unconstitutionally-vague

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6119 Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague 1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th…
22-5985 Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague 1. Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment? …
21-5583 Jordan Lee Bell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing due-process first-amendment pornographic-matter supervised-release unconstitutionally-vague 1. Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of "any pornographic matter" violate due process as unconstitut…
20-1167 Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied firearm-possession guilty-knowledge plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment-rights statutory-exceptions unconstitutionally-vague visa-holder 1. Should the Court grant review to clarify that the guilty knowledge of status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B), means knowledge that one's leg…
19-8640 Paul N. Littles v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness Johnson-v-United-States mandatory-sentencing-guidelines postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent unconstitutionally-vague The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version …
19-6785 Bobbie London, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline residual-clause statute-of-limitations unconstitutionally-vague vagueness-doctrine 1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career…
19-6195 Alejandro Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness (1) DOES THIS COURTS DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAVIS 588 U.S. 139 S.Ct.2319 (2019) HOLDING THAT 18.U.S.C S 924()(3)(B) IS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY V…
18-8025 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstit utionally vague, given the Court's holding in…
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-120 Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American …
18-5052 Thomas Cureton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP 924(c) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence interstate-communication johnson-v-united-states ransom-request residual-clause section-924c unconstitutionally-vague Whether Mr. Cureton's § 924(c) conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Interstate Communication of…