| 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… |