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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-844 | Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | alcohol-regulation commerce-clause constitutional-law interstate-commerce physical-presence twenty-first-amendment | Whether a physical-presence requirement that forbids out-of-state retailers from shipping alcohol directly to in-state consumers unless they establish… | |
| 25-6598 | Ashley Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-rahimi-test commerce-clause firearms-regulation historical-analysis probation-status second-amendment | 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-6468 | Derrick Hahn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-02 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to an individual based on his past conviction for a non-violent offense. … |
| 25-769 | Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Marita R. Sciarrotta, Director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation | New Jersey | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response Waived | commerce-clause corporate-taxation due-process interstate-commerce royalty-payments tax-deductibility | (1) Whether New Jersey's scheme for taxing royalty payments, that conditions the deductibility of related-party royalty payments on the extent of t… |
| 25-6344 | Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | commerce-clause de-novo-review internet-crime jurisdictional-element rule-29 sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether a general challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, pursuant to Rule 29(a), preserves for de novo review the full range of sufficiency … |
| 25-675 | Lawrence Rudolph v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c… |
| 25-6108 | Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-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… |
| 25-6062 | Carl Morgan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals based on their past conviction for a non-violent offense. … |
| 25-6041 | Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 25-518 | Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General | First Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | commerce-clause congressional-power economic-activity interstate-commerce marijuana-regulation rational-basis | Petitioners brought this case to challenge the validity of the Court's ruling in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), that Congress may prohibit the … |
| 25-5954 | In Re Michael Albert Focia | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment | 1. Does the district court's application of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. section 921 and following, to apply to private arms sales on the secondary … | |
| 25A445 | Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25A414 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-prosecution hobbs-act official-misconduct public-corruption quid-pro-quo sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5828 | Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-rahimi-test commerce-clause firearms-regulation historical-analysis probation-status second-amendment | 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-5704 | Jeanie Reese v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. | California | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-authority federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does-the "Aggregate Effects'! doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desi… |
| 25-342 | Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation | Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact… |
| 25-5460 | Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony | In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on… |
| 25-5412 | Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause controlled-substances federal-preemption marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause tax-deduction | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 280E—which denies ordinary and necessary business deductions to enterprises trafficking in Schedule I controlled substances—may co… |
| 25-5407 | Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-possession federal-jurisdiction interstate-movement statutory-interpretation | Apparently exercising its authority under the Commerce Clause, Congress criminally prohibited the simple possession of a firearm that was "in or affec… |
| 25-5400 | Andrew Charles Beard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction | 1. Whether challenging an invalid 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a "constitutional claim" that extinguishes the government's power to enforce defenda… |
| 25A180 | Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General | First Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause controlled-substances-act gonzalez-v-raich interstate-commerce intrastate-marijuana marijuana-regulation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5306 | In Re Alexander Kawleski | 2025-08-08 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desig… | |
| 25-5302 | Cameron Edwards v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on his prior convictions violates the Second Amendment. 2. Wh… |
| 25-5139 | In Re Michael Stevens | 2025-07-17 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desig… | |
| 25A17 | Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5036 | Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions federal-prosecution grand-jury interstate-commerce jurisdiction puerto-rico-statehood | Can a federal court attempt a prosecution without verifying, as the first step before any proceeding, jurisdiction? Can the Respondent take away jur… |
| 25-5032 | In Re John Alan Conroy | 2025-07-03 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designa… | |
| 25-5017 | Brant Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-conviction due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights because they were previously convicted of a non-violent crime. 2. Whe… |
| 24-7453 | In Re Curtis Baldwin | 2025-06-17 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designa… | |
| 24-7433 | Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether the "affecting commerce" element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at … |
| 24-7408 | In Re Stephen Brewer | 2025-06-12 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designat… | |
| 24A1217 | Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge controlled-substances-act federal-taxation marijuana-taxation state-legal-marijuana | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7348 | Spencer Wayne Bacon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause conviction-restriction criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-7339 | Jonathan Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights because they were previously convicted of a non-violent crime. 2. Whe… |
| 24-1220 | Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would b… |
| 24-7328 | In Re William Hopmeier | 2025-05-30 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desig… | |
| 24-7321 | In Re Adolfo Herrera-Sustaita | 2025-05-29 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution intrastate-activity | Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designated … | |
| 24-1190 | Syngenta Crop Protections, LLC, et al. v. Douglas Nemeth, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | commerce-clause constitutional-law due-process out-of-state-business personal-jurisdiction state-registration | In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. 122 (2023), "[t]he sole question before [the Court]" was "whether the Due Process Clause of the F… |
| 24-7244 | Samuel York v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession jurisdictional-burden second-amendment | 1. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—convicted felon in possession of a firearm —facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment ? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 24-7217 | Ladarius Dean v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)— the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previous ly convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 24-7182 | Antjoun Riddick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal government has the authority under the Commerce Clause, Art. I, § 8, cl. 3, to regulate the noncommercial, intrastate possession o… |
| 24-7110 | In Re Phillip James Colwell | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography-prevention commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designated … | |
| 24-6892 | Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-31 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6731 | Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits felon-in-possession firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 24-6713 | Elmer Alexis Montano Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce state-jurisdiction | I. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the def… |
| 24-6686 | Deonta Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect | In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 24-6598 | Rodney Boyles v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction statutory-provisions | Question not identified. |
| 24A653 | James R. McHenry, III, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. Texas Top Cop Shop, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | Amici (17) | beneficial-ownership commerce-clause congressional-power financial-crimes necessary-and-proper universal-injunction | Question not identified. |
| 24-696 | Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company Limited v. Wheatland Tube Company | Federal Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | administrative-law antidumping-duties commerce-clause judicial-review material-injury scope-ruling | Under 19 U.S.C. 1673, Congress directed two agencies, the Department of Commerce ("Commerce") and the International Trade Commission (the "Commission"… | |
| 24-6129 | In Re Jason Clark | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Can Petitioner be denied Categorical approach relief on his 18 USCS 924, enhanced sentence under United States v. Taylor? 2) Can the US Attorney p… | |
| 24-6102 | Cleate Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6103 | Christopher Gonzales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law felony-prohibition firearms-possession second-amendment | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on the possession of firearms by all felons violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied to Go… |
| 24-6063 | Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24-6028 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act | What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and, more specifically, must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's a… |
| 24-551 | Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company v. Oregon Department of Revenue | Oregon | 2024-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause interstate-commerce net-income-tax solicitation tax-immunity wholesaler-activity | By its enactment of 15 U.S.C. § 381 ("Section 381"), Congress exercised its power to regulate interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause to immun… |
| 24A472 | Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Presumed Complete | but-for-cause certificate-of-innocence exoneree federal-prosecution misconduct statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-525 | John L. Stanton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive. If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … |
| 24A443 | Deion Shawn Hester v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Presumed Complete | bruen commerce-clause felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5814 | John Russell Howald v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits hate-crime sexual-orientation | Whether the Hate Crime Prevention Act as codified in 18 U.S.C. 249(a)(2), which prohibits the willful bodily injury to a person with the use of a fire… |
| 24-5763 | David Earl Boyd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | L. Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252A exceed Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such a… |
| 24-5678 | Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | IFP | federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred as a matter of statutory interpretation in rejecting a "Ruse Exception" to the Speedy Trial A… |
| 24-332 | International Business Machines Corporation & Combined Affiliates v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, et al. | New York | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | commerce-clause double-taxation foreign-commerce interstate-commerce state-taxation tax-nexus | May a state impose a "heads I win, tails you lose" regime that taxes either side of an interstate or foreign transaction, depending on which side has … |
| 24-5626 | Julio Reynaldo Rivera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 24-284 | Andre Ricardo Briscoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | criminal-conspiracy federal-prosecution overt-act statute-of-limitations substantive-offense tolling-doctrine | Prosecutors, judges, and defense lawyers know that the statute of limitations for almost all federal crimes is five years. 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a). Yet th… |
| 24-5533 | Clint Monroe Utter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction base-offense-level carjacking firearm-enhancement robbery sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Utter's objection to the United States Probation Officer's 5 level enhancement to his base offense leve… |
| 24-260 | Anthony Pandrella v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce loansharking robbery | Whether the robbery of a loanshark could have an effect on interstate commerce sufficient to establish federal jurisdiction under the Hobbs Act (18 U.… |
| 24-5479 | Nathan Steward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce prior-conviction second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-5453 | Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-04 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-firearms-regulation felony-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause power. |
| 24-5419 | Jonathan Fitzpatrick Koen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 exceeds Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such as a cell phon… |
| 24-137 | Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive. If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … | |
| 24-5261 | Miguel Tejada-Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24A138 | New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al. v. Letitia A. James, Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause infrastructure-regulation interstate-commerce state-regulation telecommunications wireless-networks | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5229 | Justin Levar Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-5176 | Antonio Santonastaso v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation | Section 1001(a)(2) of title 18 only criminalizes the making of material false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States gove… |
| 24-5101 | Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5103 | David Thomas Overman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5112 | Austin Wayne Massey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | L. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 24-5087 | Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defenda… |
| 24-5050 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Following this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2020) does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of … |
| 24-13 | Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (8) | commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power | May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States? |
| 23-7730 | Thomas Richardson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority | From whence does the Supreme Court's authority to create exceptions to the plain text of the Constitution derive? Did the decisions in New York v. Fe… |
| 23-7706 | Tia Pugh v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-obedience-act civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process first-amendment interstate-commerce legislative-vagueness standing vagueness | 1. Did Pugh's prosecution under the Civil Obedience Act exceed Congress' authority to legislate interstate and foreign commerce? 2. Did Pugh's prosec… |
| 23-1296 | Randstad Inhouse Services, LLC, et al. v. Adan Ortiz, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | commerce-clause contract-exemption employment-law exemption federal-arbitration-act foreign-commerce interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Are employees who handle goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport those goods across borders and whose work does not directly… |
| 23-7689 | Ardis Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-7692 | Angel Jesus Paniagua v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. … |
| 23-7693 | Jonathan Jamal Bangash v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) comports with the Second Amendment? Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ev… |
| 23-7696 | Rit Tran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-1284 | Jose Franklin Arau v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | Part 53.228 bills-of-exchange bonds commerce-clause commercial-paper discharge-of-debt foreclosure-standing holder mortgage-discharge securitized-bonds securitized-mortgage title-48-cfr treasury-fiscal-agent | The UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA errored in dismissing Petitioner 's discharge tender to settle and close the mortgag… |
| 23-7660 | Michael Steven Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7662 | Felix Olivas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-power felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7653 | Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7462 | Michael Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1958 channels-and-instrumentalities channels-of-interstate-commerce commerce-clause congressional-power instrumentalities-of-interstate-commerce interstate-commerce intrastate-activity murder-for-hire police-powers | Whether an indictment chargi ng murder-for-hi re in violation of 18 USC § 1958 by intrastate use of cellphones and an automobi le exceeds the proper l… |
| 23-1202 | Ellingson Drainage, Inc. v. South Dakota Department of Revenue | South Dakota | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge external-consistency fair-apportionment movable-equipment sales-tax state-tax-credits state-taxation use-tax | Whether South Dakota's imposition of an unapportioned use tax on the fair market value of Petitioner's movable construction equipment —some of which w… |
| 23-7374 | David Allen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent | I. Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a… |
| 23-7305 | Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-7225 | Leroy Hoyle v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. … |
| 23-7235 | Troy Dontae Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7179 | Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7181 | Austin Drake Day v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7125 | Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7099 | Keatron Walls v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument | 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig… |
| 23-7056 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration | 1. Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S… |
| 23-1047 | HSU Contracting, LLC v. Holton-Arms School, Inc. | Maryland | 2024-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | aia-contract commerce-clause construction-industry construction-law contract-interpretation damages equal-protection small-businesses standard-contract-terms | In 2018, the Petitioner and Respondent entered into an AIA (American Institute of Architects) contract, a widely utilized construction industry standa… |
| 23-994 | Marcus Marchman v. Amerihome Mortgage Co. | Georgia | 2024-03-12 | Denied | bills-of-exchange bonds commerce-clause discharge foreclosure mortgage-debt securitized-debt standing title-48-cfr treasury-bonds u-c-c | The Cobb County Superior Court, State of Georgia errored in dismissing Petitioner 's discharge tender to settle and close the mortgage liability at is… | |
| 23-6945 | Ronnie Cornell Cosby v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism government-restrictions interstate-travel public-purpose state-sovereignty travel | 1 - When a state a £&■•!*>& "f0 A^ftoSS s+A+<^ l-Vs w.'-+A AA o<*tote** ^ y^nmejjt A <Lour>Jl t&ip 4"aK«-/ i (^fc 4-ljo fn£h AS + ° {>£&■&•t -iltA^ *t… |
| 23-6881 | Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6850 | Eric Michael Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-914 | Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board | Pennsylvania | 2024-02-23 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden | Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou… |
| 23-6769 | Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-849 | Louis Wayne Ratfield v. Ellen L. Cohen, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment authority biven's-claim civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution fraud prosecutorial-immunity statute-of-limitations | 1. Can each individual of the three federal prosecutors, to ensure that their government branch recognizes the limits of its own power by presenting… |
| 23-6679 | Quaysean Tikii Williams v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-02-06 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence firearm jackson-v-virginia robbery sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia, 99 S.Ct. 2781 (1979), to support petitioner's conviction for conspiracy to commit robbe… |
| 23A726 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6643 | Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel | When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal… |
| 23-819 | Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Amici (8)Relisted (5) | administrative-law article-i commerce-clause constitutional-limits delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power major-questions-doctrine osha statutory-interpretation workplace-safety | Whether Congress's delegation of authority to write "reasonably necessary or appropriate" workplace-safety standards violates Article I of the U.S. Co… |
| 23-6579 | Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | L. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug s… |
| 23-6520 | Gary Von Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power federal-authority federal-criminal-law firearm-regulation firearms-regulation interstate-commerce scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) should be construed to require a more substantial connection to interstate commerce than the mere passage of a firearm acros… |
| 23-6477 | Jamaile L. Huey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime | Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23A648 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Presumed Complete | attorney-general-authority commerce-clause delegation-doctrine legislative-power sex-offender-registration sorna | Question not identified. | |
| 23A587 | Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. | Oklahoma | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | child-support commerce-clause due-process equal-protection health-insurance origination-clause | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6285 | Kenneth Paiva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 23-6297 | Kevin Hewlett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea | 1) Whether the use of an internationally-manufactured cellphone in criminal conduct is, by itself, a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce to satisf… |
| 23-638 | Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations | Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that… |
| 23-6220 | Daniel Thomason Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights civil-rights-violations corporate-liability discriminatory-practices due-process federal-prosecution fraud medical-billing standing statutory-interpretation takings | ^ a*& UcbntftJjfe \davJ de)04) <4 in, 'ShoujJ, JT receive^ aid (Jb °r loatoc^a), e-fr a4_ pp f Ae create o-Pmv 'PreJC' ^«/ 1) 'toMX-ytflC -f,a£ynJ&'1 … |
| 23-6205 | Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense | Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri… |
| 23-6161 | Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release | 1. Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017)—which recognized a First Amendment right to access the I… |
| 23-6100 | Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation | (1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess ... affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.C.… |
| 23A450 | Franklin S. Tiegs, et al. v. Montana Department of Revenue | Montana | 2023-11-20 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process net-operating-loss nonresident-income tax-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5995 | Jake Messer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | L Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressiona… |
| 23-5960 | Brandon Keith Wright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-5934 | Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5920 | Leopoldo Ramirez-Moreno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-authority firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce scarborough state-affairs united-states-v-lopez | Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because the firearm crossed state lines at some point before the defendant … |
| 23-5876 | Christian Lamar Porter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-427 | Domino’s Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure commerce-clause delivery-drivers federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery standing statutory-interpretation transportation-law workers | Whether local delivery drivers—i.e., workers who make in-state deliveries of goods in response to instate orders, and play no role in transporting tho… |
| 23-5859 | Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-5815 | Emily Claire Hari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic | Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5741 | Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 23-5742 | Joseph Michael Easton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5546 | Richard Sansbury v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement | The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec… |
| 23-5506 | Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation | Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce, such as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)'s requirement that a prohibit… |
| 23-5511 | Jay F. Elhage v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution | Whether, despite years of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, the Court should now hold that Congress has no authority to criminally punish under the Comme… |
| 23-171 | Chris Quinn, et al. v. Washington, et al. | Washington | 2023-08-23 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause due-process excise-tax extraterritorial-taxation federalism interstate-commerce property-rights state-taxation | Whether the Constitution permits a state to tax out-of-state transactions involving only out-of-state property. |
| 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 | 1. Should this Court reverse Shulman v. Kaplan and restore property rights in cannabis to a status equal to other property rights protectable under RI… |
| 23-41 | Ann Marie Borges, et al. v. County of Mendocino, California | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | cannabis-property-rights commerce-clause constitutional-amendments due-process federal-preemption federalism gonzales-v-raich property-rights stare-decisis state-sovereignty | On March 6, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit filed it's unpublished memorandum affirming the district court order dismis… |
| 23-5074 | Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations | I, Petitioner Juan Carlos Valles, Jr., state that this petition presents an issue of great public importance, addressed to the policy of Federal Prose… |
| 22-1206 | Kyung Chang Industry USA, Inc., dba KCI USA v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. | Nevada | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine commerce-clause component-part firearm-components firearms-law gun-regulation interlocutory-review legislative-intent protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether a magazine is a "component part of a firearm" under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. |
| 22-7754 | Maurice Hunt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power | I. Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under the Commerce Clause (1505 U.S.C.) To Enact Statutes With the Intent That A Ton Page In Convic… |
| 22-1190 | Lavelle Hatley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony | Under the mandated categorical approach, a prior conviction falls within the Armed Career Criminal Act's ("ACCA") definition of "violent felony" only … |
| 22-7722 | Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision | Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr… |
| 22-7644 | Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7524 | Larry Carl Mack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7528 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution sixth-amendment sovereign-delay speedy-trial state-prosecution | After indicting Mr. Garcia on federal charges, the government delayed bringing him into federal custody for 23 months as it waited for the completion … |
| 22-1057 | Standing Akimbo, Inc., et al. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause summary-judgment tax-code | 1. Should Gonzales v. Raich be overruled, i.e., whether the CSA as supplemented by the half-in, half-out regime is in excess of Congress' powers under… |
| 22-7386 | Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)IFP | appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.? 2. Is the theft… |
| 22-7332 | In Re Michael Paul Martin | 2023-04-20 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice federal-criminal-offense gonzales-v-raich interstate-commerce | 1. Under Title 18, U.S.C. § 2251(a), is there proper Fair Notice, as set forth by this Court in Fasulo v United States, 272 U.S. 620 (1926); that a cr… | |
| 22-7333 | David Jah, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | 1) Will the theory of the government, assisted by their witnesses, known to be fabricated, asserted to be harmful and outreagous conduct, be enough t… |
| 22-7276 | Antonio Demond Baker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits felon-in-possession police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation | L. Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? I. Whet… |
| 22-7258 | Brian Marc Fraser v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-robbery amendment commission-amendment criminal-classification due-process enumerated-offense robbery robbery-definition sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | L. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result if the court of appeals were permitted to consider the Commission's Proposed Amendm… |
| 22-7240 | Cole Lusby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge | 1) Whether this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and its progeny enable defendants to raise facial vagueness chal… |
| 22-7157 | Andreqio Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) criminalizes three different offenses relating to a firearm for "prohibited persons": transporting a firearm, possessing a firearm,… |
| 22-950 | Dorothy A. Smulley v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause digital-transactions due-process insurance-valuation interstate-commerce mccarran-ferguson-act public-interest securities-exchange-commission software-as-a-service standing | Whether personal motor vehicle physical damage (MVPD) insurance valuations performed by a third party Software as a Service (SaaS) company over the In… |
| 22-7146 | Daren Bernard Razz, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution government-delay indictment-timing sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-delay | Issue 1: Petitioner briefs the following point in an abundance of caution to preserve the issue regarding the denial of his second motion to dismiss t… |
| 22-7117 | Noel Macapagal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation | The government convicted petitioner-defendant Noel Macapagal of violating 18 U.S.C. §2422(b). As the government invoked it to convict Macapagal, this … |
| 22-890 | Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue | North Carolina | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Amici (4) | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent | In McLeod v. J. E. Dilworth Co., 322 U.S. 327 (1944), this Court held that a state may not tax sales that occur outside its borders, even when the pur… |
| 22-6993 | Kenneth Ray Carlyle, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights ex-convict-firearms felons interstate-commerce right-to-bear-arms sawed-off-shotguns second-amendment strict-liability | 1. Whether A Hiéterical Analysis of the Second Amendment Reveals . 'Felons Armed With Sawed-Off Shotguns Guarding Other Felons The Right of Property I… |
| 22-827 | Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver | Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12, Petitioners were permitted to bring a facial constitutional challenge to their statute of convic… | |
| 22-6878 | Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief | IX. Could Whe Stole Violate A Defendants Subshant! Ve And Procedural Right To Due Recess So Earegiously That Lt Would Bar A Future Federal, Rosecution… |
| 22-805 | BG Gulf Coast LNG, L.L.C., et al. v. Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | commerce-clause congressional-consent constitutional-interpretation harbor-navigation maritime-law port-fees takings tonnage-clause user-fees | The question presented is whether the Act permits localities to charge fees for incomplete and unusable increments of a harbor navigation project. |
| 22-6853 | Joshua Seekins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the d… |
| 22-6854 | Xavier Sims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 5… |
| 22-796 | Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | assimilative-crimes-act federal-prosecution general-crimes-act indian-country state-law-offenses treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty | Whether the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, applies to Indian country—either on its own or through the General Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1152—s… |
| 22-6573 | Delamon A. Marshall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Does a prior conviction for domestic violence under Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2919.25(A) qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 22-6529 | Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. | Delaware | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bankruptcy commerce-clause compact-clause constitutional-law contract-clause corporate-dissolution interstate-commerce standing state-court-jurisdiction | The nation is conceived and operated by State-chartered legal entities ("corporations" for short), some for profit and some for charitable purposes. N… |
| 22-601 | Peter Lake, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. v. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) | commerce-clause federal-energy-regulatory-commission incumbent-utilities police-power public-utilities state-regulation transmission-lines utility-regulation | Whether, consistent with the Commerce Clause, States may exercise their core police power to regulate public utilities by recognizing a preference for… |
| 22-6420 | Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6423 | Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms police-power | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6337 | Lonnie Charles Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-6338 | Lucas Michael McNulty-Snodgrass v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-intent contraband drug-possession federal-preemption federalism jurisdictional-conflict Question not identified. separation-of-powers state-sovereignty | 1.) "Since methamphetamine and fentanyl, i.e., illicit drugs et al., are considered "contraband," and contraband is not 'considered a proper article o… |
| 22-6315 | Iklas Richard Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent | 1. In United States v. Rehaif, _ U.S. ___, 189 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court acknowledged the presumption in favor of scienter — that criminal statute… |
| 22-6148 | Larry James Bradley v. Florida | Florida | 2022-11-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause | (1) WHETHER PETITIONER IS PROPERLY DETAILED AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO? (2) WHETHER FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION §775.0… |
| 22-6151 | Demon Reese v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6058 | Justin David Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver | 1. As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the… |
| 22-6047 | Juan Teran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5976 | Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | West Virginia | 2022-11-04 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment | Under the Constructive Amendment, any substantial amendment, direct or indirect, of an indictment must be resubmitted to the grand jury. Pendleton new… |
| 22-5987 | Anessa R. Fierro and Willie T. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-arson-statute lopez-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings | Is the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), unconstitutional? |
| 22-5919 | Devonta Doyle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-criminalization fourth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-crime morrison-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez | 1. Whether Fourth Circuit precedent, which is consistent with precedent from all other Circuits, holding that an intrastate robbery's de minimis effec… |
| 22-5876 | Surprise Emmanuel Carter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-authority felon-in-possession felon-possession national-federation-v-sebelius police-power statutory-interpretation substantial-effect | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5841 | Harry Sharod James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OFNORTH CAROLINA " EASTERN DISTRICT" abuse its discretion by not establishing subject Matter Juris diction, once it was c… |
| 22-5758 | Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware | Delaware | 2022-10-04 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings | Question not identified. |
| 22-5713 | In Re Roy Allen Nichols | 2022-09-29 | Denied | IFP | article-iv article-vi commerce-clause congressional-power constitution-cession constitutional-interpretation enumerated-powers federal-lands legislative-jurisdiction morality-legislation | 1). Which Article in the U.S.. Constitution specifically provides for cession of lands from any of the several 50 Union States to the United States? … | |
| 22-285 | B-21 Wines, Inc., et al. v. Hank Bauer, Chair, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split commerce-clause interstate-commerce nondiscrimination-principle public-health-and-safety retail-distribution retail-wine-distribution twenty-first-amendment wine-shipping | Does the nondiscrimination principle of the Commerce Clause apply to and invalidate North Carolina's law allowing only in-state retailers to ship wine… |
| 22-5639 | Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-5504 | Rafael Villanueva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment commerce-clause competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-capacity | 1. Because the trial court and the Fifth Circuit erred by finding Mr. Villanueva competent to stand trial, it violated his due process rights. 2. Bec… |
| 22-5437 | Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5371 | Darrell Harris v. Robert Hudgins, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel federal-court federal-offense federal-prosecution issue-preclusion res-judicata sixth-amendment speedy-trial | WHETHER PRINCIPLES OF "RES JUDICATA" TRIGGERED APPLI CATION OF ISSUE PRECLUSION AND COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL SO AS TO DEPRIVE THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUTHORI… |
| 22-5327 | Lavone Ganithus Dixon, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-procedure court-record due-process evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-warrant structural-error | 1. As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the… |
| 22-5278 | Jordan Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of an-other person by force or by intimidat… |
| 22-5154 | Myron Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error | As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the ad… |
| 22-5097 | Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity | Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the … |
| 22-5100 | Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | IFP | burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal | 1. Is there a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a Federal or State trial court rescinds its … |
| 22-5057 | Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus | I. In a prosecution for possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), the government must prove that the possession was in or affected interstate … |
| 22-5028 | Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | IL Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guideli… |
| 21-8268 | Roger Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error | Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 21-8272 | Robert Edward Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-1572 | Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-17 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | class-of-workers commerce-clause federal-arbitration-act goods-transportation in-state-delivery interstate-commerce intrastate-deliveries preemption statutory-interpretation workers-classification | Whether drivers making solely in-state deliveries of goods ordered by in-state customers from an in-state warehouse are nevertheless a "class of worke… |
| 21-1556 | Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Zhang Jingrong, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | commerce-clause congress-authority congressional-power federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act intimidation lopez-morrison-test places-of-worship religious-worship statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether 42 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2), the section of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that prohibits intimidation and other wrongful acts agains… | |
| 21-8060 | Darrell Cordell Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits federal-power felon-in-possession firearms-regulation police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 21-8004 | Kofi Adomako Ohene Kyei v. Oregon Division of Child Support | Oregon | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federal-preemption injunction interstate-commerce judicial-injunction license-suspension | 1. Whether the State's administrative order to suspend a federally governed license, squarely against the directives of a judicial court injunction or… |
| 21-1487 | Brian Bilodeau v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appropriations appropriations-rider controlled-substances-act department-of-justice federal-prosecution medical-marijuana standing state-law | Whether and under what circumstances the rider prohibits the DOJ from spending federal funds to prosecute criminal defendants for medical marijuana-re… |
| 21-1488 | Ooma, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue | Oregon | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause due-process e911-tax state-taxation substantial-nexus virtual-contacts wayfair wayfair-precedent | In its landmark decision of South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., this Court held that a nonresident taxpayer has substantial nexus with the taxing State for… |
| 21-7979 | Robert Allen Stanford, aka Sir Allen Stanford, aka Allen Stanford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-transmission jurisdictional-element miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers wire-fraud | (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, as properly interpreted, can be used to charge, prosecute and punish, a wire communication… |
| 21-7971 | Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7880 | Robert Andrew Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction | 1. Because child pornography is not one of the federal crimes enumerated by the constitution, the trial court erred by failing to declare unconstituti… |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7599 | Neil Timothy Aho v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment | Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code ("Section 2252" or the "Statute") forming the gravamen of the charges in the Indictment l… |
| 21-7586 | Jaako Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime | Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-7529 | Jesse Dean Mince v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7433 | Donnell Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7450 | Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-7359 | Kaleb Gattis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the in definite past, … |
| 21-7195 | James Leon Higgins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7176 | Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness | I. Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United… |
| 21-7156 | Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 21-1135 | Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte | Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
| 21-999 | Joe Blessett v. Texas Office of the Attorney General, Galveston County Child Support Enforcement Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights clearfield-trust-doctrine commerce-clause contract-clause cooperate-federalism due-process sovereign-immunity state-agency title-iv-d | Does the State Title IV-D Agency operate as a business-to-business enterprise for a profit with the United States under Cooperate Federalism to be sub… |
| 21-6794 | John W. Winningham, Jr. v. City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-rights federal-action federal-civil-rights-act kidnapping kidnapping-robbery property-rights robbery section-1983 | Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Federal Protected Civil Rights, Liberties, Property and Employment Rights Action When did kidnapping and robbery become L… |
| 21-6768 | Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | (1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess . . . affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.… |
| 21-6722 | Daniel Dario Trevino v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power controlled-substances-act due-process federalism interstate-commerce legal-landscape marijuana-regulation medical-marijuana standing-akimbo state-legalization | SHOULD THIS COURT RECONSIDER ITS DECISION IN GONZALES AND DETERMINE THAT CONGRESS CANNOT REGULATE SOLELY INTRASTATE MARIJUANA DISTRIBUTION DUE TO THE … |
| 21-6642 | Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the application note defining "dangerous weapon" overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) by defining "possession" of a "dangerou… |
| 21-6614 | Mario Martell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering | 1. For intrastate robberies that do not otherwise affect "commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction," 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(3), does the Hob… |
| 21-6589 | Lamont Guinyard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes a defendant's possession of a firearm or ammunition, is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's … |
| 21-879 | Gregory Mayer v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company | Second Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | benefit-determination benefit-determinations choice-of-law commerce-clause de-novo-review erisa erisa-preemption judicial-review preemption | 1) Is a state law prescribing de novo judicial review for challenged benefit determinations, regardless of any discretion the Plan grants to the admin… |
| 21-6581 | Derek Jerome Moore v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-power firearms interstate-commerce | 1. Whether Congress exceed its Commerce Clause power when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)? 2. Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), evidence that a … |
| 21-6482 | Calvin Wayne Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6406 | Damoni Owens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-768 | Lil’ Man in the Boat, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 commerce-clause fees-and-obligations navigable-waters rivers-and-harbors-act statutory-interpretation tonnage-clause | Pursuant to the Rivers and Harbors Act, Congress provided that "No taxes, tolls, operating charges, fees, or any other impositions whatever shall be l… | |
| 21-6306 | Jason T. Shortes v. Google, LLC | Florida | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | commerce commerce-clause digital-rights first-amendment freedom-of-expression freedom-of-press international-law network-enforcement-law trade | (1). Whether, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of the Press; survives, GOOGLE, LLC enforcing the Federal Republic of Germany… |
| 21-6193 | In Re Roy Allen Nichols | 2021-11-04 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-power habeas-corpus prejudice recurrent-issues sixth-circuit territorial-limits | The Defendant/Petitioner states that the issues being presented in this Writ are not only ones of great public interest or Constitutional importance, … | |
| 21-641 | Ferrellgas Partners, LP v. Director, Division of Taxation | New Jersey | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | commerce-clause general-fund internal-consistency interstate-commerce partnership-levy regulatory-fee state-taxation | If a State imposes a fee or tax on interstate commerce, the Commerce Clause requires it to be fairly apportioned among the States where the commerce t… |
| 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… |
| 21-6056 | Terrance V. Frelix v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6046 | Jacques Lisbey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face and as-applied because Congress lacks the power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize… |
| 21-6005 | Terrell Hunter v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-statute drug-proceeds drug-robbery federal-jurisdiction federal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Did the decisions of the district court and the court of appeals, that the commerce element of the Hobbs Act is satisfied by the robbery of moneys int… |
| 21-5993 | Michael Lee Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce | 1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm and ammunition on the sole basis that the firearm and ammunition once moved, be… |
| 21-5980 | Jerome Curtis Stancil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause controlled-substances-act distribution serious-drug-offense social-sharing | The Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), (ACCA) mandates a 15year mandatory-minimum term of imprisonment for individuals convicted of violat… |
| 21-5958 | Aaron Christopher Pleasant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-regulation federal-power firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5858 | Enrique E. Quintana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver | Can a defendant who claims actual innocence after entering a plea agreement be barred from raising his actual innocence claim based on a Plea Agreemen… |
| 21-396 | Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Dev Anand Oman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | airline-deregulation-act commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce multi-state-work-shifts transportation-workers wage-and-hour-laws | Whether, consistent with the Commerce Clause and the deregulatory preferences of the Airline Deregulation Act, California may extend its wage-and-hour… | |
| 21-5659 | Willie Powell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms united-states-v-lopez | WHETHER THE "MINIM AL NEXUS" TEST EMPLOYED BY THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT TO AFFIRM MR. POWELL'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §922(G) AS A FELON IN POSSESSION … |
| 21-378 | Texas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (5) | anti-commandeering anticommandeering child-custody child-custody-proceedings commerce-clause equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act indian-commerce-clause nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine | The Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. § § 1901- 63 (ICWA), creates a child -custody regime for "Indian children," a status defined by a child's gene… |
| 21-5559 | Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea | Whether possession of a firearm is "in or affecting commerce" when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 21-276 | Safehouse v. Department of Justice, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism felony-statute medical-supervision opioid-crisis overdose-prevention public-health public-health-intervention | Does 21 U.S.C. § 856(a) make it a felony to offer medically supervised consumption services for the purpose of preventing opioid overdose deaths? |
| 21-5455 | Emmanuel Granados v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power firearms firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a fire arm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5457 | Brian Fierro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 21-5270 | Robert Stanard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings | 1. Does the taxing powers oF Congress negahes Operson's Possessory Vakeresd in Suineralip of A Ciena, A. Where doos Ivhersioke Commern bean ond end W… |
| 21-5244 | Burudi Jarade Faison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-jurisprudence congressional-power constitutional-interpretation federal-sentencing firearm-possession overrule precedent scarborough-v-us tenth-amendment us-v-lopez | If the current precedent case law for commerce jurisprudence, i.e, U.S. Lopez 514 US 549, conflicts with another currently applied case decision, i.e,… |
| 21-5102 | Jaime Meza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence | I. Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to … |
| 21-5057 | Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Should this Court mend the circuit split about whether a Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent as the Ninth and eight other circuits have held, or … |
| 21-5044 | Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 | Under Section 2B3.1 (b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG"), courts apply a four-level increase to the offense level for Robbery… |
| 20-8394 | Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Barbara Gladden Adamick, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause due-process equal-protection standing | Shool e Stthe ron. v4 alowedo te preoent him /22f5 Lawheuts Druasred 2 Su11 bhim: h r 75912b2 bn zllowedke ster/ persone Shoukd the prison property in… |
| 20-8361 | Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (the federal kidnapping statute) requires, as an element, a nexus between the kidnapping and interstate commerce, Does a purely local… |
| 20-1767 | Sarasota Wine Market, LLC, et al. v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | commerce-clause nondiscrimination nondiscrimination-principle online-market physical-presence regulatory-interests state-regulation twenty-first-amendment wine-retailers | When considering both the Twenty-first Amendment and the Commerce Clause, may Missouri ban out-of-state wine retailers from participating in its onlin… |
| 20-1735 | Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty | Whether Congress has power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize cockfighting on the island of Puerto Rico. |
| 20-8330 | Ilmane Charone Campas Strong v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment supervised-release | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-8292 | Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa | Does the government have the authority to dictate sovereign particular state, federal trial will be prosecuted other than the state according to the D… |
| 20-8275 | Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 20-8143 | Merwin Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) | Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c… |
| 20-8072 | Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation | 1. The enticement of minors over the internet is criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The First Circuit upheld the § 2422(b) conviction below based… |
| 20-8066 | James Hill v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | The federal government has committed petitioner James Hill to prison for a term of years based on testimony he briefly possessed a handgun on the fron… |
| 20-7984 | Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Whether simple robbery under Texas Penal Code § 29.02 remains a "violent felony" without the Armed Career Criminal Act's unconstitutional residual … |
| 20-7900 | Monique A. Lozoya v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute | 1. Is the airspace above a State part of that State, and thus the federal district or districts including that State, for purposes of the Constitution… |
| 20-7678 | Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-08 | GVR | IFP | 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause | Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 20-7680 | Jonathan Beasley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec… |
| 20-7663 | Andre Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment | Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int… |
| 20-1393 | William Henry Keehn, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response Waived | affordable-care-act civil-rights commerce-clause due-process standing taxing-clause | Does a district court have authority under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(4) to recharacterize a district court's Motion when it Challenges a district court's … |
| 20-7488 | William Douglas Hampton v. Mark Williams, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-fraud free-speech plea-agreement standing statutory-interpretation | 1) DOES 28 UNITED STATES CODE SERUICE $2LHI's. SPECIFIC WORDING PERMIT THE JUDICIAL SUBMISSION AND CONSIDERATION OFA HABEAS CORPUS IFTHE STATUTE'S SUB… |
| 20-7490 | Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington | Washington | 2021-03-18 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing | Question not identified. |
| 20-7438 | Christopher Stegawski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction chronic-pain chronic-pain-treatment criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-enforcement due-process federal-prosecution medical-licensing medical-practice-standard medical-prescribing opioid-prescribing | # 1 - When pain of more than three months duration becomes chronic pain (Ohio definition) and dependence (ie. addiction) forms after three months of o… |
| 20-1264 | Fusion IV Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dba Axia Pharmaceutical, et al. v. Anne Sodergren | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause compounding-quality-act drug-quality-and-security-act drug-regulation fdca-preemption federal-outsourcing-facilities federal-oversight federal-preemption outsourcing-facilities state-licensing state-licensing-requirements | Whether 21 U.S.C. §353b of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act "FDCA" (the "Compounding Quality Act" which is part of the "Drug Quality and Securi… |
| 20-7400 | Drashawn Bartlett v. Anna Valentine, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 double-jeopardy felony-murder fifth-amendment harris-precedent harris-v-oklahoma robbery sixth-circuit | In a case involving the substantive offenses of murder and robbery, can the offense of robbery be included as an element in a felony murder instructio… |
| 20-7404 | De Andre Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act individual-victim interstate-commerce intra-state-robbery mandatory-sentencing robbery software-purchase | Whether the intra-state robbery of an individual satisfies the interstate commerce nexus sufficient for a Hobbs Act prosecution merely because the ind… |
| 20-1241 | Michael Paul Miselis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-7340 | Christopher Welshans v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution oath-of-office positive-law standing | 01.) Show cause that in light of the facts presented by Congressman of Ohio James Traficant to the joint session of congress on March 17, 1993, as re… |
| 20-1215 | North American Meat Institute v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | agricultural-regulation animal-welfare commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce preemption state-police-power | Whether the Constitution permits California to extend its police power beyond its territorial borders by banning the sale of wholesome pork and veal p… |
| 20-6964 | Dallas Ray Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-6969 | Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony | Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA because post-Johnson (2015), he no longer has three prior qualifying "violent f… |
| 20-6878 | Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6791 | Alvin Christopher Penn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law felon-in-possession interstate-commerce minimal-nexus united-states-v-bailey united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-scarborough | 1. Whether United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), compels overruling Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563 (1977), which requires only a mi… |
| 20-6754 | Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | IFP | borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6640 | James David Perryman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-6641 | Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce claus… |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely… |
| 20-6420 | Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6314 | Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6269 | Gilbert Montrez Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari court-of-appeals felony-murder legal-remand mens-rea robbery rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review | THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI VACATE THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND AND REMAND TO THAT COURT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION … |
| 20-641 | LSP Transmission Holdings, LLC v. Katie Sieben, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Amici (2) | commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause electric-utilities electricity-transmission interstate-commerce market-preference state-law state-regulation transmission-lines | Whether a state law that grants an express preference to entities with an existing in-state presence to build facilities serving a distinctly intersta… |
| 20-571 | Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | Second Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | commerce-clause congressional-authority dormant-commerce-clause legal-tender pleading-standards price-fixing state-regulation | 1. When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters … | |
| 20-6151 | Thomas Mario Costanzo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-by-case-inquiry commerce-clause constitutional-limits constitutional-reach facilities-used-for-interstate-transactions interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element lopez-precedent transaction-analysis | In United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), this Court held that a federal statute's interstate commerce "jurisdictional element" can prevent the … |
| 20-6137 | Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6041 | Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 20-468 | Xpedite Systems, Inc. v. John J. Ficara, Acting Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation | New Jersey | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | apportionment commerce-clause deference due-process due-process-clause interstate-commerce revenue-reapportionment state-taxation tax-apportionment | This Court has long held that State taxation of interstate commerce is only permissible where, among other factors, the tax is fairly apportioned to t… |
| 20-5959 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-441 | Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-10-06 | Denied | commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause | 1. Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are … | |
| 20-5914 | Clifton Robinson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg … |
| 20-5833 | Scott Francis Fortier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-vagueness mens-rea sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct specific-intent vagueness-doctrine | 1a. Does creating a visual depiction of sexual conduct of a minor need to be the dominan t or specific purpose; one of the dominant or specific purpo… |
| 20-5809 | Albert Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition | 1. Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable? … |
| 20-5796 | Isaac Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 922(g)(1) 922(q)(2)(A) commerce-clause due-process guilty-plea rehaif-v-united-states | 1. Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2020), in which the defendant was not advised of the ess… |
| 20-5798 | Jose Velasquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019) this Court determined that the definition of robbery contained in the Armed Career Criminal Act (A… |
| 20-361 | James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power | 1. Is the "right to use the navigable waters of the United States," which was recognized by this Court in the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.… |
| 20-5646 | Sean Justin Owens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… |
| 20-5620 | Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure extortion hobbs-act jury-instructions robbery | The Hobbs Act defines extortion, in relevant part, as requiring the wrongful use of violence or fear in order to induce a person to consent to part wi… |
| 20-5615 | Michael Gordon v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire | 1. When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, does a voir dire inquiry focusing on whether the po… |
| 20-5535 | Randy Platt v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2029), this Court reviewed whether Florida's robbery statute required a level of force necessary to qual… |
| 20-47 | Lebamoff Enterprises, Inc., et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | commerce-clause direct-to-consumer-shipping interstate-commerce liquor-regulation nondiscrimination-principle state-authority state-liquor-law twenty-first-amendment | Whether a state liquor law that allows in-state retailers to ship wine directly to consumers but prohibits out-of-state retailers from doing so, is in… |
| 20-5026 | James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction | Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio… |
| 20-5006 | Manuel Olivas-Guevara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction appeal appeal-timeliness base-offense-level civil-procedure dismissal district-court jurisdiction robbery sentencing-guidelines standing timeliness | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY DISMISSING THE APPEAL FOR TIMELINESS? 2) DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO INCREASE MI… |
| 19-1409 | Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California | California | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity | In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f… |
| 19-1368 | Walmart Stores, Inc., et al. v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | commerce-clause constitutional-scrutiny corporate-form discriminatory-effect dormant-commerce-clause exxon-corp-v-governor-of-maryland exxon-v-maryland interstate-commerce state-protectionism | Whether a state law that has the predominant effect of protecting in-state retailers from out-of-state competition is immune from constitutional scrut… |
| 19-8568 | James Stephen Thorpe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce private-residence robbery targeting-rule | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly held that there exists an interstate commerce connection for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 an… |
| 19-8466 | Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force | Would reasonable jurists debate whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence that Mr. Niehouse's threatened use of fo… |
| 19-1275 | Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction | 1. Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose "Registry requirements for sex offenders," 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convi… |
| 19-8409 | Thanksnieky Phuong v. Rick Hill, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | IFP | asportation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence insufficient-evidence kidnapping robbery | WHETHER THE PEOPLE SUBMITTED INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT PETITIONER COMMITTED A KIDNAPPING FOR ROBBERY, AND SINCE THE CONVICT - HERE VIOLATES PETITIONE… |
| 19-1264 | Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-04 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony | Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree… | |
| 19-8273 | Deonday Evans v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | 1. Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus! 2. W… |
| 19-8254 | Samuel Dowell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings | 1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through The Commerce Clause simply because that ite… |
| 19-7971 | William L. Lewis v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Did the trial Code And The Appellate Court error within entering a finding of quilt On a Single count Robbery when the government Cid net Prove pet… |
| 19-7916 | Mark Gelazela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3282 continuing-offense criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-prosecution lulling statute-of-limitations time-barred wire-fraud | Whether after-the-fact "lulling" allegations extend the statute of limitations for wire fraud beyond the five-year period authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 32… |
| 19-7778 | James William Hill, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | bias-motivated-assault civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes hate-crimes-act hate-crimes-prevention-act jurisdictional-prong statutory-interpretation | The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, 18 U.S.C. § 249, criminalizes, among other things, assaults based on the … |
| 19-7754 | Erik Leonardus Peeters v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits non-commercial-conduct non-economic-conduct police-power united-states-v-al-maliki united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison | Does 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c)'s regulation of noncommercial, non-economic conduct of American citizens outside the United States exceed Congress's Foreign … |
| 19-7653 | Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden | Tennessee | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constructive-amendment conviction criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder indictment plea-agreement robbery statute testimony | Whether the admission of the plea agreement test mony evidence, of felony murder in the Perpetration of a robbery Included Tenn 3a-12-101 Criminal att… |
| 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… |
| 19-7536 | James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t… |
| 19-7497 | Richard Silvestri v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force | In the second resolution in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson and the State of Kentucky construed the United States Constitution insi… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7486 | Michael Lindsay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2423c commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-regulation foreign-commerce foreign-commerce-clause non-commercial-conduct police-power united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison | This Court has well-settled that the Commerce Clause gives Congress no general police power over non-commercial, non-economic conduct. See United Stat… |
| 19-7423 | Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden | Missouri | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government | Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal… |
| 19-921 | John M. Paz v. Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation | New Jersey | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | allocation apportionment commerce-clause corporate-income-tax due-process multistate-business state-taxation unitary-business unitary-business-principle | 1. Whether it is constitutionally permissible for the domiciliary State of a corporation engaged in a multistate unitary business to allocate to itsel… |
| 19-7361 | Edward Shevtsov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard | The federal mail, wire, and bank fraud statutes proscribe material misrepresentations. The circuits are divided over the standard for proving material… |
| 19-7285 | In Re Lawone Wilkinson | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | auto-repair-laws business-dispute-criminal-case constitutional-conflict criminal-conviction deceptive-testimony diligence-and-cause habeas-corpus mandated-compliance new-evidence possession-property-interests pro-se-prisoner robbery robbery-elements state-federal-laws unconstitutional-error | The auto repair LAWS: 9884.16 and 9884.9; CONFLICTS and INVALIDATES the ELEMENTS of ROBBERY, specifically forces the auto repair shop TOO FORFEIT thei… | |
| 19-7178 | Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review | Whether oJL not the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under th… |
| 19-7062 | Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7030 | Margaret Guevara v. Mark Padin, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-rights commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce interstate-dispute judicial-procedure standing | Under the COMMERCE Clause - Article 1„ Section 8, Clause: Isn't Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office and their State Players breaching this Commerce Cla… |
| 19-6967 | Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation | 1. There is an important issue of law as to the scope of the remedies available for violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act ["PURPA"]… |
| 19-6980 | John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas | Kansas | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers | Whether this courts holding against the individual mandate sanction in NFIB v. Sebelious 567 U S 519, 132, S. Ct. 2566, 183, L Ed 2d 450 (2012) on the… |
| 19-6850 | Ledell Tyler v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct | 1. Whether The Meaning of The Word "Force" Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompassass Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct: 2. Whether The Hobbs Act … |
| 19-710 | Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, LLC, dba Total Wine & More v. Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | antitrust antitrust-law commerce-clause market-competition preemption price-fixing sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-regulation wholesale-pricing | Whether Section 1 of the Sherman Act preempts state laws facilitating such unsupervised private price-fixing. |
| 19-6711 | Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6517 | Lynden Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 19-6419 | Scott Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining | DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING WILSON'S HABEAS CLAIM(S) ALLEGING COUNSEL'S UNREASONABLE FAILU… |
| 19-6306 | Jonathan Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951… |
| 19-6220 | Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power | When the National Firearms Act ("NFA") was passed in 1934, the sole constitutional authority for the law was Congress's power to tax under U.S. Const.… |
| 19-6108 | Corey Kidd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | I. Did the court below err in finding that the offense of aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under … |
| 19-5993 | Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings | Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi… |
| 19-5956 | Adrian Apodaca v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing | I. Whether the Defendent, Mr. Apodaca and sentence can not be upheld' under the definition of "crime of violence" for count five of the indictment o… |
| 19-5664 | Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute | 1. IF THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURTEDICTIOON DECTION TO SETTHE CONVECTION -JUDGMENT AEIDE AND DEEMISETHELAUSE. 2. THE TREAL COURT /THE COURT OF CREMONA… |
| 19-5699 | Robert Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5645 | Thomas Potts v. California | California | 2019-08-20 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions possession-of-stolen-property reasonable-doubt robbery robbery-murder theft | Where a criminal defendant is charged with robbery (and thus death-eligible robbery-murder) and the jury must decide whether the prosecution proved ro… |
| 19-168 | Remington Arms Co., LLC, et al. v. Donna L. Soto, Administratrix of the Estate of Victoria L. Soto, et al. | Connecticut | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Amici (6) | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process firearms-immunity firearms-industry-regulation free-speech plcaa plcaa-immunity predicate-exception statutory-interpretation unfair-trade-practices | Whether the PLCAA's predicate exception encompasses alleged violations of broad, generally applicable state statutes |
| 19-119 | Staples, Inc., et al. v. Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland | Maryland | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | apportionment commerce-clause constitutional-taxation due-process franchise-fees income-apportionment income-tax interstate-commerce royalty royalty-fees royalty-income state-courts state-taxation | When an out-of-State business receives royalty fees, franchise fees, or similar payments from in-State businesses, may a State imposing income taxes c… |
| 19-5166 | Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law | Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in international wate… |
| 19-5024 | William Thrower v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-based-inquiry elements-clause new-york-penal-law realistic-probability-test robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Whether robbery in the third degree under New York Penal Law § 160.05 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Ac… |
| 19-5025 | Isaac Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-01 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) conviction … |
| 18-9575 | In Re Phillip Love | 2019-06-06 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation | Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union? | |
| 18-1485 | Michael Kansler, et ux. v. Mississippi Department of Revenue | Mississippi | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause double-taxation due-process income-tax internal-consistency internal-consistency-test interstate-commerce residency state-tax-law state-taxation statute-of-limitations tax-statute-of-limitations | Whether Mississippi's income tax refund statute of limitation is immune from Commerce Clause scrutiny under Complete Auto Transit and the internal con… |
| 18-9444 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-28 | GVR | IFP | 922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | whether-congress-may-criminalize-intrastate-firearm-possession |
| 18-9403 | In Re Christopher Johnson | 2019-05-23 | Denied | IFP | 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal prisoner may file a habeas-corpus petition under 28-usc-2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding-but-erroneous circuit-preceden… | |
| 18-9183 | Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute | Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a… |
| 18-9001 | Steven P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud | Can the federal government convict a politician for complying with a state's ambiguous campaign finance law? |
| 18-8931 | Tajie Coleman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery satisfies the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-8842 | Michael Demon Nixon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 18-8601 | Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge | Whether the 7-level sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a weapon applies when the defendant never intended the weapon to discharge |
| 18-8614 | Leonard Dwayne Hill v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment atf-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation | Whether the 'terminal ballistics test' used to determine the dangerousness of ammunition is properly applied in this case |
| 18-8581 | Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud | Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights |
| 18-8456 | Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation | Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in … |
| 18-8464 | Oscar Lamar Mims v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial strategic-decision strickland-standard suspension-of-writ writ-of-review | Does the Certificate of Appealability process weaken the efficacy of the Writ, either to the point of working a Suspension of the Writ or of making §2… |
| 18-8305 | Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity | Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni… |
| 18-1145 | Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Amici (3) | burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process | Dormant Commerce Clause challenge to Wisconsin butter grading law |
| 18-1126 | Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing | Robbery-of-local-gas-station-for-$200-prosecuted-under-Hobbs-Act |
| 18-8059 | Christopher David Simmons v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power second-amendment | Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-1011 | Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. | Texas | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act | Whether an arbitration agreement must in fact be part of a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce" to be within the coverage of Section … |
| 18-7721 | Laron Darrell Carter, aka Birdd, aka Gardena Pimpin Birdd, aka Garr Birdd, aka Pi Birdd, aka Pi Pimpin Birdd v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty-doctrine federal-prosecution prejudice prejudice-showing rule-48(b) rule-48b separate-sovereign-doctrine separate-sovereign-exception state-prosecution | What type of prejudice showing is required to obtain dismissal under Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(b) for delayed federal prosecution after state conviction? |
| 18-989 | United States v. Marvin Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7602 | Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation | Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-7451 | Shane Cox v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-right-to-present-defense federal-preemption federal-prosecution firearms-regulation kansas-law second-amendment short-barreled-rifles silencers state-rights | Did the district court deny Mr. Cox his due process right to present a defense when it precluded Mr. Cox from arguing to the jury that his reliance on… |
| 18-7401 | Robert Shapiro v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federalism free-speech general-welfare standing takings taxation | Whether Congress has the power to levy and collect taxes, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare… |
| 18-7385 | Cheng Le v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 | Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied |
| 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 … |
| 18-881 | American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. v. Jane O’Keeffe, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Amici (5)Response Waived | commerce-clause commerce-clause,extraterritorial-regulation,inters constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-regulation foreign-commerce fuel-regulation interstate-commerce standing state-discrimination | Whether the Oregon Fuel Program violates the United States Constitution by restricting transportation fuel imports based on a 'life-cycle analysis' th… |
| 18-7197 | Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation | Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic 'robbery' for purpo… |
| 18-7143 | Derian Eidson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation | Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that 'in fact involvel]… |
| 18-807 | Randolph S. Baskins, et ux. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission | Oklahoma | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | capital-gains commerce-clause constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause due-process equal-protection state-taxation tax-deduction | Does the Oklahoma Capital Gains Deduction tax scheme as set forth in 68 O.S. 2011, § 2358(F) as applied to Randolph S. Baskins and Beverly J. Baskins … |
| 18-7133 | Paul Burks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty | Whether the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law is irrelevant to the determination of a pretrial motion to dismi… |
| 18-7152 | Yosnel Bonet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7106 | Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing | Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge… |
| 18-7088 | Oscar Raul Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-7071 | Chad Preston Brewer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition statute |
| 18-7056 | David Leonard Johnson v. California | California | 2018-12-14 | Denied | IFP | california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery | Is the crime of receiving stolen property a lesser included offense of robbery, and if so, was the trial court's failure to instruct on receiving stol… |
| 18-762 | Jaime Valente Pina, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conflict-of-interest criminal-indictment federal-prosecution plea-bargaining pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-charges state-prosecution | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches before the filing of a formal federal criminal charge |
| 18-7013 | In Re E. Edward Zimmermann | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congress constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-authority federal-government interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce legislative-interpretation regulatory-scope state-governments state-powers | Does Article One of The Constitution of The United States (The Constitution) say, 'We the people grant to ... The Congress of the United States the co… | |
| 18-6972 | Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a 'crime of violence' |
| 18-6993 | Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6900 | Jacob Scott Watters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions | Is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause? |
| 18-6854 | Matthew Lane Durham v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits minor-protection noncommercial-activity noneconomic-activity sexual-acts sexual-conduct statutory-interpretation | Did Congress exceed its enumerated powers under the Foreign Commerce Clause by punishing noncommercial, noneconomic sexual acts committed by a U.S. ci… |
| 18-6808 | Harlem Suarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-power criminal-procedure eighth-amendment first-time-offender hobbs-act interstate-commerce proportionality taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons-of-mass-destruction | Whether the federal offense of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, only requires a de minimis effect on interstate comme… |
| 18-6768 | Michael Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime | Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qualify… |
| 18-6771 | Johny Gardner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-6712 | Bryan Marque Gilstrap v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism preemption state-rights state-sovereignty | Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-612 | CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-09 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) | commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence | Whether Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on interstate motor carriers justifies its facially discriminatory sales and use tax on railroad die… |
| 18-6596 | Matthew James Dury v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause district-court-jurisdiction document-processing due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction legal-filing procedural-due-process standing | Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction under Article III, Section 8, Clause 3 to deny petitioner's challenge to the Interstate Commerce Act, r… |
| 18-6545 | Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California | California | 2018-11-02 | Denied | IFP | appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant's intent to commit robbery matters |
| 18-566 | Heriberto Menendez v. Marshall Garber | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-burden due-process interstate-commerce judicial-jurisdiction limitations long-arm-statute non-resident-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling | Whether a state statute that tolls limitations while the defendant is absent from the state imposes constitutionally impermissible burdens on intersta… |
| 18-546 | Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation | Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact… |
| 18-6343 | Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6346 | Mark A. Dubarry v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-447 | Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) | commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers | Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to transport goods interst… |
| 18-6282 | Iseal Dixon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession 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 … |
| 18-6222 | Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez | Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review |
| 18-6058 | Donald Lee Reeves, III v. California | California | 2018-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial felony-murder insufficient-evidence intent robbery special-circumstance | Whether petitioner's due process right to a fair trial was violated |
| 18-373 | Floyd Rose v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with… | |
| 18-6073 | Tramain Deon Price v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute |
| 18-311 | Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachussetts | Massachusetts | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | commerce-clause conflict-among-courts court-compulsion due-process general-jurisdiction investigatory-document-request investigatory-request jurisdiction-basis minimum-contacts nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party-contacts unrelated-subject-matter | Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporation to compel its compliance with an investigatory document request wher… |
| 18-280 | New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (46)Relisted (4) | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-rights handgun handgun-transport handgun-transportation licensed-firearms public-safety right-to-travel second-amendment transport | Whether the City's ban on transporting a licensed, locked, and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with the… |
| 18-5890 | Mark D. Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime | Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-279 | Frank Konarski, dba FGPJ Apartments and Development, et al. v. City of Tucson, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | civil-rights commerce-clause competitive-restraint due-process fair-housing-act interstate-commerce municipal-action rental-transactions restraint-of-trade standing takings vexatious-litigant | Whether housing rental businesses are part of the federally protected domain of interstate commerce | |
| 18-5879 | Emory Dickson Eneh v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment | Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-5882 | Daniel Vela v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-5858 | Lance Edward Gloor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | 10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment | Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated? |
| 18-5788 | James Everett Dutschke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment | Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as a… |
| 18-5795 | Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether the Blockburger double jeopardy test is the sole test for double jeopardy analysis |
| 18-5762 | Pedro Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms 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 … |
| 18-5678 | Lee Andrew Paul v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with Burrage v. United States regarding causation |
| 18-5680 | Reginald McGee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Whether the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-5541 | Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution | Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax? |
| 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… |
| 18-5577 | In Re Adam D. Boylen | 2018-08-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation | Whether Powhower, as a stock owner for an independent farming company, not being a facility on plant, is a 'person' Congress exclusively defined in th… | |
| 18-5444 | Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-128 | Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell | California | 2018-07-27 | Denied | business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations | Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents unconstitutional and violative of Bendix… | |
| 18-5363 | Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines | Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… |
| 18-5385 | Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights | Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-5386 | Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error | Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause … |
| 18-5304 | Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspec… |
| 18-5095 | Tron Lakey Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime | Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… |