maritime-jurisdiction
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-222 | Victor Everette Silvers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-notice maritime-jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Certain federal criminal offenses under Title 18 of the United States Code, including under § 1(b) (murder), § 1113 (attempted murder or manslaughter)… |
| 24-7291 | John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-intent federal-crime intent-element maritime-jurisdiction property-theft statutory-interpretation | Whether a person acts with "intent to steal or purloin" for purposes of the felony offense in 18 U.S.C. § 661 whenever he knowingly takes and carries … |
| 23-38 | David Anthony Newbold, et al. v. Kinder Morgan SNG Operator, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction navigable-waters navigation-servitude ordinary-high-water-mark takings terrestrial-vegetation-test | This case raises a critical issue concerning the Fifth Circuit limiting the federal navigation servitude to the permanent channel of navigable waters,… |
| 22-6587 | Vernon White v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of "special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t… |
| 20-6414 | Daniel Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | In an 18 U.S.C. § 113 prosecution, does the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they "work at a United States prison" contravene… |
| 20-6 | William Burke v. Progressive Gulf Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial insurance insurance-claim legal-manipulation maritime-jurisdiction maritime-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment | This case involves a simple insurance claim to Progressive Gulf Insurance made by William Burke when his boat sank in January 2018. Progressive manipu… | |
| 19-6084 | Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle | (1.)Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the U.S.A. by implication given… |