constitutional-defect
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6577 | Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre… |
| 24-5810 | Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner | Whether a district court errs when it dismisses a pro se prisoner's complaint, without leave to amend, for futility reasons when the defects could be … |
| 24-316 | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (27) | appointments-clause constitutional-defect cost-sharing preventive-services statutory-provision task-force | Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the structure of the Task Force violates the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, … |
| 23-7207 | Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 0. 4he \ri &{ Cowri CammiM&c/ ernoTT clet^jfirg 4^ie. doferrs^. reaue*& -fe 'OSinW^( ne^ass^^ even Ahe^ um% Som© iq <Jrta4 'C&cmxl rg £>U4^Yve:wl, ^ir… |
| 20-6802 | Noel Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error | (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has… |
| 20-6583 | Edgar Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … |
| 20-6012 | Allen Young v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect discovery-violations due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment indictment-defects insufficient-evidence perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure | (1) Where the conviction is built on perjury, the prosecution knew of Head Agent Dana McNeai and alleged victim's falsb testimony oath, and prosecutio… |
| 19-432 | All American Check Cashing, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law agency-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-defect consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process enforcement-action meaningful-relief seila-law separation-of-powers standing unconstitutional-agency | 1. Whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the separation of powers. 2. Whether a successful separation-of-powers … |
| 18-8300 | Paul Glen Everett v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of … |