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<td><span class="title">Herman Avery Gundy, Petitioner<br />
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United States</span></td>
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<td width="200">Docketed:</td>
<td>September 22, 2017</td>
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<td width="200">Lower Ct:</td>
<td>United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit</td>
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<td width="200"> Case Numbers:</td>
<td>(16-1829)</td>
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<td width="200"> Decision Date:</td>
<td>June 22, 2017</td>
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<p>17-6086 GUNDY V. UNITED STATES</p><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> 
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<p>DECISION BELOW: 695 Fed.Appx. 639 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 16-1829QUESTION PRESENTED:</p>
<p>(1) Whether convicted sex offenders are &#8220;required to register” under the federal Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (&#8220;SORNA”) while in custody, regardless of how long they have until release.</p>
<p>(2) Whether all offenders convicted of a qualifying sex offense prior to SORNA&#8217;s enactment are &#8220;required to register&#8221; under SORNA no later than August 1, 2008.</p>
<p>(3) Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), which requires interstate travel, where his only movement between states occurs while he is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and serving a prison sentence.</p>
<p>(4) Whether SORNA&#8217;s delegation of authority to the Attorney General to issue regulations under 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d) violates the nondelegation doctrine.</p>
<p>GRANTED LIMITED TO QUESTION 4 PRESENTED BY THE PETITION.</p>
<p>CERT. GRANTED 3/5/2018</p>
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<td width="200">Title:</td>
<td><span class="title">Vernon Madison, Petitioner<br />
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Alabama</span></td>
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<td width="200">Docketed:</td>
<td>January 19, 2018</td>
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<td width="200">Linked with 17A770</td>
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<td width="200">Lower Ct:</td>
<td>Circuit Court of Alabama, Mobile County</td>
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<td width="200"> Case Numbers:</td>
<td>(CC-1985-001385.80)</td>
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<td width="200"> Decision Date:</td>
<td>January 16, 2018</td>
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<p>17-7505 MADISON V. ALABAMA</p>
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<p>DECISION BELOW: cc-1985-001385.80<br />
LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: CC-1985-001385.80QUESTION PRESENTED:</p>
<p>On January 25, 2018, the State seeks for the second time to execute Vernon Madison, a 67-year-old man who has been on Alabama&#8217;s death row for over 30 years. Mr. Madison suffers from vascular dementia as a result of multiple serious strokes in the last two years, and no longer has a memory of the commission of the crime for which he is to be executed. His mind and body are failing: he suffers from encephalomacia (dead brain tissue), small vessel ischemia, speaks in a dysarthric or slurred manner, is legally blind, can no longer walk independently, and has urinary incontinence as a consequence· of damage to his brain.</p>
<p>The first time Mr. Madison was scheduled to be executed by the State of Alabama, in May, 2016, he challenged his competency in the state circuit court pursuant to the Alabama statute governing competency-to-be-executed claims. After the circuit court denied his claim, Alabama law prohibited any appeal in state court, and Mr. Madison challenged his claim in federal court. In granting habeas corpus relief, the Eleventh Circuit majority found that the evidence undisputably established that Mr. Madison had no memory of the offense, and all three judges, including the dissenting judge, agreed that he was incompetent to be executed.1</p>
<p>This Court reversed the Eleventh Circuit&#8217;s grant of habeas corpus relief and explicitly declined to address the &#8220;merits of the underlying question outside of the AEDPA context,&#8221; Dunn v. Madison, 138 S. Ct. 9, 12 (2017), as that question was not &#8220;[a]ppropriately presented.&#8221; Id. (Ginsburg, J., concurring).</p>
<p>With this Court&#8217;s opinion in hand, the State sought an expedited execution date, and Mr. Madison&#8217;s execution was scheduled for January 25, 2018. Mr. Madison once again petitioned the Mobile County Circuit Court for relief under the same statutory provision, this time with new evidence that the court- appointed expert, Dr. Karl Kirkland, whose report the circuit court and this Court had previously relied on in denying Mr. Madison&#8217;s claim, had been suspended from the practice of psychology after his narcotics addiction led him to forge prescriptions for illegal pills (including one incident occurring just 4 days after Mr. Madison&#8217;s 2016 competency hearing) and eventually into drug rehab. Though the State never disclosed these facts to any court- the circuit court, the Alabama Supreme Court 2 or this Court &#8211; while at the same time arguing for reliance on Dr. Kirkland to deny Mr. Madison&#8217;s claim, the circuit court again denied relief after a brief hearing and finding that Mr. Madison was competent to be executed. See Appendix A.</p>
<p>With no available appeal in the Alabama state courts, Mr. Madison is again before this Court, this time &#8220;outside of the AEDPA context,&#8221; requesting that his execution be stayed and certiorari be granted to address the following two substantial questions:</p><div class='mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle' style='display: none !important;'></div>
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<p>1. Consistent with the Eighth Amendment, and this Court&#8217;s decisions in Ford and Panetti,</p>
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<p>may the State execute a prisoner whose mental disability leaves him without memory of his commission of the capital offense? See Dunn v. Madison, 138 S. Ct. 9, 12 (Nov. 6, 2017) (Ginsburg, J., with Breyer, J., and Sotomayor, J., concurring).</p>
<p>2. Do evolving standards of decency and the Eighth Amendment&#8217;s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment bar the execution of a prisoner whose competency has been compromised by vascular dementia and multiple strokes causing severe cognitive dysfunction and a degenerative medical condition which prevents him from remembering the crime for which he was convicted or understanding the circumstances of his scheduled execution?</p>
<p>1. See Madison v. Comm’r, Ala. Dep’t Of Corr., 851F.3d 1173, 1190 (11th Cir. 2017) (&#8220;We therefore conclude that Mr. Madison is incompetent to be executed.&#8221;); id. (Jordan, J., dissenting) (&#8220;I believe that Vernon Madison is currently incompetent. I therefore do not think that Alabama can, consistent with the Constitution, execute him . . . .&#8221;).</p>
<p>2. See, e.g. State of Alabama&#8217;s Expedited Motion to Set an Execution Date at 2, Ex parte Madison (In re Madison v. State), No. 1961635 (Ala. Nov. 8, 2017). (&#8220;there are no further impediments to the execution of Madison&#8217;s lawful sentence&#8221;).</p>
<p>CERT. GRANTED 2/26/2018</p>
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<h3><b>Current Members of the US Supreme Court</b></h3>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Roberts_8807-16_Crop.jpg" alt="John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="JRoberts" name="JRoberts"></a><strong>John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States,</strong><br />
was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. He married Jane Marie Sullivan in 1996 and they have two children &#8211; Josephine and Jack. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1976 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979. He served as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1979–1980 and as a law clerk for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1980 Term. He was Special Assistant to the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1981–1982, Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan, White House Counsel’s Office from 1982–1986, and Principal Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1989–1993. From 1986–1989 and 1993–2003, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003. President George W. Bush nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States, and he took his seat September 29, 2005.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Thomas_9366-024_Crop.jpg" alt="Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="CThomas" name="CThomas"></a><strong>Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in the Pinpoint community near Savannah, Georgia on June 23, 1948. He attended Conception Seminary from 1967-1968 and received an A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College in 1971 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, 1974-1977; an attorney with the Monsanto Company, 1977-1979; and Legislative Assistant to Senator John Danforth, 1979-1981. From 1981–1982 he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1982-1990. From 1990–1991, he served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. President Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and he took his seat October 23, 1991. He married Virginia Lamp on May 30, 1987 and has one child, Jamal Adeen by a previous marriage.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Ginsburg_11565-006-Crop.jpg" alt="Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="RGinsburg" name="RGinsburg"></a><strong>Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959–1961. From 1961–1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977–1978. In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973–1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974–1980. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Breyer_8664-13-Crop.jpg" alt="Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="SBreyer" name="SBreyer"></a><strong>Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938. He married Joanna Hare in 1967, and has three children &#8211; Chloe, Nell, and Michael. He received an A.B. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur Goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 Term, as a Special Assistant to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust, 1965–1967, as an Assistant Special Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973, as Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1974–1975, and as Chief Counsel of the committee, 1979–1980. He was an Assistant Professor, Professor of Law, and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, 1967–1994, a Professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 1977–1980, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Law, Sydney, Australia and at the University of Rome. From 1980–1990, he served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as its Chief Judge, 1990–1994. He also served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990–1994, and of the United States Sentencing Commission, 1985–1989. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Alito_9264-001-Crop.jpg" alt="Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="SAlito" name="SAlito"></a><strong>Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in Trenton, New Jersey, April 1, 1950. He married Martha-Ann Bomgardner in 1985, and has two children &#8211; Philip and Laura. He served as a law clerk for Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1976–1977. He was Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1977–1981, Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1981–1985, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1985–1987, and U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1987–1990. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1990. President George W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat January 31, 2006.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Sotomayor_9841-001-Crop.jpg" alt="Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="SSotomayor" name="SSotomayor"></a><strong>Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the university’s highest academic honor. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1979–1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia &; Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984–1992. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from 1992–1998. She served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Elena Kagan, Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Kagan_10713-017-Crop.jpg" alt="Elena Kagan, Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><a id="EKagen" name="EKagan"></a><strong>Elena Kagan, Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in New York, New York, on April 28, 1960. She received an A.B. from Princeton in 1981, an M. Phil. from Oxford in 1983, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. She clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986-1987 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1987 Term. After briefly practicing law at a Washington, D.C. law firm, she became a law professor, first at the University of Chicago Law School and later at Harvard Law School. She also served for four years in the Clinton Administration, as Associate Counsel to the President and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Between 2003 and 2009, she served as the Dean of Harvard Law School. In 2009, President Obama nominated her as the Solicitor General of the United States. A year later, the President nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010. She took her seat on August 7, 2010.</div>
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<p><img class="pull-left media-object" title="Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justice_pictures/Gorsuch2.jpg" alt="Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice" /></p>
<div class="media-body"><strong>Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice,</strong><br />
was born in Denver, Colorado, August 29, 1967. He and his wife Louise have two daughters. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He served as a law clerk to Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and as a law clerk to Justice Byron White and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. From 1995–2005, he was in private practice, and from 2005–2006 he was Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 2006. He served on the Standing Committee on Rules for Practice and Procedure of the U.S. Judicial Conference, and as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure. He taught at the University of Colorado Law School. President Donald J. Trump nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat on April 10, 2017.</div>
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