nexus-requirement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A853 Joseph Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application criminal-prosecution data-security jury-instruction nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25A120 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Fidel Angel Lopez-Quinteros, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete asylum family-relationship immigration-and-nationality-act nexus-requirement particular-social-group persecution Whether a family relationship constitutes a particular social group under the Immigration and Nationality Act such that threats made to compel a relat…
24-5480 Robert James McCabe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bribery-statute campaign-contributions corrupt-intent nexus-requirement official-act statutory-interpretation Whether the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), through its use of the term 'in return for' requires some nexus or correlation between the un…
23-6006 Delando Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-exception nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause residential-search search-warrant Whether an application for a warrant to search a home for drugs must contain objective evidence of a nexus between the evidence sought and the residen…
22-7554 Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe…
20-8352 David Alexandre v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie…
20-8326 Michael Adefemi Adeyemo, aka Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment incriminating nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice plea-colloquy self-incrimination separate-offense testimonial Whether the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause protects a defendant during the change of plea colloquy against compulsory self-disclosure of in…
19-6938 Gabriel Garcia-Solar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP congress-power congressional-power constitutional-interpretation extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause felony-definition foreign-nationals high-seas maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act nexus-requirement nexus-to-us sentencing-discretion Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress' power under the Felonies Clause
19-6816 Michael J. Warner, II v. Maine Maine 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit burglary cell-phone-data criminal-evidence nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether an affidavit in support of a search warrant that contains neither specific allegations that a burglary suspect's cell phone data contain evide…
19-433 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied 18-usc-1512 false-statements grand-jury nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice obstruction-of-justice-18-usc-1512-c-2 plain-error plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct When does the 'nexus' requirement for obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) apply when false statements are made to a U.S…
19-5414 Arthur Whitley v. Texas Texas 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel…
18-8665 Michael Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t…
18-1230 Juan Zamudio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …