| 25-911 |
Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud |
Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25-6604 |
In Re Angeliina L. Lawson |
|
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
ada-retaliation civil-rights judicial-bias mandamus pro-se rico |
Whether the Supreme Court should issue a writ of mandamus to correct the Tenth Circuit's denial of emergency relief for a pro se litigant facing proce… |
| 25-625 |
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 |
Whether a federal court may certify a class action with uninjured members and rely on representative evidence to prove individualized reliance |
| 25A498 |
Matthew Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Application |
|
indian-commerce-clause internet-loans rico sovereign-immunity state-regulation tribal-lending |
Whether the Indian Commerce Clause permits states to regulate internet-based loans originated by tribal lenders on an Indian reservation when the borr… |
| 25-391 |
Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud |
Whether the PSLRA bars a civil RICO claim based on conduct actionable as securities fraud by another potential plaintiff even if the particular RICO p… |
| 23A979 |
Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
crime-of-violence firearms-statute predicate-offense racketeering rico sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a reckless offense can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) following the Court's decision in B… |
| 23-7324 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity |
Whether the petitioner's continued life sentence represents an unwarranted sentencing disparity under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) |
| 23-7182 |
Jonathan Wray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that there is a nexus betwe… |
| 23-7100 |
Robert Merritt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing |
Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted |
| 23-6872 |
Dawn Wentworth v. Mission Vista High School & Personnel, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process education educational-discrimination fraud governmental-obstruction grade-fraud rico rico-statute systemic-racism |
Whether the inclusive evidence of documentation presented upon three (3) separate and distinct occasions arriving from three (3) separate and distinct… |
| 23-6771 |
Wild Chang, et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contract-rewriting due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-fraud RICO rico-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether national insurance companies can continue committing the RICO frauds |
| 23-6702 |
Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses |
Whether RICO incorporates state-law elements or only generic offense categories |
| 23-379 |
John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity |
Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime? |
| 23-365 |
Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to 'business or property by reason of' the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 23-5556 |
William L. Gladney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23-123 |
Ezekial Flatten, et al. v. Bruce Smith, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cannabis-commerce civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-limitations due-process federal-legislative-jurisdiction gonzales-v-raich property-rights rico rico-claims state-property-rights |
Should this Court reverse Shulman v. Kaplan and restore property rights in cannabis to a status equal to other property rights protectable under RICO? |
| 22-7748 |
Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure default-judgment discretionary-power evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review motion-to-dismiss rico rico-statute |
Whether it is an abuse of discretion to exclude relevant evidence in a RICO case |
| 22-1147 |
Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
|
defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act |
Whether the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prevents the application of defamation liability and RICO to undercover newsgathering |
| 22-995 |
Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing |
Whether a harm to an intangible property interest is a sufficient injury to a business or property interest under RICO |
| 22-965 |
Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court civil-procedure claim-requirements district-court legal-precedent legal-precedents res-judicata rico rico-claim supreme-court |
Validity of Res Judicata application to RICO claim |
| 22-879 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech rico standing |
Whether the Petitioner's brother Alexander Basile being murdered 6-3-22, the horrific beating and skewering of his body by unknown Secret Service, MI5… |
| 22-6978 |
Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws |
Can a RICO conviction stand without an 'Enterprise' or corrupt acts meeting a monetary threshold? |
| 22-642 |
General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
|
antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act |
Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca… |
| 22-6135 |
Monzell Harding v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes |
Was the district court required by JHuddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted … |
| 22-6067 |
Yazan Al-Madani v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim |
Whether an entity can be both an 'enterprise' and a 'victim' under RICO |
| 22-5913 |
John Berman v. Kristin Draper |
District of Columbia |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-interpretation continuity extortion fund-freezing hj-standard judicial-review legal-standard ongoing-entity predicate-acts regular-way-of-doing-business rico rico-continuity |
Does the DC Circuit's statement on RICO continuity directly contradict the HJ standard? |
| 22-383 |
CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing |
Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a 'domestic' injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t… |
| 22-5838 |
Yasser Ashburn v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-enterprise firearm-possession gang-related-purpose jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-act |
Whether requisite proof to establish a RICO offense or RICO conspiracy requires a 'gang related purpose' or 'gaining entrance to, or maintaining or in… |
| 22-5733 |
Robert Brown, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment |
Whether the District Court's denial of admission of evidence regarding a Government cooperating witness committing perjury was error and affected the … |
| 22-5687 |
Michael G. Peters v. Mital K. Brammbatt |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
anti-slapp civil-rights cruel-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-conspiracy prison-mail-misappropriations racketeering rico rico-anti-slapp selective-prosecution standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging a decade-long cover-up of political, judicial, and corporate racketeering cr… |
| 22-145 |
Aidong Chen v. KPMG LLP, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights corporate-influence due-process institutional-discrimination judicial-accountability judicial-independence judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute supreme-court-review |
How to deal with compromised judges in lower courts |
| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court is bound by the state statutory maximum exposure for RICO violations based on state racketeering activities |
| 22-36 |
Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages |
Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitute RICO economic damages? |
| 21-1608 |
McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities |
Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 21-1334 |
Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims |
Does-section-301-of-the-LMRA-preempt-RICO-claims |
| 21-7376 |
Khalil Stafford v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-dismissal murder new-jersey rico rico-offense sixth-amendment state-law-prosecution vicar |
Does the Double Jeopardy Clause preclude a Federal jury from considering petitioner's guilt for murder under New Jersey law after a New Jersey jury ac… |
| 21-904 |
Charles G. Kinney v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution ministerial-act rico rico-elements vexatious-litigant whistle-blower |
Whether judges intentionally abused a 'ministerial' act to conceal or cover-up that other judges had intentionally abused an 'administrative' act to e… |
| 21-6510 |
Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates |
Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury |
| 21-6239 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. M. Segal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) conspiracy-definition crime-of-violence elements-clause gambling-activity gambling-offense racketeering-activity rico rico-statute unlawful-debt |
Is § 1962(c)'s 'Unlawful Debt' an alternative crime or a means of fulfilling the element of racketeering activity? |
| 21-6122 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred by affirming the district court's denial of Lassiter's motion for judgment of acquittal on the RICO conspiracy char… |
| 21-360 |
Joseph Constant v. DTE Electric Company, aka DTE Energy, aka Detroit Edison Company, aka DTE, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights contract-conspiracy fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct rico rico-act |
Did Judge Kumar and the Executives of the Judges' RICO Enterprise made frauds upon the court |
| 21-5428 |
Crystal V. L. Rivers v. United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights crime-victims-rights-act criminal-procedure federal-investigation government-disclosure government-misconduct ongoing-investigation rico victim-notification |
Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) requires the government to inform a victim of her rights under the CVRA and the status of the investigati… |
| 21-125 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico |
Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded |
| 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 |
When that predicate state usury statute includes a legal element - that is, 'not being authorized or permitted by law to do so,' N.Y. Penal Law 190.40… |
| 20-8410 |
Brenda Ford White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-06-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … |
| 20-8409 |
Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-06-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 20-8295 |
Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether substantive RICO is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) |
| 20-1591 |
Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation |
Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the absolute qualified immunity? |
| 20-7723 |
Dangelo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err when concluding that Davis adopted the goal of furthering or facilitating the crimi… |
| 20-6918 |
Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt |
Whether a defendant is provided fair warning under due process when a federal statute is applied to create a federal crime of conduct otherwise lawful… |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy |
| 20-6439 |
Sidney Patterson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity due-process legislative-intent racketeering rico rico-statute sufficiency-of-evidence unsophisticated-crime vague-statute |
Does the application of a vaguely written racketeering statute to prosecute unsophisticated criminal activity not contemplated by the legislative inte… |
| 20-6424 |
Deloyd Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an 'enterprise' under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared… |
| 20-6346 |
Demarcus D. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing |
Whether the RICO and drug conspiracy counts in the indictment are unconstitutionally vague, whether the evidence supports the crack cocaine distributi… |
| 20-6342 |
Pedro Gutierrez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment general-verdict judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-case special-verdict |
Whether a RICO 'Gang' Case Certified as Complex Should Require the Use of a Special Verdict Form Rather Than a General Verdict Form |
| 20-5244 |
David Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and the First Circuit erred by declining to apply Application Note One as written |
| 20-33 |
Grace International Assembly of God v. Gennaro Festa, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pattern-continuity predicate-acts racketeering-activity RICO rico-statute standing victim-definition wire-fraud |
Whether only the entity sustaining the greatest direct injury may be considered a victim for the purposes of determining if there is closed-or-open-en… |
| 19-1324 |
Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) require a plaintiff or prosecutor claiming an 'open pattern' of racketeering to all… |
| 19-8376 |
Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy |
Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 19-8116 |
Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. |
Michigan |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 19-8115 |
Brenda R. White v. EDS Care Management, LLC, et al. |
Michigan |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-capacity medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … |
| 19-8114 |
Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. |
Michigan |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … |
| 19-8049 |
Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In… |
| 19-1087 |
Charles M. Hallinan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud |
Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful |
| 19-7701 |
Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing |
Will this court overturn the 9th circuit's denial of proven fraud on the district court and denial of Mr. Kerns' request for judgment by default? |
| 19-7566 |
Javed Asefi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-prosecution substantial-effect |
Whether federal jurisdiction exists in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) where neither the activities of the alleged enterprise nor the individu… |
| 19-900 |
Jessica Vennie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act |
Whether Rule 8(b) permits joinder of defendants who participated in the same legal enterprise but were not alleged to have coordinated with one anothe… |
| 19-7111 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Kevin S. Portnoy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection insurance rico standing statutory-interpretation texas-department-of-insurance |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment in the handling of his insurance claims against the… |
| 19-6947 |
Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette |
Whether a jury instruction that directs the jury that it does not need to find an existing de facto 'enterprise' in a RICO conspiracy case is proper |
| 19-6936 |
Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the text of the RICO statute, this Court's case law, case law from other Courts of Appeal, the First Circuit's case law, and the importance of… |
| 19-6820 |
Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code |
Whether the jury must find the specific predicate acts committed under the RICO conspiracy statute |
| 19-6630 |
Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien |
Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (a) against high-ranking government officials and officers of the court |
| 19-570 |
Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process |
Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process? |
| 19-6423 |
Halisi Uhuru v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization |
Whether the appellant was improperly convicted of RICO participation and obstruction of justice |
| 19-505 |
William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing |
Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP-12(b)(6)-motions,to-rule-upon-a-disputed-issue-of-fact-(the-sham-litigation-or-fraud-exception-to-claim… |
| 19-6176 |
Christopher Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense |
Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclude t… |
| 19-397 |
Susan Levy v. BASF Metals Limited, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action commodity-exchange-act discovery-accrual-rule discovery-rule due-process equitable-tolling opt-out rico statute-of-limitations |
Whether the lower courts erred in failing to apply American Pipe tolling to petitioner's opt-out case? |
| 19-176 |
R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act |
Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 19-5486 |
Jarrell Williams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy |
Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act divest the district court of jurisdiction over the petitioner's prosecution? |
| 19-5033 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing |
Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with |
| 18-1489 |
Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
|
automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the ba… |
| 18-8765 |
Michael A. Young v. Thomas Duncan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure equitable-tolling recusal rico standing statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified |
| 18-8741 |
Francisco Frank Apodaca, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association-in-fact corporation enterprise enterprise-definition guilty-plea individuals ineffective-assistance legal-entity rico rico-statute sentencing-error statutory-interpretation union |
Can a corporation or other legal entity be associated in fact with a union or one or more individuals under the 'enterprise' definition of the RICO st… |
| 18-1183 |
Dorothy A. Smulley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-liability agency-relationship circuit-procedures conservatorship due-process fannie-mae federal-instrumentality fhfa internal-operating-procedures mortgage-servicers mortgage-servicing regulatory-oversight rico vicarious-liability |
Whether Fannie Mae is a federal instrumentality subject to due process requirements, whether FHFA as conservator of Fannie Mae is vicariously liable f… |
| 18-7785 |
David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz |
New Mexico |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause |
Whether any court can deprive Constitutional rights and violate the Supremacy Clause, and use RICO racketeering acts to stop legal court filings |
| 18-7778 |
Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy |
Whether the district court violated the collateral estoppel component of the double-jeopardy clause by allowing the government to reintroduce its enti… |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-969 |
Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Dismissed |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal |
Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption of injury |
| 18-890 |
David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim |
| 18-7054 |
Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. |
Michigan |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 18-7055 |
Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. |
Michigan |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … |
| 18-598 |
Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in granting Appellees' motion for summary affirmance while denying Chien's motions as moot |
| 18-429 |
Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act |
Is there a bright-line rule that the pattern of racketeering activity must extend beyond twelve months to satisfy continuity' under RICO? |
| 18-425 |
Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection consumer-warranty-act court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judgment rico rico-violation song-beverly-consumer-warranty-act superior-court |
Did the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District Affirm the Judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles in favor of Petitioners Alvin E. Williams … |
| 18-424 |
Judith M. Brown-Williams, et vir v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-warranty court-sanctions due-process excusable-neglect fraud rico standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigation warranty |
Did the Petitioner prevail in the Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act violation? |
| 18-5309 |
Maurice McLain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cooperator-testimony currier-v-virginia double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-unanimity physical-evidence plea-agreement rico rico-prosecution rutledge-v-united-states santobello-v-new-york uncorroborated-testimony |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause and plea agreement were violated by a second prosecution,whether the verdict conflicts with physical evidence and r… |
| 18-5123 |
Eric Glenn Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof |
Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi? |
| 18-11 |
Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |
| 25A111 |
Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. |
Colorado |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
charter injunction irreparable-harm jurisdiction land-seizure rico |
Whether a federal court can issue an injunction to prevent a RICO-based charter and land seizure that threatens to irreparably harm a petitioner's leg… |