| 24-7193 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process duplicitous-charge indictment-dismissal ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment vagueness |
Did the district court err in concluding that petitioner received effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment when petitioner's trial co… |
| 23-7728 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), prohibiting an unlawful user from possessing a firearm, is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 23-7706 |
Tia Pugh v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-obedience-act civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process first-amendment interstate-commerce legislative-vagueness standing vagueness |
1. Did Pugh's prosecution under the Civil Obedience Act exceed Congress' authority to legislate interstate and foreign commerce?
2. Did Pugh's prosec… |
| 23-7535 |
Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness |
Whether A COA Should Issue Because Jurists Of Reason Could Debate Or Agree That Congress Could Did Not Authorize Federal Enforcement Of § 1591 To Pure… |
| 23-7268 |
Pikerson Mentor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural
default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un… |
| 23-1105 |
National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions drone-surveillance due-process first-amendment free-speech intermediate-scrutiny standing vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Do journalists and news organizations whose First Amendment rights are chilled by an ambiguous criminal law have standing to bring a facial void-fo… |
| 23-7166 |
Charles Edward Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness |
Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable … |
| 23-7158 |
Russell Dean Alford v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness |
In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of … |
| 23-7084 |
Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness |
Is the undefined/ non-specific/ ambiguous language used in
Ohio's App.R.26(B) (2) .(c) that results in arbitrary/ incon sistent/ and discriminatory e… |
| 23-6934 |
Calvin C. Freeman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1.) Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of, children "OR®' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative M… |
| 23-6876 |
Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1504(1)(C) (Omnibus Crime Control Act) applied to Bronson's Metaphysical attempt to attempt "Louefl)rco,c|j uayi w" unconstitutionally?… |
| 23-951 |
Gordon Blake v. Martin Gamboa, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto notice statute-of-limitations substantial-sexual-conduct vagueness |
1. Whether Ex Post Facto protections were denied by the extension of the state statute of limitations by an unforeseeable judicial interpretation of a… |
| 23-6794 |
Isaac Cardona v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the promotional money laundering provision of Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), violates the due proce… |
| 23-6662 |
Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law digital-files due-process statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the portion of the Illinois child pornography statute allowing for the termination of possession, 720 ILLS 5/11-20.1(b)(5) (2016), is unconsti… |
| 23-6576 |
Caitlyn Williams and Tamarae Larue v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compulsory-education constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness school-attendance statutory-construction vagueness |
Whether the language "on a regular basis" in the compulsory school attendance law is impermissibly vague in violation of due process guarantees. |
| 23-6440 |
Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the U.S.S.G Commentary being issued on a High in § 2L1.1 is unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to notice and comment to the … |
| 23-6434 |
Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness |
1) Will delay resulting from pretrial motions be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act if a defendant can assert that the motion hearing was deliberatel… |
| 23-646 |
Devon Tinius, et al. v. Luke Choi, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights curfew curfew-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the District of Columbia's curfew law is unconstitutional because it violates fundamental rights and because it is overbroad and void for vagu… |
| 23-584 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California |
California |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
arbitrary-enforcement armed-intent constitutional-vagueness due-process eighth-amendment legislative-intent penal-code rosemond-substantive-holding second-amendment sentencing-enhancement standardless-legislation vagueness |
• Should California Penal Code § 12022.53 be struck down and voided as vague and standardless legislation? Does petitioner's conviction serve as an ex… |
| 23-6061 |
George Oscar Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
(1) Whether the residual clause of "or otherwise " of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process cl… |
| 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… |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(¢)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional in light of This Court's opinions in Dimaya and Johnson?
2. Whether Florida's… |
| 23-5572 |
Joseph W. Fischer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i… |
| 23-5442 |
Wayne Jerome Johnson v. California |
California |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual double-jeopardy due-process felony-misdemeanor penal-code-interpretation three-strikes three-strikes-law vagueness |
Whether it is unconstitutional, i.e., cruel and unusual, double jeopardy, and a violation of the due process clause to impose two separate strikes on … |
| 23-5348 |
Julian Breal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
davis-ruling due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-vacate procedural-default section-2255 united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-challenge |
Whether the Petitioner was denied his due process Fifth Amendment right to the United States Constitution due to being procedurally defaulted from pre… |
| 23-127 |
Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the "conduct unbecoming " standard for subjecting an employee to disciplinary proceedings unconstitutionally vague, and therefore violative of t… |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-29 |
CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness |
1. Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause that it is barred from engaging in certain speech under a state consumer protection … |
| 23-17 |
Wisam R. Rizk v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness |
1. This court has ruled that "conflict of interest " and
"undisclosed self-dealing " by a private individual
is not in the preview of §1346 (Percoco… |
| 22-7862 |
Lazaro Veliz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-7637 |
Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court due-process forced-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment vagueness |
this case presents an important issue concerning what constitutes "the right to have the assistance of counsel" under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. … |
| 22-7241 |
Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-939 |
Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire |
First Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether the First Amendment tolerates
criminal prosecution for alleged defamation of a public
official.
2. Whether New Hampshire's common law of
c… |
| 22-7002 |
J. T. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness |
1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard
when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir… |
| 22-6938 |
Raul Gonzalez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing vagueness |
Where legislatus vioate the ru announcedin altering the Beazell v. Ohie, by retroactively Tixas Sex of fender Registration Act defisiFion of and inece… |
| 22-6866 |
Antonio Rosello v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-6848 |
Maurice Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-interference criminal-obstruction due-process federal-law federal-revised-code free-speech hobbs-act public-corruption standing threats-of-violence vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6705 |
Charles Wesley Clearwater v. K. Bennett, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process inmate-rights rdap rdap-program residual-clause time-credit vagueness |
Is it a violation of an inmates Constitutional Rights to due process, to use the Residual Clause criteria to deny him from receiving the on year time … |
| 22-727 |
Izzac Christopher Weister v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency psychiatric-custody statutory-interpretation vagueness violence violence-definition west-virginia |
1. Izzac Weister was criminally charged with sexual offenses as a result of electronic messages that he sent to his half sister. The trial court found… |
| 22-6599 |
Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. When the State of Ohio Legislatures/The Ohio General Assembly had failed to drafted with reasonably clarity the precise number of years that equals… |
| 22-415 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
(1) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment?
(2) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is unconstitutiona… |
| 22-5897 |
Unises Chapotin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding
United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to
Johnso… |
| 22-317 |
Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law?
2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi… |
| 22-5677 |
Michael Louis McCarron v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen… |
| 22-271 |
M. N. v. A. A., et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
|
abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness |
(1) whether K Y. REV. STAT. ANN. § 199.502 violates the Fourt eenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because it fails to articulate a clear and convinci… |
| 22-202 |
Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness |
1. Is Texas's obscene harassment statute (Tex. Penal Code 42.07(a)(1) and (b)(3)) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad?
2. Does the Miller v. Calif… |
| 22-5503 |
Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons… |
| 22-5491 |
John Michael Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-5394 |
Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as
relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is
imperm… |
| 22-5231 |
Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad due to the statute's use of the phrase "any sexual activity for which any person can be… |
| 22-5119 |
Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as… |
| 22-5076 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Because this Court's recent pronouncement in Ruan v. United States, 20-1410
applies to 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) prosecutions involving health care profes… |
| 21-8278 |
Glen Hunsberger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the other, strict liability, 21 U.S.C. § 860, requires a … |
| 21-8181 |
Joshua Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-delegation probation-conditions probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness |
Whether the imposition of Standard Condition (12), U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(c)(12), violates a defendant's right to Due Process because the condition unconsti… |
| 21-1545 |
Allen Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process gun-rights license-revocation standing vagueness |
1. Can the government render moot a fully
briefed appeal challenging the denial of a license to
carry a pistol by granting the license — though not co… |
| 21-8026 |
William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law constitutional-vagueness due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings vagueness |
Is the statute 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8) void for vagueness therefore unconstitutional? |
| 21-7792 |
John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness |
whetheR the Application of M.C.A. 97-3-2 IAs Applred] eRentes A" Slgnificant Risk of prolonging The petitioneR's StAYin pRison.
whetheR the RetroActi… |
| 21-7576 |
Edward Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-scrutiny liberty-interests non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth plea-agreement supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness |
I. Currently, the Circuits are split as to whether the standard federal supervision condition requiring third-party risk notification is constitutiona… |
| 21-7509 |
Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness |
Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau… |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Would a person of ordinary intelligence have had fair notice that he was subject to the aggravated penalties for mandated reporters? |
| 21-7176 |
Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness |
I. Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United… |
| 21-7124 |
Pamela Polejewski v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
animal-seizure civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines innocent-owner procedural-violations res-judicata takings vagueness |
The Montana State Supreme Court has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, and it confl… |
| 21-1034 |
Peter Kagel v. Jay Laurence Raftery, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud issue-preclusion rooker-feldman vagueness |
1. Should the "Inextricably Intertwined" doctrine be
abolished because it violates the due process clause of the
14th Amendment since it is unconsti… |
| 21-6935 |
Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness |
1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 … |
| 21-6844 |
Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr… |
| 21-6590 |
Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness |
(1) Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States,… |
| 21-6534 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a conviction obtained in reliance on an unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained based on a revie… |
| 21-6465 |
Andrew John Gibson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness |
L. Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed… |
| 21-6456 |
Terry Ray Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine pornographic-matter pornography supervised-release vagueness |
I. Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of "any pornographic matter" violate due process as unconstitut… |
| 21-658 |
Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite … |
| 21-6112 |
Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California |
California |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. The California criminal street gang laws contained in section 186.22 of the California Penal Code are unconstitutional for being vague, indefinite … |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes… |
| 21-5920 |
In Re Jason Brooks |
|
2021-10-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness |
(i) Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal … |
| 21-5790 |
Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a "crime of violence," unconstitutionally vague, whe… |
| 21-120 |
James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination |
Florida Atlantic University has a reporting policy
that requires its faculty and staff to disclose outside
professional activities to the university… |
| 21-68 |
Brendon Janis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-delegation delegation-of-authority due-process probation-officer risk-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate authority to the probation officer?
2. Is Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally vague? |
| 20-1803 |
Evelyn Sineneng-Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alien-status constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process first-amendment immigration-law standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Do the terms "encouraging" and "inducing" an alien to reside in the
United States, within the meaning of 8 U. S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), extend to t… |
| 20-1627 |
S. S., et al. v. S. B. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness |
Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-1516 |
Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu |
Ohio |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
|
best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness |
1. Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary caregiver's—constitutional right to leg… |
| 20-7785 |
Kevino Graham v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
(A.) "WHETHER PETITIONER GRAHAM WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO CHALLENGE; "WHETHER 18 … |
| 20-1326 |
Rebecca A. Moriello v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-rule-making due-process federal-regulations non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine notice separation-of-powers vagueness |
1) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38 and 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.390 are inconsistent with the separation of powers doctrine?
2) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38… |
| 20-7537 |
Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements |
Is New Jersey's "cyber-harassment" statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4.1, constitutionally invalid because it lacks a scienter requirement and relies on a "reas… |
| 20-1283 |
Margaret Temponeras v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-liability medical-boards medical-practice pain-management pharmaceutical-companies prosecutorial-discretion vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04 are unconstitutionally vague whereas the term "legitimate medical purpose" does not provide fair notic… |
| 20-1161 |
Edward J. Kosinski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness |
1. Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential by itself can establish the fiduciary or similar relationship of "trust and confidence"… |
| 20-1122 |
Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L, providing enhanced penalties for different types of firearms, is unconstitutionally va… |
| 20-1062 |
Chad Bennett v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
In a state with mandatory sentencing guidelines, where a judge may not sentence a defendant above the guidelines range unless the jury finds an aggrav… |
| 20-1023 |
Jean Coulter v. Philip A. Ignelzi, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus rule-233.1 rule-making-authority standing vagueness |
1. a. Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutional?
b. Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutionally Vague?
3. Were Coulter's Due Process Rights violated?… |
| 20-6942 |
Juan Jose Camarena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment gang-affiliation liberty plain-error sentencing-conditions supervised-release vagueness |
Is this condition of supervised release a violation of the Fifth Amendment due process right against vague conditions of release and/or a greater depr… |
| 20-6923 |
Christopher J. Abbate v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process first-amendment interpretation pornography supervised-release vagueness |
I. Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of "any pornographic matter" violate due process as unconstitut… |
| 20-6889 |
Gregory Bartunek v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness |
I. WHETHER THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OVERBROAD AND VAGUE
II. WHETHER WARRANTS BASED ON INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS… |
| 20-6739 |
Larun E. Miller v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-822 |
Solon Phillips v. Maryland Board of Law Examiners, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bar-admission character-and-fitness character-fitness-test constitutional-vagueness due-process legal-standards moral-character opportunity-to-be-heard unexplained-delay vagueness |
(1) Is the Maryland character fitness test unconstitutionally vague
because it leaves the triers of fact free to decide, without any legally
fixed sta… |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis.
II. … |
| 20-6478 |
Barry Addison Gray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2255 career-offender career-offender-sentencing-guideline due-process johnson-ruling Johnson-v-United-States residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions raising due process vagueness challenges to fixed sentences imposed through application of the pre-2005 mandatory care… |
| 20-731 |
Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and … |
| 20-6249 |
Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop… |
| 20-6207 |
Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness |
1. Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague on its face and as applied beca… |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
THE COURT SHOULD ISSUE A W.O.C. AND ADDRESS WHETHER THE FEDERAL CARJACKING OFFENSE DOES CONSTITUTE A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF 18 U.S.… |
| 20-556 |
Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County |
West Virginia |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due process clause of the United States Constitution by being unconstitutionally vague as to the meaning of … |
| 20-5927 |
Gene Michael Diulio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to… |
| 20-5928 |
Rick Lee Archer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges … |
| 20-5912 |
Adam Alan Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually
explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the
genitals or pubic … |
| 20-5865 |
John Doe #1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process sentencing supervision-conditions vagueness |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V, when it imposed the communication condition of supervision which is … |
| 20-403 |
Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California |
California |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance |
1. Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e), which prohibits Group Residential use, is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Four… |
| 20-336 |
Richard J. Kelly, et ux. v. Marjory Motiaytis |
Illinois |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness municipal-ordinance vagueness |
Just laws and constitutional laws are the foundation of our legal system. We, the people, DEPEND on the United States Supreme Court for justice.
(1) … |
| 20-5614 |
Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness |
Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 20-146 |
Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
WHETHER SECTION 20A.03 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
| 20-5329 |
Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection grand-jury indictment indictment-procedure statutory-conflict vagueness |
1. When the Washington State Constitution, Article I, section 26, says, "No
grand jury shall be drawn or summoned in any county, except the superior
j… |
| 20-5220 |
Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness |
Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a "lewd exhibition" of child nudity in a … |
| 20-5185 |
Joshua Jermaine Nelson v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness |
1. Is a statute unconsti tutional, on its face, when it is a content-based restri ction
that severel y criminalizes a substanti al amount of harml ess… |
| 20-5081 |
Clarence Hoffert v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
The question presented is whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case… |
| 20-5027 |
Christopher Allred v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process preemption privileges-and-immunities supremacy-clause vagueness |
Is it tre that, "All pusons born or naturalized in the United states, and of the state wherein thay reside? And if so...
And, becanse of t Supremacy … |
| 19-8924 |
William R. Jenkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8820 |
Cesar Velazquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8745 |
Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8282 |
In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness |
Did reasonable jurist debate whether Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbitrary and di… |
| 19-7999 |
Christopher Parker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) categorically a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) w… |
| 19-1133 |
Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin… |
| 19-7958 |
Anthony Quinones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7977 |
Robert Morris Hoff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7978 |
Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness |
First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had … |
| 19-7766 |
Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. |
California |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-7737 |
Charles Wolfe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness |
When the "advice of counsel" is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense … |
| 19-7726 |
Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question. |
| 19-1030 |
Karen Bishop v. Palm Beach County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
-animal-seizure -due-process -judicial-discretion -property-rights -statutory-interpretation #NAME? animal-welfare due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion property-rights suppressed-evidence vague-definition-of-fitness vagueness |
How can a definition or determination of fitness be assessed when the Florida Statute 828.073(4)(a) provides a vague description of fitness, puts the … |
| 19-7689 |
Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Did Tennessee decisions applying the facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance, not handed down until after Sutton committed his ca… |
| 19-7442 |
Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness |
1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings
in ANDREW LEE WILLIAMS v. STATE, No. PD-1199-17 (Tx.Crim.App.-
October 9, 2019), regar… |
| 19-7412 |
Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7217 |
Rickey Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
L. Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and … |
| 19-7198 |
B. T. D. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer serious-physical-injury standing vagueness |
I. Does a child have due process rights to a judicial determination of whether his/her case should remain in juvenile court or should be transferred t… |
| 19-7114 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness |
1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career… |
| 19-7034 |
Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim |
Section 3A1.1(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines provides for a two-level increase where, "the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the o… |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his
18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi… |
| 19-6921 |
Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness |
1. Is the term "same transaction" unconstitutionally vague?
2. How would two incidents separated by four months constitute the "same transaction"?
3… |
| 19-6864 |
Cedis R. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine |
Does a state court conviction qualify as an "offense of violence" for the purpose of the sentencing predicate pursuant to U.S.S.G.§4A1.1(e), if the st… |
| 19-6834 |
Lee Hope v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g3 constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-rehaif-v-united-sta due-process federal-statute judgment-of-acquittal rehaif-v-united-states unlawful-user vagueness |
1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's
motion for judgment of acquittal was properly denied by the District Court
… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6769 |
Steven Hicks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
Whether the residu… |
| 19-6755 |
Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-6719 |
Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness |
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports the conflicting
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports some unconstitutional and vague special conditions un… |
| 19-6707 |
Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s FORCE CLAUSE requires the use of "physical force" (i.e: "violence force" meaning "force capable of causing PHYsICAL in Dima… |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6521 |
Marcus T. Simmons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6492 |
Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Petitioner was convicted of federal kidnapping and sentenced as a career offender in 2000, under the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines, when the Gu… |
| 19-576 |
Interior Glass Systems, Inc. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing due-process hearing irs iRS-collection penalties seizure statutory-interpretation tax tax-penalties vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the collection of tax penalties an exception to the requirements of due process, or does a citizen have a right to a hearing before the IRS seiz… |
| 19-568 |
Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States,… |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6354 |
Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 19-6356 |
Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search |
Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-6336 |
Eddie Jennings v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6253 |
Adam Strege v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli… |
| 19-469 |
John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-6233 |
Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness |
The questions important to this case are:
I. Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his right… |
| 19-6177 |
Valerie Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-6195 |
Alejandro Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness |
(1) DOES THIS COURTS DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAVIS 588 U.S. 139 S.Ct.2319 (2019) HOLDING THAT 18.U.S.C S 924()(3)(B) IS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY V… |
| 19-6083 |
Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro |
California |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining "abuse" (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitu… |
| 19-6120 |
Raul Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-6082 |
Chase Matheny v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness |
Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-6054 |
John Hemby v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent |
1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6059 |
Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness |
Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-366 |
Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness |
Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis… |
| 19-5962 |
David Tjader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-5884 |
Kevin Carson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or h… |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §
924(c)(3)(B), which defines "crime of violence," is unconstitut i… |
| 19-5819 |
Arthur Rathburn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness |
I. DID THE GOVERNMENT FAIL TO PRESENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTIONS BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT?
II. WAS PETITIONER RATHBURN DENIED HI… |
| 19-5785 |
Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… |
| 19-5790 |
Ronald Frank Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vagueness warrantless-search |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… |
| 19-5793 |
Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall… |
| 19-273 |
Michael Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud |
In mail and wire fraud cases, the government does
not have to prove a victim actually lost money or property, but it does have to prove a scheme desig… |
| 19-274 |
Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness |
Petitioner, Dr. Teresa Buchanan, was terminated
from her tenured position at Louisiana State
University under the school's sexual harassment
policies.… |
| 19-5756 |
In Re James Bryant |
|
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness |
Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute, MCL § 750… |
| 19-5709 |
Sam Newman v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995), barring the "illegal use of a weapon," is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. … |
| 19-5578 |
Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-141 |
Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness |
Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden… |
| 19-5380 |
In Re Charles L. Cox |
|
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.1285(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness? |
| 19-5370 |
Pedro Medina Castillon v. California |
California |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness |
Whether the federal court had proper pendent jurisdiction over state law claims |
| 19-5345 |
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to … |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-5261 |
Jorge Baez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under 18 … |
| 19-5171 |
Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Texas future-dangerousness special issue fails on vagueness grounds as applied to Mr. Saldajfio, as a statute incapable of reasoned applic… |
| 19-5118 |
Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness |
Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to 'successfully complete' a treatment pr… |
| 19-34 |
Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness |
Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact in … |
| 19-17 |
Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker |
California |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the DVPA's residual clause definition of 'abuse' is unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad |
| 18-9808 |
Manuel Reyes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-9765 |
Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness |
Whether a United States Attorney must be a member of the bar in the city or state to prosecute cases in the United States District Court and Superior … |
| 18-9725 |
Jose Munoz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9707 |
Blair Cook v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-9643 |
Herichie Paul v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-1518 |
Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. |
Washington |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that… |
| 18-9506 |
Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is timely under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) when it claims that Johnson v. United States invalidates the residual c… |
| 18-9460 |
Quentin Perry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth Am… |
| 18-9411 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the judicial construction of 'lascivious exhibition' of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-9425 |
Kevin Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the 'generic' form of that offense? |
| 18-9368 |
Antonio Dean Blackstone v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause section-2255 section-924c timeliness-standard united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9285 |
Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California |
California |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and overbreadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-1434 |
United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9258 |
Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the 'vagueness challenge' of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is conside… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts requirement |
| 18-9275 |
James Troiano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-residual-clause advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states townsend-misinformation townsend-v-burke vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should a COA issue because reasonable jurists could conclude that Johnson's interpretation of the ACCA's residual clause triggers a Townsend claim aga… |
| 18-9244 |
Danny Herrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9210 |
Curtis Solomon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9211 |
Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9063 |
Tyrone Leonard James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3584 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentences,federal-sentencing,state-sent Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiora federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-consideration sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors state-sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit unrelated-crimes vagueness |
Whether a district court's finding that a state crime and federal crime were unrelated is sufficient, in itself, to satisfy its obligation under 18 U.… |
| 18-9064 |
Adonijah Lindsay v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
§-2255-motion §-924(c)-conviction 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit vagueness writ-of-certiorari |
Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiorari on the same question of law establish a per se ground for obtaining a certificate of appealabilit… |
| 18-1348 |
Orion Insurance Group, et al. v. Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-and-capricious burden-shifting-test deference disadvantaged-business-enterprise discrimination-law federal-agency federal-agency-deference federal-program full-faith-and-credit minority-certification minority-group-membership state-agency state-agency-determination state-program vagueness |
Whether a federal agency should give full faith and credit or extreme deference to a state agency's prior determination of minority group membership |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-1293 |
Evergreen Freedom Foundation, dba Freedom Foundation v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives campaign-finance constitutional-vagueness due-process fair-campaign-practices-act first-amendment free-speech vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Washington's campaign finance statutes violate due process by being unconstitutionally vague as applied to legal services for ballot initiativ… |
| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-8737 |
Mario Bachiller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s residual clause is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
Is Title 21 U.S.C. §846 ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE BECAUSE IT FAILS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED ESSENTIAL ELEMENT THAT THE DEFENDANT … |
| 18-8435 |
Roy Allen Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague,… |
| 18-8388 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no 'egregious violation' of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular phone … |
| 18-8333 |
Jorge Sosa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering |
Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeering e… |
| 18-8185 |
Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervised release that a defendant permit a probation officer to visit the probation officer a… |
| 18-8164 |
Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the statute of limitations for filing a civil rights lawsuit is unconstitutionally vague and arbitrarily applied, violating due process |
| 18-8025 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness |
Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7979 |
Eric K. Watkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S:C. 924(c)(3) (B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7712 |
Andre Mims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-989 |
United States v. Marvin Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7456 |
Jonathan Sebert v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process erotica first-amendment free-speech free-speech
18-7455" overbreadth overbroad overbroad-condition Question not identified. supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether the special condition of supervised release imposed upon Mr. Sebert, which (for example) would prevent him from shopping at Wal-Mart because i… |
| 18-7470 |
Carl Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether federal carjacking by way of intimidation is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s force clause |
| 18-927 |
Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness |
Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation … |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7448 |
Charles Foxx v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-7453 |
Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-918 |
John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a plaintiff need show that a law is vague in all of its applications to succeed in a facial vagueness challenge |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion |
| 18-7388 |
David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |
| 18-7286 |
Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Does criminalizing the content of free speech based solely on how a person who heard the content reacted, or interpreted the content, violate this Cou… |
| 18-846 |
David Allen Anderton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether to 'encourage' or 'induce' an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's 'in violation of la… |
| 18-7220 |
Pashtoon Farooqi v. California |
California |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness |
Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional? |
| 18-7162 |
Muna Osman Jama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-amendment foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech freedom-of-speech material-support peaceable-assembly terrorism vagueness |
Does section, 18 USC § 2339B(a) [material support of foreign terrorist organization(s)] impose an unconstitutionally vague provision in times of peace… |
| 18-7138 |
Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession |
Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'different occasions' provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-7114 |
Earle D. Williams v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 18-732 |
Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness |
Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague? |
| 18-6915 |
Carlton Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender guid… |
| 18-720 |
Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness |
Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly established the vagueness… |
| 18-704 |
Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness |
Whether students have standing to challenge university speech regulations |
| 18-6789 |
Delroy McLean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether an immigration judge is a protected person under 18 U.S.C.S. § 115(a)(1)(B) |
| 18-6809 |
Desmond Camp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-6760 |
David Junior Upshaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination and rely on post-sentencing… |
| 18-6665 |
Maurice T. Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |
| 18-6675 |
In Re Ryan Lee Zater |
|
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in other circuits under divergent gatekeeping protocol… |
| 18-6677 |
Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-6599 |
Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-6583 |
Dionysius Fiumano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
Does the undefined element 'scheme to defraud' in 18 U.S.C. § 1343 satisfy Fifth Amendment due process notice requirements? |
| 18-6379 |
Ramess Nakhleh v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a 'loud and unusual noise' unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-6363 |
Calvin Bernhardt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Should this Court now define corruptly persuade' and settle the matter for itself and the circuits? |
| 18-6343 |
Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-478 |
Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-vagueness fourth-amendment harassment harassment-statute law-enforcement overbreadth probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search-and-seizure vagueness |
Whether law enforcement officials had probable cause to arrest the Petitioner for the crime of harassment under Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-2921(A)(1) based… |
| 18-6322 |
Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-6284 |
Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-6232 |
Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness |
Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 18-6253 |
Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony |
Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des… |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-431 |
United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6009 |
Emile Myrthil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force |
Is 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-5997 |
Francisco Burciaga v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
What is the legal status of heroin hydrochloride? |
| 18-318 |
Christos Koutentis v. New York City Police Department, Licensing Division |
New York |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms-permit firearms-regulation licensing nypd-regulations revocation second-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Do the N.Y.P.D. regulations, as applicable to the revocation of a firearms permit, violate the Petitioner's rights under the Second Amendment? |
| 18-5939 |
Gary Michael Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timely-filing vagueness |
Whether a motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed within one year of Johnson v. United States asserts a right recognized in Johnson |
| 18-284 |
Scott Gessler v. Matt Smith, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-state civil-penalty civil-rights due-process government-ethics notice quasi-criminal vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Are civil laws that impose a personal penalty subject to the same void-for-vagueness standards as criminal laws and deportation laws? |
| 18-255 |
George Briscoe v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness |
Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has… |
| 18-5746 |
Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is Florida Statute 784.045 impermissibly vague and/or does it encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement? |
| 18-5731 |
Heather Jo Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard |
Did the lower court err in denying relief where this court has recognized robbery/burglary as vague under Johnson? |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5632 |
Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness |
Whether a new substantive rule of constitutional law must be applied retroactively to final cases |
| 18-5576 |
DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 unconstitutional? |
| 18-5471 |
Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness |
Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure? |
| 18-5422 |
Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-129 |
W. S. v. S. T., et al. |
California |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
|
biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness |
Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds there are no specific factors that a tri… |
| 18-120 |
Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness |
Denial of due process rights to tenured professors in university merger, equal protection challenge to disciplinary record requirement, vagueness chal… |
| 18-5383 |
James Rodney Shuman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness |
whether-the-appellate-court's-interpretation-and-application-of-the-armed-career-criminal-act-(acca)-is-contrary-to-supreme-court-precedent |
| 18-5269 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether the Supreme Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in li… |
| 18-5217 |
Audy Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence in light of Johnson w… |
| 18-5195 |
Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness |
Whether petitioner was denied due process of law when prosecutor misstated law, misstated testimony, and misstated evidence to the jury |
| 18-14 |
Carlos Donjuan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness |
Whether the Petitioner was denied due process and equal protection when the court failed to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea under Padilla v. Ken… |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States and Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 18-5061 |
Travis Horne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 1385 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and … |