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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1203 Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, do minors have pro se rights that can be asserted by their parents on their behalf based on a parent's fundamental right to…
23-6934 Calvin C. Freeman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness 1.) Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of, children "OR®' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative M…
22-5303 George Daniel McGavitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A).
21-8139 Duenta Grier v. Georgia Georgia 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability Was the Confrontation Clause violated when the State presented testimonial hearsay consisting of out-of-court statements to a government agent alleged…
20-8072 Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied IFP commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation 1. The enticement of minors over the internet is criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The First Circuit upheld the § 2422(b) conviction below based…
20-1375 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-01 GVR Amici (7)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights best-interests civil-rights constitutional-privacy constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-notification parental-rights When a court permits an unemancipated minor to have an abortion, may the State require that her parents be notified before the abortion occurs except …
20-555 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w…
19-7781 John Charles Fortner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u…
19-816 Kristina Box, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-consent parental-notification standing third-party-standing For decades Indiana has permitted a minor to have an abortion so long as she has parental consent or a bypass order from a juvenile court based on eit…
19-5198 Robert Rang v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Does a "substantial step" under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) [attempted coercion and enticement of a minor] require evidence of intended "interpersonal physica…
18-8050 Alvaun Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 A federal criminal statute this Court has not construed, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, prohibits wide-ranging conduct that facilitates, directly or indirectly, th…
18-5164 George Adrien Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this…