drug-enforcement
24 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6314 | Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law | 1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei… |
| 25-6270 | Jhon Henry Alvarado-Valencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-waters maritime-law | Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig… |
| 25-5967 | Lynell Guyton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-act constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement due-process | 1. Did Congress violate the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution when it authorized the Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule control… |
| 24-7231 | Christian Leonardo Franco Posligua v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-enforcement extraterritorial-statute guilty-plea maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), does a district court have authority to make its "preliminary" determination of "jur… |
| 23-7637 | Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua, aka Nexon Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-interdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-limit law-enforcement maritime-drug-law maritime-law military-law-enforcement miranda-warnings sixth-amendment | WHETHER the jurisdictional limit contained in the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act relates to the legislative reach of the statute or whether it rela… |
| 23-5919 | Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review | Petitioner, WILKINSON OLOYEDE THOMAS, submits the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Fifth Circuit") failed to use the standard of review for pill mill … |
| 23-446 | Junjie Li v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the slight odor of marijuana coming from within a car stopped for a passenger's seatbelt violation, in a state where possession of one ounce o… |
| 22-1121 | Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power | 1. Whether Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has jurisdiction to enforce Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act? 2. Whether Food and Drug Administrat… |
| 22-7442 | Paulino Vasquez-Rijo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law stateless-vessels vessel-nationality | 1. Whether MDLEA §70502(d)(1)(C) is Unconstitutional Because Its Definition of "a Vessel Without Nationality," Provides for Foreign Vessels to Be Deem… |
| 22-6409 | Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law | Why do the courts of this country sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals who are chained to the steel decks of United States Coast Guar… |
| 22-43 | Program Administrator of the New Hampshire Controlled Drug Prescription Health and Safety Program v. Department of Justice | First Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-subpoena anti-commandeering commandeering drug-enforcement federalism healthcare-program prescription-drug-monitoring state-data state-official state-sovereignty | 1. Whether an administrative investigative subpoena issued under 21 U.S.C. §876 to a state official commanding her to act in her official capacity to … |
| 21-728 | Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality | The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7… | |
| 21-5492 | Marcus Phillips v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure drug-agent-testimony drug-enforcement expert-testimony first-impression legal-admissibility mental-acuity perceptive-ability witness-credibility | This court has not decided whether expert testimony about mental acuity is admissible to show a person's ability to observe and to act to exercise dom… |
| 20-7438 | Christopher Stegawski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction chronic-pain chronic-pain-treatment criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-enforcement due-process federal-prosecution medical-licensing medical-practice-standard medical-prescribing opioid-prescribing | # 1 - When pain of more than three months duration becomes chronic pain (Ohio definition) and dependence (ie. addiction) forms after three months of o… |
| 20-6545 | Michael Meadows v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice | I. Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence? II. Does the cumulative error doctrine exist and, if so, can errors to whic… |
| 20-5991 | Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated by Officer Windham by extending his detention of Reyes for over 20 minutes to allow for a canine to … |
| 20-5285 | Melvin Lee Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does probable cause to believe that a small, personal-use amount of drugs is present in a home automatically also provide probable cause to search the… |
| 19-7652 | Steven Craig Whyte v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire | Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent "drug experts" testifying regarding plain-English exc… |
| 19-6084 | Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle | (1.)Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the U.S.A. by implication given… |
| 18-8051 | Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-7000 | Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum senten… |
| 18-6482 | Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-374 | Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… | |
| 18-5702 | Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | IFP | article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | The parties to a case cannot manufacture federal subject-matter jurisdiction by stipulation. Nonetheless, the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.… |