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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-829 | Matt Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response Waived | civil-liability indian-commerce-clause internet-contract rico-act state-regulation tribal-lending | Whether the Indian Commerce Clause preempts state regulation of loans made on an Indian reservation by a tribal lender via internet, and whether a RIC… |
| 24-7428 | Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Gavin Newsom, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | IFP | employer-mandate false-claims-act honest-services-fraud immigration-status medicaid-fraud rico-act | Whether federal funds for Medicaid were fraudulently used to subsidize health coverage for undocumented immigrants through California state legislatio… |
| 24-629 | Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act | What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO, and can pro… |
| 24-6028 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act | What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's activities in fact af… |
| 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… |
| 23-6568 | Bouazza Ouaziz v. City of Jersey City, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy discovery-rule due-process rico-act sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | Whether the court of appeal erred in dismissing plaintiff's claims based on statute of limitations and discovery rule |
| 23-365 | Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn | Second Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation | Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to 'business or property by reason of' the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 22-1147 | Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act | Whether the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prevents the application of defamation liability and RICO to undercover newsgathering | |
| 22-995 | Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing | Whether a harm to an intangible property interest is a sufficient injury to a business or property interest under RICO |
| 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… | |
| 22-6067 | Yazan Al-Madani v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim | Whether an entity can be both an 'enterprise' and a 'victim' under RICO |
| 22-383 | CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing | Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a 'domestic' injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t… |
| 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… |
| 22-5754 | Jamal Laurent v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement | Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) |
| 21-7377 | Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings | Whether Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5, 6, 7, 13, and 14 to the Constitution |
| 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… |
| 21-5834 | Mechele R. Parker v. Sara LaRosa, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights damages federal-cause-of-action fourth-amendment law-enforcement rico-act unlawful-search unlawful-searches-and-seizures | What is the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling On All Members To A Conspiracy? |
| 21-360 | Joseph Constant v. DTE Electric Company, aka DTE Energy, aka Detroit Edison Company, aka DTE, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights contract-conspiracy fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct rico rico-act | Did Judge Kumar and the Executives of the Judges' RICO Enterprise made frauds upon the court |
| 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… |
| 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… | |
| 19-1069 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing | Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs … |
| 19-7701 | Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing | Will this court overturn the 9th circuit's denial of proven fraud on the district court and denial of Mr. Kerns' request for judgment by default? |
| 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… |
| 19-6931 | Robert W. Johnson v. Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, L.L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure-fraud-due-process-white-collar-cr civil-rights due-process rico-act standing takings white-collar-crimes | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's ruling |
| 19-176 | R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act | Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 18-598 | Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ | Whether the Second Circuit erred in granting Appellees' motion for summary affirmance while denying Chien's motions as moot |
| 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? |
| 18-390 | Sandra Pletos, et vir v. Makower Abatte Guerra Wegner Vollmer, PLLC , et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse civil-rights concealment contract contractual-rights debt-collection due-process fraud fraud-concealment homeowners-association rico-act rooker-feldman | Whether Rooker-Feldman can be used to prevent parties from asserting their contractual rights, and new independent claims for relief based on statutes… |
| 18-5856 | David Gerard Jeep v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process eighth-circuit judicial-act judicial-immunity probable-cause qualified-immunity rico-act standing xiv-amendment | Is the issuance, and support on appeal, of a court order without a 'reasonable probable cause' a judicial act? |
| 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… |