| 25-864 |
Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu |
Georgia |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness |
1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione… |
| 25-5055 |
Andrew Marowitz v. Cory Dostie |
California |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-law due-process first-amendment housing-discrimination tenant-rights void-for-vagueness |
1. Does the Department of Fair Employment and Housing statutes regarding
misgendering of a transgender room renter, when describing the individual as… |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very
contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This
prohibition cannot be applied literally … |
| 24-126 |
Benjamin Galecki, and Charles Burton Ritchie v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
chemical-structure continuing-criminal-enterprise controlled-substances criminal-law jury-instruction void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness as applied to the substance XLR-11?
2. Whether a co-defend… |
| 23-7494 |
Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
1. Is it repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States to convict and incarcerate
a United States citizen, and deprive him of… |
| 23-1105 |
National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions drone-surveillance due-process first-amendment free-speech intermediate-scrutiny standing vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Do journalists and news organizations whose First Amendment rights are chilled by an ambiguous criminal law have standing to bring a facial void-fo… |
| 23-6753 |
Michael Avenatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 civil-litigation criminal-extortion federal-criminal-law honest-services-fraud legal-ethics settlement-negotiations statutory-vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner, an attorney representing a plaintiff with potential contract and tort claims, was convicted of honest services fraud, in violation of 18 U… |
| 23-646 |
Devon Tinius, et al. v. Luke Choi, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights curfew curfew-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the District of Columbia's curfew law is unconstitutional because it violates fundamental rights and because it is overbroad and void for vagu… |
| 23-6061 |
George Oscar Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause of "or otherwise " of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process cl… |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5222 |
Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition?
2. Whether the Trial C… |
| 22-7906 |
Lamar McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness |
1)Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw?
Are the Lower Courts (Appeals Courts included)
misapplying Apprendi and Mr. McDonald Fifth and Sixth … |
| 22-7198 |
Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness |
1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 … |
| 22-6644 |
Sayantan Ghose v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
citizens-arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing void-for-vagueness |
Will the U.S. Supreme Court review and recommend a more SENSIBLE and SAFER Citizen's Arrest Protocol by Aspiring Law Professor and Missionary Ghose (m… |
| 22-6225 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 18USC 10), apply to 18USC 722(c)(G)?
(2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Con… |
| 22-6112 |
Aakash A. Dalal v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-validity due-process facial-challenge salerno-test standing void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether litigants may bring facial constitutional challenges to laws without first successfully raising as-applied challenges?
2. Whether litigant… |
| 22-385 |
Roger David Towers v. Mike Hamasaki |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-review due-process habeas judicial-referral magistrate-assignment standing void-for-vagueness |
1. In light of CAED district judge 's admission
that they are "wholly unable to handle civil
matters and the district court 's order assigning
this… |
| 22-5897 |
Unises Chapotin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding
United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to
Johnso… |
| 22-317 |
Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law?
2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi… |
| 22-5394 |
Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as
relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is
imperm… |
| 22-5276 |
Daniel Naftalovich v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Four, et al. |
California |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-statutory-scheme domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process emotional-calm ex-parte-restraining fundamental-rights prior-restraint-on-speech separation-of-powers void-for-vagueness |
A - Primary questions presented
1) Is California 's Domestic Violence Prevention Act (DVPA) a criminal statutory scheme
where it results as a matter … |
| 22-5196 |
Malik Holloway v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession |
Isn't 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) which criminalizes the mere possession in a federal courthouse of practically any item unconstitutionally vague? |
| 22-5119 |
Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as… |
| 21-7554 |
William Burke v. Rosa Childs, et al. |
Georgia |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge court-access due-process incarcerated-litigants necessary-state-interest procedural-fairness statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Preface : The first eight questions were presented to the Georgia Supreme Court in an
application for writ of certiorari, which was denied without co… |
| 21-5322 |
André J. Twitty v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness |
Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut… |
| 21-5132 |
Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 20-8300 |
Lonnie Norton v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
(N) Do this Court's rulings in Apprend: v. New Jersey,530U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States 577 U.S.99 (2013) require that when a state stat… |
| 20-7522 |
Joshua R. Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 20-6645 |
Joe Cervantes, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jury-trial notice-of-charges void-for-vagueness void-statutes |
1. Does AEDPA v deprive federal courts of the power and obligation to review claims—Not previously known and could NOT have been known through reasona… |
| 20-6249 |
Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop… |
| 20-5891 |
Mauricio Alvarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, which uses the terms "misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties" does not p… |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 20-5596 |
Kevin Dean Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Does Beckles U. United States, U.S. —, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017) foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that… |
| 20-5393 |
Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness |
1. Does the sentencing courthave Jurisdictionto Sentence a defen dant
to a statute void of judgment,un-enforceable undar the Constitution?
charging, s… |
| 19-8783 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis.
II. … |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8645 |
Joe Cephus Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the separation-of-powers doctrine because the statute allows a prosecutor to unilaterally se… |
| 19-8100 |
Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7981 |
Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker … |
| 19-7766 |
Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. |
California |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-7755 |
Scott Michael Patrick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the right initially recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory G… |
| 19-7777 |
John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness |
Is West Virginia's sexual offender registration scheme, which requires the disclosure of any telephone number that a registrant "has" or "uses," uncon… |
| 19-7764 |
Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United States,… |
| 19-7604 |
Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7573 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness |
Question I. WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM FOR 38 U.S.C. §4215?
Question II. WHAT IS THE NEXT BEST ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ABSENT THE US… |
| 19-7532 |
Travis Welsh v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 3.850-motion 8th-amendment capital-sexual-battery civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus law-of-the-case motion-filing petition standing void-for-vagueness |
I.
DID THE COURTS REFUSAL TO ACCEPT THE TIMELY 3.850 MOTION
FILING BECAUSE IT DID NOT IDENTIFY THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE
CERTIFICATION OF SERVICE VIO… |
| 19-7412 |
Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-850 |
Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases such as Derrico's where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitr… |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his
18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6755 |
Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-6769 |
Steven Hicks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
Whether the residu… |
| 19-6736 |
Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-6652 |
Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United… |
| 19-6566 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
New York |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-possession-of-a-weapon criminal-possession-of-weapon criminal-procedure due-process home-exception ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loaded-firearm penal-law penal-law-265.15(4) standing void-for-vagueness |
1. tether New York State residents are always actually innocent of felony and attsipted felony criminal possession of a weapon offenses if they posses… |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6521 |
Marcus T. Simmons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6287 |
Seferino Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6247 |
In Re Donald Lee McDonald |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States where his natural life sentence und… |
| 19-469 |
John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-6243 |
Jackie Ray Patrick v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process indictment indictment-validity jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mississippi-law standing state-law void-for-failure-to-state-offense void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER PATRICK'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM A DEFECTIVE INDICTMENT WHEREAS THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE INDICTMENT OR CHARGE(S) WHICH PATR… |
| 19-6083 |
Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro |
California |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining "abuse" (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitu… |
| 19-5380 |
In Re Charles L. Cox |
|
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.12§5(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness? Where the term 'deferred adjud… |
| 19-5363 |
Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause; and
Whether this make… |
| 19-5308 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that the Court has now answered in United States v. Davis… |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I.
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in
Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5315 |
Raymond Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions void-for-vagueness |
I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric… |
| 19-5316 |
Abelee Bronson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5219 |
Bobby G. Pullen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric… |
| 18-9662 |
Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness |
As construed to apply to statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats, is Prohibited Act Code 203 crafted so that its "limitation of First Am… |
| 18-9360 |
Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9285 |
Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California |
California |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and over-breadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Con… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-1434 |
United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-9266 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Petitioners were convicted of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of crimes of violence. The dis… |
| 18-9275 |
James Troiano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-residual-clause advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states townsend-misinformation townsend-v-burke vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should a COA issue because reasonable jurists could conclude that Johnson's interpretation of the ACCA's residual clause triggers a Townsend claim aga… |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-8886 |
In Re James Rodgers, Jr. |
|
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER ACTR NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, IS FACIALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF SECTION 13A-5-40(a), CODE O… |
| 18-8718 |
Anthony C. Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8455 |
Marc Shiroma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery constitutional crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery ussg-4b1.2 void-for-vagueness |
1. Is a threatened use of physical force against the person of another an element of federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), so as to make it a crim… |
| 18-7996 |
Emory Watkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-conspiracy residual-clause statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause at 18 USC Sec. 924 ( c) (3) (B) is void for vagueness, a question that divides seven Court of Appeals?
2. Whether the… |
| 18-7828 |
Robert Largo v. New York |
New York |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-law-section-440.10 due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penal-law-section-70.02 persistent-violent-felony sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Did the New York State Supreme Court err in holding that as-applied, the part of Penal Law Section 70.02, subdivision one (2), challenged as being voi… |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7413 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
1. Does Full Faith and Credit as defined and as ordered by this Supreme Court in Steel v. Parson Inc., 474 U.S. 518 (1986) at 523-525, apply to Brando… |
| 18-7286 |
Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness |
One area where free speech is under significant attack is within this country's school
system, where perhaps the most vulnerable class of individuals … |
| 18-7225 |
Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights |
Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional? This petition challenges the constitutionality of the federal Home Equity Conversion Mo… |
| 18-7060 |
Brian William Schumaker v. Hector Joyner, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process judicial-notice jury-instructions prudential-consideration theory-of-defense void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER the lower courts, hearing the petitioner's Constitutional claims of "actual innocence" and "theory of defense" instructions delivered to the t… |
| 18-7036 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6760 |
David Junior Upshaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. May a defendant, faced with a silent record below, prove that his ACCA enhanced sentence was in deed based upon the residual clause through a proce… |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner Joseph David Robertson is an elderly Navy veteran who ran a fire fighting support truck business deep in the Montana woods. He dug some wat… |
| 18-6397 |
Angel Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated and proceedings unfair considering that the Second Circuit granted both summary affirmance t… |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-6303 |
Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6284 |
Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-431 |
United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6112 |
Opherro G. Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6138 |
Lance Fox v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-369 |
Fidencio Valdez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
|
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony |
1. When a defendant knows or should know that a prosecutor has used or introduced false or perjured evidence before the trier-of-fact, is there an obl… |
| 18-318 |
Christos Koutentis v. New York City Police Department, Licensing Division |
New York |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms-permit firearms-regulation licensing nypd-regulations revocation second-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Do the N.Y.P.D. regulations, as applicable to the revocation of a firearms permit, violate the Petitioner's rights under the Second Amendment?
Are th… |
| 18-284 |
Scott Gessler v. Matt Smith, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-state civil-penalty civil-rights due-process government-ethics notice quasi-criminal vagueness void-for-vagueness |
By popular initiative Colorado created an Independent Ethics Commission with the power to enforce a gift ban and specific influence peddling standards… |
| 18-5383 |
James Rodney Shuman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… |
| 18-5234 |
Marcos Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness.
Whether the granting of a request to join in motions of a co-def… |
| 18-5193 |
William Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether reliance on the "residual clause" of the "crime of violence" definition in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2), is… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … |