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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A675 | United States v. Leopoldo Rivera-Valdes | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | deportation due-process immigration-law notice-requirements removal-order statutory-notice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A391 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry | Whether a defendant convicted of illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 can challenge their prior deportation based on an incorrect aggravated felony d… | |
| 25-5494 | Donald A. Allen v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-08-28 | Denied | IFP | deportation due-process fourteenth-amendment fugitive-warrant judicial-process sentencing-delay | 1. Whether the State of New Jersey violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourtheenth Amendment by sentencing him more tha… |
| 25-5418 | In Re Kai Uwe Thier | 2025-08-20 | Denied | IFP | consular-relations deportation habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaty vienna-convention | WHETHER PETITIONER, A GERMAN CITIZEN AND AN ILLEGAL ALIEN, SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY SINCE 2002, IS ENTITLED… | |
| 24-6720 | Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment | Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments afford criminal defendants the same burden of proof for extraneous offenses as convicted aliens receive at deportati… |
| 24-5806 | Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Gentner F. Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | deportation habeas-corpus immigration-consequences in-custody-requirement ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky | Whether a petitioner detained by ICE due to deportation proceedings can satisfy the 'in custody' requirement under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 after completing a… |
| 24-5333 | Jamal Mohammad Eleidy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver deportation illegal-sentence sentencing-condition statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether an appeal waiver precludes appellate review of an illegal sentence imposing deportation as a supervised release condition for a U.S. citizen w… |
| 24-5281 | Alexander A. Fels v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights deportation due-process equal-protection immigration-law legal-status | Whether the Supreme Court should review the classification of an immigrant's legal status and potential constitutional violations related to deportati… |
| 23-7456 | Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1252b compelling-circumstances deportation deportation-order immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding minority-status noncitizen-status presumption-of-regularity statutory-interpretation | Whether the minority status of a noncitizen at the time an in absentia deportation order is issued falls among the compelling circumstances sufficient… |
| 23-7324 | Danilo Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity | Whether the petitioner's continued life sentence represents an unwarranted sentencing disparity under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) |
| 23-7299 | In Re Devon Armond Gayles | 2024-04-24 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights deportation due-process immigration-law nationality-and-status non-citizen-status original-jurisdiction supreme-court-review treaties | Question not identified | |
| 23-7286 | Francis Arthur v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment |
| 23-1145 | Ojin Kim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response Waived | case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard | Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co… |
| 23-5732 | Wayne Harris v. Sergeant Stash, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights deportation due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malicious-prosecution racial-discrimination wrongful-conviction | Whether the petitioner's conviction should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, leading to a violation of his constitutional rights, a… |
| 23-5499 | Manuel De Jesus Del Cid Bran v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deportation discretionary-sentencing sentencing-commission supervised-release | Does a district court abuse its discretion under 18 U.S.C. § 3583 by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable noncitizen purely in order … |
| 23-5099 | Dustin Jolly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co… |
| 22-7330 | Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing | Whether petitioner's conviction for 'illegal reentry' was supported by sufficient evidence |
| 22-6250 | Matthew James Dury v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alias citizenship-status civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process immigration immigration-law legal-residency naturalization permanent-residency | Whether a foreign-born defendant can be ordered to violate U.S. laws |
| 22-5729 | Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes | Whether U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(d) applies to federal criminal defendants who were previously released from prison pursuant to state statutes authorizing the… |
| 22-5554 | In Re Melvin T. Bell | 2022-09-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights deportation due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure mail-fraud personal-liberty subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Mr. Bell is restrained of his personal liberty due to lack of jurisdiction | |
| 21-7590 | Stephen Izuchukwu Onwuzulike v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Third Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights deportation due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction non-citizen-rights procedural-review standing takings | Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the suppression of a properly filed appeal application |
| 21-7009 | Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictiveness | Whether a defendant who demonstrates that a prosecutor willfully injected into a plea colloquy a more serious and concealed criminal charge based on t… |
| 21-6751 | Rudy Mendoza v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights deportation due-process material-evidence materiality victim witness witness-testimony | Whether the government must provide notice to a defendant prior to unilaterally deporting the sole witness and sole alleged victim of a pending crimin… |
| 21-6560 | Carlo Donato v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act modifies the penalty for 'stacking' 924(c) convictions and whether such an offense is retroactive |
| 21-6205 | Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law | Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under 18 U.S.C. §16(b) |
| 21-5766 | Dionte Dortch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure deportation due-process firearm immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining rico-statute simple-possession | Whether the Due Process Clause and the 5th Amendment protects the accused from a plea of guilty to material facts of simple possession of cocaine and … |
| 21-5524 | Miguel Andres Lara-Unzueta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1252 8-usc-1326 deportation deportation-proceeding due-process immigration-law judicial-review procedural-rights removable-alien | Does a deportation proceeding deprive a removable alien of the opportunity for judicial review under 8 U.S.C. §1326(d)(2)? |
| 21-5419 | Dilang Dat v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-plea deportation deportation-consequences due-process-advice immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-united-states strickland-test | Does trial counsel advising a criminal defendant that he 'could' be deported for entering a guilty plea breach trial counsel's duty to give 'clear and… |
| 20-1427 | Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the court of appeals erred in interpreting the term 'pending deportation' in 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(A) to include those awa… |
| 20-7390 | Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law | Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under the 'residual clause' of 18 U.S.C. §16(b) |
| 20-6657 | Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla… |
| 20-120 | Alfredo Juarez v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure deportation effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment | When there is no dispute that a guilty plea will trigger mandatory deportation pursuant to federal law, must defense counsel advise a defendant that t… |
| 19-7830 | Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment | Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth … |
| 19-7445 | Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Are all stale prisoners being unlawfully held, where the evidence used to convict them involved state department officials from one county searching a… |
| 19-7297 | Christopher J. Burton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment collateral-consequences criminal-justice criminal-procedure deportation due-process professional-assistance sexually-violent-predator strickland-v-washington voluntary-plea | Whether civil commitment proceedings are sufficiently similar to deportation proceedings such that the distinction between collateral and direct conse… |
| 19-7008 | Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether deportation automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release? |
| 19-645 | Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz | Arizona | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien | Whether unauthorized aliens can establish Strickland prejudice for Padilla/Lee claims |
| 19-638 | N. B. D. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services | Kentucky | 2019-11-18 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) | best-interests deportation federal-law homeland-security immigration immigration-law juvenile-protection predicate-findings special-immigrant-juvenile special-immigrant-juvenile-status state-court-jurisdiction state-courts | Whether federal law requires state courts of competent jurisdiction to make predicate findings for special-immigrant-juvenile-status determinations up… |
| 19-6503 | Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal | Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje… |
| 19-6402 | Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings | Must a defendant show actual prejudice to collaterally attack a removal order? |
| 19-6353 | Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the general, residual phrase 'takes any other action' in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6049 | Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment | Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted |
| 19-294 | Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Relisted (2) | country-conditions deportation detention due-process ethnic-minorities immigration-court immigration-law removal-orders removal-proceedings suspension-clause torture torture-convention torture-protection | Whether section 1252(g) is unconstitutional under the Suspension Clause as applied to Petitioners |
| 19-5571 | Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-5287 | Robert Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli… |
| 18-9618 | Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings | Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 18-9490 | Daniel George Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment criminal-prosecution deportation illegal-reentry immigration-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether an alien's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated in a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry following deportation, where the United … |
| 18-1432 | Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal | Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin… |
| 18-8998 | Juan Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process governmental-bad-faith governmental-misconduct harmless-error material-witness sixth-amendment witness-deportation | Whether a defendant must prove governmental bad faith to establish a compulsory process clause violation? |
| 18-8264 | Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported |
| 18-6827 | Eric Williams v. New York | New York | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barber-v-page confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation good-faith-effort significant-public-benefit-parole sixth-amendment unavailability witness-testimony | Whether prosecutors may dispense with the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, and may be relieved of the obligation recognized in Barber v. P… |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug-trafficking conviction with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felo… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | whether a state drug-trafficking crime with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felony' o… |
| 18-5190 | Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the … |
| 18-5173 | Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay | Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of anal… |
| 18-5071 | Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | deportation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea knowing-and-voluntary language-barrier prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Was petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel? |