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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-1302 | MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute | (1) Whether, in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs, physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening … |
| 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… |
| 24-288 | Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction | Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of "proximate cause" is unreasonable because it fails to honor the breadth of the RICO statute and ignores… |
| 24-18 | D&T Partners, L.L.C., Successor in Interest to ACET Venture Partners, Directly and Derivatively on Behalf of ACET Global, L.L.C., et al. v. Baymark Partners Management, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | h-j-inc-v-nw-bell-tel-co pattern-of-racketeering pattern-requirement predicate-acts racketeering-activity related-acts rico-statute single-scheme substantial-period substantial-period-of-time | In order to maintain a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") claim, a plaintiff must plead a "pattern" of racketeering act… | |
| 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… |
| 23-6702 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-7748 | 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… |
| 22-1159 | Troy Newman v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | civil-rico false-identification interstate-commerce pattern-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering-activity predicate-acts proximate-cause rico-statute undercover-investigation | In a classic case of the "abortion distortion," Planned Parenthood repackaged its PR black-eye over selling aborted baby parts into a court-approved R… | |
| 22-6836 | Robert Speed v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether RICO is a § 924(c)(3)(A) "crime of violence," is the statutory definition of "racketeering activity" divisible, such that a court… |
| 22-5754 | Jamal Laurent v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement | 1. Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? 2. Whether the district court erred when it admitted Merritt's statements or alternat… |
| 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… | |
| 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.,… |
| 21-5766 | Dionte Dortch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure deportation due-process firearm immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining rico-statute simple-possession | I WHETHER thE DUE PROCESS ClOUSE ANC THE SIth AMENdMENT PRotECTS ThE ACCUSEd FROM A PlEA of Guly To MatRial FActs Of SIMple PosSESSION OF CocaINe aNd … |
| 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)? |
| 20-6918 | 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… |
| 20-6439 | 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… |
| 20-337 | Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue | Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per… |
| 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… | |
| 19-8415 | Arthur Stanley v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence gang-related-crime relevant-evidence rico-statute rule-401 standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Where the Government introduced a cache of weapons found four years before the alleged crime, simply because gang graffiti was found nearby, should… |
| 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… |
| 19-6630 | 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… |
| 19-505 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-8474 | John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process | 1. When deciding the matter of a no-bail bench warrant for failure to appear, can the court allow faulty and fabricated, misdirected service-by-mail o… |