military-law
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1149 | Michael J. Hymel v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-04-03 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-discretion court-martial guilty-plea military-law providence-inquiry standard-of-review | Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion under 10 U.S.C. § 867 (a)(3) by failing to grant review "upon petition of the accus… |
| 25-6423 | Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | District of Columbia | 2025-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission | Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal. In particular, did the Court of Appeals err by interpreting provi… |
| 25-727 | Douglas M. Folts v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers | Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California. |
| 25-82 | Malcolm Wade Pipes v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure disability-retirement inactive-duty-training military-law military-reservist statutory-interpretation | Whether a military reservist, who was lawfully ordered to engage in remedial fitness training without pay and points, and suffered injury, was on inac… |
| 24-1241 | Adam Kelnhofer v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof constitutional-inference drug-testing due-process military-law scientific-evidence | Whether the inference allowing a trier of fact to find knowing use of a drug based solely on the presence of a metabolite in a defendant's body, even … |
| 23-113 | Michael G. Pohl v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act | Is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record 10 U.S.C. § 1552 as stated in both the statute and Respondents DD Form 149… |
| 21-6388 | Calvin Roach v. Donald W. Washington, Director, United States Marshals Service, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process federal-law legal-interpretation military-law military-oath oath-of-office retiree-obligations standing | Whether military retirees are bound by their Oath to protect the United States Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies Whether military ret… |
| 21-6021 | Elroy William Robinson v. David Holbrook, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law | 1. IFA MEMR, WHIE ONAVE DYTHE ARMED FOR SERUE ACCUSDOF A CRIME IN WIHT THE STATE HAS AND EXERCISE DURISDICTION; W WHEN THAT SAME MEMBER WHO S AO GOVER… |
| 20-6562 | Reynaldo Salinas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | air-force air-force-office-of-special-investigations civil-rights civilian-employee constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement military-law posse-comitatus-act special-investigations standing | ft) Wqs#ns ^ ~XnVg.s4i^^4iQK\ ?_ 3,) ~X-f Milrtarij , wha-f Ar4iclg UflrtK - LLC. M.^T. uiere.'lfatij ___ fjjtiiinj- 3,) ZC-P Civilian, rtujhw ift… |
| 20-446 | James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. | Armed Forces | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts collateral-claims federal-courts jurisdictional-issue military-courts military-law military-prisoners | Should military-specific collateral claims raised by military prisoners still subject to military law be adjudicated in the specialized, experienced A… |
| 20-301 | Timothy B. Hennis v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | capital-punishment constitutional-provisions court-martial double-jeopardy due-process military-justice military-law state-court-acquittal state-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the offenses for which Petitioner was tried and acquitted in state court constituted offenses "for which [he] cannot be tried in the courts… |
| 19-6806 | Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification | I. WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION. II. WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 18-1423 | Paul E. Cooper v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 10-usc-867c article-i-authority court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces johnson-v-united-states judicial-review matter-of-fact matters-of-fact matters-of-law military-appeals-court-authority military-appellate-review military-law navy-marine-corps-court-of-criminal-appeals statutory-authority statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces exceeded its statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 867(c) when it took action with res… |
| 18-1383 | James M. Hale v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 10-usc-802 court-martial court-martial-jurisdiction general-verdict judicial-deference jurisdictional-defects jurisdictional-limits legal-sufficiency military-discipline military-discipline-jurisdiction military-law overt-acts plain-error rostker-v-goldberg sufficiency-of-evidence weiss-v-united-states | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in relying on factual sufficiency of the evidence to resolve a question of plain error, where the alleged error … |
| 18-8101 | Lawrence Montgomery Foltz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law military-records property-rights standing takings veterans-affairs | DO THE CHATTELS, AND REMAIN'S, OF PN AMERICAN SOLDIER COME UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF MILI TARY HOME OF RECORD (SEE SUPREME CWURT RUCING REGARDING OF A… |
| 18-6011 | Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes | (1) Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires, as a necessary prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants under domestic law based on determinatio… |