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March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) and (B)(i), is facially unconstitutional. -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Whether the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 Section 4072’s provision of “exclusive” federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers. -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Should “applicable” and “not inconsistent” in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act be interpreted according to their ordinary meanings, such that California’s Labor Code, which is both “relevant, suitable, and fit” and not “incompatible” with the Fair Labor Standards Act, applies to employee compensation for drilling activities on the Outer Continental Shelf? -
March 28, 2020
Ogle v. Texas, No. 18-1182 (cert. petition filed March 8, 2019)
Question Presented: Does a statute criminalizing speech that is both in-tended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another person prohibit a substantial amount of protected speech in relation to the statute’s legitimate sweep, thus violating the First Amendment? -
March 28, 2020
Citgo v. Frescati, No. 18-565 (amicus brief supporting certiorari filed November 30, 2018)
Question Presented: Whether under federal maritime law a safe berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship’s safety, as the Third Circuit below and the Second Circuit have held, or a duty of due diligence, as the Fifth Circuit has held. -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: In Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250 (2006), the Court held that probable cause defeats a First Amendment retaliatory-prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as a matter of law. Does probable cause likewise defeat a First Amendment retaliatory-arrest claim under § 1983? -
March 28, 2020
Villegas-Sarabia v. Sessions, No. 17-1559 (cert. petition filed on May 14, 2018)
Question Presented: For purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, is misprision of a felony categorically a crime involving moral turpitude? -
March 28, 2020
Question Presented: Whether Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2520, requires the suppression of evidence obtained pursuant to a wiretap order that is facially insufficient because the order exceeds the judge’s territorial jurisdiction. -
March 28, 2020
Questions Presented: (1) Whether seamen may recover punitive damages for their employer’s willful and wanton breach of the general maritime law duty to provide a seaworthy vessel, as held by the Washington Supreme Court and the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, or whether punitive damages are categorically unavailable in an action for unseaworthiness, as held by […] -
March 28, 2020
Muccio v. Minnesota, No. 17-209 (petition for writ of certiorari filed on August 4, 2017)
Question Presented: Do statutes that criminalize any sexually related speech sent to a minor electronically with the intent to arouse satisfy First Amendment scrutiny?
