In re Lopez

Lopez asked the Supreme Court to take up questions about whether Rehaif applies retroactively on collateral review and whether habeas corpus relief is available when someone is jailed for conduct the law does not make criminal. On May 18, 2020, the Court declined review and did not decide those questions on the merits.

That means the Supreme Court did not resolve whether prisoners can use Rehaif to challenge older convictions through later appeals. For example, a person already serving time on a federal gun conviction did not get a nationwide answer from this case.

There is no further action in this Supreme Court docket. Any remaining steps would have to come in lower courts or through some other legal avenue, not from a Supreme Court merits decision in this case.

Lopez asked whether Rehaif applies retroactively in collateral review and whether habeas corpus can free someone jailed for non-criminal conduct.

The Court's refusal to hear the case means no nationwide answer came from this docket. Prisoners raising similar claims must keep fighting under existing lower-court rules.

This Supreme Court case is over. The lower-court outcome stays in place unless Lopez has some other available path outside this docket.