| 23-6827 |
Victor Leon-Moya v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
whether-defendant-directed-codefendant |
| 23-6555 |
Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 21-6284 |
Marc Blane Baccus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-trafficking criminal-sentencing drug-importation drug-trafficking guideline-enhancement importation methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense mexico sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Appellant's Sentence should have been enhanced for methamphetamine Importation from Mexico under §2D1.1(B)(5) |
| 21-6049 |
Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines applies when the defendant did not know that the drugs were imported |
| 21-5615 |
Carlos Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
whether-defendant-failed-to-preserve-argument-by-not-raising-it-at-sentencing-hearing |
| 19-1173 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur |
Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders |
| 18-9205 |
Antonio Ballesteros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability |
Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine-generated data that implicates the Si… |