false-statement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6697 | Adedayo Abioye v. Mojisola Braimoh | California | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | criminal-conduct false-statement federal-statute fiduciary-duty mortgage-loan victim-damages | Whether entities can be held accountable for false and misleading statements causing damages to victims under 18 U.S.C. § 1014 |
| 25-5942 | Ky Tan Le v. Stephen H. Locher, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-statement federal-crime judicial-misconduct | Whether making a false writing statement to fault a party in a case constitutes a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(3), and whether the Chief Ju… |
| 25-5822 | Adedayo Abioye v. Raymond Octavus Lee | California | 2025-10-07 | Denied | IFP | conditional-gift false-statement fiduciary-duty loan-agreement mortgage-fraud statute-of-frauds | Whether a fiduciary can retroactively claim a gift as conditional and circumvent the statute of frauds to enforce a sham loan agreement |
| 25-232 | King Vanga v. Priscilla N. Juarez, et al. | California | 2025-08-28 | Denied | constitutional-law defamation false-statement first-amendment opinion-speech third-party-attribution | Whether the First Amendment protects a verifiably false factual statement as an opinion based on disclosed facts simply because the statement republis… | |
| 25-174 | Bart Wade Reagor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-conviction false-statement loan-application material-misrepresentation statutory-interpretation | Whether the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is in direct conflict with this Court's recent holding in Thompson v. United States… |
| 24-7148 | Julia Greenberg v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute document-fraud false-statement federal-criminal-law immigration-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C.A. §1546(a) reaches 'authentic' immigration documents that are generated following a false statement |
| 24-972 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of federal mail an… | |
| 24-522 | Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation | Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo… |
| 23-1095 | Patrick D. Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2) | circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014 prohibits making a misleading statement that is not false |
| 23-5369 | Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation | Whether a false statement in a firearm purchase was material |
| 22-5338 | Chikosi Legins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency | Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001 |
| 21-7268 | Ross Anthony Farca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation | Whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in 'damage to or loss or destruction of property' of… |
| 21-7162 | Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence | Whether it is consistent with this Court's holding in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 and the imperatives of Due Process to require the… |
| 21-973 | John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase | Second Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Dismissed | Response Requested | civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the law was not clearly established that a charge of making a false statement could be … |
| 21-6754 | Chad Mink v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution eighth-circuit false-statement felon-in-possession procedural-jurisdiction venue waiver-rule | Question not identified |
| 20-924 | David G. Bowser v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1001 criminal-concealment dismissal-with-prejudice false-statement federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal legal-duty material-fact motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal | Whether a legal duty to disclose can be created by coupling a voluntary request for information with a false statement proscription |
| 20-865 | In Re Todd Britton-Harr | 2020-12-30 | Denied | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release | Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255 | ||
| 19-7323 | Leo Stoller v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit | Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that knowingly making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding violates … |
| 19-6164 | Marchello Dsaun McCain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process false-statement guideline-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-maxima statutory-maximum terrorism-enhancement | Does Apprendi v. New Jersey prohibit the calculation of a guideline range longer than the statutory maximum for the offense of conviction and achieved… |
| 19-6104 | Freya D. Pearson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a 'Materiality' determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court or f… |
| 19-287 | Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights | Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in… |
| 18-9691 | Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error | Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-1450 | Horacio Sequeira v. Gate Safe, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response Waived | ada-amendments-act-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination false-statement medical-restrictions procedural-rules scheduling-order summary-judgment | Whether a request to amend a complaint and to modify a scheduling order should be granted whenever a plaintiff complies with Fed. R. Civ. P.15 (c) (1)… |
| 18-7554 | Jack Ferm v. Office of the Attorney General of Nevada | Nevada | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general-misconduct contract-breach contract-damages fair-dealing false-statement gainful-employment good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing implied-covenant implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing plea-agreement restitution | Whether the court below erroneously held that a false statement by the Attorney General did not breach the plea agreement or the 'Spirit the contract'… |
| 18-6589 | Liddon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation | When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render the … |
| 18-597 | John Ching En Lee v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation | When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the totality… | |
| 18-442 | Jesse R. Benton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | 18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the materiality requirement in 18 USC Section 1001 can be turned into a mere falsity requirement in the FEC reporting context or whether the s… | |
| 18-6187 | Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship | Did the appeals court err in affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization |