| 18-1 |
C. G. v. Deborah Heart and Lung Center, et al. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
|
federal-statute health-care-quality-improvement-act hospital-immunity immunity medical-reporting patient-care preemption professional-review state-law |
To what extent does the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA), 42 U.S.C. § 11101 et seq., preempt state laws governing a hospita… |
| 18-10 |
Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer |
Whether a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee is a 'United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity' for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(… |
| 18-100 |
Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction |
When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state court… |
| 18-101 |
Patrick Jon Evers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation |
Can false representations be 'material' for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor … |
| 18-102 |
Stacey White, et vir v. Joseph Foster, et al. |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response Waived |
animal-cruelty civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-discretion prosecutorial-discretion standing veterinary-malpractice victim-rights |
Victims of crimes committed by veterinarians seeking equal protections and rights |
| 18-103 |
Nathalie Thuy Van v. Language Line LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
court-impartiality disqualification-requirement due-process fraud fraud-upon-court fraudulent-court-records impartiality judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-fraud procedural-irregularities seventh-circuit supreme-court-review void-orders |
Whether the disqualification of a judge is required if an objective observer would entertain reasonable questions about the judge's impartiality, whet… |
| 18-11 |
Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |
| 18-111 |
Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law |
Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? |
| 18-117 |
Brian Grimm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, what standard of appellate revie… |
| 18-120 |
Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness |
Denial of due process rights to tenured professors in university merger, equal protection challenge to disciplinary record requirement, vagueness chal… |
| 18-123 |
In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights |
Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing |
| 18-126 |
Paul Grimstad v. Deschutes County, Oregon, et al. |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship-privileges constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure oregon-appellate-courts right-to-petition self-representation state-court-procedure |
Whether the abuses I experienced in the Oregon Appellate Courts violated my constitutional guarantees to due-process, equal-protection, right-to-petit… |
| 18-13 |
Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop, where reasonable suspicion did… |
| 18-130 |
Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-conflict summary-denial trevino-v-thaler |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court correctly concluded that Indiana's procedures governing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised on … |
| 18-131 |
Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement |
Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen… |
| 18-133 |
Teddy Moore v. Christopher Bramwell, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-arrest impartial-judiciary judicial-misconduct jury-trial malicious-prosecution state-court-jurisdiction state-court-review |
Whether the State Supreme Court of King County NY, The Supreme court appellate division second NY, and the Court of Appeal of the state of New York, v… |
| 18-134 |
Jennifer Perkins v. US Airways, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) benefits-denial current-employment-status erisa health-benefits medicare-as-secondary-payer medicare-secondary-payer plan-documents summary-judgment unreasonable-denial-of-benefits |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Medicare as Secondary Payer Act and ERISA for unreasonable denial of benefits, and… |
| 18-135 |
New Products Corporation v. Thomas R. Tibble, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code-section-704 bankruptcy-trustee-duty estate-property estate-property-protection gross-negligence lien-valuation negligence property-abandonment property-damage secured-creditor secured-creditor-rights |
Does a bankruptcy trustee have a duty to protect estate property from damage or destruction while in the trustee's custody? |
| 18-137 |
Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection |
Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o… |
| 18-140 |
In Re Cliven Bundy |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no… |
| 18-141 |
Allana Baroni v. CIT Bank N.A., fka OneWest Bank FSB, fka OneWest Bank NA |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement burden-of-proof chapter-11 creditor creditor-rights deed-of-trust federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure promissory-note standing |
When a party to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case contends it can enforce the terms of promissory note and deed of trust, can it prove it is a 'creditor' e… |
| 18-144 |
Keith Byron Baranski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether, without briefing, a Court of Appeals may substitute the 28 U.S.C. §2255 standard for second or successive' motions by prisoners in custody fo… |
| 18-145 |
Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop |
Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-146 |
Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children |
Whether the harmless-error rule applies when a district court expressly relied on clearly erroneous factual findings in its credibility determinations… |
| 18-154 |
Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the district court erred in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's constitutional challenges to his state court conviction |
| 18-155 |
James H. Brady v. Associated Press Telecom, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-interference due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct media media-liability press-freedom standing takings |
Whether news agencies have a First Amendment right to hide crimes of those in power and avoid holding them accountable |
| 18-159 |
Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii |
Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o… |
| 18-160 |
Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-violation civil-rights-violations due-process first-amendment hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion pre-filing-order prosecutorial-acts prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did this Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion in issuing a global pre-filing review order against Kinney? |
| 18-162 |
Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies |
Whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index to remedy a constitutional… |
| 18-163 |
James P. Teufel v. The Northern Trust Company, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accrued-benefits age-discrimination compensation defined-benefit-plan disparate-impact disparate-impact-theory employee-protection erisa-anti-cutback-rule pension-benefits pension-plan-changes |
Does an employer violate ERISA's anti-cutback rule by amending its defined benefit plan in a manner that freezes the promised growth of previously-acc… |
| 18-17 |
Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
1st-amendment campus-speech civil-rights college-campus constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech public-forum public-sidewalk public-street sidewalk sidewalk-access sidewalk-restrictions |
Does the presence of adjacent college campus buildings negate the First Amendment public forum status of a sidewalk running along a public street? |
| 18-174 |
Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. |
Nebraska |
Denied |
|
arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law |
Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should incorporate state substantive law without incorpora… |
| 18-175 |
Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont |
Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read to import state substantive law without imp… |
| 18-178 |
SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity |
Whether the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporated business trust determines federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)… |
| 18-179 |
John Goodman v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment blood-draw drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely warrant-requirement |
Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme… |
| 18-180 |
Jesus E. Tirrez v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof disbarment disbarment-proceedings due-process equal-protection in-re-ruffalo professional-license professional-licenses quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-proceeding |
Do rules that decree that the disbarment proceedings are civil and that the burden of proof is only by a preponderance, deprive Texas attorneys sued f… |
| 18-189 |
Smartflash LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause covered-business-method-review due-process patent-eligibility patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers |
Whether Administrative Patent Judges are principal Officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 18-19 |
Republic of Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, et al. v. BAE Systems Solution & Services, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
arms-export-control-act civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-15 contract-law foreign-military-sales foreign-sovereign-immunities-act national-security sovereign-immunity united-states-contractors |
Whether the court of appeals' blanket invalidation of contracts between United States contractors and foreign governments that relate to contemplated … |
| 18-190 |
Queen's University at Kingston v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process enablement inter-partes-review patent-invalidity prior-art |
Does the Federal Circuit's requirement that patent owners negate enablement of prior art in the first instance invert the statutory burden of proving … |
| 18-191 |
John Cassidy v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-possession heller home-firearm-rights home-possession intermediate-scrutiny interstate-firearm-transfer mcdonald presumptively-lawful-restrictions scrutiny-standard second-amendment state-restrictions strict-scrutiny |
What level of scrutiny should be used in reviewing statutes that punish possession of lawfully acquired arms kept in the home? |
| 18-193 |
John Cannici v. Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-context employment-law equal-protection government-procedure municipal-ordinance property-rights random-and-unauthorized state-procedure |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a government agency to provide due process before depriving a citizen of his property where the deprivation oc… |
| 18-196 |
Francis Supeno, et al. v. Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources |
Vermont |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-penalty administrative-procedure appeal-rights civil-procedure due-process environmental-regulations fourth-amendment notice penalties property-access property-rights regulatory-criteria regulatory-enforcement |
Whether the assessment of a penalty, in a proceeding entirely separate from and subsequent to a hearing on the underlying merits, constitutes a denial… |
| 18-199 |
Ken Liang v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doj-investigation due-process government-misconduct jury-trial jury-trial-waiver material-witness obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct reverse-sting |
Whether an individual can be convicted of obstructing justice when the underlying alleged crime being investigated was not a crime, and the DOJ used o… |
| 18-20 |
Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari |
Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability to review the denial of an evidentiary hearing on petit… |
| 18-202 |
Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant who waives the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence can implicitly waive his right to collaterally attack his c… |
| 18-208 |
New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance |
Whether a non-party subpoena recipient is automatically entitled to recover significant expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena before a court o… |
| 18-21 |
Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation |
Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding th… |
| 18-216 |
Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation |
Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667 (2000), because the lower courts have interpreted it such that 'any funds f… |
| 18-219 |
Starsha M. Sewell v. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process economic-espionage executive-order-violation executive-orders fraud insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct mortgage-fraud ponzi-scheme racial-bias whistle-blower-reprisal whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation |
Whether the Maryland Mortgage Task Force, DHS & FBI partners of the respondent engaged in economic espionage and domestic treason against the United S… |
| 18-22 |
Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether the Magistrate Judge erred in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict |
| 18-221 |
Carl Mouton v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence rape-shield rape-shield-law rape-shield-rule right-to-present-defense sexual-conduct-evidence |
Whether application of the Arkansas rape shield rule and statute to prevent Mouton from presenting evidence of a sexual relationship between the accus… |
| 18-226 |
Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records |
Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a… |
| 18-23 |
Edward R. Stolz, dba Royce International Broadcasting Company v. Federal Communications Commission |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process fcc fcc-ruling fifth-amendment interlocutory-judgment judicial-review mootness reversionary-interest telecommunications-act |
Whether the FCC violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
Whether there was clearly established precedent that the officers' use of force against Weddle, who had surrendered and posed no immediate threat, vio… |
| 18-24 |
Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist |
Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco… |
| 18-25 |
Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret |
Whether the bankruptcy court properly calculated trade-secret damages |
| 18-26 |
Pepi Schafler v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
bank-securities character-defamation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud fraud judicial-bias judicial-misconduct standing stock-theft theft |
Whether the corrupt and criminal Bank of America Securities, now Merrill Lynch et al, in conspiracy with liars, gangsters, criminals, and a sleazy dir… |
| 18-264 |
New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal |
Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… |
| 18-27 |
Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims |
Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they… |
| 18-28 |
Robert J. Balding v. Sunbelt Steel Texas, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada-protections adverse-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination family-and-medical-leave-act family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights pretext protected-leave retaliation workplace-retaliation |
Whether an employer violates an employee's FMLA-or-ADA-rights by interfering-with-retaliation-against-denying-accommodations-and-taking-adverse-action |
| 18-3 |
Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act provides a private right of action |
| 18-30 |
Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
actual-innocence,coram-nobis,due-process,federal-criminal-procedure,harmless-error,statute-of-limitations |
| 18-31 |
Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a pro se plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that would stop a pending foreclosure, is subject to dism… |
| 18-32 |
Philadelphia Taxi Association, Inc., et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-competitive anti-competitive-behavior antitrust antitrust-law clayton-act competition economic-harm illegal-activity market-competition market-power marketplace-presence monopolization predatory predatory-conduct predatory-pricing sherman-act unfair-competition |
When is an illegal presence in the marketplace predatory, anti-competitive and threatens to harm competition and not solely competitors? |
| 18-33 |
Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing |
Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine |
| 18-34 |
Pablo San Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona |
Whether the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-4 |
Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing |
Whether manifest injustice results from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appella… |
| 18-40 |
Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici… |
| 18-41 |
Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray |
Florida |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether Florida Supreme Court has authority to dismiss petition by unrepresented party to review orders and impede sought relief for bodily injuries, … |
| 18-43 |
Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott |
Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? |
| 18-44 |
Julia Kwok, et al. v. Mingo Energy, LLC |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment homestead homestead-property judicial-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure notice notice-requirements oklahoma-law oklahoma-power-of-sale-mortgage-foreclosure-act property-rights |
Whether failure to give proper notice and adhere to the dictates of the Oklahoma Power of Sale Mortgage Foreclosure Act, particularly OKLA. STAT. tit.… |
| 18-45 |
David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-process civil-procedure-subpoena civil-rights due-process federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-discretion marbury-v-madison pecuniary-interest standing subpoena subpoena-violation |
Whether Petitioner's case relating to Federal Judge violating the subpoena issue allows him to by-pass the appellate process to petition the Supreme C… |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from … |
| 18-47 |
Thomas McClary, et al. v. Commodores Entertainment Corp. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
extraterritorial-conduct extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-commerce jurisdiction lanham-act steele-v-bulova substantial-effect trademark-enforcement trademark-standing us-commerce |
What defines the 'substantial effect on United States commerce' that grants U.S. court's jurisdiction to expand the Lanham Act to extraterritorial con… |
| 18-5 |
Dennis Riley v. Ohio |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-discovery discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence internal-investigations investigative-officer-misconduct plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct |
whether-defendant-entitled-to-impeachment-or-exculpatory-evidence-after-pleading-guilty |
| 18-5001 |
John Theodore Hancock v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory langu… |
| 18-5005 |
Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence |
Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different? |
| 18-5006 |
Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment |
Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable… |
| 18-5007 |
David Lemoe Tua v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial gang-enhancement insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct severance sufficiency-of-evidence trial-severance |
Whether the state court's refusal to sever petitioner's trial from that of his codefendant and refusal to sever the gang enhancement allegations viola… |
| 18-5010 |
Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence |
Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition… |
| 18-5012 |
Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5013 |
Gina Brasher Langley v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure claims-process due-process equal-protection federal-tax government-response interest marital-tax-liabilities solicitor-general standing tax-refund tax-transcripts |
Whether the IRS has unlawfully denied the petitioner's tax refund claim, falsified tax transcripts, and improperly recorded marital tax liabilities |
| 18-5014 |
Marcus Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error |
Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go… |
| 18-5015 |
Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure |
Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure when the highest state c… |
| 18-5016 |
George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer's belief that a motorist does not have a driver's license diminishes to an inchoate hunch or suspicion when another officer s… |
| 18-5018 |
Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas |
Whether Florida violated Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by disregarding medical evidenc… |
| 18-5019 |
Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection |
Why it was done Purposely? |
| 18-5021 |
Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-5022 |
Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states |
Whether federal bank robbery that requires only slight force is covered by the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-5023 |
Glenn Edwards v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence used to obtain a search warrant, violating the pe… |
| 18-5024 |
William Robert Dixon v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies illegal-sentencing jurisdiction standing |
Does violation of right to access the court measure constitutional violation? |
| 18-5025 |
In Re Derek Wardlaw |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 18-5026 |
Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's discrimination claim against respondent |
| 18-5027 |
Mark O. Wright v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment |
Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included of… |
| 18-5028 |
Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering |
Did the court below err in ruling that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Appellant of using corrupt persuasion toward a witness with the in… |
| 18-5029 |
Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt |
Are directed verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment? |
| 18-5030 |
Shawn Williams v. Jeff Norman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
congress constitutional-rule due-process evidence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt supervisory-authority |
Whether Boukin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), is a Constitutional Rule of Court, mandated on the District Court or merely the exercise of its superv… |
| 18-5031 |
Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for third-degree murder should be overturned due to self-defense, violation of the Confrontation Clause, and ineff… |
| 18-5032 |
Ramon Vasquez v. City of Reading, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process filing-deadlines habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-discretion nunc-pro-tunc prisoner-filing pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the state Supreme Court's decision to deny Vasquez's petition for Allowance of Appeal 'Nunc Pro Tunc' conflicts with the Supreme Court's prece… |
| 18-5033 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 1… |
| 18-5034 |
Jodi Anderson v. North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law banking child-welfare civil-rights criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federalism property-rights taxation |
Can we legalize drugs in the form of the D.I.C. Policy? |
| 18-5035 |
Sandra Grazzini-Rucki v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure coerced-testimony constitutional-law defense-evidence due-process false-statements jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct by allowing false statements and filing additional charges after a witness was coerced to recant testimony… |
| 18-5037 |
Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-5040 |
Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determinati… |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States and Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 18-5042 |
Jack Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5043 |
Guy St. Amour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel interpretation of an FAA regulation in a criminal statute, to encompass conduct never before penalized by the FAA… |
| 18-5044 |
Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability to review the district … |
| 18-5045 |
Vernon L. Brown v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-housing freedom-of-speech retaliation standing takings |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to discrimination and retaliation under the Fair Housing Act and other civil rig… |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied a motion where the petitioner showed new evidence to warrant an immediate release due… |
| 18-5047 |
Keith Lamont Tutt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility corporate-liability criminal-procedure-due-process discretion due-process environmental-regulations fair-opportunity officer-responsibility plea-bargaining regulatory-compliance sentencing statutory-interpretation withdraw-guilty-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the district court prejudiced the defendant by denying him due process of law and a fair opportunity to be heard concerning his reasons for wa… |
| 18-5048 |
John W. Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery attempted-murder criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether Taylor was denied his right to effective assistance of trial counsel guaranteed by the 6th Amendment |
| 18-5049 |
Leroy Lamont Wells v. Collette Peters, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction opinions standing takings |
Leroy Lamont Wells v. Colleen TC Peters |
| 18-5050 |
James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing |
Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of-man government constructs known as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugated… |
| 18-5051 |
Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5053 |
Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error |
Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er… |
| 18-5054 |
Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-5055 |
Mitchell Stevens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-exercise free-speech prison-policy religious-accommodation standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's free exercise rights were violated when prison officials refused to accommodate his religious dietary requirements |
| 18-5056 |
Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap… |
| 18-5059 |
David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5060 |
Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-5061 |
Travis Horne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 1385 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and … |
| 18-5062 |
Norman L. Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner as a career offender when the offenses used to enhance the sentence were aged and not co… |
| 18-5063 |
Charles Byers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-decision counsel-notification criminal-procedure-appeal-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall profitt-v-united-states recall-mandate right-to-appeal supreme-court-review wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's Motion to Recall Mandate When Counsel Failed to Notify Him of his Right to seek review from t… |
| 18-5064 |
In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings |
Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus, from this court for a claim of actual innocence with regard to double ex post facto vi… |
| 18-5065 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule for Hurst errors contravenes the Eighth Amendment |
| 18-5066 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Petitioner's sentence of 36 years violates equal protection due to disparities in California sentences for female and male offenders for the s… |
| 18-5068 |
Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith |
Does defense counsel's failure to investigate and present available affirmative evidence of mental disease or defect constitute ineffective assistance… |
| 18-5069 |
William M. Uschock v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation mineral-rights natural-gas property-rights takings takings-clause |
Whether the Pennsylvania Dunham Rule, which excludes natural gas from the definition of 'minerals' for purposes of mineral rights ownership, violates … |
| 18-5070 |
Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default |
Whether petitioner's actual innocence claim overcomes the procedural default of his federal habeas claims challenging the constitutionality of his sta… |
| 18-5072 |
Jill M. Evans v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses |
Should a defendant receive credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline for entering a guilty plea, even if alleged to have committed unrel… |
| 18-5073 |
Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5074 |
Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce |
Did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request for an entrapment instruction? |
| 18-5076 |
Billy R. Melot v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing tax venue |
Whether the 5th Circuit Decision is an intervening controlling precedent that affects the Justiciability of Appellant's claims |
| 18-5077 |
Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act |
Did the trial court and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismiss the case brought by a physically impaired inmate seeking accommoda… |
| 18-5078 |
Bruce Pace v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-5079 |
Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violated the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth… |
| 18-5080 |
Derrick Pittman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-sentencing north-carolina-justice-reinvestment-act north-carolina-law post-release-supervision predicate-felonies sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guideline united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the period of post-release supervision mandated for offenders punished under the North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Act is part of the term o… |
| 18-5081 |
Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict |
Whether structural error occurs when the jury fails to return a verdict as to multiple critical elements necessary to impose the death penalty |
| 18-5082 |
Anthony Wayne Seda v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-5083 |
Rahman Fulton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal bank robbery statute requires a knowing or intentional mens rea, and whether the 'force' clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A) applies … |
| 18-5084 |
Daniel Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete… |
| 18-5085 |
Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search |
Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F… |
| 18-5086 |
Brian Keith Uzzle v. Lesley Fleming, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody custody-status double-jeopardy due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prosequy prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct re-indictment reindictment speedy-trial |
Whether a state court may indefinitely postpone prosecution over the accused's objection by nolle-prosequi and re-indictment of the same charges, know… |
| 18-5087 |
Peter Wilson v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing state-prisoners statute-of-limitations |
Whether the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) violates due process by depriving state pr… |
| 18-5088 |
Emanuel Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-… |
| 18-5089 |
Kevin Khaaliq Beamon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-upon-revocation sentencing-variance substance-addiction supervised-release upward-variance |
Whether a district court may impose a significant upward variance at sentencing upon revocation of supervised release on an individual who had never b… |
| 18-5091 |
Kevin Don Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst relief violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5093 |
Stanley J. Caterbone v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cointelpro due-process mind-control obstruction-of-justice remote-neural-monitoring social-security-disability standing surveillance targeted-individuals |
Is the pro se petitioner's claims of victimization of U.S. sponsored mind control a reality or a delusion? |
| 18-5095 |
Tron Lakey Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime |
Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… |
| 18-5096 |
Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm |
Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver… |
| 18-5097 |
Antonio Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-role mitigating-role paid-tasks proprietary-interest rebuttable-presumption sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 now contains a rebuttable presumption that a mitigating role reduction should be granted upon a showing by the defendant that… |
| 18-5098 |
Thaddeus Williams v. Cindi S. Curtin, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability district-court-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-tolling |
Whether the district court correctly determined that petitioner's habeas corpus petition was untimely; whether the blanket denial of his motion for ce… |
| 18-51 |
Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court |
Did the Eighth Circuit have jurisdiction to adjudicate Case No. 17-3679? |
| 18-5100 |
Ras Rahim v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme |
Whether the writ of coram nobis is the proper avenue for a federal inmate to challenge a portion of a consecutive sentencing scheme when the federal p… |
| 18-5101 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis |
Florida |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-statutes fourteenth-amendment injunction injunctions standing time-limitation time-limitations |
Whether a Florida court deprived Mr. Reilly of due-process by creating an exception to time-limitations for injunctions under §§ 784.046, 784.0485 Flo… |
| 18-5102 |
Scooter L. Robinson v. Frank Shaw, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t… |
| 18-5103 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance? |
| 18-5104 |
Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act |
Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex… |
| 18-5107 |
Willard Quinn v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force |
Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of 'crime of violence' can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 18-5108 |
Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… |
| 18-5109 |
Reggie Rankins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
Did the State of Illinois properly disrnim a conviction based upon the evidence of J.P. testimony, and in accordance with statute 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(A… |
| 18-5110 |
Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court |
Is the decision of the court of appeals regarding the procedural default of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims in conflict with or … |
| 18-5111 |
Lynette Gregory v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum |
Whether a criminal forfeiture in the form of a 'money judgment' is an illegal sentence unauthorized by statute |
| 18-5112 |
Benjamin Fredrick Charles Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-count due-process mandatory-minimum restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum upward-departure |
Whether a four-level upward departure for conduct underlying a dismissed count is reasonable when the conduct was already accounted for in the base of… |
| 18-5113 |
Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering |
Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5114 |
Nigel L. Faison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the district court erred in accepting the petitioner's guilty plea without a sufficient factual basis, in violation of due process |
| 18-5115 |
Stanley Lee Hayward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection essential-elements habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines statute |
Whether the lower tribunal abused its discretion in denying petitioner the right to due process and equal protection of law in holding that his prior … |
| 18-5116 |
Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense |
Whether the petitioner's life sentence for an uncharged offense of murder violates due process, retroactive application of law, and sentencing guideli… |
| 18-5117 |
Glendrict Frazier v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity |
Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987) (holding that on direct review a new constitu… |
| 18-5122 |
Thomas Overton v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendmen… |
| 18-5123 |
Eric Glenn Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof |
Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi? |
| 18-5124 |
Norberto Pietri v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's retroactivity analysis for Hurst violations violates due process, the Eighth Amendment, and the Equal Protection C… |
| 18-5125 |
Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. 16(b) is unconstitutionally void for vagueness under Johnson v. United States and whether 18 U.S.C. 16(b) can… |
| 18-5127 |
Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the 'aggravated range' at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting |
| 18-5130 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the 14th Amendment's due process clause protects against arbitrary government action |
| 18-5133 |
Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment certification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forma-pauperis in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing |
Whether the district court's failure to state its reasons for certifying that the petitioner could not proceed in forma pauperis in good faith, along … |
| 18-5134 |
Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find a violation of the petitioner's due process rights when the district court denied… |
| 18-5136 |
Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-proceeding constitutional-liberty constitutional-property constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights district-court inextricably-intertwined liberty-interests parallel-criminal-proceeding property-rights |
Can Article III standing be denied to a defendant in a civil proceeding who objects to district court rulings that directly affect the defendant's con… |
| 18-5138 |
Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights |
Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied? |
| 18-5140 |
M. P. F. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment |
Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to obtain trial transcripts to perfect an appeal |
| 18-5141 |
Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules |
Whether Mr. Frederiksen should continue to suffer prejudice and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction when the lower state cou… |
| 18-5142 |
Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law |
| 18-5143 |
Robert Graham v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility batson-vs-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process fingerprinting fingerprinting-expert identification identification-testimony preliminary-hearing reliability trial-evidence witness-credibility |
Is an in-court identification of the defendant as the robber admissible at trial in the absence of a due process hearing to first determine the reliab… |
| 18-5144 |
Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson |
Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and not by the district court at sentencing |
| 18-5146 |
Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment |
Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection |
| 18-5148 |
Marcus Blalock v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process |
Whether petitioner was denied his right to due process when the trial court failed to follow the law of the case doctrine from a previous appeal, deni… |
| 18-5149 |
Francisco Cubero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term |
Whether the district court's failure to correctly inform the defendant of the direct consequences of pleading guilty prejudiced the defendant |
| 18-5150 |
Gerardo Correa-Diaz v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-5151 |
James G. Yahnke v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent constitutional-rights drunk-driving due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless blood tests for drunk driving, where a motorist has not consented to the blood test |
| 18-5152 |
Rodney Howard v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that the … |
| 18-5153 |
Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c… |
| 18-5154 |
Edward Vincent Ray, Jr. v. Jamilah A. Jefferson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court ninth-circuit standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether a government attorney who allegedly committed fraud on the court is entitled to absolute immunity from a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit |
| 18-5155 |
Omar Qazi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act |
Whether the excessive prolonged detention of the petitioner has become punitive in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 18-5156 |
D'Angelo Battis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ignoring the petitioner's pro se brief on appeal, affirming the petitioner's unconstitutional s… |
| 18-5159 |
Allen Golden v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 aedpa suspension-clause aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus non-violent-crime non-violent-crimes suspension-clause |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its order and the Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation regarding the suspension of habe… |
| 18-5162 |
Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o… |
| 18-5165 |
Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-5166 |
Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations |
Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when… |
| 18-5167 |
Levar Brown v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) violates the Second Amendment and due process rights |
| 18-5169 |
Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Inmate-trust-fund-management |
| 18-5170 |
Ijaz Khan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully married to Shabana before he became naturalized? |
| 18-5171 |
Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal |
| 18-5172 |
Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision contradicted Brumfield v. Cain by holding that a state-court determination of fact cannot be unreasonable due to … |
| 18-5173 |
Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay |
Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of anal… |
| 18-5174 |
Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings |
Whether Petitioner's death sentences for two 1994 homicides can remain intact given that his jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital mur… |
| 18-5175 |
In Re Terrence Matthew Brown |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence exceptional-circumstances exculpatory-evidence false-information loan-application loan-applications mortgage-brokers mortgage-fraud subprime-lending subprime-mortgage underwriting-regulations underwriting-standards |
Does present case demonstrate that subprime mortgage lenders in early to mid-2000's systematically abandoned underwriting regulations and encouraged l… |
| 18-5176 |
In Re Winex Eugene |
|
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure |
Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement |
| 18-5177 |
Herman Majors v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is limit… |
| 18-5179 |
Ronnie Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the retroactive application of Hurst v. Florida was unconstitutionally limited |
| 18-5183 |
Christopher M. Holmes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-security-officer due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-be-present right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel solitary-confinement standing testimony |
Whether the standard for ineffective assistance of counsel has been met when court-appointed trial counsel admits that she failed to confer with the c… |
| 18-5185 |
Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service |
Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied when the evidence presented unequivoca… |
| 18-5186 |
Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether the lower courts deprived the pro se petitioner of due process and disregarded the limitations within the patent claims as well as the validit… |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2) constitutes procedural error in light of J… |
| 18-5188 |
James Wilks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
Whether the district court imposed a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence by failing to properly balance the sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 18-5189 |
Glenvert Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements |
Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing … |
| 18-5192 |
Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection in the denial of disability financial assistance by the Ohio Department of Job and … |
| 18-5193 |
William Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether reliance on the 'residual clause' of the 'crime of violence' definition in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2), is… |
| 18-5194 |
Teofil Brank v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation |
Whether threats to reputational harm fall within the ambit of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951 |
| 18-5195 |
Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness |
Whether petitioner was denied due process of law when prosecutor misstated law, misstated testimony, and misstated evidence to the jury |
| 18-5196 |
Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Whether filing a Title VII action to which the underlying EEOC charge failed to assert retaliation, an amended complaint allegation asserting retaliat… |
| 18-5198 |
Ronald David Jones v. Grand Canyon University, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-courts obstruction-of-justice private-university service-of-process service-of-summons standing venue-change |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case despite defendants' failure to properly serve a response within the required timeframe |
| 18-5199 |
Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness |
Whether a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert in a custody case, which may violate the 14th Amend… |
| 18-52 |
Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise v. LWRC International, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-100 35-usc-281 patent-assignment patent-fraud patent-infringement patent-law patent-royalties patent-standing patent-uniformity |
Whether the original inventor maintains statutory standing to sue for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 281 even after assigning the patent, if th… |
| 18-5201 |
Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-5202 |
Samuel Knowles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect |
Question not identified |
| 18-5203 |
Khalif Abdul Qawi Mujahid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure-rules due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) … |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
Whether the lower court erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens |
| 18-5205 |
Tony D. Littles v. Trudie Roundtree |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction property property-rights standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claims that the government's actions violated his constitutional rights to due process, property… |
| 18-5206 |
Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing |
Whether a defendant can be actually innocent of a sentence in a non-capital case, whether a prior mistrial renders nugatory all prior proceedings, and… |
| 18-5207 |
Omar Montoya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circumstances-beyond-control criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,abuse-of criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,sentenci discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range timeliness |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) due to a subsequent lowering of the sen… |
| 18-5208 |
In Re Gregory Bartunek |
|
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights detention-order due-process habeas-corpus speedy-trial standing |
Whether the petitioner's detention order violates his constitutional rights |
| 18-5210 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation |
Can an attempt offense be a predicate crime of violence for an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense? |
| 18-5211 |
Taylor B. v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation |
when-child-interrogated-miranda-waiver |
| 18-5212 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an… |
| 18-5214 |
David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings |
Whether the state courts erred in not declaring the unconstitutional mandatory minimum sentencing statute retroactively applicable to cases on collate… |
| 18-5215 |
Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and testimony that wou… |
| 18-5216 |
Johnny Allen Martin v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-violation counsel-right criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance statutory-provisions threshold-determination |
Does the petitioner have a nonwaivable constitutional right to (a) effective/conflict-free assistance of counsel on direct appeal from his or her conv… |
| 18-5218 |
Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in viol… |
| 18-5219 |
Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicted with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on the issue of whether the plaintiff sub… |
| 18-5220 |
Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland |
Does the Due Process Clause guarantee an indigent petitioner the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel during actual innocence proceeding… |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve relief violates equal protection,… |
| 18-5225 |
Junaidu Saljan Savage, aka James Kamara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts-of-appeal in-camera-review pennsylvania-v-ritchie precedent prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ritchie standing |
Whether, under Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39 (1987), defendants requesting in camera review for potential required disclosures in accordance wi… |
| 18-5226 |
Richard Lugo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether appellate counsel's ineffectiveness deprived petitioner of his right to direct appeal |
| 18-5227 |
Charles Vernon Harris, Jr. v. Dewayne Estes, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 18-5229 |
Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner |
| 18-5231 |
Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke |
Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights and contravened this Court's Strickland v. Washington pre… |
| 18-5233 |
Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment |
Batson-challenge |
| 18-5236 |
In Re Ferlando Esco |
|
Denied |
IFP |
' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to compel the Fifth Circuit to decide the merits of a request for certificate of appealability regarding two d… |
| 18-5237 |
Sharon K. Bland v. Gellman, Brydges & Schroff, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection standing takings workers-compensation |
Is New York State Workers' Compensation Law Constitutional? |
| 18-5238 |
Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a 'crime of violence' under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5239 |
Deshawn T. Terrell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-precedent |
Does the mandatory sentencing provision for the offense of felony murder under Ohio Revised Code § 2929.02(B)(1) violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-5240 |
Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to e… |
| 18-5241 |
Victor Maturino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission may amend the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines to create new categories of conduct that increase sentences wi… |
| 18-5242 |
Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l… |
| 18-5243 |
Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio |
Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme… |
| 18-5244 |
Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework |
Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an initial-review-collateral-proceeding? |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether the Supreme Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in li… |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
Whether prosecution evidence that a capital defendant has been sentenced to death once before in the same case impermissibly undermines the sentencing… |
| 18-5247 |
James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Circuit decision is objectively unreasonable as a matter of due process, because McCray's sentencing guidelines offense variable(s) … |
| 18-5248 |
Kitti Ruth Payne, aka Kitty Ruth Power v. Publishers Clearing House, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process property-rights standing takings |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions in seizing his property without just compensation |
| 18-5249 |
Kristian Thomas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
active-warrant arrest-procedure due-process failure-to-appear fourth-amendment law-enforcement misdemeanor-arrest misdemeanor-arrest-warrant misdemeanor-warrant probable-cause reasonable-caution warrant-confirmation |
Does the Fourth Amendment require prudence or reasonable caution so that before exercising a misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to appear, a week-… |
| 18-5250 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and appeals court erred in improperly categorizing and misapplying FOIA/Privacy Act exemptions, failing to compel agency co… |
| 18-5253 |
Dennis DeCiancio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud |
Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there… |
| 18-5254 |
Matthew Young v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Whether the Oregon courts failed to properly apply precedent case law regarding the proper mechanism for judicial review of a lower court's decision o… |
| 18-5255 |
Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the suppression of evidence of inducements provided to Commonwealth witnesses violates Brady v. Maryland, where the defense could have used th… |
| 18-5256 |
Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court |
Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the Supr… |
| 18-5257 |
Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Commission on Offender Review (formerly the Florida Parole Commission) unconstitutionally operates under Florida Senate and House … |
| 18-5258 |
Howell Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker |
whether-a-drastically-increased-sentence-violates-the-sixth-amendment |
| 18-5259 |
Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction |
Does the 6th Amendment guarantee the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, … |
| 18-5260 |
Mike McGlocklin v. FNU Blankenship, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis motions procedural-posture standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner's motions and request to proceed in forma pauperis should have been granted based on the circumstances and procedural posture of th… |
| 18-5261 |
Vester L. Patterson v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations |
May a defendant be tried and punished for offenses that were statutorily barred by the statute of limitation's? |
| 18-5262 |
In Re Edward McLaughlin |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau… |
| 18-5264 |
Albert Jenkins, et al. v. WMC Mortgage, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process fraudulent-concealment futility-of-amendment lulling-and-fraudulent-concealment oral-contract service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations was improperly applied despite fraudulent concealment |
| 18-5265 |
In Re Brandon Lee |
|
Denied |
IFP |
consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard |
Whether the state can rely on true bill of indictments that meet the clearly erroneous standard without verbal and/or written consent of indigent defe… |
| 18-5266 |
Michael Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? |
| 18-5267 |
Arthur Waters v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Should Buie be expanded to permit protective sweeps in all cases involving in-home arrests of suspected drug distributors? |
| 18-5269 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5270 |
Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's actual-innocence claim |
| 18-5272 |
Jacob Ben-Ari v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-5273 |
Davian Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson |
| 18-5274 |
Manuel Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision |
Whether a court fulfills the mandate of Mathis v. United States if it looks only to whether a state defendant can be punished more than once for posse… |
| 18-5275 |
Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment |
Does federal court deference to an ex parte judicial order violate due process? |
| 18-5276 |
William Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations |
Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old? |
| 18-5277 |
Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President |
District of Columbia |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 |
Whether the Executive Office of the President is required to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved petitioner under Title 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 … |
| 18-5278 |
Christopher Collings v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state |
Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of… |
| 18-5279 |
Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity |
Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception |
| 18-5281 |
Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defendants and admit them into evidence |
| 18-5282 |
Perry V. Moss v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process equal-protection life-pension occupational-variant property statutory-conduct takings workers-compensation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property were violated by the California Workers Compensation Appeals Board's ine… |
| 18-5283 |
David McGowan v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim |
Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus relief on an unlitig… |
| 18-5284 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the Third District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of appellate review by not addressing his pet… |
| 18-5286 |
Odere Suleitopa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony |
Whether Rule 701's personal knowledge' requirement permits law enforcement officers to offer lay opinion testimony regarding an investigation when the… |
| 18-5287 |
Luis Salas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-5290 |
Ronald Long v. George Robinson, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure corrections due-process parole presentence-report standing state-law |
Did the N.J. State Parole deny Petitioner Due Process by conducting a parole hearing without having a mandatory presentence report? |
| 18-5291 |
Martin Louis Ballard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendme without any hearing 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bank-account bank-account-seizure civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment pretrial-seizure procedural-due-process seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the pretrial seizure of petitioner's bank account, without any hearing, deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendment to the United Stat… |
| 18-5292 |
Armando Angeles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu… |
| 18-5293 |
George Anthony Autobee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness |
Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely |
| 18-5294 |
Herbert Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing |
Did the Circuit Court err in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication, giving an insufficient … |
| 18-5295 |
Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability application based on the conclusion that he failed to make a s… |
| 18-5297 |
Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment due to counsel's failure to properly investigate… |
| 18-5299 |
Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts |
Was LR found guilty at trial, when the transcripts of pre-trial clearly show she said nothing happened sexually? |
| 18-53 |
Lance Dillard, aka Double v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial internet-access internet-publicity judicial-controls juror-misconduct jury-instructions prejudicial-publicity sixth-amendment |
fair-trial |
| 18-5300 |
Gary Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a trial attorney can constitutionally stipulate elements of a charged crime over the expressed objections of the defendant under the Fifth, Si… |
| 18-5301 |
Cahlan Clay v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination |
Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-… |
| 18-5302 |
Terry Dixon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-USC-922g 18-usc-922g1 carachuri-rosendo-v-holder crime-punishable-by-imprisonment criminal-firearm felon-in-possession prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-exposure underlying-felony |
Whether the sentencing exposure for the underlying felony offense is determined by prosecutorial discretion in a felon-in-possession case |
| 18-5304 |
Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspec… |
| 18-5305 |
Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3585 prevent a federal sentence from commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate? |
| 18-5307 |
Andrew Wayne Hulen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-admissions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment garrity-v-new-jersey minnesota-v-murphy penalty-situation self-incrimination self-incrimination-clause sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's failure to analyze Petitioner's argument under the classic penalty situation addressed by this Court in Minnesota v. Murph… |
| 18-5308 |
O'Neil Anthony Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines congressional-intent guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform upward-variance |
Whether a district court disregards congressional intent and imposes an unreasonable sentence when it applies an upward variance to the advisory sente… |
| 18-5310 |
Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d) |
| 18-5311 |
Jack Reid v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection |
Whether property subject to forfeiture under 21 U.S.C. §853(a)(2) must have a substantial connection to the underlying criminal activity |
| 18-5312 |
Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling |
Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing toll AEDPA's limitation period under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2)? |
| 18-5315 |
Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts properly applied the summary judgment standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby |
| 18-5317 |
Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5318 |
Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial |
Whether Appellant Terry Should Have Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability as Evidence Exists in the Record That His Trial Attorney Was Clearly In… |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5320 |
James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection |
Whether California's SLAPP law is unconstitutional for protecting unlawful petitioning activities, denying due process and the right to a fair trial, … |
| 18-5323 |
Robert Caldwell v. Texas |
Texas |
Dismissed |
IFP |
None |
|
| 18-5324 |
Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a rational jury could have found each essential element of the offense of transmitting a malicious code, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5… |
| 18-5326 |
Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court's 'persuasive authority' test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 27, 2017, and than less then two mont… |
| 18-5328 |
Muffin Anderson v. Susan A. Larsen |
Washington |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing jury-trial mental-capacity mental-disability physical-capacity procedural-fairness stare-decisis summary-judgment |
Did the trial court violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the plaintiff's constitutional rights when it denied the plaintiff's request for a… |
| 18-5329 |
Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a violent felony' under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 18-5330 |
Gregory Alan Kokal v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review |
Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in order t… |
| 18-5332 |
Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search |
Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is… |
| 18-5333 |
Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel was violated when the appellate court sua sponte dismissed… |
| 18-5334 |
Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result |
| 18-5335 |
Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents |
Which policy did Kwon contract original policy? |
| 18-5336 |
Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the petitioner under the restrictions of OV-1 and OV-2 of the Michigan Sentencing Guidelines in violation … |
| 18-5337 |
Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation |
Whether petitioner Shawn Johnson was denied due process and a fair trial due to newly discovered evidence of actual innocence and ineffective assistan… |
| 18-5338 |
DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t… |
| 18-5339 |
Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction and not applying the Santobello decision on counsel's performance retroact… |
| 18-5340 |
Roger Wilson v. Federal Correctional Institution at Cumberland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-rules-standing-jurisdiction-due-p access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Whether the court erred in refusing to allow the petitioner to file a copy of the order denying his appeal |
| 18-5341 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing |
Whether the appeals court committed a reversible error by denying the petitioner's motion to vacate a default judgment, where the petitioner claims he… |
| 18-5342 |
Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
whether-the-year-long-delay-in-the-court-issuing-a-decision-on-petitioner's-case-violated-due-process |
| 18-5343 |
Roger Wilson v. McKeesport Police Department, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts refused to consider evidence of his innocence and denied his reques… |
| 18-5344 |
Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-accountability jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the lawsuit on the grounds that the petitioner lacked standing to challenge the government's actions |
| 18-5345 |
Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection fabricated-court-order free-speech standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case based on a fabricated court order, in violation of due process and equal protection r… |
| 18-5346 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was detained for 10 mon… |
| 18-5347 |
Marquis D. Costic v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights credibility cross-examination fifth-amendment jailhouse-informant jury-instructions prosecution-witness prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-disclosure |
Was my Sixth Amendment U.S. Constitutional Right, under the Confrontation Clause violated when the prosecution kept interrupting during cross-examinat… |
| 18-5348 |
Gary Clack v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance … |
| 18-5349 |
Tyron Young v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentence o… |
| 18-5350 |
Carroll Erman Crider v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment indictment-notice jurisdiction notice standing statutory-violation |
Whether Crider's convictions should be vacated due to lack of jurisdiction and inadequate indictment notice |
| 18-5351 |
Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the defendant to retain his own counsel of choice deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to choose the f… |
| 18-5353 |
Juanita L. Berry v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process income-classification income-tax irs-regulations loans loss-calculation promissory-notes property-rights tax tax-evasion tax-law wire-fraud |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's legal holding that promissory notes between Berry and a vendor were income and no… |
| 18-5354 |
Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5356 |
Joaquin H. Ciria v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-procedure,fraud,rule-60(b),actual-innocence, fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-mechanism rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition timeliness |
Whether Rule 60(b) is the correct procedure for raising claims of fraud committed upon the court |
| 18-5357 |
Michael C. Redifer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-legislation criminal-procedure due-process kastigar-doctrine law-of-the-case rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents |
Does the Rules Enabling Act preclude a court from invoking the law of the case doctrine against a defendant in a criminal proceeding when the law of t… |
| 18-5358 |
Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court improperly decided disputed factual issues and dismissed the case with prejudice, and whether the Sixth Circuit Court impro… |
| 18-5360 |
Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to t… |
| 18-5361 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrying a defendant on a higher level charge after being convicted of a lesser include… |
| 18-5362 |
Omar Qazi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review miranda-warnings standing unpublished-decisions |
Whether the Ninth Circuit panel decision conflicts with established Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedents on Miranda warnings, and whether the pa… |
| 18-5363 |
Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines |
Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… |
| 18-5364 |
Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of Austin's petition under 28 U.S.C. §2254 for writ of habe… |
| 18-5365 |
Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether firefighters and police can unreasonably withhold sustenance and emergency aid to companion dogs after a fire was extinguished, to conduct an … |
| 18-5367 |
Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 18-5368 |
Gabriel Werdene v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity |
Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd… |
| 18-5369 |
Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal |
May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a… |
| 18-5370 |
Thomas Juresic v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions |
Does a civil commitment court have the constitutional authority to usurp custody and personal jurisdiction over a person prior to the expiration of th… |
| 18-5371 |
Michael Ellis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute |
Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (7th Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-5372 |
James J. Bagwell v. Southern National Assets, LLC |
Georgia |
Denied |
IFP |
banking-rules bankruptcy civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure lien-priority misappropriation-of-funds tax-sale |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying the pro se petitioner his constitutional rights of equal protection and due process |
| 18-5373 |
Otis Sykes v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether the defendant's substantial rights were affected by the district court's use of 'additional evidence' in imposing a guidelines sentence within… |
| 18-5374 |
Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. P. … |
| 18-5375 |
Christopher Henriquez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5377 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing capital-sentencing,federal-constitutional-rights,w constitutional-waiver federal-constitutional-rights federal-rights hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding penalty-jury prospective-waiver voluntary-waiver |
Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time of the purported waiver? |
| 18-5378 |
Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-5379 |
Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel |
Whether the reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived the appellant of due process and a fair trial |
| 18-5380 |
Luis Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction |
Whether a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maximum term of imprisonme… |
| 18-5381 |
Aslam Handy v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeoc federal-reserve financial-crisis financial-misconduct free-speech job-discrimination sovereign-immunity whistle-blower |
Why has the Federal Reserve still not been asked to open its books? |
| 18-5383 |
James Rodney Shuman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness |
whether-the-appellate-court's-interpretation-and-application-of-the-armed-career-criminal-act-(acca)-is-contrary-to-supreme-court-precedent |
| 18-5385 |
Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights |
Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-5386 |
Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error |
Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause … |
| 18-5389 |
Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant |
Whether the district court should have suppressed all of the fruits of the poisonous tree based upon the found to be corrupted officials and the illeg… |
| 18-5390 |
Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance |
Whether the district court violated Khalil Abu Rayyan's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by imposing an upward variance of almost three times the top … |
| 18-5392 |
Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in ruling that Mr. Carter's claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 are jurisdictionally barred from consideration because they … |
| 18-5394 |
Casey Peebles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment |
Whether Inadi and Bourjaily adequately protect an accused's Fifth Amendment due process right to a fair trial and his Sixth Amendment right to confron… |
| 18-5396 |
Calvin McMillan v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction |
Can a state court require a petitioner to establish actual, subjective bias to obtain judicial recusal even though this Court has held that the consti… |
| 18-5397 |
Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance |
whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-54 |
William A. Dabbs, Jr. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
development-exaction dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process koontz-v-st-johns-river-water-management-district land-use land-use-development land-use-regulation legislative-exactions legislative-taking monetary-exaction nollan-v-california-coastal-commission permit-conditions property-rights takings takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether legislatively proscribed monetary exactions on land use development are subject to scrutiny under the unconstitutional conditions doctrine as … |
| 18-5404 |
Craig Cooper v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey stare-decisis |
Under the doctrine of stare decisis, all tribunals exercising inferior jurisdiction are required to follow decisions of courts exercising superior jur… |
| 18-5405 |
Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5406 |
Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether the police exceeded the scope of the search warrant and seized additional items in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-5407 |
Mladen Mitrovic v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability |
Whether the district court erred in excluding exculpatory witness statements under the Confrontation Clause and Federal Rule of Evidence 807 despite t… |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause and Eighth Amendment by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists than on… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals has abused its discretion by failing to decide petitioner's application for permission to file a second or … |
| 18-5414 |
Keith William Deichert v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio |
Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… |
| 18-5416 |
Ramal Hammond v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amnesia burden-of-proof competency criminal-procedure defendant-amnesia due-process dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states mental-capacity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-competency |
When the evidence of guilt is far from overwhelming but cannot be rebutted without information that only the defendant would know, but due to amnesia … |
| 18-5417 |
David Hardy v. William Adams, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-duty due-process judicial-bias judicial-conduct legal-precedent rule-10 sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court |
Do federal judges have a constitutional duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, via the mandate language of Article VI of same Constitution? |
| 18-5419 |
Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing |
Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal? |
| 18-5421 |
Sheila L. Gaines v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-appeal administrative-law arthritis civil-rights disability disability-benefits due-process employment medical-evidence medical-records social-security standing |
Whether the Social Security Administration improperly denied disability benefits to the petitioner despite medical evidence of her advanced arthritis … |
| 18-5423 |
Seungjin Kim v. United States Customs and Border Protection |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asylum asylum-seekers border-entry constitutional-law criminal-activity detention detention-conditions due-process equal-protection immigration-detention immigration-law presidential-authority presidential-powers visa-restrictions |
Whether inadmissible asylum-seekers who are victims of qualifying criminal activity involving U.S. citizens can be lawfully detained or denied entry u… |
| 18-5426 |
Gabriel Rivero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5427 |
Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony |
Whether witness testimony about a rape committed by someone other than the defendant during a kidnapping creates prejudice that cannot be overcome by … |
| 18-5430 |
James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a court to create a constitutional defense to an admitted Eighth Amendment violation requiring a prisoner plaintif… |
| 18-5431 |
Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing |
Whether Michigan's felony domestic violence conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the 'residual clause' of the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |
| 18-5433 |
Helen Atkins v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Was the petitioner denied her right to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5436 |
Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination |
Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him constitute interrogation under Miranda? |
| 18-5438 |
Ulriste Tulin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence kidnapping new-trial out-of-court-identification suggestive-procedure witness-identification |
Is an out-of-court identification of a defendant unduly suggestive and unreliable? |
| 18-5439 |
Adam Longoria v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether the ACCA's 'occasions different from one another' clause requires a sentencing court to rely solely on elemental facts, or whether it can rely… |
| 18-5444 |
Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-5445 |
Jason Lee Pyles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i), and whether the s… |
| 18-5449 |
In Re Michael D. Smith |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio… |
| 18-5456 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena |
Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou… |
| 18-5458 |
Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process |
| 18-5461 |
Keith Henderson v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim minnesota-supreme-court newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-relief state-district-court timeliness |
When a defendant has been denied an evidentiary hearing, has his right to due process been violated when the evidence he presented has to be construed… |
| 18-5462 |
Alfonso V. Senior, Jr. v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretionary-review exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition right-to-counsel state-court-remedies |
Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who was unrepresented in his state post-conviction proceedings, in a state which refuses to appoint counsel for suc… |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
Whether a trial court's failure to comply with statutory requirements when imposing a sentence renders the attempted sentence void |
| 18-5467 |
Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light of … |
| 18-5469 |
Chad Allen Dorton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? |
| 18-5470 |
Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence |
Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with … |
| 18-5471 |
Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness |
Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure? |
| 18-5472 |
In Re Alan James Hedrick |
|
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred |
Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins permits a state court prisoner to rely on 'actual innocence' as a gateway to pursue constitutional claims that were previ… |
| 18-5473 |
Justin Michael Credico v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" |
Whether the jury instructions on subjective intent for 18 USC § 875(c) were proper in light of the Elonis case |
| 18-5474 |
Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5480 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony |
Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg… |
| 18-5482 |
Jose Guadalupe Zepeda-Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-distribution motion-for-acquittal possession-with-intent-to-distribute presumption-of-innocence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Presumption of Innocence and Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process are violated when the district court denies a motion for acquittal whe… |
| 18-5483 |
Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other listed Circuits sufficient given it denies defendant's in all the other Ci… |
| 18-5484 |
William N. Washington v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred in failing to recalculate all days of custody from the date of original judgment, and only awarded custody credits from … |
| 18-5488 |
Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review |
Does the lower court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer… |
| 18-5490 |
Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure |
Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo… |
| 18-5492 |
In Re David Louis Colson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court |
Whether the superior court of Arizona had jurisdiction to render the judgments against the petitioner in a case where the state was a party |
| 18-5497 |
Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense |
Whether Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act when state law defines 'distribution' to… |
| 18-55 |
Digital Ally, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust antitrust-law commercial-bribery government-procurement governmental-purchases noerr-pennington-doctrine robinson-patman-act sherman-act |
Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes commercial bribery from liability under the Robinson-Patman Act |
| 18-5500 |
Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-framework statute-of-limitations |
Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) should have been granted to consider whether a federal prisoner's failure to file a timely amended 2255 m… |
| 18-5508 |
Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5510 |
Quincy Andre Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution appeal-waiver direct-appeal due-process fundamental-error fundamental-errors mandatory-guidelines plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement can prohibit a defendant from challenging on direct appeal unforeseeable fundamental errors committed by … |
| 18-5511 |
Michael John Tarvin v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence false-imprisonment innocence-claim standing successive-petition |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's application, when the U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petitioner's motion … |
| 18-5515 |
Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion by not providing a reasoned opinion to support its order? |
| 18-5516 |
Isaiah Galbreath v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline, which was crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or emp… |
| 18-5520 |
James Morris Sellers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents |
Whether the lower courts improperly subjected the petitioner to an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act by arbitrarily and irrational… |
| 18-5521 |
Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release |
Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process by enhancements to his guidelines sentence without any proof to support those enhancements |
| 18-5522 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition |
Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc… |
| 18-5524 |
Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for failing to file a motion for continuance to pr… |
| 18-5525 |
Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states |
Whether application of the Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e… |
| 18-5526 |
Michael P. Lough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5527 |
Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the alleged Brady violation was not material |
| 18-5528 |
Brian Thurman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution |
Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by increasing his sentence based on acquitted conduct |
| 18-5532 |
Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri… |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States |
| 18-5535 |
Paul Lynn Schlieve v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland case-dispositive-motion due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment materiality prosecutorial-duty suppression-motion suppression-of-evidence |
Does the prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory evidence under the Fifth Amendment include evidence that is favorable and material to a Fourth Amen… |
| 18-5536 |
Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants |
When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California? |
| 18-5539 |
Derek W. Pelto v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof change-of-law insanity-defense right-to-testify burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance insanity-defense right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r… |
| 18-5541 |
Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax? |
| 18-5542 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur |
Whether the finding of fact prior to vacating the forfeiture order becomes 'Law-of-the-Case' upon remand |
| 18-5543 |
In Re Andre David Leffebre |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Should the government's use of a confidential informant to elicit incriminating statements from a defendant violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment ri… |
| 18-5547 |
Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States |
| 18-5550 |
Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a noncitizen who is not afforded the opportunity to apply for available relief has suffered prejudice |
| 18-5552 |
Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has entered a decision that is in conflict with its own precedent and the decision… |
| 18-5554 |
Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-5555 |
William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review the district court's erroneous decision |
| 18-5556 |
Joseph D. Barnes v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-acts bad-acts-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel other-crimes-evidence quadruple-offender speedy-trial state-court-discretion statute-of-limitations |
Whether reasonable jurists would have found that the district court denied Mr. Barnes a fair trial when it allowed other crimes evidence and/or bad ac… |
| 18-5559 |
Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law |
Whether the state of Oregon's imposition of a true life sentence under a three strikes sentencing recidivist enhancement statute is a miscarriage of j… |
| 18-5561 |
Jose Nieves-Galarza v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-criminal-career-act johnson-v-united-states new-york-penal-law new-york-penal-law-160.15(1) new-york-robbery-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement serious-physical-injury third-circuit violent-felony violent-force |
Did the Third Circuit misread Castleman to erroneously require that a conviction under New York's first-degree robbery statute (N.Y. Penal Law § 160.1… |
| 18-5564 |
Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video |
Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… |
| 18-5565 |
Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties |
whether-the-state-writ-of-habeas-corpus-is-valid |
| 18-5574 |
Christina Jay Acker v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the federal courts failed to properly consider the petitioner's claims for habeas co… |
| 18-5576 |
DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 unconstitutional? |
| 18-5577 |
In Re Adam D. Boylen |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Powhower, as a stock owner for an independent farming company, not being a facility on plant, is a 'person' Congress exclusively defined in th… |
| 18-5579 |
In Re Brent Cole |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-law common-law-right constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment justice petition-clause right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing |
Is a court's refusal to allow an accused person any opportunity to be heard by themself and counsel a substantive violation of due-process, common-law… |
| 18-5580 |
In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El |
|
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing |
Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the involuntary servitude of African Americans and other racial minorities |
| 18-5585 |
Karen Mackey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's… |
| 18-5587 |
Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable… |
| 18-5588 |
Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant |
Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a 'warrant and… |
| 18-5593 |
Maurice Mitchell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 |
Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio… |
| 18-5598 |
John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment |
Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is presumed correct or should have been presumed correct, and whether Petitioner sustained h… |
| 18-5601 |
Jose Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation |
Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a… |
| 18-5603 |
In Re Mark Kilmartin |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error |
Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial |
| 18-5604 |
Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas… |
| 18-5605 |
Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability |
Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? |
| 18-5606 |
Hagop Demirjian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a statutory preclusion for successive §3582 motions |
| 18-5607 |
Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness |
Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the evide… |
| 18-5613 |
Ladina Sykes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors |
Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … |
| 18-5614 |
Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation |
Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r… |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Whether the District Court erred in ignoring undisputed facts establishing a Brady violation before allowing conflicted defense counsel to withdraw |
| 18-5617 |
Gregory Bartunek v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3142 18-usc-3156 bail bail-denial constitutional-violations crimes-of-violence detention detention-order due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention speedy-trial |
Is it unconstitutional for the legislature to define all Chapter 110 crimes of 18 United States Code (18 U.S.C.), in particular § 2252, and 2252A, as … |
| 18-5620 |
Mario Zuniga v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that attempted murder in Illinois is categorically a violent crime under 18 U.S.C. §924(… |
| 18-5624 |
Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5630 |
Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity |
Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5636 |
Edgar Searcy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for a civil action arising under an Act of Congress' applies to civil commitment proc… |
| 18-5638 |
Deborah A. Purnell v. St. Mary's Hospital, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection freedom-of-information judicial-discrimination life-threatening-conditions medical-negligence reckless-medical-care reporter's-transcript |
Whether statutory elder abuse inherently includes acts of violence and brutalization, reckless medical care that causes life-threatening conditions su… |
| 18-5640 |
Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi… |
| 18-5642 |
Miroslav Fejfar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal |
Whether due process and the plain meaning of the statute on withholding of removal require that pending asylum issues be heard and resolved before ext… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-5646 |
Syrus Martin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements |
Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child |
| 18-5647 |
Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion |
Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed … |
| 18-5651 |
Samuel W. Swoopes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant defendant-exclusion due-process ex-parte jury jury-question mid-deliberation sixth-amendment |
Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court's consideration and answering of a jury question? |
| 18-5653 |
Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson |
Whether the prosecutor's elicitation of evidence through a colloquy with a venireperson violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to cross-examin… |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States is retroactive to cases on collateral review |
| 18-5658 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender commerce commerce-clause-jurisdiction,interstate-commerce,d criminal-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that the pret Did the Ninth Circuit err when it sentenced Mr. Br due-process due-process,pretrial-identification,suggestive-ide predicate-crime sentencing sentencing,career-offender,predicate-offense,viole |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding sufficient evidence for interstate commerce when the underlying acts did not have a de minimus effect? |
| 18-5663 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … |
| 18-5667 |
Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure |
Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… |
| 18-5671 |
In Re Kenneth Simpson |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release |
Whether a court can refuse to address a claim that an individual is being incarcerated under an unconstitutional statute, even when the individual has… |
| 18-5673 |
Eugene Smalls v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'heightened' Lochner standards of W.G. Abel v. Estelle, AHR, override the state and federal sentencing guidelines of the motion of the judge,… |
| 18-5675 |
David Pate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach plea-bargaining right-to-appeal |
Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement? |
| 18-5678 |
Lee Andrew Paul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with Burrage v. United States regarding causation |
| 18-5679 |
William J. O'Brien, III v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure waiver waiver-of-counsel |
Was William O'Brien, III denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel? |
| 18-5680 |
Reginald McGee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
Whether the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-5682 |
Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? |
| 18-5684 |
Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
whether a state drug-trafficking crime with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felony' o… |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5686 |
Dwight Mundle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony |
Was there enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c) |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered 'obsolete' and 'superfluous' by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5696 |
Curtis Croft v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama opportunity-to-present-evidence sentencing-discretion split-of-authority |
Whether Illinois has misused the broad discretion allowed the states |
| 18-5699 |
Chuck Wayne Boyd v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3553-factors 3582-modification criminal-sentencing discretion inmate-progress judicial-discretion post-sentence-history pre-sentence-history sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines usg-amendment-782 |
Whether the court abused its discretion in denying a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582 and U.S.S.G. Amendment 782 without adequately explainin… |
| 18-57 |
Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides statutory standing for a District State Judge, a US District Court Justice, and Three Justices of the 10th Circuit C… |
| 18-5701 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Did the Second Circuit err by dismissing petitioner's appeal? |
| 18-5706 |
Hugo Islas-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-cfr-100.4 8-cfr-100.4(a) 8-usc-1325 8-usc-1325(a)(1) administrative-law administrative-regulation entry federal-code geographic-designation immigration immigration-law port-of-entry statutory-interpretation |
Whether immigration officials designate[d]' geographic areas or physical port facilities for 'entry' in 8 C.F.R. § 100.4(a) for purposes of 8 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-5708 |
Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings |
Whether petitioner has been denied due-process and equal-protection under the U.S. Constitution Amendment-XIV, in his state collateral-proceedings |
| 18-5709 |
Paul Allen Anderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 |
Whether an appeal waiver can be enforced in a Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding when petitioner has based his claims on ineffective assistance of coun… |
| 18-5710 |
Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment |
Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution |
| 18-5715 |
Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse |
Did this Court's decision in Samson v. California overturn the 'stalking horse' doctrine? |
| 18-5717 |
Anousone Savanh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expert due-process expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense |
May a court exclude a defense expert in a criminal case for failing to possess qualifications that Federal Rule of Evidence 702 does not require, the … |
| 18-5721 |
Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling |
Whether a Spanish-speaking U.S. citizen prisoner must prove he sought legal advice from fellow inmates lacking legal training to establish diligence f… |
| 18-5725 |
Alfred Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure |
Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that it is permissible to upwardly depart for the severity of the underlying offense when a defendant has al… |
| 18-5729 |
Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for production of documents and placing excessive burdens on the respondents to produ… |
| 18-5731 |
Heather Jo Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard |
Did the lower court err in denying relief where this court has recognized robbery/burglary as vague under Johnson? |
| 18-5736 |
Joshua Moses v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiplicitous-indictment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Prosecutor's conduct in charging petitioner with a multiplicitous indictment to gain a tactical advantage so infected the trial with unfai… |
| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the federal bank fraud statute plainly covered the defendant's conduct |
| 18-5740 |
In Re Mark Clark |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process relief separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute |
| 18-5744 |
Arthur Lawton Clark v. Walter Berry, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus indictment indictment-insufficiency ineffective-assistance procedural-bar procedural-default |
Whether petitioner's indictment and guilty plea were constitutionally deficient, and whether the lower courts erred in denying his claims of ineffecti… |
| 18-5745 |
Miguel Anthony Molina v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
841(a)(1) 922(g)(1) 924(e) criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the judge violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial? |
| 18-5748 |
Rory Allen Meeks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurists might debate the application of Alleyne and Apprendi to mens rea and constructive amendment |
| 18-5751 |
William Burke v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-process constitutional-fairness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-review fair-trial judicial-review jury-instructions post-conviction-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy |
At what point does it become fundamentally unfair to 'adjust the charges to the evidence'? |
| 18-5752 |
Randall B. Causey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4(a)(5) appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure incapacitation judicial-discretion legal-tolling medical-condition medical-incapacity procedural-rules standing |
Whether Equitable Tolling applies to Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) when the Petitioner was incapacitated due to a medical condition? |
| 18-5754 |
Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari |
whether-recall-of-mandate-should-issue |
| 18-5756 |
Shondolyn Rochelle Blevins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-instructions |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion without an evidentiary hearing? |
| 18-5757 |
Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing |
Whether the petitioner's federal constitutional claims were properly presented and preserved for review by the lower courts |
| 18-5759 |
Daniela Castellanos v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates investigative-procedures officer-conclusions-opinions privacy privacy-invasion probable-cause wiretap-warrant wiretapping wiretapping-procedures-18-usc-2518 |
Whether the facts required to establish probable cause include conclusions and opinions of the officer applying for the wiretap warrant |
| 18-5766 |
Jian-yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-standard campaign-contribution campaign-contribution-violation campaign-finance civilian-affairs civilian-law-enforcement domestic-security-act jurisdiction-removal military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus-act prosecutorial-misconduct third-amendment |
Whether the Third Amendment protects civilians from military intrusion into law enforcement |
| 18-5775 |
William Christopher Hogan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5776 |
Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation |
Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed, sentencing re… |
| 18-5778 |
Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay |
Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him were violated |
| 18-5780 |
Peter Vincent Capra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing |
Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of… |
| 18-5785 |
In Re Clifford Winkles |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing |
Whether Petitioner Clifford Winkles was improperly denied relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 due to procedural barriers, despite demonstrating actual innoc… |
| 18-5789 |
John Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5790 |
Uiki Teaupa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment entitle a pro se defendant the right to conduct discovery and have an evidentiary hearing on claims of government m… |
| 18-5795 |
Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Blockburger double jeopardy test is the sole test for double jeopardy analysis |
| 18-58 |
Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed |
| 18-5822 |
Charles O. Keene v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-exonerations due-process eyewitness-identification judicial-integrity scientific-evidence scientific-research state-court-rulings state-court-split |
Whether the Biggers test for determining the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence remains valid in light of scientific research demonstra… |
| 18-5854 |
Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces… |
| 18-59 |
Eduardo Pineiro Perez, et al. v. BP, P.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-action class-action-rule-23 district-court-dismissal docket-management federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure multi-district-litigation multi-plaintiff multi-plaintiff-lawsuits procedural-rights rule-23 shady-grove shady-grove-v-allstate supreme-court |
Was the Court of Appeals' affirmance of the district court's dismissal with prejudice of the class action complaints contrary to the holding of this C… |
| 18-6 |
Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al. |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-sovereignty due-process federal-power federalism federalism-principles government-structure legal-remedy separation-of-powers state-jurisdiction state-sovereignty union |
Whether civil governments shall be restored to each of the several indestructible States of this indestructible union of American States, and sovereig… |
| 18-60 |
Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection |
Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause… |
| 18-62 |
Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint |
Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 where the child is suffering a se… |
| 18-63 |
Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing |
Whether by failing to clarify and update internet-access-guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual-property-owners |
| 18-65 |
David Aronstein, et al. v. Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure corporate-misrepresentation disclosure disclosure-requirements due-process investor-communications material-omission materiality sec sec-disclosure securities-law securities-regulation securities-regulation-sec united-states-v-ohagan |
Whether the SEC's regulatory framework under Item 303 should be given controlling weight or if lower courts can substitute their own judgment on the a… |
| 18-66 |
Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
|
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea… |
| 18-68 |
Marie Conforto v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-government judicial-discretion notice procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte |
Whether an appeals court deciding a case sua sponte without hearing or chance to respond violates due process |
| 18-69 |
Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection federal-defendants federal-jurisdiction legal-remedy municipal-authority municipal-liability retaliation |
Whether no remedy for the former municipal employee injured directly from her supervisors, federal defendants clothed with municipal authority power, … |
| 18-70 |
William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson |
California |
Denied |
|
attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit |
Whether an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been publicly accused of serious misconduct enjoys constitutional pro… |
| 18-71 |
Bernard T. Canete v. Barnabas Health System, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination civil-rights employment-act hostile-work-environment military-status military-status-discrimination national-origin-discrimination race-discrimination summary-judgment |
Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary-judgment-standard |
| 18-72 |
DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing |
Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to sue a… |
| 18-74 |
Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations |
Does the D'Oench, Duhme doctrine permit the NCUA to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative defenses, and federal law? |
| 18-75 |
Jian Long Dong, aka Jian Rong Dong v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-76 |
Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors |
Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil-rights plaintiffs in a subseque… |
| 18-8 |
Samuel Cohen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Samuel Cohen's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based … |
| 18-80 |
Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments |
Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence |
| 18-82 |
Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am |
Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict |
| 18-83 |
Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice |
Whether a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, or accepts the removal notice's allegations as true and resolves all doubt… |
| 18-85 |
Pamela B. Stuart v. Catherine S. Ryan, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-remedies due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights state-court-decisions state-courts takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause applies to the decisions of state courts, and, if so, under what circumstances may this Court review and remedy state judic… |
| 18-87 |
Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute |
Is a litigant denied due process when a state's highest court overrules a consistent line of procedural decisions and expands a state statute retroact… |
| 18-88 |
Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
|
certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure |
Whether the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's final written decisions of the partially instituted inter partes … |
| 18-90 |
Colonial School District v. Rena C. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion attorney-fees buckhannon-board-and-care-home buckhannon-rule catalyst-theory disabilities-education frivolous-litigation individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-2004 individuals-with-disabilities-education-improvemen pierce-v-underwood plenary-review settlement-offer |
Whether the court of appeals' decision regarding the phrase 'substantially justified' fails to follow Pierce v. Underwood and conflicts with Gary G. v… |
| 18-91 |
Antoinette Pizzino v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-notice common-law constructive-notice cruise-line cruise-lines dangerous-condition maritime-law maritime-negligence negligence negligence-standard notice notice-requirement premises-liability |
Whether a plaintiff in a maritime negligence case should be required to show defendant's actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition when… |
| 18-94 |
Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discriminatio… |
| 18-96 |
Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Russell F. Thomas, Executive Director of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (23)Response Waived |
dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce liquor-regulation liquor-sales residency-requirement residency-requirements retail-licenses retail-licensing state-licensing twenty-first-amendment wholesale-licenses wholesale-licensing |
Whether the Twenty-first Amendment empowers States, consistent with the dormant Commerce Clause, to regulate liquor sales by granting retail or wholes… |
| 18-97 |
Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC |
California |
Denied |
|
clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics |
Whether a drug company has a duty to stop a clinical study and refer a participant to medical care when it is aware the participant is suffering from … |
| 18M1 |
Father v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Maine |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M10 |
Inyang Peter Oduok v. Julie E. Carnes, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M11 |
Carlton I. Charles v. Sandy McCain, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M12 |
Cynthia R. v. The Children's Aid Society |
New York |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M13 |
Tommie Lee Henderson v. VIP Taxi LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M14 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M15 |
William Carl York v. Social Security Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M16 |
Claude Thelemaque v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M17 |
Sealed Appellee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M18 |
Melissa Black v. Larimer County, Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M19 |
Daniel Jones v. Frank A. Sedita, III, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M2 |
Frank Jarvis Atwood v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M20 |
Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M21 |
Randy A. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M22 |
John B. Laschkewitsch v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M23 |
M. E. D. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M24 |
Luisa G. Montoya v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M25 |
Bani Moreno v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M26 |
Jamillo Donte Spight v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M27 |
Jerome Curtis Garrett v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M28 |
Coleco Tayloe Best v. Timothy Kimble, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M29 |
Monserrate Zapata v. PECO, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M3 |
Jaelen Wright v. Thomas Nelson Community College, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M30 |
Edward Scott Phillips v. Dawn LeAnn Phillips |
Illinois |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M31 |
John Henson v. Darren Griem |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M32 |
Marlene Fearing v. United States Trustee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M33 |
Jeffrey Lynn Chronister v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M34 |
Hector Medina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M35 |
Cheryl Lynn Jossie v. CVS Pharmacy |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M36 |
Harvey Eugene Larson v. Barbara J. Wallace, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M37 |
Juan Carlos Ocasio v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
District of Columbia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M38 |
Charles Howard, III v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M4 |
Walter L. Wagner, et al. v. United States Trustee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M5 |
Kenton W. Stephens v. Alliant Techsystems Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M6 |
Barbara E. Brown v. Daven T. Wellman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M7 |
Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M8 |
Jason K. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Maine |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M9 |
Oscar Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|