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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7449 Jacob VanDyke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law Auer-v-Robbins Chevron chevron-deference child-pornography commentary deference guideline-commentary judicial-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the 1 to 75 ratio for videos found in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 is entitled to deference under Chevron, Federal-Express-Corporation-v…
21-6403 Garland Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied IFP application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission Whether a district court may rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's Guidelines range for …
21-6121 Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied IFP commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes …
20-5937 Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th…
19-8038 Jermaine James v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b)
19-6828 Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion?
19-6149 Desmond Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
18-7783 Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clause …