sexual-conduct
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7203 | Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-split child-pornography constitutional-review dost-factors lascivious-exhibition sexual-conduct | When the six Dost factors are read to a jury to determine 'lascivious exhibition of the genitals' under a child pornography statute, is a conviction c… |
| 24-7043 | Sean Christopher Owen v. Kristin Keisel, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-discrimination constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection minor-rights sexual-conduct | Whether Utah statutes criminalizing sexual conduct between consenting post-pubescent minors violate constitutional rights to equality and liberty |
| 22-6847 | Philip M. Close v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether brief glimpses of children's genital areas in videos constitute 'sexually-explicit-conduct' under 18-USC-2251-and-2252A |
| 22-5363 | Rodney Flucas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority | Was the Jury Erroneously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a 'Motivating Purpose' for Transportation of Person… |
| 20-1335 | A. P. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute | Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-5833 | Scott Francis Fortier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-vagueness mens-rea sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct specific-intent vagueness-doctrine | Does creating a visual depiction of sexual conduct of a minor need to be the dominant or specific purpose; one of the dominant or specific purposes; o… |
| 19-7075 | Matthew Rouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct | Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment applies to the private exchange of images depicting lawful, sexual conduct between indi… |
| 19-6940 | Kevin James Petroske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | Whether mere video voyeurism can constitute intending a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction u… |
| 19-5254 | Jose Arroyo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-07-19 | Denied | IFP | corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement | Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho… |
| 18-7649 | Sergeyi Bazar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty | When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908), … |
| 18-6854 | Matthew Lane Durham v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits minor-protection noncommercial-activity noneconomic-activity sexual-acts sexual-conduct statutory-interpretation | Did Congress exceed its enumerated powers under the Foreign Commerce Clause by punishing noncommercial, noneconomic sexual acts committed by a U.S. ci… |
| 18-445 | Tanya Ramirez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-10-10 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code | Is Texas Penal Code §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… |