| 25-7141 |
Thomas Keller v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-04-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-regulation controlled-substances-act criminal-liability intelligible-principle-test nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Whether the "intelligible principle" test remains the appropriate standard for evaluating delegations of legislative power when the resulting regulati… |
| 25-7015 |
Stephen McCarthy v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
Third Circuit |
2026-03-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law-judge agency-adjudication appointments-clause controlled-substances-act removal-protections structural-error |
1. Structural error and remedy after Collins. This Court's precedents treat structural defects in agency adjudications —such as Appointments Clause vi… |
| 25-5620 |
Terry Duane Qualls v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25A180 |
Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General |
First Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commerce-clause controlled-substances-act gonzalez-v-raich interstate-commerce intrastate-marijuana marijuana-regulation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1217 |
Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge controlled-substances-act federal-taxation marijuana-taxation state-legal-marijuana |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5646 |
Lisa Hofschulz, et vir v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization |
1. Did Congress delegate authority to the Attorney General to define what constitutes an "effective prescription" or an "authorized" distribution of n… |
| 24-5578 |
Randy Lamartiniere v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-delegation controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization |
1. Did Congress delegate authority to the Attorney General to define what
constitutes an "effective prescription" or an "authorized" distribution of
n… |
| 24-5501 |
Victor Manuel Campos-Ayala v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances-act due-process fourth-amendment miranda-warnings traffic-stop witness-deportation |
1. Whether, during an investigation arising from a traffic stop, agents, who act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment, must read Miranda warnings whe… |
| 24-5451 |
Martin Moncada-de la Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-possession intent-to-distribute material-evidence witness-deportation |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Controlled Substances Act, proof of possession with intent to distribute requires a showing of control over the drugs,… |
| 24-5231 |
Dean Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 23-7676 |
Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a "… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-5828 |
Raquel Rivera v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances-act drug-prosecution farm-bill hemp hemp-classification marijuana marijuana-definition possession-with-intent-to-distribute thc-concentration thc-content |
Whether, in a possession of marijuana with intent to distribute prosecution, the government is required to prove as an element that the substance is m… |
| 23-5591 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage |
For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-238 |
Roger Dale Anderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
|
comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), of the Controlled Sub… |
| 23-130 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
agency-regulation authorization controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction drug-dealer drug-dealing jury-instruction physician physician-prescription statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement |
The question presented here is whether, in a jury instruction under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., language taken from an age… |
| 23-5303 |
Jeanne Germeil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure expert-testimony good-faith jury-instructions medical-practice ruan-v-united-states |
1. Whether the United States Supreme Court's Decision in Ruan v. United States Warrants Certiorari Review of the Court's Refusal to Instruct the Jury … |
| 22-1175 |
Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation |
In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) (App., infra, 19a-54a), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)… |
| 22-7690 |
Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
§4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7500 |
Safara Echo Shortman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permit the Government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance base… |
| 22-1057 |
Standing Akimbo, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause summary-judgment tax-code |
1. Should Gonzales v. Raich be overruled, i.e., whether the CSA as supplemented by the half-in, half-out regime is in excess of Congress' powers under… |
| 22-7292 |
Jason Edward Simpson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure due-process jury-finding jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea reasonable-doubt statutory-minimum-maximum statutory-sentencing |
1. Whether a conviction of a substantive offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841 of the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") requires that a jury find beyond a rea… |
| 22-6653 |
Jayson Montgomery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent |
To convict a defendant of violating the anti-kickback statute, is the government required to establish that the accused intended to engage in unlawful… |
| 22-6640 |
Eugene Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-685 |
Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
|
anti-kickback-statute commission-payment controlled-substances-act healthcare-fraud objective-intent-standard pharmacy-benefit prescription-marketing sixth-circuit subjective-intent |
Must the government establish subjective intent to engage in unlawful conduct in order to convict a defendant of healthcare fraud and violation of the… |
| 22-6248 |
Paul Tay v. Michelle Diane Tilley Nichols, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-commandeering anti-commandeering-doctrine controlled-substances-act election-activities federal-preemption indian-treaties marijuana marijuana-regulation state-jurisdiction treaty-law |
Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt State consent to use, possession, cultivation, processing, transportation, and sale of marijuana and any of… |
| 22-84 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
GVR |
|
controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) where the jury was… |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8075 |
Ricky Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) |
Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-1487 |
Brian Bilodeau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appropriations appropriations-rider controlled-substances-act department-of-justice federal-prosecution medical-marijuana standing state-law |
Whether and under what circumstances the rider prohibits the DOJ from spending federal funds to prosecute criminal defendants for medical marijuana-re… |
| 21-7391 |
Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-998 |
Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee… |
| 21-6722 |
Daniel Dario Trevino v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power controlled-substances-act due-process federalism interstate-commerce legal-landscape marijuana-regulation medical-marijuana standing-akimbo state-legalization |
SHOULD THIS COURT RECONSIDER ITS DECISION IN GONZALES AND DETERMINE THAT CONGRESS CANNOT REGULATE SOLELY INTRASTATE MARIJUANA DISTRIBUTION DUE TO THE … |
| 21-676 |
Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. |
Minnesota |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation |
Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for… |
| 21-6143 |
Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California |
California |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict |
Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member… |
| 21-5980 |
Jerome Curtis Stancil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause controlled-substances-act distribution serious-drug-offense social-sharing |
The Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), (ACCA) mandates a 15year mandatory-minimum term of imprisonment for individuals convicted of
violat… |
| 21-276 |
Safehouse v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism felony-statute medical-supervision opioid-crisis overdose-prevention public-health public-health-intervention |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 856(a) make it a felony to offer medically supervised consumption services for the purpose of preventing opioid overdose deaths? |
| 21-5261 |
Shakeel Kahn v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances-act disjunctive-conjunctive good-faith-defense legitimate-medical-purpose mens-rea usual-course-professional-practice |
1. Where the government prosecutes a medical practitioner under the Controlled Substances Act for issuing a prescription outside "the usual course of … |
| 20-1765 |
Donald S. Harden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli… |
| 20-7831 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights controlled-substances-act defective-indictment drug-definition ex-post-facto food-drug-cosmetics-act indictment-defect lack-of-physical-evidence |
I. Did the Appellate Court denied the Plaintiff her constitutional right by denying her Appeal 18-2693 (L) without addressing the District Court 's vi… |
| 20-7617 |
Willie Lee Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
One: Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for "felony drug offense" to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, al… |
| 20-1332 |
Eric D. Speidell, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
|
cannabis-legality civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-law-investigation federal-preemption isr-summons standing state-legalization supremacy-clause warrant-requirement |
1. Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act?
2. Did Congress, under … |
| 20-1283 |
Margaret Temponeras v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-liability medical-boards medical-practice pain-management pharmaceutical-companies prosecutorial-discretion vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04 are unconstitutionally vague whereas the term "legitimate medical purpose" does not provide fair notic… |
| 20-7324 |
Malcolm Elbray Traywicks, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law attorney-general controlled-substances-act delegation-of-power due-process prosecutorial-discretion scheduling-authority separation-of-powers |
Does the Congressional delegation of power to the Attorney General permitting scheduling of substances under the Controlled Substance Act violate due … |
| 20-645 |
Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (13) |
16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law |
The Petitioners allegedly operate a Colorado state legal cannabis dispensary and sold cannabis in accordance with state law. The IRS claims that altho… |
| 20-6117 |
David M. Wasanyi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act diversion-amendment due-process equal-protection food-and-drug-agency healthcare-services minority-health |
1. Whether the Federal government infringed on Petitioner's rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States … |
| 20-338 |
Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION
Federal district courts have their jurisdiction limited to violations of laws of the
United States. During the per… |
| 20-148 |
Marvin Washington, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-review controlled-substances-act due-process federal-patents medical-cannabis |
Three of the Petitioners require daily administration of medical cannabis to live. Despite classifying it a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Subst… |
| 20-136 |
Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme |
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… |
| 19-1313 |
Donovan Dave Dixon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzalez-v-oregon medical-malpractice medical-practice mens-rea standard-of-care |
Whether juries must be instructed that the government must prove that a physician acted with the mens rea of intent as to issuing a prescription outsi… |
| 19-1296 |
Helix TCS, Inc. v. Robert Kenney |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
|
controlled-substances controlled-substances-act fair-labor-standards-act federal-drug-crime federal-drug-crimes marijuana-trafficking minimum-wages private-right-of-action tenth-circuit-ruling uniform-application-of-federal-law |
Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., confers a private right of action to recover minimum wages for conduct that violates t… |
| 19-1222 |
Nathan Duckworth v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-concerns controlled-substances-act due-process property-rights seizure-of-currency standing substantial-connection-test takings tenth-circuit |
Whether the government is required to show a substantial connection between money it has seized and an intended violation of the Controlled Substances… |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-6436 |
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment |
The DEA relied exclusively on an internal agency precedent to declare that because private market actors on the Massachusetts medical board suspended … |
| 19-5975 |
Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment.
… |
| 19-129 |
Neil Feinberg, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-policy drug-trafficking federal-preemption federalism interstate-commerce irs-tax-code marijuana-legalization preemption state-legalization state-rights tax-law |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the Controlled Substances Act superseded and preempted Colorado marijuana laws? |
| 19-28 |
Kenneth Daniels v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
aggravated-felony armed-career-criminal-act attempt controlled-substances-act criminal-attempt drug-distribution immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law solicitation uniform-administration |
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) makes it a crime to "distribute * * * a controlled substance." 21 U.S.C. 841(a). The Act includes an "attempt" to … |
| 18-1582 |
Bryan A. Krumm, CNP v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law cannabis-scheduling controlled-substances controlled-substances-act dea federalism mandamus-relief medical-marijuana medical-use scheduling witness-testimony |
1. Can the Attorney General and DEA continue Schedule 1 placement of Cannabis now that it has "accepted medical use" in 33 States, the District of Col… |
| 18-1511 |
Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Controlled Substances Act permit the United States to impose a fine for each and every technical violation of … |
| 18-8287 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Uttam Dhillon, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing-patent-takings-due-proce administrative-law civil-rights controlled-substances-act due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1131 |
United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
|
accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten… |
| 18-7737 |
Tyshawn Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7264 |
Joel E. Miller v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzales-v-oregon jury-instructions medical-malpractice medical-practice medical-practitioner prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care united-states-v-moore |
Because many controlled substances have medical uses, the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") authorizes doctors and other medical practitioners to issu… |
| 18-5383 |
James Rodney Shuman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… |