willful-blindness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6839 | Eric Fru Nji, Wilson Nuyila Tita, and Wilson Che Fonguh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof firearms-trafficking jury-instructions pinkerton-liability willful-blindness | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred by allowing the jury to be instructed under a Pinkerton standard, a willful blindness instruction,… |
| 25-589 | Robert B. Mitchell v. General Motors LLC | Michigan | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-requirements due-process hearing-procedure substantial-evidence willful-blindness | DID "THE COURT ' ERR IN NOT RULING THE ALJ 'S DECISION WAS CONTRARY TO LAW AND THAT IT WAS NOT SUPPORTED BY COMPETENT, MATERIAL, AND SUBSTANTIAL EV… |
| 23-7430 | Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness | Plain Error; Summary Judgment; Willful Blindness; Abuse of Discretion; Fairness; Integrity and Public Reputation of Judicial Proceedings. |
| 23-7277 | Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness | Plain Error; Summary Judgment; Willful Blindness; Abuse of Discretion; Fairness; Integrity and Public Reputation of Judicial Proceedings; Ends of Just… |
| 22-6634 | Rafael Espino v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness | The majority of federal statutes require a defendant to act "knowingly" to incur criminal liability, meaning that the defendant must have actual knowl… |
| 22-5346 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | GVR | IFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness | 1. Whether the District Court erred by instructing the deliberate-indifference instruction based upon the facts in this case when it denied defendant'… |
| 22-5295 | Nizar Trabelsi, aka Nizar Ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi, aka Abu Qa'Qa v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-prosecution due-process extradition-treaty foreign-court-rulings judicial-deference ministerial-determination prior-prosecution willful-blindness | 1. Whether a trial court considering a request for dismissal of an indictment based on the violation of an extradition treat y's prohibition on prior … |
| 21-6736 | Steven R. Henson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-28 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness | 1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie… |
| 21-424 | KD, et ux., as Parents, Natural Guardians, and Next Friends of Minor LD v. Douglas County School District No. 001, aka Omaha Public Schools, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights damages default-judgment due-process jury-trial victim-rights willful-blindness | 1. May a convicted rapist sued by the victim deprive the victim of trial by jury to determine damages by defaulting and declining to respond to the Co… |
| 19-5466 | James Michael Farrell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defense criminal-defense-lawyer criminal-prosecution drug-distribution-organization due-process money-laundering willful-blindness | In the context of a criminal prosecution of a criminal defense lawyer who was charged with functioning as the "consiglieri" of a drug distribution org… |
| 18-8965 | Olusola Olla v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness | 1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
| 18-7296 | Demetrio Cisneros v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness | Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute knowledge of the specific contraband being imported? |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c… |