| 24-6781 |
Saud A. Alessa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-tax-code criminal-liability due-process evidence-preclusion tax-law willfulness |
Whether the district court can preclude a defendant from presenting evidence about the complexity in the civil tax code to defend against the governme… |
| 23A1066 |
Cox Communications, Incorporated, et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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contributory-infringement copyright-infringement internet-service-provider knowledge-standard secondary-liability willfulness |
Whether an internet service provider can be held liable for contributory copyright infringement based solely on general knowledge that users might eng… |
| 23-7480 |
Sanjay Kumar v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cheek-v-united-states criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process good-faith-belief jury-instructions subjective-intent tax tax-crime willfulness |
whether-jury-instructions-on-willfulness-element-disregarded-defendant's-subjective-intent |
| 23-6109 |
Tou Thao v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct specific-intent willfulness |
Was the evidence at trial sufficient to establish the willfulness of the petitioner? |
| 22-1132 |
Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides |
New York |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal |
| 22-598 |
Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness |
Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an… |
| 22-6394 |
Van Raymond Brollini v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless-error analysis is consistent with Supreme Court precedent |
| 21-6211 |
Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness |
Whether the district court committed reversible error by excluding expert evidence of the defendant's traumatic brain injury and its effects on his co… |
| 21-589 |
Said Rum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-action agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process factfinding-procedures fbar-penalties reporting-requirements standard-of-review willfulness |
Are courts to apply de novo review of agency actions when the inadequacy of the factfinding procedures is due to a procedural due-process violation |
| 20-1697 |
Alice Kimble v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness |
Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR or… |
| 20-833 |
William Todd Coontz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure criminal-tax-prosecution expert-testimony expert-witness-exclusion foundation sentencing-guidelines state-of-mind tax-knowledge tax-prosecution willfulness willfulness-standard witness-testimony |
Was it reversable error for the trial court to exclude the Petitioner's/Coontz's key witness — the CPA expert — from testifying in a criminal tax pros… |
| 20-706 |
Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
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circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness |
Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl… |
| 19-6840 |
Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness |
Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-530 |
James Kerr Schlosser v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness |
Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense |
| 19-139 |
Delmar Hardy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
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cheek-v-united-states criminal-tax good-faith good-faith-reliance jury-instruction jury-instructions professional-reliance reliance-on-accountant specific-intent tax-fraud tax-law tax-professional willfulness |
Whether a subjective standard must be applied in determining whether there was evidence of full disclosure to support a reliance on a tax professional… |
| 19-132 |
Lawrence I. Fejokwu v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-delegation civil-rights due-process regulatory-enforcement regulatory-investigation self-regulatory-organization strict-liability willfulness |
Willfulness & Good-faith |
| 19-48 |
B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
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bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness |
Whether the established precedent by the Federal Circuit for the determination of fraud on the USPTO should be adopted as the proper standard for all … |
| 18-1561 |
Armament Services International, Inc., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-923-f-3 de-novo-proceeding due-process federal-firearms-licensing firearms-licensing gun-control-act standard-of-review statutory-interpretation statutory-review statutory-safeguards third-circuit willful-violation willfulness |
Whether the Third Circuit applied an improperly deferential standard of review in a de novo federal firearms licensing proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 18-1549 |
Zimmer, Inc., et al. v. Stryker Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
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enhanced-damages federal-circuit halo-v-pulse objective-recklessness patent-damages patent-law seagate-test subjective-intent willful-infringement willfulness |
Whether enhanced patent damages can be awarded without regard to whether there was an objectively high risk of infringement based on a finding of negl… |
| 18-1233 |
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness |
Whether willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a violation of the Lanham Act |
| 18-8417 |
Robert Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness |
Whether the mens rea element for a false claim prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 287 requires willfulness or mere knowledge |
| 18-7816 |
Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness |
Whether 'scienter' is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-563 |
Darren Commander v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness |
Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations that at best are mere negligence in conflict with th… |
| 18-5607 |
Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness |
Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the evide… |