human-trafficking

29 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch…
23-6173 Akosua Aaebo Akhan v. Kwesi Akhan District of Columbia 2023-12-06 Denied IFP anti-stalking-order civil-rights dna-testing forced-agreement human-trafficking legal-standing necessity-defense power-of-attorney restitution standing Was Petitioner legally bound by the Anti-Stalking Order
22-7869 Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in refusing to reverse Wysinger's conviction on count one for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
22-7688 Avery Smartt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process human-trafficking ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct speedy-trial standing Is an EBL agent allowed to proffer false and leave a mentally ill, pregnant minor at a residence, to a person that the agent states to have gotten a r…
22-1034 Lackawanna Recycling Center, Inc. v. William L. Burrell, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-contemnors civil-rights due-process fair-labor-standards-act human-trafficking involuntary-servitude trafficking-victims-protection-act work-release work-release-program Whether lawfully incarcerated civil contemnors have a claim under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
22-949 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. Utah 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner?
22-6060 Christine Owens v. Mahershal Simonet California 2022-11-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process human-trafficking judicial-responsibility paycheck-protection-program standing temporary-restraining-order victim-protection Should Mahershal Simonet have been placed into custody?
22-411 Keo Ratha, et al. v. Phatthana Seafood Co., Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived calder-effects-test civil-rights forced-labor forum-injury forum-injury-requirement human-trafficking intentional-tort ninth-circuit-ruling personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment Whether purposeful availment suffices to establish specific personal jurisdiction, or whether purposeful direction is necessary
22-5576 Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict petitioner for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking
22-5488 Thomas James Dorn v. Verna Carpenter, Judge, District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process human-trafficking judicial-misconduct jury-trial protection-orders restraining-order standing Should an appearance be required for a loss of rights, and should the right to trial by jury be explained to the respondent going forward in the unite…
21-7677 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit
21-7569 Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States Third Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution allowable-unit-of-prosecution-for-18-usc-1591(a)
21-7515 Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. Louisiana 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal Did the family court judge commit human-trafficking,violate-equal-protection,violate-due-process,find-grandmother-guilty-of-contempt,issue-bench-warra…
21-7405 Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14?
21-6165 Davenell L. Ash v. Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process electromagnetic-harassment human-trafficking standing terrorist-watchlist whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Did the United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit deny Ms. Ash of her 14th amendment right of due process
20-7785 Kevino Graham v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether petitioner Graham was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when counsel failed to challenge
20-6651 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California 2020-12-18 Dismissed IFP civil-rights contempt-of-writ court-securities CUSIP cusip-number due-process human-trafficking money-laundering standing subpoena-compliance tort-claims Whether courts have become vehicles for pedophiles, MS13, sex and human traffickers, and drug cartels to launder money using various ruses, including …
20-6594 Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) is violated where prostitutes arranged and paid for their own transportation across state lines
20-6032 Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Is it possible to sustain a prosecution for human trafficking when no one is trafficked?
20-146 Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Section 20A.03 of the Texas Penal Code is unconstitutional
19-7897 Brent Evan Webster v. CorVel Enterprise Company, Inc., et al. Oregon 2020-03-06 Denied IFP arrest-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process fraud human-trafficking identity-theft legal-abuse legal-coercion remedy standing Can this man Reverse-Fraudulently Incurred Jail-Bond-Contracts
19-6826 Jennifer Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense?
19-6434 Lawrence T. Tyler v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act adverse-determination agency bureau-of-prisons civil-rights due-process human-trafficking national-origin-discrimination privacy-act record-accuracy standing Whether the challenged records used to make an adverse determination against me are indeed inaccurate and/or incomplete as a matter of this U.S. Supre…
19-5344 Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) Witness-tampering
18A1272 Charlotte Horst v. Matthew Hagen North Dakota 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete child-marriage constitutional-rights due-process emancipation fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and federal statutes protect minors from forced marriage and human trafficking through constitutional emancipation ri…
18-8505 William L. Burrell, Jr. v. Patrick Loungo, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations convict-leasing human-trafficking judicial-immunity judicial-immunity-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 slavery Should judges be liable under section 1983 for intentional conduct characterized as judicial acts but prohibited by statute, caselaw, or criminal stat…
18-7700 Luther Gene Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force 'was used…
18-6343 Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague
18-5104 Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex…