marijuana

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6326 Eric Lebron Burney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure By April of 2019 both the state of Tennessee and the federal government excluded low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) marijuana from the definition …
23-5806 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
23-5828 Raquel Rivera v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substances-act drug-prosecution farm-bill hemp hemp-classification marijuana marijuana-definition possession-with-intent-to-distribute thc-concentration thc-content Whether, in a possession of marijuana with intent to distribute prosecution, the government is required to prove as an element that the substance is m…
23-5605 Alfred John McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history drug-quantity due-process evidence-standard hemp marijuana procedural-fairness relevant-conduct 1. Whether McDonald's right to due process was violated when the drug quantity attributed to McDonald was based in part on vague ledgers, unrebutted e…
22-7864 Tommy Lee Hubbard, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process federal-courts hemp legal-interpretation marijuana marijuana-classification thc-threshold Can the federal courts rely exclusively upon circumstantial evidence to decide that a marijuana substance is illegal, when the circumstances surroundi…
22-6248 Paul Tay v. Michelle Diane Tilley Nichols, et al. Oklahoma 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-commandeering anti-commandeering-doctrine controlled-substances-act election-activities federal-preemption indian-treaties marijuana marijuana-regulation state-jurisdiction treaty-law Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt State consent to use, possession, cultivation, processing, transportation, and sale of marijuana and any of…
21-7410 In Re Eduardo Pineda 2022-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-liberty due-process ex-parte-watkins fifth-amendment fourth-amendment gonzales-v-raich habeas-corpus liberty marijuana marijuana-prohibition Eduardo Pineda petitions for writ of habeas corpus from Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. "In the early day…
19-7221 Anthony Gray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,probable-cause,search-and-seizure,ma marijuana probable-cause recreational-marijuana search-and-seizure vehicle-search I. Does the faint smell of marijuana in a car, alone, give local police probable cause to search the car for contraband under the Fourth Amendment? I…