| 25-6314 |
Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law |
1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei… |
| 25-6270 |
Jhon Henry Alvarado-Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-waters maritime-law |
Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig… |
| 25-5967 |
Lynell Guyton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
analogue-act constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement due-process |
1. Did Congress violate the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution when it authorized the Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule control… |
| 24-7231 |
Christian Leonardo Franco Posligua v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-enforcement extraterritorial-statute guilty-plea maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction |
For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), does a district court have authority to make its 'preliminary' determination of 'jurisd… |
| 23-7637 |
Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua, aka Nexon Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-interdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-limit law-enforcement maritime-drug-law maritime-law military-law-enforcement miranda-warnings sixth-amendment |
Whether the jurisdictional limit in the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act relates to legislative reach or subject matter jurisdiction |
| 23-5919 |
Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to use the standard of review for pill mill cases as established by this Court |
| 23-446 |
Junjie Li v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the slight odor of marijuana creates reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop |
| 22-1121 |
Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power |
Whether the FDA has jurisdiction to enforce the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act |
| 22-7442 |
Paulino Vasquez-Rijo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law stateless-vessels vessel-nationality |
Whether MDLEA §70502(d)(1)(C) is Unconstitutional |
| 22-6409 |
Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law |
Why do the courts sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals chained to Coast Guard vessels? |
| 22-43 |
Program Administrator of the New Hampshire Controlled Drug Prescription Health and Safety Program v. Department of Justice |
First Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-subpoena anti-commandeering commandeering drug-enforcement federalism healthcare-program prescription-drug-monitoring state-data state-official state-sovereignty |
Whether an administrative investigative subpoena issued under 21 U.S.C. §876 to a state official commanding her to act in her official capacity to obt… |
| 21-728 |
Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality |
Whether the three ways to identify nationless vessels enumerated in 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1) are exhaustive |
| 21-5492 |
Marcus Phillips v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure drug-agent-testimony drug-enforcement expert-testimony first-impression legal-admissibility mental-acuity perceptive-ability witness-credibility |
Whether expert testimony about mental acuity is admissible to show a person's ability to observe and to act to exercise dominion and control over a ho… |
| 20-7438 |
Christopher Stegawski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction chronic-pain chronic-pain-treatment criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-enforcement due-process federal-prosecution medical-licensing medical-practice-standard medical-prescribing opioid-prescribing |
When does chronic pain treatment prescribing to addicts become illegal? |
| 20-6545 |
Michael Meadows v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice |
Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence? |
| 20-5991 |
Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated |
| 20-5285 |
Melvin Lee Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Scope of search warrant based on marijuana odor |
| 19-7652 |
Steven Craig Whyte v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire |
Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent 'drug experts' testifying regarding plain-English exc… |
| 19-6084 |
Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle |
Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the U.S.A. by implication given to ex… |
| 18-8051 |
Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence under the 's… |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
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18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence und… |
| 18-5702 |
Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that… |