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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1151 | Day Pacer LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Presumed Complete | do-not-call-registry FTC-enforcement outbound-telephone-call plain-language statutory-interpretation telemarketing-sales-rule | Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly interpreted the Telemarketing Sales Rule's definition of "outbound telephone call" under 16 C.F.R. § 310.2(x) by… | |
| 23-6199 | Trayvon Hall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation | I crimin&L Censjrt(jtfa>n*lly QtrfrMed ~fc> life ScnWic^ zfttcuhd ^afSuAni % ~fht ferm5 of Senhsicz* Orally pronouAccA in? A ?hfe ^CeSonce/ , i *n |
| 22-7563 | Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction | Question I: Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitution were violated whento the United States request for delayed appeal was denied for a… |
| 21-5457 | Brian Fierro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 20-8275 | Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 18-9259 | Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit | May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning, as the Tenth Circuit did in … |
| 18-8116 | Budry Michel v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts | 1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that… |