obstruction
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-522 | Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation | Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo… |
| 23-6525 | Michael Dukes v. E.M.S.A. HSA Stephanie Wood, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure court-proceedings due-process evidence extraordinary-circumstances judicial-procedure legal-standard material-evidence obstruction obstruction-of-justice standing | Does obstruction preventing dispositive material evidence from being presented in court constitute 'extraordinary circumstances'? |
| 22-5133 | Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court issue-preclusion obstruction procedural-fairness standing witness-protection | Whether plaintiffs and witnesses have a right to receive protection from obstructive crimes while a case is proceeding in federal courts of justice? |
| 20-1681 | Shelton Barnes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence | Does the Panel Decision conflict with its own authority and other circuit court decisions? |
| 20-7529 | Brian E. Moore v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal attorney-client-privilege criminal-intent evidence obstruction threats | Are mere statements of intent to commit a crime made in the course of an attorney-client representation protected by the attorney-client privilege? |
| 20-7226 | John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice | Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell? |
| 20-935 | Anne Richards, et al. v. Sam Olens, et al. | Georgia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction obstruction-of-justice rico-act rule-of-law | Whether the total breakdown of Georgia's justice system—in which the state never responded to documented allegations of fraud, obstruction, bribery, a… |
| 20-5337 | David Enrique Meza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure investigatory-proceeding marinello-v-united-states mens-rea miranda-rights miranda-waiver obstruction obstruction-of-justice | Whether the nexus element for obstruction requires knowledge that the defendant's conduct will affect an existing or foreseeable proceeding |
| 19-7855 | Jeremy T. Walker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration | Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7662 | Juan Orellana v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-violation admissibility-of-statement criminal-procedure criminal-trial custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment obstruction right-to-counsel unambiguous-request | Whether Orellana's Fifth Amendment right to counsel was violated |
| 19-202 | Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington | Washington | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search | Whether it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for States to charge and convict a person of obstruction for passively refusing to open the door to … |
| 18-8182 | Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment | Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and … |
| 18-7732 | James B. Curry v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process obstruction prejudice standing | Was Weck's Constitutional Rights Violated |
| 18-601 | John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Amici (3) | agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand | Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-5917 | John Doe v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines |