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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6750 | Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit | Petitioner Shawn Johnson was a felon only because of his nonviolent offenses of manufacturing and uttering counterfeit United States currency. After b… |
| 25-6732 | Daniel Delgado v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-standard constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of title 18, U.S.C., imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or… |
| 25-6530 | Terry Lee Gammage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d… |
| 25-6429 | Georgiy Chipunov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats | In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove… |
| 25-6355 | Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-6313 | Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-642 | Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 25-458 | William Collins, III v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-convictions firearm-possession government-restriction second-amendment | Petitioner William Collins, III, is an upstanding and law-abiding citizen. His only criminal history stems from youthful indiscretion: minor, nonviole… |
| 25-5850 | Tremon Staley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-review felony-prohibition firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprison… |
| 25A410 | United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether a federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances is facially or as-applied unconstitutional under… | |
| 25-5820 | Kevin Deane Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge conditional-pardon felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25A382 | United States v. Erik Matthew Harris | Third Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge drug-users firearms-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by unlawful drug users violates the Second Amendment when applied to a specific individual ba… | |
| 25-5731 | David Alexander Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-5722 | Isaiah Kahlil Wise v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge felon-disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5721 | Jacob Joshad Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) by examining whether historical tradition supports perman… |
| 25-5707 | Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5626 | Andrew Chafin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Petition Andrew Chafin is prohibited from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life because he shoplifted several cases of energy drinks from two … |
| 25-5607 | Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti… |
| 25-5510 | Monte Barry v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-184 | Deamonte Law v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | This Court's decisions in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), require our di… | |
| 25-5318 | Deago Lee Eddings v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5259 | Antonio Marshall v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25A91 | William Collins, III v. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-regulation gun-rights second-amendment self-defense | Question not identified. | |
| 25A36 | Jacqusyn Zechariah Grubb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(8) as-applied-challenge domestic-violence-restraining-order facial-challenge motion-to-dismiss second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment as applied to individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders, or whether such… | |
| 25-5034 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri… |
| 25-5007 | Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-07-01 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal | Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah… |
| 25-5006 | Fredrick Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment | When a criminal defendant in the middle of a direct appeal seeks relief that first becomes available as a result of an intervening decision from this … |
| 24-7075 | Christopher E. Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment | Whether convicted felons retain Second Amendment rights under the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in Heller, and whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1)… |
| 24-7033 | Aqudre Quailes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-framework constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-analogues second-amendment | Can a court avoid addressing under Bruen an as-applied challenge to Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban and corresponding punishment by looking, instead,… |
| 24-6818 | Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, or whether such challenges … |
| 24-968 | Diontai Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | as-applied-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition historical-tradition second-amendment supervised-release | Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) by examining whether historical tradition supports perman… | |
| 24-6666 | Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 24-6517 | Edell Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1) is susceptible to an as-applied constitutional challenge and violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-6452 | Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-6107 | Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | GVR | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) after Bruen and Rahimi, and if so, whether th… |
| 24-5997 | Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-20 | GVR | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether after Bruen and Rahimi, a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and if so, whether th… |
| 24-279 | 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation | Whether, in an as-applied First Amendment challenge to a licensing law, the standard for determining whether the law regulates speech or regulates con… |
| 24-5126 | Michael J. Brillon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge As-Applied-Unconstitutionality Bruen bruen-decision constitutional-challenge conviction-review Due-Process facial-challenge Facial-Unconstitutionality Felons second-amendment | Second-Amendment |
| 24-37 | Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-16 | GVR | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) | |
| 23-6602 | Sylvester Cunningham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied |
| 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 | Whether litigants may bring facial constitutional challenges to laws without first successfully raising as-applied challenges? |
| 21-8084 | Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing | Whether federal courts may direct specific alterations to a state's execution protocol in an as-applied challenge under the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-996 | Yonell Allums v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | as-applied-challenge booker-decision criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonable-sentence rita-decision sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation | Whether a criminal sentence violates the Sixth Amendment when the sentencing court relies on its factual findings about a criminal defendant's conduct… |
| 21-6485 | R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services | Texas | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code | Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(0) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-6257 | Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation | Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth |
| 21-104 | Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether there can be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the pr… | |
| 20-1706 | Leevan Roundtree v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-review due-process felon-dispossession firearm-dispossession firearm-rights non-violent-felony second-amendment standing | Whether a non-violent felon may bring an as-applied challenge to a state law that permanently denies Second Amendment rights |
| 20-1236 | Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2021-03-08 | Denied | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 | Is Anderson being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment because Va. Code Sections 18.2-361 and 18.2-366 are u… | |
| 20-812 | Lisa M. Folajtar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Amici (5) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felons felony-prohibition firearm-possession nonviolent-crimes second-amendment self-defense tax-fraud | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 20-5579 | Israel Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment standing | Whether an individual charged with violating a law barring the possession of firearms by felons can bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to … |
| 19-287 | Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights | Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in… |
| 18A1273 | Jorge Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-06-07 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felon-dispossession firearms-ban heller-precedent second-amendment | Whether an individual convicted of a non-violent felony can bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to federal felon dispossession laws when th… | |
| 18-1096 | Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant | Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague? | |
| 18-1065 | Interpipe Contracting, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | as-applied-challenge chamber-of-commerce-v-brown civil-rights collective-bargaining labor-speech metropolitan-life-v-massachusetts minimum-labor-standards nlra-preemption project-labor-agreements union-organizing worker-consent | Advocacy opposing 'top down' union organizing campaigns that seek to impose project labor agreements (PLAs) |
| 18-7352 | Giovanni Ellis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-5593 | Maurice Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 | Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio… |
| 18-43 | Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott | Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? |