knowledge-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23A1066 | Cox Communications, Incorporated, et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | contributory-infringement copyright-infringement internet-service-provider knowledge-standard secondary-liability willfulness | Whether a provider of online services can be subject to contributory-infringement liability by providing general internet services with mere knowledge… | |
| 23-752 | Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Second and Tenth Circuits, that a defendant may be held liable for contributor… |
| 22-1020 | H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s "knowledge" element requires "actual knowledge," as this Court held, or "intent to defraud," as the Ninth Circuit held on rem… |
| 22-6634 | Rafael Espino v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness | The majority of federal statutes require a defendant to act "knowingly" to incur criminal liability, meaning that the defendant must have actual knowl… |
| 22-593 | United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | GVR | Relisted (5) | civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-7822 | Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 | Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 21-6049 | Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 20-6730 | Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan… |
| 20-6481 | Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea | The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea: (1) to e… |
| 20-6405 | Joshua Cato v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc… |
| 20-127 | Douglas Jason Way v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | drug-analogue federal-regulation harmless-error knowledge knowledge-standard mcfadden-precedent ninth-circuit rebuttal state-law state-law-compliance | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals contradicted the holding of McFadden v. United States 576 U.S. 186 (2015) by ruling irrelevant petitione… |
| 19-8340 | Christopher Scruggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-1149 | UPMC, et al. v. United States, ex rel. J. William Bookwalter, III, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | ambiguity civil-penalty civil-procedure false-claims-act knowledge knowledge-standard pleading-standard regulatory-ambiguity regulatory-provision scienter treble-damages | Whether a plaintiff plausibly alleges scienter—that a defendant knowingly submitted false claims—when the plaintiff does not allege any facts to sugge… |
| 18-7296 | Demetrio Cisneros v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness | Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute knowledge of the specific contraband being imported? |
| 18-7050 | Javier Portillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency | Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate and whether, when the entirety of facts presented at trial was considered, there was … |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |
| 18-235 | Ventura Content, Ltd. v. Motherless, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | actual-knowledge apparent-knowledge copyright-infringement copyright-liability digital-millennium-copyright-act dmca-safe-harbor knowledge-standard online-service-provider repeat-infringer repeat-infringer-policy repeat-infringers termination-policy volitional-conduct | Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, where an Online Service Provider's (OSP) user uploads over 300,000 pieces of conte… | |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c… |