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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A294 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-171 | Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation | In a prosecution for racketeering related offenses, does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity … |
| 25-5035 | Jennifer Lynn Dees, et al. v. Jillian Knox, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity pro-se racketeering | 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee and congressional intent behind 28 U.S.C. § 1915 prohibit federal courts from dismissing pro se… |
| 24-1172 | Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conspiracy enterprise-definition federal-criminal-law racketeering rico-statute statutory-interpretation | Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), the members of an "enterprise" must share a common illegal or frau… |
| 24-1094 | Louis B. Antonacci v. Rahm Emanuel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Response Waived | cyberespionage due-process protected-speech racketeering rico-enterprise subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Petitioner Antonacci has properly alleged, in federal court cases spanning ten years, that Respondents Perkins Coie LLP and their former Gener… |
| 24-1013 | In Re Louis B. Antonacci | 2025-03-21 | Dismissed | Response Waived | bar-admission civil-procedure due-process judicial-review racketeering subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the Fourth Circuit must refer Petitioner Louis B. Antonacci's case, which was fully briefed on September 9,… | |
| 24-894 | Michelle Avery Bey v. David Harper, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-USC-1961 circuit-court district-court federal-jurisdiction racketeering statute-of-limitations | 1. Did the United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit err in declaring that the federal questions concerning 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 and 1962 shoul… |
| 24-5665 | Shari Lynn Oliver v. Julie A. McDonald, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights family-court-enterprise parent-child-rights racketeering title-iv-d | This case complained of an attack on parent-child rights, criminal racketeering conspiracy, deprivation of rights under color of law, capital offenses… |
| 24-299 | Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering | In 2014 California implemented the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, or RULLCA, no longer permitting professional LLCs in California. Dur… |
| 24-5503 | Raekwon Malik Patton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-enterprise jury-instructions purpose-element racketeering underlying-offense violent-crimes | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) requires a minimum finding by the jury that the underlying crime was committed as a substantial purpose or integral aspect… |
| 23A979 | Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | crime-of-violence firearms-statute predicate-offense racketeering rico sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7144 | Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-6914 | Matthew W. Miller v. Dan Wilcot, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process exile fair-treatment insubordination pro-se-petition racketeering standing | Why is it this case has to get so far from The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri? There has been so much Racketeering… |
| 23-963 | Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon | Florida | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure | Florida legal scheme does not allow its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an opinion even in exceptional cases wher… |
| 23-6820 | Marvin Carcamo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under th… |
| 23-6498 | Kevin Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District … |
| 23-6200 | Courtney Green v. LG Electronics USA, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consumer-privacy data-collection defamation electronic-surveillance invasion-of-privacy racketeering telecommunications | Whether the respondent LG Electronics Inc. aided in corrupt intent and racketeer influenced acts.These actions being undoubtedly ignored over a cours… |
| 23-5852 | Kareem Davis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation | Is murder in aid of racketeering ("VICAR murder'), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis bas… |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-379 | John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity | 1. Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime? 2. Do federal agencies have "sovereign immunity " in racketeering crime? 3.… |
| 23-5725 | Edward Troup v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations | Does a federal antiracketeering statute, conviction for which is predicated on the commission of a murder "in violation of the laws of any State," rea… |
| 22-1223 | Gwendolyn D. Gabriel, et al. v. Merry Outlaw, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obstruction-of-justice predicate-acts public-corruption qualified-immunity racketeering rico-statute witness-tampering | After a Defendant/Respondent committed Fraud and Obstruction of Justice by Perjury, the other (comprised of both Defendant's Attorneys, Plaintiffs' At… |
| 22-7694 | Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing | Petitioner contends California defendant officers, and agents engaged in conspiracy cover-up of corruption in promoting themselves, intimidation, stal… |
| 22-1160 | Albin Rhomberg v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | abortion-litigation civil-rights compensatory-damages due-process first-amendment free-speech no-injury racketeering rico-damages standing takings undercover-journalism | Respondent Planned Parenthood sued Petitioners over their use of undercover journalism techniques to investigate Planned Parenthood's involvement in s… |
| 22-7508 | Herma Barbara Medina Reyna v. PNC Bank, N.A., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-fraud mortgage-ownership punitive-damages racketeering rooker-feldman-doctrine standing title-fraud | 1. Can a party who was wronged by a bank or business entity that committed mass fraud, misrepresentation, and racketeering actions that render the Roo… |
| 22-7476 | Michael D'Antonio v. Borough of Allendale, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing foreclosure money-laundering municipal-misconduct racketeering sheriff-sale | 1. Petitioner questions the essence 2. Petitioner questions the lack of finding by the Rehearino of against the Respondent Borough of Allendale for v… |
| 22-7151 | Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios. These actions b… |
| 22-7150 | Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios. These actions … |
| 22-7050 | Dorothy Weigman v. Victoria Wertz, as Trustee | California | 2023-03-21 | Denied | IFP | accounting civil-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage-backed-securities probate probate-court racketeering securities-investment standing trust trust-administration | 1. Can there be a judgment for the approval of accounting when there has been no filing of an administration of the trust? Must petitioner die for he… |
| 22-6763 | Cecil Wallace Williamson, Jr. v. Mike Heinricy, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | capital-case civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-confession habeas-corpus organized-crime prosecutorial-misconduct racketeering witness-tampering | /r U GaPiTaL CaSL J. f fh*. 5+ah, ofXaoSc^ all outlet J~aSp<sr CoonTif bij fr Acktd-earhne^ multiple (^eruern mvirfhaA 'e^'/feS ~to P id via.f> me gr… |
| 22-6597 | Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent | Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 22-6554 | Adrian Gordon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c conspiracy-theory crimes-of-violence criminal-liability gun-enhancement pinkerton-liability racketeering vicar-statute | Are Instructions under Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) appropriate for crimes of violence in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C. § 195… |
| 22-642 | General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act | Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca… | |
| 22-6343 | Rossen Iossifov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud | The Petitioner, Rossen Iossifov ("Iossifov"), was indicted on July 5, 2018, and charged with one count of conspiring to engage in racketeering activit… |
| 22-6299 | Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering | 1. Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (wi… |
| 22-5838 | Yasser Ashburn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-enterprise firearm-possession gang-related-purpose jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-act | 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address a Circuit conflict on the interpretation of requisite proof to establish a legal element nece… |
| 22-5687 | Michael G. Peters v. Mital K. Brammbatt | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Dismissed | IFP | anti-slapp civil-rights cruel-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-conspiracy prison-mail-misappropriations racketeering rico rico-anti-slapp selective-prosecution standing | Question not identified. |
| 21-8233 | Barkley Gardner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment. |
| 21-8012 | Soraya Maria Rigor v. Dale Carlsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process intellectual-property punitive-damages racketeering special-relationship takings university-trustees | [i]n what circumstances may punitive damages be awarded under the 1) United States Constitution, when civil violations by California State University … |
| 21-7078 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states | Can the government obtain a conviction under RICO without proving that the targeted enterprise's activities actually affected interstate commerce, so … |
| 21-6787 | Rondale Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but… |
| 21-6452 | Donnell Murray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction count-one criminal-procedure davis insufficient-evidence jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering trial-errors | 1. Whether Murray's conviction on Count One should be reversed because there is insufficient evidence after Davis that the jury found two or more pred… |
| 21-6420 | Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering | l) Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercis… |
| 21-125 | Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico | Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded after instructions on remand or another amount order… |
| 21-5150 | John B. Freitas v. Bank of America | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation court-officer-accountability due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct racketeering real-estate-dispute res-judicata void-altered-defective-deeds | Whether local, state and federal court officers, among which are judges, attorneys, sheriffs, clerks, county recorders and notaries public, should be … |
| 20-1753 | Joseph Dennis Gilberti, Jr. v. Adrurra Group, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process environmental-protection government-conspiracy professional-engineering public-health racketeering standing takings water-quality water-resource | I. Why did the lower Court with Governor Desantis. EPA, and Florida Department of Environmental protection, along with multiple City/County and State … |
| 20-1664 | Jason Michael Jett v. Michigan | Michigan | 2021-05-28 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection felony-charges illegal-search-and-seizure jurisdiction racketeering state-agent | we wish for answers to our questions presented in kind and in writing, by mail, in reasonable time, to our address, properly signed and dated, please … | |
| 20-8018 | Deshaun Tisdale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm | In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime… |
| 20-1561 | In Re Barbara Riley | 2021-05-11 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-judgment government-misconduct property-rights racketeering standing takings void-judgment | 1. Is it constitutional for multiple units of Local government and State government to enter, sell, buy, and record facially void ex parte default jud… | ||
| 20-1343 | Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur | 1. Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in … |
| 20-7014 | Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering | On District Court acceptance of appellant's $505 filing fee can 9th Circuit Order appeal CLOSED forgetting intake and review of compulsory briefs?I, … |
| 20-6936 | Scott Tucker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea racketeering | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals has endorsed an inflexible rule that limits evidence of legal advice rendered to the defendant to the very inception o… |
| 20-6439 | Sidney Patterson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity due-process legislative-intent racketeering rico rico-statute sufficiency-of-evidence unsophisticated-crime vague-statute | A conviction based on less than sufficient evidence is a due process violation. 1. Does the application of a vaguely written racketeering statute to … |
| 20-6123 | Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property | Whether – in a case involving a racketeering charge based on predicate incidents for "dealing in stolen property" – possession of an item that is one … |
| 20-235 | Edward J. Mierzwa v. Arkadiusz M. Dudek, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure court-manipulation due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racketeering supervisory-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction unlawful-process | As the Court of Last Resort, will the Supreme Court of the United States exercise its supervisory powers to remedy the unlawful process, enacted by th… |
| 20-5421 | Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation | 1. IS SIMPLE POSSESSION UNDER F.S. 893.13(6)(A). A LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE RACKETEERING PREDICATE INCIDENT UNDER F.S. § 895.02(l)(a), § 895.02(l)(b)? 2. … |
| 19-8846 | David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-07-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-network criminal-organizations criminal-procedure district-attorney inchoate-crimes organized-crime prosecutorial-discretion racketeering | Where a private criminal plaintiff is ignored by a local District Attorney's Office, in the presence of criminality from racketeering, inchoate crimes… |
| 19-1324 | Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-06-01 | Denied | civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")* require a plaintiff or prose-cutor claiming an "open pattern" of racketeering to… | |
| 19-8361 | Tyrone Price v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase | Does sy2uce) conretron smpport assault uith a dungerons weapon in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C19saca)c3).? Does the elements clause ofa 39luce) … |
| 19-1125 | Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of rac… |
| 19-7879 | Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Is first degree murder, as broadly and idiosyncratically defined under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code: (a) included in the category of "murder" as… |
| 19-7566 | Javed Asefi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-prosecution substantial-effect | Whether federal jurisdiction exists in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) where neither the activities of the alleged enterprise nor the individu… |
| 19-900 | Jessica Vennie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act | Whether charging two defendants with participating in the conduct of a single legal enterprise that has many legal purposes is sufficient to permit jo… |
| 19-7101 | David Nowakowski v. E.E. Austin and Son, Inc., et al. | Pennsylvania | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-organizations criminal-procedure criminal-racketeering due-process inchoate-crimes legal-remedies legislative-interpretation organized-crime pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering standing statutory-construction | Where a plaintiffs position falls within the scope of an open Legislative statement such as PA Code Title 18 Section 911 (a) (6); "in order to success… |
| 19-6820 | Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code | In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or… |
| 19-6744 | Kevin M. Merck v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bank-account-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law court-record-manipulation due-process fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute procedural-irregularity racketeering seizure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Jurisdictional questions Color of law questions Questions of fraud Questions of racketeering |
| 19-6155 | Deounte Ussury v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes | I. Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute § 18 U.S.C. 1959(a), also known as VICAR, requires a special verdict for… |
| 19-5663 | Clifford L. Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | enterprise-profits federal-jurisdiction motive motive-element pecuniary-gain racketeering state-murder vcar-statute | The VCAR statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), contains two "motive" elements, only one of which applies to Petitioner's case. To prove this element, Respo… |
| 19-5632 | T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries | 1. Is it error to impose Judicial immunity, in a 12(b) dismissal, when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciarie… |
| 19-5489 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether a defendant acts for the "purpose of. . . maintaining or increasing [his] position in an enterprise" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1959… |
| 18-1585 | Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-27 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm | 1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-8383 | Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property | First, Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust and/or racketeering conspiracy, intending by a pattern o… |
| 18-8333 | Jorge Sosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering | I. Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeerin… |
| 18-8217 | Marvin Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process enterprise enterprise-membership fair-trial jury-instructions racketeering racketeering-act violent-crime | 1. Whether in order to be legally sufficient, evidence supporting a conviction of violent crime in aid of racketeering must demonstrate that the defen… |
| 18-7726 | Carlton Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-6948 | William Gavidia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights common-heritage crimes-of-violence criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process enterprise indictment pattern-of-activity pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity | Whether those of common heritage constitute an enterprise that should be indicted and tried together and any crimes of violence they commit constitute… |
| 18-6566 | Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), separate opinions by Justice Thomas and Justice Breyer questioned whether Euans v. United States, … |
| 18-429 | Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act | Under Title XI of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (also known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")), is there a … |
| 18-11 | Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |