alternative-means

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1101 Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen District of Columbia 2024-04-10 Denied Response Waived alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden 1. Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief. 2. Whether the availability of alternative mea…
19-7003 Quintin Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony I. Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim…
18-9219 Yaqob Tafan Thomas v. Joseph P. Meko, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor alternative-means burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-scrutiny due-process jury-instructions presumption richardson-v-us-schad-v-arizona 1. DOES IT VIOLATE THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN A STATE INTENTIONALLY REFUSES TO DEFINE EVERY ELEMENTAL FACT IN "ALTERNATIVE MEANS" STATUTE THEREBY CR…
18-7572 Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak…