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Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 16-10213 · judgment July 17, 2020
Question presented
The federal Hobbs Act "makes it a crime for a person to affect commerce, or attempt to do so, by robbery." Taylor v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2074, 2077 (2016). The question presented is: Does Hobbs Act jurisdiction extend to a local robbery, of a local individual not engaged in interstate commerce or any federally regulated activity, by a defendant from the same state who facilitated the robbery through a false used car listing on a local Craigslist website, simply because that local site was theoretically accessible to out-of-state readers and the listing advertised a "commercial transaction"?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Paul Reichmuth
Federal Public Defender
For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Oct 12 2021Petition DENIED.
- Sep 23 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
- Sep 21 2021Reply of petitioner Tuan Ngoc Luong filed. (Distributed)
- Sep 07 2021Brief of respondent United States of America in opposition filed.
- Jul 22 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including September 7, 2021. See Rule 30.1.
- Jul 21 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 5, 2021 to September 6, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jul 01 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 5, 2021.
- Jun 30 2021Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 6, 2021 to August 5, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jun 03 2021Response Requested. (Due July 6, 2021)
- May 26 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/10/2021.
- May 20 2021Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
- May 07 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 14, 2021)