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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-972 | United States v. Leopoldo Rivera-Valdes | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | constitutional-adequacy deportation due-process immigration-and-nationality-act in-absentia-proceedings notice-requirements | Whether service of a notice of the time and place for deportation proceedings, sent by certified mail to an alien's self-reported address, consistent … | |
| 25A675 | United States v. Leopoldo Rivera-Valdes | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | deportation due-process immigration-law notice-requirements removal-order statutory-notice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A391 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5494 | Donald A. Allen v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-08-28 | Denied | IFP | deportation due-process fourteenth-amendment fugitive-warrant judicial-process sentencing-delay | 1. Whether the State of New Jersey violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourtheenth Amendment by sentencing him more tha… |
| 25-5418 | In Re Kai Uwe Thier | 2025-08-20 | Denied | IFP | consular-relations deportation habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaty vienna-convention | WHETHER PETITIONER, A GERMAN CITIZEN AND AN ILLEGAL ALIEN, SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY SINCE 2002, IS ENTITLED… | |
| 24-6720 | Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment | DO THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AFFORD CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS AT LEAST THE SAME BURDEN OF PROOF FOR EXTRANEOUS OFFENS… |
| 24-5806 | Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Gentner F. Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | deportation habeas-corpus immigration-consequences in-custody-requirement ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky | 1. Whether Petitioner Satisfies the in-custody requirements of 2254 Petition when he continued to suffer consequences of deportation as a result of th… |
| 24-5333 | Jamal Mohammad Eleidy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver deportation illegal-sentence sentencing-condition statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Where the district court in sentencing a United States citizen imposes deportation as a supervised release condition, and 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) expressl… |
| 24-5281 | Alexander A. Fels v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights deportation due-process equal-protection immigration-law legal-status | 1) IS THE CURE STA ON 14 ARITODALS EQNERAL AGENC! ULU.d ) AN VREOEN DEVELOP MEST ANSWERING THE vst of MEOCHHE MALITVASA BY ALC THE RESIDES OF THE Ho v… |
| 23-7456 | Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1252b compelling-circumstances deportation deportation-order immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding minority-status noncitizen-status presumption-of-regularity statutory-interpretation | L. Whether the minority status of a noncitizen at the time an in absentia deportation order is issued falls among the compelling circumstances suffici… |
| 23-7324 | Danilo Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity | Following the grant of petitioner's section 2255 motion, the district court resentenced petitioner to discretionary life in this RICO gang case. This … |
| 23-7299 | In Re Devon Armond Gayles | 2024-04-24 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights deportation due-process immigration-law nationality-and-status non-citizen-status original-jurisdiction supreme-court-review treaties | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7286 | Francis Arthur v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment because the Government depor… |
| 23-1145 | Ojin Kim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response Waived | case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard | Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co… |
| 23-5732 | Wayne Harris v. Sergeant Stash, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights deportation due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malicious-prosecution racial-discrimination wrongful-conviction | Petitioner Wayne Harris was accused of selling drugs to a confidential informant following an investigation in Luzerne county Pennsylvania 2003 . The … |
| 23-5499 | Manuel De Jesus Del Cid Bran v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deportation discretionary-sentencing sentencing-commission supervised-release | A district court may not consider retribution when deciding whether to impose a term of supervised release. See Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct… |
| 23-5099 | Dustin Jolly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. … |
| 22-7330 | Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing | guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial… |
| 22-6250 | Matthew James Dury v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alias citizenship-status civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process immigration immigration-law legal-residency naturalization permanent-residency | NO United States Judge has the Authority to Order a Foreign Born Defendant to Violate United States Laws. No Non US Citizen Can serve Supervised Rele… |
| 22-5729 | Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes | Several states have or had statutes authorizing the early release of state prisoners with deportation orders to the United States Immigration and Natu… |
| 22-5554 | In Re Melvin T. Bell | 2022-09-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights deportation due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure mail-fraud personal-liberty subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether or not Mr. Bell is restrained of his personal liberty by virtue of a judgment or order of a district court in which that district court had… | |
| 21-7590 | Stephen Izuchukwu Onwuzulike v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Third Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights deportation due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction non-citizen-rights procedural-review standing takings | Intexpretation ofimmigration juristiction 1. Inconsistency towards Power o 1-130 application petition. 2 Due poe ation ouppsin poper appeppica to cr… |
| 21-7009 | Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictiveness | Question not identified. |
| 21-6751 | Rudy Mendoza v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights deportation due-process material-evidence materiality victim witness witness-testimony | 1. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROVIDE NOTICE TO A DEFENDANT PRIOR TO UNILATERALLY DEPORTING THE SOLE WITNESS AND SOLE ALLEGED VICTIM OF A PENDING CRI… |
| 21-6560 | Carlo Donato v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-6205 | Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law | In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni… |
| 21-5766 | Dionte Dortch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure deportation due-process firearm immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining rico-statute simple-possession | I WHETHER thE DUE PROCESS ClOUSE ANC THE SIth AMENdMENT PRotECTS ThE ACCUSEd FROM A PlEA of Guly To MatRial FActs Of SIMple PosSESSION OF CocaINe aNd … |
| 21-5524 | Miguel Andres Lara-Unzueta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1252 8-usc-1326 deportation deportation-proceeding due-process immigration-law judicial-review procedural-rights removable-alien | I. 1. Does a deportation proceeding deprive a removable alien of the opportunity for judicial review under 8 U.S.C. §1326(d)(2) where neither the IJ… |
| 21-5419 | Dilang Dat v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-plea deportation deportation-consequences due-process-advice immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-united-states strickland-test | Does trial counsel advising a criminal defendant that he "could" be deported for entering a guilty plea breach trial counsel's duty to give "clear and… |
| 20-1427 | Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Congress has made it a crime to engage in certain sexual acts with detainees who are "pending deportation." 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(… |
| 20-7390 | Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law | In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni… |
| 20-6657 | Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla… |
| 20-120 | Alfredo Juarez v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure deportation effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment | When there is no dispute that a guilty plea will trigger mandatory deportation pursuant to federal law, must defense counsel advise a noncitizen-defen… |
| 19-7830 | Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment | Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth … |
| 19-7445 | Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | ARE All StAtE PRiSONERS bEINg UN/Awfolly Held, If the eVideNCe UsED TO CONVICT THEM INVOlUED SheRiff DepaRrtment offciAls from ONE CoontyI SEARCHiNg S… |
| 19-7297 | Christopher J. Burton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment collateral-consequences criminal-justice criminal-procedure deportation due-process professional-assistance sexually-violent-predator strickland-v-washington voluntary-plea | 1) IN THIS CASE OF FIRST IMPRESSION, I ASK THIS COURT TO FINALLY DECIDE WHETHER THE NATURE OF CIVIL COMMITMENT, ITS PROCEDURAL SIMILARITY TO DEPORTATI… |
| 19-7008 | Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis | WHETHER DEPORTATION AUTHOMATICALLY ENDS AN IMMIGRANTS IMPOSED SUPERVISED RELEASE? IF COURT WAIVES COURT SUPERVISION UPON DEPORATION IS ALIEN "IN CU… |
| 19-645 | Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz | Arizona | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien | 1. Whether Respondent is categorically barred from establishing Strickland prejudice for a Padilla/Lee claim because, as an unauthorized alien, he is … |
| 19-638 | N. B. D. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services | Kentucky | 2019-11-18 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) | best-interests deportation federal-law homeland-security immigration immigration-law juvenile-protection predicate-findings special-immigrant-juvenile special-immigrant-juvenile-status state-court-jurisdiction state-courts | Whether federal law requires state courts of competent jurisdiction to make predicate findings for special immigrant juvenile status determinations up… |
| 19-6503 | Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal | Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje… |
| 19-6402 | Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings | A defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation or removal has a right under United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S… |
| 19-6353 | Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the general, residual phrase "takes any other action" in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6049 | Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment | Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted for the following Claims/Issues : 1, Whether fact of an Actual Loss Amount, which sets the m… |
| 19-294 | Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Relisted (2) | country-conditions deportation detention due-process ethnic-minorities immigration-court immigration-law removal-orders removal-proceedings suspension-clause torture torture-convention torture-protection | Petitioners are Iraqis with final orders of removal who lived for years or decades in the United States under orders of supervision, because Iraq woul… |
| 19-5571 | Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-5287 | Robert Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli… |
| 18-9618 | Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings | Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 18-9490 | Daniel George Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment criminal-prosecution deportation illegal-reentry immigration-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether an alien's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated in a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry following deportation, where the United … |
| 18-1432 | Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal | Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin… |
| 18-8998 | Juan Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process governmental-bad-faith governmental-misconduct harmless-error material-witness sixth-amendment witness-deportation | I. Whether a defendant must prove governmental bad faith to establish a compulsory process clause violation? II. Whether, if a showing of governmenta… |
| 18-8264 | Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported. Whether an appeal waiver is enf… |
| 18-6827 | Eric Williams v. New York | New York | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barber-v-page confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation good-faith-effort significant-public-benefit-parole sixth-amendment unavailability witness-testimony | At a retrial in a criminal case, New York prosecutors were permitted to introduce prior testimony of a witness from the first trial. The witness had b… |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5190 | Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the … |
| 18-5173 | Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay | 1. Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of a… |
| 18-5071 | Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | deportation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea knowing-and-voluntary language-barrier prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHERE THE EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD PLAINLY SHOWS IN ENGLISH THAT … |