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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6666 Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution What does an 'offense' mean for purposes of restitution awards under the VWPA?
21-7477 Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of this Court when it held in Unit…
20-5649 David Blaszczak v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-10 GVR Amici (1)IFP conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 Whether government regulatory information is property or a thing of value
19-7661 Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that the underlying offense of Hobbs Act extortion, threatening physical violence in …
19-5685 Larry Brandon Moore v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i bill-drafting congress-authority congressional-power constitution-article-1 constitutional-interpretation law-making-authority legislative-delegation positive-law prior-laws statutory-codification third-party-codification title-18 title-18-usc Does Article I of the U.S. Constitution confer on Congress such authority as to have enacted 62 Stat 683 et seq into positive law thereby enacting, sp…
18-9124 Garland D. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 Does jurisdiction exist to correct an illegal sentence at any time?
18-8117 Brandon Pete v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-proportionality juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana offense-level-43 sentencing-guidelines title-18 May a juvenile convicted as an adult of a non-premeditated homicide be sentenced to life-without-parole under Offense Level 43 and bear the burden to …