criminal-fines
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6593 | Jason Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment immunities-clause incarceration-costs | Whether the Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must restrict government from imposing costs of incarceration and criminal fines that are gr… |
| 24-25 | Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution hester-v-united-states jury-determination sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states | Whether the Sixth Amendment reserves to juries the determination of any fact underlying a criminal restitution order. |
| 21-5305 | Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion | Anyone can go to prison, but not everyone can pay a fine. The district court here imposed a $4,000 fine against Mr. Rosales-Gonzalez, an indigent, non… |
| 21-64 | Danny James McLaughlin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian | When deciding whether a criminal fine is disproportionate to the gravity of a defendant's crime, and thereby unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendme… |
| 19-7707 | Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum | This Court held in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pe… |
| 19-719 | Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation | Colorado | 2019-12-06 | Denied | ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing | How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment? | |
| 19-6616 | Alberino Magi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states | In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 18-8963 | Jose Cobian v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. •-. has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the … |
| 18-8938 | Elza Budagova v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-restitution judicial-discretion jury-findings sentencing sentencing-exposure southern-union-co | Should Apprendi's rule apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 18-8781 | Kerri L. Kaley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states | In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 18-7262 | Artak Ovsepian and Kenneth Wayne Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-u.s.c.-1028a 18-usc-1028a apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-fines criminal-restitution double-counting identity-theft sentencing-guidelines u-s-code u.s.s.g.-2b1.6 | In Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. 343, 360 (2012), the Court held "that the rule of Apprendi applies to the imposition of criminal fine… |