statutory-ambiguity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6464 Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness Whether the dismissal of a criminal appeal as untimely violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counse…
23A497 KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference mine-safety national-cement-doctrine statutory-ambiguity Whether the National Cement doctrine of judicial remand for agency reinterpretation is unconstitutional and whether Chevron deference should be overru…
23-6042 Joel Flores v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm 'in furtherance of' a drug offense as opposed to possession…
21-6320 Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal court may certify the divisibility inquiry to state court and rely on the newly created judicial interpretation of state law to enha…
19-7188 John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil Tenth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation Is the language of 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'s phrase 'at the same time' ambiguous?
19-7141 Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction When the legislature has not spoken in language that is clear and definite and has affixed the punishment for an offense, can a state court limit the …