drug-testing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5811 Ricky Joe Bland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-testing federal-circuit-split probation-officer sentencing-procedure supervised-release Did the district court below err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release a requirement that "[t]he defendant… participate in a progra…
25-5131 Lucio Roy Atkinson v. Texas Texas 2025-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights drug-testing due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus pro-se-litigation 1. Can the State of Texas "dry lab" test results in order to obtain a conviction under TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 481.104(a)(2) and § 481.114(a)(c) ?…
24-1241 Adam Kelnhofer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-inference drug-testing due-process military-law scientific-evidence Whether the inference allowing a trier of fact to find knowing use of a drug based solely on the presence of a metabolite in a defendant's body, even …
24-6761 Eric Vaughn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court can delegate to a probation officer the determination of drug testing frequency during supervised release
18-8083 Reshawn D'Arby Magnificent-El, aka Reshawn D'Arby Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compliance criminal-procedure discretion district-court drug-testing due-process knowingly-used-drugs sentencing-conditions supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Whether a district court abuses its discretion in imposing a drug-testing condition on a defendant who never knowingly used drugs, and has otherwise b…
18-657 Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights Was petitioner deprived of a fair and meaningful opportunity to protect his property interest when he was denied the opportunity to access and examine…
18-5809 Robert Carl Sharp v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness?