constitutional-validity
23 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6597 | Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6594 | William James Forbis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6422 | Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800, under which Petitioner was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, enacted in… |
| 25-571 | In Re Rayon Payne | 2025-11-13 | Denied | appellate-relief constitutional-validity due-process judicial-defiance structural-conflict supervisory-intervention | 1. Whether supervisory intervention by this court is required where a district judge —structurally conflicted due to collegial involvement —assumed ju… | ||
| 24-7132 | Donovan Jacob Farr v. Texas | Texas | 2025-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea plea-agreement | Did the state court disregard this Court's precedent by upholding the constitutional validity of Petitioner's guilty plea despite recognizing the tria… |
| 24-6762 | Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-validity custody-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause | 1) Whether or not all Virginia State, County, and City Courts are Unconstitutional and/or Illegitimate with respect to the 1971 Constitution of Virgin… |
| 24-6348 | Christopher Howard v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-procedure inter-circuit-split jury-instructions rico-conspiracy vicar-statute | 1. Whether The Second Circuit Court of Appeal's Decisions to overturn the District Court's Acquittal of Petitioner on both the VICAR and 924(c) Counts… |
| 24-5421 | In Re Tiran R. Casteel | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | congressional-quorum constitutional-validity federal-criminal-law jurisdictional-challenge legislative-procedure statutory-enactment | QUESTION #1, Public Law 80-772, Act of June 25,1948,Chapter 645,62 Stat. 683,the statute which created the current Title 18,United States Code-the Cri… | |
| 24A130 | Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale | Third Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Granted | constitutional-validity criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plea-of-guilt pro-se suppression-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5184 | Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability. Whether this court's ruling in … |
| 23-6187 | Jamar Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Rehearing | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights | 1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of … |
| 23-5780 | Denis Chavez v. Florida | Florida | 2023-10-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense | 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5593 | Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5385 | Adam Knoll v. Florida | Florida | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error sexual-offense standing | 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co… |
| 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… |
| 20-1241 | Michael Paul Miselis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-6610 | Luis Sanabria-Robreno v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-922g constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states | When defendant s plead guilty, this Court's precedent —consistent with due process —require s that they understand the offense's essential elements. I… |
| 19-8816 | Willie Edward Blackshire v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-validity due-process guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | This Court has long held that, for a guilty plea to satisfy constitutional due process requirements, the defendant must have been informed of all elem… |
| 19-8553 | Devian Phillips v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-05-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights constitutional-validity contract-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-inducement prosecutorial-promise | Whether guilty plea is voluntarily and intelligently made, which rests on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, which can be said to be part of th… |
| 19-7808 | Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas | Texas | 2020-02-27 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing | WHETHER THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAILURE TO RETAKE AND REFILE A VALID OATH OF OFFICE BEFORE PRONOUNCING SENTENCE, RENDERS A JUDGEMENT, CONVICTION AND SENTENC… |
| 19-5330 | Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | GVR | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury that, in order to convict a person under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it … |
| 18-9783 | Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining | 1-Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appea… |
| 18-1339 | Mark Anthony Fornesa, et al. v. Fifth Third Mortgage Company | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response Waived | ' 'appeals' ' 'bankruptcy-law" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'constitutional-law" ' 'foreclosure" ' 'fraud" automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights constitutional-validity constitutional-violation damages debtor-rights eviction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud-allegation mortgage-dispute mortgage-law property-seizure | Under Federal law, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a), do Fifth Third Mortgage company and Fifth Third Bank ("Fifth Third") have a right to seize a property from debt… |