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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6870 | Marcellus M. Cheatham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6868 | Ronald Sylvester Finney, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-20 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6750 | Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit | Petitioner Shawn Johnson was a felon only because of his nonviolent offenses of manufacturing and uttering counterfeit United States currency. After b… |
| 25-6732 | Daniel Delgado v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-standard constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of title 18, U.S.C., imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or… |
| 25-6530 | Terry Lee Gammage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d… |
| 25-6429 | Georgiy Chipunov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats | In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove… |
| 25-6355 | Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-6313 | Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-642 | Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 25-458 | William Collins, III v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-convictions firearm-possession government-restriction second-amendment | Petitioner William Collins, III, is an upstanding and law-abiding citizen. His only criminal history stems from youthful indiscretion: minor, nonviole… |
| 25-5850 | Tremon Staley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-review felony-prohibition firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprison… |
| 25A410 | United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5820 | Kevin Deane Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge conditional-pardon felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25A382 | United States v. Erik Matthew Harris | Third Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge drug-users firearms-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5731 | David Alexander Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-5722 | Isaiah Kahlil Wise v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge felon-disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5721 | Jacob Joshad Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) by examining whether historical tradition supports perman… |
| 25-5707 | Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5626 | Andrew Chafin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Petition Andrew Chafin is prohibited from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life because he shoplifted several cases of energy drinks from two … |
| 25-5607 | Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti… |
| 25-5510 | Monte Barry v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-184 | Deamonte Law v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | This Court's decisions in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), require our di… | |
| 25-5318 | Deago Lee Eddings v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5259 | Antonio Marshall v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25A91 | William Collins, III v. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-regulation gun-rights second-amendment self-defense | Question not identified. | |
| 25A36 | Jacqusyn Zechariah Grubb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(8) as-applied-challenge domestic-violence-restraining-order facial-challenge motion-to-dismiss second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5034 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri… |
| 25-5007 | Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-07-01 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal | Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah… |
| 25-5006 | Fredrick Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment | When a criminal defendant in the middle of a direct appeal seeks relief that first becomes available as a result of an intervening decision from this … |
| 24-7075 | Christopher E. Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment | 1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24A999 | Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-04-18 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge dangerous-individuals firearm-possession Rahimi-framework retroactive-application second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7033 | Aqudre Quailes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-framework constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-analogues second-amendment | Following this Court's holding in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), courts must engage in a history-based analysis when dec… |
| 24-6818 | Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, as the Fourth, Eighth, a… |
| 24-968 | Diontai Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | as-applied-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition historical-tradition second-amendment supervised-release | In 2021, intruders tried to break into the house where Diontai Moore was living with his fiancée and her three children. Terrified, his fiancée took h… | |
| 24-6666 | Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impr… |
| 24-6517 | Edell Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term e… |
| 24-6452 | Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those who have been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 24-6107 | Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | GVR | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S.__, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 18… |
| 24-5997 | Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-20 | GVR | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. __, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 1… |
| 24-279 | 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation | In an as-applied First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's surveyor-licensing law, the Fifth Circuit in 2020 held that the standard for determining w… |
| 24-5126 | Michael J. Brillon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge As-Applied-Unconstitutionality Bruen bruen-decision constitutional-challenge conviction-review Due-Process facial-challenge Facial-Unconstitutionality Felons second-amendment | This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) rendered Mr.… |
| 24-37 | Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-16 | GVR | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). | |
| 23-6602 | Sylvester Cunningham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie… |
| 22-6112 | Aakash A. Dalal v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-validity due-process facial-challenge salerno-test standing void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether litigants may bring facial constitutional challenges to laws without first successfully raising as-applied challenges? 2. Whether litigant… |
| 21-8084 | Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing | 1. Ifa state's established method of execution would violate the Eighth Amendment as applied to that inmate, may federal courts direct specific altera… |
| 21-996 | Yonell Allums v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | as-applied-challenge booker-decision criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonable-sentence rita-decision sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation | In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment because the… |
| 21-6485 | R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services | Texas | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code | Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(o) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it is unconstit… |
| 21-6257 | Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation | 1. Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth where it considers at least some of those aspects to be aggravating… |
| 21-104 | Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Can there be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the protection… | |
| 20-1706 | Leevan Roundtree v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-review due-process felon-dispossession firearm-dispossession firearm-rights non-violent-felony second-amendment standing | 1. Whether a non-violent felon may bring an asapplied challenge to a state law that permanently denies Second Amendment rights to anyone convicted of … |
| 20-1236 | Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2021-03-08 | Denied | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 | A. Is Anderson is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because Va. C… | |
| 20-812 | Lisa M. Folajtar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Amici (5) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felons felony-prohibition firearm-possession nonviolent-crimes second-amendment self-defense tax-fraud | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits nearly all felons—even those convicted of nonviolent crimes—from possessing firearms for se… |
| 20-5579 | Israel Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment standing | May an individual charged with violating a law barring the possession of firearms by felons bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to his pros… |
| 19-287 | Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights | Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in… |
| 18A1273 | Jorge Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-06-07 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felon-dispossession firearms-ban heller-precedent second-amendment | Whether, and if so on what basis, individuals may seek as-applied Second Amendment relief from felon dispossession laws. | |
| 18-1096 | Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant | Calif. vexatious litigant law is unconstitutionally vague on its face. The language is unclear as to: (a) what is "litigation"; (b) what has or doesn'… | |
| 18-1065 | Interpipe Contracting, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | as-applied-challenge chamber-of-commerce-v-brown civil-rights collective-bargaining labor-speech metropolitan-life-v-massachusetts minimum-labor-standards nlra-preemption project-labor-agreements union-organizing worker-consent | Chamber of Commerce v. Brown, 554 U.S. 60 (2008) holds that noncoercive labor speech is protected by the NLRA, and any state statute that interferes w… |
| 18-7352 | Giovanni Ellis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-5593 | Maurice Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 | Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio… |
| 18-43 | Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott | Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? |