Brown v. United States (2024)

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Brown v. United States Jackson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 27, 2023 Decided May 23, 2024
Full case name	Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States Eugene Jackson v. United States
Docket nos.	22-6389 22-6640
Case history
Prior	United States v. Brown, 47 F.4th 147 (3d Cir. 2022). United States v. Brown (M.D. Pa. 2021). United States v. Jackson, 55 F.4th 846 (11th Cir. 2022) United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022)
Questions presented
1) Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA’s categorical approach? 2) Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense (as the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuits have held), or the federal drug schedules that were in effect at the time of the prior state drug offense (as the Eleventh Circuit held below).
Holding
A state drug conviction counts as an ACCA predicate if it involved a drug on the federal schedules at the time of that conviction.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, Barrett
Dissent	Jackson, joined by Kagan; Gorsuch (only parts I, II, III)

Brown v. United States, (Docket Nos. 22-6389 and 22–6640), is a United States Supreme Court case about the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The Supreme Court affirmed both courts of appeals, holding that a state drug conviction counts as an ACCA predicate if it involved a drug on the federal schedules at the time of that conviction.