criminal-liability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A865 | Thomas Keller v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Application | attorney-general-regulation congressional-delegation controlled-substances criminal-liability intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 25-447 | Mark Schena v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | compensation-scheme criminal-liability healthcare-referral kickback-statute medical-marketing statutory-interpretation | Whether paying a healthcare marketer a commission when a physician independently makes a patient referral and receives none of the compensation qualif… |
| 25-390 | Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-02 | GVR | circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv… | |
| 25-387 | Anita Louise Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability device-adulteration food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-fraud patient-disclosure surgical-instruments | In what world do physicians have to disclose to patients that their surgical procedure will be performed with previously used surgical instruments in … |
| 25A42 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | agency-relationship criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud official-act public-official | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6965 | Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on agency guidance issued after the alleged conduct, especiall… |
| 24-6781 | Saud A. Alessa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-tax-code criminal-liability due-process evidence-preclusion tax-law willfulness | Whether the district court can preclude a defendant from presenting evidence about the complexity in the civil tax code to defend against the governme… |
| 24-841 | David W. Suetholz v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability deliberate-ignorance mens-rea physician-prosecution prescribing-standards statutory-interpretation | 1. Does a deliberate ignorance instruction in a physician prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) that incorporates an objective yet "ambiguous" standard… |
| 24-6364 | Cedric Cromwell v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act indian-tribes official-right sovereign-immunity | Prior to the case at bar, there had never been a single appellate decision in the Hobbs Act's 78-year history, published or unpublished, extending cri… |
| 24-5557 | Michael Avenatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a… |
| 24-5388 | John Joseph Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure separate-offenses statutory-interpretation | I.IF A PERSON IS HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR AN OFFENSE, COMMITTED BT ANOTHER, UNDER A "REASONABLE AND FORESEEABLE ACTS" ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY STATUTE,… |
| 24-101 | John E. Cassidy v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-liability due-process firearm-licensing firearms home-possession interstate-travel licensing residence second-amendment | John Cassidy legally purchased common firearms in Texas and carried them to Massachusetts as part of his move to the state in 2010. 1. What type of '… |
| 23-7797 | Nicholas Brodigan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-liability force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-elements | The Circuits have confused the categorical analysis—which examines only statutory elements—with the contextually distinct rule that an aider and abett… |
| 23-7459 | Alan Troy Houser v. Stephen Buzas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 accomplice-liability civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process failure-to-intervene standing | Question not identified. |
| 23-1064 | Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2024-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment criminal-liability due-process imprisonment judicial-legislation state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction sudden-quarrel-provocation | Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, Petitioner, imprisoned under a sentence imposed by a Nebraska Court, upon convictions of … |
| 23-794 | John Pacilio and Edward Bases v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment 35-usc-101 brown-vs-board civil-rights commodities-trading criminal-liability dodd-frank due-process fraud-statutes free-speech prosecutorial-discretion spoofing | The question presented is whether spoofing violates the federal fraud statutes where a trader places a genuine, valid, fully executable order. |
| 23-6133 | Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination | Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate crime(s), false imprisonment, racial discrimination, persecution, emotional distress, and… |
| 22-7754 | Maurice Hunt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power | I. Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under the Commerce Clause (1505 U.S.C.) To Enact Statutes With the Intent That A Ton Page In Convic… |
| 22-1152 | Najam Azmat v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-535 criminal-activity criminal-liability department-of-justice equal-justice immunity misprision-of-felony official-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Does the Department of Justice have an obligation to charge the prosecutors and Federal Agents if they engage in criminal activity during the cours… |
| 22-7537 | Jacqueline Anderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-115 criminal-liability federal-activities federal-officials ninth-circuit-interpretation private-contractors protective-security-officer statutory-interpretation | Are private contractors federal "official[s]" for purposes of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 115? |
| 22-6634 | Rafael Espino v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness | The majority of federal statutes require a defendant to act "knowingly" to incur criminal liability, meaning that the defendant must have actual knowl… |
| 22-6554 | Adrian Gordon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c conspiracy-theory crimes-of-violence criminal-liability gun-enhancement pinkerton-liability racketeering vicar-statute | Are Instructions under Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) appropriate for crimes of violence in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C. § 195… |
| 22-6340 | Ramon Simpson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability custodial-interrogation death-penalty fifth-amendment jury-instructions kidnapping miranda-rights | 1. Does a conviction for aiding and abetting kidnapping resulting in death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1) and 2, require proof that the aide… |
| 22-6194 | Jordan Huff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | 1. Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is a double-barreled crime that, at least in the context of aiding and abetting, requires proof both of a defendant's acti… |
| 22-382 | Yolanda Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | claims-extrapolation criminal-liability expert-testimony extrapolation lay-testimony medical-necessity medicare-fraud | 1. Medicare reimburses healthcare providers who provide home-health services to qualifying Medicare patients. Congress requires a physician to certify… |
| 22-5076 | Holli Womack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | Because this Court's recent pronouncement in Ruan v. United States, 20-1410 applies to 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) prosecutions involving health care profes… |
| 21-1008 | Andres Mencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care | For more than a decade, the civil standard of care established for the practice of medicine has been utilized by federal prosecutors in criminal prose… |
| 21-6834 | In Re Hosea Jackson | 2022-01-13 | Denied | IFP | acquittal aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hobbs-act insufficient-evidence jeopardy judicial-precedent | 1. Whether judicial precedent concerning double jeopardy defines an acquittal to encompass any ruling that the prosecutions proof is insufficient to e… | |
| 21-876 | John G. Williams, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability due-process general-verdict jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-sufficiency wire-fraud yates-rule | Given Stromberg v. California, Yates v. United States, and Griffin v. United States, whether this Court has clearly established that a jury's verdict … |
| 21-6212 | Anthony De La Torriente v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation | The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i… |
| 21-642 | Jehu Hand v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability disclosure-requirements hype regulatory-interpretation resale-of-shares rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-law stock-fraud stock-price-crash total-mix-of-information | Can criminal liability under Securities Exchange Act Rule 10b-5 lie when the "total mix" of information includes a warning that the public disclosure … |
| 21-6073 | John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant | (1) Given that Due Process requires that a guilty plea be "knowing and intelligent," when a pro se defendant seeks to plead guilty to a death-eligible… |
| 21-6054 | Benjamin Koziol v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | A. The Ninth Circuit has placed itself in conflict with several other circuits by criminalizing any baseless threat to sue as Hobbs Act extortion. Thi… |
| 21-5485 | Yamilet Diaz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-kickback conspiracy criminal-liability due-process federal-health-care government-burden-of-proof intended-victim jury-instructions medicare-fraud | I. Whether jury instructions, which require that the government prove a defendant knew the crimes were against the United States and involved a federa… |
| 21-192 | Gregory S. Simpson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-and-abetting contraband criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea mens-rea statutory-construction | 1. Is it a constitutional due process violation for Petitioner's guilty plea to distribution of indecent images to be accepted based on a theory that … |
| 21-81 | Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. | Alabama | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal | 1. Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery wherein said order wa… |
| 20-1409 | Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity | 1. May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely… |
| 20-1410 | Xiulu Ruan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (5) | controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation | A physician otherwise authorized to prescribe controlled substances may be convicted of unlawful distribution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) if his presc… |
| 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… |
| 20-7318 | Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-03-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties | 1. Whether an appellate court must apply the standard laid out in this Court's decision in Jackson v. Virginia to determine whether the State has disp… |
| 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… |
| 20-6438 | Hector D. Molina v. Robert W. Fox, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process fair-trial gang-conspiracy habeas-corpus natural-and-probable-consequences premeditated-murder | Whether conviction for premeditated murder committed by others while the defendant was incarcerated based on the natural and probable consequences of … |
| 20-6178 | William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization | Question not identified. |
| 20-6122 | Jerome Capelton v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing | 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-6050 | James Anthony Martin v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-liability direct-appeal due-process federal-law legal-interpretation massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court supreme-court-decisions supreme-judicial-court | 1. Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court misinterpreted federal law in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on dir… |
| 20-5894 | Jorge Eduardo Nava v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-liability criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof unrelated-offense | Nava's federal Guideline sentencing range for his cocaine convictions was increased by 11 to 16 years' imprisonment based on the judge's finding by on… |
| 20-5649 | David Blaszczak v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | GVR | Amici (1)IFP | conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 | 1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" and a "thing of value" belonging to the regulatory agency such that its di… |
| 20-5336 | Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley | Delaware | 2020-08-12 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct | 1. Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution? 2. Must a plaintiff prove the facts of the Case in the Complai… |
| 19-8914 | Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind | Principle of strict statutory construction requires that term "fear" should not be construed broadly to include any non-violent acts of "economic loss… |
| 19-8807 | Cassandra Cean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment | Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat… |
| 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… |
| 19-7775 | Rande Brian Isabella v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step | Whether if was prejudicial error for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by disreg… |
| 19-7536 | James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t… |
| 19-7206 | Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime | Question not identified. |
| 19-7040 | Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings | Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r… |
| 19-6797 | Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure | Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not … |
| 19-6490 | Ali Al-Maqablh v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review capta capta-compliance child-abuse-reporting civil-immunity civil-rights criminal-liability due-process federal-funding immunity immunity-statute kentucky-law misdemeanor-prosecution | 1) Whether CAPTA -based immunity falls within the narrow exception to the rule against interlocutory appeals and whether it meets the standards under … |
| 19-5910 | Benjamin Carpenter v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights complicity constitutional-issue criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process error-analysis indictment jury-instructions standing supreme-court-review unchorged-crime | Can Criminal Liability for a charged offense be based upon the Defendant's complicity in an offense which is clearly distinct from any charged offense… |
| 19-5631 | Joe Fernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's de… |
| 18-9761 | John Givens v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability | Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder, which allows a criminal defendant to be convicted of felony murder when the d… |
| 18A1342 | Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso and Michael Marr v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | bid-rigging criminal-liability due-process jury-trial per-se-rule sherman-antitrust | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1527 | Rattan Nath v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-06-11 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-liability due-process equal-protection ordinance-enforcement property-rights racial-discrimination revenue-generation selective-enforcement takings vague-ordinance | Can New Jersey courts provide cover to racial discrimination by imposing strict criminal liability—even when there is no public nuisance or any compro… | |
| 18-9596 | Marc Groah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | campfire campfire-restrictions criminal-citation criminal-liability due-process fair-notice federal-property fire-regulations national-park-service notice park-regulations | I. No section of the United States Code nor provision of the Code of Federal Regulations states that fires are prohibited on Rodeo Beach. Did Marc Gro… |
| 18-9425 | Kevin Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states | I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense? II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-8672 | Jack Holden v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud | 1. When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do cour… |
| 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… |
| 18-6075 | Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas | Texas | 2018-09-21 | Denied | IFP | adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review | This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a S… |
| 18-6004 | Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university | civil prosecution? 2. Is having sex without divulging an infected partner's HIV status considered attempted murder? 3.Is Yale University considered a … |
| 18-5079 | Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California | California | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | 1. Did the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violate the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth, … |