| 23-5781 |
Troy George Skinner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) apply extraterritorially to permit the prosecution of a non-U.S. citizen located in a foreign country whose conduct giving ri… |
| 22-1055 |
Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud |
Whether the wire-fraud statute applies extraterritorially or is limited to domestic applications |
| 21-1283 |
Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S. courts may reinterpret the Sherman Act using a discretionary ten-factor balancing test under the doctrine of prescriptive comity |
| 20-5026 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction |
Does the power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations include the prosecution of a volunteer missionary who engages in noncommercial illicit sexual… |
| 19-5946 |
Anthony Carl Spence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal sentencing court can enhance a defendant's offense level based on conduct occurring entirely in a foreign country and not a crime ag… |