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Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 17-6453 · judgment December 19, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

I. Whether an individual’s non-violent, independent political advocacy—that was not affiliated with any foreign terrorist organization—constituted material support for terrorism under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) when the advocacy incidentally overlapped with a foreign terrorist organization’s peaceful advocacy on the same issue. a. Whether the Sixth Circuit’s holding that independent, nonviolent political advocacy constituted material support of terrorism as defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act is consistent with other circuit court opinions on the same issue. b. Whether the Sixth’s Circuit’s holding is overbroad. c. Whether the potential violations of the constitution raised by the Sixth Circuit’s holding can be resolved though the doctrine of constitutional avoidance. II. Whether the approach adopted by the Sixth Circuit for determining if an organization constitutes an undesignated foreign terrorist organization under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which contrasts with the approach utilized by other circuit courts, is erroneous. III. Whether the Administrative Procedures Act allows United States Citizenship and

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Lance Edward Curtright
De Mott, McChesney, Curtright, Armendariz, LLP

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 10 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jun 28 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jun 03 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 8, 2019)