special-assessment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6808 Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the Government should bear the burden of proving that a defendant is 'non-indigent' under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a) before the district court impose…
23-6244 Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single special assessment o…
23-5237 Jordan Cole Laws v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30…
22-6109 Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single additional special assessment of $5,000 or $5,000 for every qualifying conv…
22-5660 Jon Anthony Terry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may impose a special assessment under 18 U.S.C. 3014(a) based on a defendant's hypothetical future ability to pay, rather tha…
21-8076 Siva K. Durbesula v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-punishment enhanced-punishments judicial-fact-finding jury sixth-amendment special-assessment speedy-trial-act supervised-release Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury rather than a judge to determine facts which are used to apply enhanced punishments including the period o…
20-904 Deborah Holter v. City of Mandan, North Dakota North Dakota 2021-01-05 Denied abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-action judicial-discretion property-rights special-assessment special-assessments takings village-of-norwood-v-baker Whether a governmental entity properly considers the special benefits accruing to an assessed property when paying a nominal portion of the total cost…
20-5877 Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 applies to all offenses or only offenses against the United States
19-8056 Brian Alan Matalka v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros…
19-5540 Thomas Edward Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims?
18A1318 UMB Bank, N.A., et al. v. Landmark Towers Association, Inc. Colorado 2019-06-17 Presumed Complete ad-valorem-tax due-process municipal-district myles-salt property-tax special-assessment Whether the Due Process Clause requires an ad valorem property tax to confer a 'special benefit' when levied by a local taxing district
18-7012 Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability…