| 25-6644 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-prosecution foreign-commerce-clause international-law territorial-jurisdiction treaty-power |
Has America become so great that it need not consider due process, comity among nations, follow international law, or fulfill its treaty obligations? … |
| 25-5644 |
Derrick Murphy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-limits federal-authority missouri-v-holland necessary-and-proper-clause state-prerogatives treaty-power |
Do constitutional structural limits on federal authority impose constraints on the scope of Congress authority to enact legislation to implement a val… |
| 24A1124 |
Corrigan Clay v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-power extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause interstate-commerce missouri-v-holland treaty-power |
Whether Congress's power under the Foreign Commerce Clause and the Treaty Power permits federal criminal prosecution for extraterritorial conduct not … |
| 19-256 |
Yuzef Abramov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-powers counsel-of-choice due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause necessary-and-proper necessary-and-proper-clause sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation treaty-power |
Whether it is constitutional to extend 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c) to noncommercial conduct allegedly committed by a foreign citizen and resident against othe… |
| 18-8671 |
Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution |
Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document… |
| 18-7835 |
Iouri Mikhel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure |
Where significant evidence of competency is susceptible to conflicting inferences, what standard of proof is required for a competency hearing and wha… |
| 18-7485 |
Marcus Noel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power |
Whether the federal Hostage Taking statute requires proof that the defendant knew the victim was a U.S. national |
| 18-7489 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 bond-v-united-states capital-case due-process-clause federal-authority hostage-taking international-terrorism recusal-standard statutory-interpretation treaty-power |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1203 should be interpreted in accordance with its underlying treaty and the principles in Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. 844 (201… |
| 18-7385 |
Cheng Le v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 |
Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied |