strict-liability

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25-740 Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (1) diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability Whether a federal court may determine negligence and strict liability claims in a diversity action involving novel claims of abnormally dangerous rese…
23-7263 Everald S. Allen, Jr. v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP command-influence constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction military-justice presidential-comments strict-liability trial-integrity unlawful-command-influence whether-unlawful-command-influence
23-7114 Richard Marschall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-mislabeling due-process felony fifth-amendment food-and-drug-administration mens-rea recidivist recidivist-enhancement strict-liability Whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment mandates a mens rea term for the felony recidivist enhancement, 21 U.S.C. § 333(a)(2), of the mi…
23-328 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-09-28 Denied constitutional-taking due-process environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substance strict-liability takings water-system Whether the Alaska Supreme Court's imposition of strict liability violated petitioners' right to due process
22-7246 Mikequale Miller v. Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack of Delaware, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process gideon-v-wainwright pro-se-litigant products-liability standing strict-liability Should a Pro Se Litigant in a products-liability case be given the same or similar Constitutional protection and liberties as Pro Se criminal defendan…
22-7137 Eric Deangelo Griggs v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-distribution due-process heroin-distribution jury-instruction perjured-testimony strict-liability Whether a person can be convicted for distribution of heroin causing death using a jury instruction that makes the offense a strict liability crime
22-6993 Kenneth Ray Carlyle, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights ex-convict-firearms felons interstate-commerce right-to-bear-arms sawed-off-shotguns second-amendment strict-liability Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of felons to possess sawed-off shotguns
22-6869 Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i…
21-7841 Danny Jewell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability Whether the Fifth Circuit's strict liability approach to the importation enhancement under the United States Sentencing Guidelines is correct
21-6816 N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado Colorado 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability Whether Colorado's interpretation of a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
21-6049 Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines applies when the defendant did not know that the drugs were imported
21-5501 Michael David McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
21-5266 Alla V. Stepanets v. United States First Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether a defendant 'dispenses' drugs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(1)(B) when they are shipped to a medical facility where a physician will write a …
20-8082 Eric Deshan Adams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
20-7315 Ursula Owens v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability Is Ohio's felony murder statute, and Petitioner's conviction and 15-years-to-life sentence thereunder, unconstitutional in violation of the Fifth, Six…
20-7253 Nancy Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied IFP constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes applies to the elements of drug type and quantity
19-1400 Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, LLC v. State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration Florida 2020-06-23 Denied administrative-law causation due-process license-revocation licensure-revocation mitigating-evidence notice opportunity-to-be-heard strict-liability substantial-causes Does the refusal to consider causation, substantial causes, and mitigating evidence—central to this licensure revocation—violate the Due Process Claus…
19-7952 Michael Deon Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the language 'death or serious bodily injury results from' in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or pr…
19-7314 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied IFP acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify …
19-6826 Jennifer Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense?
19-6784 Jermaine Whyte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a strict-liability-offense-for-age-of-victim
19-6770 Vinca S. Chiu v. First Group America, et al. Oregon 2019-11-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-dismissal due-process judicial-order legal-remedy motion-practice scope-of-relief standing strict-liability summary-judgment trial-court trial-court-authority ultrahazardous-activities Is a trial court authorized to expand the scope of a legal remedy that was not requested in a motion for summary judgment before the court?
19-6282 Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. § 960(b)
19-200 Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged transf…
19-132 Lawrence I. Fejokwu v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-delegation civil-rights due-process regulatory-enforcement regulatory-investigation self-regulatory-organization strict-liability willfulness Willfulness & Good-faith
18-9699 Jose Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the offense elements of drug type and drug quantity in …
18-9547 Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify …
18-9205 Antonio Ballesteros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine-generated data that implicates the Si…
18-1368 San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission California 2019-05-01 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in…
18-8447 Javis Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offense qualifies…
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 Whether Ohio's strict liability for inadvertent child pornography dissemination violates due process, whether defendant's right to mount a defense was…
18-8360 Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the offense elements of drug type and drug quantity in …
18-8224 Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted as including at least a recklessly mens rea element regar…
18-8082 Elton Lee Baker, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt charging-information criminal-attempt criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea strict-liability Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime of attempt of the primary charges in the charging information without the attempt statute being inclu…
18-8050 Alvaun Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 Whether the mens rea requirement as to the person's being under 18 applies to the person's being under 14 or whether the aggravated under-14 offense i…
18-7833 Jerome Hayes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense…
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 …
18-7642 Kirk Lassend v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony Whether a crime which does not require the actual use of violent force can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the ACCA
18-7306 Michael Martin Steele v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for 'ql…
18-7105 Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense…
18-6707 Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(…
18-6036 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether proof of proximate cause is required for the 'death results' sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B)
18-5935 Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(…