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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-7154 | Jesse Taber v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-04-07 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession right-to-keep-and-bear-arms second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment, either on its face or as applied. |
| 25-7089 | Jarious Dwayne Fletcher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights facial-challenge felon-in-possession second-amendment strict-scrutiny | Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 25-7076 | Rickey Benson v. Sheryl H. Lipman, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-7010 | Michael Conner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-11 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals with convictions for non-violent offenses. |
| 25-6983 | Marquez Dante Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-09 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner. |
| 25-6952 | Mickey Doster v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner. |
| 25-6896 | Dylan Jerelle Pettyjohn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit facial-challenge felon-in-possession-of-firearm second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit has held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is facially constitutional? |
| 25-6870 | Marcellus M. Cheatham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6868 | Ronald Sylvester Finney, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6429 | Georgiy Chipunov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats | In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove… |
| 25A410 | United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5423 | Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5357 | Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5193 | Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment due-process facial-challenge legislative-intent punitive-intent rule-59-motion | 1. If Texas declares. .. that the Act which they confined Petitioner under (after he completed his prison sentence) is "civil," but it is actually "c… |
| 25A36 | Jacqusyn Zechariah Grubb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(8) as-applied-challenge domestic-violence-restraining-order facial-challenge motion-to-dismiss second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5034 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri… |
| 24-1276 | California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl v. Stanislaus County, California | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge property-rights regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether a statute of limitations for facial constitutional challenges begins to run solely from the date of enactment, or whether each day of conti… | |
| 24-7398 | Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-433 | Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-17 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers | Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the private-nondelegation doctrine. |
| 24-5298 | Jose Rosado v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Rosado, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5126 | Michael J. Brillon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge As-Applied-Unconstitutionality Bruen bruen-decision constitutional-challenge conviction-review Due-Process facial-challenge Facial-Unconstitutionality Felons second-amendment | This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) rendered Mr.… |
| 24-5089 | Devonte Antonio Veasley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process facial-challenge firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which restricts the Second Amendment rights of all users of controlled substances, facially unconstitutional? |
| 23A985 | Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5111 | Jacob Webster, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis criminal-prosecution facial-challenge firearm-regulation new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association-v-brue overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine second-amendment united-states-v-stevens | 1. For facial challenges to a state prosecution on Second Amendment grounds, must a criminal defendant prove that no set of circumstances exist under … |
| 23-5095 | Marland Maynor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. First subsidiary question: Whether the plain-error standard … |
| 22-1104 | Shawn Talbot v. Louis Eric Johnson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process facial-challenge federal-court federal-rules jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations pleading-requirements standing | The United States District Court, District of Nevada lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 2-09- CR-0078, and 2-10 'CR-00520 for the reasons below: … |
| 22-7241 | Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah | Utah | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-6112 | Aakash A. Dalal v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-validity due-process facial-challenge salerno-test standing void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether litigants may bring facial constitutional challenges to laws without first successfully raising as-applied challenges? 2. Whether litigant… |
| 22-317 | Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law? 2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi… |
| 22-309 | City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance | The "equal terms" provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) states that "[n]o government shall impose or … |
| 22-5119 | Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as… |
| 21-7537 | Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas | Texas | 2022-04-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana | ISSUE ONE: Texas Penal Code §21.02 is Whether, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana unconstitutional on its face? ISSUE TWO: Whether a trial court has jur… |
| 21-6485 | R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services | Texas | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code | Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(o) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it is unconstit… |
| 21-658 | Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Texas | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite … |
| 19-8663 | Tesa Keith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-statute facial-challenge federal-courts federal-law plea-agreement procedural-challenge waiver | Whether facial challenges to a federal criminal statute may be waived by plea agreement? |
| 19-6100 | Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation | Nevada defines "child pornography" to include any depiction of a minor that "appeals to a shameful or morbid interest in the sexuality of the minor an… |
| 19-67 | United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11) | civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 18-9707 | Blair Cook v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-18 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine | The underlying question presented is: Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. This involves a… |
| 18-1317 | American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Amici (3) | article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 | 1. Did the Court of International Trade erroneously conclude that Algonquin controls the outcome of this action by failing to distinguish this facial … |
| 18-1096 | Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant | Calif. vexatious litigant law is unconstitutionally vague on its face. The language is unclear as to: (a) what is "litigation"; (b) what has or doesn'… | |
| 18-7967 | James Dalton Smith v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh… |
| 18-918 | John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987), this Court held that to maintain a facial challenge, a plaintiff must establish that "no set of… |
| 18-6739 | David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. | Tennessee | 2018-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection | I. Whether under Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015), inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal inje… |
| 18-6282 | Iseal Dixon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-316 | Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings | The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion… | |
| 18-5762 | Pedro Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-115 | Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below. The Complaint presents a detailed recitation of Plaintiffs' assertion… | |
| 18-83 | Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice | 1. Whether, in the context of a facial challenge to a federal-officer removal, a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, as … | |
| 18-43 | Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott | Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? |