| 25-6558 |
Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
judicial-construction legal-hermeneutics legislative-intent plain-meaning statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts must enforce statutory language according to its plain terms when the meaning is clear |
| 24-7527 |
Kh'Lajuwon Amari Murat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent judicial-construction plain-meaning revocation statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether, when a district court revokes a term of supervised release and imposes a period of imprisonment followed by a new term of supervised release,… |
| 22-270 |
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Should the word 'established' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly? |
| 21-8109 |
Eric Ray Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether … |
| 20-5302 |
Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court must employ the presumption against extraterritorial application and the rule of lenity in interpreting a sentencing guideline enhance… |
| 19-1184 |
Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) |
buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law |
Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law … |
| 19-141 |
Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness |
Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden… |
| 18-9411 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the judicial construction of 'lascivious exhibition' of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-590 |
Cave Consulting Group, LLC v. OptumInsight, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-language claim-scope judicial-construction lexicography-disavowal patent-claim-construction patent-scope patent-specification patent-validity public-notice specification specification-interpretation written-description |
May a court construe a patent claim in a way that contradicts its plain and ordinary meaning by relying on statements in the specification that do not… |