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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…