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25-6429 Georgiy Chipunov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove…
25A410 United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-09 Presumed Complete 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment Whether a federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances is facially or as-applied unconstitutional under…
25-5423 Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment
25-5357 Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment and whether appellate courts should accept sentencing judges' assertions about hy…
25-5193 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment due-process facial-challenge legislative-intent punitive-intent rule-59-motion Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit improperly denied Petitioner's opportunity to provide 'clearest proof' that a Texas civil commitment act …
25A36 Jacqusyn Zechariah Grubb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete 922(g)(8) as-applied-challenge domestic-violence-restraining-order facial-challenge motion-to-dismiss second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment as applied to individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders, or whether such…
25-5034 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri…
24-1276 California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl v. Stanislaus County, California Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge property-rights regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations Whether a statute of limitations for facial constitutional challenges begins to run solely from the date of enactment, or whether each day of continue…
24-7398 Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
24-433 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-17 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the doctrine of separation of power…
24-5298 Jose Rosado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen
24-5126 Michael J. Brillon v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge As-Applied-Unconstitutionality Bruen bruen-decision constitutional-challenge conviction-review Due-Process facial-challenge Facial-Unconstitutionality Felons second-amendment Second-Amendment
24-5089 Devonte Antonio Veasley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process facial-challenge firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) facially unconstitutional?
23A985 Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague on its face and violates due process by creating uncertainty about prohibited conduct
23-5111 Jacob Webster, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis criminal-prosecution facial-challenge firearm-regulation new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association-v-brue overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine second-amendment united-states-v-stevens Whether facial Second Amendment challenges require proving no set of circumstances where the statute is valid or only that a substantial number of app…
23-5095 Marland Maynor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
22-1104 Shawn Talbot v. Louis Eric Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process facial-challenge federal-court federal-rules jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations pleading-requirements standing Whether the United States District Court, District of Nevada lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 2:09CR-0078, and 2:10-CR-00520
22-7241 Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah Utah 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Salerno's 'no set of circumstances' test, the Hoffman/Grayned 'more stringent vagueness test,' or some other test, should govern judicial revi…
22-6112 Aakash A. Dalal v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-11-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-validity due-process facial-challenge salerno-test standing void-for-vagueness Whether litigants may bring facial constitutional challenges to laws without first successfully raising as-applied challenges?
22-317 Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law?
22-309 City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Ninth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance What must a RLUIPA plaintiff show in a facial 'equal terms' challenge?
22-5119 Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether a criminal defendant must show a statute is vague as applied to his own conduct to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge
21-7537 Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas Texas 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana Whether Texas Penal Code §21.02 is unconstitutional on its face
21-6485 R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(0) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
21-658 Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-11-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite …
19-8663 Tesa Keith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-statute facial-challenge federal-courts federal-law plea-agreement procedural-challenge waiver Whether facial challenges to a federal criminal statute may be waived by plea agreement?
19-6100 Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada Nevada 2019-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation Whether a state regulation of child pornography that fails to satisfy all four requirements set forth in Ferber and that criminalizes conduct that is …
19-67 United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (11) civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi…
18-9707 Blair Cook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-18 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-1317 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (3) article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Whether section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to the President, violating separation of powers
18-1096 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague?
18-7967 James Dalton Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh…
18-918 John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a plaintiff need show that a law is vague in all of its applications to succeed in a facial vagueness challenge
18-6739 David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection Whether under Glossip v. Gross, inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal injection protocol must present…
18-6282 Iseal Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-316 Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction over the case
18-5762 Pedro Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-115 Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-83 Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice Whether a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, or accepts the removal notice's allegations as true and resolves all doubt…
18-43 Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response Waived as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications?