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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-6110 | Askari Danso MS Lumumba, fka Dale Lee Pughsley v. Jeffrey Kiser | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | first-amendment fourth-circuit inmate-correspondence overbreadth prison-regulation turner-balancing | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with this Court's decision in United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460 (2010), that a prison… |
| 24-5041 | John Maron Nassif v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-07-10 | Denied | IFP | capitol-buildings civil-rights criminal-prohibition demonstrating first-amendment free-speech overbreadth viewpoint-expression | At issue here is whether the First Amendment allows Congress to criminally prohibit viewpoint expression in the buildings that make up the seat of our… |
| 23-7535 | Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness | Whether A COA Should Issue Because Jurists Of Reason Could Debate Or Agree That Congress Could Did Not Authorize Federal Enforcement Of § 1591 To Pure… |
| 23-7158 | Russell Dean Alford v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness | In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of … |
| 23-646 | Devon Tinius, et al. v. Luke Choi, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights curfew curfew-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the District of Columbia's curfew law is unconstitutional because it violates fundamental rights and because it is overbroad and void for vagu… |
| 23-5111 | Jacob Webster, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis criminal-prosecution facial-challenge firearm-regulation new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association-v-brue overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine second-amendment united-states-v-stevens | 1. For facial challenges to a state prosecution on Second Amendment grounds, must a criminal defendant prove that no set of circumstances exist under … |
| 22-640 | David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code | In 2017 Respondents executed a search warrant (which had no affidavit) at Petitioner's home. It authorized a search for violations of 26 U.S.C. §7201 … |
| 22-558 | Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a law t… |
| 22-497 | Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-28 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse Waived | communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a l… |
| 22-434 | Slade Alan Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-09 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of "harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, … | |
| 22-430 | Charles Barton v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Amici (7) | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern | In Snyder v. Phelps, this Court held that speech on matters of public concern cannot be punished "simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt,"… |
| 22-202 | Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-06 | Denied | constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness | 1. Is Texas's obscene harassment statute (Tex. Penal Code 42.07(a)(1) and (b)(3)) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad? 2. Does the Miller v. Calif… | |
| 22-5491 | John Michael Ward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness | Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-179 | United States v. Helaman Hansen | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15)Relisted (2) | 8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v… |
| 22-5394 | Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is imperm… |
| 22-5231 | Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness | Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad due to the statute's use of the phrase "any sexual activity for which any person can be… |
| 21-7576 | Edward Wright v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-scrutiny liberty-interests non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth plea-agreement supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness | I. Currently, the Circuits are split as to whether the standard federal supervision condition requiring third-party risk notification is constitutiona… |
| 21-6465 | Andrew John Gibson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness | L. Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed… |
| 21-6370 | Omil Cotto, aka Omil Gomez, aka Omil Alfredo Gomez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure cellphones criminal-procedure fourth-amendment overbreadth probable-cause road-rage search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-overbreadth | This case emerged out of a road rage incident during which shots were fired. The suspect, Omil Cotto, fled the scene in a red Camaro. Officers execute… |
| 21-427 | William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana | Montana | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation | Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. |
| 20-1627 | S. S., et al. v. S. B. | Pennsylvania | 2021-05-21 | Denied | Amici (3) | child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness | Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-1620 | Joy McShan Edwards v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe… |
| 20-7537 | Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements | Is New Jersey's "cyber-harassment" statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4.1, constitutionally invalid because it lacks a scienter requirement and relies on a "reas… |
| 20-1241 | Michael Paul Miselis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-7377 | Benjamin Drake Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | anti-riot-act civil-rights civil-unrest criminal-prosecution due-process facial-constitutionality federal-statute first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overbreadth standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-6889 | Gregory Bartunek v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness | I. WHETHER THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OVERBROAD AND VAGUE II. WHETHER WARRANTS BASED ON INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS… |
| 20-731 | Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and … |
| 20-5912 | Adam Alan Henry v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic … |
| 20-146 | Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas | Texas | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness | WHETHER SECTION 20A.03 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
| 20-5220 | Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness | Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a "lewd exhibition" of child nudity in a … |
| 20-5185 | Joshua Jermaine Nelson v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness | 1. Is a statute unconsti tutional, on its face, when it is a content-based restri ction that severel y criminalizes a substanti al amount of harml ess… |
| 19-1184 | Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) | buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law | Petitioners are sidewalk counselors who engage in quiet, one-on-one conversations with women visiting an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. … |
| 19-7731 | Michael Herrold v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element … |
| 19-999 | Lewis Alan Dugan v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction obscenity overbreadth speech-conduct stalking-statute | 1. Whether, in a prosecution for writing obscene letters, a trial court should instruct a jury regarding the legal definition of the term "obscene" as… |
| 19-6356 | Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search | Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-6100 | Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation | Nevada defines "child pornography" to include any depiction of a minor that "appeals to a shameful or morbid interest in the sexuality of the minor an… |
| 19-6082 | Chase Matheny v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness | Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-6059 | Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness | Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-5884 | Kevin Carson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness | The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or h… |
| 19-5790 | Ronald Frank Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Dismissed | Response RequestedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vagueness warrantless-search | I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… |
| 19-5785 | Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness | I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… |
| 19-274 | Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness | Petitioner, Dr. Teresa Buchanan, was terminated from her tenured position at Louisiana State University under the school's sexual harassment policies.… |
| 19-5578 | Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-5345 | Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to … |
| 19-12 | Kevin Sewell v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response Waived | compelled-speech confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment first-amendment-compelled-speech overbreadth self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause | 1. Whether Maryland's law imposing a duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect on all persons in the State violates the First Amendment where it… |
| 18-1517 | Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act civil-rights first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law material-support national-security overbreadth political-advocacy standing terrorism tier-iii-terrorist-organization | I. Whether an individual's non-violent, independent political advocacy—that was not affiliated with any foreign material support for terrorism under t… |
| 18-9411 | Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | IFP | beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the judicial construction of "lascivious exhibition" of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-9285 | Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California | California | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness | Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and over-breadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Con… |
| 18-1182 | Scott Ogle v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-8388 | Brian Wright v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no "egregious violation" of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular pho… |
| 18-8185 | Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness | I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve a split in circuit authority regarding whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervi… |
| 18-8105 | Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott | California | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute | In Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 516, 53, this Court held, that "The First Amendment provides, in relevant part, that "Congress shall mak… |
| 18-7613 | David Ackell v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens | Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A (2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge by holding that the statute "regulate… |
| 18-7456 | Jonathan Sebert v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process erotica first-amendment free-speech free-speech 18-7455" overbreadth overbroad overbroad-condition Question not identified. supervised-release vague vagueness | WHETHER THE SPECIAL CONDITION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE IMPOSED UPON MR. SEBERT, WHICH (FOR EXAMPLE) WOULD PREVENT HIM FROM SHOPPING AT WAL-MART BECAUSE I… |
| 18-7263 | Gerald Patmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation | The question presented by this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2… |
| 18-846 | David Allen Anderton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la… |
| 18-720 | Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness | On summary judgment: 1. Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly … |
| 18-704 | Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Amici (6) | campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness | 1. Whether a student and student organizations investigated for possibly violating a public university's regulations governing on-campus speech hav… |
| 18-478 | Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-vagueness fourth-amendment harassment harassment-statute law-enforcement overbreadth probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search-and-seizure vagueness | Whether law enforcement officials had probable cause to arrest the Petitioner (issuing a citation) for the crime of harassment under Ariz. Rev. Stat. … |
| 18-6080 | Abraham J. Bonowitz, Douglas A. Pagitt, Lisa S. Harper, Suezann K. Bosler, Arthur J. Laffin, Randy Gardner, Derrick W. Jamison, Thomas W. Muther, Jr., Shane A. Claiborne, Sam R. Sheppard, and John M. Travers v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 40-usc-6135 assembly constitutional-law display first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-forum statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the open-air, public space surrounding the Supreme Court a traditional public forum, despite a flawed, constitutionally suspect challenged law t… |
| 18-5877 | Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation | Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5576 | DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine | (1) Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 Unconstitutional on its face, as applied to Petitioner, and when read in conjunction with other laws becaus… |
| 18-5066 | Edward Vincent Ray v. California | California | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine | Whether Petitioners sentence of 38yrs 4mos., violates equal protection under the law because of the disparities in Californa sentences whether Ptiton… |