expungement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-612 | Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice | Wisconsin | 2025-11-25 | Pending | criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the word "expunged" in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or does an expungement under state law have to… | |
| 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). | |
| 24-1295 | Brandon Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | In 2022, the citizens of Missouri adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that legalizes marijuana consumption and mandates the retroactive … |
| 23-1177 | Eric Fisher v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law | Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli… |
| 22-7868 | Lawrence Broviak v. Florida | Florida | 2023-06-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection expungement judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-remedy sentence-commutation sentencing vindictive-sentencing | CAN A VINDICTIVE SENTENCE BE EXPUNGED DUE TO PERSONAL BIAS BEING COMMUTED BT A JUDGE? |
| 22-7438 | Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction | A. Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super. 1989) Cour… |
| 21-211 | Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement | When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel… | |
| 20-627 | E. H., III v. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing | Florida | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights concealed-carry constitutional-law due-process expungement expungement-order firearms firearms-permit full-faith-and-credit state-reciprocity | Did the Florida Court of Appeal commit reversible error and abuse its discretion in declining to recognize and apply Petitioner's New Jersey Expungeme… |
| 20-275 | Barrington Boyd v. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | blacklisting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination expungement financial-services FINRA finra-form-u5 regulatory-action title-vii | Is it a matter of national interest and importance that large financial services employers should not be able to skate around discrimination laws, EEO… |
| 20-5307 | Rebecca H. Gallogly v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-responsibility civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure due-process expungement probation property-rights | 1. Is it a Constitutional deprivation to put a person found not guilty on community supervision or probation for the charge! or, to permit states to a… |
| 19-6817 | Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review | I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38 (2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de… |
| 19-6575 | Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida | Florida | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing | 1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar… |
| 19-374 | Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing | Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y… |
| 19-169 | Jane Doe v. Iowa | Iowa | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | court-fees criminal-record due-process equal-protection expungement indigent-rights poverty | In Iowa, as in nearly every state, a person who has been charged with an offense, but not convicted, is entitled to have the record of the charge expu… |
| 18-1143 | Ronald Lee Blake v. Federal Bureau of Investigation | District of Columbia | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-determination employment-law expungement federal-employment federal-law-enforcement full-faith-and-credit standing state-felony-conviction | can federal law enforcement employment determinations be based upon a state felony conviction that was expunged by operation of law within the state o… |