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24A403 Oscar Silva Perez, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete administrative-stay asylum enforcement homeland-security immigration migrants Whether the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement policies violate statutory or constitutional protections for migrants and asylum…
24A337 Ayton Sanchez Romero v. Merrick Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Presumed Complete discretionary-action due-process immigration judicial-review nationality-act removal Whether the Immigration and Nationality Act permits judicial review of discretionary removal decisions involving potential due process violations
23-7634 Claudio Salas-Bautista v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination-analysis due-process equal-protection immigration judicial-review legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-statute statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment
23-7347 J. Guadalupe Figueroa-Juarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23-7222 Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the government must offer direct evidence of a defendant's vicious or evil intent to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in 18 U.S.C. § 922(…
23-7217 Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the 'private financial gain' involved is a d…
23-7208 Abiy Yifru v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights consular-discretion counsel due-process employment-contract immigration immigration-law property-interest takings takings-clause Whether the government's intentional interference with an alien's valid employment contract that results in the alien's indefinite homelessness is a t…
23A815 Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, et al. v. Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete detention due-process expedited-removal fourteenth-amendment immigration judicial-review Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires individualized hearings for detained immigrants facing expedited removal without meanin…
23-6851 Praxedis Saul Portillo-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process exhaustion-of-remedies immigration immigration-law judicial-review removal-order Does the court of appeals' holding conflict with Mendoza-Lopez?
23-746 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and international comity
23-6366 Jose Martin Islas v. DHS/ICE Office of Chief Counsel-ATD Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process equal-protection immigration visa-petition Whether a person physically present in the United States, with a pending criminal appeal and visa petition, can be deported without first allowing the…
23-6237 Gregory I. Ezeani v. William Anderson, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-prisoner healthcare-denial immigration immigration-detention medical-negligence medical-treatment retaliation Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated when DHS/ICE unlawfully arrested him, denied him proper medical treatment, and failed to f…
23-6219 Manuel Rodrigues-Barios v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-criminal-law immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment
23-6221 Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment
23-348 Kristen H. Colindres, et al. v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-limitations consular-nonreviewability due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing Whether the doctrine of consular nonreviewability insulates from judicial review a consular decision
23-5207 Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP 18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness has, 'as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the p…
23-5099 Dustin Jolly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co…
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal?
22-7604 Harbans Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay immigration interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment Whether an interpreter's hearsay statements are subject to Confrontation Clause analysis, particularly when the statements themselves constitute the c…
22-1071 Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied Amici (7) 8-usc-1101 administrative-law department-of-homeland-security due-process employment-authorization immigration immigration-law immigration-procedure nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
22-7434 In Re Thomas Kuna-Jacob 2023-05-01 Denied IFP asylum civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process immigration Whether the federal government's policy of detaining asylum seekers violates due process
22-7330 Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing Whether petitioner's conviction for 'illegal reentry' was supported by sufficient evidence
22-7269 Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) is constitutionally impermissible under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment equal protection clause
22-7109 In Re Freddie A. Land 2023-03-24 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law asylum due-process equal-protection immigration statutory-interpretation Whether the government's policy of categorically denying asylum to immigrants who enter the country illegally violates the Immigration and Nationality…
22-582 United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration is facially unconstitutional on First Amendmen…
22-547 Randall E. Rollins v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law executive-action federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-policy judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers treason Whether the court erred in not considering the emergency issue of illegal alien invasion and the government's failure to stop it
22-6250 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP alias citizenship-status civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process immigration immigration-law legal-residency naturalization permanent-residency Whether a foreign-born defendant can be ordered to violate U.S. laws
22-6095 Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachusett…
22-5929 Juan Salvador Cordova-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing immigration minor standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unaccompanied-minor Did the district court abuse its discretion in applying the 4-level enhancement for transporting an unaccompanied minor under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(4)?
22-5920 Jesse Brewer v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Wheeler Volchones' Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Counsel's failure to advise him of the immigration consequences of his ple…
22-331 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero Ninth Circuit 2022-10-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is 'an offense relating to obstruction of justice,' 8 U.S.C. 1101…
22-5729 Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes Whether U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(d) applies to federal criminal defendants who were previously released from prison pursuant to state statutes authorizing the…
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule
22-179 United States v. Helaman Hansen Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) 8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v…
22-5163 Diann Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in…
22-5149 Rajesh Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-fraud marriage-fraud racial-prejudice rosales-loper voir-dire Was the judge required to conduct the requested voir dire on racial prejudice under the 'reasonable possibility' standard set forth in Rosales-Loper v…
21-8229 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Does a district court's finding that the defendant should be punished under Subsection (b)(2) bind future decision-makers on the question of whether h…
21-8010 Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing Whether the Seventh Circuit adopted an opinion conflicting with its earlier decision and other courts
21-1446 Simin Nouritajer, et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied administrative-law agency-action immigrant-petition immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether considering the strong presumption of jurisdiction to review agency action repeatedly recognized by this Court, 8 U.S.C. §1155 and 8 U.S.C. §1…
21-7840 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2022-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel people-v-chavez-torres plea-bargaining plea-counsel Whether Mr. Sayed's plea was entered knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily
21-7590 Stephen Izuchukwu Onwuzulike v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deportation due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction non-citizen-rights procedural-review standing takings Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the suppression of a properly filed appeal application
21-7432 Magdaly Suleydy Perez-Velasquez and Jenifer Miladis Alvarado-Diaz v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied IFP border-security criminal-law due-process immigration statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) requires freedom from official restraint
21-7398 Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the 'public-welfare-exception' to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve 'dangerous-an…
21-1219 Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is …
21-7243 Jabari J. Johnson v. Stephanie Dalton Tenth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP administrative-law asylum civil-rights due-process immigration standing whether the district court and court of appeals abused their discretion regarding title 42 asylum claims
21-1186 Michelle Manor, et vir v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence immigration judicial-review marriage-fraud ninth-circuit unreliable-statements Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the Manors waived the issue that the trial court erred in relying upon unreliable statements made duri…
21-6781 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing Whether a federal judge has the authority to order the use of fraudulent documents to circumvent federal, state, and local laws
21-6420 Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
21-6302 Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation How long Person From Guatemala Central America Denied Motion to withdraw Guilty Plea and Vacated the Sentenced
21-6205 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
21-6120 Javier Perez v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms heller-interpretation immigration second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants Whether undocumented-immigrants have 2nd-amendment-rights
21-6100 Rodrigo Martinez-Mendoza v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard due-process factual-findings immigration immigration-law law-enforcement-testimony public-confidence standard-of-review whether-appellate-court-reviewing-factual-findings-for-clear-error-must-take-account-of-undisputed-contrary-evidence
21-5974 Eduviges Ayala-Bello and Walter Velez-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-policy alienage alienage-classification citizenship-distinction due-process equal-protection immigration rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny Whether agency policies that distinguish on the basis of citizenship automatically receive rational-basis-review
21-5949 In Re Henryk S. Borecki 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure citizenship-documentation due-process federal-authority identity-documents immigration mandamus real-id-act travel travel-identification Whether this court should issue a writ of mandamus to expedite issuance of petitioner's REAL ID
21-5924 In Re Jose Victor Hernandez-Cuellar 2021-10-08 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment immigrant-status immigration judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment Does a immigrant in the United States of America, whether here legally with visa or illegally, receive Constitutionally guaranteed Rights?
21-5835 Guillermo Gonzalez-Zea v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights identity immigration investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion terry-v-ohio Whether the Eleventh Circuit's reasonable suspicion determination can be reconciled with Terry v. Ohio
21-5752 Ivan Alexandrovich Vetcher v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court civil-rights controlled-substances court-access-rights deportation-challenge dismissal-with-prejudice due-process immigration immigration-law pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleading Whether the district court and court of appeals properly applied the requirements for pleadings as applied in most circuits
21-166 Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon Oregon 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the …
21-147 Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for First Amendment retaliation
21-5122 Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines
21-5017 Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-06 GVR IFP aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in …
21-7 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Leymis Carolina Velasquez, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-06 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) adjustment-of-status administrative-law admission-criteria immigration immigration-law lawful-permanent-resident permanent-residency statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether a grant of temporary protected status must be treated as an admission into the United States for purposes of a foreign national's application …
20-1775 Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-law apa civil-rights immigration mootness standing Whether States with interests should be permitted to intervene to defend a rule when the United States ceases to defend
20-8201 Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation Does a 'found in' violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, or when the alien is 'found in' the United States by immigrat…
20-7714 Dario Reyes-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants Whether resident undocumented immigrants are part of the people whose right to keep and bear arms for individual self-defense the second-amendment pro…
20-1427 Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in interpreting the term 'pending deportation' in 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(A) to include those awa…
20-7509 Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court?
20-1282 In Re Kaysha F. N. Dery 2021-03-17 Denied administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus immigration immigration-law indigenous-rights terrorism torture Is it constitutional to detain someone who is fleeing torture and terrorism?
20-7390 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under the 'residual clause' of 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
20-7140 Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry Whether the government must prove that a defendant charged with illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) knew he fell within the relevant status categ…
20-6867 Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense
20-6752 Juan Tinoco-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-advisement non-citizen non-citizen-rights padilla-v-kentucky post-conviction-relief removal-proceedings Does an immigration judge's failure to advise an immigrant in removal proceedings of their apparent eligibility to seek post-conviction relief under P…
20-795 New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements?
20-796 City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-10 Dismissed Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Do the three substantive conditions the DOJ has imposed on Byrne JAG program eligibility exceed its authority under the statute?
20-6587 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health Whether the petitioner should be released from federal custody due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the petitioner's underlying medical conditions
20-6552 Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
20-6541 Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
20-6539 Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con…
20-666 Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Dismissed Relisted (3) byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards
20-6066 Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order Whether courts evaluating a prior removal order in the context of a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry are required to apply the law as it is no…
20-6049 Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a pro se alien's waiver of the right to appeal is 'considered and intelligent' under Mendoza-Lopez in the absence of an opportunity to dispute…
20-6057 David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation Whether equal protection of the liberty interest is offended when two classes of criminal defendants (Immigration and Child Pornography) are given dis…
20-5847 John James Hartz v. Washington Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship civil-rights due-process immigration naturalization standing Whether the constitutional and statutory laws governing naturalization and citizenship apply to the petitioner
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-5651 Christopher R. Gish v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states plea-bargaining prejudice-standard Whether Lee v. United States represents a narrow exception to Hill v. Lockhart's more general rule that is focused on the likelihood of success at tri…
20-234 Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Yolany Padilla, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 GVR 5th-amendment classwide-injunction credible-fear detention due-process expedited-removal immigration immigration-detention statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. authorizes the government to detain aliens who are placed in expedited removal proceedings, but who then establish a credible fear of…
20-120 Alfredo Juarez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-08-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure deportation effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment When there is no dispute that a guilty plea will trigger mandatory deportation pursuant to federal law, must defense counsel advise a defendant that t…
20-5242 Maurice Miles v. CDCR Correctional Officers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied IFP asylum civil-rights detention due-process habeas-corpus immigration Whether the U.S. government's policy of detaining asylum-seekers indefinitely without bond hearings violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amend…
20-30 Nigel Christopher Paul Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-deportation padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Is a defendant categorically prohibited from establishing an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), w…
19-1471 Jessica Lynn Tkacz v. Daniel G. Bogden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process evidentiary-standard. immigration standard-of-review administrative-law administrative-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence-standard immigration immigration-law judicial-review marriage-fraud standard-of-review Is the deferential 'substantial evidence' standard employed by federal courts to review decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals fundamentally in…
19-8720 Ankit Puri v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law firearms immigration jury-instructions rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the indictment and jury instructions omitted an essential element of the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) offense
19-8661 Justo Jonah Santos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution immigration immigration-law naturalization sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence Whether the immigration officer's handwritten notes and checkmarks on a naturalization application are 'testimonial' and subject to the Sixth Amendmen…
19-8583 Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an offense that can be committed by omission rather than affirmative act necessarily entails the 'use' of force within the meaning of 18 U.S.C…
19-8163 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-04-02 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention Whether the petitioner's prolonged immigration detention without a bond hearing violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-7830 Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth …
19-7842 Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret Whether agency expertise could be applied to threshold questions accompanying a constitutional claim against a federal statute
19-7821 Juan Alberto Cantu-Siguero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-court immigration-court-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation of powers and due process
19-1031 Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cultural-exchange federal-preemption federal-regulations foreign-policy immigration labor-laws state-regulation Whether federal law preempts the application of state and local labor laws to the terms and conditions of participation in the federal au pair program
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu…
19-7008 Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether deportation automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release?
19-6990 King Bush v. Kannika Say Michigan 2019-12-18 Denied IFP benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the marriage based on immigration fraud should be voided
19-6908 Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-6867 Jose Luis Maya v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asylum civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process immigration jurisdiction parole standing statutory-provisions Whether the Department of Homeland Security's policy of denying parole to asylum seekers violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Proc…
19-645 Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz Arizona 2019-11-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien Whether unauthorized aliens can establish Strickland prejudice for Padilla/Lee claims
19-638 N. B. D. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Kentucky 2019-11-18 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) best-interests deportation federal-law homeland-security immigration immigration-law juvenile-protection predicate-findings special-immigrant-juvenile special-immigrant-juvenile-status state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether federal law requires state courts of competent jurisdiction to make predicate findings for special-immigrant-juvenile-status determinations up…
19-617 Nekebwe Superville v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.…
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-6464 Alejandro Garcia-Jacobo v. Marion Feather, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-convictions due-process habeas-corpus immigration jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(5) eliminates jurisdiction over § 2255 / § 2241 claims challenging criminal convictions
19-6397 Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense…
19-6402 Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings Must a defendant show actual prejudice to collaterally attack a removal order?
19-532 United States v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (14) anti-commandeering civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law information-sharing intergovernmental-immunity preemption sb-54 state-enforcement state-law Whether provisions of California law that prohibit state law-enforcement officials from providing federal immigration authorities with release dates a…
19-6353 Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the general, residual phrase 'takes any other action' in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th…
19-6305 Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-bond bail-release civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process immigration immigration-detention immigration-orders non-citizen release statutory-period unsecured-bail Whether a non-citizen defendant should be released notwithstanding any immigration orders of detention
19-6297 Aleisha O. Gray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented aliens…
19-6088 Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant …
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
19-6011 John Robert Demos v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-20 Closed IFP civil-rights due-process foreign-nationals foreign-policy immigration jurisdiction protected-persons standing statutory-provisions Whether the Supreme Court has 'original jurisdiction' over cases involving aliens, foreigners, nationals, and subjects
19-5763 Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5472 Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection
19-67 United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (11) civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi…
18-1593 Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for assault under a state statute that does not require physical force is categorically a crime of violence under 8 U.S.C. § 16(a…
18-9778 Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides Petitioner relief for discrimination in a US visa application
18-9783 Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali…
18-9687 Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied IFP attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense?
18-9633 Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father, violates the equal protectio…
18-1517 Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act civil-rights first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law material-support national-security overbreadth political-advocacy standing terrorism tier-iii-terrorist-organization Whether independent, non-violent political advocacy constitutes material support for terrorism under the Immigration and Nationality Act
18-1469 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Casa de Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion deferred-action dhs-policy executive-discretion immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review policy-rescission standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-1385 Ruben Delhorno v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a Padilla constitutional waiver may be inferred without an evidentiary hearing by mere passage of time where defendant sought neither a direct…
18-9092 Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv…
18-1350 Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death Whether a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent is entitled to qualified immunity for allegedly coercing a mother into departing the U.S., where sh…
18-8964 Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. §1326(b)
18-8823 Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights
18-8795 Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause?
18-8697 Frederick H. Banks v. Pennymac Holdings, LLC, fka Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust Holdings I, LLC Pennsylvania 2019-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process electronic-filing fifth-amendment immigration institutional-barriers judicial-access land-use pacer prisoner-litigation privacy privacy-policy property-rights regulatory-takings social-security takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide a public easement as a condition…
18-8501 Mohammed Bah v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law deportation-consequences guilty-plea immigrant-rights immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice Does an analysis of prejudice in the context of ineffective assistance of counsel involving the guilty plea of an immigrant result in an unreasonable …
18-7773 Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied
18-930 David Brandon v. Sarah Brandon California 2019-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) annulment annulment-basis civil-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-immigration-law federal-state-relations fraud immigration immigration-marriage-fraud marriage marriage-fraud state-domestic-relations state-marriage-law Are the States, in particular California, required to recognize Immigration Marriage Fraud as a basis for annulment in their dissolution of marriage s…
18-7452 Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid…
18-7306 Michael Martin Steele v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for 'ql…
18-7213 Akash Dixit v. Christopher Brasher, Judge, Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial Circuit Georgia 2019-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure attorney civil-rights divorce-proceeding due-process family fraud immigration immigration-status international-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct service-of-process standing unethical visa void-judgment Whether the Georgia appellate courts erred in not addressing questions about unethical conduct of a subordinate judge and a void lower court order des…
18-731 Stefany Vega Duron, a Minor, et al. v. Ron Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy constitutional-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment iirira immigration immigration-law judicial-review selective-prosecution Is there an administrative remedy in the immigration courts to decide American citizens' claims of a violation of their First and Fifth Amendment cons…
18-6590 Salah Mohamed v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aggravating-factor due-process escape flight-risk immigration naturalization naturalized-defendant sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Does a court abuse its discretion under the United States Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing a naturalized defendant more than three times above his …
18-587 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca department-of-homeland-security-dhs dhs-policy due-process equal-protection executive-power immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-588 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-05 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-589 Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Martin Jonathan Batalla Vidal, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion daca-policy deferred-action due-process executive-action executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-law judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable
18-6453 Celestine G. Thompson v. Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech immigration retaliation standing whistleblower Were DHS-ICE officials in Plan to Criminalize Appellants
18-6342 Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether Section 1326(b) is unconstitutionally vague
18-6322 Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t…
18-461 Raquel Hinojosa, et al. v. Petra Horn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure-act citizenship-claim due-process immigration judicial-review passport passport-denial rusk-v-cort standing Whether 8 U.S.C. §§1503(b)-(c) preempts judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of the denial or revocation of a passport for a United …
18-5706 Hugo Islas-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-100.4 8-cfr-100.4(a) 8-usc-1325 8-usc-1325(a)(1) administrative-law administrative-regulation entry federal-code geographic-designation immigration immigration-law port-of-entry statutory-interpretation Whether immigration officials designate[d]' geographic areas or physical port facilities for 'entry' in 8 C.F.R. § 100.4(a) for purposes of 8 U.S.C. §…
18-5642 Miroslav Fejfar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal Whether due process and the plain meaning of the statute on withholding of removal require that pending asylum issues be heard and resolved before ext…
18-5532 Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri…
18-5550 Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who is not afforded the opportunity to apply for available relief has suffered prejudice
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5322 Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th…
18-5204 Jose Luis Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens Whether the lower court erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens
18-5170 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully married to Shabana before he became naturalized?
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention?
18-5171 Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal
18-5173 Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of anal…
18-5129 Rodolfo Trejo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting
18-5036 Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether attempted illegal reentry is a specific-intent crime or a general-intent crime