government-property
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-333 | Tangtang Zhao v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution | What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, … |
| 24A110 | Apache Stronghold v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Presumed Complete | free-exercise government-property native-american-rights religious-burden rfra sacred-site | Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and Free Exercise Clause protect Native American religious sites from government-authorized destr… | |
| 23-7786 | Christine H. Scott v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assembly-rights constitutional-rights contract first-amendment free-speech government-property petition-rights private-property public-access public-forum | Whether the right to petition, assemble and speak freely on government-owned property held open to the public exists when the publicly held land is co… |
| 23-7163 | Kyle Melkonian v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's conflation of 18 U.S.C. § 641's two distinct offenses runs afoul of the plain text of the statute, its application by e… |
| 23-6202 | Damorius D. Gaines, aka Damorius Dontavis Gaines, aka Damorius Dontavious Gaines v. Shane Jackson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | IFP | amendment-rights cestui-que-trust civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process enemy-property government-property judicial-review jurisdiction standing takings | Is a pre-1933 private U.S. citizen and cestui que trust who is not an enemy, ally of an enemy, or foreign national precluded from suing the U.S. gover… |
| 20-5649 | David Blaszczak v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | GVR | Amici (1)IFP | conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 | Whether government regulatory information is property or a thing of value |
| 19-7423 | Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden | Missouri | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government | Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal … |
| 19-5757 | Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement | Whether the court may apply a two-level enhancement for crimes involving ten or more victims when the victim is the Government |
| 18-1059 | Bridget Anne Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | decision-making due-process fraud government government-fraud government-property legal-interpretation official-decision policy-reason property public-official public-policy subjective-intent | Whether a public official 'defrauds' the government by advancing a 'public policy reason' for an official decision that is not her subjective 'real re… |