substantial-effect
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6686 | Deonta Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect | In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 22-5876 | Surprise Emmanuel Carter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-authority felon-in-possession felon-possession national-federation-v-sebelius police-power statutory-interpretation substantial-effect | Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 19-1307 | Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect | Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part… | |
| 19-7566 | Javed Asefi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-prosecution substantial-effect | Whether federal jurisdiction exists in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) where neither the activities of the alleged enterprise nor the individu… |
| 18-47 | Thomas McClary, et al. v. Commodores Entertainment Corp. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | extraterritorial-conduct extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-commerce jurisdiction lanham-act steele-v-bulova substantial-effect trademark-enforcement trademark-standing us-commerce | What defines the 'substantial effect on United States commerce' that grants U.S. court's jurisdiction to expand the Lanham Act to extraterritorial con… |