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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…