| 25-682 |
Nikolas S. Casillas v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fair-notice military-justice sexual-assault statutory-liability yates-error |
A "Yates" error occurs when a general verdict is supportable on one theory of liability but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which theory … |
| 25-633 |
Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging-document due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment |
Under the Fifth Amendment right to due process and the Sixth Amendment right to fair notice, may a conviction be affirmed as legally sufficient based … |
| 25-5306 |
In Re Alexander Kawleski |
|
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce |
1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich ,
545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the
original limits desig… |
| 25-5139 |
In Re Michael Stevens |
|
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce |
1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich ,
545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the
original limits desig… |
| 25-5032 |
In Re John Alan Conroy |
|
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce |
1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designa… |
| 24-7408 |
In Re Stephen Brewer |
|
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce |
1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designat… |
| 24-7328 |
In Re William Hopmeier |
|
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce |
1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich ,
545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the
original limits desig… |
| 24-7321 |
In Re Adolfo Herrera-Sustaita |
|
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution intrastate-activity |
Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designated … |
| 24-7110 |
In Re Phillip James Colwell |
|
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography-prevention commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce |
Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designated … |
| 24-1077 |
Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew |
Nevada |
2025-04-15 |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-protections due-process excessive-fines fair-notice gore-guideposts punitive-damages |
The Constitution requires that "a person receive fair notice not only of the conduct that will subject him to punishment, but also of the severity of … |
| 24-878 |
Rachel Breaux v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, et al. |
Louisiana |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-court equitable-factors fair-notice judicial-estoppel |
1. Where Petitioner's duty to report her claim to the bankruptcy court was unclear and unsettled, would application of judicial estoppel to her claims… |
| 24-127 |
The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor |
Alabama |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Alabama's civil wrongful death statute, codified in 1872, imposes civil liability, including punitive damages, for the "death of a minor child . . … |
| 23-6393 |
Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing |
This case raises pressing issues of significant importance: whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery inva… |
| 23A507 |
Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure agency-discretion evidentiary-standards fair-notice marketing-denial regulatory-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23A421 |
Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split evidentiary-standards fair-notice fda-regulation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5833 |
Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and t… |
| 23-328 |
Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. |
Alaska |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-taking due-process environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substance strict-liability takings water-system |
1. Whether the Alaska Supreme Court's imposition
of strict liability violated petitioners' right to due process,
when the State had taken the position… |
| 23A121 |
Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. |
Alaska |
2023-08-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane |
1. This case presents the question whether the Due Process Clause forbids the imposition of retroactive liability for conduct in violation of a statut… |
| 23-29 |
CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness |
1. Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause that it is barred from engaging in certain speech under a state consumer protection … |
| 22-1241 |
Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps |
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 empowers Respondent Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to seek, and district courts to impose, putatively … |
| 22-7332 |
In Re Michael Paul Martin |
|
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice federal-criminal-offense gonzales-v-raich interstate-commerce |
1. Under Title 18, U.S.C. § 2251(a), is there proper Fair Notice, as set forth by this Court in Fasulo v United States, 272 U.S. 620 (1926); that a cr… |
| 22-7089 |
In Re William Hopmeier |
|
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggregate-effects-doctrine child-pornography congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice gonzales-v-raich interstate-commerce |
1. Under Title 18, U.S.C. § 2251(a), is there proper Fair Notice, as set forth by this Court in Fasulo v United States, 272 U.S. 620 (1926); that a cr… |
| 22-672 |
Northstar Wireless, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-penalty due-process fair-notice fcc small-business small-business-regulation spectrum-auction |
In this case , the FCC has imposed nine-figure
penalties without supplying the most basic component
of due process: "fair notice of conduct that is … |
| 22-447 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California |
California |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law |
1. Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq., and False Advertising… |
| 21-1559 |
Sharon Powell, as Executrix of the Estate of William David Powell, et al. v. Jennifer Snook, as Executrix for the Estate of Patrick Snook |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fair-notice fourth-amendment qualified-immunity totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
1. When the unconstitutionality of an officer's conduct is obvious, must the court, in addressing the "clearly established law" prong of a qualified i… |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Would a person of ordinary intelligence have had fair notice that he was subject to the aggravated penalties for mandated reporters? |
| 20-7838 |
Edward M. Vargas, Sr. v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fair-notice indictment jury-conviction jury-instructions ninth-circuit |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied fair notice of the charges against him despite t… |
| 20-1002 |
Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity |
Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety… |
| 20-986 |
Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretatio… |
| 20-676 |
J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity |
I.
Emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability. The Ninth
Circuit granted qualified immunity on J.P.s First and Fourteenth
Amendment claim… |
| 20-6022 |
Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement |
This case presents a clear circuit split over whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when, after an Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) pr… |
| 20-290 |
Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission |
A. How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment?
B. I… |
| 20-7 |
George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies appeal-instructions blight-citation civil-procedure due-process fair-notice local-government municipal-law notice-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should appeal instructions have been included with the subject, February 14th, 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to the Plaintif… |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-7737 |
Charles Wolfe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness |
When the "advice of counsel" is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense … |
| 19-7689 |
Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Did Tennessee decisions applying the facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance, not handed down until after Sutton committed his ca… |
| 19-6852 |
Matthew Tassone v. Zephynia Tassone |
Ohio |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1257a collateral-judgment constitutional-notice due-process extrinsic-fraud fair-notice fraud judicial-procedure state-action |
1. Are the Due Process requirements of the Constitution of the United States violated when the state defrauds a litigant of fair notice and a meaningf… |
| 19-412 |
Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. |
Maine |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law |
Whether, when an appellate court overturns its own controlling precedent, constitutional guarantees of due process require remand to the trial court f… |
| 19-5819 |
Arthur Rathburn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness |
I. DID THE GOVERNMENT FAIL TO PRESENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTIONS BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT?
II. WAS PETITIONER RATHBURN DENIED HI… |
| 19-5294 |
Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing |
1. Whether the Fed. R as a matter of course' Responsive pleading is filed can be arbitrarily disregarded and denied?Cxim. P. 15(a) Motion 's right to … |
| 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… |
| 18-9427 |
Willie Anthony Saxby, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution dual-sovereignty due-process fair-notice federal-jurisdiction federal-state-jurisdiction pending-charges state-jurisdiction supervised-release |
Did the Federal Government violate the "Doctrines of Dual Sovergeinship" which exist between Federal and State jurisdictions for prosecuting an "alleg… |
| 18-9215 |
Dale Giles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit fair-notice in-forma-pauperis judicial-process opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness supreme-court-precedent |
DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO FAIR NOTICE AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD BY THE COURT'S PROCESS O… |
| 18-1403 |
Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether Petitioner was denied Due Process when the Respondents revoked his license by operation of law without adequate procedural protections, con… |
| 18-9001 |
Steven P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud |
In Louisiana, the only body of law regulating state campaign finance expenditures (a) a political campaign The holding of a public office is vaguely d… |
| 18-1177 |
Bradford G. Peters, as Executor of the Estate of Andrew J. McKelvey, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law fair-notice internal-revenue-code judicial-gap-filling phantom-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-law-exceptionalism tax-regulation treasury-delegation treasury-regulations |
Whether, or under what circumstances, the Judiciary may enforce an ambiguous provision of the Internal Revenue Code by filling a statutory gap, when C… |
| 18-8208 |
In Re Donivan Diaz |
|
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act |
1.) THE PETITIONER HEREBY AVENS THAT THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND/OR COMMITS PLAIN ERROR IN FLOUTING THE STATE BAR ACT, RULE… |
| 18-1115 |
Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura |
I. Are Petitioner's claims under the URA, the
Fifth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. §1983
barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion
and res judicata, despite… |
| 18-7923 |
Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change |
Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced… |
| 18-7881 |
Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea compulsory-process due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment motion-to-reopen-time rehearing-en-banc right-to-counsel rule-4(a)(6) sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE APPEALS COURT INFRINGE UPON PETITIONER'S FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BY DENYING PETITIONER A FAIR NOTICE OF THE COURT's ORDER DENYING A… |
| 18-7816 |
Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness |
Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-6740 |
Lena Lasher v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy |
Pennsylvania |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-actions due-process equal-protection fair-notice judicial-review license-revocation perjury pharmacy-board |
An important function of the Supreme Court is to resolve disagreements among lower courts about specific legal questions, especially with respect to c… |
| 18-451 |
Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. |
Hawaii |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing |
Phyllis Young, a retiree, rents three bedrooms in her family home using the name Aloha Bed & Breakfast to make ends meet. She welcomes everyone as gue… |
| 18-260 |
County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (3) |
clean-water-act fair-notice groundwater groundwater-contamination groundwater-regulation navigable-waters nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-pollution permit-requirements point-source point-source-pollution underground-injection |
1. Whether the CWA requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as … |
| 18-5043 |
Guy St. Amour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Title 49, United States Code, Section 46306 (b)(9), makes it a felony offense to knowingly "operat [e] an aircraft with a fuel tank or fuel system tha… |