constitutional-defect

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6577 Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida Florida 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Did the State trial court err in its reading of Logan and in denying a 3.800(a) motion alleging a sentencing error and manifest injustice?
24-5810 Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner Whether a district court errs when dismissing a pro se prisoner's complaint without leave to amend for futility reasons when defects could be cured, a…
24-316 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (27) appointments-clause constitutional-defect cost-sharing preventive-services statutory-provision task-force Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Task Force's structure violates the Appointments Clause and whether the statutory provision can…
23-7207 Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the trial Court Committed reversible error in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on self-defense and necessity, even though…
20-6802 Noel Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has bee…
20-6583 Edgar Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6012 Allen Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect discovery-violations due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment indictment-defects insufficient-evidence perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure Question not identified
19-432 All American Check Cashing, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fifth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-defect consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process enforcement-action meaningful-relief seila-law separation-of-powers standing unconstitutional-agency Whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the separation of powers
18-8300 Paul Glen Everett v. Florida Florida 2019-03-06 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of the…