civil-rights-restoration
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6627 | Gerald Blaise II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | IFP | appellate-waiver civil-rights-restoration felony-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea | 1. Whether a defendant previously convicted of a felony offense violates 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) & 924(a)(2) when, at the time that he possesses a fire… |
| 24-403 | Cai Hunter McIntosh v. Washington | Washington | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights-restoration federal-law firearm-rights juvenile-conviction second-amendment state-law | Should a sealed juvenile conviction that has essentially disappeared and for which a person's civil rights have been restored prevent someone from own… |
| 23-5424 | Caesar V. Vaca v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment | Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20) |
| 21-6769 | Luke Joseph Burning Breast v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-921(a)(20) 18-usc-922(g) civil-rights-restoration criminal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm firearm-components interstate-commerce rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution by showing that a single interchangeable part of a firearm trav… |
| 21-5062 | Ricardo Burgos v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights-restoration criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing felon-in-possession plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states | Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 where the defendant asserted he did not know he wa… |
| 19-6487 | Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does treating 'civil rights' as cumulative render the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) to be constitutionally infirm w… |