| 25-7134 |
Martin Chavez-Zarate v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-04-01 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 compassionate-release immigration-status noncitizen-rights sentence-reduction-programs sentencing-disparity |
The circuits are split on whether courts can consider the fact that a noncitizen cannot participate in programs that would reduce their sentence or ar… |
| 25-6240 |
Joel Contreras-Aguilar v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-25 |
Pending |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process immigration-status ineffective-assistance strickland-standard |
Has the State of Texas courts undermined presently established federal law in regards to the disclosure of immigration status of defendants in crimina… |
| 24-7428 |
Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Gavin Newsom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
employer-mandate false-claims-act honest-services-fraud immigration-status medicaid-fraud rico-act |
Whether federal funds for Medicaid (42 U.S.C. § 1396b) were swindled to subsidize California Senate Bill No. 184 (2021-2022 Reg. Sess.); Stats. 2022, … |
| 24-7176 |
Miriam Pope v. Chetan Patel, fka Hitesh Patel |
Alabama |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law discovery-rights due-process immigration-status undocumented-persons |
1. Does a statutory rule of civil procedure. Whether- state of federal allowing for a discovery period, wherein the defendant is denied same, violate … |
| 23-7222 |
Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), the Government must–in order to separate wrongful acts from innocent acts–offer direct evidence … |
| 23-16 |
Axel Rietschin v. Dominika Rietschin |
Washington |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-court civil-procedure due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-status marriage-proceedings non-immigrant-aliens state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Can a State civil Court assert jurisdiction in private matters over non-immigrant aliens admitted temporarily under 8 U.S.C. § 1184? |
| 22-6411 |
Granville Ritchie v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-immigrant capital-penalty capital-punishment constitutional-rights equal-protection immigration-status impartial-jury jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct unconstitutional-conditions |
Does the United States Constitution prohibit a prosecutor from suggesting to a capital penalty jury that the defendant, as a foreigner and an immigran… |
| 22-537 |
Ramy Eid Zaki Hakim v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process evidentiary-hearing government-inducement government-promise guilty-plea immigration-status judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal |
When Can a Defendant, Induced to Enter a Guilty Plea by the Government's Promise to Assist the Defendant with His Immigration Status, Move to Withdraw… |
| 20-8346 |
Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191
(2019) — when it omitted the knowledge of immigration status… |
| 19-8789 |
Susana E. Verduzco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process executive-power federalism immigration-status obstruction-of-justice racial-discrimination state-sovereignty |
I. Do the U.S. Constitution and federal law(s) grant Mr.'s Donald Trump and William Barr, the absolute power to order, allow or strong-arm a state to … |
| 19-7345 |
Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review |
DID THE FIFTH CIRUIT*S OPINION CONFLICT WITH IT'S OWN PRECEDENT
IN ROJAS V. RICHARDSON REGARDING THE PREJUDICICAL NATURE OF A
PARTY'S IMMIGRATION STAT… |
| 19-5402 |
Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason |
Washington |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter |
Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the previous trial court proceedings, by ignoring the 2016 findings i… |
| 18-1217 |
Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation |
Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the FHA against a l… |
| 18-7550 |
Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status |
This petition presents a request for error correction. The Ninth Circuit held that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against Petitione… |
| 18-7213 |
Akash Dixit v. Christopher Brasher, Judge, Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial Circuit |
Georgia |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure attorney civil-rights divorce-proceeding due-process family fraud immigration immigration-status international-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct service-of-process standing unethical visa void-judgment |
If the unethical conduct by a presiding judge is brought to the notice of the appellate courts, should they appellate courts disregard the unethical c… |
| 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 … |