in
Lujan, and TransUnion due to their outrageous
narrowing of the scope of Article III.
Second, the Third Branch must give statutes full
force absent ambiguity. In recent years, the
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institutions of the Third Branch have been overly
keen to construct upon unambiguous laws. Such sets
a very dangerous precedent that must be enjoined.
Both cases are classic examples of the Third Branch’s
favorability towards construction relying on caselaw
rather than respecting the plain imports of the
statutory text. They are a classic amongst the latest
trends. Only this Court has full authority and may
bind the courts inferior heretofore from further
constructing unambiguous laws. Too often, inferior
courts plunge deep into caselaw, and fail to examine
the plain import of and respect the statutory text,
first. Many times, resultant in the misconstruction of
the statutory text. Laws must be applied equally.
(Justice.) Lujan and TransUnion patently violated
such principles whilst reading the Constitution.
Lujan was the start of a dangerous trend, and
TransUnion dug deeper into a dangerous rabbit hole.
Any departure from the meaning of statutory text
results in unequal applications and creates wholly
avoidable injustice.
Finally, the final question presented in this case,
can a non-attorney incompetent adult person
represent another incompetent person before United
States Courts? The Third Circuit failed to answer
this question. Wherefore, such important question
must, unfortunately, be readdressed by this Court.
I.
This Court should grant certiorari to con
sider overruling Lujan and TransUnion.
Overruling precedent is always serious, “[b]ut
stare decisis is not an inexorable command.”
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Franchise Tax Bd. of Calif, v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485,
1499 (2019) (cleaned up). This Court considers
overruling a precedent virtually every Term, many of
this Court’s “most notable and consequential
decisions” overruled precedent, and almost “every
current Member of this Court” voted to overrule
“multiple constitutional precedents” in “just the last
few Terms.” Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390,
1411 (2020) (Kavanaugh, J., concurring in part)
(collecting cases). That’s because stare decisis ‘“is at
its weakest when [this Court] interpret[s] the
Constitution,”’ as it did in Lujan and TransUnion.
Knick v. Twp. of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162, 2177 (2019).
When deciding whether to overrule a precedent,
this Court considers “a number of factors.” Hyatt III,
139 S.Ct. at 1499. Those factors can be organized
into “three broad considerations”:
1.
Is the prior decision “not just wrong, but
grievously or egregiously wrong”?
2.
Has the prior decision “caused significant
negative jurisprudential or real-world
consequences”?
3.
Would overruling the prior decision “unduly
upset reliance interests”?
Ramos, 140 S.Ct. at 1414-15 (Kavanaugh, J.,
concurring in part). These considerations all point in
the same direction here: Lujan and TransUnion
should be overruled.
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A. Lujan and TransUnion were grievously
wrong.
Lujan was wrong the day it was decided, and
TransUnion was further so. Despite reaffirming the
Powers of the judicial branch of the United States
Government, Lujan held that in order for the
plaintiff to have standing, “[t]he plaintiff must have
suffered an “injury in fact”—an invasion of a legally
protected interest which is (a) concrete and
particularized,” 504 U.S. 555, 560. “By particularized,
[the Court means] that the injury must affect the
plaintiff in a personal and individual way.” Ibid, 560
n.l. TransUnion amended deeper into a rabbit hole
Article Ill’s “Cases” and “Controversies” to “Cases”
and “Controversies” which the plaintiff have a
“personal stake.”
Also see TransUnion, 594 U.S.
____(2021) (slip op. at 7). That holding departs too
far from the Constitution’s original meaning, and is
inconsistent with other precedents, and has no true
defenders. The courts may not act in such manner.
It is the consistent and universal holding under
the American jurisprudence, courts cannot amend,
alter, nor change a constitution, nor of the several
departments of the several governments of the
United States nor the several States do so, unless in
the manner prescribed by the respective material
constitution. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz.,
Inc., 570 U.S. 1, 34 (2013) (Thomas, J., dissenting);
Steele v. Thurston, 2020 Ark. 320, 365 (Ark. 2020);
Hart v. Jordan, 14 Cal.2d 288, 291 (Cal. 1939);
McGovern v. Mitchell, 78 Conn. 536, 569 (Conn.
1906); Cohn v. Kingsley, 5 Idaho 416, 439, 49 P. 985,
993 (Id. 1897); In re Matthews, 333 So. 3d 422, 427
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(La. 2022); Ferguson v. Wilcox, 28 S.W.2d 526, 533
(Tex. 1930); City of Fort Worth v. Rylie, 602 S.W.3d
459, 468 (Tex. 2020).
Section 2 of Article III of the United States
Constitution, does not restrain the United States
Courts’ Power to extend only cases or controversies
in which a plaintiff have a personal stake in any
judicial Case, nor does the provisions contained in
section 2 even suggest so. Not even slightly.
Constructing upon the provision without shrinking
or expanding the scope of the text is permitted.
However, to the extent a court narrows or expands
the plain import and scope of the unambiguous
provisions, the courts’ usurpation of power ripen. It is
exactly such usurpation the Lujan and TransUnion
Courts committed. And as aforementioned, such acts
are not within the Powers vested by the United
States Constitution in the Courts.
Justice Lamar wrote, “[t]o get at the thought or
meaning expressed in a statute, a contract or a
constitution, the first resort, in all cases, is to the
natural signification of the words, in the order of
grammatical arrangement in which the framers of
the instrument have placed them.” Lake County v.
Rollins, 130 U.S. 662, 670 (1889). “If the words
convey a definite meaning which involves no
absurdity, nor any contradiction of other parts of the
instrument, then that meaning, apparent on the face
of the instrument, must be accepted, and neither the
courts nor the legislature have the right to add to it
or take from it.” Ibid, (emphasis added.)
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The holdings of Lujan and pertinent precedents
omitted in Lujan, created “irreducible constitutional
minimum[s] of standing”, that in applicable times,
undermines certain provisions of the United States
Constitution. Lujan, 504 U.S. at 560. Amending the
Constitution is not amongst the Powers of the several
Courts under Article III, “this Court does not have
the power to alter the terms of the Constitution.”
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc., 570 U.S.
1, 34 (2013) (Thomas, J., dissenting). The Lujan and
TransUnion Courts, and many pertinent precedents
relied upon (by Lujan and TransUnion), did exactly
such (altered the Constitution). For that reason
alone is sufficiently compelling to overrule Lujan and
TransUnion (as those cases created numerous
additional “minimums” to standing which is overly
narrow compared to the plain import of the
constitutional provisions in Article III).
There are only two irreducible constitutional
minimums of standing under Article III, which may
be derived from the plain provision text: 1) whether
publick justice is distributable (ability to exercise the
judicial Power), and 2) a Case in Law and Equity
arising under the supreme Law of the Land, the
Constitution, and the Laws of the United States,
inter alia, or Controversies outlined in the second
section of Article III. Creating additional minimums
is beyond the judicial Power, and plainly alters the
terms of the Constitution, which no department of
the government is vested with such power to do.
Denn v. Reid, 10 Pet. 524 (1836); Doggett v. Florida
Railroad, 99 U.S. 72 (1878); Carlton et al. v.
Matthews, 103 Fla. 301, 381-82 (Fla. 1931); Moore et
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Ux. v. Love, 171 Tenn. 682, 693 (Tenn. 1937). The
one supreme Court, and such inferior Courts which
Congress has ordained and established over time,
must extend their judicial Power “to all Cases, in
Law and Equity.” U.S.Const. Art. Ill, § 2. (emphasis
added). Wherefore, any ruling by any Court of the
United States narrowing the scope of “Cases” and
“Controversies” is unconstitutional and invalid.
(Unconstitutional rulings must be overruled.)
Despite the unambiguous language and the prior
and continuing holding of this Court in absence of
ambiguity, the courts must give it full force, Lujan
further held that the citizen-suit provision would
“transfer from the President to the Courts” the
executive Powers, an element missing from the law.
504 U.S. 555 at 577. Such holding departs from the
and
citizen-suit
Constitution’s
provision’s
unambiguous plain import. Perhaps the Lujan Court
forgot Congress has the Power “[t]o make all Laws
which shall be necessary and property for carrying
into Execution” of legislation the Congress was
empowered to provide. U.S.Const. Art. I, § 8. The
Powers of the Congress include, but not limited to,
inter alia, the “Power to ... provide for the .., general
Welfare of the United States.” Such holding has once
more departed too far from the Constitution’s plain
import. “The Constitution is ... the supreme law of
the land” Vanhorne v. Dorrance, 2 U.S. 304, 308
(1795) (Paterson, J.); see also Anderson v. Wilson, 289,
U.S. 20, 27 (1933). As Chief Justice Roberts wrote,
“[i]f the statutory language is plain, we must enforce
it according to its terms.” King v. Burwell, 576 U.S.
473, 486 (2015) Chief Justice Roberts seems to have
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abandoned this very principle he personally held
when he joined the majority in TransUnion. (This
case would present a great opportunity for the Chief
Justice to recoup his correct principles.)
Although everyone may concede not every Act of
Congress may be enacted within the Powers of
Congress, perhaps the Third Branch should not be
too rushed to jump into the conclusion that a citizensuit provision would transfer the executive Power
from the Second Branch to the Third. Congress is
empowered to prescribe how laws may be executed,
and how to execute Powers vested in Congress.2 U.S.
Const. Art. I, § 8.
A citizen-suit provision does not deprive of the
Second Branch’s “duty, to take Care that the Laws be
faithfully executed.” Lujan at 577. Wherefore, it does
not “transfer” executive Powers to the courts,
because the executive Powers were not deprived of
from the Executive, but rather an avenue for any
person to participate in the enforcement of the law,
as a backup to the Second Branch, as Congress
deemed it necessary.3 Post at 39. At times, the
Executive couldn’t take care of the law due to
2 Inter alia, one of the Powers vested in Congress, is to make all
Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
Execution those Powers vested by the Constitution in Congress,
and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the
Government of the United States. U.S. Const. Art.I, § 8.
3 The executive have a limited workforce, wherefore Congress
determined a citizens’ suit provision would be adequate as it
provides a remedy if the executives are lax in carrying out its
duties. Committee on Commerce on S. 3149, S. Rept. 94-698, 28
(Mar. 16, 1978); confra Post at 39.
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physical constraints, and certain Powers exercised by
Congress need to be Executed in other forms without
vesting new Powers to other branches of the
Government. Hence Congress created citizen-suit
provisions. Most importantly, a citizen-suit provision
does not open the door for the Third Branch to
prosecute a case.
This Court is not free to rewrite the statutory
text. McNeil v. United States, 508 U.S. 106, 111
(1993); also Yates v. United States, 574 U.S. 528, 570
(2015) (Kagen, J., dissenting) “[W]hen the statute's
language is plain, the sole function of the courts — at
least where the disposition required by the text is not
absurd — is to enforce it according to its terms.”
(internal quotation marks omitted) Dodd v. United
States, 545 U.S. 353, 359 (2005) (citing Hartford
Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Union Planters Bank, N.A.,
530 U.S. 1, 6 (2000)) Furthermore, nothing in the
text of Article III of the Constitution narrows the
scope of “the province of the courts to solely deciding
on the rights of individuals.” Marbury v. Madison, 1
Cranch 137, 170 (1803). Such holding would alter the
text of the Constitution, which this Court is without
the Power to do, otherwise would usurp the Powers
vested. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc.,
570 U.S. 1, 34 (2013) (Thomas, J., dissenting).
Wherefore, previous holdings of the same nature
must be overruled.
If a citizen-suit provision would enable Congress
“transfer” the executive Powers to the courts, then all
criminal and civil Cases in which an Executive body
shall be a commencing party would be effectively
Powers transferred to the courts. If such were to be
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true as advocated by Lujan and TransUnion, then
what is the purpose for the existence of the Courts?
Facts tell us such is not true. The Executives initiate
and prosecute numerous new criminal and civil
Cases in the Third Branch every day. Perhaps this
Court would argue if it chuse to uphold Lujan and
TransUnion, the Executive is transferring the
executive Powers to the courts daily.
In the pertinent Act of Congress in this instant
case, its citizen-suit provision is “intended to provide
a remedy if the [Executive] is lax in carrying out his
duties under [the TSCA].” Committee on Commerce
on S. 3148, S. Rept. 94-698, 28. (Mar. 16, 1976) It
does not permit Article III institutions to prosecute
cases, wherefore the “transfer” was never realized. In
order to show “transfer” of Power, Congress would
need to enact a law to permit the courts to prosecute
cases, an element patently missing from the
provisions. “Citizens are authorized to bring suits to
enjoin certain violations” Ibid at 3. (emphasis added)
Furthermore, if this Court continues to hold a
citizen-suit provision, being necessary and proper to
ensure a legislation which Congress is empowered to
enact, would constitute a “transfer” of Power,
perhaps the sections of the Rules Enabling Act,
28 U. S. C. §§ 2071—2077, governing rule-making
powers, would constitute a “transfer” of the
legislative Powers from Congress to the supreme
Court. Lujan and TransUnion failed to respect the
plain import of the provisions in section 8 of the First
Article of the United States Constitution. Lujan and
TransUnion’s interpretation of section 2 of the Third
Article of the United States Constitution also
departed too far from the plain import.
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Lujans and
TransUnion’s holdings
are
quintessential^ the same as holding the Second
Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to
bear arms, or the First Amendment does not bar
Congress from making laws respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances. Lujan and the precedents
relied upon are unconstitutional and dangerous.
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the
Commonwealth’s Supreme Court held “[a] void
judgment . . . cannot be made valid through the
passage of time.” M. P. Management, L.P. v. Williams,
594 Pa. 439, 490-491 (Pa. 2007). The same applies to
unconstitutional rulings. An unconstitutional act
may not become constitutional through the lapse of
time. No court has jurisdiction to usurp its prescribed
powers. Such a ruling must be challenged by wise
men and overruled by a wise court. “[A] law
repugnant to the conftitution is void; and that courts,
as well as other departments, are bound by that
inftrument.” Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 180
(1803) (emphasis added). The same rule applies to
rulings by the courts.
Finally, in Lujan, this Court wrote “[w]hile the
Constitution of the United States divides all power
conferred upon the Federal Government into
legislative Powers, the executive Power, and the
judicial Power, it does not attempt to define those
terms.” Lujan, 504 U.S. at 559 (citations ommitted).
To be sure, the Constitution need not define those
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terms, words contain meaning, and the Constitution
does not define them otherwise. If a judge cannot
understand words, perhaps he or she is incompetent
to hear cases, nevertheless serve as a judge. Plainly,
legislative Powers shall mean the authority of giving
laws, law giving. The executive Power shall mean the
authority of having the power to put in act the laws.
And the judicial Power shall mean the authority to
practife the diftribution of publick juftice. See
Johnson’s Dictionary (1755). The supreme Court and
all courts inferior theretofore established and
ordained by Congress, are not venues to practife and
diftribute publick injuftice. Granting certiorari opens
an opportunity for the Supreme Court to end
injudicial pracitfes.
B. Lujan and TransUnion have spawned
significant negative consequences.
America is a republick, not a democracy.4
U.S.Const. Art. IV, § 4. The difference between the
two is distinguished as follows: in the latter form, the
government may act freely without boundaries of
power at its will, whereas the former is bound by a
constitution binding the government strictly to
4 There are generally two categories in the forms of government:
democratic or bureaucratic. All republicks are democracies (in
practice). (These do not include republicks in name only that
are in practice bureaucracies.) However, not all democracies are
republican forms of government. (U.S.Const. Art. IV, § 4.)
Under the bureaucracy catergory, it includes monarchies,
bureacuractic governments, or generally any form of
government in practice which the people are without any
election/voting rights.
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several limited powers. Dan Smoot Report, Vol. 12,
No. 16. Disregard of the Constitution can cause it to
lose its authority. Our constitutional republick slowly
erodes away when the several departments of the
government too often usurp their powers vested by
and commit infractions against the constitution too
commonly. The danger of such results in disregard
and opens the door for the entrance of a dictatorship
(an occurrence which the Constitution attempts to
enjoin, given if it maintains the authoritative health).
Concurrently, the several departments of the
government must respect the powers vested in the
several departments by the Constitution, according
to the plain import of the authoritative
Constitutional provisions. The plain import of the
Constitution must not be altered (unless in the
manner prescribed by the very authority itself) nor
questioned, a healthy authority by the Constitution
shall thrive.
As aforementioned, Lujan and TransUnion are
such plain examples. The Supreme Court cannot
expand, narrow, violate and/or alter the terms of the
very Constitution which vested its Powers, the
judicial Power. Nor any departments of the several
governments within the republick do so. Arizona v.
Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc., 570 U.S. 1, 34
(2013); Steele v. Thurston, 2020 Ark. 320, 365 (Ark.
2020); Cohn v. Kingsley, 5 Idaho 416, 439, 49 P. 985,
993 (Ida. 1897); In re Matthews, 333 So. 3d 422, 427
(La. 2022). In Lujan and TransUnion, this Court
essentially adjudicated away certain legislative
powers of Congress, and the rights of the people.
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In Lujan, this Court de facto deprived Congress’
authority to place all laws necessary and proper for
carrying out its powers found in Section 8 of the First
Article of the United States Constitution into real
effect. As aforementioned, although every Act of
Congress may not be constitutional, the constituents
and courts of this republick must meticulously
inspect each provision of an Act of Congress in
question, examining them for any bit that may result
in the legislature acting beyond those Powers
granted by the Constitution which ordained the
department. The courts concurrently must be
punctilious when examining the Constitution, and
laws enacted by the legislature. The Mayor v. Cooper,
73 U.S. 247, 251 (1867); Nicol v. Ames, 173 U.S. 509,
515 (1899); Sveen v. Melin, 138 S. Ct. 1815, 1831
(2018) (Gorsuch, J., dissenting). The opinion of the
court in Lujan has nearly the same effect of declaring
all citizen-suit provisions unconstitutional except
under certain circumstances which this Court gave
birth to in Lujan, further narrowed in TransUnion.
Giving the constitution’s unambiguous meaning
at the time of adoption, full force, is sine qua non to
the constitution’s authority. This Court in Lujan and
TransUnion failed exactly so. The latter would,
and the former had, set a very dangerous path in
American jurisprudence with regard to the
construction and interpretation of the Constitution.
Such disregard of the plain import bears legitimate
substantial negative consequences upon the Welfare
and wellbeing of the republick.
Lujan
and
TransUnion
construed
and
constructed the unambiguous provision language
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contained in the Third Article of the Constitution in
a manner that departed in immeasurable distance to
the plain meaning at the time of its adoption
substantially diminishes and incapacitates the
authority of the supreme Law. Permitting Lujan and
TransUnion and failure to overrule those illogical
and injudicious rulings sets American justice on an
erroneous path. It has been long recognized by the
jurisprudence of American justice, the constitution
must be construed, absent ambiguity, consistent with
its plain import.
No department of government,
neither the legislative, executive, nor judicial branch
may add to nor take away what the government
instrument reads. United States v. Fisher, 6 U.S. 358,
399-400 (1805); Lake County v. Rollins, 130 U.S. 662,
670 (1889); Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz.,
Inc., 570 U.S. 1, 34 (2013); Bills v. Chicago, 60 Ill. 86
(Ill. 1871); Beardstown v. Virginia, 76 Ill. 34 (Ill.
1875); Leonard v. Wiseman, 31 Md. 201, 204 (Md.
1869); Newell v. People, 7 N.Y. 9, 97 (N.Y. 1852); 5
People v. Potter, 47 N.Y. 375 (N.Y. 1872); Cooley,
Const. Lim. 57; Story on Const. § 400. Failure by the
several departments of the several governments of
this republick to abide by such simple but critical
principles, and failure to respect the plain import of
authoritative provisions of the Constitution spawns
compelling negative consequences, which certainly
and undeniably threatens the wellbeing of our
republick.
In The People v. Purdy, 2 Hill, 31, 36 (N.Y. 1841),
Bronson, J., commenting upon the danger of
departing from the import and meaning of the
language used to express the intent, and hunting
after probable meanings not clearly embraced in that
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language, says: “In this way . . . the constitution is
made to mean one thing by one man and something
else by another, until in the end it is in danger of
being rendered a mere dead letter, and that, too,
where the language is so plain and explicit that it is
impossible to make it mean more than one thing,
unless we lose sight of the instrument itself and
roam at large in the boundless fields of speculation.”
Such “danger” of the constitution “being rendered a
mere dead letter”, is well demonstrated by Lujan and
TransUnion wrong holdings. If the courts continue
down the path of this rabbit hole recently further
depend by TransUnion, the constitution will become
“a mere dead letter.” Ibid.
Wherefore, again, it is critical such erroneous
decisions akin to Lujan and TransUnion be overruled
by a wise court upon challenge by wise men.
Otherwise, the authority and integrity of the United
States Constitution will continue to be weakened by
rulings altering its plain import. The negative
consequence of Lujan has already presented itself in
the recent TransUnion decision.
In a congressional enactment like the RLBPHRA
of 1992, failure by the executive, and the people (as
Congress prescribed citizens suit enforcement), to
ensure, and to permit by the courts, the fullest
enforcement in the manners prescribed by Congress,
would in practise deprive Congress of their Power
vested by the Constitution to provide for the general
Welfare of the United States. U.S.Const. Art. I, § 8.
Failure to ensure and permit enforcement of the
force would greatly harm the general Welfare of the
United States. The courts cannot argue the
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legislature should have acted to provide for the
general Welfare, because the legislature has already
acted. Congress would have executed if Article I
vested executive Powers. The courts would not
distribute publick justice if it doesn’t permit all
actions initiated under 15 U.S.C. § 2619 to proceed
(except on certain reasons other than standing, such
as the lack of violation of the Act).
Enacted in 1992 by Congress, the RLBPHRA
serves, inter alia, (A) “to encourage effective action to
prevent childhood lead poisoning by establishing a
workable framework for lead-based paint hazard
evaluation and reduction”; (B) “to ensure [ ] the
existence of lead-based paint hazards are taken into
account in the . . . sale, rental, and renovation of
homes and apartmentsand (C) “to educate the
public concerning the hazards and sources of leadbased paint poisoning and steps to reduce and
eliminate such hazards42 U.S.C. § 4851a
(emphasis added). Regulating such dangerous
chemical is within the scope of the congressional
Power vested by the eighth section of Article I of the
United States Constitution, “to ... provide for the...
general Welfare of the United States”. The Act also
amended the TSCA which includes provisions that
“shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
Execution” Congress’ Powers. Ibid. The amendments
to the TSCA enacted by Congress through the
RLBPHRA, inter alia, prescribed how the
Departments and Officers of the Second Branch and
citizens may take action to ensure the “carrying into
Execution” of the RLBPHRA.
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The negative consequences of the chemical lead
are numerous. Lead exposure causes reduced IQ,
learning disabilities, developmental delays, reduced
height, poorer hearing, and a host of other health
problems in young children. These effects are
irreversible. In later years, lead-poisoned children
are much more likely to drop out of school, become
juvenile delinquents and engage in criminal and
other anti-social behavior. At higher levels, lead can
damage a child’s kidneys and central nervous system
and cause anemia, coma, convulsions, and even death.
Gulson, Mahaffey, et al., Contribution of tissue lead
to blood lead in adult female subjects based on stable
lead isotope methods, J. Lab. Clin. Med., 125(6), 703712. http://bit.ly/3I7idbP (June 1, 1998); Weyermann,
& Brenner, Factors affecting bone demineralization
and blood lead levels of postmenopausal women-a
population-based study from Germany, Environ.
Res.,
76(1),
19-25.
https://doi.org/10.1006/enrs.1997.3780 (1998), Potula,
& Kaye, The impact of menopause and lifestyle
factors on blood and bone lead levels among female
former smelter workers: the Bunker Hill Study. Am. J.
Ind.
Med.,
49(3),
143-152.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.20262 (Feb. 8, 2006);
National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Report to Congress on Workers’
Home Contamination Study Conducted Under The
Workers’ Family Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 671a),
DHHS
(NIOSH)
Publication
No.
95-123,
http://bit.ly/3GjFaan (Sept. 1995); U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, Toxicological Profile
for Lead (update), Public Health Service Agency for
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Toxic
Substances
and
Disease
Registry
http://bit.ly/3Ik3tXd (Aug. 2020).
In short, expert studies conducted over the
passage of time have undeniably indicated, lead
creates crime, especially violent crimes like murder.
Many trends of violent crimes and lead exposure are
very parallel. Nevin, Understanding international
crime trends: the legacy of preschool lead exposure,
Environ. Res. 104(3), 315-336, http://bit.ly/3WK5cJ7,
https://doi.Org/10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.008 (Apr. 23,
2007); Liu, Early Health Risk Factors for Violence:
Conceptualization, Review of the Evidence, and
Implications, Aggress. Violent Behav., 16(1), 63-73
http://bit.ly/3hP0gUs,
https://doi.Org/10.1016/j.avb.2010.12.003
(2010);
Taylor, Opeskin, et al., The relationship between
atmospheric lead emissions and aggressive crime: an
ecological
study,
Environ.
Health
15,
23
http://bit.ly/3Vqyw6v, https://doi.org/10.1186/sl2940016-0122-3 (Feb. 16, 2016)
Wherefore, it is
imperative every legislation is given full force by
proactive enforcement actions and the courts must
permit, and not prohibit such attempts. With the
existing caselaw, courts are preventing many
enforcement attempts.
Furthermore, Congress implemented the citizensuit provision to aid enforcement of the RLBPHRA,
due to the tremendously large number of subject
Properties that contain lead, the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Department of Housing
and Urban Development could not simply handle and
ensure compliance of a potentially violative 34.6
million residential dwellings (29.4% of all housing
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units) containing lead-based paint.5 The combined
total workforce of both departments of government is
very small with only 22,767 personnel, respectively
8,186 (FY2022) for HUD6, and 14,5817 (FY2022) for
the EPA. The courts cannot say its Congress’
problem for not providing sufficient resources or
avenues to ensure enforcement of such important
law when Congress created the citizen-suit
provisions “to provide a remedy if the [Executive] is
lax in carrying out his duties [enforce the provisions]
under this Act.” Committee on Commerce on S. 3149,
S Rept. 94-698, 28. (Mar. 16, 1976). Congress
anticipated potential lax due to the size of the
problem, “[c]itizens are authorized to bring suits to
enjoin certain violations” to take care of the problem,
and ensure alongside the Executives execution of
Congress’ Power to provide for the general Welfare.
Ibid at 3. In other words, both the legislative history
and legislation provisions do not suggest the Courts
may bring an action to enjoin violations, which would
then have resulted in a transfer of Power suggested
by Lujan and TransUnion. If the courts begin
permitting all forms of enforcement action as
appropriately prescribed by Congress, perhaps the
RLBPHRA and TSCA would finally function as
anticipated.
5 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
American Healthy Homes Survey II, Lead Findings, Office of
Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes,
http://bit.ly/3Wnmmwd (Oct. 29, 2021).
6 HUD Fiscal Year 2022 Budget in Brief at 30 —
http://bit.ly/3G2hcz8
7 EPA’s Budget and Spending — http://bit.ly/3vinRjC
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Wherefore, Lujan and TransUnion create
compelling and substantial judicial and real-world
negative consequences which could be eliminated by
this Court simply granting certiorari and overrule of
those two rulings.
C. Lujan and TransUnion have generated
no legitimate reliance interests.
Lujan and TransUnion cannot be sustained in
the name of reliance interests. This Court places
little stock in reliance interests when it overrules
precedents, like Lujan and TransUnion, where a
ruling conflicts with the constitution. E.g., Gideon v.
Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) (overruling Betts v.
Brady); Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
(overruling Crooker v. California and Cicenia v. La
Gay);
Dobbs
v.
Jackson
Women's
Health
(2022) (overruling Roe v.
Organization, 597 U.S.
Wade). Reliance interests do not and shall not deter
this Court from overruling blatantly unconstitutional
and wrong rulings. Since ancient times, this Court
held any law repugnant to the United States
Constitution, is null, and no one, is bound by it.
Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 180 (1803); Ex
parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376 (1879); Montgomery
v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. 190, 203 (2016). This principle
equally applies to rulings by courts of law.
Nothing trumps, and shall trump, the plain
import of the constitution. Departing from the plain
import of the constitution making it “to mean one
thing by one man and something else by another,
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until in the end it is in danger of being rendered a
mere dead letter” The People v. Purdy, 2 Hill, 31, 36
(N.Y. 1841). The departure is too plain in Lujan and
TransUnion, so far it undermines the fundamentals
of judicial interpretation. A constitutional provision,
as Justice Washington held, “should be intended to
mean what they have plainly expressed, and
consequently no room is left for construction.” United
States v. Fisher, 6 U.S. 358, 399-400 (1805).
Without the constitution, courts would not exist.
Wherefore, all courts must act within the Powers
vested by that instrument, and any act of the courts
which usurp its authorities, like this Court did in
Lujan and TransUnion, are null, and therefore must
be overruled.
Overruling Lujan and TransUnion would permit
citizen-suit, such as the instant case, initiated under
Acts like the TSCA to proceed. Citizen-suit to enforce
other Acts of Congress may not stand on the
constitutionality of that given Act, but in the instant
Case, the TSCA is proven within the Congress’
legislative authority as vested and prescribed in Art.
I, § 8. The TSCA and the RLBPHRA provide for the
general Welfare of the United States, and Congress
made all laws proper and necessary to Execute the
Acts, prescribing to detail what actions the Executive
may take to carry into Execution of the Acts, and
what the people may take to carry into Execution if
the Executive is lax. S. Rept. 94-698, at 3. (Mar. 16,
1976). Enabling citizen-suit would not harm the
respondents in any way. They can avoid the
RLBPHRA’s disclosure requirements by simply not
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engage in the leasing residential dwellings that are
subject Properties built before 1978. 42 U.S.C. §
4852d.
II. This Court should grant certiorari to con
sider can incompetent persons represent
another incompetent person in U.S. Courts.
Since ancient times, this Court has ruled infants,
and persons non compos mentis generally, must be
represented. Penhallow v. Doane’s, 3 Dali. 54, 106
(1795) (“The infant cannot act for himself’). This rule
governs to this day, most recently codified into the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure under Rule 17(c)(2)
in 1938.
Although one may conduct their own cases
personally, only counsel may conduct on one’s behalf.
28 U.S.C. § 1654; Meeker v. Kercher, 782 F.2d 153,
154 (CA10 1986); Gardner v. Parson, 874 F.2d 131,
141 (CA3 1989) (Holding the district court was
without authority to reach the merits of incompetent
plaintiffs claim and reversing dismissal); Chueng v.
Youth Orchestra Found. Of Buffalo, Inc., 906 F.2d 59,
61 (CA2 1990); see also Osei-Afriyie v. Med. College of
Pennsylvania, 937 F.2d 876, 882-883 (CA3 1991)
(Holding a person who is not a licensed attorney may
not represent another person in court).
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This instant case was commenced when lead
petitioner Tiange Huang was 16 years old. As the
record8 indicates, the original January 5, 2021
Complaint shows the lead petitioner’s name in
redacted form. The record further indicates the
infant petitioner conducted all required service of
papers filed in the district court, to the opposing
parties. Upon the petitioner’s motion, the district
court permitted the then infant petitioner to disclose
his full name. All appellants’ Briefs filed during
appeal to the court of appeals were written by the
then 17 years old infant petitioner. All other
petitioners are English deficient and do not
understand the case on their own.
This Court should also grant certiorari to
determine whether, in federal practise, English
language deficiency shall play part in determining
whether one whom is deficient in the English
language shall be competent to bring his own case.
Language deficiency bars a litigant from fully
understanding legal provisions, complex caselaw,
and his own rights, all of which are very challenging
even for native English speakers.
8 Available on the district court’s docket and accessible through
the internet via Case Management/Electronic Case Files.
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CONCLUSION
This Court should grant certiorari.
Tiange Huang
Lead Petitioner
2602 Orchard Creek Ln
Katy, TX 77494-2994
(202) 866-8558
huangtiange@hotmail.com
Qiuyuan Huang
huangqiuyuan@gmail.com
Jing Lin
2602 Orchard Creek Ln
Katy, TX 77494-2994
(267) 283-5450
linjing.org@hotmail.com
December 26, 2022
Petitioners
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