material-support

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-277 Shari Mayer Borochov, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-11 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) foreign-sovereign-immunities-act grievous-injuries material-support subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorism-exception terrorist-attack Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's terrorism exception extends jurisdiction to claims arising from a foreign state's material support for …
24A49 Shari Mayer Borochov, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete extrajudicial-killing foreign-sovereign-immunities-act material-support state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorism-exception Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's terrorism exception requires an actual death to establish subject-matter jurisdiction for claims involv…
23A1132 Thomas Osadzinski v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete advocacy first-amendment free-speech material-support statutory-interpretation terrorist-organization Whether a citizen's independent viewing and sharing of publicly posted media from a designated foreign terrorist organization constitutes an attempt t…
23-7553 Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2339b criminal-procedure foreign-terrorist-organization material-support sentencing terrorism-enhancement When a defendant has entered a plea of guilty to the offense of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S…
23-6048 Elvis Redzepagic v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations Whether the correct offense level should be used in sentencing violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B(a)(1), (d)
22-1117 Charlotte Freeman, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied civil-conspiracy civil-rights conspiracy deferred-prosecution-agreements due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations jasta material-support sanctions terrorism terrorism-sanctions Whether a JASTA claim for civil conspiracy requires only that acts of international terrorism be a foreseeable consequence of the terrorism sanctions …
22-6769 Thomas L. Fast v. Florida Florida 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech material-support metadata-collection national-security-agency privacy-rights standing surveillance terrorism usa-patriot-act Whether the petitioner's conviction for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B violates the First Amen…
21-381 Tzvi Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank, PLC Second Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) aiding-abetting civil-liability civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations free-speech material-support standing substantial-assistance terrorism terrorist-organizations Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated FTO aids and abets that organization's terrorist acts for purposes of civil…
20-129 Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172,…
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
18-1443 Nicholas Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra…
18-7162 Muna Osman Jama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech freedom-of-speech material-support peaceable-assembly terrorism vagueness Does section, 18 USC § 2339B(a) [material support of foreign terrorist organization(s)] impose an unconstitutionally vague provision in times of peace…