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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1126 | Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck | Seventh Circuit | 2026-03-27 | Pending | false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam-relator scienter separation-of-powers treble-damages | 1. Whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions are unconstitutional. 2. Whether a legal interpretation can be deemed so "objectively unreasonab… | |
| 24A594 | Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Presumed Complete | audit-letter billing-codes false-claims-act public-disclosure-bar qui-tam scienter | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5752 | Norman Thurber v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Denied | IFP | criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation | Is there a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251, since "... criminal responsibility may not be imposed without some element of … |
| 23-970 | NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (18)Relisted (2) | class-action expert-opinion falsity falsity-allegations internal-documents pleading-requirements pslra scienter securities-fraud | 1. Whether plaintiffs seeking to allege scienter under the PSLRA based on allegations about internal company documents must plead with particularity t… |
| 23A578 | NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Presumed Complete | class-action expert-testimony pleading-standards pslra scienter securities-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5383 | Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter | I. Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without … |
| 22-1020 | H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s "knowledge" element requires "actual knowledge," as this Court held, or "intent to defraud," as the Ninth Circuit held on rem… |
| 22-928 | Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding | 1. When effectively unrestricted research funding —requiring nothing more than a yearly progress update —by the state enables a party such as a Univer… | |
| 22-646 | Sergey Pustelnik, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | artificiality fraud intent legal-standard market-manipulation scienter securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation | Whether scienter alone may satisfy the tradition ally separate artificiality requirement to establish market manipulation? |
| 22-6315 | Iklas Richard Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent | 1. In United States v. Rehaif, _ U.S. ___, 189 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court acknowledged the presumption in favor of scienter — that criminal statute… |
| 22-374 | Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-21 | GVR | Relisted (5) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard | Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 22-111 | United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-84 | Saad Sakkal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | GVR | controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) where the jury was… | |
| 21-7638 | Carlos Jimenez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-1326 | United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-7066 | Kevin Brewer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration | 1. Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has… |
| 21-6843 | In Re Kevin Brewer | 2022-01-13 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter | The entire panel of active judges in 8th Circuit Court Of Appeals have evaded, refused and failed to address the merits of a constitutional claim with… | |
| 21-6119 | Roger Edward Picard v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release | I. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), with respect to the presumption in favor o… |
| 21-5511 | Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | IFP | alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-69 | John Allison Huckabay v. Idaho | Idaho | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felonies felony-prosecution public-welfare-offenses scienter scienter-requirement | Without any requirement or proof of scienter, Petitioner was convicted of unlawful possession of a moose carcass out of season, a felony under Idaho l… |
| 21-56 | Timothy Muir v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury | The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 20-7958 | Anderson Jean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-7537 | Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements | Is New Jersey's "cyber-harassment" statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4.1, constitutionally invalid because it lacks a scienter requirement and relies on a "reas… |
| 20-6508 | Jesse Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-6189 | Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss… |
| 20-6097 | Francisco J. Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez, Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commodities-fraud criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions scienter | reasonable doubt in this commodities fraud prosecution. |
| 19-1149 | UPMC, et al. v. United States, ex rel. J. William Bookwalter, III, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | ambiguity civil-penalty civil-procedure false-claims-act knowledge knowledge-standard pleading-standard regulatory-ambiguity regulatory-provision scienter treble-damages | Whether a plaintiff plausibly alleges scienter—that a defendant knowingly submitted false claims—when the plaintiff does not allege any facts to sugge… |
| 19-1087 | Charles M. Hallinan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as… |
| 19-7265 | Joseph Totoro, II v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 scienter scienter-requirement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-access-to-courts speedy-trial | 1. Did the Court, the United States Attorney, and the former attorneys violate DQJ policy and Due Process by allowing him to give up all his rights, … |
| 19-795 | Paul D. Voorhees v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-12-20 | Denied | conduct-unbecoming-an-officer criminal-prosecution criminal-statute due-process mens-rea military-justice negligence negligence-standard rehaif-v-united-states scienter sixth-amendment uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice | Does this mens rea or scienter principle apply to criminal prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, where the underlying statute at is… | |
| 19-5929 | Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5574 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5110 | Barry Bays v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont… |
| 18-1202 | Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-15 | Denied | 6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability | 1. Whether Ohio's imposition of strict liability for even inadvertent, accidental or unknowing dissemination of child pornography violates due process… | |
| 18-1030 | United States, ex rel. Thomas A. Berg, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | energy-savings-performance-contract false-claims-act government-knowledge materiality scienter statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements utility-cost-savings | Although fraud-in-the-inducement taints all subsequent payments, belated discovery of the truth can leave the Government with no practical choice but … |
| 18-7816 | Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness | Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-752 | Edward Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats | The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the "true threats" doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is s… |
| 18-6939 | Jonathan S. Nelson v. Joe Norwood, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography conviction-reversal de-novo-review due-process first-amendment obscenity scienter | Concerning a violation of KSA 21-3516a(2), given that the images' nature was reasonably disputed, does the right to a de novo review demand the revers… |
| 18-699 | Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter | This Court has affirmed False Claims Act (FCA) liability, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., under a theory of "implied false certification." See Universal Hea… |
| 18-522 | Michael Ishee v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio | Governmental regulation of First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech and expression, draws close constitutional scrutiny since these righ… |
| 18-418 | United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter | Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d… | |
| 18-5831 | Willie Riley Curry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation | The Fourth Amendment has continuously been applied to cases like the one here. The Sixth Circuit failed to follow that jurisprudence. Does Carpenter a… |