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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A640 | Tetiana Semeniuk v. Abdelrahman Abouelmagd | Second Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | asylum-confidentiality child-protection domestic-violence family-separation immigration-law passport-restrictions | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5518 | Dejuan Dion Bruner v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge domestic-violence firearm-possession misdemeanor permanent-disarmament second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which imposes a lifetime prohibition on firearm possession by anyone convicted of a domestic-violence misdemeanor, is c… |
| 25A245 | Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice | Wisconsin | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | domestic-violence expungement federal-statute firearm-possession misdemeanor-conviction restoration-of-rights | Whether an expungement must, under state law, completely negate a conviction in order to count as an expungement under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii). | |
| 25-5067 | Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child… |
| 25-5028 | Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question 1: Whether the relationships listed in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve both jurisdictional and su… |
| 25-11 | Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance | 1. How is it possible in the most revered judicial system in the world-the United States of America-that a woman/mother/primary caregiver of the marri… |
| 24-6708 | Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill | Kentucky | 2025-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody domestic-violence federal-law jurisdiction protective-order uccjea | 1. Whether a state court's failure to exercise jurisdiction under the UCCJEA, despite previously issuing a protective order, violates the Full Faith a… |
| 24-499 | Nita A. v. A. A. | Illinois | 2024-11-01 | Denied | domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the Ilinois Domestic Violence Act, 750 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 60/101 et seq., as applied by the Illinois Courts, violated Nita's First Amend… | |
| 24-315 | Troy Pasulka v. Saraa Doris Lee | California | 2024-09-19 | Denied | child-custody constitutional-rights custody-order domestic-violence due-process equal-protection | 1. When a state 's legislature — to stop its courts from facilitating child abuse, litigation abuse, and other forms of domestic violence — enacts m… | |
| 24-130 | Desiree Martinez v. Channon High | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity | Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica… |
| 24A25 | B.S. v. D.S. | California | 2024-07-10 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process evidence-threshold preponderance-standard protection-order | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5022 | Angela J. Wells v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-07-09 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights | 1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A… |
| 23-7735 | Maria M. Faust v. Michael T. Faust | District of Columbia | 2024-06-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction domestic-violence due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure military-spousal-abuse | Why have the honorable Court of District of Columbia and the honorable District of Columbia Court of Appeals, not taken into consideration this case o… |
| 23-7715 | Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation | Whether Suth Amfra/f &JdwCt Suff&rfe Ahvt dhAJat C&tudi Jyndfiy /XtiadOmaA'U skedA 9M9 y&d Bentff Add Pm/A Afrt A^hah/A/np a/- ?Ae Bmdtr dS&uf-kd AAe … |
| 23A1046 | Desiree Martinez v. Channon High | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process precedent-interpretation qualified-immunity state-created-danger | Are government officials entitled to qualified immunity in cases not involving time-pressured decisions so long as there is no prior precedent recogni… | |
| 23-7231 | Bryan Christopher O'Rourke v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-04-16 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-921a33b 18-usc-922g9 constitutional-rights domestic-violence effective-assistance-of-counsel firearms-prohibition ineffective-assistance misdemeanor-domestic-violence padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky second-amendment | Whether, pursuant to Padilla, counsel is a fortiori constitutionally deficient for failing to notify a United States citizen of the direct and/or coll… |
| 23A750 | E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children | Colorado | 2024-02-15 | Presumed Complete | dependency-and-neglect domestic-violence mental-health parental-rights substance-abuse termination | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6646 | Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht | New Hampshire | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights | A recent New Hampshire Supreme Court precedential Opinion (July 25, 2023) addressed the enforcement of a valid child custody decree in a multi-state d… |
| 23-820 | Ohio v. William Johnson | Ohio | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 911-recording confrontation-clause domestic-violence excited-utterance hearsay non-testimonial ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment | When viewed objectively, were the statements describing the fresh incident of domestic violence in the 911 recording non-testimonial? |
| 23A488 | Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht | New Hampshire | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order | Question not identified. | |
| 23-455 | United States v. Litsson Antonio Perez-Gallan | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge domestic-violence due-process firearms firearms-possession protective-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence protective orders, violates the Second… |
| 23A358 | Ohio v. William Johnson | Ohio | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | 911-call confrontation-clause domestic-violence emergency-exception hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-302 | Bryce Watkins v. Brian Wunderlich, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | co-occupant-rights consent consent-search domestic-violence express-refusal fourth-amendment home-entry shared-dwelling warrantless-search | In Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103, 120 (2006), this Court clearly established that "a warrantless search of a shared dwelling for evidence over the… |
| 23-5392 | Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5260 | Mary Beth Harcrow v. Clyde Harcrow, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-enforcement judicial-notice protective-order vawa | Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(a), the Question Presented herein is whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in adopting the ruling of the … |
| 22-7590 | Jesse Shane Owens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law domestic-violence due-process federal-courts firearm-restrictions second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether courts must assess the elements 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) and, if so, whether federal courts must consider a state's own… |
| 22-7504 | Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor | California | 2023-05-10 | Denied | IFP | content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order | Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated by the issuance of a restraining ord… |
| 22-7312 | Jackie Mitchell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-panel criminal-history domestic-violence federal-circuit-court federal-court-interpretation federal-implications panel-decision sixth-circuit-rule state-court-interpretation state-law state-law-interpretation | To resolve a federal defendant's criminal history, must a circuit court panel use the current state court interpretations of state conviction, or may … |
| 22-915 | United States v. Zackey Rahimi | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (69)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders, violates the Secon… |
| 22-6956 | Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT THE ORDERS APPEALED WERE NEITHER FINAL NOR WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION UNDER THE ALL-WRITS ACT 18 USC … |
| 22-6920 | Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony | Pre. urstodys, Somedute sheuated on We 20\& order, The Gimina® Ur Way aod Noring tap Wer Son ¥o Fates on Quar lb) old, per The 2OIA order The, Missour… |
| 22-6573 | Delamon A. Marshall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Does a prior conviction for domestic violence under Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2919.25(A) qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 22-348 | Floyd Tayler v. Washington | Washington | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity | Must the jury, in deciding whether a defendant has committed the domestic violence pattern aggravator, RCW 9.94A.535 (3) (h) (i), be instructed that t… |
| 22-5575 | Ronald Mickel v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 21-7894 | Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht | New Hampshire | 2022-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court | Petitioner alleges that New Hampshire does not provide equal protection under the law to its citizens when deciding whether to issue domestic violence… |
| 21-7146 | A. W. v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2022-02-17 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights domestic-violence due-process religious-expression standing takings | Question not identified. |
| 21-1091 | Edwin Espejo v. Washington | Washington | 2022-02-07 | Denied | clear-and-present-danger community-care-exception community-caretaking domestic-violence due-process fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. Does the community care exception to the fourth amendment allow police officers to remain in a person's home when they have determined that there i… | |
| 21-6511 | Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel | Kentucky | 2021-12-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence domestic-violence-orders due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing state-court-procedure | 1. Whether it is acceptable for State courts to ignore the fifth and fourteenth amendments and deny hearings in cases and deny equal protection of the… |
| 21-794 | Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm | 1. Whether an abused woman who faces increased danger from her abuser because State Actors have emboldened and condoned the abuser's violently escalat… |
| 21-6463 | William Martin Cresham v. California | California | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence evidence-law prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence | This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou… |
| 21-6413 | Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Honorable Jason Fleming, et al. | Kentucky | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | child-custody court-procedure domestic-violence domestic-violence-order federal-law jurisdiction truthfulness uniform-act uniform-child-custody-and-jurisdiction-and-enforce | 1. Can a state court enter a child custody order, knowing one already exists in another state, without ever contacting the other state; and ignoring t… |
| 21-659 | Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. | Puerto Rico | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Amici (5) | civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing | 1. Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether… |
| 21-5941 | Angela Michelle Morelli v. Joshua B. Hyman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction hearsay-evidence life-liberty-property procedural-hearing victim-protection | 1. Why are Womens ' Constitutional Rights being violated under the 14th Amendment, for both procedural Due Process and Life, Liberty and Property, le… |
| 21-5903 | Angela Johnson, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process federal-governing-bodies federal-statutes legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings victim-rights | (1) CAN STATES OVERTURN FEDERAL STATUTES BY AND ENFORCEABLE FEDERAL GOVERNING BODIES WITHOUT REBUKE OR AWARDING EXPIATION, SPECIFICALLY UIFSA AND UC… |
| 21-314 | Ed Reynolds, et al. v. Karri Dalton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nikki Bascom, and Next Friend to M. B., a Minor Child and A. C.. a Minor Child | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 10th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence equal-protection police-duty police-protection qualified-immunity Question not identified. section-1983 21-313" section-1983 21-313" | I. Did the Tenth Circuit err in denying Petitioners qualified immunity on Dalton's Equal Protection claim where it was not clearly established that po… |
| 21-5432 | Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, to support Rehaif's knowledge-of-status element in a prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a misdemeanor … |
| 21-5405 | George A. Luna v. Anna Valentine, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause domestic-violence due-process evidentiary-rule federal-jurisdiction forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay-exception pleadings standing witness-unavailability | Under Giles v., California can a State constitutionally introduce a murder victim's out. of court statements to others about defendant's abuse/ pursua… |
| 21-131 | Blanche A. Brown v. Joseph Friel, Police Chief, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-victim-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process free-speech patient-abuse probable-cause retaliation summary-judgment | IT IS BELIEVED that: A Permanently Disabled Medically Vulnerable Patient's RIGHT to: (1) REPORT Patient ABUSE: Elder ABUSE to an abuser's Govt Medical… |
| 21-5060 | Kevin Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes | Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr… |
| 20-1771 | Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement | The Third Circuit held that probabl e cause can be based solely on the statements of a victim and an alleged 1 ½ hour investigation that failed to inc… | |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… |
| 20-7161 | Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-02-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | CAN A PLEA DEAL CONSISTING OF TWO (2) MISDEMEANOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES BE WITHDREW POST SENTENCE, WHEN; (1 ) NO DIRECT APPEAL WAS TAKEN; (2) SAID… |
| 20-7038 | David Paul Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome… |
| 20-6400 | Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | child-welfare civil-rights community-caretaker community-caretaker-exception domestic-intervention domestic-violence fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure warrantless-entry welfare-check | Whether the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment allowed law enforcement to make warrantless entry into the home of Mr. Sanders, his … |
| 20-6277 | Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground | 1. Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? 2. Is a resident required to leave their residentia… |
| 20-5478 | Fernando Hernandez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion domestic-violence drug-trafficking due-process sentencing sentencing-discretion | Was Hernandez ' due process rights violated when the district court abused its discretion in relying on Hernandez ' domestic violence past in sentenc… |
| 20-5338 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-tip corroboration domestic-violence fourth-amendment police-response probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk | 1. Does an anonymous tip providing minimal physical and location descriptors and alleging ongoing domestic violence that is not corroborated when poli… |
| 19-7174 | John H. Stewart v. William Honsal, as Public Administrator of Humboldt County, California, et al. | California | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | domestic-violence due-process evidence-admission fair-trial hearsay judicial-notice property-rights | 1. Was Petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process of law violated by an unfair trial in which the trial Judge ruled "that any documents … |
| 19-7084 | Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation | Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204, the International Parental Kidnapping statute, to define the term "domestic violence" for purposes of an affi… |
| 19-473 | Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler | Vermont | 2019-10-10 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment best-interest-of-the-child child-custody domestic-violence due-process due-process-14th-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment parental-rights | Is it a violation of 14th Amendment right of equal protection when a single self serving accusation by Ms. Dasler is used as the basis to permanently … | |
| 19-299 | G. D. P. v. N. G. P. | Maine | 2019-09-05 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-due-process domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction government-surveillance international-law protection-from-abuse standing takings torture torture-allegations torture. | The case under review may superficially appear to be a simple protection from abuse case, although the Petitioner assures The Honorable United States … | |
| 19-5777 | Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states | Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… |
| 19-5456 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | GVR | IFP | anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals | Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 18-1268 | Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California | California | 2019-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 | Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen… |
| 18-7671 | Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy, Clerk | Florida | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | alimony child-custody child-support civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-violence due-process family-law injunction pro-se standing | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state court to provide a hearing before issuing a domestic violence injunction agains… |
| 18-935 | Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (3) | child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review | Whether a district court's determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention should be reviewed de novo, as seven circuits have held, und… |
| 18-6597 | Jazsmine Arielle Joseph v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-trafficking confrontation-clause confrontation-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge domestic-violence expert-testimony sex-trafficking | Did the lower court err in its decision regarding the requirements to prove a conspiracy charge in the sex trafficking of a child count? |
| 18-6176 | Michael Lucero v. California | California | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence | Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc… |
| 18-5431 | Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing | Whether Michigan's felony domestic violence conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the 'residual clause' of the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |