| 25-778 |
Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss |
Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh… |
| 24A495 |
Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-11-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-procedure diplomatic-intervention foreign-national ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief texas-criminal-law |
Whether a foreign national's criminal conviction in Texas can be challenged on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel or procedural irregulariti… |
| 23-5690 |
Azhar Lal v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-uscs-1331 28-uscs-1350 federal-jurisdiction foreign-national law-of-nations standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treaties treaty-interpretation |
Does a Foreign National have standing to bring challenges for violations of the law of nations or treaties of the United States pursuant to 28 USCS §§… |
| 22-6556 |
Lawrence Anderson Fonseca, fka Lawrence Anderson Fonseca-Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure foreign-national guilty-plea innocence new-evidence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Fonseca should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in light of new evidence supporting his claim of innocence |
| 21-5203 |
Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, aka Ibrahim Akasha v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-national personal-jurisdiction |
What level of contact with the United States must a foreign national who never entered this country and committed the offense conduct solely outside o… |
| 20-5834 |
Jose Rufino Garcia-Chicol v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial foreign-national language-rights standing translation-services |
Whether the Second Amendment's protections of a 'well-regulated Militia' under the Framers, Constitution, and Statutes of the United States of America… |
| 20-5443 |
Christopher Rondeau v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-alien due-process federal-law foreign-national legal-status legally-dead murder-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Were the Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights violated? |
| 19-6304 |
Martin Nava Lara v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights |
Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two coun… |
| 19-6039 |
Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vargas - an Ecuadorian national with no ties to the United States - for trafficking controlled substances in internatio… |
| 19-5166 |
Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in international wate… |
| 18-1509 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct |
| 18-7781 |
Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts |
Whether a person's misrepresentation of his age at the time of arrest or the person's birth date in a court of law should be considered |