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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-911 | Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud | Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25-6604 | In Re Angeliina L. Lawson | 2026-01-16 | Pending | IFP | ada-retaliation civil-rights judicial-bias mandamus pro-se rico | 1. Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus (25-3158) to correct the Tenth Circuit's denial of emergency relief, where a pro se litigant pro… | |
| 25-625 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | Amici (2) | circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 | This case involves a multibillion-dollar civil RICO class action covering tens of thousands of third-party payors that reimbursed millions of prescrip… |
| 25A498 | Matthew Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Application | indian-commerce-clause internet-loans rico sovereign-immunity state-regulation tribal-lending | Whether the tribal lending operation was an unlawful RICO enterprise or, instead, a legitimate economic development project by the Tribe, depends on w… | |
| 25-391 | Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud | In the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), Congress barred plaintiffs from bringing claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Or… |
| 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. | |
| 23-7324 | Danilo Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity | Following the grant of petitioner's section 2255 motion, the district court resentenced petitioner to discretionary life in this RICO gang case. This … |
| 23-7182 | Jonathan Wray v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that … |
| 23-7100 | Robert Merritt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing | Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted. |
| 23-6872 | Dawn Wentworth v. Mission Vista High School & Personnel, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | IFP | brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process education educational-discrimination fraud governmental-obstruction grade-fraud rico rico-statute systemic-racism | Whether the inclusive evidence of documentation presented upon three (3) separate and distinct occasions arriving from three (3) separate and distinct… |
| 23-6771 | Wild Chang, et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights contract-rewriting due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-fraud RICO rico-fraud standing statutory-interpretation | Q1. Whether national insurance companies can continue committing the RICO frauds in concert with other members of the RICO Enterprise with impunity by… |
| 23-6702 | Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses | 1. Does § 1961(1)(A) of RICO incorporate—and thereby require the Government to plead and prove beyond a reasonable doubt—the elements of specific stat… |
| 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.… |
| 23-365 | Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn | Second Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation | Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to "business or property by reason of" the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 23-5556 | William L. Gladney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23-123 | Ezekial Flatten, et al. v. Bruce Smith, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response Waived | cannabis-commerce civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-limitations due-process federal-legislative-jurisdiction gonzales-v-raich property-rights rico rico-claims state-property-rights | 1. Should this Court reverse Shulman v. Kaplan and restore property rights in cannabis to a status equal to other property rights protectable under RI… |
| 22-7748 | Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure default-judgment discretionary-power evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review motion-to-dismiss rico rico-statute | As a rule, it is generally clear that "[u]nless another time is specified by this rule or a federal statute, the time for serving a responsive pleadin… |
| 22-1147 | Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act | 1. Whether this Court's decision in Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), which precludes publication damages without meeting the con… | |
| 22-995 | Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing | The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil… |
| 22-965 | Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. | First Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals-court civil-procedure claim-requirements district-court legal-precedent legal-precedents res-judicata rico rico-claim supreme-court | Legal validity of Res Judicata application to RICO claim is questioned in this petition. There has been inherent conflicts between nature of RICO clai… |
| 22-879 | Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech rico standing | Whether the Petitioner's brother Alexander Basile being murdered 6-3-22, the horrific beating and skewering of his body by unknown Secret Service, MI5… |
| 22-6978 | Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws | 1. Under the RICO Laws, can a conviction stand without the existence of a "Enterprise", a group of people associated in fact? Or without corrupt acts … |
| 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… | |
| 22-6135 | Monzell Harding v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes | Was the district court required by Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted f… |
| 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 " - … |
| 22-5913 | John Berman v. Kristin Draper | District of Columbia | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-interpretation continuity extortion fund-freezing hj-standard judicial-review legal-standard ongoing-entity predicate-acts regular-way-of-doing-business rico rico-continuity | 1. Does the DC Circuit 's statement on RICO continuity directly contradict the HJ standard: "the threat of continuity may be established by showing… |
| 22-383 | CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing | Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a "domestic" injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t… |
| 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… |
| 22-5733 | Robert Brown, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment | The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a… |
| 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. |
| 22-145 | Aidong Chen v. KPMG LLP, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-08-16 | Denied | civil-rights corporate-influence due-process institutional-discrimination judicial-accountability judicial-independence judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute supreme-court-review | How to deal with the compromised judges in the lower courts? How to deal with the systematic and institutional discrimination from the 3rd circuit app… | |
| 22-5260 | David Perez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | State sentencing law determines the statutory maximum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a) for a RICO conviction based on a racketeering activity that i… |
| 22-36 | Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages | 1) The Ninth Circuit is in disagreement with the Second and Eight Circuits: Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitut… | |
| 21-1608 | McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix | Second Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities | Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 21-1334 | Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-07 | Dismissed | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims | 1. Does § 301 of the LMRA preempt claims brought in federal court under federal statutes, like the RICO claims in this case? 2. In interpreting the a… |
| 21-7376 | Khalil Stafford v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-dismissal murder new-jersey rico rico-offense sixth-amendment state-law-prosecution vicar | 1. Does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment preclude a Federal petit jury from considering petitioners guilt for murder, in violation of… |
| 21-904 | Charles G. Kinney v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution ministerial-act rico rico-elements vexatious-litigant whistle-blower | Here, judges intentionally abused a "ministerial " act to conceal or cover-up that other judges had intentionally abused an "administrative " act to e… |
| 21-6510 | Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates | 1. Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury. 2. Whether aggravated RICO conspiracy is properly… |
| 21-6239 | Robert A. Espinoza v. M. Segal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(a) conspiracy-definition crime-of-violence elements-clause gambling-activity gambling-offense racketeering-activity rico rico-statute unlawful-debt | (1) Is § 1962(c)'s "Unlawful Debt" an alternative crime with alternative elements or a means of fulfilling the element of racketeering activity, i.e.,… |
| 21-6122 | Malek Lassiter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF LASSITER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL ON THE RICO CONSPIRACY CHAR… |
| 21-360 | Joseph Constant v. DTE Electric Company, aka DTE Energy, aka Detroit Edison Company, aka DTE, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights contract-conspiracy fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct rico rico-act | I Did Judge Kumar and the Executives of the Judges' RICO Enterprise made frauds upon the court when1. They litigated cases for DTE under the DTE-to-En… |
| 21-5428 | Crystal V. L. Rivers v. United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights crime-victims-rights-act criminal-procedure federal-investigation government-disclosure government-misconduct ongoing-investigation rico victim-notification | The Petitioner/Victim, Crystal VL Rivers, filed her Crime Victim Rights Act Petition to aid in the enforcement of the CVRA rights currently in place a… |
| 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… |
| 21-56 | Timothy Muir v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury | The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 20-8410 | Brenda Ford White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. | Michigan | 2021-06-23 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing | 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctor… |
| 20-8409 | Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. | Michigan | 2021-06-23 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens | 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case … |
| 20-8295 | Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-1591 | Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation | 1. Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the absolute qualified immunity? Which is luring, hiding, lying, cheating, stealing, RICO and committing f… |
| 20-7723 | Dangelo Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit | I. DID THE DECISION OF THE COURTS APPEALS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN CONCLUDING THAT DAVIS NOWAK'S GOAL OF FURTHERING OR FACILITATING THE CRIMINAL ENT… |
| 20-6918 | Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt | I. Whether the Court should decide an important question involving the overfederalization of criminal law: namely, whether a defendant is provided fai… |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 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 … |
| 20-6424 | Deloyd Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an "enterprise" under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared… |
| 20-6346 | Demarcus D. Morris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing | 1) Count One (RICO) of the Indictment is unconstitutionally vague. 2) Count Two (Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances) of the Indictment is… |
| 20-6342 | Pedro Gutierrez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment general-verdict judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-case special-verdict | I. Whether a RICO "Gang" Case Certified as Complex Should Require the Use of a Special Verdict Form Rather Than a General Verdict Form. II. Whether G… |
| 20-5244 | David Lopez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written? |
| 20-33 | Grace International Assembly of God v. Gennaro Festa, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pattern-continuity predicate-acts racketeering-activity RICO rico-statute standing victim-definition wire-fraud | Whether only the entity sustaining the greatest direct injury may be considered a victim for the purposes of determining if there is closed- or open-e… | |
| 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… | |
| 19-8376 | Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 19-8116 | Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. | Michigan | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens | 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case … |
| 19-8115 | Brenda R. White v. EDS Care Management, LLC, et al. | Michigan | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-capacity medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing | 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctor… |
| 19-8114 | Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. | Michigan | 2020-03-27 | Denied | IFP | affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing | 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiffs race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors… |
| 19-8049 | Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In… |
| 19-1087 | Charles M. Hallinan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as… |
| 19-7701 | Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing | (1) Will this court overturn, 9th circuit 's: case No. 18-56048 -11/12/2019 dkt No. 49 final Order 's: Denial of PROVEN Fraud on District Court and De… |
| 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… |
| 19-7111 | Robert W. Johnson v. Kevin S. Portnoy, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection insurance rico standing statutory-interpretation texas-department-of-insurance | Question not identified. |
| 19-6947 | Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette | 1. In United States v. Turkette , 452 U.S. 576 (1981) , this Court first held , in a RICO conspiracy case, 18 U SC §1962 (d), that the statute applies… |
| 19-6936 | Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation | In a RICO-conspiracy case, must the government present proof of, inter alia, an existing enterprise, which is engaged in activities that actually affe… |
| 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… |
| 19-6630 | Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien | Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981(a) against officials and officers of the court for dismantling RICO laws to the det… |
| 19-570 | Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process | 1. Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process under § 1965(d), consistent with the Clayton A… |
| 19-6423 | Halisi Uhuru v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization | 1. The Appellant was improperly convicted of participating in a RICO organization, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), because he was incarcerated during the vast maj… |
| 19-505 | William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing | (1) Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP 12(b)(6) motions (prior to discovery or an evidentiary hearing), to rule upon a disputed issue of f… |
| 19-6176 | Christopher Harris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense | I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclud… |
| 19-397 | Susan Levy v. BASF Metals Limited, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response Waived | american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action commodity-exchange-act discovery-accrual-rule discovery-rule due-process equitable-tolling opt-out rico statute-of-limitations | The issues-presented are important because they concern individual rights, a principal that our founders used to establish our Democracy that allowe… |
| 19-176 | R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act | Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 19-5486 | Jarrell Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy | 1.) Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act ("JDA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 5031-42, divested the district court of jurisdiction over Petitioner's prosecution … |
| 19-5033 | Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing | Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with. Whether adjudicating collateral estoppel f… |
| 18-1489 | Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the… | |
| 18-8765 | Michael A. Young v. Thomas Duncan, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure equitable-tolling recusal rico standing statute-of-limitations | a. Wht U.S.CHIEFCoenTAGEDRYI Yuin DRT I entitled "FINALITY"??? 4. Whether "EQUITABLE TOLLING"doctrine ofF the "STATUTE"F"'LIMITATIONS" is applicable … |
| 18-8741 | Francisco Frank Apodaca, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | association-in-fact corporation enterprise enterprise-definition guilty-plea individuals ineffective-assistance legal-entity rico rico-statute sentencing-error statutory-interpretation union | 1. Can a corporation or other legal entity be associated in fact with a union or one or more individuals under the "enterprise" definition of the RICO… |
| 18-1183 | Dorothy A. Smulley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-liability agency-relationship circuit-procedures conservatorship due-process fannie-mae federal-instrumentality fhfa internal-operating-procedures mortgage-servicers mortgage-servicing regulatory-oversight rico vicarious-liability | Is the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) a federal instrumentality under the regulatory oversight and conservatorship of the Federal … |
| 18-7785 | David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz | New Mexico | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause | Whether any court can deprive Constitutional 1st 2nd 4th 5th 8th 13th and 10 Amendment rights and violate the Supremacy Clause Constitution Article VI… |
| 18-7778 | Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy | Government prosecutors strategically decided to subdivide their prosecution of petitioner's ongoing New York city enterprise into two parts. The first… |
| 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… |
| 18-969 | Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Dismissed | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal | 1. Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption that all class members were injured by … | |
| 18-890 | David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario | Second Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… | |
| 18-7054 | Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. | Michigan | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens | Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 18-7055 | Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. | Michigan | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing | Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … |
| 18-598 | Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ | Whether the Second Circuit erred that to grant Appellees motion for summary affirmance while to deny Chien's three motions as moot, indicating so far … |
| 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 … |
| 18-425 | Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection consumer-warranty-act court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judgment rico rico-violation song-beverly-consumer-warranty-act superior-court | Did the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District Affirm the Judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles Mark V. Mooney Judge in favor of Petitione… |
| 18-424 | Judith M. Brown-Williams, et vir v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-warranty court-sanctions due-process excusable-neglect fraud rico standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigation warranty | Did the Petitioner prevail in the Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act violation of (Code of Civil Procedure Section 1790 et seq.) Did Respondent file … |
| 18-5309 | Maurice McLain v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cooperator-testimony currier-v-virginia double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-unanimity physical-evidence plea-agreement rico rico-prosecution rutledge-v-united-states santobello-v-new-york uncorroborated-testimony | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion conflicts with this Court's decisions in Rutledge v. United States, 517 U.S. 292 (1996), Curri… |
| 18-5123 | Eric Glenn Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof | 1. Was Venue Proven To Convict Eric Glenn Parker Of Conspiracy To Commit RICO- In The Northern District Of Mississippi? 2. Was Venue Proven To Convic… |
| 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… |
| 25A111 | Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. | Colorado | Presumed Complete | charter injunction irreparable-harm jurisdiction land-seizure rico | Question not identified. |