official-duties
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5821 | Gregory Lee Rodvelt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment official-duties sixth-amendment statutory-authority | 1. Is a federal employee "engaged in. . . the performance of official duties" to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 111 when there is no statutory… |
| 23A1029 | Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-extension federal-officer-removal immunity-defense official-duties state-prosecution supremacy-clause | Whether the federal-officer removal statute permits a former federal officer to remove a state criminal prosecution to federal court for adjudication … | |
| 23-7441 | William F. Kaetz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the use of legislative history as law, despite this Court's precedents that it is not law, is a separation of powers offense |
| 23-6636 | Thomas Oliver v. Kristin T. Mihelic, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-immunity civil-liability civil-rights court-orders government-accountability government-personnel judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics official-duties official-misconduct willful-crimes | Should judges or other government personnel be protected by civil immunity for willful crimes? |
| 21-1007 | Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response Waived | first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection | Whether statements made by a public employee during an internal investigation by a governmental agency regarding matters of public concern are within … |
| 18-7993 | Ronald Bedford v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor | Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service is a person assisting an officer … |
| 18-7147 | Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… |