financial-gain

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7217 Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the 'private financial gain' involved is a d…
23-5215 Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-rules financial-gain judicial-misconduct legal-malpractice oath-of-office summary-judgment Whether the lower court abused its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's case despite newly discovered evidence of judicial misconduct, violations…
21-7823 Robert L. Allum v. Montana Montana 2022-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system
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…