interstate-travel
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5961 | Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | 2025-10-27 | Pending | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense | 1. Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit, as applied to an interstate traveler with a valid Virginia concealed carr… |
| 25-5280 | Philip J. Marquis v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights firearms-licensing interstate-travel nonresident-travelers police-discretion second-amendment | 1. Does Massachusetts' firearms licensing regime, which grants a police colonel the power to deny any nonresident traveler a temporary firearms licens… |
| 24A758 | Jonathan Stacy Berrier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure factual-basis interstate-travel plea-agreement sentencing-variance sex-offense | Whether a defendant's disputed factual assertions during a plea colloquy can preclude a substantial upward variance based on the government's uncontro… | |
| 24-101 | John E. Cassidy v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-liability due-process firearm-licensing firearms home-possession interstate-travel licensing residence second-amendment | What type of 'Arms' are protected by the Second Amendment when a state's multi-level firearm licensing scheme attaches criminal liability for in home … |
| 23-6945 | Ronnie Cornell Cosby v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism government-restrictions interstate-travel public-purpose state-sovereignty travel | Whether a state statute criminalizing travel in commerce or imposing an improper travel tax is unconstitutional |
| 23-6881 | Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6643 | Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel | When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal… |
| 23-6100 | Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation | Whether a felon's intrastate possession of a firearm violates 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) solely because the firearm previously crossed state lines |
| 22-6267 | Mack Doak v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | What connection must exist between the defendant's travel and the unlawful sexual act or sexual activity to support the exercise of federal jurisdicti… |
| 22-5634 | Nelson Jean Dion v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation | Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262 |
| 22-5363 | Rodney Flucas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority | Was the Jury Erroneously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a 'Motivating Purpose' for Transportation of Person… |
| 21-7527 | Kieron Derek Penigar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Dismissed | IFP | 13th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-access interstate-travel reproductive-rights slavery state-restrictions states-rights | Whether the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows slavery in the Confederate states? |
| 21-7433 | Donnell Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 18-6533 | Anthony Lewallyn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | Can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the district where he began his interstate travel but in which … |