extortion
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-756 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h… |
| 24-7150 | Oscar Williams, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-conviction extortion federal-statute u.s.c.-section-2251 u.s.c.-section-875 | WHETHER THE PRODUCTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BY THE ALLEGED VICTIMS SUPPORTS A CONVICTION UNDER TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 2251(a)? WHETHER PETITIONER, O… |
| 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to the case at bar, there had never been a single appellate decision in the Hobbs Act's 78-year history, published or unpublished, extending cri… |
| 24-5772 | Stephen Sewalk v. Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy-stay due-process erisa extortion hobbs-act settlement-agreement | Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit sanction a violation of Petitioners' due process rights (as well as sanction violations of Bank… |
| 23-6129 | Jarmaine Carter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of "extortion" under United States Sentencin… |
| 22-1190 | Lavelle Hatley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony | Under the mandated categorical approach, a prior conviction falls within the Armed Career Criminal Act's ("ACCA") definition of "violent felony" only … |
| 22-7613 | Khawaja Muhammad Farooq v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process extortion first-amendment press press-rights voluntary-plea | 1. Does the First Amendment for a Journalist or member of the press forbid the taking and publishing pictures of an extorted ex girlfriend? 2. Would … |
| 22-5913 | John Berman v. Kristin Draper | District of Columbia | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-interpretation continuity extortion fund-freezing hj-standard judicial-review legal-standard ongoing-entity predicate-acts regular-way-of-doing-business rico rico-continuity | 1. Does the DC Circuit 's statement on RICO continuity directly contradict the HJ standard: "the threat of continuity may be established by showing… |
| 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… |
| 21-5081 | James Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | IFP | campaign-contributions evans-v-united-states explicit-quid-pro-quo extortion hobbs-act hobbs-act-extortion honest-services-fraud official-right overrule quid-pro-quo under-color-of-official-right | 1. In McCormick v. United States, 500 U.S. 257 (1991), this Court held that a conviction for extorting a campaign contribution "under color of officia… |
| 20-935 | Anne Richards, et al. v. Sam Olens, et al. | Georgia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction obstruction-of-justice rico-act rule-of-law | 1. Whether the total breakdown of Georgia's justice system —in which the state never responded to documented allegations of fraud, obstruction, briber… |
| 20-6447 | Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation | Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by inti midation . . . or . . . by extortion.… |
| 20-5620 | Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure extortion hobbs-act jury-instructions robbery | The Hobbs Act defines extortion, in relevant part, as requiring the wrongful use of violence or fear in order to induce a person to consent to part wi… |
| 20-269 | In Re Barbara Stone | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-enterprise due-process ex-parte-judgment extortion fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-stripping whistleblower-protection writ-of-prohibition | QUESTION I. Should a Writ of Prohibition be issued to the 11th Circuit and Joan Lenard, a federal district court judge in the Southern District of Fl… | |
| 20-60 | Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official | (1) Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, un… |
| 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… |
| 19-1409 | Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California | California | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity | In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f… |
| 19-8240 | Richard Valentini v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction criminal-statute extortion hobbs-act personal-gain property-deprivation property-transfer statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-transfer | 1) Does a conviction for violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1951(b)(2) require not only that a victim be deprived of his or her property, but a… |
| 19-7661 | Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) | I. May The Second Circuit Court; Of Appeals Determine That The'Underlying Offense Of Hobbs Act Extortion? Threatening Physical Violence In Furtheranc… |
| 19-6842 | Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit court… |
| 19-5888 | David Tkhilaishvili v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party | 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with multiple decisions of this Court, that the government may sustain a Hobbs Act extorti… |
| 19-5853 | Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings | I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. … |
| 19-176 | R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act | Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 18-9747 | Glenn Damond v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bills-of-credit civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion financial-instrument fraud fraud-on-court judicial-function judicial-misconduct natural-rights plea-agreement trespassing | 1. Is it constitutional for the trial court to disguise an investment instrument into a criminal plea agreement, use it to extort the rights of an am… |
| 18-7763 | Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip | Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial Whether Awarding VERAIVSIP to others in MDA and even in my own office, and not awarding it to me, is okay or even leg… |
| 18-892 | Mark N. Kirsch v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights coercion due-process extortion extortion-statute property-transfer racketeering-act racketeering-conspiracy scheidler-precedent scheidler-v-now sekhar-precedent transferable-property union-contract | Whether pressuring a construction contractor to enter into a union contract meets the definition of generic extortion such that a racketeering act pre… |
| 18-6566 | Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), separate opinions by Justice Thomas and Justice Breyer questioned whether Euans v. United States, … |
| 18-6269 | Matthew Clayton Lloyd v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence extortion force-clause intimidation johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states physical-force sentencing-review weapon-enhancement | I.Is federal bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which can be accomplished by "intimidation" or "extortion" a crime of violence as defined … |
| 18-5408 | Norberto Serna v. California | California | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity | I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 18-5194 | Teofil Brank v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation | Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… |
| 18-5083 | Rahman Fulton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation | Petitioner comes forth with Question base under Graham v. United States ; U.S., No. 16-6308, friend of the Court brief filed 10/28/16. To Be Held ThAb… |