strict-liability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-740 | Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Denied | Amici (1) | diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability | When Petitioner's husband died of COVID-19 in Colorado, she brought a wrongful death action into federal court, alleging novel tort claims against the… |
| 23-7263 | Everald S. Allen, Jr. v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | command-influence constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction military-justice presidential-comments strict-liability trial-integrity unlawful-command-influence | Whether the trial and conviction of Everald Allen Jr. was tainted as a direct cause of actual Unlawful Command Influence (UCI), appearance of unlawful… |
| 23-7114 | Richard Marschall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-mislabeling due-process felony fifth-amendment food-and-drug-administration mens-rea recidivist recidivist-enhancement strict-liability | 1. Whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment mandates a mens rea term for the felony recidivist enhancement, 21 U.S.C. § 333(a)(2), of the… |
| 23-328 | Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. | Alaska | 2023-09-28 | Denied | constitutional-taking due-process environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substance strict-liability takings water-system | 1. Whether the Alaska Supreme Court's imposition of strict liability violated petitioners' right to due process, when the State had taken the position… | |
| 22-7246 | Mikequale Miller v. Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack of Delaware, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process gideon-v-wainwright pro-se-litigant products-liability standing strict-liability | Should a Pro Se Litigant in a products-liability case be given the same or similar Constitutional protection and liberties as Pro Se criminal defendan… |
| 22-7137 | Eric Deangelo Griggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-distribution due-process heroin-distribution jury-instruction perjured-testimony strict-liability | I. Whether a person can be convicted for distribution of heroin causing death using a jury instruction that makes the offense a strict liability crime… |
| 22-6993 | Kenneth Ray Carlyle, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights ex-convict-firearms felons interstate-commerce right-to-bear-arms sawed-off-shotguns second-amendment strict-liability | 1. Whether A Hiéterical Analysis of the Second Amendment Reveals . 'Felons Armed With Sawed-Off Shotguns Guarding Other Felons The Right of Property I… |
| 22-6869 | Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas | Kansas | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability | Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 21-7841 | Danny Jewell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability | The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-6816 | N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability | I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w… |
| 21-6049 | Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-5501 | Michael David McCall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony | Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 21-5266 | Alla V. Stepanets v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1) Whether a defendant "dispenses" drugs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(l)(B) when they are shipped to a medical facility where a physician will write… |
| 20-8082 | Eric Deshan Adams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony | U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 20-7315 | Ursula Owens v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability | Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
| 20-7253 | Nancy Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 19-1400 | Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, LLC v. State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration | Florida | 2020-06-23 | Denied | administrative-law causation due-process license-revocation licensure-revocation mitigating-evidence notice opportunity-to-be-heard strict-liability substantial-causes | As a Licensee facing revocation, the most severe punishment possible, the Licensee has a fundamental due process right to meaningful notice and opport… | |
| 19-7952 | Michael Deon Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7314 | Johnny L. Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | IFP | acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses… |
| 19-6826 | Jennifer Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-6784 | Jermaine Whyte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a self-standing strict liability offense with regard to the age of the victim that removes the mens rea element in… |
| 19-6770 | Vinca S. Chiu v. First Group America, et al. | Oregon | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure claim-dismissal due-process judicial-order legal-remedy motion-practice scope-of-relief standing strict-liability summary-judgment trial-court trial-court-authority ultrahazardous-activities | Is a trial court authorized to expand the scope of a legal remedy that was not requested in a motion for summary judgment before the court? Does a le… |
| 19-6282 | Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United Sta… |
| 19-200 | Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged tra… |
| 19-132 | Lawrence I. Fejokwu v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Third Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law agency-deference agency-delegation civil-rights due-process regulatory-enforcement regulatory-investigation self-regulatory-organization strict-liability willfulness | 1. Willfulness & Good-faith: This Court held in Taggart, that "willfulness " requires "no fair ground of doubt " and in both Safeco and McLaughlin, th… |
| 18-9699 | Jose Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9547 | Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qu… |
| 18-9205 | Antonio Ballesteros v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability | I. Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine generated data that implicates the… |
| 18-1368 | San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission | California | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause | Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in… |
| 18-8447 | Javis Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-1202 | Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-15 | Denied | 6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability | 1. Whether Ohio's imposition of strict liability for even inadvertent, accidental or unknowing dissemination of child pornography violates due process… | |
| 18-8360 | Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-8224 | Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability | In Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), this Court recently held that a federal criminal threats statute required a knowingly mens rea and… |
| 18-8082 | Elton Lee Baker, Sr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt charging-information criminal-attempt criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea strict-liability | CAN A CITIZEN BE CONVICTED OF AN UNCHARGED CRIME OF ATTEMPT OF THE PRIMARY CHARGES IN THE CHARGING INFORMATION WITHOUT THE ATTEMPT STATUTE BEING INCLU… |
| 18-8050 | Alvaun Thompson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 | A federal criminal statute this Court has not construed, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, prohibits wide-ranging conduct that facilitates, directly or indirectly, th… |
| 18-7833 | Jerome Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability | I. Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offe… |
| 18-7816 | Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness | Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7642 | Kirk Lassend v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony | 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F… |
| 18-7306 | Michael Martin Steele v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video | Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… |
| 18-7105 | Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense… |
| 18-6707 | Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability | L In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally' mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) a… |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-5935 | Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |