federal-officer
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A585 | G'Ante Butler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on interfering with federal officers requires intentional violence or can include inadvertent contact | |
| 23A866 | Nicholas Newman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Presumed Complete | assault-statute collateral-attack-waiver federal-officer mens-rea plea-agreement recklessness | Whether a federal assault statute under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness rather than intentional conduct | |
| 23-6565 | In Re Derrick Thompson | 2024-01-25 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure duty-owed federal-agency federal-officer judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-duty writ-of-mandamus | Should this court grant a writ of mandamus to compel a federal officer or agency to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff | |
| 23-558 | United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc. and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | GVR | Relisted (2) | administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure definite-term federal-office federal-officer nlrb-procedure removal removal-authority statutory-interpretation | Whether statutes that prescribe a definite term for a federal office, without providing for removal of the officer during the prescribed term, implied… |
| 23-459 | Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation | Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder… |
| 20-8025 | Thomas L. Fast v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review cold-war cold-war-claims conflict-of-holdings due-process extraordinary-miscarriage-of-justice federal-officer procedural-default structural-due-process structural-rights | Was the appellate court's orders supporting the lower court's decision's conflict with Supreme Court and appellate court's holdings violate the Petiti… |
| 19-1158 | Airbus Helicopters, Inc. v. Mary Riggs, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | 28-usc-1442 administrative-delegation aviation-law civil-procedure delegation faa federal-aviation-administration federal-officer federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-removal removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether a private party is 'acting under' a federal officer and may remove under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1) |
| 19-1033 | Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing | Whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that… | |
| 18-7964 | Rafael Santos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking federal-officer firearms motion-for-reduction-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court erred when it denied petitioner's section 3582(c)(2) motion? |
| 18-7147 | Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… |