high-seas
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6715 | Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power constitutional-interpretation define-and-punish-clause high-seas international-jurisdiction maritime-law | Under the Define and Punish Clause and the Founders' understanding of sea zones, does Congress have the authority to punish felonies that occur in ano… |
| 25-6453 | Rai Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-30 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction felonies-clause foreign-nationals high-seas vessel-nationality | Whether 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) exceeds Congress's authority under the Felonies Clause by authorizing the United States to exercise criminal jurisd… |
| 24-6691 | Jose Miguel Rosario-Rojas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction exclusive-economic-zone high-seas international-law maritime-law | Whether Congress's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 power '[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas' authorizes the United Stat… |
| 24-6177 | Jhonathan Alfonso v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | congressional-power criminal-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone high-seas maritime-law territorial-jurisdiction | Whether Congress's Article I power to define and punish felonies on the high seas extends to criminal enforcement in a foreign nation's Exclusive Econ… |
| 24-5159 | Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status | Whether Congress' authority to 'define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas,' U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the 'Felonies Clause'), is l… |
| 23-5143 | Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California | California | 2023-07-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process gun-control high-seas international-treaties prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings territorial-jurisdiction | Whether the California law prohibiting the possession of large-capacity magazines violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms |
| 22-7442 | Paulino Vasquez-Rijo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law stateless-vessels vessel-nationality | Whether MDLEA §70502(d)(1)(C) is Unconstitutional |
| 22-6461 | Segundo Marcial Dominguez-Caicedo and Adrian Andres Cortez-Quinonez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | arrest arrest-delay criminal-procedure due-process high-seas judicial-proceedings magistrate-review speedy-trial transportation transportation-time unnecessary-delay | Whether the additional delay resulting from transportation to the district the Government chooses to prosecute must be considered when determining whe… |
| 22-562 | Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Amici (3) | admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts | Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on personal jurisdiction by federal courts as the Fourteenth Amendment imposes on state cour… |
| 21-1198 | Robert Dexter Weir, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | congressional-power extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause foreign-flagged-vessels foreign-nationals high-seas piracy-clause united-states-constitution | Whether Congress's power to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas extends to conduct committed by foreign nationals on a foreign-flagg… |
| 20-7910 | Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status | Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United States … |
| 19-6938 | Gabriel Garcia-Solar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congress-power congressional-power constitutional-interpretation extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause felony-definition foreign-nationals high-seas maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act nexus-requirement nexus-to-us sentencing-discretion | Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress' power under the Felonies Clause |
| 19-6546 | Elmer Misael Garcia Ramirez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-authority define-and-punish-clause due-process high-seas international-law international-waters jurisdiction maritime-law nexus | Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction because neither the U.S. Constitution nor any theory of international law permits jurisdiction to be asser… |
| 18-6248 | Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2 |