| 25-899 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
|
citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction |
Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the … |
| 25-6558 |
Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2026-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
judicial-construction legal-hermeneutics legislative-intent plain-meaning statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the statutory language is plain, must courts enforce it according to its terms? |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-723 |
Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction |
1. Should the district court have held an evidentiary hearing to address Petitioners' allegations that pieces of paper purporting to be summonses lack… |
| 25-6409 |
Krystle Hoffman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absurd-principles-doctrine due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-of-lenity sentencing-statute statutory-construction |
Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous … |
| 25-680 |
Bernard T. Swift, Jr., et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure internal-revenue-code penalty-assessment statutory-construction supervisory-approval tax-law |
When must an IRS employee secure written supervisory approval for a penalty assessment to be valid? |
| 25-6250 |
Richard Ruston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1), as well as the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), as cross-referenced in section 3583(d)(1), means "and," o… |
| 25-6237 |
Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-construction supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6038 |
Daniel Stewart v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
In Stinson v. United States , 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explainin… |
| 25-5885 |
Vasquez D. Hayes v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-principles constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction |
(1) Isn't it true and/or fact, the due process embodied in the Constitution is guaranteed to criminal defendants?
(2) Isn't it true and/or fact, no j… |
| 25-388 |
Adam Pajer, et al. v. Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-interpretation congressional-intent disability-discrimination judicial-usurpation separation-of-powers statutory-construction |
(1) Whether a judicial conclusion that no set of facts can plausibly exist to plead under the ADA that an employer regards an employee as presently di… |
| 25-227 |
Raymond Poore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) |
administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 25-5400 |
Andrew Charles Beard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (11)IFP |
constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction |
1. Whether challenging an invalid 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a "constitutional claim" that extinguishes the government's power to enforce defenda… |
| 24-7513 |
Tracy A. Roberson v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa federal-review fourth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-construction stone-v-powell |
This case presents an important nationwide issue concerning whether the Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("ARDPA ") over-ruled Stone v. Pow… |
| 24-7239 |
Ian R. Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split first-amendment obstruction-offense stalking-statute statutory-construction true-threats |
1. Whether an intent to "harass" or "intimidate" under the federal stalking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, has an "ordinary" broad meaning or instead is … |
| 24-6913 |
Johnson Saint-Louis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the federal bank robbery statute, 18 USC §2113(a) is indivisible and thus not a qualifying "Crime of violence" under 18 USC §924(c)? |
| 24-6848 |
Derek Steven Trumbull v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-deference judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity rule-of-lenity separation-of-powers statutory-construction |
Do the separation of powers and the canons of statutory construction, most fundamentally the rule of lenity, permit the judiciary to defer to an agenc… |
| 24-6826 |
Timothy W. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In accordance with the method of statutory interpretation set forth in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110 (2023), should the term "uses" be interpre… |
| 24-966 |
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, a D.C. Nonprofit Corporation v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-interpretation federal-permitting fishing-industry ocean-energy offshore-wind statutory-construction |
Section 1337(p)(4) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act requires that the Secretary "shall ensure" that any approved activity under this subsectio… |
| 24-6585 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant h… |
| 24-843 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) provides that "Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually exp… |
| 24-6404 |
Degny Oshmarlin Molina Villatoro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled. |
| 24-6304 |
Rafael Paredes-Hinojosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled. |
| 24-6115 |
Hector Martinez Peralez v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
comity constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-consistent-statements statutory-construction |
QUESTION #1: Is Texas' application of Tome v.United States unconstitutional,
or wrong where (1) Texas found four-point analysis of Tome applicable to… |
| 24-604 |
Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend… |
| 24-602 |
Daniel Graff v. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, aka Brighthouse Financial Life Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-interpretation separation-of-powers state-law-deference statutory-construction |
1. Whether a Federal Court, in disregard of state law and of rules in decisions made by the highest court in a state, can interpret a statute such tha… |
| 24-5937 |
Randy Price v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bruen-test constitutional-interpretation en-banc-review firearm-regulation second-amendment statutory-construction |
The narrow question presented is whether Second Amendment protected "conduct," for purposes of Bruen's step one, consists of anything other than an in… |
| 24-5565 |
In Re Francisco Nunez Carrillo |
|
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy punishment-limits single-act-doctrine statutory-construction |
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| 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… |
| 24-270 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation line-extension medicaid-rebate new-drug-application statutory-construction |
1. Does a decision that upholds an agency statutory interpretation merely because it is "perfectly sensible" or "reasonable and consistent with the st… |
| 24-5446 |
Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2256(2) (A)(v) DEFINES THE TERM "LASCIVIOUS"
AS PART OF 18 U.S.C.
CONDUCT" ELEMENT AND IS A DEFINITION AND NOT.AN
ELEMENT ITSELF. THERE … |
| 24-5429 |
Kemnorris Kinsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation judicial-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether the administrative law principles set forth in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing C… |
| 24-5295 |
Thomas Dean Jones v. California |
California |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction |
1) When He eachhtnel Comecton thik Prtaed ae loualrban, anther popes |
Th, Congress, ues The Pasor-ot The brantoc tested a Conventions. of the Bop ©
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| 24-5273 |
Nicholas Frank Wilcox v. Tim Garrett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did Petitioner's APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABALLTY demonstrate that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a… |
| 24-5095 |
Moises Gamboa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
DID THE LOWER COURTS IMPROPERLY INTERPRET UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE § 4C1.1 THAT VIOLATED THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE EIGH… |
| 23-7639 |
Louis C. Bouie v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
Pennsylvania |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
drug-treatment-program due-process ex-post-facto executive-branch judicial-review sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers stare-decisis statutory-construction |
Did the Pennsylvania High Court unconstitutionally permit the statutory construct at 61 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105 to grant the executive branch carte blanche s… |
| 23-7543 |
Jeryme Morgan v. DeAnna Brookhart |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation precedent-setting prior-crimes-evidence standing statutory-construction |
The text in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section is severely degraded and largely illegible due to handwriting and OCR errors. The visible portions app… |
| 23-7513 |
Russell Foreman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7493 |
Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Captain Duch, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions genuine-issues-of-fact judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation precedent standing statutory-construction summary-judgment |
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| 23-1195 |
Brad Johnson v. PennyMac Loan Services, LLC |
North Carolina |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chevron-doctrine due-process force-placed-insurance property-rights regulatory-interpretation servicer-prohibitions statutory-construction takings-clause |
1. Within the context of its de novo review, in interpreting the regulatory language and meaning of 12 C.F.R. § 1024.37(b) (Basis for charging borrowe… |
| 23-1118 |
Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-251 claim-interpretation claim-limitation federal-circuit original-patent original-patent-requirement patent patent-reissue reissue statutory-construction u.s.-industrial-chemicals-inc-v-carbide-carbon-che |
Patent Owner and Petitioner obtained reissue patents with new patent claims, which broadened certain limitations and narrowed others vis-à-vis the ori… |
| 23-7118 |
Danilo Augusto Feliciano, aka Danil Ezekiel Faust v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-analysis due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation precedent-setting statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1051 |
Great American Insurance Company v. Crystal Shores Owners Association, Inc. |
Alabama |
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
binding-resolution contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act federal-law-vs-state-law independent-appraisal independent-appraisal-panel statutory-construction |
I. Does federal law or state law govern what qualifies as an "arbitration" provision under the Federal Arbitration Act?
II. Does a contract's dispute… |
| 23-7021 |
Darron Henderson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach divisibility federal-courts mathis-standard modified-categorical-approach state-law statutory-construction third-circuit-test |
Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility —which makes subsection organization dispositive, and which permits examination of facts if a statut… |
| 23-6956 |
David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction |
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| 23A766 |
Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency agency-authority jurisdictional-interpretation patent-review statutory-construction statutory-deadline |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6689 |
Guy Mena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment assault-rifle assault-rifles common-use constitutional-interpretation dangerous-and-unusual-weapon high-capacity-magazine high-capacity-magazines methodology second-amendment statutory-construction weapon-classification |
Whether 26 U.S.C. §5861(e) comports with the Second Amendment?
Subsidiary question: whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending the r… |
| 23-6606 |
In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL
SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS
-ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE
FOR ADII.WHE… |
| 23-6576 |
Caitlyn Williams and Tamarae Larue v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compulsory-education constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness school-attendance statutory-construction vagueness |
Whether the language "on a regular basis" in the compulsory school attendance law is impermissibly vague in violation of due process guarantees. |
| 23-800 |
Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act |
The Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1635 (or "TILA"), requires that a borrower tell a lender within three years of her intent to rescind the loan. J… |
| 23-6526 |
Larry Coates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa… |
| 23-6440 |
Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the U.S.S.G Commentary being issued on a High in § 2L1.1 is unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to notice and comment to the … |
| 23-6312 |
Andre Reese v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-6208 |
Pleadro J. Scott v. Miami Dade County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
advocacy appellate-process appellate-review case-law civil-procedure court-procedure discretion due-process incomplete-record judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-construction |
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| 23-527 |
Raji Rab v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. |
California |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-integrity election-law judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vote-counting |
1. Whether the lower courts failed to address the important question of law to prevent the violation of constitutional rights and the greatest miscarr… |
| 23-5975 |
Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
1. Are inferior courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in particular, allowed unrestricted and unrestrained freedom to interpret the clear and une… |
| 23A415 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-discretion family-law legal-interpretation legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5800 |
Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment |
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| 23-5813 |
Medghyne Calonge, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-venue data-access due-process fair-trial government-abuse statutory-construction venue venue-requirements vicinage |
Petitioner was convicted of two Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) violations requiring "damage" to protected computers. At trial, the government's e… |
| 23-364 |
Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender reg… |
| 23-5662 |
Charles Keith Wampler v. Alicia Handwerk, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-laws due-process interpretation judicial-interpretation judicial-writing legal-argument legal-interpretation legislative-drafting legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-laws word-definition |
It is an established fact that some laws, whether they be statutory laws or case laws, can be written in a way that is confusing to the lay person. Wh… |
| 23-5572 |
Joseph W. Fischer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i… |
| 23-225 |
Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability |
Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document "relates to th… |
| 23-185 |
HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-116 conception-standard federal-circuit federal-circuit-interpretation joint-invention joint-inventorship patent patent-claim patent-inventorship patent-specification statutory-construction |
1. Whether joint inventorship requires anything more than a contribution to conception that is stated in a patent claim.
2. Whether, under Section 11… |
| 23-5304 |
Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
The Safety Valve provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), instructs district courts to sentence under the guidelines without regard to any statutory mandatory … |
| 23-5273 |
Cory Joe Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights? |
| 22-1222 |
Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-20 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
26-usc-5845 administrative-law atf-regulation bump-stock-prohibition bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives chevron-deference machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-construction |
(1) Whether the definition of "machinegun" in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) includes non-mechanical bump stocks.
(2) If the definition of "machinegun" in 26 U.… |
| 22-1206 |
Kyung Chang Industry USA, Inc., dba KCI USA v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine commerce-clause component-part firearm-components firearms-law gun-regulation interlocutory-review legislative-intent protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a magazine is a "component part of a firearm" under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. |
| 22-7760 |
Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force |
I. Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor , is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be c… |
| 22-7436 |
Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7398 |
Michael A. Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 appellate-jurisdiction ayestas-v-davis clemency-case collateral-order-doctrine eighth-circuit harbison-v-bell mcfarland medical-testing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether extending the narrowly construed collateral order doctrine of Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp. 337 U.S. 541 (1949), to all district co… |
| 22-682 |
Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction |
Article I of the United States Constitution provides all legislative Powers therein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Do Art… |
| 22-6536 |
Antoine D. Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-6109 |
Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit… |
| 22-451 |
Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (83)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law agency-power chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management maritime-regulation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-silence |
1. Whether, under a proper application of Chevron, the MSA implicitly grants NMFS the power to force domestic vessels to pay the salaries of the monit… |
| 22-5869 |
Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-360 |
Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
1. Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permi… |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 22-163 |
Lenair Moses v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 22-5361 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory Construction case.
Whether a Plea of Jurisdiction extends to Respondents ' f… |
| 22-5336 |
Brian Scott Berryman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-decisions criminal-law due-process federalism judicial-law legislative-intent public-interests standing statutory-construction |
1. A STATE COURT hAS dECidEd aN ImportANt fEDeRAl quEstiON iN AWAY
that Conflicts with relEvANt decisions of this CouRt AND THE
UNITED STATES COURT OF… |
| 22-117 |
Oussama El Omari v. The International Criminal Police Organization, aka INTERPOL |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration immunity international-organization ioia jam-v-intl-fin-corp public-international-organization statutory-construction treaty-interpretation treaty-ratification |
I. Whether INTERPOL is entitled to immunity as a
"public" international organization under 22 U.S.C.
§ 288 of the IOIA as interpreted by Jam v. Int'l … |
| 22-5169 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1439 |
Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to the following issue: Whether Miss.… |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-7711 |
Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT … |
| 21-1195 |
Alexandru Bittner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
bank-secrecy-act civil-penalty fbar fbar-reporting foreign-accounts penalty-assessment per-account per-form statutory-construction treasury-regulations |
Whether a "violation" under the Act is the failure to file an annual FBAR (no matter the number of foreign accounts), or whether there is a separate v… |
| 21-6895 |
Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction |
Whether a sworn and verified criminal complaint can be commenced under Illinois law (Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 38, Para. 109-3(C)) without violating the Fou… |
| 21-6658 |
Donald Ray Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary? |
| 21-6592 |
Donald Stanley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6387 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Pr… |
| 21-6280 |
Johnny Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-6062 |
Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED… |
| 21-528 |
Willie H. Goffney, Jr., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review medicare medicare-claims regulatory-deference regulatory-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the regulatory deference test set forth in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Kisor v. Wilkie, --- U.S. ---, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019), s… |
| 21-519 |
Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit |
Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends… |
| 21-5922 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice that occurred when lower Court unc… |
| 21-430 |
Luke T. West v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution |
1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o… |
| 21-317 |
Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction |
1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County… |
| 21-5540 |
Guadalupe Urbina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 18-usc-924a2 8th-amendment 8th-circuit carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-firearm-possession criminal-history eighth-circuit-precedent felony-enhancement second-amendment-rights sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction |
I.
Because Urbina-Rodrigue z was never actually sentenced to
serve a term of imprisonment that exceeds one year, by the State
of Missouri's court ba… |
| 21-5457 |
Brian Fierro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 21-5356 |
Joel Dale Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 21-192 |
Gregory S. Simpson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aiding-and-abetting contraband criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea mens-rea statutory-construction |
1. Is it a constitutional due process violation for Petitioner's guilty plea to
distribution of indecent images to be accepted based on a theory that … |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (21) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Since this Court's 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), federal courts have deferred… |
| 21-5157 |
Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is the appeals court correct? Does 28 U.S.C. § 2106 or any federal statute authorize "a lesser included offense" of an unconstitutional statute, taken… |
| 21-58 |
Sassine Razzouk v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA? |
| 20-8064 |
Derrick Grant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits assaulting any person "designated in section 1114 of this title." Section § 1114 designate… |
| 20-1537 |
Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Truth-in-Lending-Act, passed by Congress into law, to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts. |
| 20-7909 |
Juan Pablo Price v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense, such that the government must prove both that the def… |
| 20-1468 |
Robert David Dupuch-Carron, et ux. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
|
compensation compensation-eligibility foreign-vaccination residency-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vaccine-act vaccine-injury |
1. Does the ordinary meaning of the words of section 11(c)(1)(B)(i)(III) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the NCVIA or "Vaccine Act"), 42… |
| 20-7779 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C. civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-authority prisoner-petition second-or-successive statutory-construction |
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CouRis CONS^R u/nJ of P$iitioN£US ff&tofJ AS AH
SUdaBSSivB. … |
| 20-1427 |
Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Congress has made it a crime to engage in certain sexual acts with detainees who are "pending deportation." 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(… |
| 20-1369 |
Mohammed Jabateh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction |
Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… |
| 20-7338 |
Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ' Judgment, that affirmed an illegal
mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner by the ar… |
| 20-7228 |
Leroy Pooler v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the… |
| 20-7205 |
Leonardo Franqui v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction |
1. Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to be conducted in order to assess a capital defendant's intellectua… |
| 20-1124 |
Michael Don Leatherwood v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
|
affidavit criminal-procedure due-process fair-warning ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion probation probation-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Was Petitioner subject to the release conditions of probation while he was in prison?
Does the statute which defines probation as "a procedure by whi… |
| 20-1113 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic… |
| 20-7099 |
Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of "controlled substance offense" to add inchoate offenses n… |
| 20-6596 |
Kevin S. Abney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 20-6533 |
Grover B. Reed v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process … |
| 20-6515 |
Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law |
1.Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory
construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and
if so, whether the Due Process Clause … |
| 20-6436 |
Daniel Lovato v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Wh… |
| 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… |
| 20-6101 |
Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6043 |
Robin Lee Archer v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 20-5937 |
Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th… |
| 20-5700 |
Antonio Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5456 |
Lorenzo Robertson v. Ozell Pace, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 20-184 |
Jamel Ellerbee v. Annett Holdings, Inc., dba TMC Transportation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
29-cfr-1987-110-b 49-usc-31105 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act commercial-motor-vehicle due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction transportation |
Whether statutory construction of 49 U.S.C. §31105 conflicts with judicial review, 29 C.F.R. § 1987.110(b), of the Administrative Procedure Act?
Whet… |
| 20-5277 |
Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure |
(1) Is Joseph Thompson Jr. Being denied his 13th, 14th, 15th The United States District Court For Eastern District of Louisiana, and United States cou… |
| 20-28 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction |
Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of … |
| 20-5092 |
Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court |
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| 20-5026 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction |
Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio… |
| 19-8914 |
Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind |
Principle of strict statutory construction requires that term "fear" should not be construed broadly to include any non-violent acts of "economic loss… |
| 19-8918 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of
person's property once it no longera
serves a government purpose in the
prosecu… |
| 19-1306 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation |
1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses… |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 19-1140 |
In Re Wesley Perkins |
|
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure |
1.a
(NeW) Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art.
42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied?
1.b
(New) Are TEX.RS.APP.P. 25.2(a)(2), (d)
unconstitutional, facial… |
| 19-8013 |
Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7207 |
Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea |
Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv… |
| 19-7141 |
Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction |
When the legislature has met spoken in law eluent that is clear and definite and has at fixed the punishment for a offense duly and without ambiguity,… |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 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… |
| 19-6891 |
Ahmad Khan Rahimi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2332a attempted-use attempted-use-of-weapon-of-mass-destruction criminal-law criminal-statute-interpretation detonation explosive-device explosives federal-criminal-code possession-of-weapon public-safety statutory-construction statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-law weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons |
Whether a defendant's attempted "use" of a weapon of mass
destruction, an element of 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, includes conduct besides detonation
such as co… |
| 19-6692 |
Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6605 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction |
Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES CONSTITUTIONALLY
18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4);
42 Pa C,S. §9542;
42 Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i);
42 Pa. C.S. §9545(… |
| 19-6623 |
Mario Denane Fultz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6628 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction |
Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4):
42 Pa G.S. §0542;
42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i);
42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4);
42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6353 |
Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the general, residual phrase "takes any other action" in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6340 |
Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal court of appeals below correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction unde… |
| 19-508 |
AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (6) |
administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts |
Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th… |
| 19-6307 |
Andrew Oreckinto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec… |
| 19-6220 |
Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power |
When the National Firearms Act ("NFA") was passed in 1934, the sole constitutional authority for the law was Congress's power to tax under U.S. Const.… |
| 19-6022 |
Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction |
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| 19-6018 |
Joey Little v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise |
Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-372 |
William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative "voids ".
… |
| 19-312 |
Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction |
Whether Section 4072's provision of "exclusive" federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers. |
| 19-295 |
Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction |
Whether, in light of this Court's decisions in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), the court of appeals… |
| 19-252 |
Michael Adam Booth v. Nissan North America, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
ada-amendments ada-amendments-act-of-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition judicial-precedent legislative-intent major-life-activity reasonable-accommodation rules-of-construction statutory-construction sutton-v-united-air-lines toyota-v-williams work-restrictions workplace-accommodation |
Whether the 2008 Amendment to the Americans Disability Act extends the definition of disability to permanent work restrictions precluding manual tasks… |
| 19-5530 |
Leroy Lyons v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights statutory-construction wrongful-conviction |
Motion to shik Coeriosari on in Dieu of granting Coontisani Remand to the ixth Lovicil imstuwith chions to consider the amended Bile5 moerid sfer Rema… |
| 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… |
| 19-5372 |
Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. |
Florida |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings |
"REGISTRY." LUST MAINTAINED BY THE CLERK OF THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT UNCONSTTUTONAL AMERICANS WITH DISABLLITIES AET?
2) DiD DESIGNATIRON UNDER FLORI… |
| 19-5270 |
Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-73 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis |
1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C… |
| 19-41 |
Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions |
May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … |
| 19-16 |
Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (5) |
18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have held, or… |
| 18-1576 |
Adriano Kruel Budri v. Daniel M. Humphreys |
Texas |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights defamation due-process employment-dispute free-speech legislative-interpretation private-communication private-employment-dispute snyder-v-phelps statutory-construction texas-citizens-participation-act |
1) Does the TCPA apply to a private employment dispute that involved allegedly defamatory statements in a private intended audience and being in a pri… |
| 18-1540 |
VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct |
The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.… |
| 18-1511 |
Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Controlled Substances Act permit the United States to impose a fine for each and every technical violation of … |
| 18-9495 |
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff… |
| 18-9411 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the judicial construction of "lascivious exhibition" of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-1396 |
Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Arkansas |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image… |
| 18-8835 |
Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional |
ARE THE LOWER COURT ABUSING THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925 TO IGNORE FRAUD ON THE COURT?
ARE THE LOWER COURTS USING THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925 AS AN ALTERN… |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8327 |
Robert Nathan Alm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8133 |
Daryl Mingo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction |
When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(C)(1)(A) periodically, did Congress give federal criminal courts discretion to make their own … |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta… |
| 18-1083 |
Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. |
Washington |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
|
collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation |
(1) Whether a state labor claim that requires the
plaintiff to show that an employer acted with
"willfulness," "unreasonableness," or other mental
sta… |
| 18-1088 |
Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test |
For over 70 years, the Court has used a common law patent eligibility test that deviates from the language and plain meaning of the patent eligibility… |
| 18-8068 |
Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-7714 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses |
I. Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding in light of Missouri v. Hunter convictions for common law first degree murder did not merger… |
| 18-983 |
City of Mackinac Island, Michigan, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference chenery-doctrine federal-power-act judicial-review regulatory-agency retroactive-rate-increase retroactive-rate-increases statutory-construction |
Does the prohibition against retroactive rate increases, Ark. La. Gas Co. v. Hall, 453 U.S. 571 (1981), FPC v. Tenn. Gas Trans. Co., 371 U.S. 145, 152… |
| 18-7598 |
Carol J. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7555 |
Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction |
1. Are State prisoners governed by Dodd v. United States, 545 U.S.353 (2005) which governs the activation of the limitations period for newly recogniz… |
| 18-7364 |
Brandon M. Chambers v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-interpretation grammar grammatical-construction judicial-deference judicial-discretion legislative-intent punctuation state-court statutory-analysis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
That responsibility/power does a State District court have in interpreting a provision of a statute, and when interpreting a statute to determine legi… |
| 18-849 |
HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
This patent infringement case squarely presents a question acknowledged by the Court but left unanswered in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brand… |
| 18-7178 |
David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark |
THE CIRCUIT COURT SHOULD HAVE GRANTED MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BECAUSE THE COURT ERRED IN THEIR PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATUTE IN THE UNITED STA… |
| 18-717 |
PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… |
| 18-6662 |
Eddie Lee Shular v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense"
under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same
categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 18-6478 |
In Re Inzel Gaitor |
|
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-status judicial-review legislative-repeal public-contracts public-service separation-of-powers standing state-agency state-government statutory-construction statutory-provision |
If legislatures of a "Esitate'iRepeal" members, employees, and expenses of 9 [sate-created agency;can the agencymembers,employees, andexpenses legisla… |
| 18-534 |
Well Luck Company, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law customs-classification customs-law explanatory-notes general-rules-of-interpretation hts-heading-1206 hts-heading-2008 legislative-intent nesoi prior-statutory-construction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tariff-classification trade-classification |
Whether the panel disregarded legislative intent and prior statutory construction to improperly use the General Rules of Interpretation and the Explan… |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior… |
| 18-356 |
Robert Edward Orth v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-regulation all-inclusive-terms citizen-definition citizenship-definition constitutional-claims due-process free-speech impermissible-expansion passport-privileges procedural-due-process statutory-construction tax-law taxpayer-rights |
Is the citizen in the statutory definition at 26 U.S.C. § 1402(b) an American, like the Petitioner?
Do the individuals in § 1402(b) and 26 C.F.R. 1.1… |
| 18-5976 |
In Re Jaame Amun Re El |
|
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis |
Qustin.Is t ueditat's duty toterret a ta?
Question. Are Banking statutes appropriate for alleged banking violations?
Can a Federal prisoner seek rel… |
| 18-216 |
Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation |
Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667, 686 (2000), because, as Justice Thomas's dissent predicted, the lower cour… |
| 18-107 |
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33)Relisted (13) |
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender |
1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's
prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42
U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and
in… |
| 18-72 |
DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing |
1. Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to su… |
| 18-5058 |
Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness |
Whether when a Fed.R.Crim.P. 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f)(1).(A) Brief is. filed for rehearing en banc, that the Court of Appeals governed under Fed.R.App.P. 4… |