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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A294 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a nonspecific RICO conspiracy without specific intent to commit the target crime can constitute a substantive criminal offense | |
| 25-171 | Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation | Does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity alleged? |
| 25-5035 | Jennifer Lynn Dees, et al. v. Jillian Knox, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity pro-se racketeering | Whether federal courts can dismiss pro se, IFP civil rights and RICO complaints with prejudice at the pre-service stage without notice or opportunity … |
| 24-1172 | Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conspiracy enterprise-definition federal-criminal-law racketeering rico-statute statutory-interpretation | Whether members of an 'enterprise' under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) must share a common illegal or fraudulent purpose |
| 24-1094 | Louis B. Antonacci v. Rahm Emanuel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Response Waived | cyberespionage due-process protected-speech racketeering rico-enterprise subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Petitioner Antonacci has properly alleged that Respondents are architects of a criminal RICO enterprise engaged in racketeering activity again… |
| 24-1013 | In Re Louis B. Antonacci | 2025-03-21 | Dismissed | Response Waived | bar-admission civil-procedure due-process judicial-review racketeering subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fourth Circuit must exercise jurisdiction and rule on Antonacci's appeals involving RICO claims and procedural challenges | |
| 24-894 | Michelle Avery Bey v. David Harper, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-USC-1961 circuit-court district-court federal-jurisdiction racketeering statute-of-limitations | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in declaring federal questions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 and 1962 should be adjudicated by a county appraiser and whethe… |
| 24-5665 | Shari Lynn Oliver v. Julie A. McDonald, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights family-court-enterprise parent-child-rights racketeering title-iv-d | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged constitutional violations in a family court federal-state enter… |
| 24-299 | Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering | Is material fraud by attorneys purporting to be agents of an unregistered LLC law firm in a California Court insubstantial? |
| 24-5503 | Raekwon Malik Patton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-enterprise jury-instructions purpose-element racketeering underlying-offense violent-crimes | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) requires a minimum finding by the jury that the underlying crime was committed as a substantial purpose or integral aspect… |
| 23A979 | Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | crime-of-violence firearms-statute predicate-offense racketeering rico sentencing-enhancement | Whether a reckless offense can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) following the Court's decision in B… | |
| 23-7144 | Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court can sentence a defendant to life imprisonment for a RICO conspiracy conviction when the jury found the defendant did not agre… |
| 23-6914 | Matthew W. Miller v. Dan Wilcot, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process exile fair-treatment insubordination pro-se-petition racketeering standing | Why is this case required to reach the Supreme Court? |
| 23-963 | Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon | Florida | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure | Does Florida's legal scheme violate constitutional rights by not allowing its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an … |
| 23-6820 | Marvin Carcamo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines | Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under the U… |
| 23-6498 | Kevin Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated |
| 23-6200 | Courtney Green v. LG Electronics USA, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consumer-privacy data-collection defamation electronic-surveillance invasion-of-privacy racketeering telecommunications | Whether the respondent LG Electronics Inc. aided in corrupt intent and racketeer influenced acts |
| 23-5852 | Kareem Davis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation | Is murder in aid of racketeering (VICAR murder) an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis based on the generic federal definition of mur… |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | Whether petitioner aided and abetted a VICAR crime absent evidence of payment to the enterprise and without need to prove the motive element |
| 23-379 | John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity | Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime? |
| 23-5725 | Edward Troup v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations | Does a federal antiracketeering statute reach murders committed outside a state's statute of limitations, for which the defendant could not be adjudic… |
| 22-1223 | Gwendolyn D. Gabriel, et al. v. Merry Outlaw, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obstruction-of-justice predicate-acts public-corruption qualified-immunity racketeering rico-statute witness-tampering | Whether RICO statute provides attorneys qualified immunity from RICO lawsuits when evidence shows they committed predicate acts/crimes |
| 22-7694 | Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's RICO and BIVENS complaints |
| 22-1160 | Albin Rhomberg v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | abortion-litigation civil-rights compensatory-damages due-process first-amendment free-speech no-injury racketeering rico-damages standing takings undercover-journalism | Whether RICO claims should be dismissed where the plaintiffs suffered no compensable injury |
| 22-7508 | Herma Barbara Medina Reyna v. PNC Bank, N.A., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-fraud mortgage-ownership punitive-damages racketeering rooker-feldman-doctrine standing title-fraud | Can a party who was wronged by a bank or business entity that committed mass fraud, misrepresentation, and racketeering actions retain a judgment in a… |
| 22-7476 | Michael D'Antonio v. Borough of Allendale, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing foreclosure money-laundering municipal-misconduct racketeering sheriff-sale | Absence of decision on Fair Housing Act compliance |
| 22-7151 | Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios |
| 22-7150 | Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios |
| 22-7050 | Dorothy Weigman v. Victoria Wertz, as Trustee | California | 2023-03-21 | Denied | IFP | accounting civil-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage-backed-securities probate probate-court racketeering securities-investment standing trust trust-administration | Can there be a judgment for the approval of accounting when there has been no filing of an administration of the trust? |
| 22-6763 | Cecil Wallace Williamson, Jr. v. Mike Heinricy, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | capital-case civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-confession habeas-corpus organized-crime prosecutorial-misconduct racketeering witness-tampering | Whether the State of Iowa's actions in allowing Jasper Conry to kidnap the petitioner through racketeering, criminal organized torture, and abuse, and… |
| 22-6597 | Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent | Whether the District Court lacked statutory authority under 18 U.S.C. 1962(c) if Congress intended for a RICO conspiracy to be complete when reached, … |
| 22-6554 | Adrian Gordon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c conspiracy-theory crimes-of-violence criminal-liability gun-enhancement pinkerton-liability racketeering vicar-statute | Are Instructions under Pinkerton v. United States appropriate for crimes of violence in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C. § 1959 (VICAR) when the pe… |
| 22-642 | General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act | Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca… | |
| 22-6343 | Rossen Iossifov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud | Jurisdictional-grounds-for-SCOTUS-review |
| 22-6299 | Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering | Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (with … |
| 22-5838 | Yasser Ashburn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-enterprise firearm-possession gang-related-purpose jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-act | Whether requisite proof to establish a RICO offense or RICO conspiracy requires a 'gang related purpose' or 'gaining entrance to, or maintaining or in… |
| 22-5687 | Michael G. Peters v. Mital K. Brammbatt | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Dismissed | IFP | anti-slapp civil-rights cruel-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-conspiracy prison-mail-misappropriations racketeering rico rico-anti-slapp selective-prosecution standing | Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging a decade-long cover-up of political, judicial, and corporate racketeering cr… |
| 21-8233 | Barkley Gardner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment |
| 21-8012 | Soraya Maria Rigor v. Dale Carlsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process intellectual-property punitive-damages racketeering special-relationship takings university-trustees | Question not identified |
| 21-7078 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states | Whether the government can obtain a RICO conviction without proving the targeted enterprise's activities affected interstate commerce, if members enga… |
| 21-6787 | Rondale Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the motive was a but-for cause of the violen… |
| 21-6452 | Donnell Murray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction count-one criminal-procedure davis insufficient-evidence jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering trial-errors | Whether Murray's conviction on Count One should be reversed due to insufficient evidence |
| 21-6420 | Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering | Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-125 | Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico | Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded |
| 21-5150 | John B. Freitas v. Bank of America | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation court-officer-accountability due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct racketeering real-estate-dispute res-judicata void-altered-defective-deeds | Whether local-state-federal-court-officers should be held accountable for criminal-conduct-through-racketeering |
| 20-1753 | Joseph Dennis Gilberti, Jr. v. Adrurra Group, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process environmental-protection government-conspiracy professional-engineering public-health racketeering standing takings water-quality water-resource | Why did the lower Court with Governor Desantis, EPA, and Florida Department of Environmental protection, along with multiple City/County and State Age… |
| 20-1664 | Jason Michael Jett v. Michigan | Michigan | 2021-05-28 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection felony-charges illegal-search-and-seizure jurisdiction racketeering state-agent | Whether the State agents' actions, including threats, bullying, secret felony charges, continuous taxation, and causing irreparable damage, violate du… | |
| 20-8018 | Deshaun Tisdale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm | Whether the Petitioner should have been permitted a common law self-defense jury instruction in a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions f… |
| 20-1561 | In Re Barbara Riley | 2021-05-11 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-judgment government-misconduct property-rights racketeering standing takings void-judgment | Is it constitutional for multiple units of Local government and State government to enter, sell, buy, and record facially void ex parte default judgme… | ||
| 20-1343 | Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur | Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in cas… |
| 20-7014 | Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering | Whether the district court and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's due process, confrontation, examination, privileges, and protections i… |
| 20-6936 | Scott Tucker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea racketeering | Whether the Court of Appeals has endorsed an inflexible rule that limits evidence of legal advice rendered to the defendant to the very inception of t… |
| 20-6439 | Sidney Patterson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity due-process legislative-intent racketeering rico rico-statute sufficiency-of-evidence unsophisticated-crime vague-statute | Does the application of a vaguely written racketeering statute to prosecute unsophisticated criminal activity not contemplated by the legislative inte… |
| 20-6123 | Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property | Whether possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property |
| 20-235 | Edward J. Mierzwa v. Arkadiusz M. Dudek, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure court-manipulation due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racketeering supervisory-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction unlawful-process | Will the Supreme Court exercise its supervisory powers to remedy the unlawful process enacted by the Lower Courts to substitute racketeering-based cou… |
| 20-5421 | Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation | Whether simple possession under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) is a legally permissible racketeering predicate incident under Fla. Stat. §§ 895.02(1)(a), 8… |
| 19-8846 | David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-07-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-network criminal-organizations criminal-procedure district-attorney inchoate-crimes organized-crime prosecutorial-discretion racketeering | Where a private criminal plaintiff is ignored by a local District Attorney's Office, in the presence of criminality from racketeering, inchoate crimes… |
| 19-1324 | Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-06-01 | Denied | civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) require a plaintiff or prosecutor claiming an 'open pattern' of racketeering to all… | |
| 19-8361 | Tyrone Price v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase | Does the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) convictions support 'use of violence' physical force? |
| 19-1125 | Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of racket… |
| 19-7879 | Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | Is first degree murder under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code a 'crime of violence' for the purpose of 18 U.S.C. § 924(j)? |
| 19-7566 | Javed Asefi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-prosecution substantial-effect | Whether federal jurisdiction exists in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) where neither the activities of the alleged enterprise nor the individu… |
| 19-900 | Jessica Vennie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act | Whether Rule 8(b) permits joinder of defendants who participated in the same legal enterprise but were not alleged to have coordinated with one anothe… |
| 19-7101 | David Nowakowski v. E.E. Austin and Son, Inc., et al. | Pennsylvania | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-organizations criminal-procedure criminal-racketeering due-process inchoate-crimes legal-remedies legislative-interpretation organized-crime pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering standing statutory-construction | Where a plaintiff's position falls within the scope of an open Legislative statement, can the open ended nature of the statement be used to offset lon… |
| 19-6820 | Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code | Whether the jury must find the specific predicate acts committed under the RICO conspiracy statute |
| 19-6744 | Kevin M. Merck v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bank-account-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law court-record-manipulation due-process fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute procedural-irregularity racketeering seizure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the seizure of the petitioner's bank account by Washington County, MN was lawful and justified based on the cited case of Cathy S. Jones v. Ke… |
| 19-6155 | Deounte Ussury v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes | Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute requires a special verdict form where the statute requires unanimity as to … |
| 19-5663 | Clifford L. Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | enterprise-profits federal-jurisdiction motive motive-element pecuniary-gain racketeering state-murder vcar-statute | Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' theory stretch the application of the VCAR statute far beyond what Congress intended and federalize a… |
| 19-5632 | T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries | Is it error to impose judicial immunity when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciaries acted without jurisdicti… |
| 19-5489 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | Whether a defendant acts for the purpose of maintaining or increasing his position in an enterprise under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering st… |
| 18-1585 | Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-27 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm | Whether a 90-year consecutive sentence for a 33-year-old first-time offender violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 18-8383 | Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property | Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust-conspiracy, racketeering-conspiracy, trademark-property, busine… |
| 18-8333 | Jorge Sosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering | Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeering e… |
| 18-8217 | Marvin Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process enterprise enterprise-membership fair-trial jury-instructions racketeering racketeering-act violent-crime | Whether evidence supporting a conviction of violent crime in aid of racketeering must demonstrate the defendant was a member of the alleged enterprise |
| 18-7726 | Carlton Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-6948 | William Gavidia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights common-heritage crimes-of-violence criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process enterprise indictment pattern-of-activity pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity | Whether those of common heritage constitute an enterprise that should be indicted and tried together and any crimes of violence they commit constitute… |
| 18-6566 | Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans? |
| 18-429 | Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act | Is there a bright-line rule that the pattern of racketeering activity must extend beyond twelve months to satisfy continuity' under RICO? |
| 18-11 | Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |