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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A42 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | agency-relationship criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud official-act public-official | Question not identified. | |
| 24-855 | Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | circuit-conflict federal-bribery gift-exchange legal-precedent official-action public-official | Does providing a gift to a public official in the hope or expectation that he will be receptive to a later request for official action constitute fede… | |
| 23-7376 | Rajesh P. Budhabhatti v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1346 collateral-order-doctrine criminal-prosecution honest-services-fraud interlocutory-appeal judicial-resources judicial-review public-official self-dealing statutory-interpretation | 1. Skilling v. United States , 561 U.S. 358 (2010), holds that fraudulent self-dealing by a public official is not honest services fraud under 18 U.S.… |
| 23A908 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Presumed Complete | anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a legal services contract between a private-practice attorney and a municipality automatically transform the private practitioner into a go… | |
| 23-845 | Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation | Does quid pro quo bribery, in the context of an honest services fraud prosecution, permit conviction on the basis that a public official received a be… |
| 22-939 | Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire | First Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether the First Amendment tolerates criminal prosecution for alleged defamation of a public official. 2. Whether New Hampshire's common law of c… |
| 22-611 | Kevin Lindke v. James R. Freed | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech government-duty government-official public-forum public-official social-media state-action | Whether a public official's social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or … |
| 22-6067 | Yazan Al-Madani v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim | Question One: Whether under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO ") an entity can be both an "enterprise " and a "victim " - … |
| 22-324 | Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (3) | blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action | Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a… |
| 22-139 | Sari Alqsous v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 21-1577 | Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit | 1) When a person requests records from a federal agency under the Freedom of Information Act, may the agency redact the requester 's own name from t… |
| 21-6047 | Fortuno Jeanfort v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, aka Florida Atlantic University | Florida | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process pleading-standards public-official standing tort-liability | IntraDistrict courts all across the State have confused absolute immunity to State Universities themselves, versus the personal liability of (actual) … |
| 21-5388 | Wilbert Kelly, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-restriction burden-of-proof constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process legal-standing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence public-official sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-jurisdiction | Have The PElitioner Beon Reovided With Fundamental Due Process According To The United Stales Constilulions By His Slate CauFts? |
| 20-60 | Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official | (1) Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, un… |
| 20-5131 | Michael Kimbrew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery-of-public-official bribery-statute commercial-bribery due-process federal-employee ninth-circuit-interpretation official-act public-official quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation sun-diamond | Is Kimbrew's expansive reading of § 201 unconstitutional? |
| 19-1247 | Judson A. Lovingood v. Discovery Communications, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice defamation entertainment entertainment-media first-amendment free-speech public-official sworn-testimony | In N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) this Court announced that in defamation cases involving a public official/public figure, the Plaint… |
| 19-1000 | Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether "an offense against a foreign nation involving . . . bribery of a public official" under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery… | |
| 19-893 | Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower | 1. Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption. 2. Whether s… | |
| 19-699 | Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice | Wisconsin | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny | 1.) Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discreti… |
| 18-1059 | Bridget Anne Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | decision-making due-process fraud government government-fraud government-property legal-interpretation official-decision policy-reason property public-official public-policy subjective-intent | Does a public official "defraud" the government of its property by advancing a "public policy reason" for an official decision that is not her subject… |
| 18-910 | City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board | California | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based | Whether California Government Code section 3505, the "meet-and-confer" provision of the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act [Cal. Gov't Code section 35… |
| 18-584 | Angela Engle Horne v. WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6 | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-standard defamation first-amendment free-speech media-law public-figure public-official sullivan | 1. Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). 2. Whether even if this Court elects not overrule Sullivan in … |