arbitrary-enforcement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7084 | Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness | Is the undefined/ non-specific/ ambiguous language used in Ohio's App.R.26(B) (2) .(c) that results in arbitrary/ incon sistent/ and discriminatory e… |
| 23-1016 | William Facteau and Patrick Fabian v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Amici (1) | arbitrary-enforcement fda-regulations fifth-amendment first-amendment interstate-commerce medical-device off-label-use truthful-speech | 1. Whether FDA's "intended use" regulations violate the First Amendment by requiring manufacturers to refrain from truthful, non-misleading speech abo… |
| 23-584 | Robert R. Snyder v. California | California | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement armed-intent constitutional-vagueness due-process eighth-amendment legislative-intent penal-code rosemond-substantive-holding second-amendment sentencing-enhancement standardless-legislation vagueness | • Should California Penal Code § 12022.53 be struck down and voided as vague and standardless legislation? Does petitioner's conviction serve as an ex… |
| 23-5339 | Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an unprecedented legal theory of receipt that relies on file name of unauthenticated screen shots as relevant unit of prosecution under Sec… |
| 20-1326 | Rebecca A. Moriello v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-rule-making due-process federal-regulations non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine notice separation-of-powers vagueness | 1) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38 and 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.390 are inconsistent with the separation of powers doctrine? 2) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38… |
| 19-8282 | In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. | 2020-04-17 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness | Did reasonable jurist debate whether Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbitrary and di… | |
| 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… |
| 19-6736 | 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… |
| 19-469 | 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… | |
| 19-62 | Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement | Michelle Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter in connection with Conrad Roy III's suicide is unprecedented. Massachusetts is the only stat… |
| 18-9392 | Brent Edward Lovett v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel | Petitioner Brent Edward Lovett (Prisoner in Custody of BOP, RRC) moves this Court to remand the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, for t… |
| 18-463 | Bernard Morello v. Texas | Texas | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines | Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution if the state applies… |
| 18-5746 | Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | IS FLORIDA. STATUTE 784.045 IMPERMISSIBLY VAGUE AND/OR DOES IT ENCOURAGE ARBITRARY AND DISCRIMINATORY ENFORCEMENT? |