Tag: Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Question Presented: Does unauthorized use of a vehicle constitute a “crime of violence,” as the Fifth Circuit has repeatedly held, or does that offense fall outside the 18 U.S.C. § 16 definition, as the Tenth Circuit has held?

Question Presented: Does a public employer violate its employees’ Fifth Amendment rights by punishing them for their refusal to provide potentially incriminating testimony in an internal investigation when it did not provide notice that the testimony could not be used against them in criminal proceedings and that they would therefore be subject to administrative discipline […]

Question Presented: Under the “public disclosure bar” of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(A), a court generally may not hear a qui tam action based on “the public disclosure of allegations or transactions . . . in a congressional, administrative, or [GAO] report, hearing, audit, or investigation.”  Does the phrase “administrative . . . report, […]

Questions Presented: Whether the filing of a motion to reopen removal proceedings automatically tolls the period within which an alien must depart the United States under an order granting voluntary departure.  And, whether an alien who has been granted voluntary departure and has filed a timely motion to reopen should be permitted to withdraw the […]

Questions Presented: (1) Is a sentence of 30 years without possibility of parole constitutionally disproportionate as applied to a 12-year-old child?  (2) Are the mitigating qualities of youth relevant to whether a 12-year-old’s non-capital sentence is constitutionally disproportionate?  (3) Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the imposition of a sentence of 30 years without possibility of […]