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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6650 | Michael Ledon Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 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… | |
| 25-6574 | Christopher Michael Arredondo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-788 | Reed Day, et al. v. Ben Henry, in His Official Capacity as Director, Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Amici (3) | alcohol-distribution constitutional-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation three-tier-system twenty-first-amendment | Whether a physical-presence requirement that discriminates between in-state and out-of-state alcohol retailers can be deemed constitutional under the … |
| 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… |
| 25A740 | BNSF Railway Company v. Tanner Lynn | Minnesota | 2025-12-23 | Application | dormant-commerce-clause due-process interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-registration | This application does not contain a "Question(s) Presented" section in the traditional sense. The document is an Application for an Extension of Time … | |
| 25-6345 | Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Can the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit deny the Petitioner his motion pro se requesting to invoke the supervisory power of the Court to verify… |
| 25-6291 | Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. | Ohio | 2025-12-05 | Pending | IFP | equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation | This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul… |
| 25A593 | Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Application | alcohol-regulation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce physical-presence three-tier-system twenty-first-amendment | 1. This case presents important and recurring questions about the intersection of the dormant Commerce Clause and Section 2 of the Twenty-first Amendm… | |
| 25-6030 | Terry Lee Miksell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce jurisdiction sixth-amendment | 1. It is asked of this High Court as to whether the District Court had jurisdiction under Gozales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) to prosecute this case, … |
| 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 … |
| 25A484 | Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5944 | Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-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… |
| 25-5946 | Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5860 | Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that a phone containing child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspeci… |
| 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… |
| 25-5565 | Marcus Delars Branson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on… |
| 25-5481 | Isaac John Olivas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Federal law bans the possession of fire arms by anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more th an one year of imprisonment. 18… |
| 25-5447 | La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC | Georgia | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce | The Federal Arbitration Act FAA 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16 is a substantive rule applicable in state as well as in federal Courts. The FAA withdrew the power of… |
| 25-173 | Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause economic-regulation interstate-commerce market-discrimination state-law | Whether a state law that discriminates against firms engaged in interstate commerce by forcing firms to choose between being part of the enacting stat… |
| 25-5347 | Daniel Lee Lusk, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 25-5352 | Antonio Robledo Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Federal law bans the possession of fire arms by anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more th an one year of imprisonment. 18… |
| 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… |
| 25-120 | Mark Gustafson, Individually and as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of James Robert ("J.R.") Gustafson, et al. v. Springfield, Inc., dba Springfield Armory, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2025-07-31 | Denied | federalism gun-manufacturers interstate-commerce legislative-action state-sovereignty tenth-amendment | Where Congress in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), Pet.App.2 76a-287a (15 U.S.C. §§ 7901−7903 ), commanded judges to dismiss cer… | |
| 25-5223 | Burte Gucci Rhodes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction interstate-commerce jury-instruction legal-sufficiency murder-for-hire procedural-error | Whether a conviction for murder-for-hire can properly be affirmed when the jury was instructed that it need not conclude an interstate facility was us… |
| 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… |
| 24-7526 | Dwayne Lamonica Ford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7507 | Osmar Alexis Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7471 | Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Seventh Circuit decided Quintin Ferguson's 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) arson conviction was a crime of violence that subjected him to United States Sentenc… |
| 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 … |
| 24-7417 | Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7419 | Cardari Bradley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 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… | |
| 24-1254 | City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company | Texas | 2025-06-09 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment | 1. Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (IC… | |
| 24-7347 | Joshua Caleb Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 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… |
| 24-7328 | 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… | |
| 24-7286 | Christopher Glen Mason v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24A1124 | Corrigan Clay v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Presumed Complete | congressional-power extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause interstate-commerce missouri-v-holland treaty-power | Whether Congress's authority under the Foreign Commerce Clause and the treaty power extends to criminalizing entirely extraterritorial, noncommercial … | |
| 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… |
| 24-7134 | In Re Kesean Wilson | 2025-05-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights detainment dual-sovereignty equal-protection interstate-commerce tenth-amendment | DOES THE DUAL SOVEREIGNTY RULE, AS APPLIED TO CONDUCT THAT SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECTS INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND THE POWER TO COIN MONEY, CONFLICT WITH THE TE… | |
| 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 … | |
| 24-1057 | Jerry Peoples v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure drug-dealing hobbs-act interstate-commerce motion-for-acquittal rule-29-motion | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny Mr. Peoples' Rule 29 Motion for Acquittal where the Government… |
| 24-1021 | Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation | Pennsylvania | 2025-03-25 | Granted | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | arm-of-state constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce sovereign-immunity state-agency | Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to inter state sovereign immunity under the Federal Constitution, as held by the highest court … |
| 24-6789 | Johnell Lavell Barber, II v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S.… |
| 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… |
| 24-935 | Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Granted | Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 24-6416 | Carlos James Meeks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24A745 | American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Presumed Complete | airline-regulation consumer-protection federal-preemption interstate-commerce marketing-claims pricing-practices | Question not identified. | |
| 24-735 | Raymond Liddy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | circuit-split federal-criminal-law internet-crime interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation | This case raises a fundamental question that has split the Circuits regarding the intersection between the use of the Internet and federal criminal la… | |
| 24-6290 | Brent Howard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process firearms-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… |
| 24-728 | Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test | 1. Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce, both directly and under Pike v. Bruce Church (among many ot… |
| 24-6082 | Rhobashi Holmes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power constitutional-rights felony-restrictions firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face, because it is pe… |
| 24-596 | Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers | The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not apply to "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in… |
| 24-6051 | Ralph Berry v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cannabis-regulation circuit-court controlled-substances cross-border-transactions federal-law interstate-commerce | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24-5852 | Alexander W. Kawleski v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce witness-credibility | (1) Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court err when the Government's case rested on Tracy Brown's testimony that she unexpect… |
| 24A400 | Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Presumed Complete | agricultural-regulation ballot-measure dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce ninth-circuit state-law | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 24-5767 | Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation | "Coyotes" (smugglers) in Mexico duped "pollos" (would-be migrants to the United States) into believing they would be snuck across the border for a neg… |
| 24-411 | Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of Nevada | Nevada | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Relisted (2) | compelled-government-speech constitutional-rights due-process free-speech interstate-commerce right-to-travel | (1) Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada denied due process of the laws and his constitutional right of free speech to Petitioner and Compelled Governm… |
| 24-5661 | Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1), which prohibits kidnapping with the use of any instrumentality of commerce, falls within Congress's power to regula… |
| 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 … |
| 24-333 | The Walt Disney Company v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, et al. | New York | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | corporate-affiliates dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce royalty-income state-jurisdiction tax-discrimination | Whether a state tax law that on its face treats royalty income derived from corporate affiliates less favorably if the affiliates do not subject thems… |
| 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… |
| 24-5576 | Jose Antonio Campos-Esqueda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-5560 | Adam Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-278 | Ryan K. Jones, et ux. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-authority due-process interstate-commerce iRS-discretion takings-clause tax-collection-powers | 1. Whether this Court should overrule United States v. Thompson, and all of the cases which followed it, which relied on its declaration of inherent (… |
| 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… |
| 24A243 | Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company v. Oregon Department of Revenue | Oregon | 2024-09-06 | Presumed Complete | corporate-taxation interstate-commerce pre-book-orders public-law-86-272 solicitation tax-immunity | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 24-5376 | Donald Davis Gipson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession 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… |
| 24-161 | New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2024-08-14 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (5) | broadband-service common-carrier communications-act interstate-commerce preemption rate-regulation | While the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has repeatedly reversed course on whether broadband internet access service ("broadband") is a com… |
| 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… |
| 24-5101 | 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… |
| 24A52 | The Walt Disney Company v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, et al. | New York | 2024-07-16 | Presumed Complete | dormant-commerce-clause facial-discrimination interstate-commerce royalty-income state-taxation strict-scrutiny | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7776 | Joshua Willis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York Stat… |
| 23A1122 | Anthony Pandrella v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 23-7689 | 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… |
| 23-1296 | 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… |
| 23-7660 | 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… |
| 23-7653 | 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… |
| 23-7547 | Branden Tyler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation | WHETHER UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION CAN A DEFENDANT BE CHARGED WITH AIDING AND ABETTING UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 2 WHEN THE 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… |
| 23-7451 | Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment on its face or as applied in this case? 2. Does the mere movement of a firearm from one st… |
| 23-7401 | Kristopher Lee Rocco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | 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… |
| 23-7402 | Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment 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 pas… |
| 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… |
| 23-7293 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State… |
| 23-1133 | Rick Sasso, dba Indiana Spine Group v. Marc Harding, dba Harding Law Firm | Iowa | 2024-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure conflict-of-laws due-process interstate-commerce interstate-litigation jurisdiction-analysis legal-consultation medical-malpractice personal-jurisdiction | Whether Iowa courts have specific personal jurisdiction, consistent with due process and fundamental fairness, over an Indiana doctor who got a call i… |
| 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… |
| 23-7160 | John Michael Carrasco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law 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… |
| 23-1038 | Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (17)Relisted (2) | administrative-law agency-decision agency-deference arbitrary-and-capricious e-cigarettes fda-regulation interstate-commerce public-health tobacco-control tobacco-regulation | Whether the court of appeals erred in setting aside FDA's denial orders as arbitrary and capricious. |
| 23-1016 | William Facteau and Patrick Fabian v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Amici (1) | arbitrary-enforcement fda-regulations fifth-amendment first-amendment interstate-commerce medical-device off-label-use truthful-speech | 1. Whether FDA's "intended use" regulations violate the First Amendment by requiring manufacturers to refrain from truthful, non-misleading speech abo… |
| 23-7001 | Todd Andre Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | 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… |
| 23-6973 | Oren Javentay Pichon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | 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… |
| 23-6850 | 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… |
| 23-6793 | Timothy Burks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 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).… |
| 23-6769 | 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… |
| 23-6716 | Tommy Lee Walker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure due-process firearm-interstate-commerce interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing | 1. Where the firearm at issue was manufactured in California and found in a home in Califo rnia, did the district court err by refusing to give a requ… |
| 23-6687 | Darius James Francis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce 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).… |
| 23-6647 | Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 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).… |
| 23-6520 | 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… |
| 23-787 | Sierra Nevada Transportation, Inc. v. Nevada Transportation Authority | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-U.S.C.-1985 dormant-Commerce-Clause federal-licensing federal-preemption interstate-commerce public-necessity state-regulation transportation-services | Does a federally-licensed limousine company state a valid claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 against state regulators for violating the… |
| 23-716 | Shawn Mark Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent federal-benefits federal-healthcare-benefits healthcare-fraud interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation travel-act | I. Does the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(1), require the government to prove that the defendant received remuneration for referring p… |
| 23-669 | Massachusetts Coastal Railroad LLC, et al. v. Chad Marsh | Massachusetts | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | conflict-preemption economic-regulation federal-preemption field-preemption iccta-preemption interstate-commerce massachusetts-prevailing-wage-act rail-transportation railroad-regulation state-wage-law | Whether the ICCTA preempts Massachusetts' prevailing wage act for railroad maintenance workers. |
| 23-6291 | Pietro P. A. Sgromo, aka Peter Anthony Sgromo v. Leonard Gregory Scott, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | arbitration arbitration-clause contract criminal-reference federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce lease-agreement public-policy waiver | 1. Does the residential lease agreement a contract involving interstate commerce such that it falls within the purview of the Federal Arbitration Act … |
| 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… |
| 23-6278 | Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 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).… |
| 23-6218 | Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 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).… |
| 23-6100 | 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.… |
| 23-6061 | George Oscar Messer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | (1) Whether the residual clause of "or otherwise " of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process cl… |
| 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… |
| 23-479 | Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers | Does the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but … | |
| 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… |
| 23-460 | C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers | The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not "apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged i… |
| 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 … |
| 23-5921 | Vahe Sarkiss v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-commerce reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release | 1. Whether Petitioner Vahe Sarkiss' Fourth Amendment rights were violated because there was no reasonable suspicion of a violation of supervised relea… |
| 23-443 | MMN Infrastructure Services, LLC, Successor in Interest to Vectren Infrastructure Services Corp. v. Michigan Department of Treasury | Michigan | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | corporate-disclosure extraterritorial-taxation factor-representation fair-apportionment interstate-commerce short-tax-year tax-apportionment tax-assessment temporal-element | 1. Whether, to comply with the requirements of fair apportionment and the prohibition on extraterritorial taxation, a state must include in its state … |
| 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… |
| 23-424 | Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f… |
| 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… |
| 23-5830 | Joseph Emerson v. Craigslist/Craig Newmark, et al. | Ohio | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy defamation due-process fbi-interference interstate-commerce interstate-sex-trafficking legal-obstruction sex-trafficking standing union-job-rights | A PERSON HAS A RIGHT TO PRIVACY A WEBSITE WITHOUT FBI AND LAW AGENCIES STALKING AND SEX PREYING BETWEEN. THEY ARE USING DEFAMATION PLAINTIFF TELLING F… |
| 23-5804 | Joseph Alexander Clarke v. Kimberly M. Esmond Adams, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure maxims-of-law pleadings standing supreme-court-review | Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Fail to Effectually Duties When on the File of the Record and Fail to Administer Justly the Mass of the Case… |
| 23-5781 | Troy George Skinner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | One of the statutes addressing the sexual exploitation of children, 18 U.S.C. § 2251, prohibits (a) the employment, enticement, or coercion of a minor… |
| 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… |
| 23-5649 | Jonathan Monson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | Section 22 51(a) of Title 18 criminalizes the use o f a minor to engage in any sexually explicit conduc t "for the pu rpose o f producing an y visual … |
| 23A265 | Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether rideshare drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any o… | |
| 23-233 | Antero Resources Corporation v. Matthew R. Irby, West Virginia Tax Commissioner, et al. | West Virginia | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | dormant-commerce-clause in-state-sellers interstate-commerce natural-gas out-of-state-sellers post-production-expenses property-tax tax-assessment | For the tax assessments at issue in these appeals, West Virginia did not allow owners of natural gas wells to deduct their actual post-production expe… |
| 23-5566 | Scott A. Anthony v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter… |
| 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… |
| 23-171 | 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. |
| 23-5265 | Mark Alan Miller v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing 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… |
| 23-70 | Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty | Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's… | |
| 23-51 | Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14) | circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry | To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a com… |
| 23-5076 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force | Whether "attempted use" in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f… |
| 23-5063 | Bradley M. Cox v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure interstate-commerce interstate-nexus judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal sufficiency-of-evidence threat-of-damage | Regarding generally motions for judgment of acquittal and their consideration and review: 1. Has the "light most favorable to the Government/prosecut… |
| 22-7791 | Clark Downs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR … |
| 22-7773 | Belkis Soca-Fernandez, et al. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | check-and-balance civil-rights conspiracy-statute constitutional-protection due-process interstate-commerce judicial-administration judicial-review law-of-the-case legal-inconsistency sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers | I. Will jurists of reason find debatable the application of a double standard of law, by the Government's arguing of two opposite interpretations of t… |
| 22-7766 | Ramon Ramirez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. HAS THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERRED IN ITS CONCLUSION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION BASED ON EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE INTERSTATE… |
| 22-1159 | Troy Newman v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | civil-rico false-identification interstate-commerce pattern-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering-activity predicate-acts proximate-cause rico-statute undercover-investigation | In a classic case of the "abortion distortion," Planned Parenthood repackaged its PR black-eye over selling aborted baby parts into a court-approved R… | |
| 22-7684 | Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-7621 | Jerry Elkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-fraud interstate-commerce jury-instructions rico-violation | Whether the convictions of Petitioner, to include twenty-one (21) other Defendants, was in violation of the U.S. Constitution as the instant indictmen… |
| 22-1136 | In Re Robert Steven Mawhinney | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law due-process employment-contract federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judicial-review labor-law nondiscretionary-duty statutory-interpretation | "Does 49 U.S.C. § 42121 provide the United States Department of Labor, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, or the United… | |
| 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… |
| 22-1083 | Kent Chandler, in His Official Capacity as Chairman and Commissioner of Kentucky Public Service Commission, et al. v. Foresight Coal Sales, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | coal-severance-tax discrimination dormant-commerce-clause economic-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation utility-costs utility-regulation | The dormant Commerce Clause is meant to prevent economic isolation among the States. But just how far does that go? The Sixth Circuit held that a Ken… |
| 22-1055 | Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud | The wire-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prohibits fraudulent schemes that use wire, radio, or television communications in interstate or foreign com… | |
| 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… |
| 22-7284 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Should this Court grant the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative … |
| 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… |
| 22-7117 | 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 … |
| 22-7089 | In Re William Hopmeier | 2023-03-24 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects-doctrine child-pornography congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice 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… | |
| 22-6993 | 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… |
| 22-6853 | 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… |
| 22-6529 | 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… |
| 22-6522 | Charvez Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-courts hobbs-act ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof | I. Does a federal district court possess meaningful discretion to define "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" in jury instructions upon request of a crim… |
| 22-6477 | Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute | Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced… |
| 22-6267 | Mack Doak v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c), which criminalizes "cross[ing]a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who… |
| 22-480 | City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a… |
| 22-459 | Ohio v. CSX Transportation, Inc. | Ohio | 2022-11-15 | Denied | CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) | federal-railroad-safety-act grade-crossing grade-crossing-statute interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption railroad-preemption railroad-safety state-regulation transportation transportation-law | Ohio's "Blocked Crossing Statute," Ohio Rev. Code §5589.21, prohibits stopped trains from blocking public roads for longer than five minutes, with cer… |
| 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… |
| 22-285 | 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… |
| 22-182 | Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response Waived | antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to | Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor… |
| 22-5441 | Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography 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… |
| 22-5423 | Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. | Mississippi | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities | Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro… |
| 22-5235 | Louis McIntosh v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-08-01 | GVR | IFP | §924(c) criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction forfeiture hobbs-act interstate-commerce rule-32.2 sentencing | 1. Whether petitioner's §924(c) conviction based on an attempted Hobbs Act robbery should be vacated in light of United States v. Taylor? 2. Whether … |
| 22-5190 | Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard | 1. Should certiorari be granted where the district court itself called this case a "close" situation when an unqualified Special Agent with the Bureau… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 21-8130 | Monica Ruiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud | IS THE INTERSTATE NEXUS REQUIRED IN § 1343 A SUBSTANTIVE ELEMENT OF THE CRIME OF WIRE FRAUD ? WAS THE FACTUAL BASIS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT MS. RUIZ'S … |
| 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… |
| 21-7971 | 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… |
| 21-1296 | City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation | When trains block traffic at road intersections, they impose numerous safety risks. Oklahoma enacted a statute prohibiting trains from stopping where … | |
| 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… |
| 21-7180 | Hung M. Nguyen v. Cache Creek Casino Resort | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights civil-rights-statutes constitutional-rights due-process federal-question interstate-commerce self-government tribal-sovereign-immunity | Does Cache Creek Casino Resort the subclass member of Yocha Dehe Wintum Nation as the tribal Indian of United States as trustee who owns this gambling… |
| 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… |
| 21-7078 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states | Can the government obtain a conviction under RICO without proving that the targeted enterprise's activities actually affected interstate commerce, so … |
| 21-1066 | Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al. | Washington | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split corporate-taxation discriminatory-proxy discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce out-of-state-entities precedents proxy-discrimination state-taxation | Does a law that is triggered by a proxy for participating in interstate commerce and that burdens out-of-state entities almost exclusively violate the… |
| 21-6955 | Erica Umbay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines | Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis? Whet… |
| 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.… |
| 21-6769 | Luke Joseph Burning Breast v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-921(a)(20) 18-usc-922(g) civil-rights-restoration criminal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm firearm-components interstate-commerce rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution by showing that a single interchangeable part of a firearm trav… |
| 21-6722 | 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 … |
| 21-6614 | 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… |
| 21-6581 | 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 … |
| 21-641 | 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… |
| 21-6046 | 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… |
| 21-5993 | 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… |
| 21-5952 | Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | 18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction | Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional, because it cannot be interpreted, faithful to its plain text and consistent with congressional… |
| 21-468 | National Pork Producers Council, et al. v. Karen Ross, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the California Department of Food & Agriculture, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Judgment Issued | Amici (54)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | animal-welfare dormant-commerce-clause economic-effects extraterritoriality federalism interstate-commerce pike-balancing pork-production state-regulation | Whether allegations that a state law has dramatic economic effects largely outside of the state and requires pervasive changes to an integrated nation… |
| 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… | |
| 21-392 | Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination | The dormant Commerce Clause authorizes judicial intervention to address state discrimination to and undue burdens upon interstate commerce. The "marke… |
| 21-5627 | William Brinson Ball v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States. |
| 21-5631 | Elton Vallare v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Dismissed | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 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… |
| 21-309 | Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15)Relisted (2) | circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are … |
| 21-5523 | Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | I. Does the jurisdictional element "in or affecting interstate commerce" in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce … |
| 21-171 | Joel Zupnik v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-5141 | Terrance Tyrell Edwards v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commercial-sex-trafficking conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error | 1. Is evidence that establishes only the use of cellular telephones, the Internet or hotels by a defendant, without any evidence of how the use of the… |
| 21-50 | D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. | Florida | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights | Should the Government, with assistance of family courts, have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? Does this deny bas… |
| 21-27 | Arrow Highway Steel, Inc. v. Robert Dubin | California | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | dormant-commerce-clause former-resident interstate-commerce judicial-enforcement non-discriminatory residency-status state-statute stipulated-judgment tolling-law tolling-statute | 1. Whether the dormant commerce clause may be used to invalidate the application of a state's neutral, non-discriminatory tolling statute to defeat th… |
| 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… |
| 20-1662 | William B. Trescott v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference agency-rulemaking chevron-deference due-process interstate-commerce professional-judgment | Is it Constitutional for a court to defer to a person lacking professional experience under Chevron, U.S. A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Counci… |
| 20-1615 | Colin Masseau, et ux. v. Guy Henning, et al. | Vermont | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 9-usc-10(a)(3)&(4) arbitration-review contract-of-adhesion due-process federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce manifest-disregard manifest-disregard-of-law motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading | Colin and Emily Masseau were a young couple looking to purchasing their first home and hired a local Vermont licensed home inspector to inspect that h… |
| 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… |
| 20-7998 | Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commercial-transaction craigslist criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-robbery | The federal Hobbs Act "makes it a crime for a person to affect commerce, or attempt to do so, by robbery." Taylor v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2074, 2… |
| 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… |
| 20-7490 | 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. |
| 20-7482 | Lavellous Purcell v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | electronic-data-privacy federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants internet-privacy interstate-commerce mann-act particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | 1. Whether a search warrant ordering Facebook to hand over the defendant's entire account to law enforcement for review, without limiting either Faceb… |
| 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… |
| 20-7377 | Benjamin Drake Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | anti-riot-act civil-rights civil-unrest criminal-prosecution due-process facial-constitutionality federal-statute first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overbreadth standing | 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… |
| 20-1215 | 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… |
| 20-7243 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… |
| 20-1077 | Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka | First Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli… |
| 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… |
| 20-6791 | 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… |
| 20-6640 | 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… |
| 20-807 | Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation | Two questions are presented: 1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train … |
| 20-6594 | Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines | WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E… |
| 20-6492 | Calvin James v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation | i,) i-ld'iA/ rr£ &6\/£gMrtE.iJT :TrAJhrc %bFo&£ r^sr /}pP£ A £Ahic£ di. f%& -,Td*ZUs»h Wt A :m& ?/ Auo Ntjlsc Fo/c o£ Pea,*, of,,* T7 &j%/ -A ^ ? $>)… |
| 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… |
| 20-712 | Leonid Burlaka, et al. v. Contract Transport Services, LLC | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response Waived | fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce intrastate-transport shipper-intent statutory-exemption transportation-jurisdiction transportation-regulation | Are drivers subject to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation, and therefore exempt under 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(1), because some of the produ… |
| 20-6344 | Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | For The questions is a matter of jurisdiction undisputed mix law and mix fact "state v. federal. " The legal right to trial by jury as declared in U.S… |
| 20-6359 | Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | 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… |
| 20-635 | Soo Line Railroad Company, dba Canadian Pacific v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act jurisdiction preemption rail-corporation state-law termination-act | Whether the court of appeals erroneously held that the exemption provision of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (49 U.S.C. § 11321(a)… |
| 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… |
| 20-622 | Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernadean Rittmann, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Amici (2) | arbitration-exemption arbitration-regimes contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery ninth-circuit seamen-railroad-employees transportation-workers | Congress extended the Federal Arbitration Act's strong support for arbitration to the full reach of its powers to regulate foreign and interstate comm… |
| 20-572 | James R. Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity | (1) - Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) provides for Criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate Commerce, absent proof that they knew… |
| 20-6169 | Tykei Garner v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use a decade old New York Ci… |
| 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 … |
| 20-468 | 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… |
| 20-441 | 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 … |
| 20-361 | 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.… |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … | |
| 20-237 | Old Republic Home Protection Company, Inc. v. William B. Sparks, et al. | Oklahoma | 2020-08-28 | Denied | appellate-court-decisions federal-arbitration-act insurance-contracts interstate-commerce mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-arbitration-statute | Whether, in a case involving interstate commerce and a written contract with an arbitration provision that expressly requires application of the FAA, … | |
| 20-159 | John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. | Minnesota | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation | Does a State's workers compensation statute violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently ba… |
| 20-5197 | Lamar Moore, aka Kane v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-status criminal-penalties due-process factual-findings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-waiver second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | 1) Shouldn't Moore's Plea and conviction under Count one be Vackted in light of Rehaif V.united states, 139 s.ct.2191 (2o1), Where the indictment fail… |
| 20-75 | Jeffrey G. Heston v. G. B. Capital Holdings, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | civil-procedure contract-formation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce maritime-contract police-authority standing takings vessel-berthing | I. Does such a contract obtained in this manner sustain a determination of a "free and fair" formation on grounds equitable to both parties under the … | |
| 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… |
| 20-5079 | Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession 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… |
| 20-5080 | Christopher George Wiggin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce 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… |
| 20-5008 | Emilio Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce 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… |
| 19-1409 | 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… |
| 19-8662 | Jason Paris Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession 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… |
| 19-8568 | 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… |
| 19-1319 | David R. Morabito, et ux. v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process due-process-14th-amendment eleventh-amendment hydraulic-fracturing interstate-commerce rosemary-knick rosemary-knick-v-township-of-scott standing takings takings-clause takings-clause-5th-amendment | 1. Whether the New York State Law, adopte d on or about April 3, 2020, permanently banning high volume hydraulic fracturi ng in the State of New York… |
| 19-8364 | Adam C. Vance v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-device-fraud aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure identity-theft internet-transactions interstate-commerce reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-alexander united-states-v-vance | Was Vance Entitled To Acquittal for Online Internet -based Aggravated Identity Theft where it was not shown this Internet transaction in Count 3 was d… |
| 19-8138 | Jeanette Woolsey-Ross v. James Woolsey, et al. | Virginia | 2020-03-30 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-rights due-process interstate-commerce social-security standing | How is the Equal Protection clause violated against a non-custodial Parent in this Federal Interstate TITLE IV-D Social Security ACT Case? How is the… |
| 19-8075 | S. Patrick Mendel v. UBER Technologies, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust federal-authority-transportation federal-preemption interstate-commerce intrastate-rates intrastate-routes intrastate-services passenger-transportation public-safety regulatory-conflict transportation-network-companies | Briefly, federal authority over intrastate transportation provides: • ... no State ... shall enact or enforce any law, rule, regulation, standard, or … |
| 19-8002 | Humberto Herrera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-jurisdiction federal-crime federal-offense federalism hobbs-act interstate-commerce retail-robbery stirone-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states | Whether the Hobbs Act makes the robbery of any retail store that engages in interstate commerce a federal offense. |
| 19-1081 | Arlene Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-reach interstate-commerce legislative-intent nonresident-discrimination presumption-of-no-extraterritorial-intent | Under the dormant Commerce Clause framework set forth by this Court, a state law is subject to heightened scrutiny if it either "discriminates against… | |
| 19-7620 | Bradley Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss | Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion… |
| 19-985 | Native Wholesale Supply Company v. California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, et al. | California | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | contract-law indian-commerce-clause indian-reservation indian-tribe interstate-commerce personal-jurisdiction state-regulation tribal-corporation tribal-sovereignty | 1. Whether a contract for the purchase of goods entered into, and fully performed by, an Indian Tribe outside the exterior boundaries of the state in … |
| 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… |
| 19-7030 | 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… |
| 19-762 | Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-deterrence congressional-authorization congressional-silence constitutional-claim dormant-commerce-clause evansville-vanderburgh-airport interstate-commerce right-to-travel toll-fees user-fees | Petitioners allege that the Pennsylvania Turnpike imposes excessive and burdensome tolls in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause. The Third Circui… |
| 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 … |
| 19-625 | Rita Guerrero, Individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero v. BNSF Railway Company | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-employers-liability-act interstate-commerce interstate-rail-service jury-trial negligence scope-of-employment seventh-amendment summary-judgment | 1. Whether the decision by the Seventh Circuit panel conflicts with provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the uniform precedents of … |
| 19-6630 | Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien | Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981(a) against officials and officers of the court for dismantling RICO laws to the det… |
| 19-6569 | Keyon W. Carraway v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclud e that Rehaif v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (June 2… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6306 | 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… |
| 19-6178 | Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-5888 | David Tkhilaishvili v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party | 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with multiple decisions of this Court, that the government may sustain a Hobbs Act extorti… |
| 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… |
| 19-5654 | Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession 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… |
| 19-5601 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-136 | Saban Rent-A-Car LLC, et al. v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. | Arizona | 2019-07-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | arizona-supreme-court maricopa-county nonresident-taxation rental-car-industry tax-discrimination car-rental-tax commerce-regulation discriminatory-design discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce nonresident-burden nonresident-discrimination state-taxation tax-discrimination tax-incidence | The dormant Commerce Clause prohibits states from enacting laws regulating local resources or services that "fall by design" on nonresidents in a "pre… |
| 19-129 | Neil Feinberg, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-policy drug-trafficking federal-preemption federalism interstate-commerce irs-tax-code marijuana-legalization preemption state-legalization state-rights tax-law | Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the Controlled Substances Act superseded and preempted Colorado marijuana laws? |
| 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… |
| 19-5114 | Jovanny Rodriguez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alibi due-process evidence fifth-amendment indictment indictment-variance interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial variance | 1) Petitioner was convicted and sentenced without having an opportunity to establish an alibi due to a variance between the indictment and evidence at… |
| 18-9726 | Lorenzo Hale v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines 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… |
| 18-9589 | Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | GVR | IFP | appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 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 | 1. 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 | 1. Is Mississippi's income tax refund statute of limitation immune per se from Commerce Clause scrutiny under Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, 43… |
| 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 | 1. 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… |
| 18A1188 | Saban Rent-A-Car, LLC, et al. v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. | Arizona | 2019-05-17 | Presumed Complete | discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause facially-neutral-tax interstate-commerce out-of-state-discrimination tax-burden-on-nonresidents | Whether a state or local law violates the dormant Commerce Clause if it intentionally discriminates against out-of-state visitors—and the domestic aut… | |
| 18-9071 | Jason Moody v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-law firearms interstate-commerce knowledge-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(a) provides for criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of thei… |
| 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 | 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 … |
| 18-8366 | Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | 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… |
| 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 | 1. Under Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970), the Dormant Commerce Clause is violated whenever the burden imposed on interstate commerce "… |
| 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 | In today's world, there is no such thing as a purely local business. All businesses use credit card machines, access the internet, and purchase out-of… |
| 18-1097 | SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Is a state law exempt from the Dormant Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce? 2. Is a state law exem… |
| 18-7824 | John C. Killingbeck v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc | Question not identified. |
| 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 | The Texas Supreme Court has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has preemptive effect over incompatible state law when the parties have agreed the … |
| 18-7700 | Luther Gene Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the Oregon Fuel Program—which restricts transportation fuel imports based upon a "life-cycle analysis" that regulates the manner in which t… |
| 18-866 | Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4-r-act discrimination fuel-tax infrastructure-funding interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-taxation railroad railroad-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination transportation-law | Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), states may not impose taxes that discriminate against railroads by favoring their competitors, such as motor carriers. … |
| 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 | I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammuni… |
| 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… | |
| 18-6808 | 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 | I. In United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), this Court held that Congress had the authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate three broad c… |
| 18-663 | Fredric Russell Mance, Jr., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (8) | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-firearms-licensees firearm-sales firearms-regulation handgun-sales interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | Federal law bars consumers from acquiring handguns outside their home state. This prohibition limits choice and price competition, and forces many han… |
| 18-6755 | Daederick Lacy v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | age-of-consent criminal-sexual-activity interstate-commerce mens-rea minor prostitution statutory-interpretation transportation-of-minors | Does the statute require proof that the defendant knew the individual transported had not attained the age of 18 years? Does the statute require proo… |
| 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, as the Eleventh Circuit held, Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on the fuel used by interstate motor carriers sufficiently justifies … |
| 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… |
| 18-6468 | Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden | This case presents 3 narrow and discrete questions for this Court to consider, viz. - what happens when (a) the Government fails to allege in an indic… |
| 18-499 | Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. | Iowa | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings | Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci… |
| 18-509 | Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant | By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did these same 3 Judges on a Ninth Circuit panel abuse their discretion by covering-up act… |
| 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… |
| 18-6222 | 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 | Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |
| 18-427 | Masoud Bamdad v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules | Should a habeas proceedings court adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making its final judgment and closing the case, or otherwise suc… |
| 18-6186 | Alvin Gaitan Benitez, aka Pesadilla, aka Lil Pesadilla, aka Lil Tuner, aka Tooner, aka Lil Tunnel v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antagonistic-defense antagonistic-defenses codefendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial interstate-commerce jurisdiction jurisdictional-element motion-for-severance severance | I. WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DENIAL OF A I MOTION FOR SEVERANCE BY ALVIN BENITEZ FROM CODEFENDANT MANUEL GUEVARA WHERE GUEVARA … |
| 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 | I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute (… |
| 18-6006 | Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materia ls used to produce child pornog raphy once crosse d state lines at an unspeci… |
| 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 a part of the federally protected domain of interstate commerce. If such business are per se a part of the fede… | |
| 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 | I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to establish that the bright line "Blockburger" double jeopardy test accepted in Dixon is the one a… |
| 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 | I. This Court and individual Justices have increasingly explained that Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize conduct otherwise fal… |
| 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 | 1) Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents, unconstitutional and violative of Be… | |
| 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… |
| 18-5304 | 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 | I. 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 uns… |
| 18-96 | Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Russell F. Thomas, Executive Director of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (23)Response Waived | dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce liquor-regulation liquor-sales residency-requirement residency-requirements retail-licenses retail-licensing state-licensing twenty-first-amendment wholesale-licenses wholesale-licensing | Whether the Twenty-first Amendment empowers States, consistent with the dormant Commerce Clause, to regulate liquor sales by granting retail or wholes… |
| 18-5074 | Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce | Under the Due Process Clause, did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request/motion for an entrapment instruction when the record co… |
| 18A1006 | BNSF Railway Company, et al. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, et al. | Montana | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure discovery-violations federal-preemption interstate-commerce railroad-litigation state-court-sanctions | Question not identified. | ||
| 24A441 | Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC | Georgia | Presumed Complete | federal-preemption financial-responsibility insurance-coverage interstate-commerce motor-carrier tort-claims | 1. Whether $147,000 final offer to settle violates the Federal Minimum Levels of Financial Responsibility for Motor Carriers Scheduling Limit in contr… |