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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-364 Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender reg…
18-5839 James Frederick Rebmann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(…