obstruction-statute

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-1351	Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas	Texas	2024-06-27	Denied	Amici (2)Response Waived	criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks	Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from convicting individuals for obstructing a passageway based solely on their particip…
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?
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…