statutory-definition
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5596 | Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition | Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words - (frivolous) - as noted in Webster's Third New International Dictionary… |
| 23-6770 | Juan Carlos Burns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)? |
| 22-6323 | Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of … |
| 21-6453 | Duane Nishiie, aka Suh Jae Hon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | fraud-offenses legal-interpretation precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation war-nexus wartime-suspension-act wartime-suspension-of-limitations-act | I. Whether the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act suspends the statute of limitations for fraud offenses that have no nexus to the war or armed con… |
| 21-56 | Timothy Muir v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury | The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 20-308 | La Boom Disco, Inc. v. Radames Duran | Second Circuit | 2020-09-09 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-court-interpretation federal-communications-commission hobbs-act human-intervention random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-definition telephone-consumer-protection-act | 1. Does the statutory definition of ATDS encompass any device that can "store" telephone numbers, even if the device does not "us[e] a random or seque… |
| 19-6902 | Samir Benamor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a 922(g)(1) prosecution, the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics th… |
| 19-6794 | Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination | 1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta… |
| 18-5655 | Cory D. Foster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |