| 25-6851 |
Jose David Payba Lacayo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
exclusive-economic-zone extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act |
Petitioner, a foreign national found on a boat within 200 miles of Colombia, was prosecuted for two marijuana offenses under the Maritime Drug Law Enf… |
| 25-6453 |
Rai Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction felonies-clause foreign-nationals high-seas vessel-nationality |
Whether 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) exceeds Congress's authority under the Felonies Clause by authorizing the United States to exercise criminal jurisd… |
| 23-6378 |
Gilmer Diaz-Jaramillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause due-process felony-on-high-seas foreign-nationals interlocutory-review maritime-drug-enforcement maritime-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie… |
| 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… |
| 21-1198 |
Robert Dexter Weir, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-power extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause foreign-flagged-vessels foreign-nationals high-seas piracy-clause united-states-constitution |
Whether congress's power to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas extends to conduct committed by foreign nationals on a foreign-flagg… |
| 21-7209 |
Juan Alfonso Nuno-Velasco v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights consular-agreement discretionary-decision due-process foreign-national-rights foreign-nationals immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge standing treaty-interpretation |
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| 21-1156 |
Rodric David v. Tony Kazal, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-stalking-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-application first-amendment foreign-nationals free-speech ninth-circuit standing territorial-jurisdiction |
Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly disregard this Court's holding in Agency for Int? Dev. v. All. for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc., 140 S. Ct. 2082, 2086 (… |
| 20-888 |
Abdul Razak Ali v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-rights detention due-process foreign-nationals guantanamo guantanamo-detention habeas-corpus military-commissions |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Constitution applies to the detentions of foreign nationals at Guantánamo. |
| 19-7978 |
Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness |
First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had … |
| 19-6938 |
Gabriel Garcia-Solar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congress-power congressional-power constitutional-interpretation extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause felony-definition foreign-nationals high-seas maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act nexus-requirement nexus-to-us sentencing-discretion |
1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70503 et. sec., which criminalizes foreign drug trafficking offenses committed aboard ve… |
| 19-6009 |
John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability diplomacy diplomatic-immunity extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals foreign-sovereigns human-rights international-diplomacy international-law original-jurisdiction self-executing standing treaty |
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| 19-6010 |
John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
citizenship civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process foreign-nationals jurisdiction residency standing state-treaties subject-of-foreign-nation |
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| 19-6011 |
John Robert Demos v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-20 |
Closed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process foreign-nationals foreign-policy immigration jurisdiction protected-persons standing statutory-provisions |
1. DOES THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TAVE "CRIGiNAI JURISdICTION" IN CASES INVOVING ARENS, FOREIGNERS, NATIONAIS, I SUGJECTS ? |
| 18-5197 |
Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit |
Georgia |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation |
1. Did the state court of last resort err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the Respondent in the US, putting the … |