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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5410 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi… |
| 23-7163 | Kyle Melkonian v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation | The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government … |
| 23-6749 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having "physically restrained" a victim, where the conduct at issu… |
| 23A62 | Michael Carey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Presumed Complete | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plain-text statutory-interpretation suppression-provision wiretap-act | Question not identified. | |
| 20-7085 | Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harsher-punishment plain-text precedents sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | 1-Should lower courts be permitted to interpret the plain text and meaning of sentencing commission's provisions to inflict harsher punishment upon pe… |
| 20-5628 | Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months" in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |