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Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-10755 · judgment August 8, 2025
Certiorari denied · May 18, 2026
Question presented
I. Whether a general challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, pursuant to Rule 29(a), preserves for de novo review the full range of sufficiency challenges, stated or unstated. II. Whether the intrastate use the internet, in furtherance of a crime, necessarily places that crime “in commerce,” thereby satisfying that jurisdictional element of numerous federal offenses.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Sara Wilson Kane
Federal Public Defender's Office
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Proceedings
- May 18 2026Petition DENIED.
- Apr 23 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
- Apr 17 2026Reply of petitioner Ralph Tovar filed.
- Apr 07 2026Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- Mar 12 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including April 7, 2026.
- Mar 10 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 23, 2026 to April 7, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Feb 06 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 23, 2026.
- Feb 05 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 20, 2026 to March 23, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 16 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 20, 2026.
- Jan 15 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 21, 2026 to February 20, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Dec 22 2025Response Requested. (Due January 21, 2026)
- Dec 17 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Dec 15 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Dec 08 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 12, 2026)
- Oct 29 2025Application (25A484) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until December 8, 2025.
- Oct 23 2025Application (25A484) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 6, 2025 to December 6, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.